New Urban Village in Christchurch

Whakaaturanga Kāinga Nohoanga (The new urban village project) is an international competition to design and build a new place for living in Christchurch's Central City.

Alessandro Gottardo shouts out loud

Alessandro Gottardo was born in Pordenone in 1977. He studied in Venice and in Milan and he won numerous awards, particularly in the United States. Though his young age, he has already found a place in the history of visual communications. Among the others he worked for: Among the others he worked for: United Airlines, Volkswagen, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Esquire, Newsweek, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Economist, Guardian, Random House, Penguin Books.

Low Cost Design Exhibition

Low Cost Design is a touring art exhibition with more than five hundred pieces and structures. These objects are related to the change in the use of manufactures or parts of the territory, through the aware actions of people, from all over the world. Pieces and structures, born to solve a specific task, are transformed into other problem solvers: the merit belongs to all of us, spontaneously creative artists. 

POP ART DESIGN

Pop Art is widely regarded as the most significant artistic movement since 1945. Reflecting on the cult of celebrity, commodity fetishism and media reproduction that permeated everyday life in the postwar era, Pop Art continues to shape our society’s cultural self-understanding to this day. A central characteristic of Pop Art was the dialogue between design and art, which is now being explored in “Pop Art Design” at the Vitra Design Museum as the first-ever comprehensive exhibition on the topic. 

FRAME MOOOI AWARD

Frame and Moooi are both leaders in the design industry; glossy pages of Frame magazine focus on cutting-edge interiors, while Moooi strives to create spectacular furnishings and lighting. Combining the interests of both organizations, the Frame Moooi Award was launched to target interior designers and architects who custom created a lamp or furnishing for a specific interior. There’s just one condition: these must be products that can lead a life outside the interior for which they were designed.

Odile Decq - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Martedì 23 ottobre, presso l'auditorium della Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, si terrà la conferenza organizzata da alessiostudio all'interno del ciclo "d'ARCHITETTURA - esempi di qualità della stagione 2012/2013".

Matteo Pericoli: the King of cityscape

Pericoli’s drawing is poetry: at once monumental and graceful.

Street Seats

Design Furniture for Boston’s Fort Point Channel Design brings communities together. Public seating sets the scene for chance encounters, people watching, connecting with nature, or just taking a break.

Arik Levy at Bisazza Foundation

Experimental Growth by Arik Levy is the new exhibition at Bisazza Foundation. The show, from November 8th until December 21st, includes a structural modification to the architecture of the Foundation, a macro-installation called Rock Chamber and a video created expressly for the event Virtual Truth.

Master of Design Futures

Still from they are burning our boats video, Courtesy of Design Futures

The Master of Design Futures offers a radical, challenging and exciting alternative to design education where design thinking, research and practice are learned in a rigorous and experimental context.

ISTANBUL

Istanbul Design Biennial opens its doors on October 13th for two months.

The Puez-Odle Visitor Center

The Puez-Odle/Geisler Nature Reserve was extended in 1999 and now comprises an expanse of 10,722 hectares (25,194 acres). 

Fotografia commerciale. Il mestiere del fotografo

Carola Merello

Dal 5 al 14 Novembre 2012 Polifemo ospiterà presso la sua sede alla Fabbrica del Vapore la mostra di fotografie di Fulvio Bortolozzo e Carola Merello. 

Design e progettazione partecipata

Mercoledì 10 ottobre alle 20.30, presso il Centro Culturale San Gaetano di Padova, avrà luogo una tavola rotonda con Daniele Lago.

L'evento di inserisce nella manifestazione "Vivere il design", che dal 6 al 21 ottobre propone convegni, mostre, workshop e spettacoli che si innestano nel tessuto cittadino, con l’obiettivo di coinvolgere attivamente il pubblico sui temi del design. Si indagheranno le possibilità di interazione fra cittadini, progettisti e amministratori pubblici per la creazione di città e ambienti migliori e più vivibili.

MIT: Call for Applications

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Art, Culture and Technology is an academic program and research center which facilitates artist-thinkers' exploration of art's broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology, and design via rigorous critical artistic practice and practice-driven theory.

CHMARA ROSINKE

Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara are two young designers. They met during studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. After finishing the studies in Poland, being two terms at the Kunstuniversitaet in Linz (space&design strategies), spending some time at the Akademie der bildenden Künste and the TU Wien (architecture), and looking for some experience in several offices, they launched their own studio chmara.rosinke based in Vienna.

Pombal Castle's Hill

© Fernando Guerra / FG+SG

Comoco Arquitectos (Luìs Miguel Correia, Nelson Mota, Susana Constantino) added a cafeteria, a wooden gazebo, a set of repaved pathways and a new castle entrance on the hill of Pombal's Castle. The architects managed to create a complex with a delicate balance between nature and built-up.

Design Time

Design Time is a pathway through the Italian design icons with six important moments during the day.

CRISTALPLANT DESIGN CONTEST

The contest is open to young designers born after 1st January 1973 who may present one or more projects under the categories: project for bathroom area, contract sector and project for outdoor bathroom area, contract sector.

PETER ZUMTHOR’S POETRY

The Royal Institute of British Architects honored Peter Zumthor for his significant influence on the advancement of architecture by naming him the recipient of the 2013 Royal Gold Medal.

 Il Royal Institute of BritishArchitects ha premiato Peter Zumthor per la sua significativa influenza sulprogresso dell'architettura, conferendogli la Royal Gold Medal 2013.