New Designers 08: Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month. The first is a proposal for a website where people upload information about the contents of skips so others can salvage items they need from them. The SkipWaste site would be searchable by items required or location and shows a photo of each skip ..
Designer Gerry Judah attached Land Rovers to a 34-metre high steel framework at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England last weekend. The Land Rover Sculpture was commissioned by Land Rover (surprise surprise) and was fabricated by Littlehampton Welding, which also made Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe. Height: 34 metres Drawings: 2560 Parts: 3415 Bolts: 4890 Net weight: 106 tonnes Gross w..
The 130-metre long S-shaped footbridge is one of a number of regeneration projects in Castleford - including Tickle Cock Bridge Underpass by DSDHA architects - being filmed for a TV series. The Castleford Project will be aired Channel 4 television series this summer. See our previous story for more information. The following information is from McDowell+Benedetti: Castleford Bridge officially op..
Design Concept The Cardboard House represents the reduction of technology and the simplification of needs. By demonstrating that we are able to recycle 100% of the building components at extremely low cost, the Cardboard House is a direct challenge to the housing industry to reduce housing and environmental costs. Stutchbury and Pape, working in association with the Ian Buchan Fell Housing Resea..
Windshape was an ephemeral structure commissioned in 2006 by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) as a gathering space for students and as a venue to host events in their Provence campus in Lacoste, France. Windshape became the main public meeting space in the small town, and hosted concerts, exhibitions, and ceremonial gatherings throughout the summer of 2006. The project was designed by..
Technicolor Bloom is an architectural installation constructed from 1400 flat plywood panels to form a double-curved perforated tunnel. Designed by Brennan Buck with Rob Henderson and students from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, the project is currently on show at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. Buck is assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vien..
Maya Lin Systematic Landscapes Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Washington “Maya Lin has an extraordinary ability to convey complex and poetic ideas using simple forms and natural materials.” Richard Andrews Director Henry Art Gallery The exhibition is on view through September 3, 2006. Maya Lin works with a vocabulary of form culled from her study of landscape. By altering scale and materials, she cr..
Spanish/Mexican architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales designed an exhibition of works by artist Susana Solano at Fundación ICO in Madrid, made almost entirely of recycled materials. The exhibition, displaying models of Solano’s public artworks, ran from October last year until January this year.
Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at five-star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year-long reburbishment. The installation, called Rebirth, lasted just one night as part of Demolition Party, a VIP event on 26 June at which guests were invited to help destroy fixtures at the hotel. Le Royal Monceau will reopen next ..
The structure spanning the river incorporates four enclosed exhibitionspaces and combines the structural considerations of a bridge with thespatial requirements of a pavilion.