Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. The paper is wrapped into a cylinder and cut vertically halfway down one side so that the layers can be peeled back one at a time. Nendo designed the chair for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake, which will be at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo from 30 March to 6 Jul..
Milan 08: London-based ChauhanStudio will launch four new telephones for SunCorp Communications in Milan during the furniture fair next month. The range consists of phones called Colombo One, Colombo Two (above and top), Big and Sandy Eco (below) - a “green” phone made of recycled plastic and which comes in recycled packaging. ChauhanStudio, which consists of designers Tej and Sach Chauhan, will..
Stylish interiors for a night club in Poland. I like the curtain-like skin that encloses spaces, as it lets light drop on it, generating an ever-changing interior. Architects: Moomoo - Jakub Majewski, Lukasz Pastuszka Location: Poland Project year: 2008
In 2006, Foundation Greenland Street invited Office for Subversive Architecture to develop the first of their annual architecture commissions which will inhabit the roof of The Blade Factory. More pictures by Johannes Marburg and text form the architects after the break. “Kunsthülle LPL” is a temporary installation for a major new venue for contemporary art in Liverpool. The rooftop structure is..
Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain has created X-System, a shelving system for Australian brand Planex. The modular system features X-shaped pillars that slot into rails on the shelves, and only requires an Allen key for assembly. The following is from Planex: – X = the universal answer to shelving X-System, the latest release from Australian design-manufacturer Planex in collaboration with..
Ukrainian architects 2-B-2 have sent us images of a toilet called Mrs Hudson. The designers say the shape is based on a “modified water drop”. It is believed to be named after the landlady of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Possibly.
Myth and Material, an exhibition of work by designers Doshi Levien for Moroso, has opened at the Italian brand’s showroom in New York. Doshi Levien will show a number of pieces influenced by Indian culture, and designed specifically for Moroso. The exhibition will continue until 18 October at the Moroso showroom at 146 Greene Street, New York. The following is from Doshi Levien: – ‘Myth and Ma..
Santiago Calatrava _Gare de Saint-Exupéry TGV Gare de Saint-Exupéry TGV (formerly Gare de Satolas) is a railway station near Lyon, France. This is a new station built to serve the TGV line from Paris to Marseille. It is situated 20km from Lyon city centre. Saint-Exupéry station was designed by, cost 750 million Francs and opened on 3 July 1994, at the same as the high speed line to Saint-Marcel-..
Shop_World Business Center Busan SHoP’s design proposal for the World Business Center Busan (WBCB) complex begins by combining the traditional Korean courtyard type (Madang) with contemporary high-rise living to create a new urban ecology: the “vertical garden”. The parkscape surrounding the base for the WBCB is drawn up into the towers to produce vertical gardens of planted bamboo. These bamboo..
Surface integration, 2008. ink on paper, 12" x 9" National radio quiet zone, 2008. ink on paper, 17" x 14" 2008. ink and aluminum foil on paper, 12" x 9" "Space projections + the process of organization" 2008, ink, graphite, acrylic and medium on paper, 72" x 36" "Support structure" 2008, ink on paper, 9" x 12" "Satellited" 2008, ink on paper, 9" x 12" "The radar building" 2008, ink and graphite..
