In memory of Sir Terence Conran

In memory of Sir Terence Conran

1931 - 2020

Innovative designer Sir Terence Conran and his groundbreaking Habitat stores were as much a part of the swinging 60s as mini-skirts, The Beatles and Mary Quant.

Later, he brought the same flair to restaurants and architecture, driven by what seemed to be an inexhaustible store of energy.

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The Vulnerabilities of Our Cities and How to Build a Resilient Architecture - Lessons from 2020

by Rabih Hage

2020 has unveiled the vulnerability of our social interactions in cities.

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How to build a city for a pandemic?

How do you build a city for a pandemic?

from BBC Future By Harriet Constable

The new coronavirus has spread rapidly in cities around the globe. How might the virus make us think differently about urban design in the future?

The pandemic has turned the world outside our doorsteps into a newly formed wilderness. Public spaces are now areas to be ventured into sparingly, except by essential workers, so for most of us our worlds have shrunk to the size of our homes.

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Missoni Home Sweet Home 2019

Milan Design Week - Fashion and Furniture

Salone del Mobile 2019

Collaborations between the worlds of fashion and furniture have been increasingly visible at Milan Design Week and this year has been no exception. Big fashion houses and luxury car brands in partnership with established home-ware designers were making the big statements this year with an array of spectacular installations and eye-catching displays across the city.

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A Gilded Age at Architectural Digest

A Gilded Age at Architectural Digest

News from the Web

In the early 1980s, when I was an editor at Condé Nast’s House & Garden magazine, my colleagues and I were perturbed by an idée fixe of the company’s legendary editorial director, Alexander Liberman.

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Ugliness Is Underrated: Ugly Design

Ugliness Is Underrated: Ugly Design

News from the Web

I covet a piece of technology that never existed and likely never will. I can’t stop thinking about it. I covet the seashell e-reader from the 2014 film It Follows. The movie is one of my all-time favorites because it so fluidly combines three of my main interests: awkward sex, sudden death, and timeless design.

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Like something from Pompeii' – Battersea Arts Centre's scorching resurrection

Like something from Pompeii' – Battersea Arts Centre's scorching resurrection

News from the Web

At Battersea Arts Centre it can be hard to tell where the audience stops and the acting begins. The rambling Victorian town hall in south London, home to experimental theatre since the 1970s, has long revelled in blurring the boundaries of stage and seat, mingling performers with guests and presenting plays on landings, in the bar and even in its offices.

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"An Instrument for Greater Equity." More Guidance from a Leader on Creative Placemaking

"An Instrument for Greater Equity." More Guidance from a Leader on Creative Placemaking

News from the Web

Earlier this year, the Kresge Foundation published the first in a series of white papers to help grantmakers and practitioners more successfully integrate arts and culture into community development. Given the foundation’s role as a leader in the field in creative placemaking and aligning the arts with social justice, inequality and urban development, the announcement was timely and important.

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The inflatable ‘antepavilion’ by Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers is afloat on the Regents Canal

The inflatable ‘antepavilion’ by Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers is afloat on the Regents Canal

News from the Web

Moored alongside a collection of artists’ studios on Regents Canal in east London, the Architecture Foundation’s second annual ‘antepavilion’ comprises a bulbous yellow inflatable enclosure emerging out of the hull of a 1930s barge.

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Enter the Matrix: An Interview with Ken Isaacs

Enter the Matrix: An Interview with Ken Isaacs

News from the Web

The highly individual practice of American architect and designer Ken Isaacs (born 1927, Peoria, Illinois) challenged conventional definitions of modernism through designs that sought radical solutions to the spatial and environmental challenges of modern life.

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Paris’ first Digital Art Centre opens

Paris’ first Digital Art Centre opens

Atelier des Lumières

Bruno Monnier, the President of Culturespaces, is announcing the opening of the first Digital Art Centre in Paris in spring 2018: the Atelier des Lumières. As the leading private operator in the management and promotion of monuments, museums, and art centres, Culturespaces is continuing to develop its pioneering work in the field of digital exhibitions.

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How landmark buildings became weapons in a new Gulf war

How landmark buildings became weapons in a new Gulf war

News from the Web

On the Doha corniche, on the route into the city from its airport, a monumental pile of fibre-cement discs is nearing completion. It is the new National Museum of Qatar, where the country’s “cultural heritage, diverse history and modern developments” are to be displayed.

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In Memoriam GSA

In Memoriam GSA

News from the Web

The images of the Glasgow School of Art going up in flames again were like a bad dream. The glowing orange inferno, caught on mobile phones, brought back memories of the fire four years ago which destroyed the most beautiful space in the building, the library, surely one of the most remarkable rooms in the history of architecture. But this time the damage has been more far reaching.

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Enquire Within Upon Everything - Tim Berners-Lee is Trying to Save the Internet

Enquire Within Upon Everything - Tim Berners-Lee is Trying to Save the Internet

News from the Web

For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence.

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BLOX in Copenhagen is Officially Open

BLOX in Copenhagen is Officially Open

new home to Danish Architecture Center (DAC) and the urban innovation center BLOXHUB.

After a grand opening in the first weekend of May, BLOX has now officially opened. BLOX is one of Copenhagen’s major urban development projects and a new destination in the city. Designed by architecture studio OMA. Built and funded by the philanthropic association Realdania
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