OMA Reveals Visuals of Xinhu Hangzhou Prism
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OMA recently revealed the design for the Hangzhou Prism, which it has started building in the coastal city of Hangzhou, China, for local holding company Zhejiang Xinhu Haichuang Group to form the heart of its “future tech city” in the city’s new technol“A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing” at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have joined forces to display six pioneering experiments in social housing in an exhibition titled “A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing.” The exhib
OMA Unveils Greenpoint Landing Towers for Brooklyn
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OMA’s New York office has revealed the design for its first project in Brooklyn: a pair of residential towers shaped like “a ziggurat and its inverse.” OMA’s towers form part of the new Greenpoint Landing development in Greenpoint – a Brooklyn neighJun Jie Zhang Shows Irregular Lamp Shades from Woven Bamboo at Design Shanghai
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Hangzhou-based designer Jun Jie Zhang aims to show the softer qualities of bamboo with his series of woven light shades, which were displayed during this year’s Design Shanghai. “The Bamboo Softness” lighting collection features bent lengths of bamboo a“Casa Ojalá” by Beatrice Bonzanigo at Milan Design Week, 2019
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The Italian architect Beatrice Bonzanigo has recently unveiled her patented design “Casa Ojala,” a micro home that is transportable, adaptable, and off-grid. A 1:10 scale model of the “Casa Ojala” will be presented during the upcoming Milan Design WeeMichael Anastassiades’ “Things That Go Together” at NiMAC, Cyprus
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NiMAC (The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre), in collaboration with the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, is currently hosting a solo exhibition by designer Michael Anastassiades, titled “Things That Go Together.” The exhiV+ Studio Uses Recycled Bricks to Construct Folklore Museum in Belgium
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The Brussels-based design and architecture studio V+ has recycled bricks from demolished local buildings to construct The Folklore Museum in Mouscron, Belgium. The Folklore Museum, which was nominated for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award, houses a cMisha Kahn’s “Just Around the Bend” at M+B, Los Angeles
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The ANNEX at M+B is currently hosting “Just Around the Bend,” a solo exhibition by artist and designer Misha Kahn, on view through March 16, 2019. “Just Around the Bend” marks the designer’s first solo exhibition at ANNEX as well as in Los Angeles.&“Making It Happen: New Community Architecture” at RIBA, London
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is currently hosting an exhibition titled “Making It Happen: New Community Architecture,” which tells the stories behind four very different examples of new or reimagined public areas. The exhibition is onShusaku Arakawa’s “Diagrams for the Imagination” at Gagosian Gallery, New York
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The Gagosian Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition titled “Diagrams for the Imagination,” featuring the painterly, diagrammatic drawings by the Japanese architect and artist Shusaku Arakawa. The exhibition is on view through April 13, 2019. TheStarbucks’ Kengo Kuma Designed Reserve Roastery Opens in Tokyo
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The Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has teamed up with Starbucks on a coffee house featuring origami-like ceilings and trails of cherry blossoms, designed to offer customers a more theatrical experience. The Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo is one of on8 Hour Design Studio Presents “Clips” Collection at Design Shanghai
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The Shanghai-based design studio 8 Hour has released a range of seating furniture, which is inspired by the “changing forms” of a paperclip. Presented at the recently concluded Design Shanghai (March 6-9, 2019), this furniture collection is titled “Clip“In Retrospect” at Joy Mardini Design Gallery, Beirut
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Joy Mardini Design Gallery, Beirut, is hosting its first career retrospective since 2011, featuring a selection of works from past shows and collections.On view from March 12, 2019, “In Retrospect” explores how some of the gallery’s artists have evolve“Study and Dressing Rooms” by 4 Artists to be sold at Phillips’ “Casa Di Fantasia”
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“Study and Dressing Rooms” by Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti, Edina Altara, and Guido Gambone will go under the hammer at Phillips’ upcoming auction, “Casa Di Fantasia” that will take place on March 21, 2019, in London. The present artwork will be featPeter Pichler Architecture Designs Tree Houses for Forest in the Italian Dolomites
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The Milan-based studio Peter Pichler Architecture has unveiled the design of sustainable tree houses in the forest of the Italian Dolomites. The new tree houses are to be situated within the forest and their structures are characterized by sharp steep roofs aJapanese Architect Arata Isozaki wins the Pritzker Prize 2019
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The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been named 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious award. “The Japanese architect, born in 1931, is known for his style that combines Postmodernism and metabolism with technology.Carlo Bugatti’s “Rare games table and set of four chairs” to feature at Phillips’ Upcoming Auction
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Carlo Bugatti’s “Rare games table and set of four chairs” will be featured at Phillips’ upcoming auction, “Important Design” that will take place on March 21, 2019, in London and the pre-auction estimate of this present work is £80,000 - 120,000.Gio Ponti’s Cabinet to Be Offered at Phillips’ “Casa Di Fantasia”
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Gio Ponti’s “Illuminated 'Positivo-negativo' wall-mounted cabinet with tower and king statuettes” will go under the hammer at Phillips’ upcoming auction, “Casa Di Fantasia” that will be held on March 21, 2019, in London. The present artwork will bSophie Rowley Uses Re-purposed Denim to Design Marble-Like Furniture
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Keeping up with the latest trend of sustainability that has taken over the design world, the New Zealand-born designer Sophie Rowley gives new life to discarded denim offcuts by recycling them into pieces of furniture with marble-like markings. CalledBoulder-shaped Concert Hall by Open Architecture near Beijing
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The Beijing-based architecture studio, Open Architecture is building a boulder-shaped concert hall in a valley north of Beijing that is famous for hosting remnants of the Ming Dynasty’s Great wall, for its client Aranya. The concert hall, named “Chapel oSnøhetta Designs New Museum Quarter on Top of the Virgl Mountain
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Snohetta has recently released visuals of a proposed Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. The proposal is an extension of Snohetta's ongoing project with Signa Group, for which it iUNStudio and Monopol Colors develop “The Coolest White Paint”
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UNStudio has partnered with Monopol Colors to develop “The Coolest White,” an ultra-durable paint that protects buildings and urban structures from excessive solar radiation – thus slowing down the urban heat island effect. In an official release,Collectible Design Fair Returns to Vanderborght, Brussels
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Collectible Design Fair returns to the Vanderborght building in Brussels for its second edition, from March 14-17. Dedicated to 21st-century Contemporary collectible design, the fair presents latest design pieces from 90 international exhibitors this year, alDealing With the Challenges of Relocating an Entire Swedish Town: Takes by Architects and Town Planners
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Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost city, situated 90 miles into the Arctic Circle, shot into fame a few years back when news about it being relocated spread across the world. It also happens to be home to one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. WhileTeresa van Dongen Develops Sustainable Light Source from Living Organisms
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With the help of researchers from Ghent University’s Bioscience Engineering faculty, the Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen has created a lamp that doesn’t require a plug or a battery — instead, it’s powered by bacteria. The project “Electric LifWhite Arkitekter Unveils Maternity Unit Concept for Panzi Hospital in Bukavu
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The Swedish architecture studio White Arkitekter has created the concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The unit is conceptualized as an extension of the hospital, which was foundedStudio Drift’s “Materialism” at Frieze Art Fair, LA
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Amsterdam-based Studio Drift showcased its “Materialism” project at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles (LA), which took place from February 15 to 17, 2019. For the project, Studio Drift “de-produced” everyday products, such as a vacuum cleanTel Aviv Architects Use the Power of Design to Make School for Refugee Kids Their Safe Haven
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Tel Aviv-based architects and designers embarked on a pro-bono project that elevates the aesthetics of a local school that caters to children of refugees and migrant workers in an attempt to make the school a “safe space” for these children.The Hayarden S“Eroded” Building Design for University of Toronto Unveiled by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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New York-based architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has recently unveiled its design for a 170,000-square-foot stacked campus building at the University of Toronto, to be known as “90 Queen’s Park.” The design features indented floors thatLegendary Italian Architect and Designer Alessandro Mendini Dies at 87
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Alessandro Mendini, the renowned Italian architect and designer known for his famous Proust Armchair and the Groninger Museum, has passed away aged 87.Born in Milan in 1931, Mendini played a crucial role in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and RadicalGlenn Murcutt to Design Melbourne’s MPavilion 2019
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Internationally renowned Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, has been selected to design Melbourne’s MPavilion 2019.Highly regarded around the world as a teacher and commentator, Murcutt is the only Australian architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker PRIBA Spotlights Sir Nicholas Grimshaw’s Works in “Evolution”
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) celebrates the evolution of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw’s career and work for over five decades in “Evolution,” which is on view through March 9, 2019. Through exclusive drawings, models and film, the exhibitioLine Depping Creates Sculptural Furniture for “Still Life” at Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris
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Award-winning Danish furniture designer Line Depping presents a series of limited edition furniture pieces and unique sculptures in “Still Life,” on view at Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris through March 23. The works, conceived specially for this exhibitiBalkrishna Doshi’s “Architecture for the People” at Vitra Design Museum
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Vitra Design Museum will present “Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People” from March 30 through September 8, 2019. The show would mark the first international retrospective on the 2018 Pritzker Prize laureate outside of Asia.The first Indian archit“Modernity by CFHILL – In the Hands of a Genius” at CFHILL, Stockholm
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CFHILL has made a selection of unique objects from Modernity’s treasure trove. On view through March 9, the exhibition showcases functional objects doesn’t seem strange to viewers at all. The key concept here is the genius of the hand.The participating deThe Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris Features Exhibition on Italian Architect and Designer Gio Ponti
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The work of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti is the focus of a major exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, which is currently on view through May 5, 2019. This is the Italian architect’s first retrospective in France.ConsidereWutopia Lab Revamps a Tourism Company's Entrance Office Into a Striped House Visitor Center
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Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed the concierge room of tourism company Aranya, based in Qinhuangdao, China, into a striped information center. Replacing its original skin with a semi-transparent glass, the architects have rebuilPrivacy and Wellbeing Become Essential Aspects of Office Furniture Design at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2019
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The Stockholm Furniture Fair of 2019, the core event of the Stockholm Design Week that ended last week, showcased office furniture that kept privacy and wellbeing of users at the heart of their design. Soundproof pods, saddle-shaped chairs, adjustable-height
