Agne Kucerenkaite Uses Metal Waste to Create Colorful Ceramic Glazes and Porcelain Works
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A graduate from Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands-based material designer Agne Kucerenkaite works with raw materials, transforming them into valuable products, methods, and systems, seeking interaction between design, society, industry, and environmen
Miami Wakes Up to Its Most Awaited Design Fair
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Design Miami kicks off today with thirty-four exhibitions accompanied by eleven Curio presentations representing venues from twelve countries. The major trends in this year’s edition include the use of industrial materials and processes; a sense of playfulnAmerican Sculptor Robert Morris dies at 87
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American sculptor, conceptual artist, and writer Robert Morris, one of the founders of minimalism sculpture, has died in Kingston, New York, from pneumonia at the age of 87.Morris was born in 1931 in Kansas City. He studied art at Kansas City Art Instit‘The Finnish Architecture. Review 2018’ at the Alvar Aalto Museum
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“The Finnish Architecture. Review 2018” exhibition at the Alvar Aalto Museum highlights new trends and the “high standards of excellence” in Finnish architecture.The exhibition spotlights 16 projects — ranging from small-scale sites to large-scale h“The City Front” at Galerie Maria Wettergren
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Galerie Maria Wettergren presents French artist and photographer Benoît Fougerol’s “The City Front,” through February 2, 2019. The exhibition features a series of works created between 2002 and 2015 in the ZUS areas (Sensitive Urban Zones) of the PariA Dialogue between Design and Photography at the Dutko Gallery, Saint-Louis Island
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Dutko Gallery, Saint-Louis Island, presents “Complement d’objet direct” through January 12, 2019. The exhibition creates an encounter between two different worlds of design and photography by juxtaposing Eric Schmitt’s design of furniture pieces and PThe Haas Brothers on Taxonomy of their Work Ahead of “Ferngully” in Miami
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IN MYTHOLOGIES AROUND the world, twins, whether they are viewed as ominous or benevolent, are understood as two parts that, together, form a whole. The Haas Brothers (Nikolai and Simon), darlings of the design world, share some of the classic traits of twinsMarta Nowicka’s Three-Bedroom “Gouse” is Garage-Turned-House
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Located in Dalston East London, the “Gouse” is a three-bedroom newly built house designed by award-winning interior architect Marta Nowicka, on a site that earlier served as a garden shed/garage. The name “Gouse,” is derived from “garage–house.”London’s Royal Academy of Music Unveils Two New Performance Spaces
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Ian Ritchie Architects has designed two new performance spaces within the Regent’s Park conservation area for the Royal Academy of Music.The Academy recently unveiled the new and transformed spaces including the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, a new Recital Hall oHenning Larsen’s “The Crystal” Town Hall Opens in Kiruna, Sweden
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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden recently opened Kiruna’s new town hall, designed by Henning Larsen. Kiruna is a Swedish town that sits atop the largest iron ore mine on the planet. The town came into being as a result of the mining operations, buThe Met Announces Renovation of Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced renovation plans for its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The Met has dedicated $70 million for the overhaul of the 40,000-square-foot space housing the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Architect KulapaHistorical Meets Contemporary at Design Miami/ 2018, Dec 5-9
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Design Miami/, One of the most important events for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating collectible design, will present the fifth edition of its popular Curio program at the upcoming edition of the fair (December 5 – 9), alongside the maiLondon’s Proposed Skyscraper Tulip Tower Worries Air Traffic Control
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London City airport warns officials of potential problems with Norman Foster skyscraper, reports the Guardian. It has been compared to a cocktail cornichon and derided as an architectural Freudian slip, but Norman Foster’s proposed viewing platform and visiStudio Cadena’s “Happy” Spreads Cheer in New York
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Studio Cadena’s site-specific installation “Happy” is the winner of the fifth annual Flatiron Public Plaza Design Competition hosted by the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District (BID) and Van Alen Institute. The vibrant installaStudio Weave Wins 2018 Timber Trophy for Woodland Rooms at Belvue School
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Studio Weave is one of the four architect firms to win the prestigious timber trophy, as part of the UK’s annual Wood Awards that celebrate the use of wood in architecture and design. The other three winners are Niall McLaughlin Architects, MUMA, and Ian RiFoster + Partners Proposes “The Tulip” Tower in Central London
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Foster + Partners recently unveiled plans for a new public cultural and tourist attraction for the city of London — “The Tulip,” which would stand next to their famous Gherkin tower. This project proposed by J. Safra Group and Foster + Partners, d“New Works by Jeff Zimmerman” at R & Company, New York
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R & Company is featuring a solo exhibition of new works by iconic glass artist Jeff Zimmerman at at 64 White Street, New York.This visionary exhibition is Zimmerman’s most comprehensive exhibition to date with the gallery, spanning over two decades of aFoster + Partners’ New Apple Store on Champs-Élysées, Paris
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Apple Champs-Elysees Store, designed by Foster + Partners, opened its door to the public last week. Champs-Elysees celebrates Parisian urban life with its ornate BeauxArt style buildings that line the famous tree-lined boulevard. The new Apple store taps “iChildren Village Wins RIBA International Prize 2018
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Children Village, a new school complex on the edge of the rainforest in northern Brazil, has won this year’s RIBA International Prize.Designed by Brazilian architects Aleph Zero and Rosenbaum, the complex was chosen from a shortlist of four exceptional newRED7, MVRDV’s Debut Project in Moscow Launched
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MVRDV’s RED7 project — the firm’s first building in Russia — has been officially launched. New visualizations of the proposed design were recently released by the Dutch architects.RED7, previously known as The Silhouette, will act as a symbolic gatewaMAD Designs Floating Kindergarten above Traditional Chinese Courtyard
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MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, unveiled its design for “Courtyard Kindergarten” in Beijing. MAD has proposed a dynamic floating roof that surrounds the historic “siheyuan” courtyard that dates back to 1725. MAD’s scheme inserts a new building thZaha Hadid Gallery: Pop-up Exhibition, New York City
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Zaha Hadid Gallery is presenting a pop-up exhibition in its new space at 514 West 28th Street, New York through December 2018.The exhibition features a curated selection of works including architectural models of 520 W 28th and a series of six “Silver ModelHerzog & de Meuron to Redesign Titlis Summit Station in Swiss Alps
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Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled the design for Titlis 3020 project in Swiss Alps.One of Switzerland’s most renowned international tourist attractions, the Swiss mountain Titlis, stands at 3000 meters above sea level. As the o‘Look Out’ by Anne Marie Laureys at Jason Jacques Gallery, New York
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There is a wholeness in the tension that holds her sculptures together, which lies in the blurring of the interior and exterior boundaries.Jason Jacques Gallery is showcasing new work by Anne Marie Laureys, a Belgian artist based in Russeignies. Titled “Loo‘Seats of Power’ at The Vitra Design Museum
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The ongoing exhibition “Seats of Power” at The Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, explores the history of chairs in light of their association with expressions of status and power.In earlier times, chairs were reserved for rulers and the upper echelons o‘Home Futures’ at the Design Museum, London
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The Design Museum, London, in partnership with IKEA Museum Almhult, presents “Home Futures,” through March 24, 2019.“Home Futures” explores the radical domestic visions of the 20th century and asks: what happened to the future? Visitors get a thought-Snøhetta’s Calgary Central Library Opens to the Public
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Calgary Central Library, designed by Snohetta, has opened its doors to the public. The Central Library is the city’s largest public investment since the 1988 Olympics, signalling the city’s focus on the creation and innovation of knowledge and culture.Sit“Dialogues” by Friedman Benda at The Salon Art + Design 2018, New York
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Friedman Benda is showcasing “Dialogues,” bringing three emerging voices in context with the groundbreaking Italian architect and designer — Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) at The Salon Art + Design 2018.“Focusing on three radically different approaches aTwenty First Gallery’s “Golden Eye” at The Salon Art + Design 2018, New York
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Twenty First Gallery is featuring “Golden Eye,” a curation of contemporary works spotlighting the power of gold at The Salon Art + Design, Booth D13, through November 12, 2018, in New York City.This marks the second time Twenty First Gallery has been inviPriveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design Collection at The Salon Art + Design 2018
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Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design is participating for the fifth time at Salon NY 2018, which takes place at Park Avenue Armory through November 12.The participating artists include: Dominic Harris, Richard Hutten, Reinier Bosch, Kranen / Gille, SalusLondon’s V&A East Project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and O’Donnell + Tuomey
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The V&A has unveiled plans for two new sites in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park — a brand-new museum designed by Dublin-based architects O’Donnell + Tuomey at Stratford Waterfront, and a new collection and research center by Diller Scofidio + Renfro at HJean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar to Open in March 2019
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Qatar Museums, the government organization overseeing the development of cultural institutions announced that the Jean Nouvel–designed National Museum of Qatar will open to the public on March 28, 2019.Jean Nouvel's new 40,000-square-metre building incorporammann//gallery Collection at The Salon Art + Design 2018, New York
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ammann//gallery has announced its fifth participation at the New York’s The Salon Art + Design 2018.The gallery will showcase works from its exceptional program featuring Ron Arad, Helene Binet, Studio Nucleo, Satyendra Pakhale, Rolf Sachs, Joel Escalona anThe Salon Art + Design Returns to Park Avenue Armory
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Considered as New York’s most prestigious art and design fair, The Salon Art + Design returns for its seventh edition. It brings together historical, modern and contemporary furniture, groundbreaking design and late 19th through 21st-century art at Park AveZaha Hadid Architects’ First Exhibition in Latin America Transported to Mexico in a Suitcase
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Zaha Hadid Architects is presenting “KnitCandela,” as part of its first exhibition in Latin America at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) in Mexico City.KnitCandela is an experimental structure — a thin, sinuous concrete shell built on ulJill Bokor of The Salon Art + Design on What Makes the Seven-Year-Old Fair “Fluid”
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The Salon Art + Design, whose seventh edition gets underway in New York on November 8 and runs through November 12 on the Upper East Side, couldn’t have had a more appropriate location than the Park Avenue Armory. The building, completed in 1881, is known fBenthem Crouwel Architects Unveils “Recycled and Recyclable” Design for University of Amsterdam’s New Science Faculty
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Benthem Crouwel Architects, along with building consultants Strackee, will be designing a new faculty building, LAB 942, for the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Science (FNWI). Located on Amsterdam Science Park, the nearly 14.000 m2 new multifunctiona
