Design
Design
Driade appoints David Chipperfield as artistic director
News: Italian furniture brand Driade has appointed British architect David Chipperfield as its artistic director, a year after it was rescued from financial collapse. More
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Architecture
Architecture
NORD Architects unveils designs for Marine Educational Centre in Malmö
News: Danish studio NORD Architects has released designs for a new Marine Educational Centre in Malmö, Sweden, comprising a 700-square-metre visitor centre with a large overhanging roof structure that covers an external aquatic learning environment. More
Architecture
Architecture
Steel bolts break on Richard Rogers' Cheesegrater tower
News: two steel bolts have broken on Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building in London, causing the area around the base of building to be cordoned off to pedestrians despite assurances that the building remains safe. More
Architecture
Architecture
COBE reveals competition-winning Volunteer House design for Danish Red Cross
News: Danish studio COBE has unveiled its designs for an extension to the Red Cross headquarters in Copenhagen, comprising a large triangular structure that rises up from the ground at an angle to meet the existing building. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Gang to regenerate former power plant as a student centre
News: Chicago studio Studio Gang Architects has revealed plans to convert a decommissioned power plant in Wisconsin, USA, into new facilities for an arts college (+ slideshow). More
Technology
Technology
MoMA acquires DIY electronics products to reflect technology's "significance" for design
News: New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired a kit for building and programming a simple games console and four other DIY electronics products for the museum's collection of "humble masterpieces". More
Architecture
Architecture
MLZD and Sollberger Bögli win competition to design new Lausanne football stadium
News: Swiss firms MLZD and Sollberger Bögli have been named as the winners of a competition organised by the City of Lausanne to design a 12,000-seat football stadium. More
Architecture
Architecture
One World Trade Center welcomes first occupants
News: the first tenants have moved into offices in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's newly opened One World Trade Center in New York (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
MAD reveals concept design for George Lucas' Chicago art museum
News: Beijing firm MAD has unveiled the initial design for an art museum on Chicago's lakefront, which will house the collection of American film director George Lucas. More
Architecture
Architecture
New Barcelona Design Museum merges decorative art and design collections
News: the Barcelona Design Museum will open in December with newly curated collections that represent Catalonian design history from the third century to present day (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library wins 2014 Modernism Prize
News: the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for preservation of a modern landmark has been given to a Finnish committee responsible for restoring architect Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Work starts on Calatrava-designed Greek Orthodox Church on World Trade Center site
News: work has begun on a Greek Orthodox Church designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to replace a building that was destroyed by the collapse of New York's World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. More
Furniture
Furniture
Libeskind's table for Marina Abramovic produced as limited-edition by Moroso
News: Italian design brand Moroso has produced a limited-edition set of the table designed by architect Daniel Libeskind for an installation by artist Marina Abramovic (+ slideshow). More
Technology
Technology
Ambulance Drone could deliver life-saving equipment "within one minute"
News: a TU Delft graduate has presented an unmanned aerial vehicle with built-in defibrillation equipment, which could fly to a patient suffering from a heart attack in a fraction of the time it would take an ambulance to drive. More
Design
Design
Latest AeroMobil flying car prototype set for Europe's roads and skies
News: a "fully functional" new prototype of a vehicle that is both an aircraft and a car, called the AeroMobil, was made public yesterday after a development and build time of just 10 months (+ slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Dubai plans to build world's tallest twin towers
News: the massive 6 million-square-metre Dubai Creek Harbour development launched this week will include a pair of record-breaking towers, according to the developers. More
Design
Design
Design Academy Eindhoven "needs to get a grip on technology"
News: technology and food have replaced products and furniture as the new frontiers for designers, according to Thomas Widdershoven, creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven (+ interview). More
Architecture
Architecture
London's The Rom becomes first listed skatepark in Europe
News: The Rom Skatepark in east London has become the first European facility of its kind to be awarded protected status (+ slideshow). More
Design
Design
£3.4 billion crafts sector is "far bigger than we thought" says Crafts Council
News: craft skills contribute £3.4 billion to the economy, according to research that for the first time measures the economic impact of thousands of small craft businesses in the UK. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Gang joins rising tide of architects building in Miami
News: Chicago-based Studio Gang is following in the footsteps of OMA, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid by becoming the latest architect to design a residential building for Miami (+ slideshow). More