February 27

SANAA to design the next Serpentine Pavilion

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Kazuyo Sejima (right) and Ryue Nishizawa (left)
© 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Photograph © Takashi Okamoto

For the first time, Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) have been called to design something in England. Like fellow Japanese architect Toyo Ito did in 2002, the designers of NYC’s New Museum are going to provide London’s Serpentine Gallery with another Zen-flavored pavilion for the brits to behold. Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of the gallery, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, stated to work with SANAA is a dream come true. Read more

February 26

Sguardi Altrove Film Festival
(02/27/09-03/08/09)

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The XVI edition of the Sguardi Altrove Film Festival takes place in the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Despite being a movie festival, Sguardi Altrove is open to several different arts and languages: it features photo shows, comics-related exhibitions, installations, theater and dance. Read more

February 25

Puma City awarded by Travel + Leisure

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Travel + Leisure magazine announces its 2009 Design Award winners. Among the awarded projects there’s also Puma City, designed by Lot-Ek (the one we posted here) winner for the Best Retail.
The 2009 jury members included Calvin Klein, Lisa Phillips, Adam Tihany, Edwina von Gal, Laurie Beckelman, Michael Bierut, and Bernard Tschumi. Read more

February 24

Plataforma Networks

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Every now and then we like to signal good web projects to you guys. This time we’d like you to check out Plataforma Networks, a Chile-based, architecture-themed network featuring various websites, the most interesting and complete of which are maybe Plataforma Arquitectura (for Spanish-reading users) and ArchDaily (for English readers).

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February 23

Cibic & Partners and Palladio

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Andrea Palladio, palazzo Valmarana a Vicenza.
[Londra, Royal Institute of British Architects]

As we already mentioned before, contemporary architects love Palladio. Here’s an update about Andrea Palladio – His Life and Legacy, the exhibition currently hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts in London to celebrate the 500 year anniversary of the 16th century architect’s birth.
Cibic & Partners is also among the selected studios taking part in the event, after curating the set up for the monographic show in Vicenza, Palladio’s hometown. In London, Cibic presents a contemporary revisitation of the architect’s poetic and creativity, reading it as a system based on simple and repeatable shapes, allowing combinations of different and new objects. Read more

February 20

Europe celebrates 100 years of Futurism

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While Paris, London and Rome celebrate the historical value of Futurism, Milan – the movement’s unquestioned cradle and its most vivid hatching location – revives it with grand celebrations and a lot of dedicated events, bringing Marinetti’s legacy back to life in the multiplicity of its expressive languages. Futurism’s contribution to art and culture was omnivore, explosive and vital, spanning from painting, poetry, cinema, sculputure, photography, theatre, music and fashion to communication, advertising, and finally architecture. Read more

February 19

New Art Exchange by Hawkins/Brown in Nottingham

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Here’s another project by Hawkins/Brown, an english studio we already mentioned here.

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This September the New Art Exchange took occupation of its new home, a landmark building by award-winning architects Hawkins\Brown. Located on the site of the New Art Exchange’s original building, a former dispensary on Gregory Boulevard in Hyson Green in Nottingham, the New Art Exchange will create employment and provide new facilities for the Hyson Green community, helping to regenerate one of the East Midland’s most deprived areas.
The building will launch the New Art Exchange as the UK’s first regional inner city contemporary visual arts centre led by African, African Caribbean and South Asian artistic practice. Situated within close proximity to Djanogly City
Academy, the local library and community centre it will significantly boost the social and cultural dimension of the Hyson Green neighbourhood. Read more

February 18

Up the Wall, On the Floor
Glamorgan Design Award

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We received this story from some students at Glamorgan and we’re publishing it because we believe the first steps in a designer’s career – the first competitions,  the first challenges – are as important as the following in shaping professionals. And because we love it when the young creative minds answer our calls.

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Glamorgan University Students with Course Tutor Erica Liu (front row 4th from left)

20 final year Interior Design students from University of Glamorgan, in Cardiff joined the “Up the Wall, On the Floor“ competition. The brief was to choose from one of four themes including Avant Garde, Fashion, Time Zone and Futurism and create an interior space featuring products from Johnson Tiles, Tektura Wall coverings and Miliken carpets.

11 finalists were chosen to display their work at Material Lab in London. Architects and designers from the London area were invited to an evening event at the lab, where the students had displayed their work and were present to talk through their designs with the guests, who were asked to vote for their favourite design. Read more

February 17

Seven Rooms exhibition project by Office KGDVS

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‘Seven Rooms’ is Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen’s third exhibition project in association with deSingel in Antwerp.

In autumn 2005 they opened deSingel ‘35m³’ series, a project of 5 solo exhibitions that continued until mid-2008 and presented 13 young Belgian architects in ‘micro-exhibitions’ in a space of 35 cubic metres.

In autumn 2008, together with the Flemish Architecture Institute and deSingel, they were responsible for Flanders’ contribution to the eleventh architectural biennale in Venice, a work entitled ‘1907′. Read more

February 16

Beniamino Servino – Obus Incertum

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(Text by Luca Molinari)

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Commenting on chinese artist Ding Yi’s work, critic Cao Weijun writes: “Since 1988, Din Yi repeats this work every day, an extreme challenge for body and mind, without interruption, without ever changing his liguistic style. He believes painting to be necessary in facing the contraddictions of the real world. Since it’s impossible to obtain the truth, the only thing you can do, and you must do, is trying with every possible mean to get close to the truth.”
When I read this short text Beniamino Servino’s work came to my mind. He focused his obstinate, obsessive, resisting research on few recurring elements throughout the years. Read more

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