August 2008
RememberTibet.org as Olympics Begins
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousFilm stills from RememberTibet.org as China Olympics begin
August 8, 2008. Barnbrook Design has launched a website to coincide with the Beijing Olympics that reiterates demands for Tibetan independence by calling on artists and designers to make their own statements about the ongoing occupation of the country by China...
...Preview: 100% Design London: Mint's 10th Anniversary Show
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousThe Lazy table by Bram Boo will show at Mint this September
August 25, 2008. Coinciding with its tenth anniversary, as well as The London Design Festival and 100% Design, the Mint showroom will present Forget Me Knot, an exhibition that will run from September 18th to the 30th at its 70 Wigmore Street, Marylebone location...
...Q+A: Jennifer Morla
Wed, 08/20/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousWhen graphic designer Jennifer Morla, 52, became creative director of Design Within Reach in 2005, the San Francisco–based purveyor of modern furniture classics was in trouble.
...Isamu Noguchi at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Tue, 08/19/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousInstallation of Noguchi work in Yorkshire Sculpture Park
August 19, 2008. Long overdue, Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi’s first major European exhibition has opened at the 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield (an hour outside of Manchester) and will run through February 22, 2009...
...Viñoly Expands Brooklyn Children's Museum
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousLobby of the Brooklyn Children's Museum by Viñoly Architects
August 29, 2008. Slated to open next month, the expansion of the 110-year-old Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights by Rafael Viñoly Architects is wrapped in 8.1 million yellow ceramic tiles, and marked by large blocks of paint-pot color. If approved for silver LEED certification, the museum will be the first in the city to have sustainable credentials ...
...Zaragoza World Expo 2008: Austrian Pavilion
Mon, 08/18/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousThe Walk of Fame leading into the Pura Austria pavilion
August 17, 2008. For the Zaragoza World Expo 2008, in the Zaragoza Bridge completed this May by Zaha Hadid in Spain, ARGE Strauss-Solid-Ritter designed the Austrian Pavilion, which will host Pura Austria and be open to visitors through September 14th. The architecture is based on the popular 19th-century cyclorama and resembles an abstracted alpine terrain...
...Reintroducing Peggy Guggenheim (by Fabrica)!
Mon, 08/11/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousFabrica's limited-edition suitcases reintroduce "Peggy
August 11, 2008. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the museum will host a flurry of lectures, workshops, exhibitions, free tours, films and even a birthday concert. It will also introduce a limited-edition retail line designed by Fabrica intended to reacquaint visitors with the woman who was the niece of museum founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim but established one of the world’s finest modern art collections in her own right, and who lived in the museum’s palazzo for 30 years until her death in 1980 when she donated it to the institution...
Kuum Hotel & Spa by GAD Architecture Opens in Bodrum
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 01:00 — AnonymousKuum Hotel & Spa designed by GAD in Bodrum
August 4, 2008. Opened last month in the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the KUUM Hotel & Spa and residences consist of a 60-room lodging, 37 apartments and an Anandara spa and hammam. New York and Istanbul-based designers at Global Architecture Development (GAD) took their cues from the surrounding land and seascapes, as well as the historical legacies of southwestern Turkey and the Aegean Sea...
...Universities Aim for “A+” in Carbon Reductions
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 15:24 — AnonymousIt’s unlikely that Prince Charles heads the Richard Rogers fan club, but Lord Rogers recently received validation from another luminary when the Royal Institute of British Architects named the Rogers Stirk Harbour–designed Maggie’s Centre the winner of its RIBA Stirling Prize 2009.
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