November 2008

It’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.

It’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.

One pair of Ciao Mao shoes can become many pairs

November 15, 2008. No, they don’t give foot rubs, but Interactive Shoes (“Calçados Interativos” in Portuguese) won a gold Premium Award from this year’s national IDEA/Brasil design award. In this first Brazilian edition of the 30-year-old American prize, Priscila Callegari of Ciao Mao was honored for enabling both men and women to customize their footwear using an eclectic multitude of lasercut, woven and embossed straps, pins and elastics ...

Accidental Carpet by Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen

November 12, 2008. Why this chair and why not that one? During Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven at the end of last month, art publisher Onomatopee produced Lift Off 2008: The Truth of Basics, Resetting the History of Living between Four Walls, in an attempt to shed new light on why our interiors look the way they do. The Truth was an exhibition of 11 interiors designed by 11 artists, architects and designers, each using a room in a financial advisor’s office as a starting point. I.D. spoke with co-curators David Keune and Freek Lomme about The Truth ...

The new Harvard University residence at 10 Akron Street

November 16, 2008. In an effort to relieve pressure on the local Cambridge, MA housing market, Harvard University has opened a new 115,000-square-foot student residence designed by architect Kyu Sung Woo. The dormitory complex comprises 215 beds and 30 suite types, a faculty director’s suite, fitness room, study lounges, a multipurpose room and a garage, as well as additional public open space ...

It’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.

spezoid has added a photo to the pool:

It’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.

It’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.

It’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.

It’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.

It’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.

It’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.

Ron Arad Ripple Chairs will be $100 at the Moss/Moroso sale

November 10, 2008. Get out your knee- and elbow-pads, folks, because you're going to need them this Friday, when Moss and Moroso host a warehouse sale in Soho—every design dabbler in the city will likely come out of the woodworks in the hopes of scoring some half-price Hella Jongerius bauble they don't even have room for. Here are the details ...

We started the conversation here, in this blog forum, re: the replacement of Household/Individual.  The goal was to see the "whole picture", make it easier to add/edit/delete details, and provide an intuitive user interface that was easy and enjoyable to use.  Our dev team took this project as a challenge to show off a development style that keeps them focused, accountable, and delivers what the user asked for; they blew me away! 
 
Working with the dev team intimately on screen design, we then immediately shared those with you and many other stakeholders to identify exactly what was needed.  Everything was broken down into “whole” tasks and allotted out every two weeks; quick 10 minute meetings were held every morning to identify progress and roadblocks.  There were constant reviews to validate that what was being built was in align with the vision.  Did it work?  The proof is in the pudding, four short months later, with other projects that still demanded developer time, the first release of Household/Indivi...

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We are very pleased to announce the Kate Spade online private sale. Your chance to purchase items at an exclusive discount perfect for all of your early holiday shoppers. Save up to 60% from November 11-14th. Be sure to act quickly, as inventory is limited.All sales are final. Click the banner below. Happy shopping.

Browns Focus and Alexa Chung chose a brilliant location for their Halloween party: The House of St. Barnabus in Soho, a warren of Gothic rooms straight from a Hammer movie (and believe me, I should know).

The Rottweiler vetting everyone on the door made it a triumph when you finally got in, the reward being bangers and mash, Nobu cocktails and Tattinger. Angels and demons mixed with Draculas and vampires. Halloween seems to bring out the devil in us. Quite a party.

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Against a backdrop of red petals a reminder that it was Armistice Day, Claridge's gave a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Bar. Fabulously chic as you'd expect - endless Laurent Perrier and easy to manage canapés, crucial.
Great music too and guests were going for it when I left.

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Dress code "Pirate Provocateur" was essential for the launch of Dirty Stop Out's new album and fashion show, featuring the new autumn/winter 2008-9 collection by Agent Provocateur.
Always a bit awkward when you arrive at these things having made a bit of an effort, then find that no-one else has and you're feeling slightly ridiculous. Then the hardcore arrive and you wish you'd thought of the blow-up parrot and even a wooden leg (which I'll probably get after this season in heels).

The fashion business' love of all things bespoke is well known, so it was with some delight that, on a recent trip to Hong Kong, I had a chance to visit my father's old tailor.
I was wearing a pair of true vintage red golfing trousers my father had had made there 34 years earlier. Sam's a legend and proved to be a wonderful antidote to the miles and miles of gleaming be-branded shopping malls that have sprung up in Hong Kong over the last 10 years.
The process and service was seamless (well, lots of seams actually). The speed and precision of Sam's work is in refreshingly stark contrast to the fuss that tends to be made over the process of making a bespoke suit in this country.
They use the same cloth as Savile Row's finest, and measuring up to first fitting happened in the time it took me to walk to and from the Peninsula Hotel for an early evening G&T. He even threw in a tie for the old man - how's that for service?

Well, I won the BFC Accessory Designer of the Year yesterday, which was nice.
I've never won a proper gong before and probably, like most people, the seconds before they made the announcement, the last place on earth I wanted to be was on a podium saying a few off the cuff words in front of 400 or so fashion types. But hell, someone's got to do it and I felt greatly honoured and immensely proud of my amazing team.
Nine tenths of what I do is down to them - the other tenth felt pretty good last night.

SEE OUR PHOTO GALLERY OF ALL THE AWARD WINNERS HERE

This one is going to be much longer, since i haven’t had time to write properly since the middle of october up till now. I remind you, my readers, that Shocktober is our own “horror” festival, which means watching only horror/weird/freaky movies throughout the month of October. So here comes the second half of the movies we’ve watched:

Requiem for a Vampire/Vierges et vampires (1971)
Directed by Jean Rolllin
This is a trippy French vampire flick, it has a groovy psychedelic soundtrack, a lot of the movie is shot at a castle and around the graveyard, has lots of nudity and almost no dialogue. The vampires are also quite amuzing, and they have cheesy-looking fangs. We had a good laugh with this movie and enjoyed it.

Tears of Kali (2004)
Directed by Andreas Marchall

We finish our basic compsiting series by doing some creativie masking inside After Effects. We also talk about tilt shift photography, The Red Camera and Give you a free winter background loop!

Chair by 2008 ICFF Studio participant, Cate & Nelson Design

November 25, 2008. American furniture manufacturer Bernhardt Design has once again put out a call for entries to its ICFF Studio, which will take place from May 16 – 19, 2009 at the New York Jacob Javitz Center. Bernhardt is inviting the submission of product prototypes for furniture (including outdoor), seating, carpet, flooring, lighting, materials, wallcoverings, accessories, textiles and kitchen and bath designs by December 15, 2008 ...

Masterplan by Hadid during her two-venue Manhattan show

November 11, 2008. On the heels (and handbags) of Chanel’s Zaha Hadid-designed Mobile Art event in Central Park, curator, art dealer and developer, Kenny Schachter/ROVE, has brought together a series of large-scale installations, including sculptures, reliefs, design objects and paintings, also by Hadid. The work will be shown at two Manhattan galleries, Sonnabend and 10th Avenue through December 13 ..

Green Hexagons by Sara Eichner at the Sears Peyton Gallery

October 25, 2008. New York’s Sears Peyton Gallery opens Plane Equilibrium on November 20 (running through December 20), which will feature the architectural paintings of artist Sara Eichner. Eichner, inspired by the siding that clads houses in her Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood, fills her canvasses with texture, pattern and structure, exploring the rendering of 3D space on a 2D surface ...

A demolished home preserved only in images by Chris Mottalini

November 19, 2008. Chris Mottalini’s architectural photo show, 29 Photographs In A Little Room In The Back Of A Shoe Store, does indeed open in a little room in the back of a shoe store at 10 Christopher Street tomorrow evening from 6 – 8 PM (running through December 20). 29 Photographs features portraits of a now demolished Connecticut home designed by Modernist architect Paul Rudolph (from the project After You Left, They Took It Apart) and a collection of school bus shelters built geurrilla-style by Buffalo area parents for their children. I.D. spoke with Mottalini about what it’s like to photograph architecture instead of people ...

The façade of the new David Nolan Gallery in Chelsea

November 21, 2008. New York City's David Nolan Gallery has opened a new art space in a former cabinetry workshop at 527 West 29th Street designed by studioMDA in collaboration with artist Richard Artschwager ...

As the weather gets colder it is only appropriate to bundle up in style. We chose our favorite winter coats from fab furs to padded puffs to cinched capes. Milly short fur coat $445 Saks Fifth Avenue. Mackage quited padded...

「上海環球金融中心　Shanghai World Financial Center」100F（展望台は474m）から上海の高層ビル群を見下ろす。天気は残念なことに曇っているのだが、遠くにうっすら見える有名なTV塔も悪くない。

• Shanghai World Financial Center

以前ここで「高さのインターフェイス」としてそのサイトを紹介した現在一番高いビル（実はすっかり忘れていた...）。真下から見上げるとこんな感じ。パースがすごい。
まだ出来て間もないこともあり、100階の展望台へ行くにはディズニーランド並みの列を作っておとなしく外で待つ。が、ダフ屋はおとなしくない。
やっとビルの中へ入ることが出来たと思っても、なかなかたどり着けないのが森ビル仕様。入場を待っている時間のためにわざわざ岩井俊雄作品が用意されているあたりが�...

Church Metrics Review, Composite anything you want on a computer monitor, and why Brad is so happy to be 25 today!