Milan’s Porta Volta Rejuvenation – by Herzog & de Meuron
The new Herzog & de Meuron project for the Feltrinelli foundation will renew the entire Porta Volta area in the center of Milan.
Play Time (1967) by Jacques Tati – A Comedy Film about Modernist Architecture
French actor, director, screenwriter and producer Jacques Tati’s masterful 1967 comedy “ Play Time” is a classic satire on modernist architecture, urbanisation and tourism, a perfectly orchestrated city symphony
Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology, reached their apex with Play Time where characters, story, and dialogue are all but absent, creating a lasting record questioning whether the new is really all that better than the old it is replacing.
Shanghai Expo 2010 – Denmarks’ “Wellfairytales” Pavilion
The Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo is designed as a continuous geometric knot,…
“The Social Cave” @ Milan Design Week 2011
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Furniture Fair of Milan, the Salone Satellite…
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney – Redevelopment
The redevelopment of the MCA at Sydney’s Circular Quay was approved in 2008, but the…
“The Walk” by Michele De Lucchi @ Salone Milan 2015
Renowned Italian architect Michele De Lucchi’s installation “The Walk”, a circular never-ending path through the labyrinthine meanderings of the workplace, puts the stress on the importance of moving about even when in the office in order to spark the crucial stimulus for the creative process.
The Australian Design Alliance – launch report
“Good design in all of its fields creates economic and competitive outcomes. Poor design or…
Reinventing the Automobile
William Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns have created blueprints for transforming the current automobile landscape into one that’s more appropriate for our social, city-based, interactive society.
Salone Milan 2010 – Paola Lenti’s quiet luxury
Serenity away from the madding Chaos of the Salone, Paola Lenti once again exhibited at the…
Paola Lenti lunch featured in Belle Magazine
Design hub DeDeCe had an injection of serious Italian style when the team from Paola…
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DoutDesign – Inhabits Design Village [pt 1/4] @ Salone Milan 2017
Inhabits – Milano Design Village occupied an area of some 700 sq mtrs in Piazza del Cannone within the green parklands of the Parco Sempione (near the Castello Sforzesco), were 5 x housing units and some design projects dedicated to urban sustainability and renewable energy were presented
The theme of the event, which is the changing habits, as well as the socio-political current affairs, which force us to reflect on the issue of housing and on the perception of the urban public space.
OK Go – one go “Music Video Masterminds”
The OK Go Treadmill clip for “Here It Goes Again” launched them from obscurity onto the…