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Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
30 January 2009
Another skyscraper in Tokyo's central business district, but this one comes with a surprise - it's a school. Three schools, in fact.
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Porsche Museum
29 January 2009
Speed was the key experience that Viennese architect Delugan Meissl wanted visitors to experience at its Porsche Museum, which has just opened in Stuttgart. The interior does a fair impression of a vorticist painting, all sharp angles and dog-leg bends.
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Cologne furniture fair
28 January 2009
Once again, the showcase for young designers in Cologne's 12-block Kölnmesse was one of the highlights of the city's design week. Just as well, as spirits weren't good in the other 11. The first trade fair of 2009, it had to work pretty hard to keep talk of doom and gloom at bay.
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8½ by Pierre Charpin
27 January 2009
On Saturday French designer Pierre Charpin reveals a new collection of limited edition pieces at Galerie Kreo in Paris. Here's a preview.
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Sliding House
26 January 2009
This house slides. A 50-tonne “shell” moves over three fixed buildings like a train on tracks, so the living environment can be transformed from open-air or glass enclosure to sheltered, shaded space.
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Q&A with Alberto Alessi
22 January 2009
We recently met the managing director of Alessi for a chat about lazy designers, whatever happened to Italian design and the importance of failure. Here’s what he had to say.
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icon design trail Milan
21 January 2009
Once again icon is producing its independent, pocket-sized guide to the Milan furniture fair in April. Make sure to register now to get your event listed in the guide.
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Gallery: Central High School 9
20 January 2009
LA-based photographer Monica Nouwens shot this photo essay on Central High School 9 in Los Angeles designed by Viennese architect Coop Himmelb(l)au.
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Cloud by the Bouroullec brothers
19 January 2009
This fluffy, playful form is a new architectural fabric tile that the Bouroullec brothers have developed for Danish textile company Kvadrat. Not surprisingly it's called Cloud.
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Review: Ron Arad No Discipline
16 January 2009
From the hand-painted “No Discipline” of the exhibition graphics to the graffitied floors and the film showing his hands-on approach during the set-up of the exhibition, Ron Arad is desperate to let us know that he has been personally involved in the realisation of this retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Cafeteria Kirschgarten by HHF architects
15 January 2009
We're quite envious of the pupils at secondary school Kirschgarten Gymnasium, in Basel city centre. They get to eat their cheese sandwiches in a sleek new cafeteria, designed by local firm HHF Architects.
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Gitta Gschwendtner's Bag stools
14 January 2009
We went to the Design Museum last night and found these Bag stools by Gitta Gschwendtner on the wet and windy pavement of Shad Thames by the Design Museum Tank.
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Gallery: Real Foto
13 January 2009
These photographs were found on Allegro, Poland’s answer to Ebay. Among them is a woman showing off her fur coat with a plastic bag over her head and a woman trying to fetch a few złoty for the stockings she’s wearing.
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The five craziest luxury launches of 2008
09 January 2009
A $250,000 icepick? From this month's feature on the crisis facing luxury design, we take a quick look at five product launches that made our heads spin last year.
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icon 068 out now
08 January 2009
Will the crash save luxury design? That’s the question we ask in the February issue of icon. As the economic crisis unfolds, the stricken luxury end of the design industry might look like an odd place to look for inspiration. But, as we discover, it could be the source of design’s creative salvation.
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Could design have saved Wedgwood?
08 January 2009
British ceramics giant Wedgwood should have been celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. Instead, it announced on Monday that it has called in the receivers. But it didn't have to be this way.
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Les Bains des Docks by Jean Nouvel
07 January 2009
Jean Nouvel has designed a 12-pool swimming complex as part of a €31m masterplan to regenerate the docklands of Le Havre, on France’s Normandy coast.
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The Peres Peace House in Jaffa, Tel Aviv
06 January 2009
Massimiliano Fuksas has completed the Peres Peace House in Jaffa, in the southern part of Tel Aviv. It will be the home of the Peres Centre for Peace, an independent, non-profit organisation founded in 1996 by Israeli president Shimon Peres.
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The Lightbox Pavilion
05 January 2009
Tent London, Woking's Lightbox gallery and arts charity the Art Fund have announced a £100,000 competition to design a pavilion for the 2009 London Design Festival.
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Review: Design as Art
04 January 2009
Bruno Munari’s classic call for everyday beauty, now reissued by Penguin Classics is as fresh and vital as ever, says Rick Poynor
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Review: The English House
02 January 2009
The former editor of Country Life takes an invigorating ramble through England's domestic architecture - but skips the bit between the First World War and Thatcher. Charles Holland puts on his tweed.
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