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The new LA school
Feature
The new LA school is a band of digital revolutionaries. Obsessed with form and technique, this generation of young architects is milking the city's resources - from Hollywood to the aerospace industry - to redefine how architecture is made. |
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Ted Noten
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"I don’t know how it went wrong," says Ted Noten leaning back in his chair, tearing the filter off his cigarette and lighting it with a blow torch. |
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David Adjaye's gallery
Gallery
A big black billboard set against the boozy pedestrian traffic of Shoreditch, David Adjaye's gallery presents a very fine front for two arts organisations that have lacked presence on the city's landscape. |
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Design galleries
Gallery
With two galleries and a collectors' fair launching this autumn, London is preparing to spearhead the limited-editions market. Here, their founders discuss ambitions and boundaries in an emerging field. |
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Cloud Tower
Feature
They call it the Cloud Tower. The association isn't immediately obvious, but maybe the clouds are different in Austria. |
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Guest Editor: Giorgio Armani
Guest Editor
Made to measure has become increasingly important to my clients over the last few years. But what is particularly fascinating to me about this project is seeing how a fashion principle is revolutionising the rest of the design world... |
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Icon of the month: Milton Keynes
Icon of the month
Milton Keynes is not a city. In 2000 and 2002 the new town, which was founded 40 years ago, made bids to get a royal charter and "officially" become a city, but was rebuffed each time. |
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Copenhagen
News
A lively Fashion Week and new work by international architects are helping the Danish contemporary design scene emerge from the legacy of Jacobsen and Wegner and begin to look outwards. |
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Office dA
News
A wall turns into a dome in a striking act of structural metamorphosis by Boston-based architecture and design practice Office dA. |
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Matthew Hilton
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Matthew Hilton has set up his own brand. For the launch at 100% Design London, the British designer created ten pieces, including a side table shaped like an I-beam, a coffee table inspired by a building and a dining chair that references traditional English country furniture. |
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Barking Town Square
News
A touch of glamour has been introduced to Barking Town Square, east London, by way of 13 golden chandeliers hanging in an outdoor arcade. |
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MK40 tower
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“It’s a bit like Holland,” says dRMM partner Alex de Rijke, surveying the view from the MK40 tower overlooking Milton Keynes. |
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Serpentine pavilion
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A spiralling ramp wraps around a 15m-high timber-clad structure in the grassy forecourt of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, west London. |
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Giant dust particles
News
"I don’t know how it went wrong," says Ted Noten leaning back in his chair, tearing the filter off his cigarette and lighting it with a blow torch. |
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A paper bridge
News
A paper bridge by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban spanned the Gardon river in southern France from August to September. |
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A shopping centre in Slovenia
News
A shopping centre's roof has been taken over by an apartment complex in Bohinjska Bistrica, an alpine village in the Triglav National Park of Slovenia. |
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Michael Young
News
Michael Young has designed the interior of a cosmetic surgery clinic in Florence. The Skin clinic, which is in a converted 12th-century palazzo, is Young's second project completed with his wife, Icelandic graphic artist Katrin Olina. |
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A noodle bar
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A noodle bar is the latest addition to Autostadt, Volkswagen's theme park in Wolfsburg, Germany. |
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Rubber brains
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Rubber brains sealed in glass cabinets form the centrepiece of Japanese fashion designer Jun Takahashi's installation at Dover Street Market, Comme des Garçons' sprawling six-storey store in London. |
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A light switch as a coat hook
News
A light switch as a coat hook and a plug-in noose are part of a series of products titled Die Electric by American designer Scott Amron. |
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Parasite drawers
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Parasite Drawers, produced by young Israeli designer Shay Alkalay, allow furniture to be customised with added storage space. |
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Strata
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Strata is a collection of chairs, stools and tables made from old office desks by London-based designer Ryan Frank. |
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