Architecture & Interiors | Design Indaba

Dust to dust

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Sietch Nevada, by Matsys design studio, projects water-banking as the fundamental factor in future urban infrastructure. >

1 Nov 09
Leapfrog rising sea levels

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors

Lilypad by architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis for climate refugees in 2100. >

1 Nov 09
Suburban spread

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >

1 Nov 09
Communal pods

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae... >

1 Nov 09
Milton Glaser keeps it moving

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration

New York’s SVA Theatre has been redesigned by world-renowned designer Milton Glaser. >

29 Oct 09
The nests of Matali Crasset

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

French designer Matali Crasset considers herself a "nest builder" and likes to communicate the diversity of, and intention behind, her work. >

26 Oct 09
Batswana flavoured hotel

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Rising out of Mafikeng, the capital of the North West Province, is the recently refurbished Peermont resort – the Mmabatho Palms Hotel. >

6 Sep 09
Design celebrates independent cinema

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

This year is a double anniversary for The Labia – 60 years since the doors opened and 20 years as a cinema. >

26 Aug 09
Get a handle on SA architecture

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >

18 Aug 09
Moroso does Africa

Design News > Product Design / Architecture & Interiors

Italian furniture brand Moroso celebrates the influence of Africa in the M’Afrique C’est Chic exhibition. >

16 Aug 09
No dust in this library

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >

10 Aug 09
Would you like that with chips?

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK. >

7 Aug 09
Euro chic hotel for Jozi

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >

5 Aug 09
Installation in motion

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design

A large scale and site-specific installation by designer Clive Rundle entailed three models climbing out of a wall. >

28 Jul 09
Gorgeous mushroomed playroom

Design News > Product Design / Architecture & Interiors

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. >

27 Jul 09
ELLE DECORATION

With 25 editions worldwide, ELLE DECORATION is one of the world’s bestselling design magazines for the home. >

23 Jul 09
Community theatre for Eastern Cape

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors

The Eastern Cape is due to receive a new community theatre designed by Ryder Architecture and facilitated by Dodgy Clutch theatre company. >

14 Jun 09
Design Indaba 10x10 Housing Project

Do Tank News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design / Design Activism

The 10x10 project employs a sandbag-based building method that has irreversibly changed the future possibilities for low-cost housing. >

18 May 09
New order textiles

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration

In an unusual collaboration, architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville redo Kvadrat's showroom in London. >

14 May 09
Touchpad dining

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors

The new Inamo restaurant in London revolutionises the service and hospitality industry with a unique menu based on interactive design. >

14 May 09
Prism awards to champion green design

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Architecture and design students are invited to enter the Plascon Prism awards before 29 May 2009. >

14 May 09
SOUTH: The exhibition

Festival News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors

The SOUTH awards and exhibition enthusiastically delight in the promise of South African creativity. >

14 May 09
More than show

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors

Design Indaba Expo has come a long way since 2004, writes Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK). >

1 May 09
Exorcised ghosts

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Architect Pedro Gadanho writes about the family home he recently completed in Oporto River in Portugal. >

14 Apr 09

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