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The essential Alejandro Aravena at DI2010

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors

You’ll be forgiven for associating Alejandro Aravena’s architectural designs with the primitive. >

15 Dec 09
Brighton Festival calls on Brian Eno

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Iconic culture figure and 1970s glam rocker, Brian Eno has been appointed as guest artistic director for next year’s Brighton Festival. >

5 Dec 09
Banini Baby

Banini Baby is a children’s fashion and décor brand focussing on a modern African aesthetic. >

27 Nov 09
Protofarm 2050 in Singapore

Do Tank News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Food Design / Industrial Design / Interaction Design

“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress. >

24 Nov 09
House and Leisure

House and Leisure is South Africa’s premier décor, design and lifestyle magazine brand. >

17 Nov 09
Soundscape tabletop

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Architect Daniel Dendra created a table in which the surface modulation translates the soundscape of Cairo into a 3D landscape. >

17 Nov 09
PETA-LEE

Formed in March 2005 by Peta-Lee Woolf, PETA-LEE trains, guides and works with local felters to produce her creations. >

11 Nov 09
Tsai Design Studio

Tsai Design Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice based in Cape Town. >

11 Nov 09
Sky's the limit

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming. >

1 Nov 09
Gay architectural mockumentary

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors

Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >

1 Nov 09
The don of design

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >

1 Nov 09
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

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