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And now for the black blob
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Architecture & Interiors
The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky.
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1 Nov 08
Cops coin it on Sagmeister
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September.
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1 Nov 08
$100 000 prize for Design Indaba 10x10
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge.
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1 Nov 08
Hot or cold?
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop.
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1 Nov 08
Green goes orange
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Architecture of Change is a book about sustainable buildings, and the cover has not a single shade of green.
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1 Nov 08
Not quite Discovery Channel
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals.
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1 Nov 08
New fair trade shop in South Africa
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November.
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1 Nov 08
Worldly stuff
Profiling
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Architecture & Interiors
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Interaction Design
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Music & Sound Design
Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
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1 Nov 08
Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
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Design Thinking
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
MMA Architects have won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Income Housing project.
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10 Oct 08
But sausages grow on trees?
Design News
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Food Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Marije Vogelzang’s first solo exhibition, Fuel, at Mama in Rotterdam from May 21 to July 6 included cuddly sausages.
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12 Aug 08
Egg and green beans
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Durban's Bean Bag Bahia Beach Club, sibling to Bean Bag Bohemia and Deli, features an up-market restaurant café as well as a deli.
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12 Aug 08
Cape Town librarians vote Kaplicky
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Jan Kaplicky's design for Prague's new national library won the state competition in October last year, causing a political maelstrom.
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12 Aug 08
Sinking into beauty
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Design Indaba alumnus Ilse Crawford, tasked with designing the Aesop shop pairs modern interventions with endearing revival.
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12 Aug 08
Come on, let's twist again!
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Dubai will be home to the world's first rotating skyscraper, the so-called Dynamic Tower, designed by Italian architect Dr David Fisher.
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12 Aug 08
Green house for green skin
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works.
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12 Aug 08
The house that Pancho built
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent.
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1 Aug 08
Conversations on a Toronto afternoon
Q&A
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Len Abelman sets off to meet expats Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg, two South Africans shaping the Toronto cityscape.
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1 Aug 08
From Talking Heads to singing building
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Music & Sound Design
David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building.
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1 Aug 08
Nothing is lost
Design News
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Interaction Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece.
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2 May 08
Paper architect under the hammer
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Japanese starchitect Shigeru Ban's Paper Tea House reached £31 700 at a Phillips de Pury and Company auction.
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2 May 08
Designer hideaway at art fair
Design News
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Billed as the world's first contemporary African art fair, the Jo'burg Art Fair 2008 welcomed 6 500 visitors through its doors.
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2 May 08
Stay the night
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Andrew Makin and entrepreneur Nicky Rofail have collaborated on a new boutique hotel, Motel Mi Pi Chi.
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2 May 08
Inn harness
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
Ilse Crawford has cast her enchanting touch across the English inn, using country materials such as rush matting, tweed and pewter.
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2 May 08
Design, art or soup kitchen?
Design News
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Craft
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Architecture & Interiors
Exploring the legroom between art and design is Cape Town's newest gallery - Curious, Whetstone & Frankley.
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2 May 08
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