Rendering of MMA's 10x10 Jonker House in Cape Town

September 5, 2008. A new international design award administered by the University of Kentucky College of Design for innovation on humanitarian projects, the Curry Stone Design Prize recently announced its five finalists. They'll be recognized at this month's 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale, and the winner will be revealed on Sept. 25th at the IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky...

Distributed Ecologies, rendering by grey.studio

September 3, 2008. The anchor to San Francisco's 2008 Architecture and the City Festival will be the juried Urban Re:Interventions exhibition, which presents design perspectives on the city fabric through the eyes of architects, designers, landscape architects, and "urban guerrillas"...

Thin Slice cabinet by Peter Marigold, 2008, at Liberty

September 2, 2008. Opening at Liberty on September 19 during the London Design Festival, Gallery Libby Sellers will present "Beau Sauvage," featuring new work by designers such as Peter Marigold, Khasayar Naimanan, and Adrien Rovero...

Staircase gallery in a New York residence by Common Room

September 1, 2008. Opening Friday at the Center for Architecture, "New Practices New York" will present the winners of AIANY's recent emerging architects competition, for which applicants' studios had to have been founded after 2002 and be located in the five boroughs ...

Lobby of the Brooklyn Children's Museum by Viñoly Architects

August 29, 2008.  Slated to open next month, the expansion of the 110-year-old Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights by Rafael Viñoly Architects is wrapped in 8.1 million yellow ceramic tiles, and marked by large blocks of paint-pot color. If approved for silver LEED certification, the museum will be the first in the city to have sustainable credentials ...

Rendering showing Oyler Wu's convertible Pendulum Plane

August 26, 2008. Isn’t this what competitions are about: Setting parameters hoping that one of the contestants will exceed them? Oyler Wu Collaborative’s Pendulum Plane proposal for the latest LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design competition has done just that. In response to a brief asking for a gallery display system that could be stored away on site, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu suggested a network of 16 welded aluminum units that now lines the ceiling throughout the 40x15-ft. space—and will do so permanently. I.D. asked Dwayne Oyler what made LA Forum convert to the new idea ...

The Lazy table by Bram Boo will show at Mint this September

August 25, 2008. Coinciding with its tenth anniversary, as well as The London Design Festival and 100% Design, the Mint showroom will present Forget Me Knot, an exhibition that will run from September 18th to the 30th at its 70 Wigmore Street, Marylebone location...

Meeting table designed by RISD senior Kallie Weinkle

August 25, 2008. For its efforts to use design to confront the challenges of climate change, RISD has been chosen by the City of Denver and the Host Committee of the Democratic National Convention  to curate and produce an exhibition including student designs and highlighting climate-improving initiatives and products during this August’s nominating convention. RISD students in six design disciplines (including graphic, furniture and industrial design, landscape architecture) will present Partly Sunny – Designs to Change the Forecast as part of the convention’s public program called Dialog:City. It will showcase work about transportation, food, buildings, energy, landscape and water...

Chairs by Martino Gamper for Conran's Inspirations collection

August 21, 2008. Using Stafford Cliff’s book "Inspirations"—which recalls the ideas and work that have motivated Terence Conran and is illustrated with images of Conran’s longtime home—as a starting point, the creative team at The Conran Shop has commissioned a number of designers from the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, and Italy, to create a line of products. Each designer has offered an interpretation of one of Conran’s “inspirations” (from a basket to maps, sofa, and a pitcher)...

New design gallery in Stockholm. Photo by Jonas Lindström

August 21, 2008. For those who want to see design galleries expand beyond showing only artfully conceived chairs, a new multidisciplinary gallery called Designgalleriet opened on August 14 at Odengatan 21 in central Stockholm. Established by Stefan Nilsson and Karin Sköldberg of Trendgruppen, the gallery will offer a quick turnover of twice-monthly fashion, handicraft, industrial design, interiors and graphics exhibitions from young as well as established designers...