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 Rising Tides Competition Announces Six WinnersBCDC announced the winners of the Rising Tides competition.Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many different promising solutions were offered. Juror Walter Hood said it best when he stated, "San Francisco is not the place for a single idea. Taken as a whole, the six winning entries begin to tell a story about adaptation to sea level rise." more www.ris... (63) added by Levent OZLER |
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 Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern ArtRafael Vinoly Architects has designed the new East Wing at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Ohio, which opened to the public on June 27, 2009.Its completion marks the opening of the first of three planned wings. Rafael Vinoly Architects' design for the new East Wing forms part of an impressive seven year expansion and renovation project. The 139,200 square foot East Wing connects CMA's original 1916 Beaux-Arts building and the 1971 addition by Marcel Breuer, creating spectacular new spaces for the presentation and conservation of one of the leading encyclopaedic art collections in the United States. Double-height special exhibitions galleries and an entrance lobby, located on the Lower Level, serve as the centrepiece of the two-story East Wing, while new galleries for the museum's collection of 19th- and 20th-century European, modern and contemporary art, as well as the extensive photography collection, are located on Level Two. The new wing also houses expanded offices and workrooms for the conservation department on Level One. The CMA, one of the largest and most important art institutions in the United States, was built in 1916 by local architects Hubbell & Benes as a grand Greek revival pavilion, created as the focal point of a formal landscape designed by the Olmsted Brothers. more Rafael Vinoly Architects Complete East Wing at Cleveland Museum of Modern Art design directory Rafael Vinoly Architects > Architecture Companies added by Levent OZLER |
 Enterprise: Designers Present Interior of SpaceplaneThe Swiss-Italian design team "Architecture and Vision" presents first interior designs of the "Enterprise".The "Enterprise" is a rocket plane, which is developed by the Talis Enterprise group and will fly passengers to suborbital space by the end of 2013. The founders of Architecture and Vision, Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler, already caught attention in the past by their designs of a Moon station, a Mars rover and first and business class cabins for the StarAlliance airline "Asiana". The "Enterprise" is a spaceplane of the German-Swiss TALIS Enterprise group. By 2013, it will carry up to six passengers or scientific payload up to a height of 125 km. A suborbital flight implies acceleration forces and five minutes to weightlessness: these are extraordinary conditions, which indeed affect the construction and the design of the spaceplane. The interior design accommodates for example ergonomic seats, which lean downward in the weightless flight phase. The light blue colour with glare-free materials permits an unobstructed view onto the "Blue Planet". The large windows are surrounded by a backlit recessed handgrip, which allows passengers to restrain themselves during the micro-gravity phase and look out of the window. Special suits as well as light helmets with oxygen masks provide safety in case of a cabin decompression in high altitude. All these components were prepared in close co-operation with engineers of the TALIS Enterprise group. more Enterprise: Designers Present Interior of Spaceplane added by Levent OZLER |
 Interior Design Between the WarsThe Imperial Furniture Collection holds one of the key works of Viennese interior design around 1930: the apartment of the ceramic artist Lucie Rie, designed by Ernst Plischke in 1928.In the exhibition Interior Design between the Wars this outstanding ensemble will be places in the context of the history of Viennese furniture design. In Vienna between the two world wars a characteristic style of furniture and interior design had developed which differed significantly from the international Modern style of the Bauhaus, for example. Viennese furniture and interior design were notable for their formal variety, ingenious details and high standards of craftmanship. While the beginnings of this development lay in the years immediatly preceding the First World War, these new ideas continued to be influential during and after the Second World War both in Austria and abroad. The Imperial Furniture Collection showcases this specifically Viennese facet of the Modern movement between the wars with examples of complete interiors designed by the architects Felix Augenfeld, Josef Frank, Wilhelm Foltin, Johann Vinzenz Kabele, Walter Loos, Ernst Plischke, Otto Prutscher, Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Franz Schuster and Oskar Strnad. The exhibition will also explore the various fates of these architects (e.g. emgration) against the background of contemporary political developments. event ends Feb 14, 2010 Austria view on map more design events more info www.hof... (86) design directory Furniture Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
 Christine Cerqueira Gaspar: CUP Appoints New Executive DirectorThe Board of Directors and staff of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase the quality of public participation in urban planning and community design, are delighted to announce the appointment of Christine Cerqueira Gaspar as its new Executive Director, effective September 1, 2009.Christine has worked in the fields of architecture, planning, community design, and education for more than a decade, on projects that range from architectural design to mapping and spatial analysis to disaster recovery planning. Throughout, she has focused on fostering community participation, understanding, and action around issues of the built environment. Most recently, Christine was Assistant Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, a nonprofit organization that provides architectural design and community planning services to low-income communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Christine has led architecture and urbanism studios with graduate, undergraduate, and high school students at MIT, Boston Architectural College, Mississippi State University, and Lawrence Community Works. As Executive Director, Christine is excited to take CUP forward and expand the organization's initiatives in community and youth education. She hopes to address issues of urban ecology in New York, and to more actively engage the field of community design in CUP's work. more www.ano... (15) design directory Center for Urban Pedagogy > Urban Design Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
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