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The creme de la creme of Birmingham's design community will be showcased at the launch of Design City at Interiors Birmingham on Sunday 20 January 2008.
Organised by CMPi and Birmingham City University, Design City will celebrate the city's vibrant design culture as well as highlighting the range of design expertise in the region as a whole.
Design City will feature a large exhibition showcase at The Interiors Show organised by Birmingham City University in partnership with industry specialists, designers and students.
The work of leading regional designers including Birmingham City University design lecturers Graham Powell, Peter Wardleworth and Marlene Little will be represented within an innovatively designed stand with interactive features including a specially commissioned dance piece from Elmhurst School For Dance which will be performed every lunch time during the 4 day event, Sunday 20 to Wednesday 23 January 2008.
For the first time this year, a Design Pavilion will be installed in Birmingham City Centre within Victoria Square for the duration of the event, showcasing the work of 8 local designers including Scabetti, MRF, Pottinger and Cole, Glass Domain and Guinea Pig Design.
The Design Pavillion will be curated by Stefan Bench of In The Detail, also a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed world-renowned architect Ms Zaha Hadid as the Architect of its new "Innovation Tower".
This building will be her first permanent architectural work in Hong Kong.
Ms Hadid has made a special trip from London to Hong Kong to present her design at a press conference hosted by Mr Victor Lo Chung-wing, Chairman of PolyU Council; and Mr Alexander Tzang, Deputy President of PolyU.
Addressing the press conference, Mr Victor Lo said PolyU's new "Innovation Tower" will serve as a driving force in the development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia.
The new Tower will also provide additional space to facilitate inter-disciplinary research and education in the field of design.
The new Tower will be located at the northeastern tip of the university campus.
Construction work will begin in 2009 and the whole project is expected to be completed by end 2011.
Upon completion, the Tower will provide some 12,000 square metres of net operational floor area and able to accommodate about 1,800 staff and students.
Ms Zaha Hadid is one of the most influential figures in the world of modern architecture.
She is also the first female recipient of the coveted Pritzker Architecture prize, which is known in architecture as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
She established her professional practice in London and her works can be found in major cities around the world.
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Londonewcastle in association with idFX, 100% Design and Bida are launching an inaugural competition to find Britain's Best Emerging Interior Designer.
Up and coming interior designers with a creative flair who are willing to push the boundaries of contemporary design will be judged (by a panel of respected individuals from the design industry) on the ability of their design to demonstrate a unique, original but also practical and liveable take on London living.
The winner of the competition will be named as Britain's Best Emerging Interior Designer at the prestigious 100% Design Awards held in London in September 2008.
The winner will also be given the opportunity to re-create elements of their winning design at the 2008 100% Design Exhibition.
A stand will be provided by Londonewcastle and the winner's creation will be viewed by over 30,000 people including some of the design industry's biggest players.
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Back in 1980, a pioneering Oregonian stumbled across some Mexican Talavera tile she thought she could sell.
Twenty-seven years later, Ann Sacks (now owned by Kohler) is the first and last name in luxury tile, stone and bath fixtures, and boasts a gleaming new Dallas Design District showroom to display it all to perfection.
Located just across the street from the company's previous location, the new, 4,200-square-foot space is a veritable shrine to surface design.
Natural light floods through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating tiles of every shape, size, description and color.
One particularly shining example: the Davlin glass line, made from sheets of gold leaf pressed under glass and priced about $209 a square foot.
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To boost profits and help sell its large-scale projects, architectural mega-firm HKS is turning to, of all things, video game technology.
The Dallas group, whose clients include Whole Foods Market (WFMI), W Hotels (HOT), JCPenney (JCP), and the Ritz-Carlton, and whose projects in construction total $19.7 billion, announced in October, 2007, that it had licensed Unreal Engine 3, a powerful image processing tool that will help its architects produce detailed interactive environments of future projects.
Made by Raleigh (N.C.)-based Epic Games, Unreal Engine allows developers to cut down the time it takes to create complex graphics and game play.
Over the past decade the technology has been used in the production of best sellers such as Gears of War and Mass Effect, churning out increasingly sophisticated polygonal images of all types, from futuristic space stations to hyper-realistic blood and guts.
Applied to architectural models, it is helping HKS generate additional revenues of $65,000 to $150,000 per project.
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