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The exploration of “Smart-ologic Corian® Living”– an evocative home concept composed of garden, kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom – is an exciting journey, a plunge into a fascinating world of colours and shapes, a voyage in the discovery of the genius and solutions by Karim Rashid’s “smart design”.
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The tour around “Smart-ologic Corian® Living”
The concepts are based on the formability and the sensorial quality of the wide range of current colours and types of DuPont™ Corian® techno-surface (including also the brand new 2010 Eco-Concrete and Eco-Terrazzo series with recycled content) and on a possible future bio-based evolution of DuPont™ Corian®, a high-tech surfacing material that has already received important independent certifications and recognitions for its environmental performance (like GreenGuard®, NAHB North American Builders Association, U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Green Building Rating System, ISO 14025 Green Choice, Ecospecifier, Scientific Certification Systems) and for its hygiene (like LGA QualiTest, NSF International and Royal Institute for Public Health).
This is an intensive 5 day workshop (June 28th till July 2nd) based on support to help you realise and prototype new designs and concepts. Based in our comprehensive workshop you will have support from an experienced maker to help you plan and make your own prototypes. These practical workshop support weeks are made available quarterly to businesses developing new products for production.
Pre-requisites
> This opportunity is available to London based businesses
> If you would like to be considered for a place on the supported week, please visit http://www.metropolitanworks.org/events/event_listings/detail/263/
Metropolitan Works is London’s leading Creative Industries Centre, helping designers and manufacturers develop ideas and bring new products to the marketplace through access to digital manufacturing, workshops, knowledge transfer, advice, courses and exhibitions. It is part of the London Metropolitan University.
VONDOM is entering into other new phase in 2010, for enriching their design and make it more original, more
innovative and more chic, both for indoor as for outdoor spaces, VONDOM started the collaboration together with
the prestigious and multi-talented designer, KARIM RASHID.
¨I was more than thrilled because of the adventurous bold projects they have developed with other great designers as well as their quality, sensibility, and culture¨, said KARIM RASHID. He developed about 50 furniture objects for Vondom. Below a few samples of this collection.
More info on Vondom
More info on Karim Rashid
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Contemporary Architecture: Bars and Restaurants
Jacobe Kraue (Links International March 2010)
The wide array of designs presented in this volume offers a varied vision of the latest trends in bar and restaurant interiors. The selection is an excellent cross-section of some of most exciting dining rooms at the forefront of design. With the creative impulse given free reign these designs have inevitably been excellent testing grounds for studying different developments in architectural language, use of materials and volume design. Each project is elegantly illustrated with full-colour photographs, floor plans, sketches and detailed commentary from the respective design studios.
More Info about this book can be found at Riba Bookshops.
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Some new patterns from Interlam are available. Apart from this interesting range of decorative panels, profiles can be carved in different substrates and it is also possible to embed your own design.
More patterns can be found at their website: http://www.interlam-design.com/
Located in the Flatiron district in New York and in the Marketplace Design Center in Philadelphia are the recently opened showrooms of DuPont™ Corian®.
These showrooms demonstrate the versatility and the functionality of DuPont™ Corian® (and other DuPont materials, like DuPont™ Zodiaq® quartz surfaces, for example) through a variety of creative applications based on advanced design and fabrications techniques and solutions. The showrooms organize also design exhibitions in their premises.
I just visited the Batibouw fair 2010 in Brussels. Probably one of the biggest building and renovation fairs in Europe. It’s a great place for the interior designer to have a stroll. Although 11 pavilions large the place felt absolutely packed.
Below a few items I picked out.
The RainBrain from hansgrohe. A slick digital display controlling all showerheads, temperature and water volumes. User profiles can be stored and recalled at the touch of a button. There are shower programmes allowing for showerhead and temperature alternations and if you connect up some speakers you can even control via Bluetooth your mp3 player though this command panel. Pure luxury.
BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success
Brit Hammer
BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success takes up where Brit Hammer’s best-selling book, Mosaic: Finding Your Own Voice, leaves off—the business aspect of visual art. This book demystifies business terminology, sheds light on legal and money matters, and guides you how to: build a personal brand, harness the power of the Internet and social networking, and build streams of revenue.
The book’s aim is to help you build up your self-confidence and to take back your personal power while creating the art business of your dreams. Full of images of beautiful art, BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success is a business book worthy of display on your coffee table!
ID-Sphere users can get the electronic version of this book at a reduced price. Use the promotional code idsphere.
More Info about this book can be found HERE.
Reitschule cafe: a project sent to us by the Thonet Press.
Seen from outside, the listed classical complex of the Reitschule cafe and the adjacent University Riding School remains unchanged in spite of the thorough refurbishment. However, the cafe’s interior has undergone a total redesign: floors, walls, room layout and a new staircase have been designed by the architects at Palais Mai, turning the cafe into a ‘modern classic‘.
Metropolitan Works Centre Manager
£49,812 – £55,317 per annum inclusive
Full-time Contract Indefinite
Ref : 9A1110
Application Closing Date 01.02.2010
Metropolitan Works is a leader in Digital Design and Manufacturing technologies, providing knowledge, expertise and facilities to the UK’s designers, architects and artists from our purpose built centre in East London. We offer professional services to our commercial and academic clients via our ‘Bureau’ desk.
We are looking to appoint a Centre Manager to head up the overall operational and financial management of Metropolitan Works and lead our small team of staff through an exciting period of development and growth. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Projects, you will oversee research and business development funding programmes while ensuring that commercial contracts and training programmes are delivered to the satisfaction of our external clients. You will be a team leader, have an eye for detail and track record in a customer focused environment.
Read the full job discription.
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Installing domestic drain and soil pipes seem to be an easy job, no water pressures to account for or non-return and other valves to think about and regulation seems to be comprehensible to any construction worker. Just connect your pipes from point A, always go downwards and make sure you end up in the sewage and that’s it. Will it work? …It might. Will it work well? That’s a totally different ballgame. Although sticking some pipes together to drain the water seems fairly simple, a lot can go wrong when drain pipes are not installed the way they should be. Common problems with drain and soil pipes are clogs and smells and in order to avoid those providing sufficient air and keeping your waste flow under control is key.
Pinpoint: Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Building
Bruno Keller Stephan Rutz (Birkhäuser January 2010)
-PINPOINT brings building physics clearly into focus and enables practitioners to make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.
-May be used “on site” as a manual by architects, civil engineers, and construction planners.
-High-quality edition, handsomely designed
Today, sustainable building means planning and producing structures that offer their users a high degree of comfort while only requiring a small amount of energy to operate. This entails: a high degree of thermal comfort, a good supply of daylight, good sound insulation with respect to both external and internal sources of noise, good room acoustics, the avoidance of any problems whatsoever with condensation or mold, and such a low energy requirement that especially gentle and efficient methods can be used to meet the remaining demand.
At first glance, it might seem quite difficult to fulfill all these requirements. Taken together, the various textbooks on building physics and building automation and the large number of EN and SIA standards now in existence are more confusing than they are useful.
By contrast, this manual presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in concise and clearly organized form; makes it easy to put it into practice with the help of graphics, tables, and step-by-step instructions; illustrates it with examples; and supplements it with practical tips.
That is not to say that PINPOINT is intended to replace a textbook or standards collection. On the contrary, it is meant to help practitioners who already have a grasp of the basics make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.
More Info about this book can be found at Riba Bookshops.
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If retro is your thing you may be interested in this suspending chair which follows the natural shape of the reclining body.
Made by west Sussex based Adrian Thornber in high grade stainless steel and available in a mirror or sateen polished finish, with or without sheepskin.
For more info visit www.nirvanachairs.com
