A magnificent contribution is going to steal the show of art and culture by this month. ‘Ring Dome’ in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Milan is going to get presented by the New York art and architecture gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture. This is a huge pavilion that is going to host a series of events featuring Naoto Fukasawa, Rem Koolhaas, Gaetano Pesce, Oliviero Toscani and others. The organiser is none other than Storefront itself in collaboration with Italian architecture and design magazine Abitare. The organisers will appear in Milan for the 2008 Furniture Fair, which is going to be held from 16th April to 21st April. It is here that one can see the new version of the Ring Dome pavilion by the Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies. Minsuk Cho is the same designer who built of hula hoops in New York last autumn to celebrate Storefront’s 25th anniversary.
Giant Nut-Like Pavilion Lands on London’s Bedford Square
23 May 2008 Author: zenon In: Design & Products
Designed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, this design was the winning entry from Architectural Associations Design Research Lab for a new pavilion to be built in Bedford Square, London. Though the thing looks more like a giant nut of some kind, we love its origami-like mesh surfaces which frankly would make it very breezy friendly unless the designers have invested in some kind of solid weather proofing system for it. The cookie-dough like thing sits pretty right in the middle of the square and proves to be a real challenge to your diet-tormented soul!
Green shelters are becoming the rage world over with more and more people coming along to save the environment from further damage. Here we have, one more such shelter which even doubles up as a bin and as a shady, pun not intended, place where you could rest your tired limbs and take a breather. This design, called the GreenU is the brainchild of, Andrew Lippe, a student at the Northern Michigan university. What Volpe has essentially done is, he has combined a waste bin, a recycler and a shelter all in a single, functional, eco friendly structure. For this, he has used readymix concrete moulds which are made of materials like fly ash.
