The world’s leading female architect, Zaha Hadid, designed kitchen and bathroom taps for leading independent brassware designer, Triflow. If you are familiar with Hadid’s design, you can tell she carried her architectural design lines into the tap design. “…Inspired by the movement of water, the designs are a formal expression of the continuous flow of [...]
Between Euro 2008 and NBA finals, I finally had a chance last night to watch Charlie Rose’s discussion with Pritzker Prize winner architects Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano. It was a good one hour conversation about what architecture mean to these famous architects.
Richard Rogers, whose firm Richard Rogers Partnership is headquartered in London, has been chosen as the 2007 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be held on June 4 in London. At that time, a $100,000 grant and [...]
Yesterday I went to the “Skin + Bones: parallel practices in fashion and architecture” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California. For more information about the exhibit see below. The photo is Shigeru Ban’s Curtain Wall House by Shigeru Ban Architects in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan 1995. Photo © Hiroyuki Hirai.
Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development by world famous architect Zaha Hadid.
This was a fascinating exhibit about glass that I had a chance to visit. Glass is part of our daily lives and most of the time we don’t even notice it! Glass: Material Matters is the first exhibition of contemporary glass organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and incorporates more than fifty [...]