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First exhibition
for Akihisa Hirata
At present, Akihisa Hirata’s first solo exhibition
is taking place in London. This Japanese
architect is already very famous in his
home country thanks to the design for the
‘Bloomberg’ pavilion at the Tokyo Museum
of Modern Art. For this exhibition, which is
part of the London Design Festival, Hirate
designed ‘Tangling’, an enormous installation
in the shape of a spiral. In this installation,
hundreds of models and sketches are
being presented. The exhibition runs until
17 November at the London Architecture
Foundation. Admission is free. �
100% Design in Londen
Recently, the exhibition 100% Design took
place at London’s Earls Court. This is the UK’s
most important modern design event. Each
year, this exhibition for designers and architects
is visited by around 18,000 people.
This year, the exhibition focused on new
talents, fresh ideas and innovative designs.
The fair itself was also given a
makeover: the event was divided into four
sections and an auditorium with room for
200 people was newly included. One of
the highlights was the presentation by Dan
Hopwood (photo) of the British Institute of
Interior Design. �
Award given to Vasco
and E-Max
During the design competition of the ET ’12
congress, the aluminium radiators by Vasco
and sister company E-Max won first the
prize in the ‘Renewable Energy’ category.
The professional jury commended the extremely
economical aluminium radiators.
The Alu-Zen, Bryce, Canyon and Zaros are
designed in such a way that only a fifth
of the normal amount of water is needed.
At the same time, these devices supply
around 15% more energy. 80 projects from
11 countries participated in this design
competition. �
Hansgrohe wins
three Red Dot Awards
Hansgrohe, bathroom and sanitary specialist,
was recently awarded several ‘Red Dot’
prizes in the ‘product design’ category. The
jury awarded a prize to the ‘Focus’ and ‘Talis’
tap series for their excellent design. Additionally,
Axor’s (Hansgrohe SE’s design brand)
Citterio M tap won the ‘best of the best’ label.
This tap, designed by the Italian architect
and designer Antonio Citterio, allows users
to choose where to put the operating grip on
the working surface. The judges had to review
about 4,500 products for the ‘Red Dot’
awards. No more than sixty products were
awarded the ‘best of the best’ label. �
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First design biennale
in Istanbul
From 13 October till 12 December, the first
‘Istanbul Design Biennale’ will take place.
This biennale is organized by the Istanbul
Foundation for Culture and Arts. Central
theme of this first edition is ‘Imperfection’
and the event examines interpretations of
this theme in several different arts, including
architecture, fashion, new media and
interior.
The curators of this first biennale are Emre
Arolat and Joseph Grima. Along with twee
large exhibitions, the event consists of
workshops, a lecture programme, film
screenings and special walks through the
city of Istanbul.�
Interface launches
biological nylon carpet tile
Carpet tile producer Interface launches ‘Fotosfera’.
This is the first commercially available
biological nylon carpet tile. ‘Fotosfera’ consists
of yarns that are made from oil of the
seeds of the castor plant, which is produced
in India. This plant grows very rapidly, is
quickly renewable and requires little maintenance.
“For Interface, this is a ground-breaking
innovation”, says Nigel Stansfield, Chief
Innovations Officer at Interface. “We are
still in an early phase, but this convincingly
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