Interior Design articles from November 2007

Interior Design archives from November 2007

The Next Generation.
November 1, 2007... by Andreas Tzortzis Faraway galaxy? No, rural Germany-where a Glaskoch showroom by 3deluxe has touched down As the fifth-generation managing director of Germany's 148-year-old Glaskoch glass-products company, Oliver Kleine faced a...

Positive Altitude.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin The Colorado Rockies may have lost the World Series, but the team's capital city is becoming a contender when it comes to world-class design. On the heels of Studio Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum extension and...

The House Of Tomorrow.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Respectful of the Hollywood Hills environment, Hagy Belzberg built himself a home for years to come Hagy Belzberg got lucky. He was firmly entrenched in the single life seven years ago, when he purchased a ridgeline...

Bios.
November 1, 2007... by Staff Belzberg Architect s "The House of Tomorrow," page 276 principal : Hagy Belzberg, AIA. previously seen in : August 2007. 1501 Colorado Avenue, Suite B, Santa Monica, CA 90404; 310-453-9611; belzbergarchitects.com...

Books.
November 1, 2007... Edited by Stanley Abercrombie Richard Meier: Houses and Apartments Stanley Abercrombie by Richard Meier, Paul Goldberger, Joseph Giovannini, and Joseph Rykwert New York: Rizzoli International Publications, $85 272 pages,...

From Steel City to Emerald City.
November 1, 2007... by Annie Block Besides clearing the air in Pittsburgh, the Green Building Alliance's Rebecca Flora is championing the USGBC Rebecca Flora has always been able to navigate her way around a construction site. Growing up in New York's...

Brussels Sprouts.
November 1, 2007... by David Sokol On a famed shopping street, luxury fashion makes way for a thought-provoking installation by Arne Quinze The Toison d'Or is truly the most golden of Brussels boulevards-with one gaping exception. Opposite outposts of...

Let The Good Times Roll Again.
November 1, 2007... Edited by Mark McMenamin In 1987, Drew Lang left New Orleans, where he grew up, and went to college up North. Graduate architecture school at Yale University and a job at Steven Harris Architects followed. He'd gone out on his own as Lang...

Top Of The Charts.
November 1, 2007... by Laura Fisher Kaiser "Green" is the greatest hit in new office design-check out Envision's headquarters for the Recording Industry Association of America in Washington, D.C. Back in the days when department stores anchored downtown...

75 And Counting.
November 1, 2007... by Cindy Allen Finally on its way to the printer, this concluding tribute to 75 years of Interior Design is truly amazing. And I'm talking not about the content, for once, but about the process. Prose and digital pics wired across a...

Hale And Hearty.
November 1, 2007... by Laura Girmscheid and Sheila Kim-Jamet Design is a healing tool. According to research conducted for the 2007 list of the top Interior Design Giants in health care, decision-makers for medical facilities continue to recognize this...

Heaven Can Wait.
November 1, 2007... by Mairi Beautyman Waiting isn't exactly heavenly. Unless, perhaps, it's being done at Wittlinger Hahn Stern Radiologie in the southwestern German city of Schorndorf. To create the illusion of natural light in the center's windowless main...

Thinking Outside The Box.
November 1, 2007... by Susan Welsh Guy's Hospital is one of London's most important and most historic medical establishments, but its 1970's building couldn't be more nondescript. Confronted with the task of making the main entrance look distinguished,...

Belle Epoque Goes High-Tech.
November 1, 2007... by Judy Fayard Herve Descottes and Sylvain Dubuisson reinvent the chandelier at the Musee des Art Decoratifs in Paris They hover in linear formation, like a small squadron of flying saucers. In the morning, they glow with a pale...

The Sky's The Limit.
November 1, 2007... by Philip Berger Back in 1956, this is what the future looked like: a tribute to American industry that could have been mistaken for a 138-foot-tall alien outpost, rendered in stainless steel. A visit to this landmark water tower on the...

Their Future Is Now.
November 1, 2007... by Karen D. Singh For products that defy conventional notions of strength, weight, and density, we checked out the Material Connexion library Lamera Karen D. Singh PRODUCT Hybrix. MATERIAL Steel. USE Developed by...

At Full Tilt.
November 1, 2007... by Staff Hang on tight for the wildest ride in furniture and lighting Da Vinci, Decoded Craig Kellogg Leonardo da Vinci laid his Last Supper on a refectory table draped in a white cloth. We'll probably never know ex actly what...

Toward A New Museum.
November 1, 2007... by Joseph Giovannini A Michigan State competition yields designs where much more than art is on display Michigan State University gave Eli Broad his undergraduate education. The Los Angeles philanthropist wanted to give something back....

Ahead of the Curve.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Imagine a vertical garden growing up one side of the Rudolph Schindler house that now belongs to the MAK Center for Art + Architecture in Los Angeles. Among the renderings and models on display in "Figuration in...

The Best and the Brightest.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Osram is heralding its Ostar Thinfilm as a major advance in brightness for LEDs. And the manufacturer could have its bragging rights validated on December 6, when German Federal President Horst Köhler presents the...

Casa Pardo.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin The colorful work of Jorge Pardo frequently walks an indiscernible line between art and design. So who better to feature in an exhibition opening two days before Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami? "Jorge Pardo:...

A Flood of Ideas.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Sudden rainstorms such as New York's this past August shouldn't derail the largest mass-transit system in North America. And three design firms are determined to prove it. The city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority...

No Assembly Required.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin IKEA's flats may soon be as ubiquitous as its flat-pack furniture. BoKlok prefab housing, pioneered in Sweden by the company and the construction firm Skanska, is unveiling a first U.K. development, St. James Village in...

Students Are the Future.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Eight undergraduate students from Tulane University's Urbanbuild program will join the ranks of the next top models in fall 2008, when the Sundance Channel airs Architecture School. The six-part documentary follows the...

Walls of Water.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin For 2008's Expo Zaragoza in Spain, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed the digital technology that defines a pavilion enclosed by waterfalls. Pipes installed at the roofline will be fitted with...

Summer School.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin The sleepy Catskills town of Margaretville, New York, is poised for revitalization. To kick-start it, residents invited 11 students from a workshop at Parsons the New School for Design, downstate, to spend the summer...

Banking on Design.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Neil M. Denari rebranded Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group with retail branches throughout Japan Five projects in three years. You do the math. And make sure to factor in the number 5,500. That's about how many miles...

Masters of the Ephemeral.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Sometimes design is rocket science. Or set design. At least for Gaston Nogues, an aerospace engineer's son who spent a decade at the firm now known as Gehry Partners, and Benjamin Ball, who's worked on TV commercials and...

Right On Key.
November 1, 2007... by Annie Block Johann Wolfgang von Goethe isn't the only one who thinks architecture is frozen music. Shichieh Lu, principal of CJStudio, sees a strong connection between the two-their relationship to history, their focus on rhythm-and he...

Digital to Ecological.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen John Friedman and Alice Kimm think big: A $65 million garage for the Los Angeles Police Department. The 34,000-square-foot graduate-level aeronautical labs at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Mira, a...

The Fab Five.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Actual shops are but one component of the work at SHoP Architects. The acronym actually refers to the last names of the firm's family of five principals, who met at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture,...

From A New Slant.
November 1, 2007... by Edie Cohen Singapore-born and Ivy League-educated, this trio came together in 1999. But it really made its first mark with installations for the Biennale di Venezia and Singapore Arts Festival in 2004. Now, Sciskew Collaborative skews...

Pinups.
November 1, 2007... Edited by Karen D. Singh and Jen DeRose Space Odyssey Anne Kyyrö Quinn's wool felt wall panels are out of this world 1. Rosette in blue. 2. Leaf in white. 3. Linea in green. It's Sheer Geometry Creation Baumann's...

Past and Future.
November 1, 2007... by Mark McMenamin Five time-honored spaces demonstrate that conversion is, indeed, a religious experience 1881 Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal, Madrid DESIGN Carlos Ferrater Partnership. STANDOUT Brick arches were...

Snaps.
November 1, 2007... by Staff Lissoni's Lofts A joint showroom for three Italian manufacturers, Boffi, Living Divani, and Porro, By Los Angeles has joined its five-month-old counterpart, By New York. Both of the loftlike spaces are the work of Interior...

On the Cutting Edge.
November 1, 2007... by Maria Shollenbarger UNStudio's razor-sharp Agora Theater takes center stage in the Dutch city of Lelystad Lelystad, northeast of Amsterdam, is an archetype of Dutch urban planning. Founded in the not-so-venerable year of 1967, the...

Update.
November 1, 2007... Edited by Meghan Edwards Catch these events in December and January Seven large-scale minimalist forms debut in "White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman" at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, North Carolina. As...

Up On The Roof.
November 1, 2007... by Marisa Bartolucci VELUX started out as a manufacturer of skylights, setting up its factory in an old brick shed in Copenhagen in 1941. Today, the company dominates the market for roof-window systems. What's inspiring about this story is...

Fashion Forward.
November 1, 2007... by Mark Pupo It's a rule of thumb in fashion retail that store design has a shelf life of seven years, max. Of course, everyday wear-not to mention the fickle style cycle-can cut that time short. The chic meter runs even faster when your...

A Dazzling Performance.
November 1, 2007... by Bethan Ryder Loft living is all very well. Occasionally, however, every couple needs a little privacy. Particularly when home doubles as an office and a performance venue, and the owners are professional jugglers of international...

The Avant-Garde Moves Ahead.
November 1, 2007... by Philip Berger All design disciplines balance art and commerce. So imagine the wildly experimental work that results when creativity is freed from the pesky requirements of the client picking up the tab. Since opening in 2006, Chicago's...