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INTERNATIONAL BAUHAUS AWARD 2008 "Housing shortages: The minimum subsistence level housing of today" Deadline: March 31 With the 5th Bauhaus Award, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation continues its research into “Updating Modernism�. In doing so, a ...

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traffic launches the Middle East’s first annual design competition in its continued efforts to encourage, promote and nurture the emerging design scene. High-profile jury panel includes ...

291107 Cristina Ruiz, The Art Newspaper LONDON. Tate Liverpool has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make an ambitious installation ...

Brad Pitt Commissions designs in New Orleans, USA. (Image by AP) Thom Mayne of Morphosis in Los Angeles designed a house that would float if the city floods. James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia created a house with native vines climbing up the side walls to provide shade and coolness. Steven B. Bingler of Concordia in New Orleans envisioned a house with wide front steps ideal for a traditional crawfish boil.Those are three of the designs by 13 architecture firms commissioned by the actor Brad Pitt to help rebuild New Orleans’s impoverished Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Iraqimemorial.org is a call to action to artists, designers, architects or other interested creative individuals or collaborators to propose concepts for the creation of memorials to the many thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq. Through the website you will find further information regarding this endeavor, including statements "about the project", the "mission statement" and the "call for proposals", "links" and "relief organizations" and visit the "open forum" regarding iraqimemorial.org: http://iraqimemorial.blogspot.com/.

OPENING RECEPTION 6.30 PM on Tuesday, December 11th @ the Storefront Gallery Starting ...

We live in a less than perfect world. A world of constant change in needs, trends and opportunities. By bringing the public, designers and major service providers to collaborate in a process of redesigning everyday 'touchpoints' in the public realm, 10TOUCHPOINTS hopes to meet our changing needs and leverage on new opportunities.

  20/20 is the spirit of our time, a collective consciousness that is exploding throughout our creative culture. It is an ongoing showcase of Singapore's designers across different media and disciplines that captures this emerging culture. The creators share the newest expressions of their influences, inspirations and vision of an ever-evolving creative landscape.