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patricia urquiola: spiro gira
view of spiro gira in piazza duomo
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view of spiro gira along corso vittorio emanuele
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selected international designers and young students have been brought together to illuminate
the city of milan, for the international festival of lights. they have transformed the city into an
open air stage of lighting installations, screening, theatrical productions and contemporary art
and design.
view of spiro gira along corso vittorio emanuele
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one of the participating designers is patricia urquiola whose spiro gira lights are installed along
corso vittorio emanuele near milan's duomo. urquiola's forms look like corseted frames influenced
by twists and twirls, like those that children draw, turned into three-dimensional
illuminated objects.
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view towards the duomo
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It might be complicated to find a balance in designing essential products with a rather decorative appearance.
Not sure if I like her work.
patricia urquiola: scholtes showroom london
designboom attended the unveiling of the high end italian appliance brand new london flagship store.
patricia urquiola: spirogira for alessi
each of the individual pieces is formed by shaping a single module of wire and arranging it radially.
patricia urquiola: foliage for kartell
the sofa is embellished with a stop-stitched embroidery leaf pattern that sits upon a frame of 'branches'.
dennis van melick: info display
conceived of as part of a larger traffic system redesign, the LCD panels are meant to be installed at crosswalks and bus and tram stops to provide useful information for residents and tourists.
dennis van melick: three to one traffic light
designed for the needs of both ordinary and colourblind users, the 'three to one traffic display' utilizes LED screens and existent infrastructure in a traffic light that can be automatically modified to create bus ...
bruce munro: water-towers at salisbury cathed
the installation consists of 69,000 meters of optic fibres which bruce munro and his team have laced through 15,000 bottles. each of the 69 towers are built from 216 bottles containing 30 tons of water, forming a m...
wirtschaftsblatt newsroom by IDFL
source organization network
using 'game of life' cellular automaton, this installation represents the emergence of self-organizing systems. the discrete mo...
kehinde wiley: the world stage
the installation portrays young men of varied ethnic descent living in israel, depicted against backgrounds containing symbols ...
BIG architects kimball art cen
the new facility is designed to balance the neutrality of an exhibition space with the distinctiveness of a building in park c...
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'horsey' by eungi kim
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