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Cooper Hewitt announces their NDA's for '07

New York's, Cooper Hewitt announces the winners of the National Design Awards for 2007. Notable winners include:

Office dA in Architecture
LTL in Interiors
Chipp Kidd and Paula Sher in Graphics
Phillip Lim in Fashion
and Jonathan Ive in Product design

also see the videos.

Seoul National University Museum by OMA NL

Quite possibly our new favorite OMA project is the Seoul National University Museum in Seoul, South Korea. More info here

2 works: Steven Holl

U.S. Architect, Steven Holl creates 2 beautiful environments for D.C. and Kansas City.

(top)
The Swiss Ambassador's Residence in Washington D.C.:
...the inspiration is intentionally foreign. The materials and palette represent the landscape of black rock, ice and snow that Holl saw on a long-ago journey to the Swiss Alps.

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art:
...The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger wrote that the museum is "not just Holl's finest by far, but also one of the best museums of the last generation;"
-except from 'The Architect's NewsPaper'

The Park at the Center of the World:

Five Visions for Governors Island is an international competition that has selected 5 landscape arch./ and architecture teams to re-invision the Island. See their proposals at the exhibition website and read articles on the work at:
New York Mag
The New York Times &
Slate

Exhibition on View at the AIA Center For Architecture (From now till August 25th) & on Governors Island (from now till September 2nd).

Tim Prentice - Kinetic Sculpture

"In my current work in kinetic sculpture, I am trying to concentrate on the movement, rather than the object. I take it as an article of faith that the air around us moves in ways which are organic, whimsical, and unpredictable. I therefore assume that if I were to abdicate the design to the wind, the work would take on these same qualities..."

Tim Prentice

MANYSTUFF

New address: http://www.manystuff.org

Art, graphic design, illustration, photography...
Artists and the link to their website
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Source: charlotte

Beijing Boom Tower

Beijing boom tower
Burb

Source: BenCAB

TheAPT Newlook

New York design studio, Apartment, gets a whole new look! A Flash & Flex Hybrid

Royal Ontario Museum Extension

"What started out as a sketch on a napkin at a family wedding, soon became a submission for extension. Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum extension"...

via thecoolhunter photo by Sam Javanrouh