Ron Arad designed a bulbous sofa for Moroso
Moroso launched Glider, a bulbous sofa designed by Ron Arad that is carved from a single volume and dressed with shaded coloured textiles by Febrik.
Cozì design studio challenges technology’s limits
Cozì design studio debuts in Milan with a collection of lighting fixtures and accessories that brings design technologies to the tipping point.
Israel Pavilion at MIlan Expo 2015 by David Knafo
ArchiPanic met David Knafo, architect of Israel Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015, who unveils how “vertical planting” technology can innovate agriculture and make way to sustainable cities where buildings will grow food from vertical crops on their facades.
Jerusalem: Bauhaus at Bauhaus Center in Tel Aviv
Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv hosts “Jerusalem: Bauhaus” an unconventional exhibition that reveals the unbeaten paths of the Israeli capital’s XX century architecture.
Scape Vases by Keret and Laniado for Caesarstone
Shira Keret and Itay Laniado designed for Caesarstone the Scape vases collection: a set of panoramic vessels inspired by stunning natural skylines.
Production Routes exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
3D printed models, movies and video-art. The “Production Routes” exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art explores how modernist prefabricated architecture failed to reach utopian dreams of equality.
Iris Van Herpen at Design Museum Holon
Design Museum Holon showcased a solo exhibition of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen who meshed traditional craft tecniques with 3D printing.
Vacuum-Formed Shoes
Lou Moria designed simple and cheap vacuum-formed shoes that can be quickly produced and fully recycled thanks to thermo-forming technology.
Inflatable Armchair
Young designer Tehila Guy took inspiration from flat pack furniture to create Anda, a transparent and inflatable armchair with a wooden structure that can be easily assembled and carried along.
The Urburb
The Israeli pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 is focused on the concept of Uburb, a neologism that mesh urban and suburban as the result of 100 years modernist planning in Israel. Four sand printers sketch, erase and re-sketch scenarios of a condense society living in isolated residential-buildings sprawled and isolated throughout the country.
Absorbing Modernity?
Is there a globalized architecture able to shape an uniformed style through out the planet? Some of the most impressive national pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale challenged back the “Absorbing Modernitiy” provocation launched by curator Rem Koolhas.