An 'amazing' cup of coffee

Have a look at this great cup and saucer - spilt your coffee? Well now you can make use of that spill by working your way around the maze in the saucer.
By designer Erdem Selek

Boston Society of Architects awards prize to Nicolas Fayad

Nicolas Fayad, is a recent graduate of Harvard and has been awarded the Boston Society of Architects’ James Templeton Kelley Prize. This prize recognizes the most successful graduating project. Arch Daily explains, 'Fayad’s “Brittle”, a School of Arts, is an exploration of responsive and adaptive form. Fayad’s programmatic elements have been organized and molded in response to the changing typography of Chongqing, China – making the design quite flexible as it can easily adapt to any change of land within the city.'

Read more on Arch Daily

The new Serpentine Pavilion by Jean Nouvel

This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by French architect Jean Nouvel, was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park.  Previous designers have included Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, and Toyo Ito. Nouvel has also been designing other structures in London with his One New Change office building almost complete.

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A very hungry coffee table

A coffee table that is hungry for your rubbish - Turn your junk mail into recyclable mail. The Papervore is wants all of your printed leftovers. With a turn of the crank you too can put that gas bill off until next month.

See more on Pigeon Tail Design

The Papervore from Pigeontail Design on Vimeo.

See the time anywhere on one clock

The “Time Travels” clock by designer Katie Hatz is a timezone clock with a difference. It lets you go through the time of virtually the whole world. Comprising 24 clocks, each representing a 15-degree slice of the earth, in a 7-by-70-inch piece, the new timezone clock makes use of a color-coded system to indicate time of day in every part of the world in relation to the local time.

Removing the numbers or hands, the clock features spokes, made up of the names of countries, cities, regions and territories within each time zone, radiating out from the key in the center. Now, no matter where you reside, with the Time Travels you have the liberty to know the time of any place in the world.

Read more on the Design Blog

Unique wallpaper designs from New York

Aimee Wilder is a designer based in the Bronx in New York. Her wallpaper designs are unique and according to her web site she 'draws inspiration from contemporary graphic art and the design world. Influences include typography, logo design, illustration, textiles, urban toy design, rock poster art.'  Aimée’s current projects include designs for home textiles and accessories, fashion and print, including an exciting collaboration with Netto Collection.

See more here

A stunning Cliff House in India

The Cliff House, by Khosla Associates, is perched 200 ft. above a stretch of green along the Arabian Sea coast. Its most prominent feature is an asymmetrical sloping roof set against the fronds of a coconut plantation. A skewed 45m long sheer concrete wall supports the single lightweight triangulated canopy roof and the external and internal finishes are polished cement, concrete and rough slate juxtaposed against warm slatted timber and natural local kota stone.

 

A beautiful construction in an amazing setting.

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Rapha Cycle Club opens opposite The Think Tank's offices

The Rapha Cycle Club has opened in Clerkenwell opposite The Think Tank's offices. The Club is 'A unique combination of gallery, shop and café, and a meeting place where riders can share their passion for road racing.'

A full calendar of events including film and music evenings, book and product launches, evening screenings of races, regular group rides and Rapha customer and club evenings will enable visitors to immerse themselves in road cycling throughout the summer.

But hurry as the Club is set to close at the end of July.

Find out more here

Tim Crocker films the 2012 Olympic Site

Tim Crocker has been filming oprogress at the 2012 Olympic site in London. See how Zaha Hadid's aqauatic centre, Hopkin's velodrome and the Populus main stadium are coming along.



View on Building TV

The Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre by Foster + Partners

Tthe world's tallest tensile structure is now complete and has been designed by Foster Partners.

The Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre is in Astana, Kazakhstan, and stands 150 metres tall, covering 10,000 square metres and is to become the capital’s major civic and cultural venue.

The structure has a three-layer envelope will provides shelter from Kazakhstan’s extreme climate where temperatures soar to 35°C in summer and slide down to minus -35°C in winter.

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Clerkenwell’s Premier Golf Tournament getting ready to tee off

Golf is coming to Clerkenwell again this summer, with the Clerkenwell Open set to tee off on 26th August.  

Last year's inaugural event was a great success and again this year many showrooms across the area have signed up to accommodate a hole of golf.

The Clerkenwell Open is a concept developed by The Think Tank to give architects and designers the opportunity to explore the showrooms of Clerkenwell whilst having a bit of fun and raising money for charity.  

Each showroom houses an indoor hole of golf and the golfers travel around the showrooms to complete the course.  

The tournament is open to individuals and teams and consists of nine holes within walking distance of each other culminating in an awards ceremony in the evening.

If you are interested in entering a team or individually or if you are a company that would like to sponsor the event please contact Dragana on 020 7831 2225 or email draganak@thinktank.org.uk.

Red Dot announces Product Design Awards Winners

Red Dot Design Awards announces their Product Design winners. See 20 of the 45 “Best Of Best” winners on Yanko Design - looking at creative industrial/product design at its best. Everything from furniture to fabrics to electronics to architecture to cars - beautiful design.

See more on Yanko Design and Red Dot

Balinese Alila Villas achieve highest level of Eco certification

The stunning Balinese Alila Villas Uluwatu eco resort is located on a sloping hill in Bali’s Uluwatu region on the Southern Bukit Peninsula . This beautifully designed complex straddles a striking white limestone cliff and an arid savanna on the tropical island's arid Bukit Pennisula and the Alilas Villas resort is the first of its kind to achieve the highest level of certification for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) and is designed for the Green Globes GG21 standard.

Read more on Inhabitat web site

Pop Up store for Stella McCartney

Giles Miller’s latest collaboration with Stella McCarntey comes in the form of a bold and intriguing pop-up store for the Galleries Lafayette on Boulevard Hausmann in Paris with two metre high lettering and laminated corrugated cardboard.

See more on Dezeen web site - Photographs are by Richard Corcoran.

Blueprint's Big Breakfast with John Snow

Designing for the deprived, tree-hugging, and the ‘architecture of lunacy’ - all subjects discussed by John Snow at last weeks Blueprint Big Breakfast.

See the full talk on the Blueprint web site in three parts.

First segment below: