German designers Maigrau have won the Blickfang Design Prize, awarded at the Blickfang design show in Stuttgart last week, for two new products launched at the fair.
Line (top image) is a shelf, or “wall installation”, while Line (above) is a presentation bowl.
Maigrau is a new design brand headed by designers Alex Stamminger and Nik Back.
Here’s [...]

Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Smånsk showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month.

The bookcase consists of identical modular components that are stacked facing alternate directions to create sloping shelves.

Smånsk are currently seeking an appropriate manufacturer for the design.
Here’s some information from the [...]

Five architects, including Studio Daniel Libeskind (above and below), Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster + Partners, have been shortlisted to design Tour Signal, a high-rise building at La Défense business district in Paris.
French architects Jacques Ferrier Architectures and Wilmotte et Associés SA are also shortlisted.
The shortlist was announced at the MIPIM property fair in Cannes [...]

Small houses don’t have much room, right? so why not pull your bed up so you could change that small room and use that extra 4 sq. meters house space during the daytime.
The Bed’Up is a hide-away bed offering a real sense of space and comfort, especially in small houses. Keep it up at daytime [...]

Here’s a third project by architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) - a design for a 19-storey residential tower beside Mile End Park in London.
The project has just been submitted for planning permission.
Here’s some info from FAT:
Fat have submitted a proposal for a mixed-use tower for planning approval on a brown-field site at the southern end [...]

Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a series of four prefabricated low-energy houses.The Passive Houses, which were presented at the Hem & Villa housing fair in Malmö, Sweden earlier this month, are well-insulated homes that require minimal heating.

“Passive houses are extremely well-insulated buildings that are largely heated by the energy already present in the [...]

Japanese architects Kiyonobu Nakagame have updated their website, showing work including House in Sendai-Kasumi.

The house, overlooking the city of Sendai, was completed in September last year.

Here’s some information from Kiyonobu Nakagame and Associates:
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The house sits on the hill top that overlooks the city of Sendai, situated within the area called Yakiyama offering magnificent [...]

Architects Tonkin Liu have designed the China Design Now exhibition, which has just opened at the V&A museum in London.

The exhibition, a major showcase of China’s creative industries, opened on 15th March and runs until 13th July.

The following information is from the V&A:
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China is huge. China is becoming topical. Yet China remains mystery [...]

Architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) have won a competition to design a library and nursery at Walsall, England.

Here’s the announcement from the architects:
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Fat have one a RIBA competition to design a new Library and nursery in Bentley a suburb of Walsall in the West Midlands. The scheme aims to create a new civic landmark.

The library [...]

The architects describe the building, which was completed last year, as “two very small and economic houses in a typical neighbourhood of Buenos Aires”.

Here’s a fact sheet provided by the architects, followed by some prose, which we assume has something to do with the project:
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Casas Lago (2006-2007).
Studio: Adamo-Faiden.Project team: Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden, Carolina Leveroni, [...]