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Hug an Industrial Designer Today

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Product design, Graphic design, Events, Green design

Designers around the world have marked June 29 as World Industrial Design Day, with events organized by professional organizations and universities.

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PS1's Young Architects Program Returns

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Events

Pole Dance, a summer-themed installation by the New York firm SO-IL, is staged in the New York art institution's outdoor courtyard until September 6.

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The new Inntel by WAM architecten

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Architecture

A new high-rise hotel in Holland designed by WAM architecten is getting attention for its façade, a whimsical stacking of vernacular houses that, when taken as a whole, can only be described as a post-modern pastiche on steroids.

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London Festival of Architecture

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Events

Starting tomorrow, the British capital's citizen-friendly biennial offers 300 architectural happenings – installations, exhibitions, talks and walks – to an expected audience of a quarter of a million visitors.

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Getting the Keys to NYC

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Art, Urban planning, Events

In New York City, a public art project by Paul Ramírez Jones transforms a symbolic civic gesture, the awarding of the key to the city, into an urban scavenger hunt.

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