new york design week 2008: tom dixon at ICFF
from designboom

‘link’ tables and ‘base’ lights
low tables, made from solid cast aluminium, finished with a black coating to give a textured surface.
available as a floor and table version, the base light uses an unusual combination
of metals; a satin finished brass shade combined with a traditional matt textured cast
pyramid circular iron base [...] Read

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I.V. Plant Pot by Vitamin
from Dezeen

I.V. Plant Pot by UK designers Vitamin has gone into production. [...] Read

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Bodega
from MoCo Loco

” We spent some time in Boston this week and got a call from Lorn from Propellor Modern suggesting we stop in at Bodega 100%. It happened to be just around the corner from our hotel, so we headed down to the corner neighborhood store. [...] Read

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- Via New York Mag

We offer four architects a fantasy job: a full block downtown, with no client to worry about.

The site today. Sculptures for the park, which is expected to exist for two or three years, will be chosen by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

The odd-shaped block at Canal and Varick Streets is, in some ways, an architect’s dream. Even the nearby Holland Tunnel entrance, nominally a downside, ensures that whatever goes up there will be visible on all sides. The owner, Trinity Real Estate, cleared the site earlier this year, and says it’ll be used as a sculpture park until plans firm up. (There’s already a small plaza next door, Juan Pablo Duarte Square, with a statue of the Dominican hero.) New York asked four architects to come up with ideas for the plot (which, we will admit, faces our offices). We required only that the result include a residential component and that it more or less meet zoning requirements. Read the full story

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- Via Wired

Above: Shipping containers, found in abundance all over the world, form the basis for the Future Shack, a self-contained, modular refugee-housing unit. It can be mass-produced with a minimum of materials and is easily stockpiled, making it a versatile emergency-housing unit.

” When disaster strikes, the need for short-term housing is immediate and urgent. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that more than 800,000 people were displaced after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and UNICEF reported 130,000 residents were made homeless by the 2006 earthquake in central Java, Indonesia.
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