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January 2011, 17
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CES 2011: murata boy + murata girl robots
published 01.17.11
the bicycle-riding 'murata boy' and unicyclist 'murata girl' robots use gyroscopic sensors and obstacle detection technology to move forward and backward along balance beams, curves, and inclines.
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scau: grand stade de casablanca
published 01.17.11
influenced by islamic decorative art, the stadium features large fanned-out concrete fibre blades around its perimeter that filter natural daylight through its latticework perforation.
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2011 brit insurance design awards shortlist
published 01.17.11
the 2011 brit insurance design awards shortlisted nominations have been announced.
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yang yongliang: cigarette ash landscape
published 01.17.11
in the installation, black and white photographs are cut and collaged to mimic cigarette ash.
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iwan baan: 2010 around the world - the diary of a year of architecture
published 01.17.11
in addition to a collection of his extensive work, baan will send a photograph of his current location to the exhibition each week, allowing the viewers to follow his process step by step.
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peter crawley: stitched illustrations
published 01.17.11
using simple cotton thread and watercolour paper, crawley creates both painstakingly accurate and minimalist renders of buildings, typography, and other abstractions.
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sunhan kwon: coffee chair
published 01.17.11
breaking away from the general symmetry of a chair, when one looks at 'coffee chair', its form appears like a silhouette of a coffee mug on a saucer.
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office of ryue nishizawa studio visit
published 01.16.11
designboom visits the office of ryue nishizawa in tokyo, japan.
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pablo reinoso: thonet chair sculptures
published 01.16.11
series of sculptural objects which physically extend the bentwood furniture piece beyond the boundaries of a normal chair.
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sofie lachaert + luc d'hanis: palette for nodus
published 01.16.11
the rug takes on the shape of an artist's hand-held palette made up of 266 soft colors.
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david mikhail architects: hoxton house
published 01.16.11
consisting of a two-storey cruciform glass facade, the one-meter addition aims to organize and give order to the existing interior rooms.
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karim rashid: nhow hotel berlin
published 01.16.11
the hotel's design is a celebration of the german city's modern zeitgeist, connecting it to the rest of the world by creating a technorganic land of data-driven art and spaces.
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zachary eastwood-bloom: digital decay
published 01.16.11
the collection explores the theme of two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics: one material, with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information.
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