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Tokyo Design Week
Posted by: Cane on 27th Oct 2010 in Creative Report




For a week starting on the 29th of this month, Tokyo hosts the 25th annual Tokyo Designers Week much of which takes place at Jingu Gaien, in the city’s Ayoama neighbourhood.

This year’s theme is the 'environment,’ but ‘environment’ not just in terms of ecology, but also our general surroundings and locale.



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MAXXI
Posted by: Kane on 7th Oct 2010 in Opinion


Image: Iwan Baan


This time in August we looked at the nominees for this year’s Stirling Prize for Architecture.

As expected, Zaha Hadid Architects took the prize for the MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. Of the nominees, MAXXI was mid-table in terms of cost, but arguably the most striking and iconic looking outcome.

In their words, the architects' vision for the museum was to create a ‘field of buildings’ rather than 'an object'. As seen from above this appears to have been achieved. The site is a tangle of linear forms that lie above, below and amongst one another, culminating in the bold cantilevered gallery that has already become the resounding image of the museum.

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