Sunday 9 October 2011

Liverpool Design Festival: Made in Liverpool Exhibition

Photographs taken from an iPhone on the opening night of the Made In Liverpool Exhibition, part of Liverpool Design Festival.






Photographs taken from an iPhone on the opening night of the Made In Liverpool Exhibition, part of Liverpool Design Festival.

Saturday 8 October 2011

Liverpool Design Festival: Made in Liverpool Exhibition

Made in Liverpool is an exhibition about the built fabric of Liverpool, and the future of it's designers, artists, architects and photographers. Supported by The RIBA, it is part of the Liverpool Design Festival, a collection of exhibitions, shows and workshops dedicated to showcasing local designers and their work.

'standing on the cast iron shore' a project looking at architecture of the uncompleted and fragmented, was exhibited in this multi disciplinary exhibition.






Thursday 11 August 2011

"and risk of boring everyone but me, the life of a building is,
use
reuse
misuse
disuse
refuse"

-cedric price

Serpentine Pavilion Competition 2011, Peter Zumthor

Every year there is a design competition open to an architect to design a Pavilion to go in Kensington gardens in Hyde Park, London, this year the competition was won by Peter Zumthor. I try to get down to see the competition entry every year and this year it may have been one of the most successful entries of all time.







Serpentine Pavilion Competition 2011, Peter Zumthor continued





LLoyds Building, Richard Rogers, London

After four years of failed attempts to find and see the Lloyds building by one of my favourite and most influential architects, Richard Rogers, I finally was able to make it this week.








LLoyds Building, Richard Rogers, London continued






Kenneth Grange Exhibition; Design Museum London

Besides all the riots and chaos on the streets of London, theres some really interesting design exhibitions on at the moment, I've just visited the Kenneth Grange exhibition at the Design Museum. The exhibition showcases all of Grange's work from his massively influential work in Product design and in transport, to the funny and cynical bookcase that doubles as a coffin...