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Metropolis by Simon McWilliams

• Exhibitors from New Designers Talk About Sustainability.
• Architecture & Design Film Festival 2010.
• OpenBuildings is a new online database that organizes architecture’s finest examples from around the globe.
• Talks at [D3] Design Talents: [D3] Contest Winners and Eric Degenhardt.
• Calatrava unveils design for Major Denver Airport Project.
• The Calls Winning Proposal by Fletcher Crane Architects.
• Urbanized is Gary Hustwit’s third design documentary.
• Design Dilemma: Finding That “Je Ne Sais Quois”.
• The Unbuilt Berlin exhibition.

• Karim Rashid talks about electronic music and the digital world.
• 19 pictures of Remarkably Tiny Houses.
• Top 250 Architecture Firms list.
• World’s 10 Largest Construction Projects.
• Porsche Garden is a stylish storage solution for your car.
• 25 Incredible Photos of Gothic architecture.
• 10 Unreal Urban Projection videos where buildings come alive.
• Rem Koolhaas interviewed in Artforum.
• Movie about Tokujin Yoshioka’s exhibiton Spectrum.
• Interview with Kengo Kuma, Afonso Acocella And Luigi Alini.
• 15 Spectacular Treehouses from around the world.
• Design Dilemma: In search of Sustainable Design.
• 15 Creative Uses of Glass in architecture.
• Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: James Irvine, Tomás Alonso, Tomoko Azumi and Philippe Malouin.

Drawings by Clo’e Floirat’s documenting her thoughts on design in Berlin

First of all I would like to apologize for the lack of posts this week… It has been a really crazy week.

And now let’s go to the long link list. Hope you find it all interesting!

• Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2010.
• Vidafine interviews Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
• In the mind and heart of Droog Design.
• Axor bathroom collection by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.
• Normal Foster at 75 interview.
• AD Interviews: George H. Miller.
• UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 awarded with RIBA Lubetkin Prize.
• Lumenhaus wins the Solar Decathlon Europe.
• Finalists in the 2010 Dutch Design Awards have been unveiled.
• Youngsters Exhibition at DMY Berlin video.
• Three-dimensional Felt Wall Covering.
• The Dwell on Design Outdoor Area.
• Make It Right Foundation needs your help.
• Camille by Arne Quinze.
• Documentary about developer and architect Jonathan Segal.
• European Architecture Prize Nominations.
• Houses by Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and others for Living Architecture.
• The Building: Problem or Solution competition.
• Temporary Pavilion at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
• Rem Koolhaas: A Kind or Architect video.
• Vitra UK launches Panton Chair Competition.
• Lord Foster quits House of Lords.
• Vanity Fair’s World Architecture Survey.
• Reinier de Graaf speaks at Creative London 2010.
• Winners of the 2010 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.
• Conversations with David Carlson.

Illustration by Nat Russel for the Dwell & Arkitip Artist Series

• Movie of Gregori Warchavchik’s Casa Modernista da Rua Santa Cruz.
• Design dilemma: Five Secrets to a Great Outdoor Space.
• Open Source House winners announced.
• Dwell on Design edition of Out and About.
• London’s tallest tower by Renzo Piano.
• Pieces created by the winners of this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future.
• MVRDV and ADEPT win the competition for House of Culture and Movement.
• New York City launches Urbancanvas Design Comptition.

Illustration by Vesa Sammalisto

• Pretty Smart Textiles exhibition.
• DMY Berlin official opening video.
• Follow IdeaCity10 with Vidafine.
• Video of Kazuyo Sejima’s Villa in Hayama.
• Spanish Architects Still Suffer Most article.
• Public toilet in Valetta by Chris Briffa.
• Original Clamp Coffee Table.
• New A380 Plane for Lufthansa.
• DMY 2010 Highlights.
• Movie of Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus.
• Interview with Winy Maas.
• Beautiful Steps Installation.
• Movie of Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez’s Galeria Adriana Varejao.
• Yatzer interviews with Dror Benshetrit.
• Architectural Quotations.

Lighting the Sails

• The Why Factory by MVRDV Video.
• New study says LEED May Not Be That Green after all.
• Dezeen’s Made in Italy talks: il Modo Italiano, Italian Industrial Design, Italian Design on the Road, Milan Design City & the Influence of Italian Design.
• Winners of the 2010 Prize for Young Architects and Designers.
• Firefly Interactive Lighting at Shanghai World Expo 2010.
• Winners of 2010 AIA/HUD Awards Revealed.
• 2 (or 3…) questions for Kartell’s Lorenza Luti.
• 10 Architectural Wonders of Expo 2010 Shanghai.
• Adorable little Retro Barbershop in Los Angeles.

Cartoon by arch.Maaik

• Second edition of the Public Design Festival.
• Dezeen’s Top Ten Jewellery.
• Sea Pool by Jason Wingrove video.
• Tony Chambers talks to yatzer.
• Design dilemma: Decorating as a Renter.
• The Favela Painting project.
• Critical Practice created the installation Parade.
• Pawson triumphs as Design Museum Winner.
• D&DA Awards 2010 winners announced.

Teenage Stories by Julia Fullerton-Batten

It has been a busy weekend with lots of links I forgot to share, so here they are:

• ICFF 2010 Post Roundup at Design Milk.
• SunSlates look just like a regular roofing tile.
• Best Press Pieces form ICFF 2010.
• Interview with Wu Yu-Ying.
• Gehry vs LEED article.
• Friday five with Angelo Surmelis.
• Video of the Lou Ruvo Center by Frank Gehry.
• Autodesk Autocad for Mac.
• Questions & Answers with Gijs Bakker.
• The world’s Most Beautiful Gun Club.
• ArchDaily interviews Maurice Nio.
• Conversation with designer Phuc Van Dang.
• Piano conceives a respectful Addition to Kahn’s Kimbell Masterpiece.
• Friday Five with Rich and Brett of ModProducts.

Photo of the Guggenheim Bilbao by Iwan Baan

• Futuristic Home Desing with a unique shape.
• AIA announces 18 Winners of 2010 Housing Awards.
• The Murakami Rocking Chair generates electricity from the rocking motion.
• 2 (or 3…) questions for Matali Crasset.
• Five of David Stark’s current interests.
• Crazy Apartment Interior Design of fashion designer.
• The IceHotel, a building with an expiration date.
• African Design presented during the ICFF 2010.
• The Inntel Hotel looks like a pile of houses.
• Miami Civic Center 2010 Competition winners.
• Dezeen podcast with Paul Smith.
• Roll It is a cool experimental house.
• A colorful new hotel, the PANTONE Hotel.
• 2010 RIBA Award winners.
• 50 Beautiful Examples of architecture photography.
• An Experimental Early Work by Renzo Piano threatened.
• Japan’s Beautiful Manhole Covers.

Chair Garden by Nendo

• Photos of the Richard Meier Model Museum on Cool Hunting and on A Daily Dose of Arhcitecture.
• A Fresh Green Structure for a terrace in Stockholm.
• Organic Bulinding clad with plant-filled pockets.
• Scratching the Surface of walls to obtain beautiful faces.
• A collection of iconic Eames LCM Re-Imagined by street artists.
• Airplaine Suite is an entire airplane converted into a single luxury suite.
• Sam Baron talks to Yatzer.
• Studio Banana TV Interviews AMID (Cero 9).
• Love Your Bike window display.