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Large inflatable bubbles, a car made out of Rimowa suitcases and a mirrored pavilion were among the installations that were tagged using our #milanogram2019 hashtag during this year’s Milan design week.
Over 6,000 photographs were tagged with the #milanogram2019 hashtag on Instagram during the biggest event of the design calendar, which took place from 8 to 14 April.
Here’s a look at 10 of the best shots, selected by social media assistant Fiona Hartley:
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Adjacent Fields by Linda Tegg and Jil Sander
Australian artist Linda Tegg sourced “spontaneous plants” to create this living installation inside the Jil Sander HQ in Milan.
Tegg wants to make people question their relationship with nature by bringing them into close contact with plants in a new context.
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Conifera by Arthur Mamou-Mani and COS
The most Instagrammed installation of the week was French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani’s large-scale parametric structure, built for fashion brand COS from 3D-printed bioplastic bricks.
The bricks were 3D-printed using a mixture of polylactic acid, pigment and wood pulp in a lattice structure, allowing light to pervade through the structure while taking full advantage of the strength of the material.
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Echo Pavilion by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Located in the centre of Milan’s Palazzo Litta, the mirrored Echo Pavilion was designed to be both “imposing but very invisible”.
The stainless steel-clad structure reflected the baroque surroundings of the palazzo’s courtyard and lined up exactly with the building’s details, and also with the paving patterns on the ground below.
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FAR at Nilufar Depot
This exhibition at Nilufar Depot saw designers produce work that explored the common themes of membranes, coatings and stratification.
Space Caviar created the exhibition design, which included 1960s-style bubble structures, and other highlights included rainbow-hued objects by Odd Matter.
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No Man’s Land by Raf Simons and Kvadrat
To showcase four new textiles in collaboration with Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons, textile company Kvadrat installed a desolate suburban neighbourhood inside an industrial space, featuring a bed of wildflowers and pre-fabricated structures by architect Jean Prouvé.
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Formations by Note Design Studio
Geometric totem poles topped with 3D shapes were designed by Note Design Studio to showcase Tarkett’s IQ Surface, a durable material that can cover rounded, angular forms, and can also be continuously recycled.
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Tides by Kwangho Lee and Wang & Söderström
Inspired by the sun, moon and earth, South Korean designer Kwangho Lee and Danish practice Wang & Söderström created an other-worldly landscape that invited users to explore hidden terrains that revealed themselves with changes in the tide.
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AQUA: Leonardo da Vinci’s Water Vision by Marco Balich
In this installation, an LED screen acted as a window of prediction, showing what the future of Milan will look like according to artist Marco Balich.
The screen depicted an ever-changing skyline and was located at the canal lock gates, designed by Leonardo da Vinci, to honour the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death.
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Breeze of Light by Nendo
Japanese studio Nendo teamed up with air conditioning manufacturer Daikan to create an immersive installation that featured 17,000 polarised film flowers.
The height of each flower was staggered, which produced the illusion of a smooth, continuous landscape.
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Gas by Guillermo Santoma and Rimowa
A fully-functioning car made out of Rimowa suitcases took centre stage in this installation by Guillermo Santoma, which drew inspiration from the artist’s love of the American west coast.
In collaboration with Rimowa and creative studio Kaleidoscope, viewers were invited to explore a conceptual gas station alongside a photographic zine and short film.
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American architect Jeanne Gang has been listed on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2019.
The Studio Gang founder is the only architect to make the Time 100 list this year.
She is recognised just a month after winning the commission for the overhaul of Chicago O’Hare international airport, in partnership with Studio ORD.
Among her completed buildings are the WMS Boathouse and the Aqua Tower, both in her hometown of Chicago. She is also building a new 348-storey tower in the city, Vista Residences, set to be the world’s tallest building designed by a woman.
“Jeanne Gang has the WOW factor,” said actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who nominated Gang, in a statement on the Time 100 website. “Her stunning Aqua, in Chicago, is the tallest building ever built by a woman. Now she’s building an even taller one.”
“For Jeanne, architecture is not just a wondrous object,” continued Smith. “It’s a catalyst for change. Her sleek, woody boathouses are helping to revive the polluted Chicago River by filtering runoff organically.”
“Her Polis Station concept aims to improve the way civilians interact with law enforcement by fusing police stations with civic recreational centres,” she added. “She recently tested the idea in one of Chicago’s most violent neighbourhoods, adding a basketball court to the 10th District police station in North Lawndale.”
Time 100 is an annual list of 100 leaders, innovators and celebrities, which the US magazine deems to be global influencers. Other people to make the list this year include Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariana Grande and Samin Nosrat.
Gang is the second female architect on the list in a row, following in the footsteps of Elizabeth Diller in 2018.
There are also many other women on this year’s list, ranging from celebrities to politicians. These include Sandra Oh, Chrissy Teigen, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama.Gang has been vocal in the past about promoting equality in the architecture industry.
She has closed the gender pay gap at her firm completely. Speaking to Dezeen last year, she said that firms needed to be challenged.
“We should start to think about asking people to declare if they have closed their pay gap, the same way we declare the 2030 challenge for the environment for example,” Gang told Dezeen. “Maybe that would put a little more pressure to close the gap.”
Studio Gang has offices in New York, San Francisco and Paris, as well as Chicago. Recent designs unveiled by the studio include a luxury high-rise in Hawaii and a twisting tower in San Francisco.
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We’ve hand-picked five of the best US-based positions on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at architecture firm SOM and skincare brand Aesop.
Senior architectural professional – technical at SOM
SOM is seeking a senior architectural professional to join its office in San Francisco. Architect David Childs recently unveiled plans from the firm, for two new skyscrapers along Chicago’s waterfront as part of the 400 Lake Shore Drive development.
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Visual merchandising coordinator at Aesop
A new Aesop store recently opened in Bath designed by JamesPlumb, taking inspiration from the English city’s stone architecture. The skincare brand is currently hiring a visual merchandising coordinator to join its team in Los Angeles.
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Senior design engineer at Rich Brilliant Willing
Rich Brilliant Willing is looking for a senior design engineer to join its team in New York. The company’s products include a range of lighting including a mid-century style chandelier and pendant lamps, from a collaboration with design boutique Meyer Davis.
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Project manager at Brinkworth in New York
Interiors studio Brinkworth has designed a store in Glasgow for clothing brand End Clothing, which is set inside an old post office and features marble-lined walls and floors. The firm is recruiting a project manager to join its office in New York.
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Studio O+A is searching for a senior designer to join its practice in San Francisco. The practice recently designed the new headquarters for McDonald’s in Chicago, intended to cater to the changing work and life styles of employees.
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Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled the first interiors it has built within Jean Nouvel‘s National Museum of Qatar in Doha, Qatar, featuring undulating wooden surfaces.
The images reveal the museum’s two gift shops, the first of a number of interior spaces designed by the architecture practice that will also include three eateries due to open later this year.
Now open to the public, the shops are intended to complement the organic form of the museum building by Atelier Jean Nouvel, which was unveiled in March.
The gift shop interiors are characterised by soaring wooden walls that create a series of cavernous enclosures from stacked wooden profiles.
A total of 40,000 pieces of wood, designed using 3D modelling, were used to construct the space.
Each piece is unique to its position in the structure, and fits flush only with its complementary segment. They were assembled by hand in Doha by the Italian carpenter Claudio Devoto.
“Designing the interiors of the National Museum of Qatar was an opportunity to create a unique experience for visitors to immerse in Qatar’s cultural heritage,” explained principal architect Koichi Takada.
“Each interior space offers a fragment of the Qatari history, that aims to enhance and fulfil both a cultural and memorable experience for museum visitors.”
More than a decade in the making, Atelier Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar is recognised for its dramatic facade comprising a series of colliding discs, modelled on a mineral formation called the “desert rose”.
To complement this aesthetic, Koichi Takada Architects based its design for the shops on the Dahl Al Misfir – a famous 40-metre-deep cavern in central Qatar – known for its glowing walls of gypsum crystals.
The layers of wood that make up the shops’ interiors extend down like stalagmites in a cave to form columns and display shelves.
Meanwhile, light trickles from skylights that puncture the ceilings, also giving glimpses of the walls outside.
Koichi Takada Architects is an architecture studio founded by Koichi Takada in 2008 with offices in Sydney and Doha.
The studio won an international competition to design the museum’s interiors in 2012. Alongside the two gift shops, it is constructing its Desert Rose Café, Café 875 and Jiwan Restaurant, which are set to open later this year.
Elsewhere in Qatar, preparation is currently underway for the World Cup in 2022.
Three significant projects include a golden stadium by Foster + Partners, the construction of an arena made from modified shipping-containers, and the near completion of a 40,000-seat stadium designed by the late Zaha Hadid.
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