Dezeenwire: Sears Tower in Chicago is to undergo a $350 million green refit to “reduce the tower’s electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water a year”. The Guardian
Dezeenwire: The Guardian has published a slideshow of images showing an exhibition of IKEA furniture from the 1950s to today, which has opened at the Liljevalchs Konsthall museum in Stockholm. The Guardian
Dezeenwire: the Royal College of Art has the appointment of Dutch Designer Tord Boontje as head of the Design Products course, replacing Ron Arad. (more…)
Dezeenwire: the Financial Times’ website features an interview with London-based designer Martino Gamper by Nicole Swengley. ft.com
Dezeenwire: architect Richard Rogers has attacked Prince Charles’ role in the scrapping of his design for Chelsea barracks in London as “an abuse of power” and called for an inquiry. The Guardian Related: Elite Architects attack Prince Charles
Dezeenwire: the winners of the D&AD Awards 2009 were announced last night. awards.dandad.org/2009/
Dezeenwire: The Art Newspaper reports strong sales from some galleries at Design Miami/Basel this week, with Brad Pitt and Roman Abramovich among buyers. The Art Newspaper
Dezeen events: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs moderates the Design Talks at Design Miami/Basel today and tomorrow with designers Nacho Carbonell, Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny, Peter Marigold, Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer (Raw-Edges) and Maarten Baas. (more…)
Dezeenwire: the Guggenheim Museum and Google Sketchup have launched Design It: Shelter Competition, “a global, online initiative that invites the public to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth.” Details here
Dezeenwire: Dutch designer Maarten Baas has put movies of his Real Time exhibition held in Milan this year on YouTube. Sweepers Clock movie. Analog Clock movie. Grandfather Clock movie.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
