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designjunction presents DESIGN EVERY – a stellar Talks Program celebrating inclusivity and diversity in design

2018-09-18T05:00:00-04:00

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designjunction presents a stellar talks program taking place at the iconic Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf this London Design Festival. 50 world-class speakers will take to the stage between Thursday 20 - Friday 21 September.

Moving away from standardized names of the design and architecture industries, the show proudly breaks the mould of the ego-driven talks program by hosting discussions about what truly matters. With one of the keynotes from the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and the other from Benjamin Hubert, DESIGNEVERY celebrates inclusivity whilst exploring the crucial issues which the design industry faces.

Join some of the most important discussions in design for just £4 here. Tickets: £8 per talk – Archinect readers get 50% off using TALK500.

Thursday 20 September

DESIGNEVERY EXPERIENCE: The Omnipresent Design Thinking
11:00 – 11:50

Speaker: Benjamin Hubert, founder of LAYER. Industrial designer Benjamin Hubert provides an ins...

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016 - Top Picks

2016-05-24T10:43:00-04:00

It’s that time of year when London's design district opens its doors to the public for Clerkenwell Design Week and shows the rest of London and the design industry what it has to offer. An impressive showcase of distinct and accomplished talent the three-day event spans; furniture and product design, interior design as well as architecture. This year’s event includes over 120 spaces and directly engages 100 local businesses.

For its seventh year the team have employed the help of local architects OMMX to create a new masterplan that navigates visitors and links eight temporary exhibitions as well as commissioned installations.

With so much creativity on show we thought we would make a few suggestions. Here are Archinect's top recommendations:

Open Showrooms - open throughout the festival

Domus
50 Great Sutton Street
EC1V 0DF

Frövi
Broad Yard
Turnmill Street
EC1M 5RR

Herman Miller
102-108 Clerkenwell Road
EC1M 5SA

Knoll
91 Goswell Road
EC1V 7EX

Morgan
1 Dallington Street
EC1V 0BH

Exhibitions...

Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Guy Nordenson to speak at Innovators talk series at the MCNY

2014-05-05T17:44:00-04:00

Mark your calendars! Some popular architects will be speaking in the upcoming "Innovators" talk series at the Museum of the City of New York, starting tomorrow May 6 at 6:30 p.m... Accompanying the current "Palaces for the People" exhibition, each talk will explore the influence of the Guastavino Company, led by a Catalan father-son team whose architecture, construction, and design practices helped shape NYC's built landscape.

Below is the panelist line-up:

May 6 - Innovators: Building Design and Construction: Guy Nordensen (Guy Nordenson Associates); Valentine Lehr (Lehr Consultants International); Jill Lerner and Marianne Kwok (Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates); and Corie Sharples (Shop Architects)

May 14 - Innovators with Norman Foster: From Guastavino to the Moon: Lord Norman Foster and his engineering partner Roger Ridsdill Smith

July 7 - Innovators: The Uses of Tiles Today: Suzanne Stephens (writer, critic, and deputy editor of Architectural Record) as moderator; Daniel Libeskind (Studio Daniel Libeskind), Ingeborg Rocker (Harvard University GSD, Rocker-Lange Architects); and Matthew Karlin (president of Nemo Tile Company).

Find more details about the series on Bustler.

Gehry and Salonen discuss ten years of music at Disney Concert Hall

2013-10-16T16:15:00-04:00

To celebrate Disney Hall’s tenth anniversary, architect Frank Gehry and Conductor Laureate for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen reminisced on the building’s inspiration last night, at a discussion held at the Hammer Museum. Co-hosted by the LA Phil, far from the actual concert hall and its spotty downtown L.A. environs, the discussion’s moderator Nicolai Ouroussoff (former architecture critic for the New York Times) tried to tease out the relationship between architecture and music. While Salonen touched upon questions of classical music’s relevance, Gehry didn’t delve too deeply into the particulars of his design.

As Music Director for the LA Philharmonic from 1992-2009, Salonen oversaw the orchestra during its transition from the slightly-stuffy Dorothy Chandler Pavilion over to Disney Hall, and is highly regarded for whipping the Philharmonic into shape as a progressive and formidable cultural institution. The trajectory of the LA Phil is largely wrapped up in b...