Results tagged “designmuseum”

The ubiquity of the three-pin plug in Britain is so great that we've all long been inured to its bulky, obtrusive ugliness. Fortunately for us, design student Min-Kyu Choi remains vexed by the plug, to the extent that he decided to reinvent it. On Tuesday night his efforts were rewarded when he won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award. more ›

At the second time of asking, architects OMA have managed to smuggle their plans for a re-jigged Commonwealth Institute past the cultural gatekeepers at Kensington & Chelsea council. It will become the new home of the Design Museum. more ›

The plan released or the Commonwealth Institute in June managed to piss off just about every vested interest in the project. Licking their wounds, OMA have broken out the HB pencils and sketched a new, improved design. more ›

This exhibition is a retrospective of the work of Jan Kaplicky; architect, designer and co-founder of Future Systems, probably the most daringly futuristic practices of our time. You will be familiar with their work; Oxford Street's New Look flagship store is a Future Systems commission, as is Floating Bridge in the Docklands and most famously the media centre at Lords cricket ground. more ›

Previewed earlier in the year at the Design Museum's Super Contemporary exhibition, Wayne Hemingway's KiosKiosk was officially opened today outside City Hall. more ›

London welcomes June with a pick n mix bag full of new cultural treats. Take your pick from the following: more ›

Super Contemporary is the Design Museum's triumphant summer show, a look at the white-hot edge of British design while casting a nostalgic view through rose-tinted glasses at a half century of quality craftsmanship. more ›

Plans by OMA and West 8 for the Commonwealth Institute in west London have been released. As shown above, the long-empty building would benefit from a comprehensive redevelopment, with the flagpoles and covered walkway out front replaced by water fountains, a new 9,300 square metre home for the Design Museum, new housing units up to nine stories tall, and much of the building's interior stripped out to create a central "void", offering prime views of the building's distinctive roof. more ›

Ancient and modern collide in London this week as both the British Museum and the Design Museum reveal new exhibits, and a new musical opens while an old opera returns. more ›

In a languorous reminiscence, the Evening Standard's architecture critic runs through his childhood memories of the Commonwealth Institute and considers its future plans for development. Nothing new there – as we reported one year ago, the aging, long-closed structure is due for a makeover at the hands of Rem Koolhaas' OMA. Among the verbiage, though, are some mock-ups of the development plans, alongside the suggestion that the Design Museum is considering the Institute as its new home. We're fans of the DM, yet its current Shad Thames location, while an excellent space, is ill-served by public transport. A move Kensington way could give it a whole new line of visitors while letting it play the young upstart to the more staid institutions down on Exhibition Road. more ›

Two of the five hotels -- both in Bayswater -- will be launching the arts club this summer with the others to follow next year. Guest Hotels is also offering a Conceirge Club that will put you on the guest list for galleries and special exhibitions around London and will even throw in a free night at one of their hotels. The introductory rate is comparable to the cost of a night's stay at one of the hotels, so if you're a hardcore art lover, this might be a good excuse to take a holiday in your own town. more ›

The prefabricated bungalow, standing on the front lawn outside Tate Modern, is in London as part of the excellent Prouvé retrospective at the Design Museum. Dating from the 1950s, the Maison was an attempt at creating lightweight, flat-pack housing for colonial authorities that could easily be loaded into a cargo plane and dispatched to one of France's African outposts. Prouvé's intention was to demonstrate that a house built in his Nancy studio and flown overseas would be cheaper than one constructed from locally-sourced material. Unfortunately, despite the ingenuity of his design, he was proved wrong and only a handful were ever built. more ›

But Londonist always has something up its sleeve for a rainy day. And for those of you inclined towards higher aesthetic planes, we would strongly recommend the Design Museum in Shad Thames, more particularly their current exhibition featuring the works of ‘starchitect’ Zaha Hadid. more ›

Helsinki has gone Eurovision bonkers over the past week, in advance of tonight's semi-final. Helsinki's Esplanadi park has become a European Market for the duration of Eurovision. Participating countries are displaying their culture, tourism and food. Helsinki's best karaoke club has been holding a massive Eurovision karaoke championship! The main square, Senate Square, hosts special shows tonight and Saturday, where fans can watch both shows on big screens. The Finnish votes will be broadcast... more ›

They're talking about &made who did indeed deliver the table to the Design Museum by taking to the water and all it contains: more ›

It's officially autumn in London when Culture Crawl retreats indoors and the weekend stretches ahead full of things to see and do in enclosed spaces. That's no bad thing: the crawl is very cool this week... more ›

The second part in our guide to the best holiday season art exhibitions (read Part 1). more ›

In order to show our readers that Urban Junkies is a really worthwhile addition to Londonist, we took their event advice and checked out the installation at the Design Museum. more ›