All articles by Sowmya Thuniki
Sowmya Thuniki
Park life for Jason Bruges in Toronto
Jason Bruges Studio has been commissioned to design and build an interactive art installation in granite for a Toronto park. The piece will permanently sit in a privately owned, publicly accessible park as part of a residential development in the city’s downtown entertainment district. It is entitled Front to Back, which references its location on Front Street, near to the city’s historic waterfront and Lake Ontario, which exposes the city to dramatic weather conditions year round.
Niels Diffrient 1928 – 2013
Tributes to Niels Diffrient poured in as soon as the news broke that this icon of chair design and pioneer of task chair ergonomics had died. He was 84 and had been ill for some time. His wife, textile artist Helena Hermarck, who made the announcement, said he had had cancer. His obituary was the lead item in the New York Times.
ISG goes centre stage with £16m New Theatre Royal win
Fit-out and construction company ISG has been appointed to the £16m redevelopment of the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth – a joint venture between the theatre and University of Portsmouth. The project will see the reinstatement of a 30m-high fly tower at the rear of the theatre, some 40 years after the stage housing burned down and was demolished.
Award-winning architects collaborate to create new setting for the Mary Rose
The design of the new £27m Mary Rose Museum – by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (architect and design team leader) and Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will (architect for the interior) has gone on public show, with the opening last month of the £27m building.
Talent on display
Exhibition design is getting plenty of press these days with a raft of high-profile shows taking the sector by storm. Pamela Buxton takes an indepth look at three practices that have made the field into a speciality
Workplace of the future
In the company of some of the leading workplace designers, Jamie Mitchell travels into the future to examine how we will be working, where we will be working from, and what will be the impact on office furniture manufacturers
New lights go on for classics
Lighting supplier Flos is to re-issue a collection of lamps originally designed in the Fifties and Sixties by Gino Sarfatti, one of the world’s most iconic lighting designers, in a collection called Re-lighting Sarfatti.