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Asih Jenie
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Produce’s pursuit of discovery
For INDE.Awards 2019 The Studio winner Produce, design is inseparable from fabrication. It is not a studio built on an established category, rather it runs and thrives on the pursuit of discovery.
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Snøhetta to design Shanghai Grand Opera House
Featuring a dramatic roof space that unfolds like a fan, Snøhetta’s winning proposal for the Shanghai Grand Opera House generates surface and space designed to engender a sense of public ownership.
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World furniture history lessons from 8 brands at Salone 2019
From Bond a villain’s favourite seat to timeless classics with updated and expanded finishes, here our pick of the best reissued pieces at Salone 2019.
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Tom Dixon’s unconventional showroom launches in Milan
“There is nothing dustier than a conventional lighting and furniture showroom,” says Tom Dixon. So at Milan Design Week 2019, he opens The Manzoni, a 100-pax restaurant that will be his permanent base in mainland Europe.
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The storyteller: Budiman Hendropurnomo
“After you make sure that it works, then you try to make it not boring.” Indonesian architect and INDE.Awards 2019 Luminary Budiman Hendropurnomo talks about experimenting at large scale.
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Palinda Kannangara captures the spirit of place
“The site is the generator of all our ideas,” Sri Lankan architect and INDE.Awards 2019 Ambassador Palinda Kannangara shares how architecture expresses the spirit of the place.
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HASSELL’s winning design for Chengdu Panda Land revealed
HASSELL’s winning masterplan proposal for Chengdu Panda Land aims to dissolve the common idea of humans being dominant over nature.
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SHAU on the value of the experimental
The founders of SHAU, who won The Influencer with Microlibraries at the INDE.Awards 2018, talk about the potential of the region’s experimental architecture.
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Ronan Bouroullec on urban daydreaming in Asia
“I think we can always agree on that we miss nature,” shared Ronan Bouroullec about the Urban Daydreaming exhibition at HKDI Gallery, Studio Bouroullec’s first foray into the realm of urban design. We asked him to share more.
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5 minutes with… Bang & Olufsen
In its latest collaboration, this time with Michael Anastassiades, Danish sound brand Bang & Olufsen has created a minimalist and unique product. We chat with B&O’s senior go-to-market manager Anders Buchman.
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Asian design represented in London Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year awards
Each year, the London Design Museum reveals a showcase of the world’s most outstanding design work in the Beazley Designs Of The Year award. We take a look at eight projects in Asia nominated in the architecture category.
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Ma Yansong: Unapologetically MAD
We investigate MAD founder and one of the INDE.Awards 2018 Luminaries Ma Yansong’s process of finding his distinct voice in the global architecture industry.
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Offecct revives the Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Textile’ concrete blocks
The iconic Frank Lloyd Wright intricate pattern for concrete blocks has been reincarnated as Offecct’s trademark acoustic panel Soundwave.
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The art of shading by Sunbrella
Offering a breathtakingly diverse colour and texture options, as well as ease of maintenance and durability, Sunbrella’s 2017/2018 Shade Collection has raised the bar on quality shade fabrics.
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Indesign Luminary: Vo Trong Nghia
Ho Chi Minh City could be Asia’s next garden city. At the forefront of the movement is Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, changing the perception of ‘green’ sustainable architecture, one project at a time.
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Foscarini lighting the way
ECAL and Foscarini present an intimate exhibition at Palazzo Litta showcasing nine lighting objects that explore the ways light accompany our movement in a space.
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5 minutes with Patricia Urquiola
We chatted with the illustrious designer Patricia Urquiola at the Space Furniture Singapore showroom and asked her to share her view of future living and why she thinks we are the last generation that will die.
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WOHA branches into product design
Furniture has long been an untold story of the respected Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA. That is set to change with the launch of WOHAbeing, a dedicated range of furniture being produced with a mix of manufacturers.
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Nendo’s Extreme Minimalism: Another Sky
Japanese design studio Nendo has tried its hand at a television set, bringing its renowned minimalist aesthetic to the project.
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ECAL’s More Rules for Modern Life: Objects or Objets d’Art?
Displaying pieces by students from industrial design and fine arts programmes, ECAL’s More Rules for Modern Life exhibition plays with the flimsy distinctions between objets d’art and practical objects.