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Louvre-Lens art gallery: ‘We’re going to make it so you never hang anything on the walls’ – video (The Gurdian) Louvre-Lens, an outpost of Paris’s great Louvre gallery, is the latest product of the trend for satellite museums from big-name art institutions. Costing €150m (£122m) and designed by Japanese architects Sanaa, it is expected to attract 500,000 visitors every year and to help revitalise the economy of  Lens. Louvre-lens by SANAA + imrey culbert now complete (designboom) Conceived in 2003 and now complete in lens, france, is the ‘louvre-lens museum’, another venue to the paris location designed by japanese firm SANAA, new york and paris-based imrey culbert, landscape designer catherine mosbach and museographer studio … Continue reading

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A playground for grown-ups (domusweb) Presented today, SANAA’s design for the new Bocconi University campus sets out to establish a non-hierarchal relationship between the elements of a landscape that is human before it is architectural. An architecture report from Milan by Paola Nicolin   First Look: SANAA’s Louvre Lens (Architectural Record) The Pritzker-winning firm has designed a shimmering glass- and metal-clad outpost of the venerable Louvre museum for the city of Lens in northern France.   Studio Velocity: House in Chiharada (domusweb)— In this extravagant Japanese house, the hierarchy between different levels disappears in favor of an absolute spatial intersection expressed through curved lines. A news report from Chiharada

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Shivering Bowls by nendo (Dezeen) These delicate bowls by Japanese design studio Nendo are so thin they quiver in the wind (+ movie).Nendo created Shivering Bowls for the KAMA. Sex & Design exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. Eight designers were asked to produce a piece that explores the idea of eros, the Greek term for erotic love, and Nendo responded by creating an extremely thin bowl from silicon. Seeing Things | Design Tide Tokyo (Tmagazine/nytimes) Good design and Japan go hand in hand. Simple, thoughtful design is so ubiquitous, in fact, that even a convenience store’s display of bright, graphic doughnut boxes caught my eye. In early … Continue reading

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Tadao Ando’s first building in Taiwan to open mid-2013 (Focus Taiwan) Taipei, Nov. 18 (CNA) The first building in Taiwan designed by world renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the Asia University Museum of Art, is set to open in mid-2013, the museum’s chief curator said Sunday. MoMA exhibition focuses on the transformation of Japan’s capital into a center of the Avant-Garde (Artdaily) NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA presents Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, the first museum exhibition to focus on the city of Tokyo during the remarkable period from the mid-1950s through the 1960s, when the city transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for … Continue reading

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