Articles by Rima Sabina Aouf

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Nendo looks to ancient Japanese tombs for first landscape architecture project

June 8, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has now moved into urban design, unveiling its massive CoFuFun plaza near Kyoto. The plaza – located outside of Tenri Station in Japan’s Nara prefecture – is the studio’s largest architecture project after its renovation of the Siam Discovery shopping centre in Bangkok last year. It is also Nendo’s first

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“Designed in California” is the new “made in Italy” according to Design Museum exhibition

May 24, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. Called California: Designing Freedom, the exhibition documents the American west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, and looks at how they fed into today’s

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Ministry of Design creates robot training facility lined with metal and tube lights

May 10, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architects Ministry of Design created this faceted robotics lab in Singapore to train and inspire engineers working with new automation technologies. Aluminium rods and tube lights stick out from the walls and ceiling at divergent angles inside the lab, which is used by robotics education group RACE and located within an industrial park in the

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Lago models eight interiors after successful women and their “kindness”

May 4, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Furniture brand Lago has worked with eight prominent Italian women to create a series of rooms in “an ode to women’s kindness”. The exhibition, called Never Stop Living Kindness – 8 women, 8 interiors and the Power of Kindness, was presented at Lago’s Salone del Mobile stall during Milan design week. It featured eight rooms

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