Word: designators
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Even though Narciso Rodriguez lives and works in New York City, he finds much of his design inspiration on trips to Rio de Janeiro, where he goes to unwind. In fact, he started to go to Brazil so frequently?three times a year, at least?that he finally bought himself a beach house in Bahia, on the edge of the Atlantic rain forest. "At first I went to Rio, and then I started to branch out and go to places like Bahia," says Rodriguez. "Now when I go, I sketch a lot." He gets inspired watching the active crowds...
With five partners and a payroll of about 70 people, SHoP Architects doesn't quite qualify as a small firm. All the same, it doesn't compare to design-world immensities like Norman Foster's sprawling operation in London or just about any branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But last summer, this medium-size Manhattan-based company won a very big project?the new headquarters for Google, the virtual-world behemoth based in Mountain View, Calif...
...slump, not many architects were building much in the real world. But even when you can't construct, you can still deconstruct. So some, especially those in school, responded by burrowing deeper into architectural theory?sketching, thinking, devoting themselves to ever more radical, if not plainly buildable, design. It was one of those occasional eras of "paper architecture...
...MISS: the China Design Now exhibit at London's Victoria & Albert Museum this month, which will highlight developments in Chinese design ranging from the 2008 Olympic stadium to digital media, fashion and youth culture in the rapidly expanding cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen...
...TOKYO Design mavens flock to buy au by KDDI's INFOBAR 2 ($183), which resembles a candy...