Ikea’s Latest, Part 1: High-Gloss Kitchen Goes 180 From Last Year’s Country-Style
At last year's Interior Design Show in Toronto, Ikea pulled the sheets off of their bold country kitchen look, an aesthetic departure from the blonde-wood kitchens with which their showrooms had become associated. The kitchen won the show's Gold Booth Award and our entry on it quickly caught Facebook fire.
At this year's IDS, the design pendulum has swung the other way: Ikea's display kitchen features a distinctly sleek and modern look, one reportedly inspired by "the classic fashion combination of a black dress and pearls." In sharp contrast to last year's kitchen, where pots, pans, and kitchen storage objects were all made visible, this year's kitchen design renders most objects invisible, tucking them away behind glossy surfaces. In a second nod to the fashion world the backsplash tiles are meant to evoke patent leather quilted handbags and the island has received special focus.
m.&mme by Valentin Loellmann
Project: m.&mme
Designed by Valentin Loellmann
Website: valentinloellmann.de
German designer Valentin Loellmann reshapes the furniture for his sublime m.&mme project. View more after the jump:
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Jilin CBD Master Planning Project by AECOM
Project: Jilin CBD Master Planning
Designed by AECOM
Project Team: Shipeng Wu, Wubin Bao, Ian Leung, Ling Li, Yong Yang, Weilin Zhou, Mushui Wei
Urban Design Team: James Lu, Xiang Zeng
Landscape Team: Kun Wu
Economics Team: Shalin Jiang
Location: Jilin, China
Website: www.aecom.com
Jilin CBD Master Planning is a massive 200 hectare development in the growing Chinese city of Jilin, special importance in the project was given to green and open spaces. View more after the jump:
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Red Hill Residence by David Luck Architecture
Project: Red Hill Residence
Designed by David Luck Architecture
Location: Victorian Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Australia
Website: davidluckarchitecture.com.au
A romantic contemporary gateway designed by David Luck Architecture for a location in the Victorian Mornington Peninsula.
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Flotspotting: Auto Designs & More, From Someone Barely Old Enough to Drive
Terschelling, Netherlands-based Bart de Graaff has got good hands and an imagination to match, as evidenced by the copious renderings in his book. With expressive work spanning graphics, transportation, and conceptual design of the sort you'd find in a sci-fi movie, de Graaff could be mistaken for a grizzled vet of the design field. Which makes his personal statement all the more surprising:
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Side Effect of Technological Advancement: Children Not Recognizing Fairly Recent Artifacts
I read an article about a summer camp where one of the activities was showing the kids a bunch of old pieces of technology, and having them play around with them. The astonished author reported that most of the kids could not figure out how to dial a number on a rotary phone; they'd place their finger in the hole for "0" and drag the dial to the number they wanted to "activate," then release the dial.
This video here is similarly funny: Writer and blogger John Scalzi shows his 13-year-old daughter a vinyl LP, something she has never seen (or apparently heard of) before:
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Design in the Wild: EAT Category Winners and PLAY Open for Submissions
We are so hungry after perusing the Design in the Wild entries from the EAT category! Incredible readers from around the world submitted beautifully designed everyday objects that help them prep, cook, eat and drink. Whether it was your kitchen's 1985 General Electric Stove or a seat at your favorite cafe, we were delighted to be a guest at your dining table in this round's EAT submissions. Today we're opening up submissions for our second theme, PLAY, and announcing the jury and popular pick theme winners—theme winners receive their choice of Braun products and are qualified to move forward into the final round of voting for the grand prize of a notebook computer and tablet!
Without further ado...
JURY WINNER
Cutlery
Felix Stark, Germany
Cutlery of the armed forces of Germany. The fork functions like a spring to fix everything in the carrying case which is also a can opener. I am not a fan of collecting military items, but the cutlery works really great. I always showing it to my students as example of great functional design.
POPULAR WINNER
Citrus Squeezer
Taylor Welden, United States
We didn't have these when I grew up in the Northeast. When I moved to the South, Texas specifically, there is much more citrus (limes are 12/$1) and the need to extract the juice from citrus increases dramatically. Margaritas are an every day type of drink here, not something fancy for Saturdays. Lime and lemon juice are used in all types of cuisine, especially as an element Mexican dishes. That being said, when I moved here, I knew exactly what this item did the first time I saw it. I purchased mine for $3 or $4 almost 10 years ago, it still looks and performs as new. Heavy duty aluminum parts, nice colorful thick coating, no plastic parts anywhere, no branding anywhere. A simple tool, easily overlooked. It squeezes every last drop out of the citrus, quickly, easily, efficiently. No mess and no acid in the eyes either. Squeeze, juice pours out, open it up, the citrus half pops out to be easily discarded. Perfect. Genius.
Hong Kong CarPARK by Interface Studio Architects
Project: Hong Kong CarPARK
Designed by Interface Studio Architects
Major Funding: Private development
Location: Hong Kong, China
Website: www.is-architects.com
Interface Studio Architects explores a new approach to car parking with their design of Hong Kong CarPARK, view more images and architects description after the jump:
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