DESIGN OVERTIME: AFTER HOURS ACTIVITIES
Oct 9th, 2007After-hours at the Design Museum, including the hit show Zaha Hadid: Architecture and Design on Friday 5 October 2007. See Design Overtime for future late openings at the museum.
Zaha Hadid visited on Friday October 12, to give a talk to a packed house at the Design Museum. Her exhibition, Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design, has become a major hit making it no surprise the talk sold out in record time.
After-hours at the Design Museum, including the hit show Zaha Hadid: Architecture and Design on Friday 5 October 2007. See Design Overtime for future late openings at the museum.
The design and manufacturing company Established & Sons have launched Bianco Carrara Fantiscritti Marble versions of Zaha Hadid Architects’ Aqua Table & Nekton Stools (table pictured above, stools below) at Elevating Design.
Last night, the London Design Medal was awarded to Zaha Hadid by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone at the opening ceremony of the London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. The medal, designed by Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa, was launched for the first time this year, and it acknowledges the depth of design talent in the
Here is the Urban Nebula installtion that Zaha Hadid Architects designed for the London Design Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Design Overtime returns! Friday 5 October. See Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design until 10pm. And for only £5!
The Design Museum will be open until 10pm this Friday 24 August.
We call our late opening Design Overtime and it provides an opportunity to view Design Museum exhibitions until 10pm, but also encourages you to participate through workshops, activities and debates. Always fun, often serious, and sometimes spectacular, the theme for the August Design Overtime is a night of protest and song.
Do you have an opinion about design? Then come to the Design Museum to voice it. If you have no opinion then come and formulate one!
Join us from 6pm for Design Overtime. Entrance to exhibitions only £5! Activities are included and optional. Last admission 9.15pm.
Urban Nebula is a sculptural installation that explores the potential of pre-cast concrete as a medium for repetitive and fluid form.
Urban Nebula is one half of Size + Matter, a project by Zaha Hadid and Amanda Levete for the London Design Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Every Sunday throughout July, between 2 - 5pm, budding young architects can design and build their own amazing buildings and landmark structures at the Design Museum. These workshops are £4 for children, who must be accompanied by an adult £7. Cost includes entry to exhibitions. Workshop are suitable for children aged 5 - 11. Booking is essential to avoid dissapointment.
Book online or by phone 020 7940 8783 or email tickets@designmuseum.org
The picture shows Dhian Dhaliwal, 5, and the ‘modern eco-home’ he built at the Architecture Week kids workshop at the museum. His eco-home features chickens and a fruit and vegtable patch for a self-sufficient lifestyle.
To celebrate the opening of Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design at the Design Museum tonight, we are asking you to text your thoughts on architecture for projection on the Design Museum between 10pm and midnight.
So send a text to 07624 806 248 and let Zaha know what you think! Zaha loves texting, so you may even get a reply from her… Read the rest of this entry »
Hadid’s Swarm chandelier for Established and Sons is one of the most complex pieces to install. But also one of the most dramatic. Read the rest of this entry »