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MAXXI: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF XXI CENTURY ARTS [ROME, ITALY] is nominated for Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, the Design Museum’s anual showcase of the best design in seven categories.
Visit the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year blog for details of the exhibition and awards.
Currently showing at the Design Museum is Zaha Hadid’s new commission, Visions For The City Of London. Showing until 4 October 2009 as part of Super Contemporary - Celebrating Visionary Design from London’s Creative Mavericks.
Zaha Hadid is part of the upcoming exhibition Super Contemporary at the Design Museum opening on 3 June 2009. The exhibition will showcase 15 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creatives, who have been asked what they would give back to London. Zaha will be creating an interactive installation designed to re-shape London’s cityscape called ‘Vision for the City of London’.
Visit designsoftheyear.com to see the best designs from 2009 and vote for your favourite.
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.
