Installation in Hollywood by SPORTS Design Collaborative

The Los Angeles design collaborative SPORTS opened a gallery installation in Hollywood last month. Stay Down Champion, Stay Down is a commissioned temporary installation for the Woodbury University Hollywood (WUHO) gallery, located along the iconic Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

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'Flexible' Office Features Descending Desks for a Multi-Use Space

On a weekday morning, the ground floor of the Droste silo is empty.  At nine o' clock the big tables with computers slowly descends. A fresh new day begins! At the end of the day the workstations disappear back into the ceiling. The space is ready for another purpose: a lecture, a dinner, a party, a promotion of a new product, an exhibition or an evening Yoga class.

The design is achieved by multidisciplinary design team, Zecc Architecten, Heldergroen communication, and Vrolijk design & construction. The team collaborated on a design process where there was room for the different disciplines; innovation, discussion and change. Because of this collaboration a strong identity and high level of quality has been realized.

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US Pavilion's Airy Balloon Canopy at Venice Biennale

The US pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale featured an installation by design team MOS entitled "Instant Untitled." It consists of a canopy of giant globular silver helium balloons and an interlocking white seating unit. MOS mentions that Instant Untitled has a small carbon footprint, in fact, that it barely even exists. Calling it an urban figment, it is a light and sustainable response to the apparent absurdity of modern architecture. This type of architecture is like diet-architecture, a copy without the calories.

Abstract Geometric Seating Installation at Venice Biennale 2010

New York studio Aranda\Lasch have installed a collection of seating that’s made up of foam triangles at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Entitled Modern Primitives, the series was developed in collaboration with Italian fashion brand Fendi and forms the first part of a project to be concluded at Design Miami in December.

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'Table Cloth' by Ball-Nogues Studio with UCLA Students

Table Cloth for the Courtyard at Schoenberg HallA site-specific installation by Ball-Nogues Studio, in collaboration with UCLA students, will serve as a temporary environment for music, dance and other performances on the UCLA campus. The project explores a "cross-manufacturing" strategy: After the structure has served as a set piece, the parts making up the installation will become smaller-scaled commodities, available as consumer products.

The installation is open now and will last until June 12, 2010. Check out more about it at Ball-Nogues Studio's website.