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✖‘Accident: A local street scene. Good part - the postman was fine. Like many places in China after an accident, the driver came out and looked at the car first, then the person who he hit. The bike is very twisted, just like the people here’
Local view: China by RedBox’s George Chang
Top 200: Local View: South Africa
‘Marooned swimming lanes at Zoo Lake pool’
Local view: South Africa by writer, Sean O'Toole
Top 200: Local View: Great Britain
‘Me and assistant designer Chloe Constantinibi in the studio, where we sample all our prints’
Local view: UK by fashion designer, Mark Eley (Eley Kishimoto)
Top 200: Local View: Switzerland
‘Where we work’
Local view: Switzerland by architects, Group8
Top 200: Local View: Australia
‘A street shot of Cafe Rosamond, the ultimate hard-to-find cafe here in Fitzroy. A lovely warm space by day that transforms into something quite special at night’
Local view: Australia by chef, Pierre Roelofs
PanAm 1960s
Pilatus Hangar
The mesmerising structure, as photographed by Wallpaper* favourite Joël Tettamanti
Parklets, San Francisco
One of Andres Power’s parklets (a former parking spot now reclaimed and turned into a green recreational space) on San Fran’s Divisadero Street
Ffixxed fashion, Shenzhen
Khai Liew, Adelaide
Lavis solid American walnut chair, and Poria solid English limewood sideboard, both by Khai Liew.
Photographer Mikhael Subotzky
Beaufort West, 2006. Copyright Magnum Photos
At the half-way point along South Africa’s great highway – the N1 running from Cape Town to Johannesburg – lies the small town of Beaufort West. With its prison in the middle of town, on an island in the highway, it’s a surreal road-stop that offers everything a traveler might want – food, gas, a place to stay, an hour of sex… Mikhael Subotzky considers the town, its vivid characters and poignant social landscapes, in a photo essay that confronts central issues of contemporary South African society.
High Culture
Barranca Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Guadalajara
Q&A: Architects Lot-Ek
Theater for One, 2007. Mobile performance space for one actor and one audience member. Conceived and designed in collaboration with Christine Jones
Photography: Danny Bright
ThinBike - by Schindelhauer and Graham Hill
Treehugger founder Graham Hill has collaborated with German bicycle brand Shindelhauer to produce ThinBike, a bicycle that folds almost completely flat
Brent Dzekciorius: Best British Designers:
Raw Edges: Wall to Wall at Established & Sons Limited Gallery, London, October 2009
Up-and-coming tourist hoods: Asti
Rotarius offers impossibly high ceilings, original ornate arched windows, an eclectic mix of antique furnishings and objets d’art and fine views over the city’s rooftops – it’s a bit like living in a fairytale
‘Airbrushed side-panel of a sweet van down the street from our shop’
–artist-cum-fashion designer, Adam Tullie
A private house in the heart of suburbia, Celluloid Jam looks like it dropped off another planet. But to architect Norisada Maeda, its futuristic form was just the thing for his clients’ hilltop plateau at the edge of the Japanese city of Yokohama
Fashion week venues S/S 2011: womenswear collections
Karl Lagerfeld looked to the gardens of the Palace of Versailles for inspiration, filling the Grand Palais with a topiary-style maze of stone pebbles, punctuated by giant fountains
Pavilion of Art & Design London 2010
Part of the ‘MAXXI’ Diptych by Hélène Binet, 2009, at Gabrielle Ammann
Dian Hanson, sexy book editor of Taschen says: ‘Yesterday’s porn is today’s historical interest. For many, the curiosity of all that surrounds the figures is entertaining: the old hairstyles, the clothing, if any, the furnishings, but there’s also the argument that many old photos are of better quality.’
Open House London 2009 highlights
From the archives: Open House London brings good design to the masses, opening up great swathes of the capital’s best building stock in order to demonstrate architecture at its most exhilarating.
Tokujin Yoshioka’s installation, representing heaven, and certainly feeling like epiphany
Womenswear collections S/S 2011: show invitations
A kaleidescopic collection of all our favourite invitations from the S/S 2011 Womenswear Collections in Milan and London.
Often including the viewer in his creative process, Roman Ondák uses performative interventions in social settings to playfully comment on the absurdities of socio-cultural structures.
Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy 1940-1970
Kik keeps insects away poster, 1960s, laminated serigraph by anonymous designer, from Museum of Design, Zurich
Lion
Peter Saville and Anna Blessman at FRAC, Reims
Happy Endings Bar (detail)
by Anna + Peter, 2010
Photography by Isabelle Giovacchini
Paris Fashion Week S/S 2011: Womenswear Collections: Day Six
Wunderkind
The skirts at Wunderkind – printed with cheerful cherries, strawberries and pansies – were some of the perkiest we’ve seen in Paris. Fluffed up with multiple layers of crinoline, they swagged and bounced with deep pleats revealing hidden gingham prints. The sweetness was contained only by fitted khaki or navy cotton mens’ jackets. With large striped hose and their hair pulled into 4 simultaneous ponytails (their scalps divided like plots of farm land), the models appeared to be a mix of Dutch maid and posh Pippi Longstocking.
Five decades of Australian residential architecture
Stan Symonds Boronia Lane.
With its dome-shell structure and freeform geometries, this double height space has massive glass walls and a nautical balcony. It’s surrounded by matured foliage and a water feature.