As someone who unashamedly owns a Lego ice cube tray, I was excited to learn that the Scottish Design Awards have invited five leading local architectural firms to conceptualise homes made out of the humble Lego brick. I quite like GM+AD’s modernist design, inspired by Mondrian’s primary-colour cubes and striking angular design. Even though the [...]

The City of Jaca Hockey Arena has been the most representative facility of the European Youth Olimpic Festival of Jaca 2007, the first event in the Pyrennes. Two ice rinks allow the pavillion to celebrate hockey, figure skating, short track curling competitions, being simultaneously a recreational ice center. The building has reinforced the relevance of [...]

The Wave Bench is an organic / modern amalgamation in concept – the smooth lines remind of post-modern park benches while the grain and glow of the American Black Walnut from which it was made is vastly rustic. Stine, who hand picks and harvests each piece of wood for his creations from his farm in [...]

The Heringa/Van Kalsbeek porcelain creations, making their debut here in the UK as part of the Vegas Gallery’s Ad Infinitum show, initially seem like examples of sculpture gone mad. Their forms are intriguing but not immediately accessible, and soon I was to discover that just like their makers, everything was not as it seemed. Speaking [...]

British artist Barnaby Barford and Alice Hawkins’ new exhibition at Spring Projects. ‘The Good, The Bad, The Belle’ combines a new series of Barford’s ceramics with a selection of Hawkins’ portrait photography. His ceramic tableaux combine fairytale characters with hooded youths, wielding weapons, ‘happy slapping’ or tucking into a KFC family bucket. The unlikely use [...]

The Lamborbiker is a concept bike from designer Flavio Adriani, who was inspired by Marcello Gandini, chief designer of Bertone and freelance designer since 1980. Gandini was also designer of the Osmos wheel and the Lamborghini Countach. While some may not equate the Lamborbiker’s skeletal frame to the Lamborghini Countach, others may still appreciate the [...]