2012-04-11 12:41:11 // Abby Burns
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Cantabrians on the search for new styles of housing design will have a new place to check out their options from April 21-22 at PrefabNZ’s Home Innovation Village, known as Hive.
2011-07-15 17:13:00 // Vanessa Ellingham
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A new Wellington housing development will use an innovative foundation design employing polysterene waste to ensure the houses can withstand seismic activity better than homes built on traditional concrete slabs.
2010-12-16 12:15:35 // Design Daily Team
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Having dabbled in more than a few extraordinary career ventures (Olympic snowboarder, clothing label creator to a Master of Architecture), Pamela Bell now has her sights firmly set on prefabricated building in New Zealand. But why exactly does she think it’s the Holy Grail for the design and construction industry?
2010-08-27 15:22:36 // Design Daily Team
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How do you beautify ugly scaffolding? You could try taking 130 hollowed-out yellow balls, fill them with lights, attach them to various posts of scaffolding and then fill with birds to create a series of ‘Urban Nests’.
2010-07-12 14:45:09 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Everyone makes mistakes once in a while but it’s hard to imagine how the following mistakes could have ever been made. The Huffington Post takes us on a pictorial journey through 14 of the most comical construction/architecture/design ‘fails’ of all time.
2010-07-09 12:27:12 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
These days children have a plethora of devices to play with - Game Boy, PlayStation, Nintendo Wii – to name a few. Still, nothing quite beats the joy derived from the tried and true plastic favourite LEGO.
New York City opened its first LEGO store earlier this week and instantly engaged with customers and passersby by giving them the chance to help construct a 15-foot-tall model of a Big Apple near its entrance.
Frank Bonomo from core77 explores all the LEGO knickknacks in the new store, including what else but a LEGO video game. There’s also a great video illustrating the giant apple construction.
2010-06-28 12:26:44 // Vicki Holder
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Like diving through a waterline of clear glass into the organically seductive structural elements of a yacht, Rose & Heather’s Bailey table has nothing to hide.
2010-06-22 12:00:21 // Deirdre Robert
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The cultural and social heart of Auckland’s waterfront is set to beat fiercely by mid-2011, with the expected completion of five new attractions in Wynyard Quarter.
2010-06-21 16:25:04 // The Editors
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Just hours before New Zealanders were about to erupt in unprecedented soccer-esque jubilation, the creative minds behind the NZI Centre found their own reasons to celebrate after taking home the most coveted award at last night's annual Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards.
2010-06-21 16:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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A hefty 750 people celebrated the country’s best commercial buildings last night in Auckland at the annual Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards, and three properties in particular set new standards for mixing design with sustainability.
2010-06-21 15:03:02 // Jonathan Ford
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With Kiwis enveloped in the warm, white glow that is the soccer world cup (or more precisely, the All Whites socking it to the world), we think this piece about South Africa's design future is quite apt. Jonathan Ford from Pearfisher takes us on a journey through South Africa's designscape. Originally published on the Dieline.
2010-06-01 11:33:44 // Alistair MacKenzie
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There is an alternative to the concrete jungle—a renewable, flexible, light, strong and cost-effective building material that does grow on trees.
