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Spanning the trinity river and dallas floodway in dallas texas, the ‘margaret hunt hill bridge’ by valencian architect and engineer santiago calatrava has officially opened to the public with a ceremonious ribbon-cutting ceremony and fireworks. Read More »

The folding electrical plug designed by Royal College of Art graduate Min-Kyu Choi for his graduation in 2009 has gone into production and will be on sale in the UK from next week under the name Mu. Read More »

Hermitage Plaza by Foster + Partners will create a new community to the east of La Défense, in Courbevoie, that extends down to the river Seine with cafés, shops and a public plaza at its heart. Read More »

Created by Oslo-based designer Thomas Jenkins of Studio Jenk, ‘coiled’ folding café chair combines modern manufacturing techniques with traditional spring-based design methods. Read More »

Taipei’s new Super Theatre by OMA just started. Read More »

After winning Phase 1 of the design competion for the supertall Cheongna City Tower (formerly known as Tower Infinity) in Incheon, South Korea, international practice GDS Architects has now also taken the Fist Prize in the invited competition (Phase 2) to do the project through design development. Read More »

Stoop by JDS, is a public bench with multiple seating levels, allowing people to sit in a way that is less prescribed, more flexible and more social. Read More »

Austrian architecture firm soma was runner-up in the open international taiwan tower complex competition. ‘Multiple natures – Fibrous Tower’ was their submission for the Observation Tower and Taichung City Museum, Taiwan. The proposal was strongly based on architectural forms that learn from nature and are based on the underlying principles of the structures of plant and animal life. Read More »

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a mixed-use block in Hamburg with a facade that parts like a pair of red curtains. Read More »

Austrian designer Robert Stadler has created a new bistro chair for Thonet, a brand famed for their bentwood chairs synonymous with cafe culture that have hardly changed in a hundred years. Read More »

American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window. Read More »

Architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake. Read More »