Though it might sound like a dance floor chant, IKEA was virtually unknown to denizens of the disco era. Nonetheless, the two will come together at least once as the Swedish mega-retailer finds its chairs reinvented by New York’s School of Visual Arts at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), May 17-20.
Students from SVA’s MFA […]

When it comes to scale, designers are famously big thinkers.When it comes to ego, ditto. Nonetheless, Nouvel Studio managed to convince 13 Mexican architects and industrial designers to put aside biases and gather in the glassmaker’s Mexico City factory, where each would come upwithhis owntake on a decidedlycommon object, a4-inch-high drinking glass.

AUSTRALIAN firm Woodhead has achieved more design success through its pivotal role in creating the interior of the impressive new Terminal 3 at Singapore’s Changi Airport.
The Australian firm, along with Wilson and Associates Singapore, won the bid for the interior and retail design of T3 in June, 2000.
Seven years later, its efforts are set to […]

The St. Lucie County School District is moving forward with plans for a bus compound on Walton Road, east of U.S. 1.
School officials purchased a 40-acre site, called Tiffany Woods, for $5.5 million earlier this year. They plan to build a bus garage in the northern edge of the L-shaped site, leaving the bulk of […]

The borough’s construction department could be driving up the cost for, and delaying, the $46.9 million addition and renovation to Sayreville War Memorial High School, the project’s architect told Board of Education officials Tuesday.
John Schnitzer of RSC Architects, Cliffside Park, said department officials have demanded certain fire-safety measures they did not previously require and have […]