Designist Dream

Israeli architect extraordinaire, Moshe Safdie, has set his creative sails for China’s port city of Chongquin, a historic economic center at the Yangtze and Jialing river junction, and a major manufacturing and transportation hub for all of Southwestern China. Drawing upon the city’s cultural symbolism and historic significance, Safdie’s Chongquin Chaotianmen is a modern interpretation [...]

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Well, Jerusalem-based artist and advocate Mike Darnell’s a great place to start with Designist Dream’s new-weekly feature: the Sunday news roundup. So start your week by kicking back with a tasty cup of coffee, a cool summer breeze and some hot-off-the-press links to Israeli artists and designers making headlines across the globe. ~ Israeli jeweler [...]

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A recent jaunt to Montreal has Apartment Therapy fans debating the virtues – or vices – of internationally acclaimed Israeli architect Moshe Safdie‘s Habitat 67 project. Now I know some of you will have a huge problem with Safdie’s modernist aesthetic. Some of you loathe the cement, the block, the exposure of structure, the privileging [...]

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