NEWS

Winners of FoD Awards 2010

2010-02-06T15:29:47Z

- Pio Barone Lumaga, Editor-in-Chief of LOFT - the Nordic BOOKAZINE - Italian

- Alexander von Vegesack, Founder & Director of the Vitra Design Museum - German

- Gala Fernandez, Head of the MA Programme 'European Design Labs' of the IED - Spanish

- Sigga Heimis, Designer and Design Manager (IKEA, Fritz Hansen) - Icelandic

- Maarten Baas, Designer - Dutch

- Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Design critic and curator – Polish

- Alain Lardet, Founder of Designer’s Days, Paris - French

Kaleidolight on '1000 interior details for the home'

2010-01-12T15:27:57Z

Kaleidolight, by kawamura-ganjavian, has been featured in the book '1000 interior details for the home' edited by Ian Rudge, founder of the 100% Design festival in London.

European Design Labs 09 Final Show

2009-12-08T17:43:23Z

The European Design Labs 09 Master Course, coordinated by kawamura-ganjavian at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid, has come to an end. The final exhibition featuring the results of all 17 thesis projects will open to the public on Friday 11th December 2009 at 8pm in the IED school, calle Larra 14, Madrid, and will close down on 17th December 2009.

Pregny-Chambésy communal house

2009-11-27T16:24:49Z

kawamura-ganjavian submitted on 16th November 2009 their proposal for a multifunctional communal house at Pregny-Chambésy in the vicinity of Geneva, Switzerland. This competition entry was developed in collaboration with consultants from Ove Arup Spain.

La Fontaine bookstore execution starts

2009-10-17T16:48:13Z

kawamura-ganjavian are proud to announce that on October 16th 2009 the execution of the project for the bookstore La Fontaine has started at the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. It consists of a series of thematic pods built inside one of the Rolex Learning Centre "bubbles" devised by Japanese architects SANAA. The execution is done in collaboration with NOR architectes from Lausanne and completion is expected for February 2010.

Honorable mention at GALP bridge competition

2009-10-05T12:31:21Z

The jury of the GALP cycling and pedestrian bridge competition in Lisbon, lead by Amanda Levete, gave kawamura-ganjavian a first honorable mention for the entry "bridging parks". The announcing ceremony took place on 4th October 2009 during the Experimenta Design 09 festival. The awarded projects will be exhibited in the EXD09 hall in Lisbon between 4th-9th October 2009.

Pecha Kucha Guggenheim Bilbao video

2009-09-13T13:07:51Z

kawamura-ganjavian participated on May 14th 2009 at the first Pecha Kucha Night in Bilbao which took place at the Guggenheim Museum. The video of our presentation has been recently released. Click below to watch it.

Artcitizens lecture transcript

2009-08-21T15:51:25Z

kawamura-ganjavian participated on 7th March 2009 in the international art and design forum City and Art in Istanbul. The organisers, Artcitizens, have recently published the full transcript of our lecture then.

Exhibition BEYOND MEDIA 2009

2009-08-03T09:03:24Z

kawamura-ganjavian have participated in the exhibition Beyond Media 2009 in the section Wide Eyed which featured films responding to the architectural visions of 21 emerging architectural practices. The show was curated by Melissa Woolford from Nous Gallery and took place at Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, between 9th-17th July 2009 within the context of the 9th Visions International Festival of Architecture.

TANK completed

2009-07-27T11:24:33Z

kawamura-ganjavian are proud to announce the completion of the loft refurbishment project TANK in Madrid. It consists of a single furniture-architecture element that articulates a two-level working environment and a staircase, while at the same time giving privacy to the living side of the apartment.