June 2006 Issue
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PRODUCTS
POST EVENT
Realising Ideas
A glance at Autodesk‘s India Solution Day, where they announced major update in the software portfolio that the offer the AEC Industry.
Salone Del Mobile 2006
This year Milano Design Week was as effervescent as its past cycles making Milan the Mecca for all Interior & furniture designers.
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Portraying Moscow
Moscow City project, a part of the Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC), is an ambitious engineering project accommodating various factors that symbolises Moscow.
HONOURS
Beauty in Brutalist Brazil
Presenting the works of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2006, who made his mark on the modern architecture scene with his stylistic version of Brazilian Brutalism.
HERITAGE
Picturesque It Is...
Chitradurga fort, a seventeenth century construction in Karnataka, has its treasures still unearthed as it loses out to the more popular heritage sites.
OPTION
Retro-Futuristic
A modular treehouse concept with its age-old connotations but in an new-age creative avatar.
UNSPOKEN
Who are we designing for?
The first in a three-part series, discussing how design needs to touch base with its basic agenda, use and ultimately its occupation by people.
ARTWISE
Imprints In Garbage
The debris is not simply the memory of a place as we classically believe, but it is the continuous recycling of life that the vast repository of urban debris and garbage corresponds to.
In this issue
SPORTS DESIGN: BRANDING & BUILDING
VOX
In the name of a game...
Beyond a recreation or an entertainment activity, Sports today is at a vortex of an economic cycle. Does Design play a role in it?
BRANDING SPORTS
Individuality Identified
Highlighting a focus on identifying with individuality, the brand of Reebok customises to innovate within specifications to create its own genre of retail.
Striped for Success
Iconic brand Adidas conveys its brand identity and belief in continued passion for innovation and performance through its highly stylised products and positioning.
Containing Continuity
The Adi Dassler Brand Centre designed by Querkraft to be part and process of the brand's continuous attempts at engineering innovation through form and function.
SPORTS BUILDINGS
Zooming through the Sands
The Bahrain International Circuit rises to show its magic as one of the fastest and technologically advanced Formula One circuits…
A Hungarian Colossus
The biggest event facility in the historic Hungarian capital, The Budapest Sports Arena is the focus of the country's sports activities.
Arsenal's New Playground
Emirates Stadium, only months away from completion, is a sparkling new facility being constructed for Arsenal, the leading football team of the English Premier League.
Integrated City
A gaze at the project 'Dubai Sports City', the worlds only purpose-built sports city, expected to complete by the end of 2007.
Terraforming Desert
Ski Dubai is a formidable engineering feat, an incongruous 25-storey structure, rising from the Gulf Emirate's sands, offering an opportunity to enjoy real snow all year round.
Structuring Fluidity
The Sports Hall for Performing Artistes in Berlin, designed by Langhof®, is a fluid attempt at creating modern and functional architecture while translating complex requirements into a convincing space.
Let There Be Light
Illuminance enhances the event for every fan,and the aim of lighting is simply to create a more powerful experience of the event. Factors to be considered while designing the lighting installations.
LAST WORD
What links cow dung in India with the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
As for India that still remains way down on the FIFA rankings at 117/205, its cow dung has achieved something, participating in the FIFA World Cup that is.
