H/G is a Berlin based web studio established in 2005. This is our blog where you will find the things that have caught our attention in design, music, business, art and culture.
People who speak here are Christian Ittner and Steve Sinnwell.
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Designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid and built in 1953, the 5.300-square-foot home in Highland Park was where Cameron memorably leans on his father’s Ferrari, knocking it off a jack and sending it crashing through a glass window and into a ravine below. Could be yours for 2.3 Mio. US$. Via
Architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg designed an outstanding villa located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands.
A new space dedicated to magazines and art publications in Berlin. MOTTO BERLIN will launch with a one week event, inviting a publication each day from the 16th until the 21st of december 2008. Their list of magazines looks really promising.
MOTTO BERLIN, Skalitzerstr. 68, 10997 Berlin
International top level artists from music, film, video, computer art and photography will show their works in a beautiful environment at the fifth edition of MADEIRA DIG – INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR DIGITAL ARTS this December, from 4th to 31st, with its epicenter from 5th to 7th at Casa das Mudas Art Centre in the pitoresque village of Calheta and also at Estalagem Ponta do Sol, the design hotel in the cliffs of Ponta do Sol, in Madeira Island.
Horno 3 by Grimshaw architects is a decommissioned blast furnace in Monterrey, Mexico converted into a museum of steel.
Los Angeles-based architects Zellnerplus renovated the loft of an old toy factory to create an outstanding living and working space.
London architect Zaha Hadid designed the Chanel Mobile Art pavilion, which has already made a stop in Tokyo. The structure is made of lightweight panels that are packed in 51 shippable containers. Each participating artist was asked to create a work that was at least in part inspired by Chanel’s classic 2.55 quilted-style chain handbag.
The pavilion will occupy the Rumsey Playfield, midpark at 70th Street NYC, from Oct 20 to Nov 9 2008.
Swiss architects Stemmle Architekten have completed the reconstruction of the Catholic Church St. Johannes in Geroldswil near Zürich.
Architect Steven Holl has completed the interior of the Franz Kafka Society in Prague, Czech Republic.
Parasites work last seen at Art Biesenthal. Young and gifted artist.
During our childhood, when our thoughts and memories are most pure, we yearn to climb trees growing in our gardens, parks and cities. As we get older, the urge to climb trees subsides as we ride elevators up to our offices in the sky and look out across the cities where we live. Yet occasionally, as we’re sealed up tight in our artificially climatic spaces, we long for a breath of fresh air.
