june 2011

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Cover illustration: Shazia Chaudhry

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Leader Scene iary Anatomy of rimes Against Design rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month

FRONT Cousteau’s cabinet ————————————————— 023 Milan Uncut — —————————————————— 026 Events to see this month— ————————————— 028 Heston Blumenthal’s ice-cream maker— ——————— 033 The land-hungry golf course— ——————————— 034 SEA Design changes the face of the watch — ————— 037 Peter Marigold’s pick of industrial design — ————— 038 The revolutionary invention of the scuba kit — ———— 040 NEW UN Studio’s theatrical department store in South Korea, MIT Media Lab’s ever-changing company logo, veteran architect Oscar Niemeyer’s cultural centre in Spain, a service building that thinks it’s a helicopter, inflatable metal furniture from Oskar Zieta, an installation of glowing archive boxes at the V&A and Jürgen Mayer H’s timber mega-lattice in Seville — —— 046

tokyo after the quake

VID CHIPPERFIELD

undersea BASES

hang venetian binds

FEATURES Julian Worrall on life in a city plunged into darkness — 100 The architect’s ice-cool Turner Contemporary lands on Margate Beach— ———————————————— 108 Geoff Manaugh’s guide to the subaqueous architecture of films and video games — —————— 116 Artist Mark Dion’s cabinet of oceanic curiosities— —— 124 Dr Rachel Armstrong’s biological reef could save the sinking city— ————————————————— 130

REVIEW James Stirling’s drawings, the rebirth of psychedelica, a 4.2kg new urbanist manifesto, centuries of filth, and a rehang at MOMA— ———————————————— 138

PRODUCTS Selected products including lighting, furniture and flooring — —————————————————— 150

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services, including brands exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week— ——— 172

BACK PAGE Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura ———— 178