SEPTEMBER 2011

Contents

Cover image: ivan jones

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

FRONT Pets for intelligent machines VALE Design Week and Habitat Events to see this month A shape-shifting robotic mannequin Hyperkit takes the cement mixer as its blank canvas Designer Lee Broom’s wish list Dieter Rams’ 606 shelving for Vitsoe

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NEW Snøhetta’s hut for wild reindeer spotters in Norway, rare Jean Prouvé furniture designs at Design Miami/Basel, Peter Zumthor’s serene pavilion for the Serpentine, the Playboy Club in London, a sculpture covered in a honeycomb made by 60,000 bees, veteran architect Charles Correa’s medical research centre in Lisbon and a visit to Studio FormaFantasma’s Eindhoven workshop

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FEATURES Not outsmarted by smart technology The anonymous buildings that house the internet Robotic architecture’s “most fervent evangelist” Christiaan Zwanikken’s uncanny automatons

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REVIEW The twists and turns of vorticist art, Charlotte Perriand’s photographic inspiration, digital imprints at the urban scale and a novel about starchitects

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PRODUCTS Selected products including lighting, furniture and flooring

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services

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BACK PAGE OMA’s Netherlands Embassy

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