Melbourne Design Week 2023

18 to 28 May 2023

Melbourne Design Week 2023 is a 11 day program of design exhibitions and events across Melbourne. The themes this year are ‘transparency, currency and legacy’. Melbourne Design Week

Ateliers O-S Architectes restructure an obsolete school building in a suburb of Paris

Architecture| Environment

Paris based Ateliers O-S Architectes have restructured an inefficient asbestos-ridden catering building, which is part of the Frédéric Joliot-Curie high school in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys. The updated 1960s building opens up a view of the forest from a 1,200 capacity dining room, and a large ‘roof’ volume brings in light through lateral windows while forming a generous canopy under which pupils can gather. Photo Cyrille Weiner. Ateliers O-S Architectes

Ortner & Ortner Baukunst create office campus for W&W comprising seven courtyard buildings

Architecture| Interiors

Architects O&O Baukunst have created a 160,000 square meter campus housing 4,200 employees for financial group Wüstenrot & Wüttembergische AG in Kornwestheim, Germany. The compact campus consists of seven courtyard buildings surrounded by mixed meadow orchards and a boulevard lined with cafes, restaurants, conference and leisure facilities. Photo Stefan Mueller. O&O Baukunst

Pier System shelving by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for HAY

Design| Furniture

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec took inspiration from a friend’s huge wall covered with books, music and ceramics, and designed a shelving system for Danish furniture manufacture HAY. The shelving is functional and configurable and manufactured from aluminium and steel. HAY, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Open House Copenhagen commences as Copenhagen is designated World Capital of Architecture 2023

Events

25 and 26 March 2023

Buildings and sites normally closed to the public will be open during Open House Copenhagen. Over 10,000 people are expected to visit and registration is required. The range of buildings include Arne Jacobson’s central bank of Denmark, utility provider HOFOR’s tunnels under the city and Urban Rigger, the floating shipping container islands that are home to 100 people. Photo Johanne Troelsgaard Toft (DACDOM). Danish Architecture Centre, Open House