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This weekend is Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum’s 6th annual kite making workshop. This year bring your old recycled grocery bags and turn them into high flying beauties. Kite designs are provided by Miwa Kiozumi and Marco Scoffier who will draw inspiration from the parks view of the Manhattan skyline. Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park.
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I have attended some state fairs where jellies and jams are judged and blue ribbons are handed to the meanest batch to gooey sweetness. This, however, brings a new meaning to Jelly competition:

Bompas & Parr are curating the event which will be held during London’s Architecture Festival to benefit Architects for Aid. Each entry will be judge for innovation, aesthetics and (my favorite) the “wobble Factor”. Judging a competition like this sounds like a ton of fun.

The moulds and preparatory goods will be auctioned off; so you can bring the fanciest jello to the next dinner event and start the conversation.

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Nau’s New York boutique is having a sale from March 6 to March 9. I love their designs but what impresses me more is the fact they list each products environmental status. Their fabrics are organic and they do not use harsh dyes or acids.

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MOMA: NYC Exhibition: Feb 24 - May 12

“In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user’s interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.”

{via MOMA}

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Design Within Reach Studio in Manhattan is on a mission to promote emerging designers in the New York area through competition M+D+F 2008. Think you have an idea for innovative, modern furniture? Find links to the complete rules and entry application here.

Deadline is Thursday, March 20. Good Luck!

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Your votes are in and KONYK has triumphed over FXFOWLE by 142 votes in lvhrd’s architecture duel. Luckily, it is not all loss for FXFOWL; check out their latest winnings in Dubai.

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World Architecture News is going to announce the winner of their 2007 house of the year this Friday, February 8th. There are some good candidates this year. You may want to check out the top 25 from which the best will be chosen. Place your bets and we’ll be sure to update you on the outcome.

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Design Within Reach has just announced its winners for its design uncorked competition. The design contest where designers take a champagne cork and turn it into a chair.  And the winner is . . . Miwa Kleyia’s Block B Chair

Check out the runners up and tour dates here

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It is getting down to the wire for seeing Socrates Sculpture Park’s Emerging Artists Exhibition. The event ends in early March so if you feel like getting out in the next few weekends I would suggest heading over to Long Island City. Unfortunately, I will not be able to see this one due to travel and other events. If you have seen this or go to it, please let us know what we’re missing.

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Last night, young New York architects from FXFowle and Konyk, dueled in the 4th Annual model-building competition.  This year, the participants were given two hours to sketch and construct a model of an eco-friendly wildlife center in Alaska.  Usually, the winner is announced at the end of the competition, but this year voting is open online for roughly one week.

Starting tomorrow you can cast your vote here: http://www.lvhrd.org/

Watch a short 3min video on the event here.

 {via: archrecord}