BARCELONA ARMCHAIR INTO BARCELONA PAVILION

 
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The barcelona pavilion was designed by mies van de rohe as the german national pavilion for the 1929 barcelona international exhibition, held on montjuïc.The small ceremonial hall (for which he also designed the famous chrome and leather ‘barcelona chair’),
had a flat roof supported on chrome columns.The steel skeletron and the pavilion’s walls,rectangular planes of marble, glass, onyx placed vertically or orizontally, could be freely positioned and made it possible that space seems to flow through them.
this use of the open plan achieves extreme lightnessand movement. The pavilion was conceived as the setting in
which the german authorities would receive king alphonso XIII.Despite its initial disassembly after the close of the exhibition,
the pavilion has become a key reference point in both the career of mies van der rohe and 20th-century architecture as a whole.
an emblematic work of modern-movement architecture,the pavilion has not only been exhaustively studied and
interpreted, but it has also been a source of inspiration for the work of several generations of architects all over the world.

The mies van der rohe foundation was constituted in 1983 as a non-profit public entity devoted to fostering the cultural
debate on contemporary architecture from the city of barcelona.The foundation is also entrusted with preserving and
disseminating knowledge of mies van der rohe’s german pavilion.Given the significance of the pavilion, the decision was made to
reconstruct it on its original site.Work began in 1983 and was completed in 1986

Interior Design Congratulates the Best Projects and Products of 2006

El Greco and Pablo Picasso weren’t the only stars at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on November 30, 2006. Circulating among works by the master painters inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic structure were some 800 members of the international A&D community, convening to celebrate the winners of Interior Design’s first ever, annual Best of Year Awards.

Directly on the heels of the magazine’s Hall of Fame, which packed the Waldorf-Astoria’s grand ballroom with a record attendance of more than 1,500 people on November 29 and inducted Rand Elliott, Sergio Palleroni, Gaetano Pesce, Annabelle Selldorf, and Paul Siskin, the back-to-back events, says editor in chief Cindy Allen, “galvanized the design community—enabling us to honor the trifecta: people, projects, and products.”

This was the magazine’s first ever Best of Year (BoY) awards in which projects were divided into 19 categories—K&B, hospitality, and institutional among them—and voted on by Allen and judges Arthur Casas, Pam Light, Nick Luzietti, and Ali Tayar. “I’ve been on countless juries yet I don’t think I’ve been on one that had such a selection of A-listers opposite A-listers,” continues Allen.

Indeed, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Peter Marino + Associates, and Gabellini Shepard Associates are just a few of said A-listers that were called up to the podium to claim the winning bounty, a custom cast polyester-resin lightbulb by Harry Allen.

‘It was so magical to celebrate design in the Guggenheim, it’s such an inspiring place,” recalls BoY residential apartment winner Lee Mindel of Shelton, Mindel & Associates. “The evening allowed for cross-hybridization between areas of the industry that usually never interact, and Interior Design continues to bring pride to the industry.” In addition to pride, the event also raised money for the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.

The magazine reinstituted the Roscoe awards, which went to 40 product categories, ranging from kitchen cabinetry to outdoor lighting, after a 12-year hiatus. Best products were chosen based on popular online vote as determined by over 25,000 votes from nearly 10,000 unique visitors, qualified by title, during a two week period in October.