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New Work: Alexander McQueen
William Russell has designed the new Alexander McQueen store in Los Angeles. The flagship shop is located on Melrose Avenue on the corner of Melrose Place and is the latest in a recent expansion by McQueen, which has seen Russell designed stores opening in Las Vegas, Moscow, Bahrain, Osaka and Vilnius.
The stores employ the interior design language created by Russell and McQueen for the original three flagship stores in London, Milan and New York, creating a branded spatial experience full of drama and intrigue.
‘Creative Review’ Names Pentagram Design Studio of the Year
Pentagram has been named Design Studio of the Year by Creative Review. The award is announced in the Creative Review Annual 2008, which represents the magazine’s choice of the highlights of the past year in visual communication. The Design Studio of the Year Award is given to the studio with the most work accepted into the annual.
Five Pentagram projects were selected by the judging panel for inclusion in the annual; images and links after the jump.
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William Russell at London Open House
William Russell will be talking about the design and construction of his award-winning Bacon Street residence as part of 3: Architect’s Houses from Bromley to Brick Lane, a joint discussion, sponsored by London Open House, in which he and two other architects, Ivor Berresford and Julian Powell-Tuck, will talk about the process of building, and the experience of living, in a house of their own design.
The talk takes place at Margaret Howell’s flagship store at 34 Wigmore Street, London W1, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on Thursday, 13 September. Tickets for the talk are available online.
The discussion is part of London’s annual “Open House” architecture event, where Londoners are encouraged to engage with the architecture of their city and over 600 buildings all over London celebrate design excellence by opening their doors at no charge to the public.
William Russell Scoops Two Commercial Architecture Awards
William Russell has received two Commercial Architecture Awards for his designs for retail environments for Cass Art Warehouse and Margaret Howell’s Fulham Road store. The Commercial Architecture Awards are an annual prize for work in the UK commercial sector and seek to recognise “…schemes that have managed to achieve the balance between meeting a client’s commercial objectives, while producing the best quality architecture and interior design.”
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Update: Global Cities
Angus Hyland’s posters for the Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern have been appearing all over London in the city’s Tube stations. The exhibition is on display until 27 August.
More images and a selection of exhibition reviews after the jump.
New Work: Global Cities
Time-lapse film of the 18 day build.
Angus Hyland and William Russell have designed Global Cities, a major free exhibition that is taking place in the spectacular Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London from 20 June through 27 August.
New Work: COS (Collection of Style)
Interior of the new COS flagship on Regent Street in London.
William Russell has designed the stores for COS, Collection of Style, the new premium brand from fashion retailer H&M. The London flagship opened on 16 March, and stores in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands launch this Friday.
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