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HOIST magazine



  • For example, in South Australia and Tasmania a number of energy infrastructure construction projects are going ahead.
  • This solid performance is a consequence of high levels of investment in oil and gas and energy infrastructure projects.
  • Notwithstanding the aforementioned power station, it’s largely a different story in the energy and utilities construction sector, however.
  • However, it isn’t stalling altogether and there are still some ongoing construction projects, including in Queensland.
  • Meanwhile, a project to develop the rail infrastructure in Melbourne is continuing with an upgrade of the Cranbourne-Pakenham rail corridor.


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Architects produce “psychotic” movie to promote apartment



  • “Living inside a building is nothing like looking at a few pictures of one,” Groves Natcheva Architects co-founder Adriana Natcheva told Dezeen.
  • It is set in Groves Natcheva Architects’ apartment renovation on a South Kensington mews completed in 2010.
  • London Design Festival 2015: an apartment renovated by Groves Natcheva Architects provides the setting for this short thriller, which the London-based studio created to promote the project using “emotion” (+ movie).
  • Groves Natcheva Architects wanted to find a more engaging way to showcase their design, rather than simply using the typical set of still photographs showing an empty house.
  • The new movie, titled Black Ice, is the first in a series that the studio is making for their architecture and interior projects.


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Super Lamp by Martine Bedin



  • Pomo summer: Memphis Group designer Martine Bedin’s Super Lamp can be trailed along like a dog on a leash, demonstrating the collective’s playful style.
  • “We were always discussing the possibilities of new furniture, furniture that could move,” said Bedin. “I was designing everything on wheels at this time.
  • The Super Lamp was one of a variety of lighting designs that Bedin created for Memphis.
  • The Super Lamp is still produced and sold through the Memphis Milano gallery, and has remained one of Memphis’ most recognisable pieces.
  • Sottsass and his wife Barbara Radice also visited Bedin in Paris, and spotted the design for the Super Lamp while flicking through her sketch book.


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