Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011

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Phaidon shows highlights from the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards, a culling of the design world’s best additions in the categories of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. Flipboard took home the Interactive Award this year, and the highly-addictive game Angry Birds got a nod for its entertaining design.

QuaDror

Dror unveils his innovative multi-use space truss geometry

Designer Dror Benshetrit took the stage at Design Indaba‘s opening day to unveil a project he spent the last four years working on: QuaDror. A versatile structural support system, QuaDror is a fresh take on space truss geometry that offers innumerable solutions for use and eliminates redundancy in structure. “Mass is one of the worst in terms of energy waste,” Dror told Cool Hunting. A …

Boom

An LGBT retirement community geared toward open living

What began as an innovative project for LGBT retirees seeking refuge from cookie-cutter approaches to conventional retirement has evolved into something much more ambitious. More than 100 acres in the Mojave Desert will soon be the site of a $250 million idea, bringing together 10 architectural firms from five countries to succeed where so many fail by reclaiming shared community spaces that invite pedestrians and …