News
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Shape to Fabrication 3
04/15/2009Alan Dempsey has been invited to present recent work at the Rhino Symposium Shape to Fabrication 3 in London on 15 April. Other participants include speakers from AKT, Zaha Hadid, Buro Happold, Bob McNeel and David Rutten. Further information can be found here.
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D+AD Yellow Pencil Award
06/12/2009[C]space DRL10 Pavilion was awarded a prestigious D&AD Yellow Pencil at an Awards ceremony on Thursday evening in London. A total of 58 works across all design desciplines were awarded a pencil for their exceptional quality and inovation out of an initial 22,000 submisions. It's a fantastic recognition of the effort and dedication of the whole
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NAI Rotterdam Lecture
11/19/2008Alan Dempsey is invited to lecture at the NAI in Rotterdam for the 'Night of Concrete' 2008, an annual event that reviews the best of new international projects in concrete. Other speakers include Manfred Grohmann from Bollinger Grohmann, and Joop Paul from Arup. More information here.
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Pelota Installation Video
04/27/2009A time lapse film of the assembly and opening of the Pelota installation for Established & Sons in Milan has been posted on You Tube. Thanks to Messerli AG the event managers.
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Advanced Architecture Settimo
04/08/2009The first leg of the AAST exhibition opened last night in Settimo, Italy, featuring the [C]space DRL10 Pavilion. The exhibition runs until 17 May and is packed with interesting international work. Thanks to Davide del Giudice and Benedetta Roggeri for the invitation. More details here.
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Design Modelling Conference
07/31/2009Alan Dempsey has been invited to lecture at this year's Design Modelling conference at the Universitat der Kunste in Berlin. The conference will take place from the 05-07 October and other speakers will include Robert Aish, Marc Fornes, Axel Kilian and Wolf Mangelsdorf. Full details available here.
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Pelota 5 on Wallpaper Online
05/28/2009A behind the scenes look at the construction of the Pelota 5 installation with Established & Sons has been featured on the Wallpaper website. Feature video here
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NEX wins runner-up in Dublin
08/24/2009Our recent submission for the RIAI Point Square competition has been awarded runner up position along side HeneghanPeng, and McGarry Ni Eanaigh. Full results available here.
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NEX at Innovation Dublin 2009
09/04/2009Our recent project for the Point Square in Dublin has been selected for exhibition as part of 'Innovation Dublin 2009'. The show will run from the 14-20 October at the Civic Offices in Dublin and feature the best submissions from the RIAI competition. More information here.
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AA|FAB Exhibition at the LDF
09/06/2009The AA|FAB exhibition Designing Fabrication will take place at the Village Underground Art space in Shoreditch, London during the London Design Festival. The show presents the research work supported by AA|FAB’s annual awards programme over the past two years. Eight award-winning projects are documented through drawings, images, models
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AA|FAB Exhibition opens
09/22/2009The Designing Fabrication Exhibition has opened at the Village Underground Artspace in Shoreditich as part of the London Design Festival. Curated by Alan Dempsey & Kristine Mun, the exhibition brings together the work of 24 emerging designers from around the world who make pioneering use of computational tools in the design and production of ar
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Alan Dempsey at Cabinet 2009
10/15/2009Alan has been invited to represent the British Council at the opening day of this year's C&binet Forum at the Grove in Hertfordshire. C&binet is a not-for-profit network, created by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport to link the international creative and commercial communities. The Forum conference is where
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NEX at Parametric Prototypes
10/16/2009NEX have been invited to participate in the Parametric Prototypes exhibition in Xi'an China. The show will run from the 17-30 October in the Jia Pingwa Museum of Arts, and will feature the work of almost 20 Internationally recongnised offices including Reiser + Umemoto, Zaha Hadid, Arup AGU, KPF, IJP, Gramazio + Kohler and Gehry Technologies. Alan
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Alan Dempsey at CAFA Beijing
10/22/2009Alan will give talk on recent work at the Architectural Associaiton and NEX at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing on the 22 October. Thanks to professor Ling Fan for the invitation. Further details here on CAFA and the CAFA museum.
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Frener + Reifer Workshop
11/02/2009Alan has been invited to participate in a week long workshop with specialist facade manufacturer Frener + Reifer and students form ABK Stuttgart University. The workshop will take place in F+R's head office in Brixen, Italy. Thanks to Pofessor Tobias Walliser for the invitation. More details on the ABK here.
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ICD Stuttgart Lecture
11/05/2009Alan will give a lecture on Thursday evening at the Institute for Computational Design in Stuttgart. Invited as part of their Expert lecture series he will discuss recent office work. Thanks to Director Achim Menges for the invitation. More on the ICD here.
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Cloth House published
12/18/2009We’ve finally received photos of a residential project we finished last year in London. More details here. Hope you enjoy them.
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Forthcoming Book: AA Agendas Series
05/04/2009Forthcoming publication on the [C]space DRL10 Pavilion from AA Press. Edited by Alan Dempsey and Yusuke Obuchi with contributions by Brett Steele, Patrik Schumacher, Hanif Kara, Wolfgang Rieder and Charles Jencks. It should be on the shelves over the summer. This book recounts the story of the creation of the DRL TEN Pavilion and through it illustr
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D+AD Award Nomination
05/04/2009[C]space DRL10 Pavilion is nominated for a prestigious D&AD AWARD. The project has been selected as one of 165 nominations from 20,000 submissions. Award winners will be announced in London in June. More details here. Photos courtesy of Christine Donnier-Valentin.
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Slaney Bridges Shortlist
05/01/2009NEX & Arup have been shortlisted to design two bridges over the river Slaney in Enniscorthy, Ireland. The main bridge is a 120m span road bridge and the second a 50m pedestrian structure a short distance away in the centre of the town.
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Waterworks Pavilion Shortlist
05/08/2009Nex has been shortlisted in an open RIBA / Waterworks competition for a mobile pavilion along the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Five schemes were selected for the second stage of the competition from 69 submissions. More information can be found here.
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University of Edinburgh talk
03/09/2010Alan will give talk at the University of Edinburgh this coming Friday 12 March at 6.30pm. Invited by student representitives from the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, the talk will cover recent work at NEX and the AA. Further information on the student architecture society here. Photo's courtesy of Eusas & Chris Malco