Our Digital Origami Emergency Shelter opened last night in Sydney at Customs House. Great exhibition. Our shelter is a concept for an inhabited molecule - with a design based on a water-molecule, referencing the Japanese Metabolist movement`s idea of prefabricated capsules as living space.

August is shaping up as a good month with lots of exhibitions and talks 'Digital cathedrals and the ecocity of the 21st century' - architectural innovation, invention, experiment and failure – talk at the Experimental Arts Conference on Saturday 20 August 2011 at UNSW in Sydney. Ten Architects have been invited to be part of Jun Sakaguchi's new exhibition on emergency shelters on the forecourt of Customs House Sydney, opening soon. LAVA has designed a cave of plywood carved out of a prefab digital origami module that can be stacked and rearranged into a shelter city. And our Evolution light is featured in this month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine and 60 of our Climate desk screens have gone in a new office fit out in Melbourne for Hospira.

we just launched a product in milan , a desklight for wallpaper and phillips.

i just came back from milan, where we installed the digital origami La Rinascente window. It is great to have an isntallation in the heart of the design capital, opposite the Duomo!

it rained the entire week, but that didnt matter that much as we spent 3 nights installing, and most of the day sleeping. When we got out though, Milan is still an amazing vibrant city, the energy is great, the food is great and the level of fashion and design is unbeatable!.
Hope to come back for the furniture fair, hopefully with some new products.

It's been a while since I last posted, time flies.. quite a few things happened..
I visited Europe, starting with Frankfurt (via quick stopover in Abu Dhabi) to catch up with the WWF for our DIGITAL ORIGAMI TIGER TOUR. I visited the Zeil-Galerie by Fuksas which is stunning, looks like a digital dream come true.
I then headed to Serbia for the BLOK conference, which was awesome and featured Alisa Andrasek and Minsuk Choo and a few other heroes of mine.
After Belgrade traveled to Amsterdam to celebrate Tobias Wallisser's 40th birthday and his farewell from Holland after over 10 years. Amsterdam in spring is amazing and the canals and parks were full of people.
Then off to Berlin, to visit my family and spot locations for the tigers, and bumped into Juergen Mayer H at a party, my favourite German architect.
After Berlin I flew to Shanghai where I spent a few days at the expo, some awesome stuff around there, made a short trip to Korea, and a short visit to Canberra for the Build Environment Meets the Parliament symposium.
Now I am finally back in sunny (sometimes) Sydney, where I had the great pleasure of meeting David Rothschild, who just sailed across the pacific on the PLASTIKI, a ship made from recycled plastic bottles, what an inspirational person and topic!
Recently a  lot of launches: we have been launching an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, where we sliced up a Panton chair, then the MYER fashion show launch and Schiavello has launched the Climate work environment series featuring LAVA screens in Melbourne on Friday.
Apart from that we are working on a number of projects in australia china, saudi arabia and germany.

'Tower Skin', LAVA's speculative transformation of the 1960s UTS tower in Sydney, was a winner in the United Nations partnered ZEROprize Re-Skinning Awards and attracted lots of press including the Sydney Morning Herald, ABCTV and ABC radio.

'Tower Skin' offers a unique opportunity to transform the identity, sustainability and interior comfort of a once state‐of‐the‐art building and can easily be applied to 1960s icons across the world.

We had a great exhibition at Object Gallery, for which we built a HUGE UTS tower model (now in our office).

LAVA's Barangaroo residential towers were also featured on ABCTV along with our plastic house design using PET bottles.

I had a very exciting month!

Two giant digital origami tigers were a hit for Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney and are now on their way to Kuala Lumpur where they will be part of the 2010 KL Design Week.

The crouching tigers fuse ancient lantern making methods with cutting edge design and fabrication technology, bringing tradition and innovation, east and west together.

Kung Hei Fat Choi!!!
Come for the launch of the Giant Digital Origami Tigers to celebrate Chinese New Year 2010, Year of the Tiger at Customs House Square on Wednesday 10 Feb from 7pm - 9pm.

Who says there is no Christmas in China

I arrived in Abu Dhabi the day after the formula one grand prix
The newspapers were full of it and it looked amazing!
Abu Dhabi is so proud that they pulled off this major event, all the drivers excited, the crowds happy, Aerosmith and lots of others performed.
The Yas hotel, designed by Asymptote and one of their first built major works is SPECTACULAR and the living proof that there is a place for new, inventive and incredible architecture.
Everybody said: probably  it is just a skin, but check out my photos from inside ..
Chapeau to Asymptote and hopefully a good precedence for our MASDAR CITY project.
Unfortunately we didn't have a chance to catch up with Schumacher to discuss progress on our Schumacher tower.