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		<title>PAUL COCKSEDGE STUDIO DESIGNS ‘EXPLODED VIEW’ BRIDGE IN CAPE TOWN</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Cocksedge announced his first ever project in South Africa, during Design Indaba’s annual conference on Friday 28 February 2020. The internationally recognised British designer is creating a permanent timber bridge across the Liesbeek River in Cape Town, within the public open space of the The Upper Liesbeek River Garden. It&#8217;s Cocksedge&#8217;s second project to explore the use of wood and its environmental credentials – following on from his Please Be Seated installation at London Design Festival 2019. The bridge is being developed in collaboration with Design Indaba, WSP and building company XLAM. It will be made from the invasive Eucalyptus tree wood, offsetting its negative effects by using it as a building material. The species originates in Australia but was brought to South Africa in the 1800s for use as shade, windbreaks and plantation timber. The tree can, in fact, negatively impact the water table. Cocksedge plans to work with X-Lam to turn the Eucalyptus tree into Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) – a structural, prefabricated timber panel which is a more sustainable alternative to concrete, masonry and steel, requiring less water and less energy to manufacture. The timber is glued in longitudinal and transverse layers, which creates a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired by sacred Islamic geometry, willowlamp’s designs enchant the Middle East</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willowlamp’s singular luminaire designs are conceived by the company’s creative director Adam Hoets. Originally an architect, Hoets has a solid grasp on structural design. After exploring Africa, he grew increasingly in awe of the continent’s wild beauty and on returning to South Africa, practiced as an Eco-Architect. He specialized in structures that would harmoniously blend into their natural surroundings – a trait that has followed through to willowlamp, the craft that has captured Hoets’ (and a large following’s) attention since 2005. willowlamp includes a collection of extraordinary chandeliers, pendants and lampshades given birth to by Hoets’ ingenious idea of attaching ball-chain to laser-cut steel frames. The chains hang in such a way that creates a curtain-like effect, swaying elegantly by the slightest manipulation. Hoets’ fascination with design and patterns has resulted in his acute understanding of sacred geometry – patterns on which many of his designs are based. The Flower of Life chandelier can be seen hanging in the Mena House Hotel in Giza, Egypt – a stone throw away from the Great Pyramid of Giza, where, incidentally, the geometric shape of The Flower of Life was found engraved inside its walls. Sacred geometry is characterised by intensely intricate patterns [...]]]></description>
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