Good design show

The prestigious "good design show" opens [i]the new contemporary space[/i] Athens—europe's newest and boldest centre for new architecture, art, and industrial design located in the centre of the greek capital The Dublin-based European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design open Europe's latest and brightest exhibition/museum space with the best new contemporary design showcased in the annual GOOD DESIGN program for 2007. Contemporary Space Athens, located at 46-48 Megalou Vassiliou in the center of Athens, is a bold, new experimental platform organized by the two European and American institutions to bring state-of-the-art architecture, design, and art to a European public audience through exhibitions, lectures, symposia, award programs, and events. Contemporary Space Athens [b]officially opens on September 18, 2008 [/b]with an inaugural exhibition that honors the best new design in the world by the world's foremost, visionary designers and manufacturers from Europe, Asia, and North America. In Athens, the exhibition is under the Patron Sponsorship of Kreon NV and continues through December 31. GOOD DESIGN, founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, remains as the oldest and most established annual International Awards Program that has, since it's inception in 1950, honored the best new designs produced in the world for anything and everything from a paper clip to a NASA space ship. This is the first time the GOOD DESIGN Show has been organized outside the United States since it founders took the exhibition to Milan in 1957. The new Contemporary Space Athens is centered in Rouf—the fashionable redevelopment area in central Athens—a former, run-down industrial neighborhood that is now being transformed into a new cultural area with the opening of museums and cultural institutions, galleries, restaurants, night clubs, apartment towers, and studio spaces for young city artists. Greece’s innovative Athens School for the Arts is located nearby and the site has already been pioneered with the opening of a new annex for the Benaki Museum converted from an old Rouf factory building. In addition to the renovation of the buildings into open galleries and Museum offices and workspaces, plans for the new centre also include a public outdoor sculpture area dedicated to experimental new works, performance spaces, and innovative media that will visually enhance the area and bring a new urban life and cultural vitality to Rouf. Visit the official site: http://www.europeanarch.eu/