It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is exploding with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club. Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of...
04/05/2013
Swinging Gotham.
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties by Robert Nippoldt, Hans-Jürgen Schaal. TASCHEN.
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties. This week was held the Jazz's night and we have found that this book TASCHEN, is perfect, was an excellent choice and also it reminds our METALOCUS-TASCHEN contest.
03/05/2013
Borderless Competition. Vinners.
Competition
The winning entries have just been announced in the international competition Borderless: Designing Future ASEAN Borders. The competition brings attention to the spaces along the borders of the 10 members of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with the aim of improving their existing conditions. The jury selected three winning designs and three honorable mentions out of 200 submissions from over 30 countries. The winner was the proposal titled, "Floating Border Project" by Hélène Grialou and Sebastien Gafari.
Following are the three winning concepts and three honorable mentions.
1st Prize.- "Floating Border Project". By Hélène Grialou and Sebastien Gafari.
Project Description.- The Floating Border Project takes place at the limit between Cambodia and Thailand, on the...
03/05/2013
Mercado de Motores.
In an industry unit, Metro de Madrid. [MAD] Spain. 5/05/2013
Presented as the first Flea Market in Madrid, breaking away from what we know traditionally by a regular flea Market and out of other standart known markets, Mercado de Motores moves us over a place where it renewals its old time and able to hold up a Vintage style and a "retro" inspiration.
A place that has a huge engines that served as power generators for Metro de Madrid infrastructure to almost 1930. Fortunately there were not destroyed but kept and preserved, helped by the fact that they were housed in a industrial unit declared Cultural designed by Antonio Palacios, architect of buildings known as the Círculo de...
30/04/2013
Build a curtain. [2] [In detail] SANAA Factory Building.
Detail. [Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein] Germany
Almost all of the major projects that SANAA has completed up until now have been buildings for cultural institutions or universities. In Weil am Rhein – with the first industrial facility to be designed by SANAA – the idea was to apply a similar approach to the construction of a production hall.
Curtain façade
The design of the façade, whose elements are suspended in front of the exterior insulation on the concrete walls and encompass the entire building volume, presented a great challenge. The façade elements are made of acrylic glass with an undulating surface, measuring 1.8 metres in width by 11 metres in height – equal to the height of the...
30/04/2013
Lluís and Eulàlia's Home by TEd’A arquitectes.
By TEd’A arquitectes. [Sa Pobla, Mallorca] Spain.
The architects Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol have created a curious and interesting house based on a "simple" pre-existing stone enclosure, it has been handled and molded it until obtain a square space which is connected with outside, sorry, the outside belongs to the project defined and domesticated until fuse together. The essence of the project lies in that the inhabitant is protected by his house, either an interior or exterior space.
Memory of project.
Within a plot of approximately 5000 m², exists a stone enclosure of around 12 x 4 m. An enclosure made up of irregular thick stone walls. One of the façades is made of local sandstone; therefore, more fragile and thin, it is concentrated on all of...
30/04/2013
"Westcoast" by Ulu Braun.
[VIDEO] from Arte. [LA] USA
Westcosast is a 7-minute video directed, edited, photographed and written by Ulu Braun, mounted in 2009, was presented recently at the gallery YoungProjects in Los Angeles. 7 minutes that let you think. Braun is known for his painterly approach to video and film-based artworks and has shown at numerous film festivals and museums alike.
Settled between film, video, collage and animation, an image detail pans a digitally mounted tableau that offers humans and animals space for their existence. From a bubbling primordial soup, eminiscent of Tarkovsky's Solaris, the panorama shot glides along the coast. The central point is a seaport, built in the style of the late financial eclecticism and utilised by bizarre-seeming pachyderms, outlandish...
29/04/2013
Crisis as Calling...Design Competition
Friday, October 04, 2013
CRISIS AS CALLING is an international design competition open to the public that invites participates to reconsider, and respond to the universal condition of Crisis. Crisis as an event implies a breakdown, and the collective response is typified by the attempt to return to "normal." We see this as more than an opportunity for responsive design; we see this as a calling for an expanded role for the design community, and we seek to explore uncharted courses to reveal innovative models for relevant engagement.
Call for Entries
Communicate a proposal that re-contextualizes the space for design to address the definition of crisis. The details of crisis typology and the boundaries for intervention are open, and should be clearly defined by each unique proposal. As crisis is a universal phenomenon with no bias or preferential destination, there are no restrictions to the type of...
29/04/2013
Harpa at Reikiavik Harpa wins Premio Mies van der Rohe 2013
Mies van der Rohe 2013 [BCN] Spain..
Harpa, the Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Iceland, is the winner of the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation announced today.
Designed by Henning Larsen Architects, Batteríið Architects and Studio Olafur Eliasson, the building has helped to transform and revitalise Reykjavik harbour and brought the city and harbour district closer together. The 'Emerging Architect Special Mention' award goes to María Langarita and Víctor Navarro for the Nave de Música Matadero (Red Bull Music Academy) in...
29/04/2013
STILL by Satoshi Kurosaki.
By APOLLO Architects & Associates. [Yotsukaido, Chiba] Japan.
We want to share with you the STILL house, designed by APOLLO Architects & Associates, where the architect created a home based on the privacy and tranquility, by request of the owner, considering that the context of the site is totally contrary, even so he gets design a cozy house with different environments thanks their courtyards and inside-outside relationship, complying with that agreed.
Memory of project.
The client acquired the 330 m² orthogonal property located along the road in pursuit of a space to rest his body and soul exhausted from his work as a surgeon. He requested privacy and...
28/04/2013
Whitney of the Future: A Preview
[VIDEO] from Whitney Museum of American Art [NYC] USA
A preview of the Whitney's future building at Washington Street and Gansevoort Street, in the Meatpacking District. Designed by architect Renzo Piano, the 200,000-square-foot space will open to the public in 2015.
On January 23, 2013 The Whitney presented a project update to the Arts & Institutions Committee of Community Board 2.
October 1, 2011 -- April 26, 2013. The Whitney is constructing a new building in downtown Manhattan, which will open to the public in 2015. Watch the building rise from the ground up in this regularly-updated time-lapse video, which documents progress on the construction site.
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