Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2011 Core77 Design Awards!
Posted in: UncategorizedCore77 Design Awards Congratulates Its Winners, Runners-Up & Notables
From Austin to Ahmedabad, Tokyo to Turin, we hope you enjoyed tuning into our two-week global celebration of design excellence. Thanks to all those who participated in our inaugural year and a special congratulations goes out to our Winners, Runners-up and Notables—check back as we spotlight these award-winning projects in the coming weeks. For more information on this year’s awards, head over to Core77DesignAwards.com
Without further ado, here is the full honor roll for 2011:
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Load Carrier for Labour” by Vikram Dinubhai Panchal – National Institute of Design (NID) (Ahmedabad, India)
RUNNER-UP: TikTok+LunaTik watch kits” by MINIMAL – Scott Wilson (Chicago, IL, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Makedo ” by Makedo – Paul Justin (Melbourne, Australia)
NOTABLE: “The ALEX Bottle” by Anvil Studios – Treasure Hinds, Greg Janky, Chris Hotell, Marta Hotell, Gretchen Bleiler (Seattle, WA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Korea Smart Card Open Gate System” by DESIGNK2L – Sooshin Lee and Yongtae Kim (Seoul, South Korea)
NOTABLE: “The Glif” by Studio Neat – Tom Gerhardt, Dan Provost (Long Island City, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Nokero N200” by Nokero International LTD – Stephen Katsaros with Tom Boyd, Jen Butte-Dahl, Evan Husney, Beth Polizzotto, Mariano Rodriguez (Denver, CO, USA)
NOTABLE: “Jawbone JAMBOX ” by fuseproject – Yves Behar with Gabe Lamb (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Livescribe Echo Smart Pen” by Whipsaw – Dan Harden (San Jose, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Frying Skillet” by Borough Furnace – John Truex with Jason Connelly (Syracuse, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Green Toys” by Green Toys & LUNAR – Robert von Goeben with Jeff Servaites and Scot Herbst (San Francisco, CA, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit” by Pengtao Yu – Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Tea-Time” by Pengtao Yu with Jake Childs and Matt Heller – Continuum Internship Program (Pasadena, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Onedown mousetrap” by Aakash Dewan – DSK ISD International School of Design (Maharashtra, India)
NOTABLE: “Equine Exhaled Breath Condenser” by Cleber Niels and Rodrigo de Freitas Wolf – Pontificial Catholic University of Paraná (Curitiba City, Brazil)
NOTABLE: “Always Fresh Water Container” by Pengtao Yu – Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “2P Portable Restroom” by Kevin Cheng – California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Herman Miller SAYL chair” by fuseproject – Yves Behar (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Jumpseat Auditorium Seating” by Ziba Design – Sohrab Vossoughi, Mehdi Mojtabavi, Dave Knaub and Pierre Harper (Portland, OR, USA)
NOTABLE: “node chair” by IDEO and Steelcase< (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “Polytope X-Board Seating” by Thomas Hurd (Melbourne, Australia)
RUNNER-UP: “Fl.int. Table” by Taylor McKenzie-Veal – RISD (Providence, RI, USA)
NOTABLE: “Sheer Geometry” by Pamela Troyer – Emily Carr University (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
NOTABLE: “Alcove” by Felix Chun Lam and Joe Kenworthy – Emily Carr University (Richmond, Canada)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Bespoke Fairing” by Bespoke Innovations – Scott Summit (San Francisco, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “GRID-IT!” by Orange22 Design Lab -Dario Antonioni (Culver City, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: Hanky Pancreas” by Hanky Pancreas – Jessica Floeh (St. Louis, MO, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “Euphemia” by Helen Furber – London College of Fashion (London, UK)
RUNNER-UP: “LINK” by David Westwood – Emily Carr University (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
NOTABLE: “SShoe” by Pavla Podsednikova (Prague, Czech Republic)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “OCAD University Visual Identity” by Bruce Mau Design (Toronto, ON, Canada)
RUNNER-UP: “Beirut Exhibition Center” by Mary Choueiter with L.E.FT Architects (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Belvoir” by Alphabet Studio – Tim Kliendienst and Paul Clark (Sydney, Australia)
NOTABLE: “Change elevators, Paccar Hall, University of Washington” by Karen Cheng and Kristine Matthews (Seattle, WA, USA)
STUDENT
NOTABLE: “HI – The Hazard Initiative” by Emma Watson – Massey University (Wellington, New Zealand)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “PUMA Clever Little Bag” by fuseproject – Yves Behar, Josh Morenstein, Nick Cronan, and Seth Murray of fuseproject and GBH (San Francisco, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Scanwood” by the Goodmorning Technology Team (Copenhagen, Denmark)
NOTABLE: “Skip Perfect Black / Perfect White” by CASA REX (São Paulo, Brazil)
NOTABLE: “BANG Marc Jacobs” by Harry Allen Design (New York, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Ploom Pod Packaging” by Ploom – Alex Ko (San Francisco, CA, USA)
STUDENT
RUNNER-UP: “Butter! Better!” by Yeongkeun Jeong – Hongik University (Seoan-si, South Korea)
RUNNER-UP: “Inside and Outside the Box: Redesigning LED Packaging” by Bryant Yee – University of Michigan (Troy, MI, USA)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Bell Labs – Innovation Whiteboard” by Potion – Phillip R. Tiongson (New York, NY, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Temptd” by frog design (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Airbnb iPhone App” by Airbnb – Steph Tekano (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Plug-In-Play” by The LAB at Rockwell Group (New York, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “bodybuggSP” by [x]cube LABS – Jason Franzen and Becky Carlson (Dallas, TX, USA)
NOTABLE: “Future of the Book” by IDEO (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “LIT.” by Jan-Erik Stange and Sebastian Meier (Berlin, Germany)
RUNNER-UP: “Bloom” by Amy Martin – California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Simple Memory” by Amy Martin – California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA)
WINNER: “OpenIDEO” by IDEO (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “HackFwd” by IDEO & Lars Hinrichs (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Skype in the Classroom” by Made” by Many (London, UK)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Mission R Electric Superbike” by Motonium Design – Timothy Prentice (Redondo Beach, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Skatecycle” by Brooklyn Workshop – Alon Karpman (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “Project Aura” by Ethan Frier and Jonathan Ota – Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
NOTABLE: “TrakRok” by Alexei Mikhailov – Humber College (Toronto, ON, Canada)
WINNER: “Exhale Pavilion” by Phu Hoang Office & Rachely Rotem Studio (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas” by Rockwell Group & The LAB (New York, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Herman Miller Compass System” by Herman Miller Healthcare & Continuum Design Team (West Newton, MA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Dreams of Freedom” by Local Projects (New York, NY, USA)
NOTABLE: “Contemporary Issues Forum ” by Local Projects (New York, NY, USA)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Bedsider” by IDEO (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Eton Design Strategy” by Whipsaw – Dan Harden with Sam Benavidez, Hiro Teranishi (San Jose, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Afghanistan Mobile Money” by frog design – Jan Chipchase and Panthea Lee (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Unleashed: How new consumers will revolutionize brands and scale sustainability” by BBMG (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “Design Play” by Jonathan Fristad, Susan Huang, Ahmed Riaz, Eric Dorf and Mon Vorratnchaiphan – California College of the Arts (Mountain View, CA, USA)
WINNER: “Senseables” by Hannah Duffy – University of Illinois (Chicago, IL, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Understanding Homelessness” by Jonathan O’Conner, Liam Van Vleet, and Mike Clare – RISD (Cambridge, MA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Motion for Interface: a taxonomy” by Elaine Froehlich – MassArt (Providence, RI, USA)
NOTABLE: “Designing Innovation Diffusion” by Dennis Chan, Maggie de la Vega, Jo Glenny, and Tucker Kobylski – Pratt Institute (Thorndale, PA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Sequential Cycles” by Lucia Turco (London, UK)
WINNER: “Sticks + Stones” by Mark Biddle, Audra Buck-Coleman & Ann McDonald (UT, MD & MA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Studio H” by Project H Design (Windsor, NC, USA)
NOTABLE: “Design for America” by Design for America (Evanston, IL, USA)
NOTABLE: “The Tinkering Studio” by The Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Seeing Voices: Inside BT Archives” by Professor Teal Triggs – London College of Communication (London, UK)
NOTABLE: “Tools for Schools” by aruliden, Bernhardt Design, & The School at Columbia University (New York, NY, USA)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “4th Amendment Wear” by Matthew Ryan, 4th Amendment (New Lambton, Australia)
RUNNER-UP: “Preserve Toothbrush” by Preserve Products and Continuum (West Newton, MA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “How Many Bench” by les Sismo designers Frédéric Lecourt and Antoine Fenoglio (Paris, France)
NOTABLE: “Safe Agua” by Designmatters, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Chilote House Shoe” by Stiven Kerestegian in co-creation with artisans in the Patagonia (Puerto Varas, Chile)
NOTABLE: “Design for America” by Design for America (Evanston, IL, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “Gobug” by Greg Katz & Tom Rim (Deerfield, IL, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Hug: Painless Vaccinations” by George Ressler – University of Kansas (Chesterfield, MO, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Coral Rasa” by Derek Bennion (Macomb, MI, USA)
NOTABLE: “Common Sense – An Art Exhibit about The American Dream” by Karl Sluis & Craig Stover – College for Creative Studies (Chicago, IL, USA)
NOTABLE: “Onedown mousetrap” by Aakash Dewan – DSK ISD International School of Design (Maharashtra, India)
NOTABLE: “Lien” by Jupone Wang (Pasadena, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Made In The Dark” by Jon Fraser, Ruby Steel, Hal Watts, Khushbu Dublish, D Toppo (London, UK & Ahmedabad, India)
NOTABLE: “Thrive Portion Ware” by Sally Ng – California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Pure Water Bottle” by Timothy Whitehead (Kent, UK)
NOTABLE: “U-Haul Emergency Response Conversion Kit” by Pengtao Yu – Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “The SPARK Project” by Arash Shirinbab – California College of the Arts (Oakland, CA, USA)
WINNER: “Tall Furniture” by Robert Turek (Ferndale, MI, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Solar Puff” by Studio Unite – Alice Minsoo Chun (New York, NY, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Propane Tank Bench” by Colin Selig (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Vintage iPod Dock” by Graham Browne (Clayton, MO, USA)
NOTABLE: “Radioball” by TEAGUE – Benoit Collette, Adam Kumpf, Tad Toulis (Seattle, WA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Secret Passageway Switch” by B.Light Design – Ben Light (New York, New York, USA)
NOTABLE: “Solar Soda Lights” by Jeff Zischke (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
NOTABLE: “Turnbuckle Light” by Matt Catrino (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Glo Lamp” by AfterAll – Joanna Bean Martin & Ike Martin (Portland, OR, USA)
NOTABLE: “Simple Bots” by Randy Sarafan (San Francisco, CA, USA)
NOTABLE: “Nimble” by Design Night – Dominic D’Andrea and Tram Pham (Portland, OR, USA)
PROFESSIONAL
WINNER: “Knarr Cargo Airship” by Rune Kirt & Mads Thomsen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
RUNNER-UP: “Modwells – personal modules for wellness” by Artefact – Jennifer Darmour with Johanna Schoemaker and Verena Lugmayr (Seattle, WA, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “High Tech Vanitas” by les Sismo – Frédéric Lecourt and Antoine Fenoglio (Paris, France)
NOTABLE: “Museum of Possiblities” by Living With Our Time – Mouna Andraos, Melissa Mongiat, Kelsey Snook (Portland, OR, USA)
NOTABLE: “Coat Check Chair” by Continuum – Joey Zeledón (West Newton, MA, USA)
STUDENT
WINNER: “CV Dazzle: Open Source Camouflage” by Adam Harvey – Tisch School of Arts, NYU (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Transcendenz” by Michael Harboun – Strate College (Paris, France)
NOTABLE: “RedBlueCNC” by Nick Santillan – Emily Carr University (Surrey, BC, Canada)
NOTABLE: “Draw” by Arttu-Matti Immonen – Kyoto Institute of Technology (Kyoto, Japan)
WINNER: “LaundryPod” by the RKS Design Team (Thousand Oaks, California, USA)
RUNNER-UP: “Ping” by Studio Sophisti – Wouter Reeskamp and Tijn Kooijmans (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
RUNNER-UP: “EasyTail” by Bresslergroup – Mathieu Turpault and David Schiff (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
NOTABLE: “Christmas Tea” by Mint – Maja Matas, Kresimir Miloloza, Jozo Matas (Zagreb, Croatia)
The aquatics centre designed by Zaha Hadid for the London 2012 Olympic Games is complete.
The 17,500-seat centre is the final permanent venue to be completed at the Olympic Park, one year ahead of the games.
The aquatics centre features an undulating wave-like roof that critics originally speculated would be too complex to build on time.
The competition and diving pools are sheltered below this steel roof, enclosed within the main hall.
Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty
A third pool to be used for training is located beneath the Stratford City Bridge, which is also sheltered by the curving canopy.
Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty
Wings on each side of the building provide additional seating but will be removed once the games are over.
Above photograph is by Anthony Charlton / Getty
Other completed venues on the Olympic Park include the Olympic Stadium by Populous, the Basketball Arena by Sinclair Knight Merz and the Velodrome by Hopkins, which was recently nominated for the Stirling Prize. See all our stories about London 2012 here.
Zaha Hadid also recently completed the Riverside Museum, which has a zig-zagging zinc-clad roof – click here to see all our stories about Zaha Hadid.
Photography is by David Poultney/Getty, apart from where otherwise stated.
Here are some more details from the Olympic Delivery Authority:
Aquatics Centre unveiled as main Olympic Park venues completed on time and budget
With exactly a year to go until the start of the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has announced that the Aquatics Centre is now complete, the last of the six main Olympic Park venues to finish construction.
The Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, Handball Arena, Basketball Arena and the International Broadcast Centre were all completed earlier this year.
The Aquatics Centre is being unveiled with British Olympic hopeful Tom Daley making the first dive into the pool.
Back in July 2006, the ODA set out a challenging brief to clean and clear the Olympic Park site and build the new venues and infrastructure needed in time for test events by the summer of 2011 – a year before the Games. This has now been achieved on time, to budget, with a safety record far better than the industry average, and by setting new standards in sustainability and accessible design.
Double Commonwealth Gold medallist and 2012 hopeful Tom Daley said: ‘Marking the 1 year to go, by diving in the Aquatics Centre is an incredible honour. Only a few years ago, this was a distant dream. The fact that I qualified at the weekend and am taking the first dive is a complete privilege. I can’t wait for next year and the honour of representing Team GB.’
ODA Chairman John Armitt said: ‘The Aquatics Centre will be a fantastic gateway to the Games in 2012 and a much-needed new community and elite sporting venue for the capital afterwards. Five years ago, in July 2006, we published a delivery timetable which set out the ambitious target to complete the main venues a year before the Games. Today, with the completion of the sixth main permanent venue, I am proud to say that we have delivered on that commitment.
‘The completion of the Aquatics Centre is the latest chapter in a British success story where tens of thousands of workers and business from across the UK have demonstrated the ability of this country to successfully deliver major projects.’
LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe said: ‘With construction now complete on the Aquatics Centre, we are another step closer to the spectacular Olympic Park which will be host to world class sport in 2012. And after the Games, the venue will become a much-needed swimming facility for London with community use at its heart, epitomising the spirit of London’s bid – a Games which would bring lasting change and encourage people to choose sport. Everyone involved can be very proud of this venue and the progress of the Olympic Park as a whole. I congratulate the ODA and their teams who have done a fantastic job.’
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt said: ‘The build project for London 2012 has been a huge success for the British construction industry, public sector and UK plc as a whole. The completion of the Aquatics Centre is the final permanent world-class sport venue to be finished on the Park and a proud moment for the ODA. All those that have worked on the Olympic Park deserve huge credit for what they have achieved. The venues are stunning and the stage is now set for us to put on the greatest sporting show on earth.’
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: ‘It’s fantastic to add the beautiful Aquatics Centre to London’s list of first class venues which are already set to welcome the world’s greatest sportsmen and women. To have all six permanent venues complete with a year still to go to the Games is a great achievement, and a firm sign that we are well on track to deliver a truly spectacular show in 2012. Congratulations to the ODA and all those who have worked on the construction of the Olympic Park for reaching this milestone.’
Andrew Altman, Chief Executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, said: ‘The Aquatics Centre will be a unique facility in London that puts sport at the heart of regeneration. As a focal point for community, national and international swimming, it will sit at the centre of the south plaza – London’s newest public space which will welcome visitors to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the Games.’
Construction started on the Zaha Hadid-designed Aquatics Centre just over three years ago in June 2008 and has been completed on time and with an exemplary safety record. Over 3630 people have worked on the construction of the venue and over 370 UK businesses have won contracts including the steel for the roof from Wales, pool lights from Scotland, pumps from Bedfordshire, under-floor heating by a company from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and water testing done by a Flintshire-based business.
In total, over 40,000 people have worked on the Park since April 2008 and over 1500 direct contracts worth £6bn have been distributed to thousands of companies across the UK.
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2012 Olympic Arena by Sinclair Knight Merz | 2012 Olympic Stadium by Populous | 2012 Olympic Velodrome by Hopkins Architects |
Peter Buchanan-Smith and Friends Create Ultimate Summer Camp Care Package
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A U.S. Army survival field book, sewing kit, kazoo, and engineer’s compass are a few of the items in Best Made’s Summer Camp Care Package. (Photos: Best Made Company)
We have long been fascinated by camp, whether of the sort codified by Susan Sontag, celebrated by the likes of Simon Doonan, or enjoyed by millions of youngsters the world over at this time of year. And so we were thrilled to discover that designer Peter Buchanan-Smith‘s Best Made Company has expanded beyond beautiful handmade axes to new frontiers of rugged yet covetable goods. Any camper (and frankly, just about everyone we know) would be overjoyed to receive the Summer Camp Care Package, a collection of “objects of utility, curiosity, and hilarity sure to remedy the worst case of the homesick blues.” Among the 16 treats stowed in a bed of wood wool and tucked inside a corrugated box hand-stenciled “Fragile Eggs” (to deter prying bunkmates) are a vintage Swiss army flashlight, a whittling knife, a roll of green polka dot tape, a joy buzzer, a selection of fake mustaches, and a “mystery prize.” Best Made will even include a personalized note to the lucky camper. Priced at $145, the epic care package is available in very limited quantities here.
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Under the Clouds
Posted in: martinique, Toulouse, under the cloudsAprès l’excellente vidéo “Images Can Shock”, voici ce nouveau projet Under the Clouds avec des images prises à Toulouse, Paris et la Martinique. Le tournage et les images ont été guidés par les bruits et l’édition sonore. L’ensemble a été enregistré avec un Zoom H4N et un Canon 7D.
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reOrder exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
Posted in: UncategorizedA private balcony is concealed behind the black galvanised steel exterior of this house in Yao, Japan, by architect Yosuke Ichii.
The screened terrace is situated on the middle floor of the three-storey Hi House, revealed on the facade by a narrow window at ankle-height.
This cantilevering balcony shelters the front door and driveway.
Living and dining areas occupy the first floor of the house, whilst bedrooms are located above and below.
A rectangular opening in the roof reveals another balcony on the top floor.
Yosuke Ichii previously completed a house in Osaka in collaboration with Isolation Unit – see our earlier story.
Other popular Japanese houses published this month on Dezeen include one with a circulating route of staircases and another resembling a half-submerged submarine – see all our stories about Japanese houses here.
Photography is by Takumi Ota.
Here’s some more information from the architect:
Hi house
1 division is lotted in the narrow area at this place developed in 1970′s.
Each housing is built by the biggest volume and equals, it’s an uptown which crowds.
Strip stairs are installed in the center of the building, it’s made void space and a big skylight is being put on the upper part.
Light shines from there to the first floor hall, enveloped in soft light throughout.
To open and shut a window electrically, a void will be stack effect, and for air to flow and discharge collected heat around the ceiling, a new wind is to enter from a lower floor, and you can have time comfortably.
Privacy from a neighborhood is protected by making the wall in the balcony which connects with a living room expensive, and even if many people gather, a relative and my friend have secured the enough size for one room space including an outside deck.
The simple space where the eyes don’t stop to put it in the wall using a transformed pillar as 200×100 is being produced.
The light and open space which can’t be imagined from the outward appearance is spread in the interior, is narrow and is the housing which doesn’t make a built-up area feel by controlling sunlight, a breeze and the eyes.
Location : Osaka Prefecture
Japan architects : Yosuke Ichii
Architect structural engineers : Takashi Manda Structural Engineer
Site area : 74.10 m²
Building area : 51.60 m² total
Floor area : 125.24 m²
First floor area : 38.90 m²
Second floor area : 46.03 m²
Third floor area : 40.31 m²
Structure : steel frame, 3 stories
Completion date : September, 2010
Family composition : grand mother and couple and brother
Photo : Takumi Ota
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House in Sakuragawa by Suppose Design Office | Yachiyo by Atelier Tekuto | Y House by TOFU |
Roberto Cavalli Adds Animal-Print Accents to Minimalist Exercise Bike
Posted in: UncategorizedFashion designer and aspiring lifestyle brand Roberto Cavalli has never met an object he didn’t want to swaddle in animal-printed silk (or better yet, ponyskin). Even a minimalist exercise bike is no match for his zebra-striped ways. Behold, the “Roberto Cavalli for Ciclotte” collection, which adds a jarring touch of the jungle to the sculptural Ciclotte exercise bike. Designed by Luca Schieppati and produced by the Italian materials masterminds at Lamiflex, the Ciclotte is a one-wheeled, two-horned wonder of carbon, steel, or fiberglass that uses four gears with differentiated teeth to generate a magnetic field. This fancy “epicycloid” gear system maximizes resistance levels and recreates pedalling conditions one would encounter on a road bike (so riders can be sure they’re getting their roughly $10,000 worth). Cavalli’s collection of six models, available exclusively at the designer’s boutiques, all feature signature house touches—shinyness, animal prints—for the luxury consumer who likes to go nowhere fast atop a jaguar-patterned ponyskin seat and a wheel of gold steel. Of course, this exotic piece of gym equipment creates a wardrobe dilemma: ordinary athletic apparel clashes terribly with fuschia carbon fiber. Cavalli is on top of it with his new Roberto Cavalli Gym collection (pictured above), which is hitting stores now.
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Landscapes/Cityscapes
Posted in: cityscapesDécouverte du travail de Andrew Brooks, un photographe et réalisateur vivant actuellement à Manchester. Avec ses clichés travaillés de villes et de paysages, il parvient avec talent à donner une cohérence et à attirer l’oeil du spectateur. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
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A Designer’s Yacht
Posted in: UncategorizedI’m sure many of you have heard of Wally Yachts, even if you haven’t had the pleasure of owning one of their (unbelievably expensive) yachts. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of boats or the open sea, but the crafts from Wally make me seriously reconsider that predisposition.
Wally Yachts was founded in Monaco in 1994 by Italian Luca Bassani. In the nearly two decades since, Wally has become a world-renowned leader in luxury yacht design and construction, pushing the limits of the conventional design practices. Wally recently partnered with equally renowned luxury goods and design house Hermes to form Wally Hermes Yachts (WHY), generating concepts that break the rules of the opulent seafaring lifestyle.
Here are a few choice selections from Wally’s fleet:
Wally 55
With four Volvo engines and a top speed of over 40 knots, the Wally 55 is the perfect combination of performance and pure relaxation. The sleek lines seem more fit for a Navy SEAL boat, but the comfortable open seating in the stern is rather disarming. The cabins below deck look like pure Swiss hotel. I never thought pampering and raw power went hand-in-hand before this.