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This past weekend, as you may have heard, artist Shepard Fairey was physically assaulted shortly after the opening of an exhibition of his work in Copenhagen. He and his Obey colleague, Romeo Trinidad, were reportedly jumped while exiting a nightclub, attacked by a number of men who screamed at Fairey to “Go back to America” and that he was “Obama illuminati.” By the time they’d run off, the artist had a bruised rib and a black eye. All of this followed something of a giant wall-scaling mural Fairey had painted in the city, near where a famous youth house once stood, which some local residents had seen as an encroachment by the government, despite the painting’s call for peace. After lots of press attention, Fairey himself has posted on his blog about the contentious debate over the mural and the hostilities that popped up around it (it was almost immediately defaced), why the media often seemed to slightly side more with his attackers (case in point, the Miami New Times‘ headline, “Did Shepard Fairey Deserve to Get Beat Up by Danish Anarchists?“), and offering up his view of the fight from inside the middle of the fray. Here’s a bit:
I unthreateningly asked him why he was saying that stuff to me, and what his problem with me was. He just said “YOU HAVE THE PROBLEM” and did the chest shove every visitor to a playground has experienced. Then as he raised his fists I was clocked from the side by someone I never saw. The next thing you know I’m being attacked by at least 3 guys and Romeo jumps in to help me. It was crowded, and people tried to pull everyone apart which somehow left Romeo being ganged up on by a couple guys, so I had to jump back in to help him, while I was being punched and kneed by people behind me.
They quickly ran off , and it seemed that things were over except for my wife freaking out across the parking lot. I was wrong, somehow the attackers had snuck back through the crowd and I caught a punch in the eye out of nowhere as I turned to see Romeo pushed against a wall being punched and kneed in the back. I tried to help him again, and after brief retaliation the attackers fled again.
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Criss-crossing metal beams surround a first floor reading room at a multimedia library near Paris.
Designed by French architect Philippe Gazeau, the Médiathèque Romain Rolland is situated within a residential neighbourhood and overlooks a community park.
Offset behind the white lattice exterior and glazing is a second layer of criss-crossing beams, finished in black, that could be mistaken for shadows.
The reading room occupies the entire first floor of the building and surrounds an enclosed second floor mezzanine where multimedia facilities are located.
The ceiling of this room subtly undulates to create natural drainage slopes on the grass-covered roof above.
Offices, meeting rooms, toilets and an auditorium are located on the ground floor of the library.
Another recently featured building that employs metal latticework is a design institute in Hong Kong – see our earlier story here.
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Here are some more details from Philippe Gazeau:
Media Library Romain Rolland
Rue Albert Giry, quartier Cité Cachin, 93230 Romainville
The Romainville multimedia library is located in the heart of a dormitory town that is being completely renovated. The town planners wanted to open up the district by fragmenting the housing blocks, creating a central plain to provide a large park and two facilities, including the multimedia library which is intended to act as an attractive magnet on a neighbourhood level.
The new building floats between two flying carpets. Following a continuous movement, the multimedia library’s volume sweeps over the level of the street and the public garden to slide under the gentle slopes of its planted roof.
It is the project’s roof that gives the initial driving force. The roof’s hills and valleys transmit the sweeping movement through to the level of the central plain, crossing through the large reading room on the upper floor.
This is achieved by the negative curves reflecting the undulating movements of the roof through to the ceiling. As well as traversing, the oriented interior space of the reading room overlooking the street and garden is also traversed and suspended by the landscape as it rises up to become the ceiling.
The new media library at Romainville can be seen as a building with simple architectural forms, but with great power and expressive richness. It is a building ‘oriented’ between the new street and the large redesigned garden.
It is a building ‘hierarchized’ on the basis of 3 superimposed horizontal sequences: a base on the ground floor, a large metal covered hall on the first floor cantilevered on both the street side and the garden side, lastly a topographically undulating vegetated roof. These three main elements structure and bring together the building’s architectural and functional image.
The project is no more extensive than the surface area of the plot proposed in the overall development plan, thereby freeing up the largest possible area for the future garden. The main volume is aligned with the new street, but the ground floor recess under the first floor cantilever is an opportunity to lay out a vast covered, sheltered passage between the public roadway and the media library.
The building takes its characteristic appearance from the first floor metal structure’s extensive columnless overhang. On the street, the monumental awning opening onto this big covered area naturally signals the entrance to the building.
Some powerful architectural sequences accompany the user or visitor from the outside right into the heart of the media library: the parvis under the awning, the exhibition hall, the vertical link space with the grand staircase, from where you come to the main reading room.
Finding one’s way around is facilitated by the large north-east and south-west windows facing each other like a pair of indoor-outdoor bookends.
Another powerful feature of the reading room is its ceiling, which follows the underside of the undulating vegetated roof. The very fluid crossing space is also set in movement through the random shapes of the ceiling, contrasting with the straight frontage walls.
A second mezzanine floor houses the multimedia area: on the ‘Russian doll’ principle, this area readily accessible from the adult and children’s sections hovers slightly above the rest of the browsing areas for reasons of soundproofing, while remaining highly visible and attractive from the central area.
The two glass frontages are picture windows looking onto the city or the garden through the filter of the exterior metal structure A maintenance area midway between the glazed façade and the structure gives depth to the casing. This depth is used to install the outer blinds protecting the reading areas in conditions made to last.
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Circular translucent skylights nested in the roof bring extra light to the central area, while providing smoke ejection from the interior volume.
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The green roof is treated as a natural but hanging extension of the future garden. Its topography lends it a different status from the ordinary vegetated terrace roof. This roof can be seen from neighbouring buildings, and we feel it is very important that it blends in with the future landscaped area.
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The inverted impact of its undulations is a key element in characterizing the atmosphere in the large reading room, and evidences the determination for this project to be highly consistent, with continuity between the work on the interior spaces and the handling of the exterior architecture. The metal structure featuring like a grid around the first floor, and the cantilevering over the ground floor areas are the other main examples of this.
Client : Mairie de Romainville
Architect : Philippe Gazeau
Project manager : Lorraine Pele, Benjamin Clarens
Engineers : SLH
Area : 2085 m² SHON
Cost : 3 730 000 € HT
2004-2011
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Nel paddock del MotoGP di Assen ho visto il nuovo motorhome di Valentino Rossi; il suo design lo distingue parecchio dai motorhome degli altri piloti, perciò mi è sembrato interessante approfondire questo tema. Il motorhome è la casa del pilota durante le gare del Motogp, in pratica si tratta di un grande ed attrezzatissimo camper dove riposare all’interno del paddock, a breve distanza dai box e dell’area hospitality della propria squadra.
Il motorhome pubblicato in questa pagina è il nuovo mezzo che Rossi ha iniziato ad usare durante il gran premio di Valencia nell’ottobre 2010, ed appare come un ermetico monolite nero.
E’ stato progettato e costruito da un’azienda spagnola, Caravanas Rioja, specializzata nell’allestimento di veicoli speciali, e con grande esperienza nel mondo delle corse e dei motorhome.
A differenza degli altri motorhome che possono essere considerati alla stregua di un camper, quello di Valentino Rossi è un rimorchio che necessita di una motrice. Le dimensioni sono quindi maggiori, come il comfort interno: non sono potuto entrare all’interno ma mi hanno spiegato che ospita ben 3 camere da letto e 2 bagni, oltre ad altri ambienti. Come si può vedere in queste immagini, una volta parcheggiato la larghezza del veicolo raddoppia, perché le pareti laterali si estendono in maniera telescopica. Il bello è che lo fanno anche nella parte inferiore, nascondendo completamente le ruote.
L’attenzione alla privacy è stato uno dei requisiti principali del progetto: il veicolo è completamente nero, i vetri oscurati, e l’assenza di insegne lo rende irriconoscibile. Nemmeno io sapevo di cosa si trattasse, prima che spiegassero che quello dietro le transenne era il motorhome di Valentino Rossi. Solamente il piccolo logo 46 vicino al campanello l’identifica come la residenza temporanea del pilota.
Il precedente motorhome, che puoi vedere nell’immagine conclusiva, era sempre di colore nero ma decorato invece con le illustrazioni gialle che caratterizzano da anni l’immagine personale di Rossi.
Il motorhome è sempre guidato da Uccio, il fedelissimo amico di infanzia di Valentino, che lo accompagna in tutte le gare del motomondiale e gestisce i suoi spazi personali.
Last month, we opened with a quote in the headline of a post, “It can’t get any worse — and then it does.” An apt statement indeed, as the American Institute of Architects has just released the sobering news that, for the fifth straight month, the Architecture Billings Index has dropped once again. Indicating increases and declines in billings within the industry (anything above or below 50, respectively), the Index fell more than a full point, down to 45.1, resulting in “the steepest decline in billings since February 2010.” Here’s a bit from the AIA’s resident numbers expert, who sounds as if he’s also dropping points and sliding down the Glum Index:
“Business conditions for architecture firms have turned down sharply,” said AIA Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. “Late last year and in the first couple of months of this year there was a sense that we were slowly pulling out of the downturn, but now the concern is that we haven’t yet reached the bottom of the cycle. Current high levels of uncertainly in the economy don’t point to an immediate turnaround.”
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Furniture-filled caves can be found inside a guesthouse in Modica, Sicily.
Architects Marco Giunta and Viviana Haddad converted twelve little houses into the six suites, which surround a courtyard.
Local materials including decorated tiles and stone are applied to restored walls and floors inside each room.
Ceilings are lined with bamboo and each room is filled with both specially made and restored furniture.
Casa Talia is managed by the architects and suites can be rented through Welcome Beyond.
Above: photograph by Simone Aprile
Another holiday suite offered by Welcome Beyond is a converted sixteenth-century house in Girona – see our earlier story here.
Photography is by Andrea Ferrari, apart from where otherwise stated.
Above: photograph by Simone Aprile
Here’s an interview with architect Marco Giunta about the project:
What was your inspiration to leave Milan and open a hotel in Sicily?
My wife and I once organised a workshop for architects in Tuscany. We thought about place, hospitality and food. For us, it was a good opportunity to feel how nice it is outside of the big city.
Then, in 2001, we came to Sicily for a summer holiday. It was a coincidence that we came to Modica, but we ended up spending 15 days here, forgetting everything else. We were really impressed and fell in love with the city.
My father is Sicilian, from the north of the island, so when I arrived here, I felt a real connection with Sicily. My wife and I began by buying just one room, and every time we came back to visit, we purchased another. After eight months, we had bought 12 different properties.
Please tell me a bit about the restoration of the building.
Every single room used to be a family home. We renovated them to have one single property, with all of them connected through the garden. It’s like a circle. Imagine a house in a circle and in the middle is a garden.
From the outside, it still looks the same. We just restored the original wall and the interior.
Above: photograph by Matteo Cirenei
During the restoration, we only used natural and local materials. The terraces use a mix of natural and decorated tiles, something you can’t find anywhere else.
How would you describe the style of the rooms at Casa Talia?
The rooms are simple and tasteful, but not cluttered with things, using a mix of the old and the new. Some of the furniture in them was made by us, some restored by us.
Every room has been inspired by a country on the Mediterranean sea, so no room is like the other. Each one is special. The bigger rooms cost more because they are on two levels and have a private terrace or balcony. All rooms have air conditioning, a bath, a shower, and a nice view.
Above: photograph by Matteo Cirenei
So both your wife and yourself are architects?
I graduated in architecture, but my job now is to display design for products and furniture. My wife works as an architect and specialises in restoration. So for her, Casa Talia was a great place to show off her work.
Above: photograph by Simone Aprile
Your philosophy is “slow living” — please tell me a bit more about that.
We want people to come here and take their time to enjoy the view, the air, and relax. We live in a pedestrian area in a part of the city very few people go to. Yet at the same time, it’s just behind the main street.
Slow living means forgetting the phone and just drinking a glass of wine while enjoying the view. Our view is amazing, it’s like a painting. You can see the cathedral and the oldest part of the city with all the Baroque buildings. It’s really lovely to sit under the olive tree with a book and just relax and hang out in the garden.
To you personally, what has been most rewarding about running Casa Talia?
My life has changed a lot. Here, I work 24 hours a day, but at the same time, I am in a place of holiday and get to spend time with people who are usually very happy and relaxed. My life is much better than before. I live near the sea and every day I can see the blue sky and the sun.
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