Dezeen Wire: design and architecture biennale EXD/11 Lisboa (experimentadesign) has opened in Lisbon, with exhibitions and talks on the the theme of Useless underway across the city. Dezeen is at the opening and will bring highlights over the coming days.
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Collectively, Nathan Allan Glass Studios Inc. is an artist, and glass is their canvas. The Canada-based company produces glass in dozens of unique textures, and the company’s focus on R&D aims to retain an innovative and competitive edge by coming up with surfaces that others cannot.
Their latest finish, Crackle (directly above), was formulated for the Rockwell-Group-designed Maboussin USA flagship store in NYC. In grossly oversimplified terms, Crackle is produced by melting glass shards to a substrate and laminating that to a mirror. (The actual production reality is a bit more complicated, but unsurprisingly no detailed instructions have been made public.)
Dezeen Wire: planning permission has been granted for Stanton Williams‘ proposed transformation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. The comprehensive renovation of the existing museum and construction of a new 5800m2 extension is due to begin in October with completion scheduled for autumn 2013.
See our previous story on a laboratory at Cambridge University by Stanton Williams.
Here is some more information from the architects:
Stanton Williams’ Musée d’Art in Nantes receives planning permission
Stanton Williams’ €49million scheme for the Musée d’Art in Nantes, has received planning permission. In autumn 2009, the practice won an international competition to transform the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, one of the leading regional galleries in France. Phase 1 of the project will start on site in October 2011 and is due for completion in autumn 2013.
The museum will be comprehensively renovated, while an adjacent site will house a new 5800m2 extension for the display of twenty-first century art, as well as administrative and curatorial facilities and an external sculpture court. It will be known upon completion as the Musée d’Art de Nantes.
The project aims to transform the image of the museum from a closed and introverted institution to one which engages fully with its urban context, whose presence in the cityscape will be more strongly asserted.
The design strategy creates an architectural and cultural promenade whilst also improving the relationship between the museum and its setting. Visitors will begin their journey in a series of improved public spaces around the museum, with sculptural installations taking the museum into the street. Visual connections will be created between the refurbished galleries of the original museum, drawing visitors through the spaces.
The new building responds to its context through its materials and scale. Above a marble plinth, marmarino plaster is used to create a smooth effect akin to that of the local stone, resulting in a monolithic quality and a sense that the building has been carved from a single block of stone. Large openings provide glimpses into the galleries from the street, animating the museum’s setting. Reflecting local practice, a consistent materials palette is used inside and out. The result will be a building, which defines a new image for the museum, yet is firmly rooted in its surroundings.
When complete in 2013, the new and refurbished buildings will shape a new identity for the museum, clearly expressing its different functions. The treatment of their elevations, in terms of scale, massing, and the provision of openings, will relate the museum better to its context, offering a welcoming setting for the Grand Musée d’Art.
Patrick Richards, Director at Stanton Williams explains: “The new museum will offer state of the art facilities to exhibit the museum’s impressive collections of art and allow to expand the ambitious program of exhibition that have helped the muséum to establish a strong reputation as one of the leading museum in France and abroad. The natural daylit galleries of the Palais have been the inspiration for the new extention with it’s dramatic light wells and transluscent marble facade.”
This past Monday, our contributor Carly Ayres attended Stem to Steam, “a briefing marking Rhode Island’s commitment to fostering innovation through the addition of Art and Design to STEM education and research.” Photos by Scott Indermaur
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“Our country must integrate art and design into efforts to improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and research to reach our full potential for innovation and economic growth.”
That was what Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) told the audience at a “STEM to STEAM” forum last Monday in Providence, Rhode Island. Partnering with Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) President John Maeda in this effort, Langevin has been working to make STEAM a national priority. The Rhode Island event was not the first of its kind; a congressional briefing had been held by RISD in cooperation with Langevin earlier this June in Washington, D.C., as part of an effort to draw national attention to the movement.
John Maeda, Congressman Jim Langevin
As defined on StemtoSteam.org:
STEAM represents the economic progress and breakthrough innovation that comes from adding art and design to STEM education and research: STEM + Art = STEAM. The value of art and design to innovation is clear: Artists and designers humanize technology, making it understandable and capable of bringing about societal change. The tools and method of a studio-based education offer new models for creative problem solving, flexible thinking and risk-taking that are needed in today’s complex and dynamic world.
John Maeda welcoming everyone to the briefing
When I was at ID school in the early ’90s the shop didn’t have any freaking countersink bits, so we’d have to drill pilot holes with a 3/32″ bit then ream it with a 1/4″ to make a sort of ghetto countersink. (And this was before keyless chucks.) By necessity we all got pretty good at doing this, but I was never so happy as when I bought my own countersink bit.
Anyways, here’s how they make the little things (and plug-cutters to boot). I know it’s just a tiny piece of steel, but it’s still one of the favored objects in my toolbox.
Dunque…scarpe, maglia, cappellino, bombette, bicicletta configurata e tanta simpatia. Dovrebbe essere tutto a posto. Sperando prenda una connessione 3G in quel di Gaiole, vi terrò aggiornati con qualche tweet con tag di ricerca #Eroica qui sotto. Buon week end!
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Dezeen Wire: the London Olympic Velodrome by Hopkins Architects has been voted the public’s favourite building from a shortlist for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. The velodrome attracted 63% of the vote in a poll organised by the RIBA. The official judging and announcement of the winner will take place tomorrow.
See our previous story on the London Olympic Velodrome here and details of all six shortlisted entries here. Look out for our story about the winner on Dezeen tomorrow.
Here is some more information on the results of the public poll from the RIBA:
London Olympic Velodrome voted nation’s favourite 2011 RIBA Stirling Prize-shortlisted building – but will the official judges agree tomorrow?
London’s Olympic Velodrome has been voted the public’s favourite building on the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011 in a poll run by the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA). The public poll closed today, ahead of the official judging and announcement of the winner which takes place tomorrow (Saturday 1 October).
Scoring 63% of the vote, the graceful and distinctive Velodrome by Hopkins Architects and the Olympic Delivery Authority has clearly captured the nation’s imagination, and was recognized as the bookies’ favourite as soon as the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize was announced, but will the jury agree when they settle down to deliberate and vote tomorrow afternoon?
An Galeras, O’Donnell and Tuomey’s Irish cultural centre in Derry, came second in the public vote, securing 25% of the vote.
The official winner of architecture’s most prestigious prize will be announced tomorrow (Saturday 1 October) at Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham and will be broadcast as a special edition of BBC TWO’s The Culture Show on Sunday 2 October, presented by Kevin McCloud. Now in its 16th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded annually to the architects of the best new European building built or designed in the UK.
The six buildings competing for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal and Kingspan Benchmark are:
Lo studio turco di Escapefromsofa ha presentato al Tent London della scorsa settimana, la sua ultima rocking chair che prende il nome di Short Tail.
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