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If you’re one of the largest design festivals in the world and you’re currently mired in controversy over the removal of your beloved director and the apparent political patronage in the hiring of a replacement by a national leader who is now on the outs, what do you do? If you’re the Venice Architecture Bienniale, you do the smart thing and grab a big name to come aboard as your next curator. So they have, with the announcement that starchitect David Chipperfield, fresh off his win of the Mies van der Rohe Award, will be taking on the roll for 2012. Building Design reports that, once everything’s been made official-official, that will leave the world-renowned architect only 8 months to “come up with a theme and curate the world’s largest architecture exhibition.” The site also notes that now that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be on his way out, that the aforementioned appointment of food importer Giulio Malgara to replace longtime Biennale leader Paolo Baratta looks like it won’t be happening after all, leaving Baratta to “continue as director for at least another year.” All said, this is all shaping up to be one of the more interesting years for the Venice event in a while.
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Dezeen Watch Store: a limited edition watch that displays the time in eight international cities by British designer Crispin Jones of Mr Jones Watches is now available at Dezeen Watch Store.
All around the world has eight distinct hour hands, each in the shape of an architectural landmark from the city that they represent.
A pigeon, acknowledged as a global city dweller, counts the minutes.
This watch is produced in an edition of 100 and each one is numbered on the back.
Other watches by Mr Jones Watches include Cyclops, where a black hoop counts hours on coloured circles, and The Last Laugh, which tells the time through numbers on the teeth of a skull.
Dezeen Watch Store is a carefully curated online store specialising in watches by named designers and boutique brands.
Competition: we’ve teamed up with bi-monthly publication Architectural Design to give away five copies of their latest issue, Experimental Green Strategies.
The book highlights the work of 14 architecture firms from around the world that are researching experimental sustainability and implementing their findings into built projects.
Featured studios include Atelier Ten, Aedas, Biomimicry Guild, Foster + Partners, 3XN/GXN, Hoberman Associates, Nikken Sekkei, Perkins and Will, Rau and more.
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“Silversmith” sounds like a stodgy profession steeped in history and the old way of doing things, but UK-based Charlotte Tollyfield has made a career out of breathing new life into the craft. Tollyfield—whose official job title is “Designer Silversmith”—pushes silver to its limits, using traditional techniques of press-forming and spinning to create modern forms intended more for utility than decoration. As she writes:
My current work is designed for the interactive environment of the dining table where the silver is not just on display but also something to be actively used. The work has both a visual and tactile appeal, causing the viewer to look with their hands as well as their eyes. To me an object is not complete until it has fulfilled its role so a sugar bowl is not a sugar bowl until it has had sugar dispensed from it.
Pictured up top are her Square Pot Pourri Bowl and Tri-Bowl #2; below, her Interchangeable Octagonal Napkin Rings/Tealight Holders and Whiskey Tumblers; and bottom-most is her Square Teapot, a newer creation for which she recently won the Best New Merchandise Award at the prestigious Goldsmiths’ Fair in London.
As any pensive puppet frog will tell you, it’s not easy being green—unless you have access to Diana Balmori. The landscape and urban designer works at the interface of nature and structure (to wit: Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, written with Joel Sanders and freshly published by Monacelli). Her New York-based firm continues to push the boundaries with innovative green roofs, floating islands, and temporary landscapes that get people talking in more ways than one. On Tuesday, November 15, Balmori will be the one doing the talking, as she sits down for a conversation with Peter Reed, MoMA’s senior deputy director of curatorial affairs, at 92nd Street Y. She will show slides of her work, discuss the role of landscape in today’s cities, and explain her vision of life-enhancing design. Tickets are available here, and you can save 25% off by entering discount code UNBEIGE11.
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The love affair between design legend Neville Brody and the D&AD apparently continues unabated. In the summer, he was given the organization’s President’s Award and just three months later, was named its upcoming new Vice President. Now, corresponding with the red-letter year in which he’ll be serving in the post, he’s designed the D&AD’s 50th anniversary branding. Design Week reports that the identity is called “Forward 50″ and features the logo next to a nicely set Futura “50″. Brody describes it as “timeless and yet simultaneously contemporary” and told DW, “We like the way it comes off the page and can be used in any piece of text, as well as in web addresses – conveying the message that everything this year has special significance, without labouring the point.”
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Has it already been nearly a year since the explosion of controversy surrounding the National Portrait Gallery‘s decision to pull artist David Wojnarowicz‘s video piece, “A Fire in My Belly,” from their exhibition “HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” You’ll likely remember all about it, the whole story of the Smithsonian removing the work, which at one point depicts ants crawling over a religious icon, after numerous groups complained. It was, after all, seemingly the only thing the art world wanted to talk about for months (and was clearly still vying for the “#1 Art Story of 2011″ until the even more discussed Ai Weiwei news broke). Well if you were hoping to add an annual tradition to your winter, something that fell before Thanksgiving and the December holidays, it looks like it’s being established again in Wojnarowicz-Gate, Part Two. The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to run the exhibition beginning next Friday, and already groups are lined up to complain about the piece. The NY Daily News reports that religious groups, in particular the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, are now asking that the piece be once again removed from a museum. However, we have a feeling that, despite being occasionally gun shy around controversy (like with the cancellation of “Art in the Streets”), the Brooklyn Museum knew exactly what it was getting into and both it, as well as the press (and likely heavily weighted toward the latter), aren’t minding the extra attention at all.
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{All images by Dutch photographer Marjon Hoogervorst}
Have you read part 1 of my series Living in Kuala Lumpur…the Good yesterday it started with the Good and how we enjoyed living in Damansara Heights the last 4,5 years.
But oh boy did we make a mistake by moving to this gated community. It has been one disappointement after the other. After having all sorts of trouble with our new landlord, broken promises, we received a 'warm-welcome' letter from the management office telling us: Get rid off your dog 'or else'… wow that was a shocker especially when nobody had told us before pets were not allowed … would we have choosen this house with this information given uprfront… no of course not!… We as Dutchies take rules very seriously… so we started searching for a new home for this little fellow…
It has caused me a couple of nights of no sleep and stress, how to explain to the kids that Poppy had to go and where should he go to? Luckily for me we have a wonderful, amazing and fantastic group of friends here in Malaysia and soon we were able to find a great new home for poppy with a family living in yes one of those bungalows :):)…
Ok, problem solved, let's move forward, keep thinking positive and think of all the things we love so much here… FOOD, yes just like all the Malaysians we Love the local food … the way we talk about the weather in the Netherlands, Malaysians talk about food and we have started to join them in this nice ritual… before breakfast, you think lunch, before lunch you think snack and before snack you think diner …. and the die-hards will go for antoher two meals in the evening and night… :):)
But the taste of malaysia soon became bittersweet again after yet a CRAZY incident in our new gated community… my kids officially are 'Offenders' now. A management officer and a guard made pictures of our two boys and our nanny outside our front door while playing and told her my boys should play INSIDE our house! The thing that upset me most was the 'picture-taking' thing, that is a NO-GO for me! I, at all times will protect my kids from crazy people wanting to have pictures on their cell-phones from my beautiful looking boys without my permission! Luckily the management officer understood this too, so he deleted the pics.
Perhaps you wonder why in the first place did he come over and took pictures, well the idea behind it: Use it as evidence. Evidence to show in a letter to all residents that placing cones outside your house (clearly we did this for safety reasons) is unacceptable conduct behaviour… just quoting the letter which they hang on note-boards in the common areas to let other residents know. Instead of the mobile phone pics they used a picture from the CCTV camera. So my boys and nanny are now evidence material in a copy to all the residents that did is not allowed. Yes they did make the faces black so you can't recognise them… but come on what are we doing here??
After many emails going back and forth the last week, protest bike rides on the street and meetings with other concerned parents about the so called unacceptable behaviour by our kids we now have reached an understanding that kids are allowed to play and bike outside. Funny he… that we moved to this community to be safe and free!
The thing that surprises me most is why not discuss this face-to-face, ask our nanny, where is the mother, can I talk to her and tell me can you please remove the cones and tell your kids to play inside… what kind of OVER-THE-TOP response is this AGAIN??? Just so you know both my husband and I were inside our house. It feels like the guards are there to protect the residents from each others behaviour … instead of looking to the outside…
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You as an international reader probably wonder is this normal for Malaysia, my answer is NO not at all. These are just incidents with this community. Malaysians are in my opinion very friendly, they love children and they approach life in a very relaxed, easy-going way. Schools are fantastic here, a lot of choice with very good education. It is easy to make friends and you are in the heart of South-Asia, which is a beautiful part of the world and I'm happy to share this with you on Monday
Part 3 of my series Living in Kuala Lumpur… the Beautiful
… with many pictures from again Marjon Hoogervorst. We will take you on a tour to Chinatown, a great shop, flowers, and local shops.
Someone asked me yesterday in the first post where the beautiful curtains come from… I love them too, they were given to me by the grandmother of my brother-in-law. The colors and fabric are fantastic and I believe they are about 35 years old!! The illustration hanging on the wall was a present from Ana Ventura… you know my friend from Portugal.
ps. Marjon Hoogervorst visited me for one week here in Malaysia, and we have tons a bautiful images also from some great homes, if you are interetsed to see more, just shoot her an email.
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