Jul 24
Il fotografo olandese Erik Klein Wolterink ha ripreso questa serie di interni di cucine in una sorta di collage a raggi-x.
Jul 24
Book Review: 100 Interiors Around the World
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Taschen’s latest release is a hefty, two-volume tour of, as the title suggests, “100 Interiors Around the World.” Organized alphabetically, the set gives the reader a peek into a hundred breathtaking houses, apartments, penthouses and villas from Acapulco to Zurich, fourteen of which are located in Paris alone. You’ll see many familiar names—both the homes’ owners and their architects and interior designers. No interiors or architecture compendium would be complete without Mies van der Rohe’s beautifully spare, gridded Barcelona Pavilion that he designed in 1929 in marble, onyx and travertine and filled with his signature furnishings. His aesthetics are echoed throughout many of the pages, as are those of Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and interior designers Louis Kahn and Tadao Ando. The pages brim with prime examples of Modernism, NeoClassical, Colonial and Art Deco; We even get a glimpse of the NeoGothic in the Red House, “the cradle of the Arts and Crafts movement,” built in the English town of Bexleyheath in 1859 for William Morris, who sought to counter the influx of inferior industrial products at the time with high quality craftsmanship.
Aside from access to products and materials of the highest quality and premium locations, another thing that sets these homes apart is the generous communal seating areas for receiving guests as well as spacious, indulgent bathrooms – freestanding tubs that overlook jaw-dropping vistas straight out of an issue of National Geographic. There are gilded bathtubs, claw-footed basins—even one that sits in a wooden boat—but the best of the bunch belongs to architect Ken Crosson, who designed a tub on wheels for his Coromandel, New Zealand vacation house. Conceived as the ultimate getaway, there’s no dishwasher, TV or computer—sounds like paradise. The home is equipped with two exterior facing walls that can be raised and lowered like drawbridges to become outdoor patios, as well as the aforementioned bathtub that can be filled indoors and then rolled outside for a soak under the stars.
Other homes of note include Chris Boros’ penthouse, which resides atop a four-story above ground air-raid bunker in Berlin that he uses to store his art collection, which he makes available to the public. His sparse, contemporary furnishings and large artwork contrast beautifully with the bare concrete walls. “Only art has the power to turn a bunker into something that is relevant to us today,” he said of the space.
Jul 24
Floss Trainer
Posted in: dental, Floss, flossing, hygiene, ToothbrushPeople’s inconsistency in flossing has less to do with not liking the process and more to do with issues of memory and habit development. With this in mind, the Oral Care Habit Development Device was designed into the toothbrush holder as a convenient way to measure and cut floss directly from the holder. The device also includes a timer that gives the user a visual signal and audible beep and can even be controlled with a smartphone app!
Designer: Christopher Santos
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Jul 24
Watch craftsman Paul Cunningham create a custom piece
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With a deep-seated love of sports and an intuitive attraction to leather, Paul Cunningham implements his old-world craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail into every Leather Head piece he creates. In our video, Paul walks us through the unique process of taking what he calls “the infinite palette that leather presents” to produce a the one-of-a-kind piece for the Jeep brand and USA Basketball and “Believe” Capsule Collection.
Jul 24
Movie: Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi Olympic Arena by Harvard University design students
Posted in: Harvard University, public and leisureMovie: shadows dance across the surface of Kenzo Tange’s 1964 Olympic stadium in Tokyo in this animation by graduate design students at Harvard University.
Emmet Truxes and Nathan Shobe worked alongside four other students to construct a computer model that analyses the structural joinery of the arena’s tensile roof, before creating this animation showing each detail in turn.
Japanese architect Tange completed the Yoyogi Olympic Arena in 1958 with the help of engineer Yoshikatsu Tsuboi and it is currently used as a football stadium by a number of Japanese teams.
See more animations on Dezeen here »
Movie soundtrack is by Gray Reinhard.
Here’s some more explanation from architecture professor Mark Mulligan:
As we approach the centennial of Kenzo Tange’s birth (2013) and the 50th anniversary of the Tokyo Olympics (2014), the time seems right for a renewed appreciation of what many would call this architect’s greatest masterpiece: the 1964 Olympic Arenas at Yoyogi. The Main Arena’s complex structure, designed in collaboration with engineer Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, houses 15,000 spectators and features an innovative tensile roof inspired by suspension bridge technology. Tange’s particular genius shows in the arena’s exuberant exterior form, refined structural detailing, and interior daylighting.
This animated video began as a project for the GSD course “Innovative Constructions in modern Japan”, for which I asked a team of six students to model the Yoyogi Main Arena based on original drawings, and to analyze it in constructional terms. Of particular interest was the design of structural joinery that could accommodate continuous geometric change in the roof form during construction as successive layers were added. What emerged from this study, however, was something a great deal more fascinating – and challenging – than what we had anticipated. Rendering the computer models revealed how the arena’s elusive, curvilinear form radically transforms before our eyes, depending on viewing angle and sun position. Two students, Emmet Truxes and Nathan Shobe, continued working on the video after the class had ended to produce a lyrical meditation on the atmospherics of the Yoyogi Arena, with an original soundtrack contributed by Gray Reinhard.
Looking back now from an era whose advances in computer technology have given us a great deal of certainty in visualizing and evaluating complex structures, we are awed by the thought that Tange and Tsuboi produced such a work fifty years ago using only the most basic computing power, physical models, and a great number of drawings made by hand.
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Jul 24
RSA print exhibition in aid of Kids Company
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Usually Fucking Raining by James Copeman
RSA FIlms is hosting an exhibition of photographic prints by its directors at KK Outlet in London this Thursday, with all the prints auctioned on the night in aid of the charity Kids Company. Here’s a glimpse of some of the prints that will be on show…
Legalise Cannabis Rally, Hyde Park by Dean Freeman
Inside Battersea Power Station by Nick Livesey
Kate & Kubrick by Sean Ellis
Untitled by Adam Powell
The exhibition is curated by RSA’s James Lucas and will kick off at 7pm at KK Outlet in Hoxton Square this Thursday (July 26). The event is strictly invite-only so if you’d like to attend, and be in with a chance of buying a print, email ewise@rsafilms.co.uk.
Jul 24
Antagonist Yacht
Posted in: Antagonist, Art of Kinetik, yaughtDécouverte de Art of Kinetik, un constructeur de yachts luxueux qui lance son dernier projet et modèle appelé sobrement « Antagonist ». En bois, ce bateau magnifique est conçu avec 2 moteurs de 370 chevaux chacun. Un design et des lignes élégantes à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Jul 24
Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards 2012! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
Eco-distillery, salt water to fresh drinking water in a day.
ELIODOMESTICO
Designer: Gabriele Diamanti
Location: Milan, Italy
Category: Social Impact
Award: Professional Winner
This year’s Professional Winner for Social Impact by Gabriele Diamanti, “Eliodomestico” is an improvement over current water filtration system. As we wrote on Core77 when we first learned about the project, the simple, straight forward construction keeps production costs down and is made from readily available materials. In addition Diamanti himself promotes innovation and modification of “Eliodomestico” to further its beneficial attributes.
Eliodomestico is an open-source eco-distiller, running on solar power, to provide safe drinking water for people in developing countries. It’s a very simple way to produce freshwater, starting from sea or brackish water. The device produces 5 liters daily, through a direct solar-powered distillation process. Eliodomestico works without filters nor electricity, and requires minimal maintenance.
How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
It was 1pm here in Italy so I was having my lunch break looking at the live jury announcements on the award website. I was so excited that I decided to switch the audio off and follow the results on twitter!
What’s the latest news or development with your project?
During the summer I’ll have the opportunity to test it further thanks to the many sunny days and with the help of some people who have fallen in love with this project. I have a huge list of people and organizations to say thanks to, many whom will help me in the up and coming stages. I’m always looking for collaborators, because this project needs a big effort to become widely known and produced by the local craftsmen. I hope I’ll also have the opportunity to start some production personally in the field. I need to take a closer look at the production issues, to refine the process.
Materials like terracotta and clay allow for local production.
What was an “a-ha” moment from this project?
When I made the very first prototype, I created an experiment to test if the steam could be forced down through the pipe or not. So I put a bottle of water under the evaporator with the end of the pipe, 5cm under the water level. When I saw the pipe end bubbling in the water, I was very happy. In that moment I understood that my insights were correct, and I kept following the path…
Diagram of distillation process, no mechanical or moving parts.
Jul 24
Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards 2012! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com
Eco-distillery, salt water to fresh drinking water in a day.
ELIODOMESTICO
Designer: Gabriele Diamanti
Location: Milan, Italy
Category: Social Impact
Award: Professional Winner
This year’s Professional Winner for Social Impact by Gabriele Diamanti, “Eliodomestico” is an improvement over current water filtration system. As we wrote on Core77 when we first learned about the project, the simple, straight forward construction keeps production costs down and is made from readily available materials. In addition Diamanti himself promotes innovation and modification of “Eliodomestico” to further its beneficial attributes.
Eliodomestico is an open-source eco-distiller, running on solar power, to provide safe drinking water for people in developing countries. It’s a very simple way to produce freshwater, starting from sea or brackish water. The device produces 5 liters daily, through a direct solar-powered distillation process. Eliodomestico works without filters nor electricity, and requires minimal maintenance.
How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
It was 1pm here in Italy so I was having my lunch break looking at the live jury announcements on the award website. I was so excited that I decided to switch the audio off and follow the results on twitter!
What’s the latest news or development with your project?
During the summer I’ll have the opportunity to test it further thanks to the many sunny days and with the help of some people who have fallen in love with this project. I have a huge list of people and organizations to say thanks to, many whom will help me in the up and coming stages. I’m always looking for collaborators, because this project needs a big effort to become widely known and produced by the local craftsmen. I hope I’ll also have the opportunity to start some production personally in the field. I need to take a closer look at the production issues, to refine the process.
Materials like terracotta and clay allow for local production.
What was an “a-ha” moment from this project?
When I made the very first prototype, I created an experiment to test if the steam could be forced down through the pipe or not. So I put a bottle of water under the evaporator with the end of the pipe, 5cm under the water level. When I saw the pipe end bubbling in the water, I was very happy. In that moment I understood that my insights were correct, and I kept following the path…
Diagram of distillation process, no mechanical or moving parts.
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