Dec 31
Dec 31
Happy new year from Dezeen
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Happy new year from the Dezeen team! We’ve had a brilliant year so thanks to all our readers and we’re looking forward to exciting things in 2013.
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Dec 31
Philips Tests the New, Improved Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball
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It’s hard to believe the Times Square ball that NYC drops every New Year’s used to be a five-foot affair (above) made of wood, iron and incandescent bulbs. Now, of course, it looks like this:
The iconic sphere ballooned to 12 feet in diameter, like it’s chasing Indiana Jones. It also weighs a whopping 12,000 pounds, covered as it is in 12,256 Philips LED bulbs that can change color. It’s also getting greener, as you’ll see in the video below:
Hope everyone has a good holiday!
Dec 31
(Photo: Matthu Placek)
With an opening sandwiched between Hurricane Sandy and Art Basel Miami Beach, the Parrish Art Museum’s breathtaking new home in Water Mill, New York may have escaped your notice. In fact, that’s one of its charms. The Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is a stealth beauty, an extruded artist’s studio that appears as a bleached, barn-like structure set at a jaunty angle to Montauk Highway. We’re declaring the new Parrish our 2012 Building of the Year and urge you to make a New Year’s resolution to pay a visit.
“When we started to work on this project, one of the first things we did was visit artists’ studios here on the East End of Long Island,” Ascan Mergenthaler, the Herzog & de Meuron senior partner who was in charge of the $26.2 million Parrish project, told us last month at the museum’s opening. “We took the artist’s studio—the classic one, a house-shaped typology with north-facing skylights–as a role model for all the galleries that you find in this building.”
Set on property that was once a tree nursery (now a meadow studded with native plants masterminded by the landscape whisperers at Reed Hilderbrand), the 34,400-square-foot building is formed by a pair of rough and cloudy concrete walls that span 600 feet across and are edged, ingeniously, in a ledge that provides abundant outdoor seating and a human scale to all of that rugged horizontality. “The scheme was very simple,” added Mergenthaler. “We only had to add a porch and covered space [which extends off of the café and around the back] so that the outdoor space also becomes an inhabited space. And then you blur the boundaries between outdoor and indoor. We thought that was very important.”
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Dec 31
Jose Cuervo Tequila sculpture
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Jose Cuervo is the leading brand of tequila. The project aims to make a intervention to the icon of the brand, the “crow”. The proposal made is a bala..
Dec 31
Se avete in casa un tremolante chihuahua e non sapete come sfruttarlo, eccovi qui 10 consigli.
Dec 31
Adam “MCA” Yauch Cover The New York Times
Posted in: UncategorizedIl NYT ha pubblicato l’ultimo numero dell’anno ai miti scomparsi durante il 2012. La cover è stata così dedicata ad Adam Yauch. Ci mancherai MCA.
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