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Moving Moving is a unique concept that marries a docking station with a mini portable projector. The idea is to play songs as well as movies and videos on the go. I love the simple and interesting way the design has been combined. The docking station looks classy and with added functionality, it is revolutionary.

Designer: Dong Gyum Kim

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Mexican studio JSa has installed a walnut-lined wing to the José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City to house the personal book collection of celebrated author Carlos Monsiváis (+ slideshow).

The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library is one of five new spaces created inside the public library as part of the City of Books initiative, which asked five different architects to showcase the literary influences of a popular Mexican thinker. JSa‘s interior is the last to complete, following wings dedicated to poet Alí Chumacero, diplomat Antonio Castro Leal, academic José Luis Martínez and writer Jaime García Terrés.

The library occupies a long and narrow double-height space. Staircases are positioned on both sides and lead up to a first-floor mezzanine that runs around the outside of the room.

Bookshelves stretch up to the ceiling throughout the space. The size and proportions of the shelves vary, creating an arrangement of books intended to reflect the layout in the writer’s original library.

“Carlos Monsiváis lived in chaos,” JSa told Dezeen. “He had stacks of books everywhere; it was a disaster but he knew where everything was. All those stacks left tight spaces to walk through. We tried to reflect those spaces in the library to reflect the kind of way he lived.”

Single-person study spaces are located on the upper level and comprise a series of walnut desks and chairs, while larger spaces for groups occupy two areas on the ground floor.

Artworks by Mexican Francisco Toledo – a personal friend of Monsiváis – are dotted around the library and include a patterned marble floor.

JSa is led by Mexican architect Javier Sanchez and has offices in Mexico City and in Peru. This year the firm also completed Tabasco 127, a concrete residential block that features sheltered balconies.

See more libraries on Dezeen, including one inside a former chapel, one that appears to float over a pool of water and one inside a glass pyramid.

Photography is by Jaime Navarro.

Here’s some more information from JSa:

The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library

Located in the west wing of the “Jose Vasconcelos” Library in Mexico, the personal library of Carlos Monsivais will be a space where the personal collection created by the writer’s mind will be safeguarded for public use.

The architectural project has as a starting point a selection of specific characteristics of Carlos Monsivais and seeks to translate them into spatial qualities. Order within Chaos, is the first impression that inspired the architecture. The second guiding axis is the special relationship the writer had with the city. These two identifiers are interpreted and expressed in a space that generates a tour, guided using blocks that present various alternatives in three dimensions. The user must walk the site to understand it. The intention here is that despite the enclosure, the user may have different perceptions and experiences. The various blocks that generate the tours are formed by sets of bookshelves that vary in dimensions and textures and which generate different shades of color.

The library is done on two levels. What characterizes the first level is that it offers the possibility of several tours. It also has tight spaces because of the bookshelves that allude to the writer’s original library. The second level instead follows a circuit that allows an extensive view of the whole space. The different tours converge into two different open areas where one can read the collections. These areas have double height and natural light.

Above: ground floor plan

The library holds several art pieces of Francisco Toledo, renowned painter and sculptor, including the design of the marble floor, who was a close friend of the writer.

Above: first floor plan

All together, the different elements that make up the library seek to help bring the visitor closer to the writer.

Above: long section one

Above: long section two

Above: cross section

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Harry Beck, designer of the London Underground map, has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque, unveiled today at Beck’s birthplace in Leyton

London Transport Museum director Sam Mullins unveiled the plaque at 14 Wesley Road, Leyton, E10, marking the 80th anniversary of the introduction of Beck’s revolutionary design and the 150th of the London Underground system.

Beck’s original 1933 map

Mullins said: “Beck’s map was revolutionary in its simplicity. It has become a London icon and influenced the design of many Metro maps across the globe, as well as being the inspiration for many contemporary artists and designers. His work forms part of the overall design ethic of Transport for London and its predecessor organisations, and his original artwork for the London map and the Paris Metro are both on display in London Transport Museum’s Design for Travel gallery.”

There is already an ‘unofficial’ blue plaque for Beck in London. In 2003, The Finchley Society placed one of their versions at 60 Court House Gardens, West Finchley where Beck lived from 1936 – 1960. Details here

Photograph: sleepymyf

Harry Beck. Image courtesy Ken Garland

Beck was born in Leyton, the son of Joshua and Eleanor Beck, who themselves had been born and raised in nearby West Ham. He spent roughly two years at Wesley Road before moving to Highgate.

In 1925 he started working for London Transport as an engineering draughtsman in the London Underground Signal Engineer’s office. It was during one spell in between jobs, in 1931, that he produced his first design for a diagrammatic map.

The last Beck version of the tube map was published in 1960. However, Beck ws then involved in what his official biography refers to as “a simmering dispute over its remodelling by other designers [which] led to an unbridgeable rift with his former employers. Despite this he continued to work on updated designs on his own, featuring the new Victoria Line as a neat diagonal in lilac; these were never used, and nor were the elegant prototypes he produced for the Paris Metro map. Beck was notably ahead of the game in producing a version of his London map showing all train services, underground and overground, as early as 1938; this was then deemed too complex for publication, but an integrated diagrammatic map of this sort is now ubiquitous.”

CR subscribers can read abut the latest attempts to improve on Beck’s original design in the March issue of the magazine (a special issue dedicated to the London Underground) or online here. All the content from the March issue (which is now sold out in print) can also be found on our iPad app.

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Paulo Wang nous propose avec cette vidéo d’animation « Splash » de découvrir sa maîtrise incroyable de la modélisation et du travail 3D des fluides. Une création nécessitant l’utilisation plusieurs logiciels pour un rendu d’un réalisme époustouflant, présenté sur une musique de Pretty Lights. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.