Apr 28
Meze 11 Classics wood earphones
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The 11 Classics earphones are the most portable of the Meze Classics range combining high-end audio quality with portability and style. 8mm custom dri..
Apr 28
Monday’s quick start: Bernaer design from Belgium
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My dear Dutch friend who live in Brussels and writes this wonderful travel tips blog, GoMarjo, send me a link about Bernaer design from Belgium … assuming I would lke it …. and yes she knows me very well I love it!
And this is just the start for this week… later today an awesome house tour when we visit BuroJet in the Netherlands. Hope to se you back!
Apr 28
Blockhouse by AZL Architects
Posted in: AZL Architects, NanjingWalls appear to be peeling back from the facade of this house by Chinese office AZL Architects, one of 24 architect-designed buildings underway in a forest near Nanjing, China.
The house forms part of the Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) programme, which was first conceived back in 2003 as a showcase of modern architecture featuring 11 buildings by Chinese studios and 13 more by architects from abroad. A total of 20 houses are planned for the site in Laoshan National Forest Park, as well as an art museum by Steven Holl, a conference centre by Arata Isozaki, a hotel by Liu Jiakun and a leisure centre by the late Ettore Sottsass.
For his contribution, Zhang Lei of AZL Architects designed a four-storey house with layered concrete walls, intended to resemble the curling forms of traditional Chinese scrolls. Each opening provides a wide aperture, framing views of the surrounding woodland from balconies that wrap the perimeter.
“The concept of Blockhouse is almost the living attitude of many Chinese; a minimal opening to the surrounding landscape is the only perforation of the richness inside the house,” say the architects.
Rooms are contained within a glass volume at the centre of the structure. A living and dining room occupies the ground floor, while the five bedrooms required by the brief are located upstairs along with bathrooms and a study.
A staircase leads up to the roof, where a wooden terrace and swimming pool sit just above the treetops.
Blockhouse is part of the first batch of completed CIPEA houses. Although each one is designed as a functioning home, none of the houses will be lived in and will instead serve as an extension of Holl’s Nanjing Sifang Art Museum, scheduled to open later this year.
See more stories about architecture in China, including a kindergarten in Tianjin and a museum for wooden sculptures in Harbin.
Photography is by Yao Li.
Here’s a little more information from AZL Architects
CIPEA No.4 House / AZL architects
Situated in Laoshan Forest to the west of central Nanjing city, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) began in 2003 to bring twenty-four renowned international & domestic architects together onto one site. CIPEA consist of four public buildings and twenty small houses, in accordance with the brief, the houses should have at least five bedrooms, public spaces and hospitality accommodations on 500 square meters.
The Number Four “Blockhouse” sits on a particularly valley site, nestling the house into the landscape. In the spirit of a pagoda, four cubic floors are stacked vertically, allowing for minimal site excavation and land use. The ground floor features living and dining spaces quietly enveloped in the surrounding forest and overlooking a stream, and a communal roof terrace rises to just above the trees. The roof merges into the landscape as another living space, complete with pool and wooden deck within the panorama of the forest. The geometric shape is sculpted from concrete and finished in a white protection surface.
The concept of Blockhouse is almost the living attitude of many Chinese; a minimal opening to the surrounding landscape is the only perforation of the richness inside the house. The horizontal break of each floor – in combination with larger unique curved apertures on each floor – frame vistas in the spirit of Chinese landscape scrolls. Prescribed views have a long tradition in Chinese art history and traditional Chinese gardens, designed to make the viewer reconsider and contemplate the landscape.
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Architect in Charge: Zhang Lei
Project Team: Zhang Lei, Jeffrey Cheng, Wang Wang, Wang Yi
Collaborator: Architectural Design & planning Institute, NJU
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project year: 2008-2012
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Apr 28
Paintings by Field
Posted in: 000 Digital Paintings, 000 unique digital paintings, 10, digital paint, digital painting, GF SmithL’agence FIELD a été invitée à réfléchir aux possibilités illimitées de l’impression de créations digitales. Ces derniers ont proposé la création de 10 000 artworks pour la brochure de GF Smith. Une idée utilisant une sculpture complexe générée afin de créer des œuvres uniques à découvrir dans la suite en images.
Apr 28
ListenUp: New music and a look at the lives of music legends George Jones and Richie Havens
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Richie Havens: Freedom Sweating and strumming the guitar with artistic force, folk singer Richie Havens opened up Woodstock in ’69 with a three-hour-long, 11-song set that culminated with “Freedom.” A star on the rise, the Brooklyn…
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Apr 28
Milan 2013: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created chunky grey seating resembling the jagged forms of an iceberg for Swedish furniture brand Offecct.
Massaud’s Airberg collection for Offecct comprises a long sofa and a chunky chair, both with an asymmetrical backrest.
“Airberg consists of a structural case that gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material,” explained Offecct.
The collection, currently still in prototype form, is one of the first results from the new Offecct Lab research and development initiative.
The design was presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan alongside UNStudio’s curvy red seating for Offecct – see all news and products from Milan 2013.
Massaud recently collaborated with auto maker Toyota to create an “anti-crisis” concept car with plastic bodywork and a bamboo bonnet – see all design by Jean-Marie Massaud.
Other Offecct furniture we’ve published recently includes a chair by Japanese studio Nendo that flicks out like a flowing cape and a sofa with a winged backrest by Spanish designer Carlos Tíscar – see all design by Offecct.
Here’s some more information from Offecct:
Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions.
Airberg is one of the first results to come out of the work at Offecct Lab, a strategic initiative designed to concentrate Offecct’s efforts in the development of new solutions and new products. Airberg is not ready for production yet, but should be seen as a result of an ongoing R&D process where Offecct and Jean-Marie Massaud dared to develop a piece of seating furniture for the meeting places of the future.
The inspiration behind the form of Airberg is a combination of a comfortable, inviting piece of seating furniture and an iceberg filled with vacuum. The furniture’s abstract form is light in its expression and Airberg is contemporary both in its design and in the technique used.
“Offecct is prominent in offering the market a strong and varied product selection. This means that with Airberg I could take a step further and break with conventions and question existing norms of what a piece of seating furniture usually looks like,” says Jean-Marie Massaud.
Airberg consists of a structural case which gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material. The unique craftsmanship used in the production of Airberg makes it possible to create a deconstructed piece of furniture that is more defined in its asymmetry. Jean-Marie Massaud has created a piece of furniture that is comfortable, sustainable and competent, making it highly contemporary.
“Offecct has always worked continuously with product development and lately we have intensified our efforts to taking yet another step in creating innovative and challenging products for the international market,” says Kurt Tingdal, CEO, Offecct.
“With Airberg, Offecct, together with Jean-Marie Massaud, take a great leap in that direction resulting in a unique piece of furniture that has to be experienced,” Kurt Tingdal concludes.
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Apr 28
Dezeen archive: thatch
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Dezeen archive: we’ve published a few buildings covered in thatch recently, so here’s a roundup of more examples from the Dezeen archives. See all our stories about thatched architecture »
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Apr 28
Milan 2013: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola unveiled a chair with a backrest wrapped in rush for Italian brand Moroso in Milan this month.
Patricia Urquiola’s Mathilda chair for Moroso has a curved plywood backrest, which comes encased in woven rush or in fabric and is bound to the A-shaped wooden legs with a contrasting colour.
Urquiola presented the chair alongside seats made from rigid felt at Moroso’s stand at Salone Internazionale del Mobile – see Dezeen’s round-up of the best furniture and lighting from Salone and see all news and products from Milan 2013.
Other designs created by Urquiola for Moroso include a sofa inspired by traditional patterns from Uzbekistan and a woven chair on a tubular steel frame – see all Moroso design.
We recently featured Urquiola’s collection of ice cream coloured poufs and rugs and a movie by Dezeen in which she explains why most kitchen design is “too masculine” – see all design by Patricia Urquiola.
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Apr 27
One Minute Wonders
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One Minute Wonders is a series of video portraits featuring people telling their personal story in 60 seconds flat
Apr 27
Hanging Canvas Furniture
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‘Hanging Canvas Furniture’ called canvas, created by Japanese design studio YOY, presented at Salone..(Read…)
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