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News: campaigners are calling on the UK government to protect and expand minimum housing standards for space and natural light after an RIBA report revealed the average one-bed new build is only the size of a London Underground carriage.

An upcoming ministerial review could result in the government reducing or even abolishing the UK’s limited housing standards, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today warned as it ramped up its Homewise campaign for better quality homes.

Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4 show Grand Designs, filmed a short video on a Tube train to emphasise the cramped conditions of modern new builds and encourage the public to lobby their MPs.

An RIBA report, The Case for Space, recently revealed that the average one-bedroom new build home in the UK is 46 square metres – the same size as a Jubilee Line train carriage on the London Underground (above) – making them the smallest in western Europe.

Currently, London is the only place in the UK to have introduced legal minimum space standards for both public and private housing. Outside of the capital, minimum space standards only apply to publicly funded social housing.

“The country is in the grip of the worst housing crisis in decades,” said RIBA president Angela Brady. “In their rush to build the government must avoid the temptation to reduce current standards and give the go-ahead for builders to produce another generation of poor quality homes, without adequate space and natural light.”

Campbell Robb, chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, said: “Britain is one of the only countries in western Europe without space standards for house building, so it’s no wonder our new homes are the some of the smallest in the continent.”

British architect Terry Farrell was recently chosen to lead an independent review of the UK’s architecture policy, while earlier this year fellow architect Richard Rogers called on architects, planners and developers to redevelop brownfield sites and empty offices to help solve the UK’s housing crisis.

Photograph is by Andy Wilkes.

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Longtime authority on color and professional color standards Pantone announced the launch of PANTONEVIEW.COM, an online resource for everything color. “Catering to all color-conscious industries, PANTONEVIEW.com provides visual inspiration, direction and a global perspective on color from the world’s leading color experts so you can make more informed color decisions and perfect your color strategy.”

The platform offers analysis and reporting across six verticals, as well as news and live webcasted events with the experts.

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This is where we apply our policy of colour orientation and analysis product sector by product sector—apparel, homewares, interior design, graphic design, branding, gardening, industrial design, automotives and food to name a few. Here is where we want to build the common language of colour that will take our community of subscribers beyond their own areas of expertise by linking them to what’s happening in parallel areas of design.

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The subscription service “zeros in on the color zeitgeist and features comprehensive color direction, market validation and the psychology behind color trends.” For $24.95/mo. or $169.95/yr., “PANTONEVIEW.com includes forecasting and orientation where key color direction is mapped out six to 12 months ahead of the season, in addition to reporting and analysis as the season progresses, in order to provide color confirmation and any new color updates.”

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Découverte du travail de Pau García Laita qui nous propose sur la musique Starscapes de ‘The American Dollar’ de découvrir en time-lapse la ville de Barcelone de nuit. Cette belle création tournée au Canon 550D et appelée simplement « Midnight Barcelona » est à découvrir en HD dans la suite de l’article.

Tetris – Alexey Pajitnov 1984

When you think about what you might encounter at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Pac-Man and Tetris are generally not first on the list… if they’re on the list at all. Last month, MoMA opened the doors on their new exhibition ‘Applied Design,’ showcasing a range of designed objects, interfaces and interactions dealing with nearly every facet of society. One of the major highlights of the show is the controversial addition of 14 video games to MoMA’s permanent collection. The acquisition seems to toe the line between obvious and ridiculous, but we have to admit, MoMA is right on target for envisioning the modern museum collection of the digital age.

The 14 games, showcasing an array of videogames from traditional arcade, single-player fantasy to MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) were selected not on their graphic quality or aesthetics, but as exemplary pieces of interaction design.

Applied Design is the brainchild of Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, Paola Antonelli, who is no stranger to stretching the boundaries of the contemporary art museum (she was responsible for such shows as Talk to Me and Design and the Elastic Mind; for years she had been pushing to include a Boeing 747 in the permanent collection). The physical museum display of the games feels a little strange, appearing to transform part of the gallery into an arcade. From the collection of 14, about half of the games are playable for museum guests. Games employing longer narratives (Myst and the Sims among others) are displayed with a pre-recording to show the scope, while not letting guests interact directly.

As Antonelli says of her non-traditional acquisitions in MoMA’s Inside/Out Blog:

The process by which such unconventional works are selected and acquired for our collection can take surprising turns as well, as can the mode in which they’re eventually appreciated by our audiences. While installations have for decades provided museums with interesting challenges involving acquisition, storage, reproducibility, authorship, maintenance, manufacture, context—even questions about the essence of a work of art in itself—MoMA curators have recently ventured further.

Martin Azua – Basic House (1999)

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