Soe Cup series

Soe Cup series is a simple and beautiful way to storage and present little items like jewellery, various decorative articles, or even small blossoms. ..

Dezeen archive: bricks

Dezeen archive: bricks

Dezeen archive: we’ve built up a collection of projects that use bricks in interesting ways for our latest look back at the Dezeen archive. See more bricks in architecture and design »

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Dublin UNESCO City of Literature stamp by The Stone Twins

Postage Stamp by The Stone Twins

Dutch creative agency The Stone Twins did away with the usual imagery and photos when asked to design this postage stamp, using only words to tell a short story.

Launched by Irish post office An Post, the stamp is intended to celebrate Dublin’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, but The Stone Twins wanted to promote young literary talent rather than the city’s heritage.

“The design solution is quite unorthodox and avoids the usual visual cliches, such as images or quotes from the giants of Irish literature such as Joyce, Beckett, Yeats and Wilde,” they explain.

The completed stamp features a competition-winning story by teenager Eoin Moore that seeks to capture the essence of Dublin. The 200-word story is printed over a fluorescent yellow background on a standard stamp measuring 40x30mm.

Other unconventional postage stamps from recent years include one that consists of a tiny eight-page book and one with braille surfaces. See more stamp design on Dezeen.

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It’s Not About the Nail

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Old Market Square Stage by 5468796 Architecture

Twenty-thousand pieces of aluminium form a chain-mail blanket over this concrete performance venue in Winnipeg by Canadian firm 5468796 Architecture.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

The Old Market Square Stage, also known as The Cube, was designed by 5468796 Architecture as the centrepiece of a recently remodelled public square by landscape architects Scatliff+Miller+Murray.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

The chain-mail hangs like a curtain over the facade of the structure. During performances it can be hauled up out of the way to reveal a stage, while at other times it functions as a protective screen, shielding the interior.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

“[It] throws out the old bandshell concept on the grounds that when a conventional stage is not in use it would look forlorn,” say the architects, explaining their concept for a structure that can “hibernate” during the city’s long winters.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

Lighting fixtures and a projector have both been installed inside The Cube, allowing colours, images and movies to be projected over the metal surfaces.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

A lawn in front of the structure doubles-up as a spectator area during performances, while a line of curving benches provide seating around the edges of the square.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture also recently completed another building in the city: an apartment block with mirrored balconies. See more architecture in Canada.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

Another building we’ve featured with a chain-mail exterior is the Kukje art gallery in Seoul designed by SO-IL.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

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OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture

“The Old Market Square Stage” (otherwise known as “The Cube”), OMS Stage for short, is an open-air performance venue situated in Old Market Square, an iconic green space and summer festival hub in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District. In 2009, 5468796 Architecture won an invited competition with a multi-functional design that throws out the old bandshell concept on the grounds that when a conventional stage is not in use it would look forlorn – especially through the city’s long winters.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

A concrete cube enclosed by a flexible metal membrane, The Cube functions as a multipurpose environment. The membrane is composed of 20,000 identical hollow aluminium pieces strung together on aircraft cables.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

The orientation of the pieces alternates, forming a flexible and shimmering curtain – a contemporary take on medieval chain mail, that can stand like a wall, be pulled in to reveal the performance space, or function as a light-refracting surface – allowing it to morph into a projection screen, performance venue, shelter or sculptural object. The curtain’s flexibility also allows for acoustical fine tuning.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture
Photograph by James Brittain

Internal lighting refracts through the mesh so that the The Cube softly glows on the outside. An internal projector also enables images to be projected on the front curtain. The membrane’s diamond extrusions capture and refract light and images to their outer surface, creating a unique pixel matrix for artists to appropriate at will.

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture

Architect: 5468796 Architecture Inc.
Client: Winnipeg Exchange District BIZ

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Project Area: 784 sqft (28’ x 28’)

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Lune – Leave the World Behind

Volvo présente cette vidéo réalisée en collaboration avec le trio Swedish House Mafia. Avec de superbes images filmées par Adam Berg, le titre « Lune – Leave The World Behind » met en scène les 3 producteurs au sein de paysages nordiques absolument magnifiques. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.

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Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

These images by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers document a series of ruined World War Two monuments dotted across the landscape of the former Yugoslavian territories.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Constructed during the 1960s and 70s by Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito, the concrete structures were designed by numerous architects and sculptors to demonstrate the strength of the socialist republic throughout the Balkan hills and valleys.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

After the dissolution of Yugoslavia many of the monuments were destroyed, but others lay forgotten and deserted, prompting Jan Kempenaers to make them the subject of his Spomenik photography series.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Kempenaers spent four years photographing the sculptures, completing the series in 2009. They go on show at London’s Breese Little gallery next month as part of the photographer’s first solo exhibition in the UK.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Photographer Jamie Young has undertaken a similar project to document the history of water towers in Ireland. See more photography projects on Dezeen.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Here’s some information about the exhibition:


Jan Kempenaers

Breese Little is delighted to announce Jan Kempenaers’ first solo exhibition in London. The show will present a selection of Kempenaers’ architectural and island studies in tandem with the renowned Spomenik series charting World War Two memorials built in the 1960s and ’70s across The Balkans in the former Yugoslavia.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Over the last decade, the Antwerp-based photographer has developed a heightened and conscientious aesthetic. Gradual metamorphosis is charted with shared inevitability in both the natural world and in response to mankind’s intervention.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Spatial arrangement is privileged across abandoned utopian visions and cumulative urban sprawl. These images draw focus to the temporality of modernist ambitions, which nevertheless maintain their monumentality, an attraction of their natural counterparts.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Kempenaers’ architectural arrangements are counter-balanced with expansive seascapes in the exhibition, captured with an interchangeable formal awareness, characteristic of his practise.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Uniformly overcast skies suggest parallels across these scenes and suburbia, proposing the alternative conditions of visual interest in a post-industrial age.

Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers

Nevertheless, Kempenaers’ disinterested eye engenders a strict geometric awareness, distancing emotion from his subjects, which remain devoid of people.

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Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

A blackened steel counter continues into a mirrored wall in this Aesop skincare shop by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow).

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Torafu Architects installed a mirrored wall with a protruding counter in the long narrow shop for hair and skincare brand Aesop in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

The dark counter appears to extend into the reflected space, whilst a cubbyhole of products interrupts the mirrored wall.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Narrow windows along the top of the opposite wall were revealed during the renovation process, allowing light to filter down into the slender interior.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Rectangles of brown glass surround the doorway, referencing the trademark brown bottles that line the walls of the store housed in blackened steel shelves.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

An elongated demonstration sink sits just inside the entrance, also made from blackened steel, with a mirrored splashback from which simple garden taps protrude.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Reclaimed timber flooring marks the entrance to the shop and the remainder of the space is finished with sisal carpet.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Torafu Architects also designed Aesop’s Shin-Marunouchi store, in which chunky chipboard surfaces have been sanded and stained to look like marble.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

Earlier this month we featured Aesop’s East Hampton store which has shelves supported by dowels slotted into pegboard walls.

Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects

We also previously interviewed the founder of Aesop, who explained why no two Aesop stores are the same. Read the interview »

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For Australian skin care brand Aesop, we planned the interior and exterior of the new store on Meiji Street in Shibuya. The store is located on the first floor of a three-storey building situated between two taller buildings; the space is long and slender – 2.6m in width, 7.8m in depth and 3.9m in maximum height. We aimed to work with these proportions to provide a welcoming and intimate space for communication with customers.

The windows on one side wall, which appeared after demolishing of the former store’s interior, were the key for the design. On the wall opposite, we mounted a mirror to enhance scenery, extensity and light. The window located at the front of the store below has brown glass to represent Aesop’s traditional containers, and is incorporated in the shelves. In this way, the window is extended and the shelves are considered as a frame.

In order to limit the variety of the materials used, the shelves and counter are finished in blackened steel, which is also the basis for storage doors assimilated into the mortar wall or mirror wall; the basin that is Aesop’s feature is set near the entrance to effect a good view from the passage.

The door of the entrance and the facade sign are created from glass. The latter is composed of brown glass and corrugated glass, like patchwork – its colour and transparent appearance evoking Aesop’s brand image. A luminous sign on the wall and a selection of plants lend an outdoor atmosphere. As you move further into the interior, the floor texture changes from old wood to sisal carpet, subtly emphasising the transition from the busy street to the quietude of the store.

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