At first glance, this art book looks out-of-date with its 1970s desaturated colors, as if salvaged from a garage sale. Co-published this year by PictureBox and art gallery Corbett…
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News: Google Street View has captured the inside of its first skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, allowing users to virtually explore the tallest building in the world.
Google Street View spent three days taking 360-degree images inside and outside the 163-storey tower so users can see from the lobby up to the world’s highest swimming pool on the 76th floor, the observation deck on the 124th floor and the spire 828 metres above the city – try it out here.
“This is the first time we are in this type of building, in an Arabic country, connecting indoor and outdoor,” says Street View program manager Pascal Malite in the making-of movie.
The team was able to roam inside the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill-designed building using trolleys and a device called Trekker, launched last year. The device fits all the equipment required to capture locations in one backpack, allowing operators to access spaces like the tower’s corridors and window-washing baskets on the 8oth floor.
“It allows you to go to all the places you want to go, like mountain trails, narrow passages, everywhere that no other device will fit,” says Malite. The technique has already been deployed to let Street View users explore the Grand Canyon and the Galapagos Islands are due to follow later this year.
In an interview with Dezeen last year, head of Google Maps John Hanke told us about the firm’s plans for Street View, hinting that it could link up with social networks for real-time information about who’s in a building and what’s happening there.
“Google has been working on this indoor location-mapping technology that allows you to get high-fidelity, high-accuracy location inside,” he said. “And you have all of these kind of real-time technologies for knowing about what’s going on, where your friends are, so I think we’re getting closer to that idea that you can know what’s happening at any place on the world at any time. It’s not fully realised yet, but we’re getting there.”
Hanke spoke to Dezeen to mark the UK launch of Field Trip, Google’s location-based publishing app that features Dezeen content. Read the full interview here.
In his latest Opinion column on how digital culture is changing urbanism, Sam Jacob discusses how Google Maps is redrawing the city through personalised maps according to the data it holds and “Google’s idea of what a city is and what it thinks you will do there.”
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill recently added another skyscraper to the Dubai skyline with the completion of the twisted Cayan Tower. Their Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010, is set to be overtaken as the world’s tallest building by the 1000-metre-tall Kingdom Tower that’s currently under construction in Jeddah.
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Turkish architects are creating line drawings of protest shelters and structures following the recent occupation of Istanbul’s Gezi Park.
Thousands of citizens took to the streets earlier this month to join one of Turkey’s largest anti-government demonstrations in decades and non-profit organisation Herkes Icin Mimarlik – which translates as Architecture For All – has since initiated an archive of photographs and drawings, documenting the makeshift shelters, tents, and other temporary structures that have been constructed.
“The protests in Istanbul indicated one simple thing for architects,” writes organisation co-founder Yelta Köm on the Tumblr page for the project. “We need new definitions for architecture in situations when architecture is removed from architects.”
He continues: “Each unique structure that we encounter in the streets and Gezi Park has its own in-situ design and implementation process. Documentation of these temporary structures is of huge importance for further examination, considering their limited life-cycle.”
A stage for speakers, a barricade made from benches and a communal dining table are already included in the archive, and Herkes Icin Mimarlik is asking for more submissions.
“We really want to document as much as possible,” says the team. “While we are drawing what we could find, we are also open to contribution from everyone.”
The demonstrations began last month, following a brutal police attack to remove a small group protesting the demolition of Gezi Park to make room for a new shopping mall.
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Here’s some more information from Herkes Icin Mimarlik:
As Herkes icin Mimarlik (Architecture for All), we believe in participatory architecture processes. The things that we saw in Gezi Park was really impressive examples of event architecture and we were naturally encouraged to document these unique stuff.
We have been struggling with this project since the time it was announced to public. We started with workshops in which we discussed the administration’s claims that the square and the park do not serve their purpose as a public space. The workshops gave birth to weekly ‘Gezi Park Festivals’. We publicised the event through social media channels, invited musicians, dancers and performance artists; organised workshops and games that would attract people. While 50 people attended the 1st Festival, our popularity raised rapidly and the 5th Festival received more than 500 people. With the festivals we tried to show to people who used Taksim Square but never passed by the park that Gezi Park is a calming place to spend time. Unfortunately, our festivals were not enough to stop the destruction process, so we started an online petition to save the park which requested an open and democratic design process. We tried everything to start a dialogue but were never successful. For a very long time, we had dreamed of an opposition which could stop the destruction. That miracle happened. Since the first days of the protests, all of us were scattered around the streets of Istanbul. We were communicating through our mail and watsapp group. Following days, some of us focused on online projects that could help the resistance.
We really want to document as much as possible. We tried to create an open database. While we are drawing what we could find, we are also open to contribution from everyone.
While we were in the park, we tried to photograph what we thought could be interesting. We also created a pool for photos from Facebook and Twitter. What we are interested is the use of the scrap materials, in-situ design solutions. It is also exciting to see how these structures become part of the community there and accepted.
We always define architecture with architects. But, Gezi Park was an atmosphere where all paradigms that we were used to has shifted to something else. We dont know what is the new definition, perhaps there will be many more definitions. We are seeking for a new one maybe, but we know that this new definition will be shaped by people, not only architects.
Creating a collective memory is really important when the government is trying to forget everything. The life cycle of these structures were really short so we had to document them. We believe it is way of passive resistance. We keep remembering what happened in Taksim. In a way we merged the practice and protest by using architecture as a tool to critic. We want to make a publishment after all this progress.
Idea & Project: Herkes İçin Mimarlık (Architecture for All)
Editor and Coordination: Yelta Köm
Contributors: Ayşe Selin Gürel, Beyza Derbentoğulları, Burçak Sönmez, Ceren Kılıç, Ceren Sözer, Erdem Tüzün, Erdem Üngür, Emre Gündoğdu, H. Cenk Dereli, Hayrettin Günç, Kerem Özcan, Merve Gül Özokçu, Yasemin Sünbül, Yelta Köm
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our penultimate movie recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan, New York designer Stephen Burks discusses the importance of having a design identity and journalist Henrietta Thompson explains why designers are starting to expand into retail.
Stephen Burks of Readymade Projects was one of the guest speakers at the series of workshops that were hosted in the MINI Paceman Garage during Milan design week.
“I really impressed upon the students that it was important to understand their own identity before choosing manufacturers to work with, before running off and making something,” he says of his talk. “I think now they have a better sense of what that identity can be.”
Henrietta Thompson, editor-at-large at Wallpaper magazine, believes that changes in manufacturing are enabling more and more designers to produce and sell their own products.
“There’s certainly a shift happening in the way that designers are taking much more control over exhibiting their own work and also selling their own work,” she says. “So you’ve actually got a new dynamic opening up and a lot of the galleries and the shows that you go to are actually retail environments as well.”
“You have a lot more designer-makers, so they’re making things in limited editions, which they’re then able to sell,” she adds.
“Because of all these new technologies coming in, which enable the way things are made to change dramatically, things can be made much cheaper. You’ve got 3D printing, which is completely changing the landscape as well. [A designer] can sell things online and actually distribute [their own work] fairly easily now.”
It’s not just designers that are moving into retail, Thompson suggests. “Magazines are getting into retail, exhibitions are getting into retail,” she says.
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be as cut-and-dry as ‘I’m a producer’, ‘I’m a designer’, ‘I’m a retailer’, ‘I’m a magazine’. Now everybody is doing all of those things all together.”
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The music featured in this movie is a track called Konika by Italian disco DJ Daniele Baldelli, who played a set at the MINI Paceman Garage. You can listen to more music by Baldelli on Dezeen Music Project.
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Andrea Chirichelli, giornalista, scrittore e videomaker con Marco Bassi in qualità di co-regista, hanno realizzato questo documentario intitolato ‘Illustratori’ incentrato sull’attività di quattro big del nostro panorama italiano: Alessandro “Shout” Gottardo, Emiliano Ponzi, Olimpia Zagnoli e Francesco Poroli. Per ora la versione integrale è stata presentata a vari festival e tutt’ora resta un inedito. In attesa di aggiornamenti, vi ho inserito teaser e locandina.
The Walkmen
Core77 is pleased to partner with Windows Phone to bring you a series of photo diaries this summer. Based on the theme of Reinvention, we’re looking to capture the fleeting moments and highlight the often-overlooked facets of the world around us through the lens of the Nokia Lumia 928, especially in the low-light settings in which its camera excels. (All photos were taken with the Nokia Lumia 928 smartphone and are published without postproduction unless otherwise noted.)
Reporting & photos by Ray Hu
It seems that there is an art/music/food and/or etc. festival every weekend here in New York City: this past weekend alone saw the Renegade Craft Fair, Make Music New York and the Mermaid Parade, among dozens of other events.
The Northside Festival, a celebration of music and multimedia, was the highlight of last weekend. The weather held up for the two-day lineup of outdoor concerts at the multi-purpose recreational area adjacent to McCarren Park, the nexus of the festival (satellite events took place throughout Williamsburg). About a dozen food and drink vendors extended along one corner of the concrete expanse while the stage occupied another corner; the Walkmen and Solange headlined Saturday and Sunday, respectively. The sets ended at 8pm sharp, due to local sound ordinances or other vagaries of public space usage, but the waning sunlight proved to be quite flattering for the performers.
Looking toward the Red Bull Creation tent from the concert area
However, the large tent opposite the comestibles proved to be the most interesting attraction. As with Garrison Architects’ modular structures at Rockaway Beach, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon the Red Bull Creation innovation competition—not just as a sight to behold but also because I had the Nokia Lumia 928 on hand to document the projects.
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Le designer Kevin Spencer revisite le célèbre fauteuil de Charles Eames façon miniature. Réalisé en impression couleur 3D et à une échelle de 1/20, le résultat est impressionnant de détails. Un projet vraiment saisissant à découvrir en images et en détails dans la suite.
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