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The official trailer for a new LEGO movie hit the web earlier this week, and longtime fans will surely be curious to see how it’s shaping up. Check it out:
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A bulky concrete first floor balances above pale brick walls and tall grasses at this family house in Brazil by São Paulo architect Guilherme Torres (+ slideshow).
The two-storey house in Maringá has a square ground floor plan, while its upper floor is an offset rectangular volume that gently cantilevers over the edge of one wall.
Unlike the opaque brick walls of the lower level, this top floor is clad with latticed mashrabiya screens that bring light and ventilation into the family’s bedrooms, but also maintain privacy.
Guilherme Torres explains: “As soon as I saw the gently sloped plot surrounded by other houses, the idea of this large panel came to me, to ensure privacy for both the residents and their neighbours.”
The ground floor is split into two parts, with a large courtyard and swimming pool between. One half contains living and dining rooms, while the other functions as a pool house with a pair of changing rooms and an additional dining area.
Various furniture pieces by Torres are dotted through the building, alongside a selection of items by other Brazilian designers. “The decoration follows a jovial and Brazilian style,” explains the studio.
Landscape architect Alex Hanazaki designed the setting for the building, adding the Texan pampas grass that brushes against the outer walls.
We’ve featured a few concrete houses from Brazil recently. Others include a long and low residence near São Paulo and a house with a sunken living room and courtyard.
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Photography is by Denilson Machado.
Here’s a project description from Studio Guilherme Torres:
BT House
São Paulo-based architect Guilherme Torres has developed ideas which fuse the modern and the traditional. Guilherme’s own house, designed by the architect himself, bears a chequered wood design, a kind of brise soleil called mashrabiya, which is a classic feature in Eastern architecture.
It was later assimilated by the Portuguese, who brought it to Brazil. This element, with its powerful aesthetic appeal, was adapted to this residence in the south of the country, and acts as a wooden ‘curtain’, allowing air flow, dimming light and also serving as a security feature.
“As soon as I saw the gently sloped plot surrounded by other houses, the idea of this large panel came to me, to ensure privacy for both the residents and their neighbours.” This monumental house stands out as a huge rectangular monolith with two large brickwork blocks in contrast with the upper volume in concrete. A few columns, huge spans and strategic walls create exquisite fine gardens that make up a refuge for this young couple and their two small children.
The decoration follows a jovial and Brazilian style with an alliance of Guilherme Torres’ design, including sofas and tables, and other great names of Brazilian design such as furniture designed by Sérgio Rodrigues and Carlos Motta. The composition of overlapping these Brazilian styles with international design is balanced by pieces from Tom Dixon and Iranian carpets, all sourced by the architect.
The garden, designed by Alex Hanazaki has given the house an ethereal atmosphere due to the movement of Texan plume grass.
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Moving a bit from theory to practice, the second day of the DMI Conference in Santa Monica offered stories of design strategies and brand innovations that are making an impact for clients, customers and communities and explored what the impact of design can and should be in the next economy.
Deepah Prahalad of RKS connected the dots between design thinking and outcomes to examine how designers can play a critical role in developing opportunities for people in emerging markets at the “bottom of the pyramid.” By making sure that trust and community are key elements in business models, she pointed out that not only can we develop more sustainable and meaningful products and services to meet important needs, but we also become better innovators in the process.
Lee Maschmeyer of Collins: and co-author of Triumph on the Commons: 55 Theses on the Future explained how evolutionary algorithms will be applied to design in the future economy. Water advocates Eric Barnes and Paul Shustak, Co-Founders of KOR Water, shared their mission and story and reminded us that our work as designers is always rooted in the real world—we participate in real conversations, provide real services, and have a real impact.
As the world moves faster, our future accelerates and our needs around the world expand beyond what we can imagine, design thinking is vital to innovation and problem solving. Dr. Prasad Kaipa shared tools to help us develop not only knowledge maps to address these problems, but wisdom maps to lead the way—aligning our thinking, feeling and doing to ignite design wisdom. And Eames Demetrios pointed out we must be willing to look critically at our processes to consider where the big ideas of design will fit in. Quoting Charles & Ray Eames—”The role of the designer is that of a good host anticipating the needs of the guest”—he re-connected us with the importance of keeping the human being at the center of the design experience and, left us considering in the future economy, who will be the host and who will be the guest.
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News: UK furniture retailer Dwell has become the latest high-street design brand to go into administration, ceasing trading with immediate effect and closing all 23 of its stores.
Dwell‘s staff have been asked to stay at home while administrators are appointed. The company’s website has been taken offline and customers who have already placed orders have been advised to contact their card issuer.
Dwell, which specialises in contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories, opened its first store in Balham, south London in 2003.
Of the 23 existing stores, the majority are located in London and the south east of England, with others in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, Solihull, Cheltenham and Glasgow. It operates a concession at the House of Fraser department store in London, which has also closed. The announcement means that around 300 jobs are at risk.
A spokesperson for Dwell said: “The business had been working with its advisers, to secure further working capital for the business and was actively in the process of talking to a number of interested parties. However, despite this interest, it did not progress. As a result we have been left with no option but to close the business with immediate effect.”
In 2011, furniture retailer Habitat was forced to place 30 of its stores into administration. It managed to retain three stores in the UK and set up outlets in branches of DIY retailer Homebase in a move that was criticised by Elle Decoration editor Michelle Ogundehin, who claimed Habitat was “as good as dead”.
In a movie filmed at last year’s Clerkenwell Design Week, producer Thorsten van Elten told Dezeen that online shopping is a “better model” because “the rents and rates on the high street are outrageous,” but added that people still love physical stores.
In an opposing move though, online homeware retailer Made.com opened a physical showroom in London last year, with CEO and founder Ning Li saying that a physical space was a good way to supplement the online shopping experience.
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An elliptical chapel near Oxford (pictured), a wooden skyscraper for Stockholm and Heatherwick’s Thames bridge proposal all feature in Dezeen Mail issue 157, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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