I remember walking into Kate's Paperie in New York in 1999 and saw the invitations and cards from egg-press … instant love and it always stayed! To celebrate Father's day here on Bloesem I visited their pinterest board and agree with the happy papa things they sourced …
Happy Father's Day to all the great papa's in the world.
I miss mine still every day so I can only say cherish and spoil him while you can!
“They kind of exist at the spiritual center of our lives, really,” says Dave Kapell of refrigerator magnets. And he should know. The Minneapolis-based musician-slash-inventor is the founder of Magnetic Poetry, which has sold over three million kits (that’s more than a billion word tiles) worldwide. Faith Salie chatted up Kapell and more magnet magnates–including Louise Greenfarb, who made the Guinness Book of Records for owning the most refrigerator magnets in the world (45,000, but who’s counting?)–for this recent CBS Sunday Morning segment, which concludes by considering the bane of magnet lovers everywhere: the stainless steel fridge.
The shortlist for the Stirling Prize, awarded by the RIBA to the most significant contribution to British architecture this year, will be drawn from these winners.
“Risk-taking is not for the faint-hearted in recessionary times, but amongst this year’s crop of truly exceptional buildings, I am delighted to see such a variety of projects doing just that,” commented RIBA President Angela Brady. “From Jesmond Gardens, an open-plan primary school in Hartlepool with rooms divided simply by acoustic curtains, and the mould-breaking North London day-care hospice modeled on an over-sized house to appeal sensitively to its patients, to the Hive in Worcester, the first library for shared use by both the public and a university.”
Chapel at Cuddesdon by Niall Maclaughlin
She added:”Most notably though this year’s RIBA National Awards features a selection of really exceptional schools and education buildings, places that properly invest in the future for their pupils – their awards show their ambition to improve our school stock; there may not be too many award winning schools to come for some time.”
Here’s some more information from the RIBA, followed by the full list of winning projects:
Best new buildings – 2013 RIBA National and EU Award winners are announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the winners of the 2013 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence. RIBA National Award winning buildings set the standard for good architecture; these are projects that go beyond the brief and exceed the client’s expectation. The shortlist for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year will be drawn from the 52 RIBA National and EU Award winners (43 buildings in the UK and 9 buildings elsewhere in the EU).
This year’s award winners range from the UK’s northernmost arts centre in the Shetlands down to Redruth in Cornwall. From a beautifully-crafted chapel in the back garden of an Edinburgh townhouse to the innovative yellow-roofed Ferrari Museum in Italy, from M&S’s new ‘green’ flagship store in Cheshire to the National Trust’s dynamic new visitor centre at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Well-known ‘star’ architects and smaller architecture practices, some who have never won an RIBA award before, will now be battling it out to make it onto this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist for the best building of the year.
One third of this year’s UK winners are exceptional education buildings, from small nursery schools to major university campuses. Some of the last Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schools have made the grade this year with winners including St Alban’s Academy in Birmingham and Kingswood Academy in Kingston upon Hull, whose ingenious use of limited space has created exceptional and inspiring facilities for students, not to mention bully-deterring toilets.
Though excellent projects have been delivered at the extreme ends of the scale – notably the 242 hectare Olympic master plan and a small contemporary house in the ruins of the 12th century Astley Castle in Warwickshire – this year’s awards are revealing a notable squeezed-middle, with fewer medium-scale projects amongst the winners, both public and commercial. Many of the winners are publicly, charity or foundation funded, with only one commercial office building in the form of Quadrant 3 on Regent Street in London.
It is pleasing to see some of the best housing winners for some time – the redevelopment of the Brutalist Grade II listed 1960s Park Hill estate in Sheffield, the intelligent Newhall Be suburban development of 84 homes in Harlow and pocket-sized developments in London on difficult sites such as the eight large multi-generational housing association homes on Beveridge Mews in Stepney Green and the highly-detailed private houses at Church Walk in Stoke Newington. These are excellent examples of what new housing developments should be delivering.
» The Chapel of Saint Albert the Great, Edinburgh by Simpson and Brown » Forth Valley College of Further & Higher Education, Stirling by Reiach and Hall Architects » Mareel, Lerwick Shetland by Gareth Hoskins Architects with PJP Architects » University of Aberdeen New Library/Sir Duncan Rice Library by Schmidt » 4 Linsiander, Vig, Lewis by Studio KAP Architects
» Jesmond Gardens Primary School, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 by ADP
North west
» Chetham’s Music School, Manchester, M3 by Stephenson: ISA Studio » M&S Cheshire Oaks by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson » MMU Business School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio » St Silas CofE Primary School, Blackburn by Capita Symonds
Park Hill, Sheffield by Hawkins/Brown and Studio Egret West
Yorkshire
» Park Hill, Sheffield by Hawkins/Brown and Studio Egret West » SOAR Works, Parson Cross, Sheffield by 00:/ » Kingswood Academy, Bransholme, Kingston upon Hull by AHMM
West midlands
» Astley Castle, Nuneaton, Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann » Eastside City Park, Birmingham by Patel Taylor » St Alban’s Academy, Birmingham by dRMM » The Hive, Worcester by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios » Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham by Glenn Howells Architects
» Chedworth Roman Villa, Yanworth, Gloucestershire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios » The Forum, University of Exeter by Wilkinson Eyre » Heartlands, Redruth by Stride Treglown
South
» Chapel at Cuddesdon by Niall Maclaughlin » West Wing, Said Business School, Oxford by Dixon Jones » Stowe Gardens Visitor Centre, Buckingham by Cowper Griffith
This is the second post of an ongoing series about wood. Understanding its nature, the way it moves and changes, and the implications for designers and builders. Check back every Wednesday for the next installment.
For a furniture designer interested in working with wood, it’s important to first understand how it’s cut into boards. Because the different ways that wood is cut can have a huge impact in how it behaves once it’s integrated into your final design. This information may be covered at fine furniture schools, but we were surprised to learn that a lot of industrial design programs skip this crucial wood information altogether. This series is intended to arm you with some basic information to help plug those knowledge gaps.
In my first post of this series I described one of the most common cuts, the plainsawn, it’s advantages and disadvantages. Now we’ll look at quartersawn and briefly touch on riftsawn, and try to clear up the confusion between the two.
Le photographe américain Mike Olbinski nous donne à voir sa dernière video en « timelapse », de loin la plus impressionnante. Il filme, simplement à l’aide de son Canon 5D, une tornade à quelques miles seulement de celle-ci. Des images incroyables à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
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