Sep 03
Sep 03
Rio 2016 Olympic Park by AECOM
Posted in: AECOM, Landscape and urbanism, masterplans, Rio 2016 Olympics, slideshowsThe setting for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio will be a lagoon-side peninsula with 15 sports venues dotted along a network of snaking pathways, as detailed in this new set of visuals by masterplanners AECOM (+ slideshow).
Located on a flat triangular site in the city’s Barra da Tijuca district, the main Olympic park will centre itself around a trio of existing stadiums leftover from the 2007 Pan-American Games, which were constructed over a Formula One racetrack from the 1970s.
AECOM plans to transform the peninsula into a tropical landscape that reflects the mountains and valleys of the Brazilian coastline, including gently sloping hills and curving pathways. Venues will be lined up on either side of a black-and-white striped central axis, winding like a river from the site entrance to the waterfront.
Seven new stadiums will be constructed on the site. London studio AndArchitects is collaborating with Rio office Lopes, Santos & Ferreira Gomes on the handball arena, which will be dismantled after the games and used to build four new schools.
UK firm 3DReid is teaming up with Rio studio BLAC Architects to renovate the existing Velodrome, while the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre will be reused for swimming and diving events, and the HSBC Stadium will host gymnastics.
A waterfront lawn will allow up to 12,000 spectators to watch the action on big screens and an AECOM-designed broadcast centre will accommodate around 20,000 international journalists.
AECOM won the bid to masterplan the site in 2011 as part of a team that includes London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Rio studio DG Architecture.
“This is such a high profile and complex project for AECOM, which brings many exciting opportunities and challenges,” commented the firm’s Jason Prior. “We are drawing on our experience from being masterplanners of the London Olympics to take the design of the Rio venues and park even further, which will hopefully be reflected in the end result in 2016.”
Alongside Barra da Tijuca, events for the games will also take place at Copacabana, Maracanã and Deodoro, where the National Shooting Centre is already in place.
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Here’s some more information from AECOM:
A carnival of sport
In 2011, AECOM won Brazil’fs first international architecture competition to design the masterplan for Rio’s 2016 Olympic Park, making it the first company to design the parks for two consecutive Olympic and Paralympic Games Parks – London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.
In Rio, AECOM has taken on an even larger role than it had on the 2012 Games, with responsibility for the preliminary design of the seven sporting venues as well as the detailed design of the International Broadcast Centre. This is in addition to the architectural, masterplanning, landscaping, engineering, cost consultancy, project management, sustainability and transportation strategy design services that it also provided in London.
Set in one of the most beautiful areas on Earth, AECOM’s masterplan takes its inspiration from the dramatic natural setting of Rio. Located on a former Formula 1 race track in Barra da Tijuca, the main Olympic park sits on a triangular space with water on either side. During Games time, at the southern peninsula of the site there will be an entertainment area for around 12,000 people to watch the events on big screens.
The park’s design draws from the Atlantica Forrest that surrounds Rio de Janeiro. This context provides the conceptual inspiration and influences the architecture and landscape design as will the Brazilian culture and strong design heritage. The masterplan sets out to respect and reinforce the balance between native ecology, the city and its people while delivering the platform for sporting excellence.
Every Olympics needs to reflect the character and ambitions of the host city and this is where the differences between the two parks are most pronounced. While London was about demonstrating how a short global event can lead to the long term regeneration of one of the most neglected and deprived areas of the city, Rio is about celebrating Brazil’s emergence as a world power as well as making sure there is a strong legacy plan in place.
Throughout the development of the Rio masterplan, you can see how AECOM has been applying the lessons learnt from working on London 2012. This includes working with the wide range of stakeholders and local communities, and the utilisation of its knowledge of the requirements for running such a huge event, from crowd management and traffic strategies, to meeting the needs of athletes, visitors and the extended Olympic management and support system.
The vision for the future is not just to create a global stage for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2016, but also, in the longer term, to create a new legacy district with new homes, jobs and places for leisure activities with a new central park and a thriving beautiful waterfront. It is also set to become a global centre of sporting excellence, with a Legacy Olympic Training Centre utilising the Games’ permanent sporting venues.
After the Games, the site will evolve into a compact urban environment built around a network of streets and open spaces, which encourages a diverse mix of living, working and recreational uses. AECOM has taken reference from the grid, linearity, axis and contrasting organic forms which permeates Rio’s unique urban environment to propose a responsive flexible framework that resonates with and echoes the specific local characteristics of Barra and Rio. The masterplan provides an opportunity to enhance environmental quality and bring Costa’s original concept into the 21st century as an example of new urbanism for a new era.
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Sep 03
Volvo Trucks president plays stuntman for new ad
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In order to try and make a ‘YouTube hit’, Volvo Trucks’ president Claes Nilsson has taken the role of stuntman in the brand’s latest online ad…
The film, created by Forsman & Bodenfors, opens with Nilsson, clad in hard hat, talking directly to camera about the strength of the front towing hook on the new Volvo construction truck. As the camera pans back, it becomes obvious that this is no ordinary ad however, as Nilsson is revealed to be standing on a truck hanging 20 metres above the water in Gothenberg harbour. Yikes.
The ad was shot for real, with Nilsson obliged to spend almost two hours standing on the front panel of the truck that had been hoisted above the water to get the right take. “It was fairly cold – about 8 degrees above zero – and the wind was blowing about ten metres a second, so my hands got pretty cold after a while,” he says. “But it all went very well. Safety was 100 per cent all the way, so I was never really afraid.”
The film is the latest stunt ad from Volvo Trucks. Last summer they released a spot that saw stuntwoman Faith Bickey tightrope walking between two moving trucks (see CR write up here). The addition of Nilsson as amateur stuntman is a nice touch though, and makes the ad feel like the love child of wacky old 70s product demo spots such as this one for Solvite wallpaper paste…
… and classic ads featuring the company boss, such as this gem for Remington:
Volvo Trucks apparently have more ads in the pipeline – here’s hoping Nilsson continues to make an appearance.
Credits:
Agency: Forsman & Bodenfors
Director: Filip Nilsson
Production company: Folke Film
Sep 03
Lost Destination Prints by Dorothy: The British design studio pays tribute to ’60s and ’70s brutalist architecture
Posted in: brutalism, dorothy, postwar 
by Gavin Lucas Brutalist concrete architecture from the 1960s and 1970s might not be to everyone’s taste, but for Manchester-based design studio Dorothy, such buildings are the objects of no small amount of affection—as a new series of illustrated prints attests.
Sep 03
Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards 2013. We will be featuring these projects by category, so stay tuned for your favorite categories of design! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com.
Professional Winner
- Project Name: Smartphone-charging Handbag Design for Vodafone and Richard Nicoll
- Designer: IDEO + Vodafone xone + Vodafone UK + Richard Nicoll
A tech-enabled leather handbag that can power an iPhone, Android device, or other “smart” digital tool through two full charges, seamlessly integrating high-end fashion and inductive charging technology. Thanks to Tusting, a world-class British leather goods company, fashionistas can power the purse through several layers of leather by simply slapping a magnetic “tap” unit to the bag’s exterior. Once the purse is charged, users can then power their gadgets on the go by plugging them into a pocket inside the bag. A Bluetooth-enabled LED “charm” on the bag’s exterior animates silently to indicate battery status and incoming calls, texts or notifications.
– How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
We were informed by our partner IDEO that we were the honoree of the Core77 Design Awards.
– What’s the latest news or development with your project?
The successful delivery of the project captured tremendous attention during the catwalk with the audience as well as within Vodafone. We are currently evaluating potential commercial opportunities. This is a great example of the use of mobile technology beyond its traditional practice.
– What is one quick anecdote about your project?
As mobile technology is permeating into nearly every facet of our daily lives, the Vodafone xone team is thrilled to play a leading role in bringing these innovative trends to life by designing, engineering and applying disruptive technology from inception to commercialization. Applying mobile technology to fashion industry to build a practical product has definitely been a unique experience for us and all parties involved in this project. Vodafone xone has applied its motto of “embracing the unknown” and exploring diverse opportunities in this project. We developed a product (the charging unit) in an iterative design and process with our team.
– What was an “a-ha” moment from this project?
Being always connected, hence being always ‘on’ these days is the inevitable fact of our everyday life. Instant access to the world from everywhere has become a mandatory extension to our physical presence. The thought of not being connected causes the feeling of isolation nowadays, thus having a smartphone available at all times is an essential asset for everyone.
We all may have observed that most women have just a “few” items in their handbags whether of high necessity or not. Women miss their calls over and over because they cannot spot their phones at once in their handbags amongst these “few” items. On the other hand, how many times have we witnessed that performing all of the functions for staying connected with our smartphones or tablets caused the battery to die by the time we need to pick up the kids or make an important phone call? The moment we became aware that we could provide an innovative solution which answers that question was our “a-ha” moment. Knowing that we could now enable a solution that ensures women will receive notification when their phone rings in their handbag and have the possibility to charge their phone without removing it from their handbag.
We are pleased to see that our teamwork with all our partners resulted in the first of its kind high-tech handbag for fashion diehards. We’ve created this trend and we’re sure that it will trigger more creative work across the sector.
View the full project here.
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Sep 03
Green Bus
Posted in: jardin, Marc Grañén, The Phytokinetic Bus, urban busThe PhotoKinetic bus est une création de l’artiste catalan paysagiste Marc Grañén. Pour lui, les espaces verts urbains sont cruciaux pour notre environnement et rappelle le principe de la photosynthèse avec cette création proposant un toit de bus avec un jardin, alliant beauté et protection de la nature.
Sep 03
Product news: French design company Moustache will present new products including lights shaped like swirls of cream and visor-inspired wall lamps at Maison & Object in Paris this weekend (+ slideshow).
Moustache‘s latest collection features lighting, seating and homeware products by the brand’s regular designers including Big-Game and François Azambourg, plus new collaborators Bertjan Pot, Constance Guisset and Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.
The Moto walls lamps by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez reference motorcycle helmets, with rounded iridescent shades based on visors.
Also by Fastrez, the Parade vase comprises blown-glass balls with holes in the tops that hang from a wooden stick.
Constance Guisset’s Chantilly lights look similar to a swirl of cream and can either be stood on spindly legs or suspended from the ceiling.
Wooden coat hooks that have pegs positioned like facial features on tribal masks are designed by Bertjan Pot.
François Azambourg employed techniques used to build sailing dinghies when creating his wooden Quadrille and Gavotte chairs.
He has also extended his collection of squidgy looking Mousse shelves, which are actually made from enamelled ceramic and designed Très Jolie, a translucent red seat with a truss-like structure.
Big-Game has added six new colours to its range of Bold chairs, each formed from two curved tubes, and made the new two-seater Bold bench in the same style.
Moustache is exhibiting in Hall 8, Stand B33 at Maison & Objet, from 6 to 10 September.
The company launched during Milan design week in 2009, and since then we’ve featured Moustache’s little round wall-mounted shelves and dishes, plus a series of vases with tops that loop over to frame the flowers.
Read on for more details from Moustache:
Moustache
At the occasion of Maison & Objet in Paris next week French company Moustache will launch a new collection of furnitures and objects designed by regular designers François Azambourg, Inga Sempé, Big-Game, Ionna Vautrin, Benjamin Graindorge, Sébastien Cordoléani and will reveal the firsts products issued from their new collaborations with Bertjan Pot, Constance Guisset and Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.
Since its launch in April 2009, Moustache, a French publishing house in the field of contemporary articles and home furnishings, under the impetus of Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, is forging close links in a network of complicity and expert knowledge in design fields.
An active participant in the present-day writing of the history of manufactured articles, Moustache proposes a collection which explores new approaches to production and consumption. Its articles and pieces of furniture involve their users in their own contemporary history. To the market constraints linked to the ever-increasingly insistent demand for novelties and experiences on the market, Moustache prefers to build a long-term domestic world with a high cultural value.
Rooted in the history of arts and techniques,the Moustache philosophy combines design and pattern in the present: attentive and responsible production responds to his searches for new, aesthetic, function and relevant shapes. Committed, Moustache is surrounded with designers for whom it is essential that convictions and points of view be shared. François Azambourg, Big-Game, Sébastien Cordoléani, Jean-Baptiste Fastez, Benjamin Graindorge, Constance Guisset, Bertjan Pot, Ionna Vautrin and Inga Sempé make up the uniqueness of this joyful community.
The result of a well thought-out dialogue between technique, strong identity and contemporary use, each article with its disparities forms the contours of the same family.
Moustache is attached to the heritage value of the articles, evidence of a society, its developments and its uses. It offers to share its soul, its ideas and its values. The environment it reveals according to an enlightened editorial line, a catalogue of objects linking some with others according to the principles of simplicity and accessibility.
A distinctive and remarkable symbol, Moustache publishes a collection with a character which, today, is imposing its presence in the design environment.
Objects produced by Moustache have joined museum collections such as the MoMa design and architecture collection, Museum of Modern Art in New-York, the F.N.A.C, Fond National d’Art contemporain, centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, the MAKK, musée des arts décoratifs of Cologne…
New products September 2013
Moto, design Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
The Moto wall light designed by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez revisits the aesthetic codes of motorcycle equipment vendors. Hieratic, ultra-reflective, producing numerous optical effects, when lit it diffuses slightly coloured light through its translucent visor.
The Moto wall light is available in 4 colours. It can be connected to a wall power outlet or plugged directly into a socket.
Parade vase, design Jean-Baptiste Fastrez
The Parade vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez organises and articulates blown glass parts and a wooden spindle. They are fastened together by nylon industrial wing nuts.
To be suspended or placed on a piece of furniture, the Parade vase forms a bunch of spherical or oblong containers and expresses in its own right the bases of a work statement: combine industrial and craft techniques and update the outdated industrial ideal, “an object for all”, for a more adapted contemporary ideal, “an object for everyone”.
The research studies for this project were conducted at the CIRVA during the seventh edition of the Design Parade festival at Villa Noailles, Hyères (France), in 2012.
The Parade vase is available in three colours.
Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre, design Bertjan Pot
Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre could have been the artistic creations of an archaic nonliterate society if they had not come across Bertjan Pot, who gave them a function!
Tribal arts, witchcraft and drolleries underlie this series of three masks to which Bertjan Pot simply seems to have added the traditional function of coat hanger.
Generously sized, Ooga Booga, Frik Frak and Pierre are available in solid ash, ash dyed white, yellow or black and are made in France using highly sophisticated industrial tools!
Chantilly, design Constance Guisset
The Chantilly lamps by Constance Guisset create complex volumes based on a highly simple yet ingenious system of folds.
Delivered flat, the lampshade takes shape in the single closure movement required to assemble it.
Small, large or to be suspended, the Chantilly lamps follow the delicious movement of the icemaker’s siphon and enhance it through the use of subtle colours, fold by fold.
Each Chantilly lamp is available in three sizes and four colours, at a very attractive price.
Quadrille and Gavotte, design François Azambourg
The Quadrille chair and the Gavotte armchair by François Azambourg are updated versions of his now classical tripod chair, the Petite Gigue. Like their predecessor, the Quadrille chair and the Gavotte armchair are based on the construction principle known as hard chine used for small sailing dinghies such as the Fireball. The manufacture of these amazing chairs requires both cabinet-making and shipbuilding skills.
This range composed of the Petite Gigue and Quadrille chairs and the Gavotte armchair, takes the names of three popular dances in Europe.
Each chair is available in natural or lacquered ash.
Très Jolie, design François Azambourg
The Très Jolie chair, known as Very Nice in its initial experimental version, has now been structurally transformed to become completely functional. The Très Jolie chair immediately evokes the childhood balsawood and paper scale models, even using its construction and assembly principles. Fascinating, like a complex construction whose logic escapes you, the Très Jolie chair almost resembles a folly in the architectural sense of the term. Red, pretty, light and comfortable, the Très Jolie chair by François Azambourg is also a concentration of qualities difficult to combine in a single chair.
Mousse, design François Azambourg
The Mousse family of shelves, launched in July 2011 during the Moustache exhibition and a performance/production given by François Azambourg for the Hyères Design Parade at Villa Noailles, is growing. The collection now includes a corner model and a very deep shelf.
The Mousse collection is currently available in turquoise, pale yellow and pale pink enamelled ceramic.
Bold bench, design Big-Game
The Bold bench by Big-Game could be seen as an extension or a deformation of the chair. The first sketches drawn by Big-Game for the chair represented a tube full of paste which formed in a single stroke the tube of this chair with expanded lines. Four years later, the Bold bench integrates all the structural and graphical qualities of the chair to produce a very comfortable two-seater. The removable coating is available in four colours.
Bold chair/New colours, design Big-Game
The Bold chair, added to the collections of the New York MoMA Design and Architecture department last spring, is now available in six new colours that complement the six existing colours.
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Sep 03
Accept & Proceed’s studio gallery
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Accept & Proceed has curated an exhibition by set designer Gemma Tickle as part of a project to turn leftover space at its East London studio into a gallery.
Tickle, who has designed ad and editorial sets for MTV, John Lewis, British Airways and Nike, has created a multi-coloured installation inspired by balloons. Her work will be on display to visitors and passers-by from September 5 until November 8.
“The brief for the project was to create something big, bold, thoughtful and engaging on a stretch of what could be described as a very drab road,” she explains in a video on the making of the project (below).
“[Gemma] is a master of creating objects which are on first glance simple and understood however it’s on the second look that you see there’s another level to the work … with ‘Pop’, she has created a series of objects which represent the essence of fun: party balloons, however, these have been turned on their head slightly,” says A&P creative director Matthew Jones.
Tickle’s exhibition is the third Accept & Proceed have hosted at their studio since late 2012 – the first, a collaboration with Sennep, was inspired by street scenes projected onto the gallery’s walls by car headlights. “We recorded this live, and then re-mixed and re-presented the scenes onto the gallery wall, thereby highlighting something which would usually be missed or overlooked,” explains Jones.
This was followed by an exhibition with architect Carl Turner earlier this year, which featured a deconstructed version of his RIBA award-winning sliphouse that housed plans, scale models and an iPad walkthrough of the building.
After Tickle’s show, the studio will be working on an exhibition with Swiss sound artist Zimoun and photographer Giles Revell.
“We had been in the studio for a few months when we realised just how many people travel up and down the Kingsland Road from Shoreditch to Dalston – the ground-floor of our space is a window onto East London. We always had people shading their eyes and peering in, so thought it would be good to give them something great to look at,” says Jones.
“Every exhibition shown has at it’s heart an intriguing narrative to tell, revealing hidden and layered beauty within the subject matter whilst being appropriately challenging to the norm. We choose people who have similar values to their work as we do. These don’t need to be graphic designers, in fact we think it’s better if they’re not. It’s given us the opportunity to speak to people outside of our usual sphere of work, which has been really rewarding,” says Jones.
Accept & Proceed has also launched a website to promote the project, named 43m3 after the cubic area of the space, and the studio’s designers will be taking it in turns to create window graphics and invitations for each event. As well as brightening up the office, Jones hopes it will lead to a number of collaborations with creatives from different fields.
“Since working with Sennep on the first exhibit, we’ve partnered with them on several live briefs. We’ll hopefully get to work with Gemma in the future on a concept store or pop-up space, and as for Carl, he’ll be the first person we call to look at at our new studio in the distant future,” says Jones.
See Pop! By Gemma Tickle from September 5 until November 8 at Unit 2 Sheldon Building, 1 Baltic Place, Kingsland Road, N15AQ. To find out more about the 43m3 project click here.
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Sep 03
Suggestions for organizing jewelry
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If you’ve got more than a few pieces of jewelry, you may be facing challenges on how to store all of it. As with many organizing challenges, there are many possible answers. To help determine what is right for you, here are some questions to ask yourself:
- What kinds of jewelry do I have — rings, earrings, necklaces, cuff links, etc.?
- How many pieces do I have of each type? Are they all pieces I want to keep?
- Do I want to store frequently-worn pieces differently than special-occasion items?
- Is there another way I’d like to categorize my jewelry items as I go to store them? (By set? By when I wear them?)
- Am I a visual person who wants my jewelry out in clear sight?
- Alternatively, do I want my jewelry put away where it doesn’t accumulate any dust?
- Do I want my jewelry hidden to prevent theft?
- Do I need to protect any of my jewelry from children’s hands or from pets?
- What kind of space do I have available for storing my jewelry?
- Do I have the interest, time, and skills to pursue a do-it-yourself option?
Once you’ve pondered these questions and come up with your answers, you can look at the many types of storage available for your jewelry. The following are just some of the many options:
Jewelry boxes, valets and armoires
The selection here is huge; there’s something for every taste and every budget. You can even find specialized boxes for cuff links or watches. And if you don’t like any of the conventional jewelry boxes, you could turn a toolbox into a jewelry box, like Dhiraj D’Souza and Erin have done.
Jewelry trays, for a dresser drawer
You could use everyday products such as ice cube trays or egg cartons as jewelry trays. Or you could get trays intended for jewelry, such as the ones from Axis.
Wall-mounted storage
This can be as simple as nails in the wall that are used to hang necklaces or decorative hooks or a wall-mounted coat rack. Or, you could get one of the many specialty products available, including wall-mounted earring holders. You could go the do-it-yourself route, too, and create your own earring holders (or other jewelry storage pieces), like this, this or this.
Over-the-door storage
Longstem makes an over-the-door jewelry organizer designed to hold earrings, bracelets, watches, rings, pins, and necklaces. You can also find over-the-door jewelry armoires.
Hanging storage for the closet
There’s a wide range of multi-pocket jewelry organizers that hang from a rod in your closet. There are other hanging solutions, too, such as the WOW hanger.
Dresser-top storage
Again, the options here are extensive. For example, you could use a jewelry mannequin, a ring holder, an earring stand, or a bangle display rack. You could use a multi-tier cake stand.
Hidden storage
Having had jewelry stolen from my home years ago, I empathize with the desire to keep your jewelry — or at least some selected pieces — safe from intruders. I have a few pieces squirreled away in hiding places, myself; but if you do this, be sure you’ll be able to remember where you hid it!
The other alternative is to use a product designed to hide your jewelry; there are a number of options, with differing degrees of security. You could use a locking jewelry cabinet hidden behind a mirror — either wall-mounted or free-standing. You could use a jewelry safe. You could create your own hidden jewelry box behind a painting. And if you’re installing a closet system, you may be able to get a hidden toe-kick jewelry drawer.
So understand your style and your needs and then think creatively about what storage would work best for your particular situation.
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Sep 03
Crossover Watch
Posted in: CKIE, cross, Crossover, overInspiré par le jeu du Mikado, la marque CKie a imaginée cette « Crossover Watch » : une montre au design sobre et élégant, proposant une touche d’excentricité avec des aiguilles non centrées. Un objet au design contemporain vendu 140 $ à découvrir en images et détails dans la suite de l’article.
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