Hasta La Ideas

Preparing for an interview can be daunting. Even more so if you are a fresh grad going on your first round of professional interviews. Daniel Teng wisely sought the help of the collective knowledge in the Core77 Discussion Forums, where members responded with a wealth of answers and tips.

Jose Jayma recommends to “make sure it flows like a conversation… They brought you in to talk, so talk to them.”

Singletrack shared, “I brought a ski boot I did as my final project in school. It was a great tool for using to get the conversation started…Then the design director broke off a buckle and it was really funny. I think I got the internship from just pity for breaking my model.”

Iab reminds students, “don’t try to make it a formal presentation. It always comes across as forced. I will learn about your presentation skills just by our interaction.”

Have a tip to share or a question to ask? Join the discussion HERE

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L’artiste chinois Shi Shaoping présente des clichés de lieux désertiques dans lesquels il a installé 3 000 œufs en céramique. D’un poids de 10kg chacun, il réalise ces œuvres seul, et cherche à symboliser la fragilité et la beauté de la naissance. Des œuvres présentées au Today Art Museum à Beijing.

Core77 is pleased to partner with soon-to-launch innovation platform Hatch Hub for their launch event Hatch Live, a live design competition kicking off in NYC this October, with submissions closing soon. The Grand Prize winner will receive $4,000 and a brunch and portfolio review for former Editor in Chief of Surface Magazine, Dan Rubinstein.

Hatch Live is a new and fast-paced design competition allowing product designers to showcase their talent. Bringing together the design community and an audience of design lovers, Hatch Live will take up-and-coming industrial designers and place them head-to-head in a live design battle using Rhino 3D software. Competitors will receive instructions to create an exciting new product within a specific product category, limited to specific bounding shape constraints set for each round. Up to 12 people will be selected to compete live in the competition matches. Learn more and sign up to compete now at www.hatchlive.com.

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News: the forthcoming National Stadium of Japan by Zaha Hadid Architects is now set to become the main sporting venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, following the news that Tokyo will be the host city.

The new 80,000-seat stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2020 games, as well as athletics, football and rugby events.

“The stadium will become an integral part of Tokyo’s urban fabric, directly engaging with the surrounding cityscape to connect and carve the elegant forms of the design,” said Zaha Hadid, after winning a competition to design the stadium in November.

“Our three decades of research into Japanese architecture and urbanism is evident in our winning design and we greatly look forward to building the new National Stadium,” she added.

Set to replace the existing Kasumigaoka National Stadium, the new building will join Kenzo Tange’s iconic 1964 Olympic stadium in Yoyogi Park, which will function as a handball arena this time around. Zaha Hadid Architects will also work on this building, renovating the structure and adding a retractable roof.

Two other venues from the 1964 games – the Nippon Budokan and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium – will also be reused, offering venues for judo and table tennis.

Additional arenas will be constructed in downtown Tokyo in an effort to save energy and reduce the need for transport investment, while the Olympic village is proposed on Tokyo’s harbour and will be converted into housing after the games are over.

Tokyo was named as the host city for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games over the weekend and will follow on from Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Find out more about Rio 2016 »

Zaha Hadid Architects previously designed the Aquatics Centre for the London Olympics in 2012, which recently had its two temporary wing-like seating stands removed. See more architecture by Zaha Hadid  »

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Le photographe Pavel Bendov est un amoureux des perspectives et un spécialiste d’architecture. Avec la série « Urban Lines », ce dernier nous offre des clichés minimalistes d’une grande qualité de plusieurs gratte-ciels. De belles compositions à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.