Five years ago, Jan Kloss and Jakub Korouš—then graphic design students at Prague’s Academy of Arts and Design—decided to bring classic Botas sport shoes back to life as part of a school project. Established under the…
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Le peintre Phan Thu Trang, natif d’Hanoi, peint de très belles peintures de la ville et de la nature des villages du Nord du Vietnam. Elle travaille les différentes saisons selon différents code couleurs et apporte beaucoup de texture et relief à ses petites scènes. A découvrir en images dans la galerie.
Tessellating windows and cladding panels create a pattern of glowing triangles on the facade of this commercial building in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, by local architect Junichiro Ikeura (+ slideshow).
As a result of recent roadworks, Ikeura and his studio DABURA I had been tasked with designing a building for a triangular parcel of land bound on two sides by streets.
Rather than working against the shape, the architect chose to celebrate it by covering the facade in a triangulated pattern made up of both metal cladding panels and windows.
“We were particular about a triangle and pushed forward a plan,” said Ikeura. “We wanted to fill up both two dimensions and three dimensions with triangles.”
During the day, the windows direct triangular pockets of light into the building. After dark, internal lighting allows the triangles to visibly glow on the facade.
Named Full of Triangles, the building contains two storeys that currently accommodate a hair salon and an office.
A central staircase divides the floor plan into two halves, meaning each level can be subdivided if necessary.
The structure is provided by a wooden frame. Timber was also used for the joinery and staircase, as well as for the partition walls.
The metallic cladding is made from silver Galvalume – a kind of aluminium and zinc alloy.
Located opposite the Fukutsu train station, the building is described by Ikeura as “a landmark of the station squares”.
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Beer was reportedly invented sometime around 5,000 B.C. So it’s shocking to think that refrigeration wasn’t invented until the 19th Century. Because that means that the majority of man drank warm beer for nearly 7,000 years. Which is kind of gross.
Nowadays we can all enjoy a cold beer whenever we want, and your correspondent might even be enjoying one right now, depending on whether or not your correspondent’s bosses are reading this. But we rely on electricity and refrigeration to keep our brews frosty. Four fellows in Denmark, however, have figured out how to keep beer cold, outside, without using any power.
Their invention is called the eCool, and it delivers “year-round cool beers” without being plugged into anything except the earth. To install the roughly four-foot-long device, you bore a hole into the ground using a garden drill, though they advise that “[the eCool] can be installed with a shovel as well, if you’re a real man.” Once you’ve got the hole dug, you insert the cylindrical device into the ground, then load it with up to 24 cans of quaff.
The earth then keeps the beer cool, and when you’re ready to have one, you turn a handcrank attached to a vertical conveyor that serves you up a fresh can. “Do something great for yourself and the environment,” the eCool guys write. “It’s easy to install in the garden or terrace, and uses no electricity. With the eCool you can always drink a cold beer with good conscience.”
What we’d like to see next: A bottle version, please!
La « Kerferd Place » est une maison construite par Whiting Architects et qui a été entièrement conçue en noir et blanc, dans un design d’intérieur minimaliste légèrement boisé et une façade avec des touches de brique rouge. Une très belle maison à découvrir dans la galerie à travers les photos de Sharyn Cairns.
This electronica-tinged track by London producer and singer The Slow Revolt has a wonderfully effortless charm that belies the tight structure and attention to detail evident throughout. Understated and unassuming, the song achieves the feted balancing act of feeling both fresh and familiar at the same time.
The track is currently available as a free download ahead of its official release on the Fields record label.
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News: students returned to the Glasgow School of Art this afternoon, as construction work began on the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was ravaged by fire last week.
Firefighters finally declared the site safe enough to hand control back to the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) after a week of rescue work to try and save the majority of the original school building, following a fire that destroyed significant areas of its west wing last Friday, including the library and a studio above it.
The last members of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were seen off by an honour guard of students and staff as well as a Scottish piper.
“We did not want to miss this opportunity to once again register our deep and heart felt thanks to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who over the last week have been quite simply amazing,” said Glasgow School of Art director Tom Inns.
Mackintosh’s building primarily housed the school’s Fine Art department, as well as a gallery that hosts exhibitions and the students’ annual degree show. Earlier this week Dezeen reported that up to 90% of the building and 70% of its contents were thought to have been saved by the actions of the fire service.
Staff from heritage body Historic Scotland are now working with the GSA to begin the first phase of reconstruction work.
A team from the GSA’s Digital Design Studio has laser scanned the Western Gable of the building to create a 3D plan of what survived the fire and today specialist stonemasons began “deconstructing and laying aside a small section of the uppermost part of the Western Gable for conservation” said the school.
Stonework that has to be removed will be taken to Historic Scotland’s Glasgow Cathedral depot for conservation and stored until they can be reinstated into the fabric of the building.
Further work will take place after the building’s condition has been fully assessed, and the school is currently investigating insurance issues and finding the “appropriate people” to work on the project.
Students have been allowed back in to the design and architecture buildings to continue work on their end-of-year shows and projects. Fine art students were able to meet with their tutors and have been told that their assessments and graduations will go ahead as originally planned, despite work being lost in the fire. A number of students will also receive “phoenix” bursaries, as reported by Dezeen earlier this week.
Meanwhile, members of the public have already donated over £70,000 towards the rebuilding efforts, partially via the school’s online funding raising page on The Big Give.
Offers of practical help have come from a variety of professionals, including curators, conservationists and counsellors.
A spokesperson for the school said they had been “overwhelmed with the level of genorosity”.
The fire, which is thought to have started in the basement and spread up through the west wing of the building before reaching across the roof, triggered an outpouring of dismay from the architecture and design communities last week.
“It is internationally famous – architects around the world pay homage to it,” Sunday Times critic Hugh Pearman told Dezeen. “It is such a significant national monument that money will be found to restore it but it will never be same.”
“I remember going through the studios when I went up there this year, and seeing original Mackintosh doors spattered with decades of paint from students, door handles worn by students. It’s those marks of time which added to it and made it somehow even better than it would have been when it was brand new.”
Read all our coverage of the Glasgow School of Art Fire.
Top image by Jean-Pierre Dalbera.
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Left: Knauf and Brown’s Floor Coaster. Right: early prototypes of the rolling table
Die-hard auto enthusiasts swear by manual transmissions, not only for the gas mileage but also for the sensation of being in fuller control of the car. It’s an appreciation fostered by active participation and intentional use—an appreciation that the design studio Knauf and Brown (whom we recently profiled along with two fellow Cana-designers) wants to foster in household objects through its new Standard Collection.
“If you ask someone why they drive a standard instead of an automatic, the answer is usually related to enjoying the act of driving,” says D Calen Knauf, one half of the Vancouver-based studio. “You’re using your hands, you’re using your mind more, you have to make decisions, and those elements bleed into this collection.” Perhaps the most notable object in the collection, which debuted at Sight Unseen OFFSITE during New York Design Week, is the Standard Floor Coaster, a petite rolling platform that looks sort of like a cross between a coffee table and a curling stone.
Knauf made an early, makeshift version of the table during his freshman year at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, in Vancouver. It was born out of the very real need for a small, movable table that wouldn’t be toppled by his swiveling armchair. “It was just a block of wood with a notch cut out of it, so that it was easy to grab, and a rounded bottom edge to allow it to drag on the carpet easily,” Knauf says. “People would sit on it at parties and it would break. Every time, it would take like a week or so to fix it, and I’d realize how much a part of my life it was.”
At Manhattan cocktail venue Amor y Amargo drinks are constructed in reverse. Rather than start with a base spirit such as whiskey or gin, the team behind every sip starts with bitters—be that the obscure Cocktail…
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« Retrieved » est un livre de portraits réalisés par la photographe hollandaise Charlotte Dumas qui prend en photos les chiens ayant survécu et sauvé des vies lors des attentats du 11 Septembre 2001. Des regards émouvants de chiens mis en lumière 10 ans après la catastrophe, à découvrir.
Bailey – Franklin, TN.
Abigail – Ojai, CA.
Bretagne – Cypress, TX.
Duke – Thousand Oaks, CA.
Guinness – Highland, CA.
Merlyn – Otis, CO.
Moxie – Winthrop, MA.
Orion – Vacaville, CA.
Red – Analpolis, MD.
Tara – Ipswich, MA.
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