L’installation « Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder » a été construite par le jeune artiste anglais Alex Chinneck. Il a voulu transformer la façade d’un bâtiment de Covent Garden, sur la Piazza Est à Londres, en donnant une impression d’immeuble scindé et flottant dans les airs. Une oeuvre exposée jusqu’au 24 octobre.
Ahead of what would have been the 100th birthday of Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, photographer Leonardo Finotti has documented eight of the architect’s most important buildings (+ slideshow).
Born in Rome in 1914, Bo Bardi moved to Brazil in 1946 and established a career that encompassed architecture, furniture and set design, exhibition curation and writing.
Her work has become increasingly popular among architects in recent years, partly thanks to a growing interest in projects with a social and cultural conscience, which typified many of her best-known buildings.
Her use of simple concrete and glass forms has prompted her work to be categorised as Modernist, and occasionally even Brutalist. But unlike contemporaries Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, she also embraced the Brazilian vernacular, using local materials such as mud and straw.
“Lina Bo Bardi was born and studied in Italy, but she might be the architect who better understood the relationship between Modernism and folk in Brazil,” said Finotti, who was grew up in Uberlândia, southern Brazil.
“If you look at her works you could see two types of buildings: on the one hand, those that contribute to generate a civic values and basic public notions, on the other hand, those that came from the Brazilian folklore. She managed to work in both different – and often opposed – fields, and always with great inventiveness,” he said.
Bo Bardi’s most important projects include the São Paulo Museum of Art, which is raised above the ground on huge red armatures to create a public plaza underneath.
There is also the SESC Pompéia, a leisure centre that the architect created within an existing old city factory – despite an initial brief that involved demolishing the building. She aimed to combine new functions like swimming and theatre with existing activities, from chess-playing to puppet shows, creating a space without a hierarchy.
For herself and her husband, Bo Bardi designed a glazed house raised on stilts over a woodland site on the outskirts of the city, which can be entered by a staircase rising up through its centre.
Finotti’s images are included in the exhibition A Arquitetura Política de Lina Bo Bardi, taking place at the SESC to celebrate the centenary of Bo Bardi’s birth this December. The photographer also plans to document more of the architect’s projects ahead of the occasion.
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This skeletal furniture by Dutch design studio Tjep. is made from bronze in an effort to create a collection of objects “totally opposite to the technology-driven trends” in design (+ movie).
Led by studio founder Frank Tjepkema, Tjep. designed a series of spindly hand-crafted furniture pieces in bronze; “the material that represents the dawn of civilisation”.
Related story: Maritiem Museum exhibition by Tjep.
“For this project I wanted to create something totally opposite to the technology-driven trends based on the emergence of new digital tools such as 3D printing,” said Tjepkema.
“I like the idea that bronze is precious and is therefore implicitly sustainable, it is either preserved or remelted but never discarded, who knows maybe these pieces contain a couple of remelted ancient bronze swords!”
The Bronze Age collection follows on from the studio’s 2011 Recession Chair – a mass-produced Ikea chair reduced in part to a skeletal shape to evoke the receding state of the global economy.
Tjep. created a new version of this chair in bronze, with the original form in the patinated green condition of the material and the pared back section in its shiny metallic state.
Other seats in the collection are made entirely in the emaciated style. These include an arm chair, a dining chair, a lounge chair and a chaise long.
Each features thin elements that vary in thickness along their lengths and larger uneven surfaces that distort reflections.
The collection was exhibited in the ballroom of the Colloredo Mansfeld Palace during Designblok Prague, which took place last week.
Also on display in the space was Tjep.’s Il Treno dining booth inspired by old train compartments and a winged heart of cogs called Clockwork Snow, originally designed for a Christmas window display at Milan department store La Rinascente.
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There’s something rugged and pioneering about the history of moonshine. Whether it’s Appalachian myths and the human spirit, the Whiskey Rebellion post-War of Independence, or a prominent surge during American Prohibition when it took on greater meaning, there’s a story in every sip….
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The Key Art Awards récompense les bandes annonces, les teasers mais aussi les posters qu’on a pu voir tout au long de notre année de cinéma, sur Internet, sur des panneaux publicitaires, dans des magazines ou dans le métro. Voici la liste des finalistes pour la catégorie des posters et prints : de Fury à Gravity en passant par Godzilla, Nebraska et Hunger Games.
By The Refinery.
By BLT Communications.
By BLT Communications.
By Concept Arts Inc.
By Gravillis Inc.
By P+A.
By The Refinery.
By BLT Communications.
By Concept Arts Inc.
By Gravillis Inc.
By IGNITION.
By Phantom City Creative.
By IGNITION.
By Art Machine.
By Art Machine.
By IGNITION.
By IGNITION.
By IGNITION.
Les gagnants seront révélés lors d’une cérémonie le 23 Octobre à Hollywood.
For most of us consumers, beer is something we buy in bottles and cans, its creation process something of a mystery; we have a vague notion of grains and a fermentation process being involved. Home brewers more firmly understand the science, but much of their alchemy happens inside opaque stainless steel containers, with your average home brewing set-up hewing to the Walter White Meth Lab school of design. So for his final-year design project Freddie Paul, a Product Design student at London’s South Bank University, decided to make the home brewing process more transparent. Literally.
Beer Tree is a gravity fed home brewing kit for brewing craft ales. It concentrates on the brewing process as something to be enjoyed and celebrated. The process can be completely visualised from start to finish, involving the user more than traditional kits to create a strong sense of satisfaction and pride over the final product.
The video gives you a better sense of what the Beer Tree looks like in action:
We’re digging Paul’s use of laser-etched graphics on the control panel, his use of materials and the overall form. One commenter on the video is more critical: “It looks impossible to clean and sanitize, your mash tun will lose so much heat, it looks like you can’t vorlauf” and more brewerspeak. Another commenter is more upbeat: “My close friends and I have all agreed. We would pay good money to own one of these. Seriously consider making a Kickstarter for manufacturing of this product. I would sign up to back you TODAY.”
Paul, if you’re reading this: Given that you’ve graduated and we don’t see a current employer on your Coroflot profile, perhaps the crowdsourcing is worth a go?
Check out Paul’s shots of the development process after the jump.
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