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Le 30 Octobre 2014, le gouvernement municipal de Zhuhai a officialisé l’inauguration du nouveau centre de convention et d’exposition international de Zhuhai, développé par 10 Design. Cette cérémonie est la première étape de construction du quartier d’affaires de Shizimen en Chine. L’ensemble du complexe comprendra 640 000 m² de logements. Un centre à découvrir.

A new timber and concrete cafe cantilevers out towards the swimming pool at this 1970s hotel in Portugal that has been renovated by Campos Costa Arquitectos (+ slideshow).

The Lisbon studio led by Pedro Campos Costa was tasked with upgrading the facilities at the Eurotel Tavira, a hotel in the south of Portugal originally designed by architects Barros da Fonseca and Paiva Lopes.

As well as refurbishing the existing spaces of the white-rendered four-storey block, Campos Costa’s team added a modern extension to create a generous dining space and terrace overlooking the swimming pool.

“The proposal aims to enhance the comfort and constructive quality of the Eurotel Tavira to that expected of contemporary four-star hotels,” said the architect.

“The goal was to search for a balance between existing and contemporary. The building was designed in the 1970s and has features that I was interested in keeping, and which influenced the design of the new elements.”

Rather than emulating the material palette of the old building, he chose to combine modern detailing with the traditional techniques of local carpenters.

This resulted in a two-storey structure topped by a gridded timber roof supported by slender columns. Its concrete base is set into the sloping ground at one end and cantilevers six metres out towards the existing pool at the other.

At first glance the roof appears to be flat, but on closer inspection it reveals itself as a gently curving surface that lifts upwards at two of its corners and drops down on the other two.

An L-shaped dining space takes up one half of the elevated floor, while the other half is occupied by a generous terrace facing out towards the horizon.

“The fundamental aspect of the new structure is the concern for comfort, both on the terrace and lounge space,” said Campos Costa.

“The wood was a material that emerged from the very first moment, very attached to a search for a relationship with the nearby surroundings,” he added. “The building seeks to find the land and the surroundings in a balanced and harmonious way while asserting its personality and its character.”

A concrete staircase sits at the heart of the space, offering guests a direct route down to the pool.

The rest of the renovation involved refitting the hotel’s reception and living room, located on the ground floor, and modernising the guest rooms on the levels above.

Photography is by José Campos.

Project credits:

Client: Gracer
Architect: Pedro Campos Costa
Team: Pedro Campos Costa, Verónica de Mello, Silvia Bechi, Giulia Castelarin, Werner Peruzzo, Nuno Pereira, Ana Isabel Fernandes, Gonçalo Pacheco, Katarzyna Augustyniak e Daniela Figueiredo
Interior Design: Lara Matos e Verónica de Mello
Structural engineers: Miguel Lourenço JSJ estruturas
Lighting design: Paula Rainha

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Music: Australian studio Dropbear Digital used over 330 paper illustrations to tell the story of a wandering spirit in this stop-motion video for John Butler Trio’s new single, Spring to Come.

Director Jonathan Chong of Dropbear Digital collaborated with independent illustrator Snip Green to make the film.

“The story is about an Earth-bound spirit called Jack who is searching for his long lost wife called Spring,” Chong told Dezeen.

“He wanders the landscape as it changes through the seasons and all around him the cycle of life continues,” the director said. “In the end he finds Spring and returns to the light.”

Beginning with an animation of a pop-up book opening, the film cuts to Jack and Spring’s graves, before following Jack’s spirit through an otherworldly landscape.

“It was directly inspired by the underlying meaning of the song that no matter how dark things can get there’s always light at the end of the tunnel and things don’t stay the same forever – spring eventually comes full circle,” said Chong.

Australian soft rockers John Butler Trio approached Dropbear Digital about making the video after seeing a stop-motion promo Chong made for Melbourne outfit Hudson and Troop.

The director told Dezeen that almost everything in the James Butler Trio video “was created out of paper – from the plants to the animals and the human characters.”

“Everything had to be cut out and created by hand. It was animated on a traditional animation stand that consisted of three to four layers of glass so that the background, foreground and middle ground could be divided up and animated separately.”

While most of the effects in the film were created in-camera, some were produced after filming. “The setting sun was a practical light on a slider that was animated by hand, and then the sky and stars were a digital effect,” Chong explained.

The director animated the film using Dragonframe stop-motion software. Spring to Come features on John Butler Trio’s sixth album, Flesh and Blood.

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