A centuries-long obsession with human form continues to inspire artists across all media. Both the familiar and the unknown, the easy-to-recognize and the purely abstract, it is the self and the other. At this year’s Miami Art Week, many works caught……
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Eduard Gordeev est un photographe talentueux basé à Saint-Pétersbourg. L’artiste capture des photos artistiques de paysages urbains sous la pluie. Les images obtenues sont atmosphériques et donne une un effet de peintures acryliques. Ces rues urbaines et leurs architectures totalement trempées paraissent mystérieuses.
L’architecte chinois Wang Shu a érigé la Résidence San-He dans le campus du parc Sifang, au milieu des bois. Séparés par une cour et une piscine, les deux espaces habitables sont reliés par un toit élégant. Une des façades a été pensée avec des motifs géométriques laissant passer de la lumière à l’intérieur. A découvrir.
Photos by Trevor Patt & Sifang Art Museum.
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News: landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations, who collaborated on New York’s High Line, has been selected to create a huge public park bordering the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The Presidio Parklands – a five hectare strip of coastline leading up to the Golden Gate Bridge – will link an existing park in a former military base with the San Francisco Bay, covering a major roadway.
The New York landscape architecture firm fought off competition from finalists Snøhetta, West 8, Olin and CMG to be awarded the commission by The New Presidio Parklands Project – a partnership formed between campaign group Presidio Trust, funding body Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and government agency the National Parks Service.
“I feel both honoured and humbled by the challenge,” said studio founder James Corner.
“This is an extremely significant opportunity for the people of San Francisco to create a dramatic new legacy for future generations – a place where the Presidio meets the Bay, a place where the City can reflect back upon itself, a place where urban life meets the most amazing natural resources, unparalleled by any other city.”
The New York landscape architects’ previous urban developments include the conversion of a disused elevated train track in downtown Manhattan into The High Line, in collaboration with New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Dutch studio Piet Oudolf.
Renderings of the proposed Presidio Parklands design show a snaking walkway bordering the Bay’s marshland with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Sculptural wooden seating with the appearance of driftwood lines the path, separating it from a strip of grass.
The pathway detaches itself from the shoreline to form an elliptical cantilever over a bank of planting and a cycle route below.
The land for the park will sit above a covered freeway and reconnect two parts of the former military base, previously separated by an elevated highway called Doyle Drive. The road will be rerouted into tunnels to create an open space.
One part of the former military site – Crissy Field – was converted into a park in 2001 and currently attracts over one million visitors each year.
Public consultations are expected to begin in early 2015, with the project set for completion by 2018.
Renderings are by James Corner Field Operations. Site aerial photographs are courtesy Presidio Parkway Project.
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Comments update: Zaha Hadid generated a heated string of comments – and a pleading request for a reasoned debate – after hitting back at criticism of her Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
Tokyo rift: Hadid’s comments were aimed at Japanese architects who had been campaigning against her scheme – a number of whom had also entered the competition to design the stadium. “They don’t want a foreigner to build in Tokyo for a national stadium,” she told Dezeen. “On the other hand, they all have work abroad.”
“I think it’s embarrassing for them, that’s all I can say,” said Hadid. “I understand it’s their town. But they’re hypocrites.”
A large number of commenters backed Hadid’s stance, including Onedog who wrote “sounds like sour grapes to me. The judging panel has made its decision and you didn’t win, move on.”
But opponents included TYO, who said that Hadid should “listen to what people are saying, not just label them hypocrites because they are against her design.”
“Architectural arrogance and sour grapes aside, the general mood of today seems to be far more willing to endorse something more modest and subtle than this sort of flailing whale of a stadium,” added l’oncleb.
“Just constant egotism from both sides. How about a reasoned discussion?” pleaded will, while arielnano was just enjoying the entertainment: “There are too many snobs in the profession for so much drama. *Grabs popcorn*. I love Zaha, and Toyo Ito, etc. but they’re sounding like children right now.” Read the comments on this story »
Good Job? A collection of monumental furniture pieces by Studio Job, inspired by architectural landmarks, debuted at Design Miami and proved instantly divisive when we published them on Dezeen.
While commenters who had been at the event described the show as “the best at Design Miami“, others were unimpressed.
“Studio Job creates kitsch, drowns it gold and calls it design. It’s greatly disappointing,” wrote Nout.
“Perhaps I don’t understand. I have really tried to see the beauty here, but I can’t,” added James. “The craftsmanship is clearly of a high quality though, which is something.”
But dirty nick was among those who felt that the pieces worked. “Obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder and pretty poor beholders here, but the thing that makes these pieces work is attitude… Daring to go your own way no matter what and I must admit it seems like fun to show the finger design-wise and get rich doing it,” he wrote. Read the comments on this story »
Dizzy heights: news that the freshly completed One World Trade Centre building in New York had been named the most expensive skyscraper of all time triggered a discussion about the treatment of labourers.
“Well, there’s no slave labour in New York so they can’t keep construction costs down that way,” wrote ismellittoo in the most popular comment of the week.
“Or you can face the reality and say it’s amazing how inexpensive a skyscraper can be when unions aren’t in total dominance of a construction site,” chimed in Trent.
But his comment left Simon Saunders unimpressed. “Yes it IS dreadful when the people building enormous, massively complicated structures have to be paid properly and given safe working conditions isn’t it,” he wrote.
“Oh for those halcyon days when people fell to their deaths in preventable circumstances and had to prostrate themselves before stovepipe-hatted industrialists…” Read the comments on this story »
Helsinki debate: the unveiling of the six anonymous designs shortlisted for the Helsinki Guggenheim open architecture competition was a hot topic, with many readers failing to find their favourites from the 1,715 submissions on the list.
Commenter Guggen called for some of the shortlisted entries to be disqualified, feeling that they had not complied with the rules of the competition, while miss match said one of the entries looked similar to a finalist for the Oslo Waterfront competition.
“These six finalists look like a choice for some provincial museum that nobody cares about,” wrote critic. “It is Guggenheim. It should be a statement of architecture, not some poorly done, visually cheap building.”
“I am a member of one of the shortlisted teams and I don’t feel like what my team has accomplished is ‘visually cheap’,” retorted P. “Maybe all six fall short of having world class visuals, but keep in mind the extraordinary cost and volunteer hours to each team in completing this project.”
But some readers did manage to time something they liked in the six projects, including KB-P who wrote: “The draped curtain takes the Semperian idea of dressing to the next level. White walls, designer dresses! My winner!” Read the comments on this story »
Sensory overload: Eindhoven designer Rene Siebum recreated a set of standard commercial doorhandles in various textures, as part of a project about making objects more interesting to touch.
One version in particular prompted a visceral response from a reader: “If I ever feel the need to get a door handle that looks and, I guess, feels like a diseased penis I know who to go to,” wrote the guest commenter.
“It reminds of the time when I was living in residence and we dropped by the local barber, got a bag of hair and then glued it to the door handle of this one guy who was always coming home drunk,” added Charlie Bing.
But The Liberty Disciple was a fan of the idea: “I love exploring touch in design. It’s under utilised in today’s visual-based architecture. Any exploration is welcome, especially when it comes to door handles, as this is typically the first haptic experience from architecture that someone experiences.” Read the comments on this story »
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A lot of modern-day architecture discussions can be confusing, alienating and overly academic. That’s why I was drawn right away to Barry Berkus’ “How to Think Like an Architect” video series, because he speaks and thinks in such a sensible, pragmatic and accessible manner:
Now to the industrial designers among you: When you’re in the sketching phase, how do you start designing, say, a handheld product? Do you start by drawing the human hand and filling it with your object? Do you start with the object’s innards, if it’s got electric guts, and start shaping the form around that? You’re probably familiar with a variety of processes, but you’ll likely find Berkus’ architecture-based design process as interesting as it is different to what ID’ers do. Here he shows how he goes from vague bubbles to hard lines:
Pour le mois de décembre, Fubiz vous dévoile ses coups de coeur Artsper à travers une sélection de 12 oeuvres éclectiques mélangeant sculptures, peintures et photographies. Une sélection à découvrir en images et sur le site Artsper, où plus de 5000 oeuvres proposées par des galeries expertes sont disponibles en ligne et pour tous types de budgets.
Untitled, 2013 by Ren Hang.
Raft (Stop Thinking Series), 2013 by Aviva Brooks.
Paracetamol, 2014 by Goddog.
Paix (Medium Size), 2012 by Sarah Schmidt-Whitley.
Mr Patator, 2013 by Anti.
Megalomaniac, 2008 by Petros Chrisostomou.
Le Rolleiflex – Série Les Caprices de Madame Bovary, 2013 by Takala.
Le Grand Livre de Dalian, 2012 by Alain Hatat.
Illusion, Untitled #2, 2013 by Tingting Wang.
Untitled, 2014 by Goddog.
Fairyland, 2014 by Yury Toroptsov.
Actes Nocturnes #6, 2013 by Amandine Crozat.
Plus d’oeuvres à découvrir sur le site Artsper.
Victor Vasarely is widely recognized as the grandfather of Op-Art, the short-lived but highly impactful movement that brought optical illusion to the canvas and sculpture. Seemingly contemporary because of its computational element and use of high……
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News: Chicago firm JAHN and Mexican office ADG have teamed up to design a new stadium for Mexican baseball team Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico with a pointed roof modelled on a devil’s trident.
The new 13,000-seat home stadium for Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico, which translates as the Red Devils of Mexico, will feature a lightweight steel roof with three pointed ends, designed to reference the three-pronged spear synonymous with the devil.
Designed by Mexican architects Alonso de Garay of ADG and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido of JAHN, the arena will be located in Mexico City’s Magdalena Mixhuca, the main site of the 1968 Olympic Games.
The monumental steel roof will be wrapped in PTFE textile to create a fabric surface. According to the architects, it will be “sharp, translucent, luminous and dynamic”.
This structure will be supported by truncated pyramids clad with indigenous volcanic rock, likened by the architects to the components of “an ancient Mesoamerican temple”.
“Our guiding concept was to establish the duality between pre-Hispanic Mexico through the base and contemporary Mexico through the roof of Estadio Diablos, which blends tradition, innovation, austerity and technology into one space,” said De Garay.
Beyond the entrance, a ring of circulation space will lead to the sheltered seating stands. There will also be additional seating provided by a great berm – a raised bank overlooking the action.
Public plazas will be created at the northern and south-eastern corners of the complex, and there will also be gardens at the south-west end of the site.
“Successful spaces must encourage strong social engagement, incorporate Mexican traditions and respect existing natural conditions,” said Gonzalez-Pulido, who is chief designer at JAHN.
“Estadio Diablos is more than a stadium, it is Mexico’s ballpark,” he continued.
“Our challenge was to make the stadium a social and cultural centre. As Estadio Azteca is the home of Mexican football, we strive for Estadio Diablos to become the home of Mexican baseball.”
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