After photographer Jessamyn Lovell’s wallet was stolen, mysterious bills began to haunt her. Lovell hired a private investigator to track down the identity thief, but instead of confronting the criminal once she had been exposed, Lovell decided to……
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John Pawson designs more than buildings. “We’ve done bridges and boats and books and ballet sets,” notes the simplicity-loving Brit. And that’s just the things that start with “b”! Pawson is down in Miami Beach to fete his clean-lined contribution (read: stunning condos) to the latest EDITION hotel, the Ian Schrager-meets-Marriott venture that timed its opening to coincide with the Art Basel craze, and stopped in to chat with Nick Knight‘s Showstudio about his views on design, minimalism (a “handy pigeonhole” of a term), the virtues of unadorned space, the therapeutic benefits of photography, and Schrager. “He’s so passionate about getting things right,” says Pawson of the famed hotelier. “Interestingly, considering what he’s done in the past…he does like what I do…and he will fight to make it happen.”
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À la manière de Matthias Heiderich, Julien Schulze, photographe basé à Berlin nous présente une sélection d’images, fruit d’un travail au concept bien particulier. En se focalisant sur des parcelles d’architectures, Julien Schulze arrive à capturer des images graphiques et colorées, qui nous montrent la beauté et l’esthétique des structures urbaines sous un angle différent.
News: work has begun on architect Moshe Safdie‘s Jewel Changi Airport, which aims to “reinvent what airports are all about” by creating a shared public space under a glass dome with a massive waterfall and garden at its centre.
Safdie Architects‘ 134,000-square-metre addition to Singapore’s main airport will combine retail, leisure and entertainment facilities with gardens to create both a public space for local residents and a facility for passengers passing through the airport.
A 40-metre-tall waterfall – dubbed the Rain Vortex – will pour down from a round opening in the roof of the glass dome. It will be joined by an “indoor landscape” of trees and shrubs called Forest Valley, which includes walking trails for visitors.
Rainwater will be collected via the waterfall and reused in the building, and at night it will be the backdrop for a light and sound show that diners can watch from overlooking restaurant terraces.
“This project redefines and reinvents what airports are all about,” said the Boston-based architect.
“The new paradigm represented by Jewel Changi Airport is to create a diverse and meaningful meeting place that serves as a gateway to the city and country, complementing commerce and services with attractions and gardens for passengers, airport employees, and the city at large.”
“Our goal was to bring together the duality of a vibrant marketplace and a great urban park side-by-side in a singular and immersive experience,” he added.
“The component of the traditional mall is combined with the experience of nature, culture, education, and recreation, aiming to provide an uplifting experience. By drawing both visitors and local residents alike, we aim to create a place where the people of Singapore interact with the people of the world.”
The shape of the building is expected to serve a dual purpose – creating a natural focus point for the waterfall as well as providing structural strength to allow a more “delicate” latticework effect of glass panels framed in steel. Safdie conceived this aesthetic in “the tradition of glass conservatories”.
Tree-like columns will be arranged in a ring around the edge of a roof garden, called the Canopy Park, to provide additional support for the roof. This space has been designed in collaboration with PWP Landscape Architecture.
“The suspended roof arches over the covered atrium, which is connected at multiple levels to the surrounding retail floors,” explained the architect.
The route to the new building will be nestled behind the three terminals of the existing airport, which processes over 53 million passengers a year. It will connect to Terminal 1 with an expansion of the existing arrivals hall, and to Terminals 2 and 3 via new footbridges.
Work is due to complete on the project – Safdie’s third airport building following Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel and Terminal 1 at Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto – at the end of 2018.
Singapore has become an increasingly important market for Safdie, who has been working in the city-state for more than two decades. The architect’s Marina Bay Sands hotel development, which opened in 2011, has become an icon on Singapore’s waterfront.
Speaking to Dezeen at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore in October, Safdie said that Marina Bay Sands had opened up an eastern market for his firm, whose current projects include a 38-storey high-density housing project in Singapore called Sky Habitat and a 900,000 square metre development in Chongqing, China. “It’s really put us on the map in Asia that’s for sure,” he said.
During his closing speech at WAF, Safdie called for a “reorientation” of the way cities are designed. He said that architects were obsessed with designing one-off towers in cities, creating disconnected urban environments and increasingly privatised public space, resulting in cities that are “not worthy of our civilisation”.
“Most of the avant-garde in our profession today is preoccupied with fundamentally the object building,” said Safdie. “The object building cannot make a city. Unless we resolve this paradox, we will continue to be producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation.”
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Soon Alphabet Soup won’t be the only way to eat your letters. A new campaign on Kickstarter is hoping to make The Keyboard Waffle Iron a reality. Featuring a die-cast, aluminum body with heat-resistant Bakelite handles, the $60 QWERTY-inspired waffle……
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Straight from the laboratory of Tony Stark, a newly developed technology is able to produce 3D holographic shapes that can be felt and touched while floating in mid-air. Using ultrasound and haptics (touch feedback) as its primary technologies, this……
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For many, it’s during their college years when an interest in design and fashion is discovered. For New York’s Will Berman—who we met at our 2013 Pitch Night—the passion took root at a much younger age; at 15 he started his own label, Unwashed Denim……
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Will Cotton est déjà bien connu pour ses multiples collaborations artistiques, notamment sur la réalisation du clip déjanté de Katy Perry, « California Girls ». Ici, nous vous présentons une sélection de peintures qu’il a réalisé ces dernières années. On y découvre un univers sucré, des portraits de femmes gateaux et des paysages gourmands. À découvrir.
When choosing materials for a side table, squishy and compressible polyether foam might not be at the top of your list. The porous material is fantastic for packaging fragile goods and for use as a tolerable mattress pad, but as a side table meant to support other objects—particularly a slab of marble? Not so much. Yet it’s exactly those features that led Dutch designer Pieteke Korte to use the material for a series of side tables appropriately dubbed Stone & Foam.
A recent graduate of the Man and Identity program at Design Academy Eindhoven, Korte developed the Stone & Foam series during one of her studio courses. The brief, titled “Carry,” tasked students with capturing the expression of weight in a design. Korte had focused on textiles, materials and art direction during her time at school, so she naturally began with material research and experimentation, playing with structure, weights and color. She didn’t get very far into testing foam samples before stumbling upon the magical pairing of stone and foam, quickly moving to scale models and full-scale prototypes. “The foam and the stone create a really nice dialectic—soft and hard, light and heavy, cheap and upscale,” Korte says. “It just made sense. I know it sounds like the idea was there from the beginning, but it took a while to get there.”
Full-scale prototypes were where Korte ran into the most trouble. “There were plenty of failures after moving to full scale—split blocks of foam, wasted resins and urethane,” she says. “There isn’t a lot of information out there on the particular properties of foam.” At full scale, Korte found that the foam was put under more stress, changing its degree of flexibility compared to her smaller mockups. This was particularly problematic with her folded table, which required that Korte find a more ductile foam for the full-scale version. The designer also explored working with resin and urethane as a way of sealing the foam and securing its shape, but was disappointed with the results. “It yellowed, it couldn’t be used to create the kind of membranes I wanted,” she says. “It was a week of experimentation that I quickly learned wasn’t worth continuing.”
Foam and marble, plus trial and error
The Game is a great new design concept store—at two locations in Brussels and Antwerp—with products specially selected by curator Alexis Ryngaert’s keen eye. And they don’t come much keener than Ryngaert’s: he’s the founder of Victor Hunt Designart……
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