Drawing on their vegetation-rich surroundings in the Pacific Northwest, Portland-based Maak Lab crafts soaps, salves and candles with natural ingredients. With a focus on experimentation and pushing the bounds of scents and ingredients in such products……
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Gonzalo Fuenmayor, The Unexpected Guest, 2014 (Photo: Collection of Alan Faena and Ximena Caminos)
The Rem Koolhaas/OMA-designed Faena Forum doesn’t open ’til the next edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, but that won’t stop it from being the talk of this go-round. The building-in-progress, slated to be the 50,000-square-foot centerpiece of Alan Faena‘s Miami Beach mixed-use wonderland at 33rd and Collins, is making a splash with the newly opened Faena Collaboratory.
Designed with Koolhaas and Atelier Marko Brajovic, the pop-up pavilion provides a window into the creative process behind the Faena Forum through an installation of models, drawings, notes, and research and will also serve as the temporary home for site-specific commissions by Studio Job (we hear the Antwerp-based design collective is riffing on the Fountain of Youth) and Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Gonzalo Fuenmayor, who is promising nothing short of “Eden”: an outdoor installation of tropical-themed, trans-American opulence.
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Sofia Ajram est une photographe basée à Montréal qui nous présente ici une série de photographies aux inspirations sombres et romantiques. Dans une ambiance d’occultisme se déroulant le plus souvent dans une forêt, de charmantes jeunes femmes brunes semblent envoutées par un enchantement. À découvrir.
Design Miami 2014: a domed structure conceived by American Neo-Futuristic architect Buckminster Fuller as an “autonomous dwelling machine” has been installed in the Miami Design District.
Richard Buckminster Fuller designed and patented the Fly’s Eye Dome in 1965, which he saw as a prototype for low-cost portable housing of the future.
He had produced three of the prototype shelters by hand in different sizes before his death in 1983. Each comprises a series of transparent domed windows across a fibreglass partial sphere, creating a geodesic bubble.
The architect believed the building could house solar panels and water collection systems in some of its openings, offering an entirely self-sufficient residence.
One of the three domes, measuring just over seven metres in diameter, was acquired by Miami Design District creator Craig Robins in 2011. A year later, the Buckminster Fuller Institute commissioned a team of 3D-design specialists to recreate it using materials and technology not available to the architect during his lifetime.
DRDesign, Conform Labs and Goetz Composites created a 3D parametric model from the original parts, then used a five-axis CNC machine to produce a series of engineered components. The structure features a re-designed lower truncation, a new joining system that prevents water penetration and a passive ventilation system.
Sitting atop a pool of water, the new dome is installed in front of Sou Fujimoto’s almost-complete Palm Court shopping centre at 140 NE 39th Street. A spiral staircase inside the structure connects the courtyard with an underground car park directly beneath.
The new Fly’s Eye Dome was put in place to coincide with this year’s Design Miami event, which opens today and continues until 7 December.
The largest of Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Domes, measuring 15 metre wide, went on show last year as part of the Toulouse International Art Festival, while the smallest is now owned by Norman Foster.
In 2011, the area hosted an exhibition titled Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster that compared the environmentally-driven work of Fuller and the British architect. Foster discusses the significance of the Fly’s Eye Dome and Fuller’s Dymaxion Car in a movie filmed at the exhibition.
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News: Thomas Heatherwick’s £175 million Garden Bridge proposal for London has been approved by Westminster Council amid claims it will be the “most expensive footbridge in the world”.
The 367-metre pedestrian bridge, which consists of two fluted piers supporting a promenade planted with trees, is set to span the River Thames between the South Bank and Temple Station.
Earlier today, BBC journalist Tom Edwards reported that the bridge would be the most expensive crossing of its kind, partially due to the materials being used in its cladding.
“Civil engineers have told us at £175 million the Garden Bridge will be the most expensive footbridge in the world in part due to copper cladding,” said Edwards on Twitter.
Westminster Council, on the north bank of the Thames, was one of two London boroughs that needed to green light the plans for the bridge. Its local government councillors approved the scheme by three votes to one in a planning meeting this evening.
Lambeth Council – the planning authority responsible for the development on the south side of the river – gave its approval in November. The project still needs a formal approval from London Mayor Boris Johnson, who has already declared his backing for the scheme.
Related story: Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge will require groups of eight or more to “request a formal visit”
Further examination of the planning documents last month revealed that groups of eight people or more would have to apply for permission to cross the bridge, a rule introduced partially in an attempt to discourage “protest groups” from occupying the structure.
British architecture news site BDonline also said that the bridge would cost £3.5 million a year to operate and maintain.
It will be funded, managed and maintained by the Garden Bridge Trust, a charitable organisation created for the sole purpose of realising the project. The trust is adamant that the public will not be charged to access the bridge.
Heatherwick Studio is working alongside engineers Arup and landscape designer Dan Pearson on the project.
Westminster’s planning officers had recommended that the local authority’s planning panel, consisting of four councillors, approve the scheme “subject to appropriate measures to secure the long term funding and maintenance of the bridge”.
“The substantial benefits of the new bridge, the iconic architecture, new connectivity and additional views created from the bridge, outweigh the harm to views from Waterloo bridge and the South Bank,” said the planners.
Over 120 people attended the hearing tonight at Westminster City Hall, with interested members of the public being forced to stand at the back of the room to hear the results.
The committee was shown an extensive array of slides demonstrating the affect of the bridge on historic views of the Thames and landmark buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral, designed by Christopher Wren.
The planning officer responsible for the scheme said that had it offered no public access it would have been rejected, but added that these “lost views” would be compensated by new vistas from the bridge.
#GardenBridge Cllr Tim Mitchell – “we’re approving a new icon for London” — London SE1 (@se1) December 2, 2014
Reporting from the planning meeting, local news site SE1 said that councillor Davis had declared that he had “always been a fan” of Heatherwick and said that he believed the bridge would be a “superb addition” to London. Councillor Tim Mitchell said the design of the bridge was “excellent”.
The Garden Bridge Trust will now need to raise the remaining funds to build the structure, and secure Transport for London as a guarantor on maintenance fees as part of the conditions of Westminster’s approval. Construction is due to start on the project in 2015.
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Le designer Martín Azúa a collaboré avec Marc Vidal pour monter le projet « Vase With Stone » : des vases en céramique faits-mains et conçus avec des pierres naturelles provenant des rivières de Costa Brava et de Catalogne et qui viennent distordre la forme du bord en l’écrasant. A découvrir.
In his quest to “break through the limits of RC drifting techniques,” Japan-based RC expert Drift44 was searching for a new challenge. He found it not in winning races, but in a more pedestrian event: Parking. (Warning, turn your volume down.)
That’s not the strangest thing you’ll find RC enthusiasts doing online. The YouTube channel RC Live Action stages accidents, disasters and vehicular trouble; they have a video of a truck stuck in mud that has 25 million views. In this one below, they take the trouble to send a tanker filled with flammable liquid over the side of a bridge, causing it to burst into flames. Why? So they can drive RC fire trucks with working hoses over there to put it out. (Be warned that this is worth a scan, not a full watch.)
South London singer/songwriter Rosie Lowe has been making quite a name for herself since releasing her EP Right Thing a year ago. Those paying attention to the UK’s modern R&B scene will easily recognize the rising star as the featured artist on Lil……
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While many take careful consideration when choosing a mailbox, finer details are more often than not an afterthought, with most mailboxes conforming to a uniform design that serves a basic function. But if the front door acts as the first impression……
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Take your drawings from the page to publication with the help of Mediabistro’s short course on publishing your illustrations and cartoons. Writer and illustrator Jessica Olien will guide you through the markets for your illustrated work, from approaching online and print publications with ideas to preparing a picture book dummy for submission to an agent or editor (Olien’s own picture book, Shark Detective, attacks next fall from HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray). By Christmas, you’ll have brainstormed ideas for illustrated work and come up with a list of places to submit.You’ll also have a list of resources to turn to whenever you come up with new ideas. The online learning fun starts tomorrow night, so sharpen your Prismacolors and register now.
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