Mais que se cache t-il derrière ce distributeur de Coca ? L’architecte Alberto Caiola a conçu un « speakeasy », un club de nuit aux allures de bar clandestin existant pendant la prohibition. Le lieu, intitulé Flask, est discrètement accessible depuis une sandwicherie donnant sur la rue.
Dean Bradshaw a visité les usines de Los Angeles pour en photographier les artisans ouvriers, oeuvrant à la fabrication d’objets en tout genre. Du charpentier au forgeron, le photographe nous offre de très beaux clichés qui à travers les étincelles, dans une pénombre bleutée, nous font découvrir la beauté et le savoir-faire complexe du travail fait main.
Maison&Objet 2015: Japanese studio Nendo has surrounded a lounge area with a cascade of 2,000 chocolate-coloured pipes for an installation at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair (+ slideshow).
Awarded this year’s Designer of the Year title by Maison&Objet, Nendo was asked to create a lounge area at the Paris event.
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The studio’s Chocolatexture Lounge is surrounded by a grid of thin sticks that appear to have been dipped in chocolate.
A brown gradient is added to the top and the centre of the otherwise white aluminium poles, which vary in height to create the impression of “a rippling large molten chocolate wave”.
The pipes encircle a three-sided white booth, designed as a place to relax at Maison&Objet as well as somewhere to present the studio’s range of cube-shaped chocolates created for the event, which concludes today.
“The Chocolatexture Lounge is neither a cafe, nor an exhibition, nor an installation, but a place to experience and enjoy Nendo through the five senses,” said the studio.
Some of the Tokyo-based studio’s most-recognisable furniture designs – chosen for their “soft melting feel” – have been recreated in custom brown editions.
These include pieces such as the folded metal furniture for Desalto, the glass tables patterned with brush strokes for Glas Italia, and others for Emeco, Offecct and Moroso.
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Sets of nine chocolates – created for the event by Nendo in unusual shapes to slightly alter the taste – are displayed in a glass vitrine and on sale as a limited edition of 400.
A small espresso machine is positioned beside the counter, offering coffee for those who purchase the confectionary.
The installation is located in Hall 8 of the Parc d’Expositions at Nord Villepinte, north-east Paris.
Founded by designer Oki Sato, Nendo has been one of the most prolific studios this past year, releasing products that ranged from shoes and umbrellas to lighting and modular office furniture.
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News: London mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans to create Europe’s longest segregated cycle lane through the city centre.
Today Johnson gave the go ahead for an amended plan to create a cycle link between east and west London, but also promised that the anticipated delays to motorist’s journeys along the route will be minimised.
The revised plan will create a single dedicated cycle superhighway with a curb-segregated lane and junctions, running along the Victoria Embankment to link Tower Hill and Paddington.
The scheme forms part of Transport for London’s cycle design guidelines published earlier this month, which set out standards to help make London more cycle friendly.
Original proposals for the east-west link (pictured) involved removing one of the westbound traffic lanes along Embankment. This drew concerns over increased congestion and lengthened cross-city journey times from organisations including London First, London Travelwatch, City of London, Canary Wharf and the London Taxi Drivers Association.
The worst case increase in journey time for drivers from Limehouse Link to Hyde Park Corner was predicted to be 16 minutes by traffic modelling figures.
Following lengthy consultations, the new proposal for a single, thinner lane along the same stretch of road is anticipated to reduce delays to six minutes at peak morning times.
“Thanks to the skill of TFL’s engineers and traffic managers, we have made changes to our original plans which keep the whole of the segregated cycle track and junctions, while taking out much less of the route’s motor traffic capacity – and so causing much shorter delays,” said Johnson.
Currently awaiting approval from the TFL Board – expected 4 February – the £41 million central section of the cycle route could start construction this April. Completion is scheduled for spring 2016.
The proposal is backed by companies including Royal Bank of Scotland, Deloitte, Orange and Unilever, as well as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), following a number of cyclist deaths on the city’s roads.
“Cycling is clearly now a major transport option in London, with over 170,000 bike journeys now made across central London every single day,” said Peter Hendy, transport commissioner for London. “These projects will help transform cycling in London – making it safer and an option that more and more people can enjoy.”
The east-west link, which will eventually provide a continuous route between Barking and Acton, is part of a wider upgrade to London’s cycling infrastructure awaiting approval from the board.
This includes a north-south route that would connect King’s Cross with Elephant and Castle, planned to begin 4 March, and work to upgrade the CS2 trail between Stratford and Aldgate, starting as early as 9 February.
TFL’s cycle design guidelines also dictate the amount bicycle parking provision in new developments – which Foster + Partners’ 250 City Road complex has exceeded by offering one bike space per bedroom.
Norman Foster put forward his own proposals to improve London’s cycling infrastructure last year, unveiling plans for a network of elevated pathways above the city’s railways. Other bike-friendly schemes mooted for the UK capital include a floating cycle path along the River Thames.
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Fashion designer Rick Owens has updated his collection of shoes for Adidas, adding three new models including a knee-high boot (+ slideshow).
Rick Owens has adapted the designs of his 2014 Runners for the sports brand to create two styles of boot and a revised trainer, each with the same chunky two-part sole.
The Runner Stretch Boot has an upper that extends up to just below the knee, available in sand, brown and black suede, as well as brown fur.
“The fusion of fashion influenced sportswear is being taken one step further with this footwear model elaborated into a high boot with a 40-centimetre-long fitted and draped upper,” said a statement from Adidas.
An elasticated Velcro panel stretches across the back to act as a fastening and ensure a tight fit.
Similar designs for the Runner Ankle Stretch Boot are slightly shorter, but come in the same colour and material options.
Owens’ original Runners have also been reintroduced with a less-padded collar, available in all-black full suede and in a black mixed leather edition.
The designs were presented at Paris men’s fashion week earlier this month, along with Raf Simons’ trainers for Adidas based on vintage space suits.
The Adidas by Rick Owens Autumn Winter 2015 range will be available in both men’s and women’s styles from July.
Last season, the Paris-based fashion designer combined blade-like soles with calf-high leather uppers for his ongoing collaboration with the brand.
Adidas also recently launched a trainer that it says will “revolutionise running” at an event in New York.
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Since 1980, the Industrial Designers Society of America has set out every year to find designers and designs that epitomize quality across design mediums and platforms. The annual International Design Excellence Awards competition is underway so don’t miss your chance to enter!
The regular deadline is February 16th, but your last chance to enter is February 23rd. Winners of this award enjoy immediate benefits including pride, self-satisfaction and bragging rights, as well as some longer-term perks, like a stronger professional reputation and increased career opportunities. Find more information about how and when to enter here. Good luck!
Met Life Stadium
America is crazy about at least two things: Sports, and segregating the rich and the poor. When you combine these two passions inside of a sports stadium, you get luxury boxes.
Great American Ballpark
Luxury boxes, a/k/a skyboxes, executive suites or hospitality suites, are the earthbound, sports-watching version of First Class. Well beyond the financial reach of your average American family, they are the domain of the rich and the corporate, requiring leasing that can run into the millions of dollars. Wealthy folks use them to entertain and corporations lend them out to certain individuals as perks of corporate friendship. This can sometimes lead to resentment from the masses.
“Bad news, Brian, someone keyed your Lamborghini in the parking lot again.”
Luxury box denizens get designated parking spots and private entrances away from the huddled masses. They can often reach their suites via private elevators or private staircases:
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Fresh from a second Park City viewing of Alex Gibney’s documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Tony Ortega makes a typically astute observation about the church’s immediate PR response. And in so doing, he sets the table for one or more enterprising media outlets:
For years, former church members and some journalists have been smeared by websites that hid their ownership. We knew that Scientology operated these anonymous Web pages, and used them to post information that was in some cases gathered during confidential counseling sessions. But the church wouldn’t admit that it was really behind these websites. Now, suddenly, it’s taken a lot of the material that was on those sites which were aimed at Tom DeVocht and Marty Rathbun and Paul Haggis, and it’s put them on Freedom‘s own website.
In other words, Scientology has dropped all pretense about its smear tactics. Of course it was behind those anonymous attack sites in the past, just as we said they were. And now, instead of asking the people in this film what they think about Scientology calling them liars, why doesn’t major media ask Scientology how something that calls itself a church could operate anonymous smear websites designed to destroy reputations?
Gibney’s documentary is set to air next month on HBO. And speaking of pay cable, the film’s highlighting of explosive allegations that the church wiretapped Nicole Kidman track back, as Ortega notes, to the real-life character whose footsteps echoe throughout Showtime’s Ray Donovan: imprisoned P.I. Anthony Pellicano.
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