Feb 27
Feb 27
Surreal Human Landscapes Collages
Posted in: UncategorizedL’artiste espagnole Rocio Montoya, dont nous avons déjà parlé pour ses portraits et collages fleuris, revient avec une série intitulée « The Island » qui s’intéresse à la femme comme une île. Commissionnée par le site Trendland, l’idée était de parler du corps féminin comme d’un paysage surréaliste en utilisant des éléments symboliques de la nature et de la déconstruction d’un buste.
Styling, make up and hair: CORE
Model: Yanka Sedikova @ Models Division
Light: Alejandro Bazal
Total looks: Zara.
Feb 27
Dreamlike Photography by Felicia Simion
Posted in: UncategorizedIl se dégage des clichés de Felicia Simion une atmosphère douce et onirique, où la lumière, la nature et les femmes sont mises à l’honneur de la plus belle des manières. Derrière un nuage de fumée ou au bord d’un lac, l’artiste diversifie ses mises en scène tout en conservant cette empreinte surréaliste. Plus dans la suite.
Feb 27
Student project creates template for turning old tyres into footwear
Posted in: UncategorizedDisused materials including tyres, burlap sacks and rope are recycled into footwear for the developing world in this project by Ravensbourne university students (+ slideshow).
Soled is a project by product design students Jena Kitley, Alani Fadzil and Lauren Joseph, who worked together to come up with a solution for an issue they identified in the developing world.
“We completed a collaborative project that involved creating a template for people in less developed countries to make their own footwear using local materials available to them,” Kitley told Dezeen.
The trio chose to focus on Rwanda, which is one of the smallest but most densely populated countries in Africa.
Through their research, they found that a lack of footwear was leading to the spread of diseases caught through the feet.
As a solution, the students devised a method that Rwandans could use to create their own footwear from widely available materials.
“Rwanda has an abundance of tyres, a durable, flexible, waterproof material, which was suitable to be used for the sole of the shoe,” said Kitley. “Burlap sacks – used to import and export their produce – and hemp rope were other accessible materials that would be used to complete the footwear.”
Using a template made from recyclable polypropylene, individuals can identify their shoe size by lining a foot up with the markings.
Once the rubber tread is stripped from the tyres, the guide is placed on top of the material so the user can cut out the correct shape at the right size.
“The template would be sent out and distributed through a charity, the concept is open source and has the ability to be transferred online as well as being a physical product,” Kitley said.
Step-by-step illustrations show how to bend the rubber sole into shape, then attach a burlap ankle strap using the rope to sew the shoe together.
The designers suggest that volunteer workers could initially teach local people how to create the footwear, in the hope that the knowledge would be passed through communities.
“There are unlimited possibilities as to the materials they could use,” said Kitley. “The tyres, burlap sacks and hemp rope are just a starting point, they can alter the design and materials to their own preference.”
Other designers investigating ways to reuse materials for footwear include Elisa van Joolen, who takes leftover sample trainers and turns them inside-out to create new shoes.
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Feb 27
London council cans controversial Crystal Palace project
Posted in: UncategorizedNews: plans to recreate the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London have been shelved, despite attracting a shortlist of architects including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield.
The scheme to build a new exhibition venue inside the 80-hectare Crystal Palace Park has been halted by Bromley Council, the local authority that owns the site.
Funded by Chinese developer ZhongRong Group, the new Crystal Palace building was intended to replicate the “spirit, scale and magnificence” of the iron, glass and steel structure built by English architect Joseph Paxton to host the Great Exhibition of 1851 and destroyed by fire in 1936.
But the council has now issued a statement effectively scrapping its partnership with ZhongRong Group.
Bromley had agreed a 16-month exclusivity contract with ZhongRong Group to develop plans for the site, and had offered to extend the arrangement if the developer agreed to “financial and business planning-related conditions”.
Bromley Council said that ZhongRong Group had failed to respond within the time limit and that there was now no “realistic prospect of reaching an agreement” to continue the project.
“There is a major opportunity here to do something that might really improve the park and provide much needed regeneration locally too,” said Bromley Council leader Stephen Carr. “This was why we were prepared to properly listen to what ZhongRong had to say but we were never going to simply say yes to absolutely anything as we need to get this right.”
The scheme was the centrepiece for a wider plan to overhaul the Victorian park, which includes a popular outdoor exhibition of model dinosaurs dating from 1854 that were granted Grade I-listed status in 2007.
“We will meet with community stakeholders as we have done all the way along this process to review options going forwards,” said Carr. “Importantly too, we are continuing to progress plans to improve Crystal Palace Park with an investment in excess of £2 million.”
ZhongRong Group announced its plans to develop the project in October 2013, and launched a competition to design the events venue, with a jury chaired by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
“The rebuild of the Crystal Palace is set to produce an extraordinary new landmark for the capital, which will support the rebirth of this historic park and catalyse jobs and growth in the local area,” said Johnson.
Hadid, Rogers and Chipperfield were shortlisted in February 2014, alongside Grimshaw, Haworth Tompkins and Marks Barfield. Three of the shortlisted firms were set to be invited to develop their schemes further and construction was expected to begin later this year.
The plans were opposed by a number of leading critics, including Dezeen’s Sam Jacob who described the scheme as “zombie architecture”.
“The Crystal Palace functions perfectly well in its absence (perhaps even more so than if it were still here),” said Jacob. “Its return as a ghost, zombie or otherwise undead form of architecture should be seen for what it is: a ghoulish pull on our tender heartstrings in the service of large-scale development.”
Questions were also raised over the decision to allow a private developer to build on publicly owned land in one of London’s most popular parks.
Bromley Council did not confirm if it would be pursuing development plans with another partner.
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