Hasta La Ideas

Pour les 100 ans de la bouteille en verre Coca-Cola, Mash Creative (parmi 130 autres artistes du monde entier) a conçu une identité pour une exposition et un prochain livre en se basant sur 3 couleurs : le rouge, le noir et le blanc. Ses posters feront partie de la campagne autour de la bouteille : l’un joue sur les perspectives et la 3D avec des rayures et l’autre se montre plus explicite avec une baseline et le chiffre « 100″.

Exhibition « The Coca-Cola Bottle: An American Icon at 100″, opening 28th February at the High Museum in Atlanta.
« The Coca-Cola Bottle Art Tour: Inspiring Pop Culture for 100 Years », limited-edition book produced by Assouline.

Photos by Gyorgy Korossy.

Japanese studio Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has created a smoking room that is designed to never be smoky inside a shopping centre on the outskirts of Tokyo (+ slideshow).

Rather than banishing smokers outside the building, the Grand Tree Musashikosugi shopping centre asked Hiroyuki Ogawa‘s firm to design a dedicated room where shoppers can stop off for a cigarette.

A curved wooden screen was added to help channel smoke up to an extractor overhead, with fans positioned behind this screen to help draw the smoke upwards.

Smokers are encouraged to hold their cigarettes over an illuminated ledge at the base of this screen, allowing smoke to be drawn directly out of the room.

“In order to have clean air in the smoking room we took two specific measures,” said the design team, comprising Ogawa and architect Erika Okamoto.

“Firstly, by adding the curved wall we induce the smoke to the exhaust outlet on the ceiling,” they explained. “Secondly, by setting up a fan between the ashtray and the exhaust outlet, the second-hand smoke and smoke from people’s mouths are quickly drawn away.”

“With those measures, the smoke is immediately cleared from the user’s breathing area,” they said.

A glass frontage allows passersby to see into the space and creates a sealed environment when the door is closed, to prevent smoke from spreading through the shopping centre.

“By putting dots on the end wall, the reflected space looks foggy and thus users think the air flows to the deeper inside,” said the designers.

To recreate the appearance of a larger, smokier room, a mirrored wall at one end of the space is printed with a half-tone pattern of small white dots.

Aside from the curved wooden screen and the dotty mirrored surface, the walls and floor of the 12-square-metre space are lined with cream tiles. Two additional freestanding ashtrays were also added in the middle of the room.

Photography is by Kaku Ohtaki.

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Alexandre Deschaumes est un photographe autodidacte français basé dans les Alpes. En 2002, l’artiste commence à errer, sans but précis, dans les forêts environnantes et commence à apprendre la photographie. C’est en 2009 qu’il se professionnalisera jusqu’à proposer des stages et conférences autour de la vision onirique et évocatrice de la nature.

A cage-like structure made from strips of mirrored metal and red plastic encases this Seoul office building by South Korean studio Wise Architecture (+ slideshow).

Named the Red Mirror building, the three-storey office block was designed by Wise Architecture for the Gangnam district of Seoul.

Slender bands of mirror, glass, steel and translucent red polycarbonate plastic form a grid enclosure for the two glazed levels visible above ground and a balustrade for a roof terrace.

These strips are arranged in alternating horizontal and vertical layers to create a lattice – giving the building a cage-like appearance.

A slim staircase with transparent risers is sandwiched between two of the lattice walls, linking the ground level with a terrace on the roof.

“Overlapping transparency and reflection, these layered strips of different materials create a strong visual illusion,” said the architects.

The long strips of grey metal and red polycarbonate are designed to quiver when the staircase is used. Coupled with the multi-tonal colouring and pattern, they aim to disorientate visitors.

“Walking along the narrow stair passage between the layers, the visitors may feel dizzy not only because of the optical repetition but because of the trembling of the strips,” the team explained.

The grill also extends above the parapet to form translucent and striped balustrades for the roof terrace.

At the basement level, distorted patterns from the latticed facade are reflected across the surface of a pool of water that occupies a sunken courtyard.

A narrow well along one side of the building is filled with large, craggy pieces of stone and planted with mosses to form a rockery that is visible through the glazing.

The project was recently featured in the exhibition Out of the Ordinary: Award-Winning Works by Young Korean Architects, which was organised by London Metropolitan University’s The Cass.

Photography is by Roh Kyung.

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