As the Nordic World Championship draws to a close in Falun, Sweden, you don’t have to have a designated Nordic center in your backyard to strap on your skis. Cross-country skiing is a versatile sport for the transitional seasons. From the traditional……
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Le photographe italien Matteo Mezzadri construit des paysages urbains à taille humaine en utilisant de simples briques comme matière première. L’éclairage et le positionnement de la caméra de l’artiste lui permettent alors d’insuffler une nouvelle vie à ses constructions.
L’artiste basé dans le Michigan, Pat Perry, aura passé son année 2014 à voyager à travers les USA. De la Nouvelle-Angleterre à l’Arkansas en passant par le Texas, Pat a religieusement enregistrer ses pensées et ses observations dans un carnet de croquis. En voici une sélection.
Très sensible au charme et aux courbes des femmes, le photographe Tim Wu nous livre de sublimes portraits de jeunes femmes évoluant dans un univers gris ou bleuté. Il décrit avec sensibilité des moments simples et sensuels, ou capture des mises en scène plus inattendues encore.
Pour leur première exposition au musée Mapocho situé au Chili, commissionnée par l’Inacap School, le studio espagnol Tavo (dont nous avons déjà parlé) a imaginé une série d’illustrations 3D intitulée « Perspective, Form & Fluids ». Les posters jouent avec les formes géométriques ou des visages dégoulinants. A découvrir.
We are loving the soft and natural vibes we are getting from the collection by Caroline Z Hurley. It’s what home should feel like, quirky but comfortable.
Chris Tubbs est un photographe français basé à Londres. Ces 10 dernières années, il a parcouru plus de 37 pays et a conçu une collection photographique de terrains de basket-ball abandonnés. Intitulée « Out of Doors », la série compte plus de 300 clichés dont une sélection est à découvrir ci-dessous.
A modern timber and glass structure connects the more traditional stone-walled buildings at either end of this house in the Scottish highlands, designed by architects Stuart Archer and Liz Marinko (+ slideshow).
The property for a single occupant replaces a derelict cottage and farm building on a hillside site within a conservation area in the Spey Valley. The Gaelic word Tor – meaning a rock or piles of rocks on top of a hill – gave the project its name, Torispardon.
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The footprint, massing and materials of the original buildings were recreated in the two new stone-walled structures, while the linking middle section offers a contemporary counterpoint.
“Farmer’s crofts in the highlands often have several outbuildings within their boundaries; as a farm expands or requires new facilities, a new outbuilding is constructed,” explained Archer and Marinko. “Instead of creating a new singular house it was felt that this additive approach was more appropriate.”
“The cottage and steading reference the traditional local stone vernacular, while the link building is contemporary in form yet deliberately subservient to the other structures,” they added.
Glass boxes inserted between the three blocks enhance the sense of separation between them.
“Frameless glass elements tie the buildings together physically while allowing the three structures to remain visually separate,” said the architects.
Local masons used reclaimed granite and whinstone from the original buildings to construct the solid external walls of their replacements. The high thermal mass of these materials allows the building to absorb and release heat slowly, helping to maintain an even internal temperature.
At the rear of the steading – the larger of the two stone blocks – local larch is applied in a traditional vertical board-on-board style and is intended to evoke nearby agricultural architecture.
Larch is also used for the linking structure, but in this case narrow planks of a denser Siberian species create a more contemporary aesthetic.
“The materiality of the project is key,” explained the architects. “Whilst it was important to use local materials for sustainable and aesthetic reasons, the building’s forms and material choices were also a result of the project’s location.”
“The glazing was also equally important; from the chunky painted timber windows of the steading and cottage, to the frameless Swiss sliding door system, the concept was to carefully select and maximise the views of the project’s beautiful surroundings,” they added.
The client asked for a home suitable that is suitable for solitary living but can also accommodate large parties, so the cottage includes rooms for guests that can be closed off from the rest of the property when not in use.
An entrance at the rear of the building leads into the linking structure, which features a steel frame reminiscent of barn buildings.
This open-plan space houses a kitchen and dining area flanked by glazing. Skylights and the glass walkway bridging the gap between the buildings fill the room with natural light.
The steading is partly sunken into the sloping site and is accessed by short sets of steps from the kitchen that lead to the living area.
This double-height room features a mezzanine snug tucked beneath the vaulted ceiling and a corner window with deep reveals lined in oak, providing a perch for gazing out across the landscape.
The master bedroom can be found beyond the living area in the timber section of the building and boasts a dressing room and en-suite. A staircase leads from the bedroom to a first floor study and balcony.
Photography is by David Barbour.
Project credits:
Architects: Stuart Archer & Liz Marinko
Contractor: AW Laing Ltd, Grantown on Spey
Engineer: Allen, Gordon LLP
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The image on the right is the cover of Garden & Gun’s Spring 2007 debut issue. Eight years later, the Charleston, South Carolina publication shines bright as a beacon in the troubled magazine industry.
But it famously wasn’t always so. From a feature article this weekend by Charleston Post and Courier reporter David Wren:
“We did four issues the first year, seasonal, and then in 2008 we were set to do six issues, but things were going so well that we did a seventh devoted to food,” [founder, president and CEO Rebecca] Darwin said. “And then all hell broke loose. The economy came to a screeching halt.”
Darwin, [Pierre] Manigault and a third partner, Georgetown lawyer Edward Bell III, bought Garden & Gun [from Evening Post Industries] with the intent of finding some way to keep the magazine afloat. “It was extremely tough,” Darwin said. “I talked to everybody I knew in the world who had any money to see if they were interested in publishing.”
The staff endured pay cuts, freelance writers and photographers went unpaid for long stretches, Garden & Gun skipped an issue, and there were constant battles with its printer and suppliers.
Today, per the sidebar at the top of Wren’s story, it’s a different and entirely robust reader average-household-income story. Charleston’s Garden and Gun Club, the nightclub that gave the magazine its name, is long gone. But the magazine, with four dozen full-time employees, is solidly entrenched in the city and scheduled to move this summer to a fully renovated 21,000 square foot HQ. Happy eighth anniversary!
P.S. Images of guns have been greatly outpaced on the cover of this national literary magazine by gardens and landscapes, appearing only twice. And speaking of images, kudos to current EIC David DiBenedetto for his current Executive Team photo, which depicts him with his pet Boykin spaniel Pritchard.
But exactly where and for which News Corp division depended Sunday on the report read.
According to the Daily Mail and, subsequently, The Guardian, Brooks has relocated to New York City with her husband and young daughter. All for the purpose of helping Murdoch identify online investment prospects.
However, late Sunday, Financial Times global media editor Matthew Garrahan chimed in with a different set of specifics. He writes that Brooks will in fact remain in the UK to oversee Storyful, a site acquired by News Corp in 2013:
A recent visit to News Corp’s New York offices sparked talk that she would take a senior role with the company in the U.S.
However, two people familiar with the situation told the FT that Ms. Brooks would initially continue to be based in the UK but would spend time in Dublin at Storyful’s headquarters.
It’s worth also noting this paragraph further down in Garrahan’s item:
People familiar with the matter said negotiations about Ms. Brooks’ new role were ongoing and cautioned that the precise details of her job could change.
Brooks resigned from her News of the World position in 2011. Recent News Corp digital investments have included Move, Inc., Elara Technologies and bigdecisions.com.
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