With latent, unassuming power found among sweeping rhythms and perfectly timed chirps, the track “Change Is Everything” from NYC’s Son Lux was released in accompaniment with the news of a new album, Bones, due out in June 2015. The genre-defying song……
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A few weeks ago, Mic ran a survey asking Americans who their least favorite musical act was, giving them just a blank box to fill out with no pre-selected options. The results were overwhelming. Justin Bieber takes the top spot as the most hated musician……
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New York City forever defies expectations. Strolling a different street on the way from work to one’s home can reveal a masked gem that’s been quietly entertaining for years. One subway stop from routine might be a perfect aesthetic match for drinking……
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You’d be surprised how many diseases are water-borne. Tap water isn’t always the safest way to go, and packaged water is just an unreasonable luxury. The Sukori bottle brings portability to potability. Which means you have the power to filter your water right within your uber-handy bottle. So basically, you get filtered water absolutely anywhere! Not just that, you could use the bottle to hold juices, beverages, etc of any kind.
The bottle has a telescopic compartment within it. All you need to do is open it out, fill either compartment, and slowly push both the compartments together. The water passes through the filter from one space to the other, and Voila! Safe-to-drink water!
Designer: Fan Bao
Author: Sarang Sheth
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Getting ready for a gruelling day at the office? This bag’s perfect for you. Got tennis practice? This bag’s perfect for you. Hitting the gym? This bag’s perfect for you. Hitting the airport? Yep. This bag’s still perfect for you. That’s the magic of the SUB Hybrid bag. It’s visually and functionally designed to fit into that sweet spot right between work and play (and travel, duh!). SUB fits in anywhere, and stands out everywhere. You can’t say that about every bag out there.
So, if you’re an Accountant by day and Olympiad by night (or even just a fashion-conscious wanderlust) the SUB bag’s pretty darned perfect for you!
Designer: Peter Kao
Author: Sarang Sheth
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A l’occasion de L’Art Basel de Hong Kong, un spectacle de lumières inspiré par les jeux d’arcade est projeté sur le plus haut gratte-ciel de la ville. Intitulé « Same Old, Brand New », ce projet réalisé par l’artiste Cao Fei sera diffusé cinq fois par nuit pendant les cinq jours de l’exposition. Les visuels projetés incluent le classique Pac-Man ou encore Tetris.
McDonald’s lance une gamme de produits Big Mac qui comprend une ligne de vêtements, de la literie et même du papier peint. Dévoilée mardi au défilé de mode McWalk en Suède, cette collection fait partie de la campagne I’m Lovin It 24, une promotion événementielle dans 24 villes à travers le monde en 24 heures.
Papercunt et la photographe Klara G ont collaboré ensemble pour réaliser une série de collages intitulée « Subject ». Les portraits de femmes capturées par Klara ont été utilisés par les designers de chez Papercunt pour les transfigurer et les transformer en d’étranges natures mortes faites à base de colle, papier et encre.
The full facade of Japanese architect Tadao Ando‘s concrete and glass apartment block for Manhattan is revealed in this set of visualisations.
Ando‘s first building in New York will rise seven storeys from the corner of Kenmare and Elizabeth streets in the Nolita neighbourhood, named for its location north of Little Italy at the centre of Lower Manhattan.
First unveiled last summer, 152 Elizabeth Street will accommodate eight residences ranging from 175-square-metre two-bed apartments to a 450-square-metre penthouse.
The design primarily features glass, concrete and steel materials found in many of Ando’s projects, including the art and design school at the University of Monterrey and a house on the edge of a cliff in Sri Lanka.
Floor-to-ceiling windows will wrap around the corners of the six upper levels, with galvanised steel mullions used to break up the acoustic glazing.
The transparent corner of the structure will be flanked by cast-in-situ concrete, which will also surround the ground floor.
“Like crystal grows within rock, the corner of the building is metaphorically thought of as a crystalline box emerging from the solid concrete volume which bookends the site,” said a statement about the project.
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s design will also include a green wall that will span the entire south facade, conceived in collaboration with landscape architects M Paul Friedberg and Partners.
Water will run down a grooved glass wall in the building’s entrance vestibule, while the lobby will feature a fog and light installation designed to change with the weather and seasons.
Commissioned by New York developer Sumaida + Khurana and with interiors designed by local firm Gabellini Sheppard Associates, the building is expected to open in November 2016.
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Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow).
Vienna and Beijing-based architects Penda designed The Soundwave sculpture for Myrtle Tree Garden, a two-square-mile park inhabited by a collection of 1000-year-old myrtle trees with vibrant purple foliage. Penda added banks of tall steel fins, which look like a miniature metropolis, to the entrance of the gardens on the outskirts of Xiangyang city in Hubei province.
Penda based the design on the quote “Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music” by German writer and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The purple pillars of varying heights are intended to represent the rising and falling bars of a digital sound visualiser that synchronises with crescendos and diminuendos in music.
“Music, rhythm and dance in combination with the surrounding landscape were the main parameters shaping The Soundwave,” said the architects. “Resting on Goethe’s definition ‘Architecture is frozen music’, the aggregation of fins presents a solidified moment of a soundwave in motion.”
The fins are clad in sheets of perforated stainless steel in four shades of purple, representing the tones found in the flowering trees.
LEDs shine through the tiny holes in the steel at night, illuminating the entrance and reflecting off pools of water, while speakers installed in some of the square-sectioned shafts play traditional Chinese music.
The brightness of the light and volume of the music are controlled by motion sensors around the site, activated by the movement of passers by.
“The orchestra of 500 fins produce a lighting, which is connected to the plaza’s sound system and reacts in a very direct way to the movement on the plaza,” explained the studio. “The louder the music, the more vivid the movement, the brighter the illumination on the plaza.”
Passageways between the steel columns lead to “clearing-like” areas designed to be used for social gatherings and dance performances.
“The field of fins gives the visitors a sense of being surrounded by tree trunks, strolling through the woods, being disoriented for a moment, but also able to peek through some openings between the fins to be guided further,” said the architects.
Last year, the architects revealed designs for a hotel that will stand within the park. The Myrtle Garden Hotel will be situated on a grassy bank and will feature a looping form that encloses three garden courtyards.
Photography is by Xia Zhi.
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Architects: Penda
Project team: Dayong Sun, Chris Precht, Fei Tang Precht, Yongjian Huang, Zhonghua Tang, ChunLei Zhu, Junfeng Li, Runxin Tang
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