Née en 1969, Gaby Herbstein est une photographe argentine basée à Buenos Aires. Durant ses 23 ans de carrière, elle a su conquérir les galeries et les magazines de mode les plus influents. Une sélection de son travail, empreint d’élégance et de surréalisme, est à découvrir en images.
Douglas Hale est un illustrateur free-lance qui compose des visuels aux multiples influences. Il utilise des icônes religieuses, retro ou célèbres qu’il associe à des paysages et des dégradés de couleurs agrémentés de divers éléments graphiques et effets visuels psychédéliques soigneusement appliqués.
Green aluminium panels cover the facade of this contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, where a ceiling shaped like a gramophone horn funnels in light from an opening in the roof (+ slideshow).
The Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery by local studio Mitchell and Stout Architects is set on a sloping site in the Auckland suburb of Titirangi. The interior spaces are spread across six floors, three above ground and three partially submerged in earth.
The building’s facade follows the curve of an almond-shaped staircase and an angled entrance hall within, and is clad in panels of green-painted aluminium sheeting that give the appearance of weathered copper.
The staircase has scalloped soffits and rises from the entrance hall to the white-walled galleries above, while an education centre, storage spaces and delivery entrance are set within the lower levels.
The 1,700-square-metre building is crowned by a double-height gallery, with a funnel-shaped ceiling that channels light down into the space from a glazed porthole overhead.
This provides enough natural light, while protecting the artworks from the sun’s glare – a common challenge for galleries that architects have attempted to tackle with devices like unusually-shaped skylights and moving screens.
Here, the ceiling shape is created by a tube of white fabric that has been pulled taut between two differently sized hoops – one encircles the skylight while the second sits against the gallery walls.
“Light is diffused into high spaces – as in the big gallery with the fabric lantern, where the ceiling bends into walls,” said the architects. “Here, the rooflight has been reflected and diffused enough to softly and evenly light the walls on which art will hang.”
A glass-enclosed staircase with vibrant yellow soffits is tacked onto the rear of the building “like a 19th-century fire escape”, according to the architects. This provides views over the bushland that runs down to the nearby Manukau harbour on the Tasman Sea.
The native kauri trees that grow here inspired the green colouring of the building’s facade.
The gallery was originally housed next door in Lopdell House, a five-storey heritage-listed building that started its life in the 1930s as a hotel, but was later converted into a school for the deaf, and then an arts centre.
The original building needed to be upgraded to comply with local regulations for protecting structure from damage during earthquakes, and international art lending requirements for light control and security. The architects described the latter as being “in direct conflict with the layout of Lopdell House” – so they proposed the new Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery building.
“The brief was to use the mandatory seismic upgrade of the Category 1 heritage building, as an opportunity to restore its original design intention while allowing future uses,” explained the architects.
“[But] ceiling heights are too low and windows punctuate each wall. [So] we proposed instead to re-house the gallery in a separate building alongside – the Te Uru Contemporary Gallery.”
Staff offices are now located in Lopdell House, and a sculpture court has been added on the roof. These are connected to the new gallery by an elevated glass bridge and staircase.
Photography is by Simon Devitt, Sam Hartnett, Patrick Reynolds.
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Youth Lagoon: The Knower
Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, returns with his trademark brand of dreamy psychedelic-pop in “The Knower” from his upcoming album Savage Hills Ballroom. It will be his first LP since 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse. The track……
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Innovation Imperative est à l’origine d’un concept de bureau original. En effet, la création géométrique baptisée Tetra Shed, faite en bois et recouverte d’un revêtement en gomme noir, est un bureau que l’on peut déplacer afin de créer une autre pièce dans la pièce dans laquelle on désire travailler pour obtenir un véritable espace et environnement propice à la concentration.
Glass partitions divide up the interior spaces of apartments created within a former school building in the Belgian city of Izegem by local architect Lieven Dejaeghere (+ slideshow).
The Heilig Hartschool is located just west of the city centre and was constructed in phases between 1913 and 1937. It ceased operating as a school in 2007 and Dejaeghere was commissioned by a local social housing company to oversee its transformation into affordable rental units.
The school’s two main wings and gatehouse were restored and repurposed to accommodate 17 one-bedroom apartments, with careful attention paid to maintaining the building’s original appearance.
“The school has a great historical value for the town and it is very important to preserve that singularity,” Dejaeghere told Dezeen. “To conserve the authentic character and the collective memory of the school, the supporting walls, the door openings and the roofs have been kept intact.”
Dejaeghere felt it was also important to retain the spatial qualities of the building’s interior, so each apartment occupies what was previously one of the classrooms.
Glass partitions are used to separate each of the apartments into a lounge and dining area, a kitchen, a storage space and an en-suite bedroom.
“These walls provide both a physical and partly-visual separation, but ensure that the original classroom remains palpable and visible as a nicely proportioned space,” the architect added.
The glass extends from floor to ceiling and incorporates sliding doors that connect the different rooms. The transparent surfaces ensure that plenty of light reaches all the spaces, while textured panels provide privacy where required.
Another reference to the building’s heritage is provided by the floor tiles, which feature colours and patterns chosen to recall the school’s original floors.
Different colours were employed to differentiate the units on either side of the site, with grey tiles used in the buildings on the east side and brown on the west.
In addition to the restoration aspect of the project, five new two-bedroom terraced houses were added on the southeast side of the site.
The proportions and materials of the new buildings continue the aesthetic language of the school, with red brick walls punctuated by white-framed windows.
A communal social space was also created in the area surrounded by the properties. One section is paved to recall the former playground, while the rest has been turned into a green park incorporating trees and a small pond.
Every residence opens onto the sheltered park area, evoking the way the school children were previously able to spill out from the classrooms into the playground.
Another former school in Belgium was turned into a temporary hotel during last year’s Biennale Interieur event, when old classrooms were used as bedrooms. The school building in Kortrijk – set for demolition – also hosted an exhibition about the changing ideas of domesticity and a choreographed waltz performed by robotic vacuum cleaners.
Photography is by Tim Van de Velde.
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From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland comes the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance.LEGEND is a classic crime thriller taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray Twins. In cinemas September 9.(Read…)
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