Here’s a sneak peek at the opening couch gag for next Sunday’s season 28 premiere of Fox’s long-running animated sitcom, The Simpsons, which pays amusing homage to Cartoon Network’s popular animated sitcom, Adventure Time…(Read…)
La photographe polonaise Monika Malek a fait de deux de ses passions un véritable mode de vie. Elle dédie ainsi exclusivement son temps à prendre des félins en photo, capturant ainsi des moments de vie amusants, touchants ou intrigants de chats à travers le monde. Découvrez ci-dessous une sélection de ses travaux en noir et blanc.
Insert man-growl here! This Fiskars knife concept is the ultimate outdoorsman’s tool. Whether it’s sawing or cutting with it’s double-edge blade, it’s designed with interchangeable ergonomics that position the user’s hand in a comfortable position for each task. At the center of the knife is a built-in ring on which it rotates that makes it easy to carry and safe to handle. Ultra-lightweight and with a handy holder, it’s an easy addition to your outfit that will get plenty of use.
Designer: Alexander Michael Schiell
Robert Downey, Jr. and a sh*t ton of other Hollywood celebrities come together to encourage Americans to register to vote for the upcoming Presidential election on November 8th, 2016…(Read…)
Vanity Fair asked actor, comedian and real-life physician, Dr. Ken Jeong, who plays a doctor on his ABC sitcom, Dr. Ken, to share his thoughts on other famous TV doctors, including Hugh Laurie in House, George Clooney in ER, Dr. Oz, DeForest Kelley in Star Trek, and more…(Read…)
Global firm Gensler has completed a university building in Kansas that consists of volumes clad in concrete, glass and weathering steel, and interior spaces intended to promote unexpected interactions (+ slideshow).
Called Capitol Federal Hall, the academic building is located at the heart of the University of Kansas campus in the city of Lawrence.
The facility – which houses the institution’s business school – sits between an older portion of campus to the north and east, and newer facilities to the south and west. It is intended to be a building for all, not just members of the business school.
“Capitol Federal Hall aligns itself with high-performing institutions and acts as a dynamic gateway for students, alumni, faculty and visitors alike,” said Gensler, a global firm with over 40 offices.
Encompassing 167,00 square feet (15,514 square metres), the building is composed of two glass and concrete wings that splay outward from a central atrium volume. Weathering steel was use to frame glazed areas, including protruding window boxes.
On the south side, the architect added a low-slung box clad in pre-rusted steel and bordered by a landscaped berm.
The boxy volume contains a 350-seat auditorium and doubles as a tornado shelter. Its roof, dubbed The Red Green Roof, is covered with red sedum — a nod to the signature red roofs found throughout campus.
The quote “chance favours the prepared mind” – attributed to Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and microbiologist – influenced the interior design. The team incorporated highly flexible and open spaces to encourage unexpected encounters.
“Designers realised that students and faculty had to see each other while going about their daily routines to promote new kinds of interactions,” the team said.
In response, the team created sight lines between classrooms and faculty work areas, which typically are separated from one another. “Staggered floors and openings further drive a sense of awareness and continued connectivity,” the team added.
Visitors enter into a four-storey atrium that is ringed with open work areas, and glass-walled offices and corridors. A grand staircase with perforated metal railings zigzags up through the light-filled volume.
At ground level, concrete steps serve as an area for socialising. “Stair benches” were designed in collaboration with students from the university’s architecture, design and planning school.
“Looking to mimic the hilly topography of the campus, the building’s ‘social steps’ allow students to see and be seen, again encouraging the chance encounters that were at the core of the design of Capitol Federal Hall,” the firm said.
The firm integrated pre-rusted steel throughout both the interior and exterior to highlight “special spaces”, such as study rooms and speciality classrooms.
Other recent academic projects in North America include a Berkeley design centre by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects that is topped with a solar roof and an alumni centre in Vancouver by KPMB and HCMA that features fritted glass and rough-sawn cedar.
Photography is by Garrett Rowland.
Project credits:
Client: University of Kansas School of Business
Architect: Gensler
Architect of record: GastingerWalker&
Interior design: Gensler
Contractor: JE Dunn Construction Group
Structural engineers: Bob D. Campbell & Associates
MEP/FP engineers: W.L. Cassell & Associates, Inc.
Acoustical engineer: The Sextant Group
Lighting design: Yarnell Associates
Civil engineer: SK Design Group, Inc
Landscape: Vireo
Audio visual consultant: The Sextant Group
Cost consultant: Vermeulens
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London Design Festival 2016: artist Camille Walala has applied her signature graphic style to a pedestrian crossing in south London (+ slideshow).
Walala was commissioned by Better Bankside and Transport for London to create the Colourful Crossing for Southwark Street. They tasked her with reimagining the everyday experience of crossing the road.
Working with a specialist road markings company, Walala applied her trademark bold colours and shapes to the area between the traffic lights.
“The aim of the Colourful Crossings commission is to explore how everyday infrastructures in the city, such as pedestrian crossings, are perceived and can be transformed,” said Better Bankside.
“It will also measure the impact of a high-quality, engaging and artistic intervention on how Southwark Street is used by pedestrians and motorists”.
The Colourful Crossing is the first project to be commissioned as part Better Bankside’s Avenue of Art – a long-term initiative that sees artists transforming public spaces along Southwark Street. It will stay in place until the end of October.
Walala graduated with a degree in Textile Design from the University of Brighton in 2009 before setting up her eponymous studio in east London.
She has previously covered a building in Shoreditch with her signature prints and designed a collection of Memphis-inspired homeware.
Her installation coincides with the London Design Festival, which is on until 25 September 2016.
Other events taking place across the capital include an exhibition of various dung-related designs and a kinetic installation that extends across six floors at the V&A museum.
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Decades ago, the building at 1000 Dean St. in Crown Heighs, Brooklyn was a place where people brought their Studebaker cars to be serviced. Soon, it will be where A&E puts together wing-tipped digital content.
Per an item by Crain’s Business New York reporter Daniel Geiger, A&E Networks has signed a 10-year lease to house at this Brooklyn location its new digital content agency 45th & Dean. The agency is named in honor of, yes, the forthcoming address as well as the network’s main New York headquarters at 235 East 45th Street:
45th & Dean will focus on creating branded content for the network’s advertisers as well as digital content for A&E. Most of the work it will produce for the network’s channels will be short-form, such as content for its websites, apps and social media, according to Steve Cohan, president of international and digital media.
“Let’s say you go to the History channel’s website and there’s a piece on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, that’s something this office will handle,” he said.
A rep for one of the building’s owners says A&E has a lot of existing employees who live in Crown Heights. The proximity to the Williamsburg offices of Vice, in which A&E has a stake, was apparently not a major factor. A&E staff will occupy the first and part of the second floors. Move-in is slated for early 2017.
Conor Coghlan might be an architect, but as part of his studies at Harvards’ Graduate School of Design he participated in a furniture making workshop. Tasked with producing an original design, Coghlan writes that he became “interested in how the arms and legs of the chair could work in unison as a type of double bow spring structure—becoming extremely strong under direct loading, yet flexible and responsive to the shifting load of the user.”
Here’s how he executed his plan, and it’s fun to watch because we see every step from the sketching to the modeling (both physical and computer) and then the fabrication:
“The legs/arms of the chair are made from steam bent, glue laminated strips of ash,” Coghlan writes, “and the seat is made from glue laminated birch plywood. Throughout the semester I employed many different techniques of fabrication from hand files to CNC lathes.”
Looks pretty darn good!
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