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Richard Meier‘s City Hall in The Hague has been painted in the style of Piet Mondrian, to mark the 100th anniversary of the De Stijl movement.
The usually white facades of Meier’s City Hall building – the American architect‘s only project in the Netherlands – provided the perfect canvas for the blocks of red, blue and yellow and black lines.
The paintwork will cover the building for one year to celebrate the 100 years since Theo van Doesburg founded Dutch art movement De Stijl, also known as neoplasticism.
Piet Mondrian, who died aged 71 in 1944, was a principle member of the group of artists and architects that created abstract work based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals, and bold colours.
The makeover of the city hall is the first in a series of installations that will take place across The Hague – which holds the world’s largest collection of Mondrian’s works – in 2017.
At 82, Meier is one of America’s most respected architects and one of the last of the 20th-century modernists still practicing.
He started working on the city hall in 1986, two years after he was awarded the Pritzker Prize. The building includes council chambers, offices, public library, retail, and a white exhibition space.
Meier is renowned for his white buildings – such as the seminal Getty Center, completed in Los Angeles in 1997. Today, the buildings designed by his firm follow the same style – predominantly white and glassy, with formal, gridded facades.
Last year, the architect came 96 in Dezeen’s Hot List ranking, a guide to the most newsworthy and searched-for players in the design world in 2016.
In an exclusive interview, Meier spoke to Dezeen about the New York skyline and revealed he would consider working for US president Donald Trump.
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A recent interior design collaboration by Marta Ayala Herrera and Cito Ballesta resulted in some of the more dynamic lighting I’ve seen so far this year. Working for the Casa Encendida creative space, the product designer/architect duo aimed to emphasize honesty and simplicity from the materials through their use.
The entire resulting project is a lovely synthesis of modern and contemporary thinking. The lighting in particular uses industrial materials and colors to surprising effect. With parts as simple as fluorescent tubing and bent perforated sheet steel, Herrera made spatial arrangement an almost physical ingredient in how the lights feel in the space. Alone or interlocked together, the lights play along X, Y, and Z axes, keeping the simple shapes as interesting and dynamic as the space they’re meant to light.
You can find more on the project and its odd modular furniture on Marta’s website.
Comedian Josh Johnson tells jokes about what sleeping with comedians with sleep disorders sounds like, losing fights with ceiling fans and shouts out a favorite teacher he flew in to watch his first Tonight Show appearance…(Read…)
Welcome to this special Wisecrack Edition on the Philosophy of Westworld, exploring how the show draws on one of humanity’s oldest stories to explore how free will shapes our understanding of good and evil. Through the lens of the show’s incredible cast of characters (Ford, William, The Man in Black, Arnold, Dolores, Bernard, and Maeve), we dive into themes of predestination, ethics, consciousness, and more, reflecting on how Westworld makes us think about the choices we make and how we live our own lives…(Read…)
Volcanoes get pretty strong, but strong enough to destroy the world? That kind of depends on what you think the end of the world means…..(Read…)
L’artiste Sonja Hinrichsen est à l’origine et à la réalisation de cette oeuvre gigantesque en pleine nature, tracée au beau milieu de la neige, sur le lac Catamount dans le Colorado. Les motifs dessinés dans la neige par près de 50 participants dont le parcours était minutieusement calculé représentent le lit de l’ancienne rivière Yampa, qui traversait la vallée locale dans le passé. Une oeuvre originale et démesurée.
Depuis des années André Sanchez photographie des portraits, des paysages de voyages, qu’il stocke ensuite pour des travaux futurs. Le travail de cet illustrateur et photographe basé à Paris est un mélange de photographies et d’éléments graphiques. Pour, Persona, sa dernière série, il a pioché dans sa base de données et a superposé ses photos. Au travers de son travail, il donne aux portraits féminins une intemporalité, comme cette série le dévoile.
Job Overview: Responsible for creative design for various New York Racing Association properties while maintaining and implementing brand guidelines. Responsibilities: * Production management/ project management across online and offline platforms, for all tracks, including video production, web graphics, marketing collateral (booklets, posters, brochures, etc.), advertising
CineFix cleverly reimagines the critically acclaimed 2016 musical comedy-drama, La La Land, as a surreal and much darker film by director David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive)…(Read…)
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