Antonio Santin est un peintre espagnol originaire de Madrid. Il réalise de magnifiques trompes-l’oeil. Son sujet favoris réside dans les tapis persans. Il les peint en relief en leur offrant un degré de réalisme à couper le souffle. Les coloris et les courbes sont criants de vérité au point de tromper l’observateur dès le premier regard.
The mint-green shutters, white walls and red tiled roof of this house and studio by Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos reference the 1940s home it replaces near the Spanish city of Burgos.
When local studio Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos was asked to draw up plans to replace the deteriorating house, the architects wanted to ensure the new home fitted in with its surroundings.
While concrete structures are more common in the area, they decided to used metal framework that allowed the house to be built in its entirety in just eight months.
The underside of the metal floor plates are left exposed across the interior, but the architects used more traditional materials to mask its contemporary construction techniques from the outside.
The outer walls are whitewashed, a patio surrounded by limestone wainscotting and the roof covered in red tiles.
“Nowadays the district is very deteriorated, given that many new houses have been built without any link nor sensitivity to the pre-existence,” explained the architects.
“Beyond giving a specific answer to a particular problem, the project proposes a possible solution for future interventions at this district, trying to coordinate new construction with respect for original architecture and urbanism,” they added.
“The project assumes some principles from traditional architecture to adapt them to the present. This way, the old and the new establish a dialogue based on logic, naturalness and tolerance.”
Local planning regulations demanded the house be attached to its neighbour, an issue the architects got around by splitting the living spaces across two blocks and linking them with a garage.
A small patio is enclosed between the two gabled blocks and connects all the spaces set around it.
One of the spaces – a printing and carpentry studio – is set in the base of a two-storey block containing bedrooms on its upper floor.
The patio links the workspace with the living area set in the single-storey block it is affixed to.
From the bedroom floor of PI House, which takes its name from the clients’ initials, the residents can take in views of Arlanzón’s wooded riverbank over the roof of the smaller living space.
The project was photographed by Javier Bravo during a hot summer afternoon, and features the architects dressed in straw hats.
“For us, photoshoots are another part of the long process that involves a project, as well as a good occasion to enjoy and have a good time with friends,” architect Enrique Jerez told Dezeen, who posed for the photographs alongside photographer Javier Bravo and fellow architect Jesús Alonso.
“On this occasion, and given that the house has some Mediterranean and vernacular features, we thought that it could be interesting to use that straw hats to set some scenes,” he added.
Photography is by Javier Bravo.
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Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a design architect at 3XN in Sydney, whose plans for a new aquatics centre in Linköping include undulating timber and glass facades (pictured). More ›
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Now the Stockholm Furniture Fair has ended, we’re reflecting on some of the most promising talent spotted during the event.
Stockholm Furniture Fair, one of the biggest international events on the design calendar, took place at the Stockholmsmässan exhibition centre from 7 to 11 February 2017.
The regular exhibitors – such as Hay, Carl Hansen, Vitra and Wästberg – were joined by a number of young and emerging designers in an area called The Greenhouse.
Read on for our picks of the best ones:
Knauf and Brown
Vancouver studio Knauf and Brown is made up of D Calen Knauf and Conrad Brown, who met in 2001 through a mutual interest in skateboarding.
At the fair, the duo presented a collection that won them the Rising Star accolade at the Editors’ Choice awards, which included a credenza with a bamboo skirt as well as a lamp modelled on seafront homes in northwest Canada.
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HAHA Studios
HAHA Studios was founded in 2015 by Arash Eskafi and Yu-Ching Chiang, who met while studying for a masters in industrial design at Konstfack in Stockholm.
Echoing the approach of established brand Wastberg in the main section of the fair, the studio focused on both standard and non-electric lights in its first collection. But it was the smile-like table and pendant lamps, which feature two bulbs connected by a curved tube of anodised and sandblasted aluminium, that were the standouts in the collection.
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Studio Kaksikko
Studio Kaksikko is a partnership between Helsinki-based designers Salla Luhtasela and Wesley Walters, who specialise in woodwork and ceramics.
The pair presented their Maissi Bench, which was inspired by old stair handrails and industrial machinery parts, and features curved elements formed by laminating thin strips of oak in cylindrical moulds.
Find out more about Studio Kaksikko ›
Maija Leskelä
Leskelä, who was simultaneously presenting her work at the Aalto University exhibition, displayed her Puffin seating collection at the fair.
The chairs, which she says are inspired the “Bauhaus aesthetic”, feature a leather back and seat that can slide off and be replaced.
Find out more about Maija Leskelä ›
Ella Westlund and Hanna Wik
Westlund and Wik presented their Oas sofa as part of Beckmans College of Design’s office-themed exhibition.
Its simple wooden frame is upholstered in a piece of carpet, which features a swirling blue and green pattern based on a calm oasis.
Find out more about Ella Westlund and Hanna Wik ›
Tom Fereday
The outdoor lifestyle that living in Sydney has afforded Tom Fereday helped inform the furniture range he showed in Stockholm. Created for new Australian brand SP01, his collection features chairs made from thin, overlapping metal wires that curve to follow the shape of the body.
Fereday founded his studio on 2012 and focuses on using materials and the environment “as a positive design constraint”.
Find out more about Tom Fereday ›
Toru
Barcelona studio Toru presented its Clop lounge chair, which designer Jordi Ribaudí based on the “simplicity of a clog shoe”.
Its simple form is made from a wooden stool and a thick piece of folded leather that creates the seat’s back.
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Female architects should “just wait a second” for pay equality according to Santiago Calatrava, who entertained an audience in London by drawing naked women and explaining how his wife had supported his career.
Speaking at an event to mark the unveiling of his first London scheme, Calatrava offered his thoughts on the results of the recent Women in Architecture survey, which shows gender discrimination is rife in architecture.
“Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour,” Calatrava told the audience at the talk in London’s Design Museum.
The architect, who is planning a £1 billion development on the edge of London’s River Thames, described the role his wife has played in supporting his career.
“My closest partner and the person I have been working with for 35 years has been my wife. She not only supported me and helped me but also framed my life,” he said.
Asked whether women are valued equally in the profession by chair, Scottish journalist Kirsty Wark, he replied: “Valued? Certainly” – and said it would be just a matter of time before women’s salaries caught up with their male counterparts.
“If their material value is not yet estimated, then just wait a second, you know, and it will change,” he said.
The annual Women in Architecture survey carried out by sister publications The Architects’ Journal and The Architectural review revealed salary discrepancies of up to £55,000 between women and men in the same role.
It also showed that, based on the results of 2015’s survey, the pay gap is only widening.
Following his talk, Calatrava went on to treat the audience to a live drawing session, sketching a pair of naked women in a kneeling position. Wark verbally captioned the piece: “Please sir can I have some more money!” – a reference to the overrunning costs the architect’s projects are known to incur.
Calatrava dodged questions about whether his first major project in the UK would keep to budget.
The architect’s Greenwich Peninsula scheme in southeast London will host a new tube station – replacing the present Norman Foster-designed transport hub – as well as a performance venue and winter gardens topped by three housing and hotel towers.
Spanish-born Calatrava is also the architect behind the Oculus, which soars above the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York, and the cantilevering Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro.
He has offices in Zurich, Paris and New York. He has recently opened a further studio in Dubai and is working on the Dubai Creek Tower – a slender observation tower expected to surpass the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa.
Calatrava – who came in at number 29 on the Dezeen Hot List of the world’s most read about industry figures – is also working on the UAE’s national pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020.
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Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has transformed a century-old barn in the Friesian village of Woudsend into a guesthouse designed to showcase an aged timber roof.
Hein Eek began the renovation of the Omke Jan barn in 2014, 110 years after its initial completion in 1904.
The client wanted to transform the building, which is located beside one of the village’s two windmills, into a bed and breakfast where guests could enjoy the locality’s produce.
Guests are served milk and meat from the region’s famous Friesian cows, as well as local flour and wood, and are encouraged to catch and smoke their own eels in the village smokehouse.
Ample cooking and dining spaces are spread across the ground floor of the reconfigured property to cater to this emphasis on enjoying local foods.
“In keeping with this wish for authenticity we wanted to emphasise the original qualities of the farm as much as possible. Showing off the majestic roof construction in its full glory formed the starting point for the design,” said Piet Hein Eek’s studio.
“We were faced with the choice of searching for contrast between old and new (modern) or to match the existing building.”
The studio cut a large atrium through an “ugly” mezzanine floor added in an earlier renovation, revealing the underside of the wooden roof from the ground floor.
This gallery-like floor is covered in white plaster that puts the focus on the woodwork, which is accented by strip lights.
“The ugly steel construction gave rise to the design, but even without it this design would have come to the surface as the most logical and best choice – a sleek shape with an atrium in which the historic roof construction is visible,” said the studio.
“Instead of throwing away the ugly, we have put it to good use. The remaining choices all stemmed from this one decision.”
Windows set into the roof allow natural light to shine down onto a dining table set in the atrium.
Three guest bedrooms and a self-contained studio with two further rooms are set around the opening upstairs.
The large wooden beams encroach into the bedrooms and bathrooms, which are set beneath steeply sloping ceilings.
The spaces are finished with neutral textiles and white walls that help to keep the spaces bright, but a vibrant yellow corridor marks the threshold to the owner’s more colourful living quarters.
“It looks just like an architectural phenomenon from the past. Yet the proportions of the guest rooms, the wall of yellow stones, material choices for facades and walls, the location and size of the kitchen and other rooms also all stemmed from the sleek ceiling with atrium and the desire to emphasise the historic qualities of the barn,” said the studio.
“As we matched the materials and colours of the stables in a sober and authentic way to fit with the nature of the building, so we chose striking colours for the original house,” it added. “Just as they used to be, house and barn are now separate worlds that complement each other.”
While Piet Hein Eek might be better known for his design work – including a collection of furniture made from timber offcuts and a watch with cog-like indentations – he has turned his hand to architecture before.
His last project involved converting an old mill in France’s Dordogne region into a series of holiday rentals – a project that took him 10 years to complete.
Hein Eek placed at number 20 among the designers that made it onto the inaugural Dezeen Hot List.
Photography is by Thomas Mayer.
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2017 is officially in full swing! For some of you, that means you’re just starting up at your new job, and for others it means embarking on another year of a job you either love or hate. If you happen to fall into any of these categories, we need your help! Since 2001, Coroflot has collected and reported salary information from tens of thousands of design and creative professionals around the world. We’ve been able to do this with the help of our community, who we rely on to enter their own information. The Design Salary Guide is a valuable resource for your own salary negotiations or as a resource when building your team.
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