A timelapse video from Exavier Blanchard captured the impact of flooding that has swept through Houston, Texas, since former Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25.The video shows floodwaters rising to completely submerge some cars in the parking lot of a Greater Greenspoint apartment block…(Read…)
Octopuses (octopodes, octopi) are extremely intelligent creatures. They’ve been known to correctly predict the future, escape from the tiniest of openings, and even open jars… from inside! They now add another trick to their arsenal of awesomeness. Holding your toiletries with their eight rather useful arms!
The Octopus Shower Caddy isn’t obviously a real octopus, but it takes inspiration from the animal, providing 8 rather handy arms (tentacles?) that conveniently hold onto your personal toiletries from your shampoo and shower gel, to your moisturizer and hair serum. Made from silicone, the arms do a good job of gripping even the smoothest bottles without letting go of them, allowing you to access all your essentials without accidentally knocking things around or spilling containers with your wet hands… because puny human is clumsy. Mighty octopus is not!
Designer: Formverkert
On pourrait croire apercevoir, à s’y méprendre, d’authentiques bouquets. Pourtant, les fleurs conçues par Tiffanie Turner ne le sont qu’à partir de papier. Passionnée par la beauté des compositions florales, l’artiste basée à San Francisco exprime toute son adoration à travers d’immenses bouquets artificiels, dont chaque pétale demande un travail minutieux. Pour ses créations, qui nécessitent parfois près de 80 heures de concentration, elle utilise du papier mâché, ainsi que du papier crépon, dont la texture rappelle celle d’une fleur – une vraie.
Basé à Los Angeles, Jimmy Marble est un artiste aux multiples casquettes : photographe, designer, réalisateur et peintre muraliste. Si les talents sont pluriels, l’inspiration reste la même. De la couleur, encore et toujours, couplée aux silhouettes longilignes de mannequins de toutes origines. Spécialisé dans la photographie de mode, Marble semble mettre un point d’honneur à illuminer un milieu parfois trop grisâtre. Et ce n’est pas plus mal.
We believe that technology should make life better for everyone, everywhere. This vision guides what we do and how we do it. In the 3D printing space, HP will reinvent the way people design and engineer with the intent of creating the next industrial revolution. Reinventing a world-class experience design for 3D printing is essential to achieving this exciting vision.
There is no reason to grow tired of the same old classic cocktails. As entertaining expert Mark Addison makes clear, by commanding the original recipe one can easily spin out a tasty variation at home. Addison provides 144 different recipes in total……
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In 1964, Paul Van Doren moved from Boston to Costa Mesa and brought his family along. In ’66, Van Doren would co-found Vans in the area. From Anaheim factories to the brand new 182K-square-foot global headquarters, the band’s history is embedded in……
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Dezeen has teamed up with British furniture brand OMK 1965 to offer two readers the chance to win a classic Omkstak chair in a colour of their choice.
Originally developed in 1972 by designer and brand founder Rodney Kinsman, the Omkstak is one of the most enduring chair designs of the 20th century, and is included in the collections of the V&A, London’s Design Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The lightweight, stackable chair features a perforated steel backrest and seat, along with a continuous tubular steel frame.
Before now, the chair was only available to buy in white, grey or black. But to mark the chair’s 45th anniversary, OMK has released it in five new colours: Turquoise blue, Capri blue, Salmon pink, Dahlia yellow and Traffic red.
According to OMK, this bold colour palette was informed by the natural landscape of Lake Garda, Italy, where the chairs have been crafted since 1972. All five of these colours will be presented at the London Design Festival later this month, as part of designjunction.
The brand will also showcase refreshed versions of other classic designs at LDF, including the sculptural Tokyo stool, which was originally produced in 1985 for London’s Groucho Club, and the spherical Orbit mirror designed in 1981.
OMK was founded in 1965 by Rodney Kinsman. It started creating furniture for Terrance Conran’s Habitat stores throughout the 60s and 70s before going on to produce pieces for the public sector.
Two Dezeen readers will win an Omkstak chair, and can choose from both the classic tones and the new colours. The chair is also available to buy in any colour via the OMK 1965 website.
Competition closes 28 September 2017. Winners will be selected at random and notified by email, and their names will be published at the top of this page.
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Rem Koolhaas’ firm looked at urban-design patterns when drawing up plans for this laboratory building at an engineering school on the outskirts of Paris.
Called Lab City, the building was designed by OMA to provide a new facility for Ecole Centrale Paris, a French university that specialises in science and engineering.
But the design team – led by partner Ellen van Loon – didn’t want the building to follow the usual template of laboratory buildings, which it sees as bland boxes containing dark, maze-like interiors. Instead, the aim was to create a more bright, open interior.
To achieve this, the building was conceived as a “superblock”, where each set of rooms feels like a separate building, and corridors are more akin to streets. The whole structure is then covered by a transparent roof of ETFE – a fluorine-based plastic that is a cheaper and more lightweight alternative to glass.
“Laboratories are typically planned as linear buildings,” said OMA. “Such a typology creates a blackout of the urban conditions; the building becomes a gigantic wall due to its extremely isolated and internalised programmes.”
“We can instead imagine laboratories as a collection of discreet parcels in an open-plan grid; in this way, a ‘city’ can accommodate endless configurations of programmes and activities.”
A main “street” runs through the centre of the complex, linking a neighbouring engineering facility with the site of a future metro station. This avenue is three storeys high, and crossed on upper levels by bridges.
A network of smaller passageways connects up with this main artery, creating the basis for the city grid.
Offices, laboratories, a library and a restaurant are framed by this grid, occupying blocks in a variety of different sizes. There is also a plaza-like space filled with tables and chairs, an auditorium shaped like an amphitheatre, and a number of elevated terraces.
The structure has an industrial feel to it, with exposed concrete walls and columns, metal mesh balustrades and screed floors. Meanwhile, the ETFE roof forms a series of barrel vaults that create a sense of grandeur.
“The design integrates urbanism with the school, supplanting the homogeneous experience of the campus,” said OMA director Clément Blanchet, when the design was first revealed in 2012. “It’s an attempt to define the actual aesthetic of science.”
OMA ranked at number nine on Dezeen Hot List 2016. The firm, which was founded by Rem Koolhaas back in 1975, today has offices in seven cities around the world.
Other projects the firm has completed in France include the cross-shaped Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville library in Caen and the flagship Paris store for jewellery brand Repossi.
It also won a competition to design a new bridge for Bordeaux and is working on plans to create a contemporary art gallery for Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Project credits:
Architecture: OMA
Partner in charge: Ellen van Loon, Rem Koolhaas
Project leaders: Clément Blanchet, Edouard Pervès, Saskia Simon
Landscape; D’Ici Là
Engineers: Bollinge r+ Grohmann, ALTO Ingénierie, Royal Haskoning DHV Consultants: Brian Cody, APEX, DAL, DUCKS, Cuisine et Concept, Polygraphik
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Valencian designer Fernando Abellanas has created a secluded studio for himself, which hangs from the underside of a concrete bridge in his hometown.
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