La maison Elliptique de l’atelier Mario Martins est situé à Luz, Lagos au Portugal. Cette construction ré-interprète habilement les canons esthétiques méditerranéens en les rendant actuels, modernes et audacieux. La maison a une forme harmonieuse nouant des liens avec l’environnement autour et en menant une réflexion sur l’idée d’équilibre.
Conceived as a competition entry, Tilt transformed into a symbol of balance and the icon of level’s studio philosophy.
“Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” the iconic 1932 photograph of ironworkers perched on a beam 840 feet in the sky, is probably one of the most recognized photographs of the 20th Century.
While the ironworkers in the photo really were the men building the 30 Rockefeller Plaza building, and are actually on-site, it is widely believed that the photograph was staged and not captured spontaneously. Hilariously, this has led internet conspiracy theorists and/or jokesters to misbelieve that the photograph is fake. In turn these folks have Photoshopped fake versions of it being faked:
THIS IS FAKE
THIS IS FAKE The actual photograph is real, and Corbis owns the original negative.
In any case, a bunch of ironworkers in Chicago decided to recreate the photograph, with a couple of modern-day twists (apart from the modern-day background). See if you can spot them:
You’ve got to admit the Chicago guys did a pretty good job with the mimicry.
If you’re a would-be Festool owner but find their high prices too much to swallow, check out their newly-launched website: Festool Recon, which sells their “gently used” tools at a discount. Because the company has a 30-day return policy, they’ve got an inventory of like-new tools that owners either returned because they didn’t like them, or that were defective and have now been reconditioned. They also sell discontinued tools.
“All tools meet Festool’s high performance and quality standards,” the company writes. “However, you should expect them to have visual blemishes.”
Be aware that the stock is constantly rotating; at press time there was only one model of tool on offer, their TS 55 Tracksaw–selling for $420, versus the usual price of $560. “Shit goes fast,” writes Randy, the buddy of mine who told me about the site. “They load up a random item every day, send out an email, and depending on the product they are gone within hours.”
“It will not be transparent what tool will be for sale next,” Festool states, with German frankness. “You will only learn of new offers through the official announcement sent out with the recon newsletter posting. Once it expires, the next offer will become available.”
You can sign up here.
Lastly, Randy just texted me this: “Tell [Core77 readers] that I asked you not to write about the site, so I would not be competing with everyone else to pick up the tools I want.” Sorry, Randy, that’s what you get for befriending a blogger.
The best way to find gear is getting a tip from a friend you trust. As friends of our design community for over 20 years, we want to be that voice of reason by helping our readers find products that really, truly work. So, we’ve gathered a list of things we regularly use or cannot wait to get ourselves and put together our new Shopping Guide for Designers.
The common denominator between every featured item is good design: some highlight great style, others impeccable functionality. The list features great tools that design students and professionals alike should have, trustworthy outdoors products, functional yet fashionable clothing and accessories, and more. Whatever it is you find on this list, you can trust it’s something built for or approved by designers.
We’ll be gradually adding to this list, so if you have any products you’ve tested and would like to see featured, we’d love to hear your suggestions. Send us an email to shopping@core77.com, and if we like it, we might add it to to the list!
It’s important to note that if you purchase some products featured in the Shopping Guide through our links, Core77 may receive a small percentage of the sale. However, all products featured were chosen because they are items our staff can actually vouch for. In other words, anything we don’t love isn’t allowed on this list!
When asked to draw the “home of the future,” a group of British children unleashed their imaginations, incorporating everything from sails to rope ladders and even pyramidal architecture. As Atlas Obscura points out, these homes represent more than……
Continue Reading…
Pollution poses a serious threat to the world’s land, air and oceans, so one of our Good Design for a Bad World talks will look at ways of reducing the scale of the problem. Here are eight proposals that are already exploring the idea.
Good Design for a Bad World takes place during Dutch Design Week, on 21 and 22 October 2017. Five talks scheduled across the weekend will look at ways designers can tackle five global issues: climate change, pollution, refugees, terrorism and politics.
Moderated by Dezeen founder and Dutch Design Week international ambassador Marcus Fairs, the pollution talk will feature a panel of speakers including industrial designer Dave Hakkens, This is Ecocide founder Bernhard Lenger, and DoepelStrijkers co-founder Eline Strijkers.
The event is free to attend, and it takes place at the People’s Pavilion at KetelHuisplein 1, in the Strijp-S district of Eindhoven, at 12:30pm on Sunday 22 October.
Ahead of the talk, here’s eight responses to pollution from architects and designers all around the world, including a tower that could rid cities of smog and swimming costumes made from plastic.
Smog Free Tower by Daan Roosegaarde
Daan Roosegaarde describes his Smog Free Tower as the largest air purifier in the world. It works by sucking polluted air in through its top, and then releasing purified air through vents on its four sides.
Last year, the Chinese government publicly confirmed its support for the Smog Free Project, so Roosegaarde is currently engaging with government officials and local designers to scale it up, to rid the whole of Beijing of pollution.
Find out more about Smog Free Tower ›
This one-piece suit has electrical threads woven into the fabric, enabling it to provide GPS, Wi-Fi and – most relevantly – air-cleaning technologies.
It is fitted with an air quality sensor on its chest, which is connected to a hidden chip that tracks and transmits the data. The chip is also wired to a battery and the cold plasma node on the back of the suit, which is used to create a “clean air bubble” around the wearer.
“Cold plasma technology is a really high voltage that splits up the particles in the air,” said the designers. “It grabs the dust and then it drops, so all the bad particles in the air go down to the ground.”
Find out more about BB.Suit 0.2 ›
East Coast Park beach huts by Spark
It is not just the problem of air pollution designers are looking to solve. Many are turning their attention to the abundance of waste in the oceans, including architecture studio Spark, which envisioned using some of the millions of tons of plastic dumped into the sea every year to build a series of unusual architectural structures along Singapore coastline.
The team proposed collecting this material, sorting it into colours, then shredding it. The granules would then be poured into shingle-shaped moulds and reheated, creating a new type of tile for cladding a building’s exterior.
Find out more about East Coast Park beach huts ›
Ocean plastic swimwear by Adidas x Parley
This collaborative project between sports brand Adidas and environmental initiative Parley has been a pioneer in repurposing ocean plastic, creating shoes and swimwear from upcycled fishing nets and debris.
In an interview with Dezeen, Parley founder Cyrill Gutsch said designers and brands need to wean themselves off the plastic “drug”.
Find out more about ocean plastic swimwear ›
Flat-packed furniture by Pentatonic
Aiming to “radically transform consumption culture”, start-up company Pentatonic is working with an adapted injection-moulding process to transform waste materials – such as cigarette butts, smartphones and cans – into homeware.
The company also operates a “circular economy” system. Customers can sell back pieces of their furniture to Pentatonic, so that they can be recycled and reintroduced into the supply chain.
Find out more about flat packed furniture ›
Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat created The Ocean Cleanup concept with the aim of clearing the oceans of their plastic, using a floating barrier that slowly pushes the plastic to shore. Once ashore, the waste plastic could be recycled and turned into sellable products to help fund the project.
Earlier this year, Slat announced that the company’s first major operation will begin in 2018 in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling vortex of mainly plastic waste located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
Find out more about The Ocean Cleanup ›
The Cape by Clare Cousins and The Sociable Weaver
This timber-clad residence designed by Australian firms Clare Cousins Architects and The Sociable Weaver was the first home in the Australian state of Victoria to achieve a “10 Star” energy rating.
During the build, the architects worked with suppliers to reduce packaging that was delivered to site, and recycled and repurposed as much material as possible – meaning just three rubbish bags of waste were sent to landfill during the entire construction period.
Find out more about The Cape ›
AMP Spacecraft by DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas
Agbogbloshie, Ghana, is the world’s largest dumping site for electronic waste. But architects DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas are developing a functioning infrastructure to transform this toxic place into a more habitable environment for the thousands of people that already live there.
Named AMP Spacecraft, the initiative involves a network of “makerspace” structures, which arw hubs where local scrap dealers and makers can go about their trade and learn new skills. The architects call each one an “open community workshop cum lab” dedicated to recycling, making, sharing and trading.
Find out more about AMP Spacecraft ›
The post Eight designs that could help reduce global pollution appeared first on Dezeen.
London firm Duggan Morris Architects has completed an office building in London, featuring an aluminium facade in this year’s trendiest colour.
R7 is an 11-storey-high building in the fast-developing area of King’s Cross. Its gridded facade is finished in two shades of pink, one of which is a close match to 2017’s hottest hue, millennial pink.
However Duggan Morris Architects director Joe Morris said this came about by chance. The aim was to use colour to differentiate between the two halves of the building, but to make them also feel like part of the same family, separate from other new buildings in the area.
“The pink itself wasn’t ever a proposal, it was more coding to demonstrate the site strategy we’d come up with,” Morris told Dezeen. “It was a really intuitive, natural response to a whole series of conditions we’d created through the design process.”
“It was a diagrammatic response to effectively exemplify the strategy, and in the end it kind of just stuck.”
The two shades of pink chosen echo the rosy hue of the bricks of the nearby St Pancras Hotel, an ornate 19th-century building that sits at the southern edge of the regeneration scheme area.
“Pink is a colour that we use a lot,” said Morris. “It’s quite a human colour, it’s a colour we intuitively reach out for. We wanted it to have a more domestic rather than corporate appearance.”
The two side of the building rise to different heights, determined by the levels of the adjacent Central Saint Martin’s (CSM) university building.
“Where CSM is low, our building goes high, and where CSM is high, our building steps down,” explained Morris.
The stepped shape of the two buildings creates outdoor terrace spaces in the setbacks, so different levels have access to outdoor areas with views out over the city.
The aluminium facade comprises a series of fins and balustrades, intended to reference the Victorian industrial buildings that characterise the area, such as the iron gas-holder structures, and the various old warehouses.
The pink serves both practical and prettifying purposes. This powder-coating will protect the aluminium from corroding in the pollution-filled air of a major London transport hub, while the soft sheen finish will reflect the changing light throughout the day.
The ground floor of the building is given over to public space. Here, exposed columns and soffits form a covered walkway leading from Handyside Street though into a seven-metre-high entrance lobby.
A restaurant, a spin-fitness studio, and a three-screen Everyman cinema are all due to open in this space. It will also be used to exhibit art produced by R7’s creative neighbours.
Office spaces occupy the floors above, and are currently rented by fashion brand New Look and financial technology company XTX Markets.
Duggan Morris designed the office spaces to be fully flexible, allowing units to be let in configurations that can suit a variety of small- and medium-sized businesses. The floor plans operate on a 1.5-metre grid pattern, which is reflected in the grid pattern of the facade.
The exterior ring of each floor has been cast in concrete, but “soft spots” formed of plywood and aluminium panels can be removed and reinstated as needed, via the goods lift. For instance, one tenant has removed all of its soft spots and added interior staircases to connect all of the six floors it occupies.
The building is expected to receive a BREEAM sustainability rating of Outstanding, thanks to the building’s low-carbon energy supply, and the control over solar gain provided by the facade fins.
Morris hopes that R7 will add to the “campus atmosphere” of the King’s Cross area, linking up to the adjacent mixed-use R8 building, which includes affordable housing and offices for start-ups. To the east, parts Q1 and Q2 of the masterplan house more offices and a sports hall.
Developer Argent won planning permission for the 67-acre King’s Cross Development to in 2006 after extensive consultation with Camden Council. Argent then appointed Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates to draw up a masterplan for the site.
Central Saint Martin’s was one of the first buildings to complete. Meanwhile Google is planning to build its new headquarters in the area, designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio. Heatherwick is also working on a new shopping centre, by transforming a collection of Victorian buildings.
And last month, British designer Tom Dixon announced plans to relocate his studio, showroom and cafe to King’s Cross.
Duggan Morris Architects was founded by Joe Morris and Mary Duggan. The studio recently announced plans to separate into two, with Morris becoming principal of Duggan Morris, and Duggan leaving to form Mary Duggan Architects.
Past projects by the studio include a canal-side housing block in west London built from handmade bricks and a school swimming pool in Buckinghamshire with a folded timber roof.
Photography by Jack Hobhouse.
Project credits:
Client: Argent LLP
Architect: Duggan Morris Architects
Contractor: Kier Construction
Executive Architect: Weedon Architects
Structural engineer: AKTII
Environmental engineer: Grontmij
Cost consultants: Faithful & Gould
CDM coordinator: David Eagle
Fire consultant: The Fire Surgery
Acoustic consultant: Sandy Brown
Facade consultant: FMDC
Approved building control inspector: Camden Council BREEAM – Sweco (Formerly Grontmij)
Lifts – Sweco (Formerly Grontmij)
Basement enabling – Arup
Workplace strategy – KKS
Access – All Clear Design
Building Control – Camden
Office Agents – Savills / DTZ
Retail Agents – Lunson Mitchenall
Security – Tucknutt
Lighting – Spiers + Major
Sunlight + Daylight – Grontmij
Project legal – Hogan Lovells
Earthworks + Remediation Report – Arup
Landscape – Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd
The post Duggan Morris builds office with millennial-pink exterior in London’s King’s Cross appeared first on Dezeen.
Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California‘s Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires.
The home is situated on a 40-acre (16-hectare) property in Healdsburg, a small town on the Russian River, in the heart of the state’s winemaking region.
The area suffered major damage from forest fires that swept across vineyards and residential neighbourhoods this month, killing 42 people. Reports say the blaze is now being contained.
Fortunately unaffected by the wild fires, House in Healdsburg was designed by Feldman Architecture, which partnered with local firm Arterra Landscape Architects for the project.
Around the residence, hinged windows raise like garage doors to create an open-air pavilion. Walls that swing up to open homes to the outdoors are also found at a vacation retreat by Olson Kundig in Idaho, a multi-family house by Nishizawa Architects in Vietnam, and a home with sliding polycarbonate panels by H Arquitectes in Spain.
Northern California’s rolling landscape plays a major part in the home’s design. Woodland revitalisation, the extraction of non-native plants, and grasslands restoration were all practiced during the project.
Clad in wide-planked wood, the L-shaped house has opposing living and sleeping wings.
The main living area has access to two separate outdoors spaces: one with a fire pit overlooking the town, and a larger area with a swimming pool and a terrace for lounging.
“The mission was to create a rural retreat for a client who loves to entertain,” said the firm.
A two-car garage is situated off the kitchen, with a laundry room, master bedroom and en-suite in the perpendicular wing.
Inside, walls are painted white, while grey floors and beige furnishings were chosen so as not detract from the expansive views.
Photography is by Joe Fletcher.
The post Feldman Architecture incorporates garage-door windows into California home appeared first on Dezeen.
On Dezeen Jobs, we’re listing jobs for project architects in locations ranging from London and New York, to Mallorca. Here are six of the most exciting opportunities available.
Spanish studio OHLAB is looking for a senior architect with hotel and retail experience to join its team in Palma de Mallorca. Examples of the firm’s work include a hillside house made up of four angular white blocks.
Find out more about this job ›
Senior architect at David Kohn Architects
Having just celebrated its 10th birthday, London-based David Kohn Architects is looking for a senior architect with experience working with listed buildings to join its team. The firm’s previous work includes a multi-hued house extension, while current projects include a building in London’s first purpose-built design district.
Find out more about this job ›
Global architecture firm Aedas, whose past projects include a Suzhou university building with a cavernous central hollow, is looking for an architect to work on projects in China.
Project designer/architect at Dattner Architects
New York positions available include a project architect role with Dattner Architects, which recently teamed up with WXY to complete a garage wrapped in metal fins and a sculptural salt shed made of reinforced concrete for the city’s sanitation department.
Find out more about this job ›
Part-III project architect at drmm
London-based drmm is seeking an experienced Part-III project architect to work on an array of projects. The firm is currently in the running for the year’s Stirling Prize, for its overhaul of a seaside pier in Hastings, England.
Find out more about this job ›
Project architect at Berman Guedes Stretton Architects
Earlier this year Berman Guedes Stretton completed its upgrade of Powell & Moya’s modernist University of Oxford buildings. The Oxford and London-based firm is now looking for an architect to help to deliver a range of new projects, primarily in the education and hospitality sectors.
Find out more about this job ›
See all the latest architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs ›
The post Six of the most promising roles for project architects on Dezeen Jobs this week appeared first on Dezeen.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
