Benthem Crouwel Architects a dessiné le RAI Car Park pour le nouveau Amsterdam Exhibition and Convention Centre. Ce bâtiment multi-fonction de 8 étages est haut de 30m et peut loger jusqu’à 100 voitures. Sa forme rectangulaire et simple est contrastée par ses deux tours en hélice. Une très belle réalisation moderne et ambitieuse.
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Bowls made from recycled metals and seating inspired by traditional Arabic Majlis featured in an exhibition of emerging talent from the Middle East and North African regions at this year’s Dubai Design Week.
Middle East: Design Now! is a travelling showcase curated by author and furniture designer Suzanne Trocmé. It aims to provide a global platform for design from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
“There are many preconceptions about contemporary design in the MENA region where talent is incredible and comes from quite different disciplines and experiences,” Trocmé told Dezeen. “Design education itself is sketchy in countries such as Kuwait so students tend to travel abroad to study.”
“With a newfound interest in seeing what designer are creating in the region via such showcases as Middle East: Design Now! we are changing the game,” she continued. “The bigger picture is to encourage industry and to make an economically viable infrastructure – the business of design. It should be happening everywhere in the world really,” added Trocmé.
The exhibition opened during this year’s Dubai Design Week, and is on show at the Dubai Design District until 9 December 2017 – following its debut at this year’s London Design Festival as part of Designjunction.
Having grown in size with the addition of new, specially commissioned pieces, the latest edition of the showcase includes 38 different product designs from designers across the region including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
“We have exposed 50 or so designs thus far,” Trocmé told Dezeen. “Many pieces are designed and nurtured specifically for us. Part of the program is to work with the designers refining the designs as a kind of incubation project.”
The featured designers are united by their use of traditional methods, materials or motifs that have been reinterpreted for a modern day context.
Works include a presentation of stylised Arabic tattoo designs presented in frames by Jordanian artist Hayan Maani, who has a long-standing interest in Arabic calligraphy.
The chubby Boussa armchair by Moroccan designer Younes Duret borrows its form from the wide mdamma belts that are used to define the waist when wearing traditional Moroccan kaftans – a feature echoed in its base where the upholstery appears to bulge out from the frame.
A series of tapestries by Lebanese brand Bokja are made by stitching old Aubusson remnants to garbage truck tarpaulin which is then embroidered.
Trocmé, who has been working with designers from across the region for the past four years, found some of the designers on social media and through word of mouth.
“Working throughout the region for the past four years has exposed to me a whole new world of creativity which comes from a different sensibility. Each piece in this showcase has a story,” she said.
“One interesting observation is how many more women there are in design than on other continents,” she noted. “Alia Al Mazrooei from the UAE created the most contemporary seating specifically for the exhibition. I hope she will become quite a poster girl for the region.”
Al Mazrooei’s Benad floor seating is inspired by traditional seating in Arabic Majlis – a room in the home where guests are entertained and seating takes the form of cushions placed on the floor.
Other female designers include Salsabeel Amin from Egypt, whose Ore lights are made using three of the most fundamental forms of craftsmanship in Egypt – brass marble and blown glass.
Kawther Alsaffar from Kuwait, described by Trocmé as a “great thinker and innovator”, presented a set of Dual bowls which were created in collaboration with local sand casters.
“Their work is quite flawed so Kawther took the flaws and augmented to create her extraordinary pieces. Since I first showed her pieces in September, she went onto Kickstarter and has sold over 600 pieces.”
Kuwaiti contemporary textile artist Manal Al Maimouni contributed the Sadu bench. Its name derives from Al Sadu – a form of embroidery hand-woven by Bedouin people that features geometrical shapes.
As a member of the Al Sadu Society in Kuwait, Al Maimouni felt a need to incorporate cultural relevance to her work. Using natural materials like wool, cotton, silk and jute, the bench design combines her unique weaving techniques with wooden elements.
Dubai Design Week took place from 13 to 18 October 2017, with the aim to strengthen Dubai’s position as a global hub for the design and creative industries. Now in its third edition, the week involved over 550 designers who exhibited work at 200 events across the city.
The Dubai Design District, which acts as the hub venue, is a creative quarter being built from scratch in the United Arab Emirates city.
With phase one of three now complete, the second phase – a creative community of studios, galleries and a school designed by Foster + Partners – is expected to open in 2019.
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This art museum is located on the outskirts of Jingdezhen, a city famed for its porcelain production, so architecture studio DL Atelier chose to use the local clay-heavy earth for its walls.
Sanbaopeng Art Museum was designed by DL Atelier for a site in Sanbao village, on the outskirts of the so-called “porcelain capital”. It is a place where many porcelain artists have established studios over the past decade.
The village already hosts a concentration of artists and exhibition spaces, so the studio set out to create a unique environment that uses architecture to evoke the intense relationship between the makers and the material.
“At the very beginning, my interests were more focused on telling stories between artists and their creations than just designing a ‘me-too’ museum,” said DL Atelier principal Liu Yang.
The studio drew inspiration from the porcelain-making process, where the outcomes of firing the material in a kiln can be difficult to predict and result in imperfections that add to the character of the pieces.
This “romantic relationship” between the maker and their artworks informed the design of a building that seeks to achieve a similar sense of mystery and unpredictability in its layout and materiality.
Locally sourced clay was used to create rammed-earth walls. Designed to appear to emerge from the earth, introduce a textural detail to the building that the architects hoped “could offer a poetic feeling”.
“Sanbao village naturally produces unique soil, slightly red in colour, so we decided to build the continuous loam walls with local clay, which delivers a certain familiarity and tension,” said DL Atelier.
The museum features a linear plan, with a group of rectilinear volumes protruding above four-metre-high walls that stretch 150 metres along a valley floor.
The rigorous geometric forms accentuate the contrast between the manmade structure and its natural surroundings, where streams cut through the forests and meander across the valley.
The outer walls flank an open central passage that extends 100 metres and is divided only by glazed surfaces, lending it a transparency that contrasts with the solidity of the earth on either side.
A cantilevered canopy draws visitors towards an entrance at one end of the building, which is surrounded by trees and located close to a stream.
Rather than being laid out as a linear sequence of rooms, the museum’s spaces are staggered and arranged across different levels so visitors can choose their own route though the building.
“Multiple choices are provided in the museum,” the studio added. “Visitors can go up and down, feel the delightful stream or peaceful pond, enjoy the exhibition or relax in the corner.”
“Every tour will be a story between visitors and the architecture, a mixture of discovery, expectation, waiting, anxiety, disappointment and joy.”
Several of the areas are separated by still reflecting ponds. The route from the entrance to the first-floor reception area involves traversing a pond using a set of stepping stones that connect with a travertine staircase.
The water extends throughout the building and is visible through the full-height glazed surfaces. More stepping stones form a path that connects with a staircase leading up to a gallery space.
The protruding upper levels and elements such as the entrance canopy are clad in titanium-zinc panels which, like the earth and travertine stone, was chosen to improve with age as it develops a natural patina.
Photography is by Sun Haiting.
Project credits:
SD+ED: DL atelier
CD: Zeal
REW consultants : Has Wall
Landscape: UAO
Planning: Mass+Skin Design Studio
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No fireplace this holiday season? warm up with this cozy compilation of Tom Hanks Laughing in his movies…(Read…)
Brewing at the right temperature and for the right amount of time is crucial for making a proper cup of tea. Too hot and it will taint the antioxidants, too long and it will extract unwanted flavors. TEAMOSA marries modern science and traditional tea-making so you get the perfect tea-making experience each time.
It uses a specialized ultrasonic extraction method to enhance aroma and taste. You can begin brewing in seconds with quick and easy TEAMOSA pods. Simply place them in the device and it will scan the pod and brew it according to expert recommendations! However, you’re not just restricted to the pods. You can also place your own tea leaves directly in TEAMOSA and adjust your brewing preferences according to your taste directly on the app.
Designer: Irven Liu
La famille des SUV SEAT s’agrandit avec le lancement du modèle ARONA, dernier né de la collection. Spacieux et élégant, le petit SUV urbain a fait l’objet d’un événement exceptionnel marqué par l’audace et la créativité.
Journalistes, influenceurs et amateurs de la marque ont été invités à tester le modèle ARONA à travers une expérience originale : le tout premier test drive nocturne et immersif. Au départ du Show Room SEAT dans le 17ème arrondissement, les passagers à bord de l’Arona ont traversé Paris pour se rendre à Saint-Ouen. Là-bas, un immense parking désaffecté les attendait.
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Invité par la marque automobile, le collectif d’art urbain TSF Crew a pris possession du lieu en réalisant trois gigantesques oeuvres in situ. Pour rendre l’expérience ludique et créative, les artistes ont fait le choix de l’anamorphose : ces grandes illusions d’optique qui se révèlent précisément à qui se situe au bon emplacement.
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A bord de la SEAT ARONA, les passagers découvrent les oeuvres qui se dévoilent au fur et à mesure, dans un subtil jeu d’ombre et de lumière. Sur trois étages, les lignes graphiques des créations viennent révéler le design de la voiture.
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La géométrie des anamorphoses met en avant les lignes extérieures fortes de l’ARONA, les spots lumineux jouent avec les éclairages intérieurs et extérieurs du véhicule. Installés confortablement à bord, les passagers font aussi l’expérience des spécificités techniques de la voiture : aide à la conduite, tableau de bord multimédia, intérieur spacieux…
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Le maître mot de cette opération : « Faites ce que vous voulez », à bord d’une voiture audacieuse taillée pour ceux qui suivent leur propre voie.
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Sesame Street: Sharing Things (Stranger Things Parody)..(Read…)
With just paper, a pencil, a saucer, some ribbon and glue, it looks like even the least crafty of us could make this pretty gift box…(Read…)
Federico Ciccarese’s €1800, 3D-printed Doublehand from Youbionic is a glove with 2 robotic hands that can be controlled with 2 fingers each…(Read…)
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