Le joallier Jeremy May fabrique des bijoux qui valent, littéralement, mille mots. A partir de vieux livres compressés, il crée de magnifiques pièces absolument uniques, faites à partir de vos livres préférés. L’idée lui est venue lorsqu’il décida de faire du livre favori de sa femme un bijou pour leur anniversaire de mariage. Sa ligne de bracelets, bagues et colliers, appelée Littlefly, est livrée dans le livre dont chaque pièce est tirée. Sublime de créativité et d’inventivité, un très beau projet.
British architecture firm McLean Quinlan has constructed a stone house in Jackson, Wyoming, modelled on a nearby 19th-century log cabin.
The House in Jackson is a two-storey rectangular construction with a cedar shingled roof, situated on a sloped, open plot with surrounding views of the Teton mountains.
Photograph is by Peter Cook
“The orientation, design, and natural materials – reclaimed and new – ensure the building links to the land,” said McLean Quinlan.
The design of the residence is a reinterpretation of a nearby historic settlers’ homestead called Cunningham’s Cabin – a single-storey log cabin built in 1888, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Upon entering from the lower level is a foyer where stairs lead up to a main living space. Also on the entrance level is a sauna and steam room, an office, a bedroom, a laundry room, and a mud room that links to the garage. This collection of smaller rooms creates an intimate atmosphere, which contrasts with the airy great room above.
The open-plan kitchen, dining, and living room are lined with floor-to-ceiling windows. A large stone fireplace serve as a dividing wall, with a separate sitting room on its other side.
The kitchen features white cabinetry and grey countertops, and has a nook with a table and benches for a more private space to eat and relax. The all-wood alcove has a large glass wall overlooking the mountains, and framed in rough-brushed local hemlock.
“Our clients, themselves exceptionally talented designers, embarked on this project after falling in love with the place and set out on a journey to create a beautiful home in this extraordinary landscape,” said the firm.
Pebbles used on the floors of the mudroom and bathroom were collected from nearby Snake River, at the base of the project site. Timber handles on interior doors are designed by the clients, as well as other benches and loungers.
“The design unites elements of both European chalet and classic American cabin,” said the firm.
Inside, walls are kept white with exposed rafters made of local evergreen. Overall, the space balances rustic materials with more contemporary elements, as floors are covered in Danish Douglas fir or grey tiles.
Attached to the main living room is a large wooden deck, with steps leading down to an outdoor pool. Boulders are arranged on the surrounding slopes, and indigenous greenery and Aspen trees are planted around.
“As the years pass, the external stonework will cover with lichen, and the sagebrush will gradually creep up to the boundaries of the house as the building marrys with the landscape,” said the firm.
Ledner, who died last Monday, 13 November 2017, was best known for his trio of meeting halls and facilities for the National Maritime Union. They include a building in Manhattan’s Chelsea punctured with hundreds of porthole-like windows, which is now the Dream Downtown Hotel, and a tiered white structure in Greenwich Village that currently serves as the Lenox Health Center.
His playful approach to architecture also resulted in a origami-like building with a folded star-shaped roof and a home decorated with amber-coloured glass ashtrays – both in New Orleans, where he completed over 40 projects.
Albert C Ledner’s best-known projects included several buildings for the National Maritime Union, including this one in Greenwich Village, New York. Photograph by Dan Howarth
Ledner was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1924, but moved to Louisiana with his parents shortly after.
His studies at Tulane School of Architecture were interrupted by the second world war, when he volunteered in the Army Air Corps. This took him to Arizona, where he visited modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and studio Taliesin West.
After graduating from Tulane, Ledner drove to Wright’s summer residence in Spring Green, Wisconsin and worked alongside the architect as an apprentice for several years. By 1951, he was back in New Orleans and had set up his own practice.
Ledner’s National Maritime Union buildings also included a structure covered in porthole-like windows in Chelsea, New York
In 1961, he was asked to build a house in the city for Adrian Sunkel and his wife, Patricia – a former classmate. Both enjoyed smoking, so Ledner used an orange-toned ashtray he spotted at their previous home as a dentil on the new building.
Around 1,200 of the glass squares were used to decorate the facade of what is formally known as the Sunkel House, but more commonly referred to as the Ashtray House.
The Chelsea building was renovated by Handel Architects and reopened as the Dream Downtown Hotel in 2012
His commissions for the National Maritime Union came in the 1950s, but the buildings weren’t completed until the next decade. They were later sold to different buyers, repurposed and renovated.
Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture.
The new AM4 tower was developed by local studio Benthem Crouwel Architects to slot in alongside the smaller AM3 data centre, which it completed in 2012 for global networks specialist Equinix.
The original building features facades wrapped in horizontal metal lamellae and is linked to the new tower by bridges.
The centres are located at the Amsterdam Science Park – an academic campus where around 38 per cent of all Dutch data traffic is processed.
The AM4 building contains 12 storeys of servers in a 72-metre-tall tower that is clearly visible from the city’s A10 ring road.
Benthem Crouwel Architects believes that there is a stigma associated with the architecture of data-processing facilities, which are typically housed in anonymous boxes in industrial suburbs.
The firm sought to improve the connection between the new building and its context by implementing a design that feels secure yet approachable.
“The buildings have to fit in with their surroundings,” said architect Joost Vos. “They must be attractive, however not too welcoming.”
“We all want our personal data to be safe, but we feel awkward about large data centres in our cities, because we don’t want fortress-like buildings surrounded by high-security fences in public spaces.”
The first step the firm took to prevent the centre from feeling too oppressive was to dig a moat-like canal rather than using barbed wire or more standard security measures.
Bridges across the canal lead to the two data centres and to a dedicated welcome area where visitors and staff go through identity checks in a light-filled lobby.
Full-height windows lining the lobby on two sides allow a visual connection to the water and the rest of the campus, while a section of the opposite wall is clad in punchy red panels.
The colourful interventions continue as visitors cross a bright-red bridge that signals the passage towards the high-security “white spaces” housing the servers.
“It is a totally different experience from being in a converted warehouse, the type of building mostly used for data centres,” said the architects.
“The exterior is grand, clean and cool: it resembles a large hard disk, with horizontal slants passing the air from the cooling system.”
The tower is clad in triangular aluminium profiles, which are black on one side and silver on the other. The vertical metal surfaces become thinner as they extend upwards, creating an optical illusion that causes the building to appear slimmer.
The ethereal effects created by the reflective cladding, which tapers as it meets the sky, are intended to represent the intangible nature of data and cloud services that are so important to modern society.
Heat generated by equipment within the data centre is stored and used by other buildings within the science park.
The building is also designed to be easily scaled down in the future if the servers it houses are miniaturised in line with many evolving technologies.
Benthem Crouwel Architects has offices in Amsterdam and Düsseldorf and works on projects ranging from public buildings to infrastructural projects and urban masterplans.
Few things have the same level of excitement for a child as they do for a grown adult – LEGO is undoubtedly one of them. So what could be more exciting than LEGO? A LEGO drone! Thanks to the guys at Force Flyer you can now build your own LEGO drone. Compatible with all traditional LEGO blocks, the user can design their own drone and add their own artistic flair to it. With that, the LEGO drone is as much an educational tool as it is cool – teaching aerodynamics and load balancing through the build. Does this mean no more holding that airplane up high and running around the house? I certainly hope not, but it’s cool to see LEGO changing things up and adopting more tech into their world of fun.
Once again BOLDR has had great success launching their new models on Kickstarter, including their latest, the BOLDR Expedition Field Watch, which comes in six styles featuring a Swiss automatic Sellita SW200-1 movement inside. At 41mm it’s a very……
Even today, no one knows where the coconut originally came from. However, thanks to the fact that it floats, it found its way across parts of Asia, becoming stables in Indonesian and South Indian cuisine. However, even today, it remains one of the most tough seeds to cook with. People in parts of India still rely on hand-scrapers to take the flesh off the inside of the coconut. Vasudev’s take on the coconut grater involves not just mechanizing the process, but binding the entire solution into a safe, simple, and product worthy of the modern kitchen.
The Coconut Grater comes with a completely enclosed design, along with a blade on a movable rail. The coconut fits into a button-operated vice grip at one end and another button on the handle at the opposite end starts the rotary blade, that the user then slides into the concavity of the coconut. The blades safely grate the white flesh, without humans having to hold the coconut or even interact with the blade. Everything happens under a safe, transparent Plexiglas cover that the user can see through, knowing when to stop grating the coconut. All the grated flesh collects in a tray at the bottom, ready to use in your food, or for desiccating and using later!
Dezeen is giving away five sets of rechargeable bike lights and magnetic reflectors that clip onto clothing, which are all designed by Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman.
Having previously created battery-powered bike lights, Bookman designed the Curve Light Set to be charged via USB.
The set includes a front light with that lasts up to 35 hours, and a rear light with a 32-hour charge life. Each takes an estimated two hours to charge from flat.
For extra visibility, Bookman has also curved the light faces to widen the illumination, so they can be seen from the sides as well as straight on.
At the rear, an elastic silicone clip attaches onto the bike bars like a buckle.
“Curve Light is bright, long lasting and has a quick and easy USB recharge function, all packed in a small, seamless design,” said Bookman.
The clip is fitted with a power button that users must hold down for 0.7 seconds to turn the light on or off.
By pressing this switch, cyclists can also alternate between four of the available light modes – the maximum brightness of the front light reaches 100 lumens and the rear hits 37 lumens.
“Its easy-to-use functions make attaching, detaching, powering on, switching modes and recharge all quick, easy and hassle-free,” said the brand.
The lights are also designed to be weather resistant for cycling in rain, hail or snow. They also come in a range of colour combinations, including a grey base and yellow, coral-pink paired with dark blue and black on black.
The five winners will also receive a pair of magnetic reflector strips that attach onto outerwear.
Named Clip-on Reflectors, the accessories are intended for a range of activities, like biking, running or walking the dog at night. They are available in six colours – white, black, red, blue, green and orange.
Each winner will receive a Curve Light Set and Clip-on Reflectors in their choice of colour.
The products are also available to purchase from Bookman. The light set retails at $87 (£65.66), while the reflectors cost $9 (£6.79).
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Competition closes 18 December 2017. Five 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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