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Reinhard Görner est un photographe allemand spécialisé dans l’architecture et les beaux arts. Pour la série photographique “Libraries”, il parcourt l’Europe afin de capturer la solennité des bibliothèques du Vieux Continent. De Madrid à Stuttgart, en passant par Turin, il immortalise tantôt les intérieurs modernes d’une blancheur immaculée, tantôt les plafonds décorés de fresques monumentales et les boiseries anciennes de ces lieux dédiés au savoir. De quoi vous donner envie de vous remettre à la lecture.

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Vous connaissez peut-être déjà le travail du photographe allemand Robert Götzfried à travers sa série consacrée aux pistes de bowling. Dans cet autre projet sobrement intitulé “Pools”, l’artiste délaisse les quilles pour l’eau turquoise, les vapeurs chlorées et les mosaïques des piscines publiques. Dans ces espaces déserts, un peu avant les heures d’ouverture, il capture la quiétude et le silence qui préludent à l’arrivée des nageurs. Vous pouvez aussi suivre ses autres projets photographiques sur Instagram. 

Beer brand Brewdog has released a new drink, featuring both a recipe and packaging designed to raise awareness about the impact of climate change.

The beer is titled Make Earth Great Again, in reference to the slogan used by Donald Trump for his election campaign. It features packaging that shows the US president battling a polar bear, and a recipe that uses ingredients from areas affected by global warming.

Brewdog describes the product as a protest against the USA’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement earlier this year.

It calls it an attempt to “shake the world by the shoulders and remind leaders to prioritise climate-change issues”.

Brewdog – an independent craft brewery and pub chain based in Scotland – worked with London duo The Red Dress to draw up the beer’s label. It is based on a concept developed by Brewdog creative director Simon Shaw.

The illustration, which features a style reminiscent of comic strips, shows Trump as a weaponised robot. He appears to be taking fire at a polar bear – an animal often used in campaigns against climate change.

For the beer’s recipe, Brewdog picked ingredients that are directly connected to climate change. It is made using water sourced from melting Arctic ice caps, as well as Arctic cloudberries, which are now classified as an endangered species.

These were used to create a Saison pale ale – a brew that is fermented at a greater heat than any other style of beer – in a nod to global warming.

“This beer is our statement of intent, to hold a mirror up to all of the establishment figures that could and should do more on an issue that affects everyone on the planet,” said BrewDog co-founder, James Watt.

“We hope everyone who can make a positive impact on climate change at a legislative level takes note of what the beer represents.”

America was one of 195 signatories of the 2015 Paris Agreement – an accord listing actions countries would voluntarily take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Trump announced USA’s withdrawal from the treaty earlier this year.

Brewdog has sent a case of Make Earth Great Again to The White House, in the hope of turning the president’s attention back to the issue.

In addition, visitors to Brewdog bars in London and Ohio will be served the beer from a tap built inside an artificial, life-size polar bear’s head.

All proceeds made from the beer will be donated the projects of UK-based climate change charity 10:10, which tackles climate change at a community level, in the hope of encouraging government to change legislation.

Dezeen recently questioned whether designers can help prevent climate change as part of our Good Design for a Bad World talk series.

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Utah firm Imbue Design has designed various outdoor living spaces, including a protected courtyard and a wrap-around deck, for a family home in Park City.

The timber-clad Red Hawk Residence is built on a hillside, offering expansive views of the surrounding landscape.

Measuring 4,500 square feet (418 square metres), the project comprises a main house with two detached pods, and a smaller living space underneath the hilltop.

“Designed as a campus for work, living, and leisure, the home is dynamic in its daily function,” said the Imbue Design.

From the street, the house appears to be U-shaped and flanked by two garages with a fenced courtyard in between. The main residence is actually a rectangular structure located towards the back of the site.

An interior courtyard links the main house with nearby structures, and a deck wraps around the perimeter on its back side of the principal residence.

“This house is equipped for all seasons,” said Imbue Design. “When the wind blows occupants can nest in the central courtyard garden for protection.”

“When rain pours down the family can take refuge in a covered outdoor living room,” the firm continued. “And when snow falls and temperature drops, large retractable doors close, converting the outdoor space into a cozy all-season room.”

Upon entering the residence is a mudroom, which leads to an open-plan living area, dining room and kitchen. Beyond the kitchen is a den and laundry room, followed my a children’s room, bathroom, and master ensuite.

A spiral staircase off the den leads to a downstairs area, equipped with a playroom, bathroom, and ample storage space. A detached office and a guest bedroom are found near the home’s main living room, accessed by a covered patio.

“An office separated from the main house by the all-season room keeps work at work and leisure in living,” said the firm.

Utah’s mountain ranges and trails are dotted with wooden residences. Imbue Design has also completed a residence made with stone-filled gabions in the Western state, while other examples include a contemporary barn house by Lloyd Architects and a small cabin with a slanted roof by architecture students at the University of Colorado.

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Artists Gilbert and George are converting 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery “because the Tate never shows our work”.

The building off Brick Lane is being converted by SIRS – a design firm founded by Gilbert Prousch’s architect nephew – and planning permission has been granted by Tower Hamlets council.

George Prousch and George Passmore said they eschewed socialising with other artists, and were compelled to start their own art space after growing frustrated with how the Tate gallery separates early British and modern art in an interview with the Evening Standard Magazine.

A spokesperson from the Tate pointed out that the 2007 Gilbert and George retrospective hosted at the Tate Modern was the “largest exhibition ever to be mounted of their art at that time”.

The pair have acquired the 18th-century brewery-turned-workshop on Heneage Street through their foundation, the Gilbert and George Centre.

The site was formerly occupied by the artist Polly Hope, the wife and creative partner of Globe architect Theo Crosby, who lived and worked there until her death in 2013.

Gilbert and George have been based in the area for over 30 years, living and working in two almost adjacent townhouses on Fournier Street.

The old brewery would become the main base for the Gilbert and George Centre, a non-profit with the aim of providing a place for the local community to encounter contemporary art for free.

Plans submitted by SIRS suggest the centre will hold two rotating exhibitions a year, with 200 visitors expected each week.

The property falls within the Brick Lane conservation area but is not listed. The brewery building itself dates to circa 1830 and the artists wish to preserve its heritage.

Breweries were established in the area at that time in an attempt to wean the local “rookeries” – urban slums that gave shelter to criminal gangs and sex workers – off of gin and on to the slightly less ruinous tipple of beer.

Proposed refurbishments include removing retro-fitted dormer windows and re-instating slate roof tiles. Replacement brickwork will be done in London Stock brick to match.

The ground floor of the refurbished brewery building will be turned into an entrance lobby with a circulation area for the staircase and a lift, providing wheelchair access and a means of transporting the art between floors.

The first floor will be turned into an 83-square-metre exhibition space. A basement level is proposed to house storage areas and bathrooms, to be built in line with the existing building footprint.

A 1970s workshop will be demolished and rebuilt to meet current environmental standards as a second, 104-square-metre exhibition space.

Although they plan to widen the entrance gate to avoid traffic jams they want to retain the greenery filled courtyard, aside from cleaning and re-bedding the moss-covered cobblestones.

“You walk in there and it is like a magic garden and we [will] try to keep that, because it is extraordinary,” Prousch told the Evening Standard.

The planning documents state an intent to retain the birch tree growing by the entrance, and to plant new climbing plants once an overgrown and dilapidated boundary fence is replaced.

The artists’ sensitive approach to their plans for the conservation area likely served them well when it came to winning over the planning board.

The artist Tracey Emin was not so lucky when it came to her own hoped-for studio space near Spitalfield’s Market.

The David Chipperfield-designed extension to her existing studio would have demolished a locally listed 1920s block and replaced it with a five-storey structure.

The council rejected it on the grounds that it would negatively impact the Artillery Passage Conservation Area, prompting Emin to decide to move her studio to the Kentish coast instead.

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