Canadian duo Chromeo (aka David “Dave 1” Macklovitch and Patrick “P-Thugg” Gemayel) has teamed up with The-Dream (aka Terius Nash) for “Bedroom Calling.” Unmistakably Chromeo, the track is three minutes of ’80s-influenced electro-pop that’s heavy on……
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American studio Schaum/Shieh has used steel, concrete and wood to create a live music venue in Houston, Texas, that can handle large crowds and rowdy performances.
White Oak Music Hall hosts live concerts for a range of music styles, including country, rock and jazz. The campus – which consists of a main concert hall, a pavilion and a large lawn – occupies an irregularly shaped, seven-acre (2.8-hectare) site that borders the Little White Oak Bayou.
“Pieced together from one large main site and a collection of smaller lots, the project is a unique example of urban infill, feathered into the fabric of the neighbourhood on both sides of the bayou floodway and offering views of the Houston skyline,” said Schaum/Shieh, a studio with offices in Houston and New York.
Located in the Near Northside neighbourhood, about two miles (three kilometres) from Downtown Houston, the music campus is situated near a light rail station and a network of hiking and cycling trails.
“In a city defined by automobiles, White Oak Music Hall builds upon and encourages the use of public transit and bicycles,” the team said.
The concert hall anchors the campus. Roughly rectangular in plan, the two-storey building is clad in lap siding made of fibre cement boards. On the south elevation, the team added cedar slats placed at an angle, which visually work in tandem with the building’s sloped roofs.
For the front entrance, the team carved away a portion of the lower level, forming a sheltered area with a ticket booth and a blanket of golden lights overhead. Large neon signage wraps the northwest corner of the building, announcing the entrance.
On the south side, open-air boxes serve as balconies overlooking the adjoining lawn, where outdoor performances are held. The building also has a rooftop deck with a canopy structure.
Inside, the heart of the building is a 1,200-seat auditorium on the lower level. Cedar slats on the walls and ceiling are “spaced to acoustically tune the room and provide pockets for ambient lighting”.
The second floor houses a smaller, more intimate hall that can accommodate 200 people. Its elevated position enables views of the city.
“Windows behind the stage allow audience members to peek at the skyline while watching a show,” the team said.
Circulation areas are painted bright colours and demarcate different zones. Throughout the building, the architects used steel, concrete and wood – a material palette they describe as “matter of fact and elemental”.
“Like the industrial buildings that have traditionally housed rock-and-roll venues, the building is built for vigorous use,” the architects said. “The materials were selected and detailed to sturdily meet and wear with the rough handling expected.”
Sitting on the opposite side of the lawn is the Raven Tower Pavilion, which will serve as a bar and small performance space when it opens this spring. The adaptive reuse project entailed the conversion of a metal-framed warehouse with a steel tower that rises high above the roof.
“Large arched openings were surgically sliced into the steel building to open it to natural ventilation and views,” the team said.
The White Oak Lawn has a stage and can hold up to 3,800 people. The grassy area was sculpted in a way that frames views of the city skyline and the landscape around the bayou.
“Prevailing winds keep concertgoers cool even on hot summer nights,” the studio said.
Last autumn, Houston officials unveiled a 20-year plan to overhaul the downtown district, which was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. The city was heavily flooded, which a disaster expert blamed on the city’s poor urban planning.
Photography is by Peter Molick.
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After David Adjaye’s African American history museum was named Design of the Year, we’ve trawled our Pinterest boards to find more museums with impressive interiors, from a subterranean Roman temple to a restored textile factory.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA by David Adjaye
The interior of Adjaye’s museum is crafted from pre-cast concrete, timber and glass. Galleries feature high ceilings and concrete columns, which give an industrial feel to the space.
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London Mithraeum, UK by Local Projects
A subterranean Roman temple was restored to create this museum below Bloomberg’s headquarters in London, by the same studio that designed the exhibition for the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.
Find out more about the London Mithraeum ›
Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE by Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi features 8,000 metal stars, which overlap to form the geometric pattern of the dome oveheard. Sunlight filters through, throwing flecks of illumination onto the white blocks of the museum’s interior.
Find out more about the Louvre Abu Dhabi ›
Eight Tenths Garden, China by Wutopia Lab
Shanghai’s cylindrical arts museum, inside cultural centre Eight Tenths Gardens, features a double-height gallery space. Enamelware objects, including basins and cups, are arranged around the outskirts of the interior.
Find out more about Eight Tenths Gardens ›
Remai Modern Art Museum, Canada by KPMB Architects
The interior space of the Remai Modern Art Museum in Sakatoon, Canada, is arranged around a light-filled atrium with two huge openings, allowing access from both the road and river.
Find out more about the Remai Modern Art Museum ›
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, South Africa by Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick created South Africa’s biggest art museum by hollowing out the inside of a historic grain silo building. The interior incorporates a network of 80 gallery spaces, circling around a 27-metre-high grain-shaped atrium.
Find out more about Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa ›
Musee Yves Saint Laurent, Morrocco by Studio Kos
This museum’s entrance hall has smooth white walls that are designed to evoke the velvet lining of an Yves Saint Laurent couture jacket. The space also features monochromatic stained glass windows, which are inspired by traditional Moroccan-style stained glass.
Find out more about Musee Yves Saint Laurent ›
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA by Bruner/Cott & Associates
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is situated within a restored old textile manufacturing factory. Cambridge-based Bruner/Cott & Associates kept the original rugged raw brickwork during the restoration project, to ensure the interior reflects the structure’s history.
Find out more about the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ›
Guardian Art Centre, China by Ole Scheeren
The 1,700-square-metre gallery space of Ole Scheeren’s new Guardian Art Centre incorporates moveable partitions and adaptable ceiling systems into its interior.
Find out more about the Guardian Art Centre ›
Skissernas Museum, Sweden by Elding Oscarson
The interior of the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, features clerestory windows and a reflective ceiling made from a hovering plate of mirrored aluminium. The aim was to create the feeling of an open-air courtyard.
Find out more about Skissernas Museum ›
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A 130-metre-tall spherical concert hall that could rise taller than St Paul’s Cathedral, is being planned near the Olympic park in Stratford, east London.
Dubbed The Golf Ball, early designs for the distinctively shaped 20,000-capacity arena seen by the Guardian, are being prepared for the sports and entertainment firm Madison Square Garden Company (MSG).
MSG has allegedly employed London-based architect Populous, the designer of the nearby Olympic Stadium, to draw up plans for the arena.
The venue would rival London’s O2 arena, the city’s current largest indoor venue, which was also designed by the stadium and venue specialist. The architect is also currently designing Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium in London and a new arena in Bristol.
MSG currently operates Madison Square Garden and the Radio City Music Hall in New York as well as the Forum in Inglewood, California, however, this would be the company’s first venue outside of the USA.
The venue would reportedly stand 130 metres tall, making it 19 metres taller than St Paul’s Cathedral, and more than double the height of the nearby stadium.
Early designs show seating arranged in a 360-degree bowl within the globe-shaped venue. The sphere would be supported on a tripod of pylons that would allow pedestrians to pass underneath it.
Reports suggest that the venue is being planned for an empty site alongside the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre.
The site has been earmarked by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) – the planning authority responsible for the Olympic park area – for “large-scale town centre use with supporting elements”.
A plan for a snow dome, that was backed by former London mayor Boris Johnson, for the site was abandoned in 2016.
At present it is unknown how likely the building is to be realised as designs have not yet been to be submitted to the LLDC.
Westfield shopping centre was completed in 2011 in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Since the games, the site has been redeveloped, with the Queen Elizabeth Park opening in 2014.
Development in the area surrounding the park is continuing with the so-called Olympicopolis masterplan set to include outposts for the V&A, Sadler’s Wells Theatre and University College London (UCL). The design of UCL’s proposed Olympic Park campus will be designed by architecture firms Stanton Williams and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
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Dezeen promotion: with open-plan offices ever popular, furniture brand Vank is offering a range of soundproof pods that can be slotted into almost any workspace.
The Vank Wall Boxes are designed for hosting small meetings or video conferences, taking phone calls, or simply as an escape from the noise of a busy workspace.
Each box, or “pod”, is upholstered with a diamond-patterned, sound-absorbing fabric, which covers the walls and floor, offering protection up to 45 decibels. Doors are made from high-quality insulated glass, helping to further soundproof the cubicles.
“Noise levels in office spaces where conceptual work is carried out should not exceed 55 decibels, and spaces without proper acoustics can even reach 65 decibels in open office spaces. At this level, fatigue and loss of work efficiency occurs,” said the company.
“Vank’s wall boxes provide high isolation from such surroundings, and thus can serve as a space for temporary silencing, but also for small meetings or video conferences,” it continued.
“The interior is friendly, and the upholstery provides a general sense of comfort.”
The boxes are available in four sizes: one-person, two/three-person, four-person and six-person. Each one is equipped with LED lighting, a ventilation system controlled by a motion sensor, and a media port that can be adapted for various needs.
One-person pods are equipped with a laptop shelf, making them as space-efficient as possible. The larger pods are big enough to accomodate furniture, so can be fitted out with meeting room tables.
The pods can also be customised – users can choose how many of the walls they want glazed, and can choose from a variety of fabric colours, including yellow, orange, green, blue and grey.
Vank was founded by a team of architects, designers and engineers. Based in Europe, the company offers a range of furniture for homes, offices and commercial spaces, from restaurants to hotels.
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Listen up, audiophiles – D1 speakers are a must-have for your hipster kit! These handcrafted, made-to-order bad boys are minimalistic yet refined. They’re sculpted into a seamless round cabinet in which the driver is perfectly nested. Basically, they’re made to rest next to your record player but they’ll do fine just about anywhere.
But who cares what they look like when the secret weapon is inside! The D1 sports a unique anti-resonance enclosure unlike any other. It’s vacuum cast into a single solid piece, with uber-thick walls making it structurally rigid to majorly reduce resonance. The result is distortion-free, hifi sound. Better yet, it’s also crafted from titanium so it’s quite light and ideal for audio performance, especially in the midrange. They pack the perfect amount of punch for everything from your Arcade Fire to your Kurt Vile!
Designer: Davide Pietrasanta
In just its sixth year, the K-Design Award does something unusually brilliant in the fact that it sets its sight on design thinking, rather than just the final output… rewarding creativity first and then execution. In doing so, it sets the correct precedent by encouraging outstanding ideas that will live on longer than the products that embody them.
Having been initiated in the year 2012, the K-Design looked to reward good design that was backed by a strong concept. Past winners of the K-Design award include everybody from independent designers, to students, to even the likes of large studios and companies like Dell, Elago, LG, etc… and this year you could join those ranks too! The K-Design Award, now in its 2018 leg, is accepting entries (within the Industrial Design and Space Design categories) from all over the world, to create a map of winning ideas that will disrupt 2018 and the years ahead. Don’t believe me? Scroll down to take a look at our favorite winners from the year gone by!
The winners below showcase a beautiful blend of progressive thinking and an execution that makes you fall in love with the product as well as the idea behind it.
Think your project is a winning combination of concept and execution? Enlist your work for the K-Design Award 2018 here!!
YD Handpicks: 5 Inspirational designs from the K-Design Award 2017
01. Heng Balance Lamp by Zanwen Li
The Heng-Balance Lamp remains a hot favorite for the way it breaks the concept of what a switch should look like. The Heng turns the methodical switching on and off of a lamp into a game, paving the way for more products to turn mundane experiences into incredible, interactive design!
02. No-1 Series by Park Jungju
The very antithesis of DIY, the No-1 Series explores an aesthetic where functionality is derived from something that’s designed to feel incomplete in assembly. Designed to look like the plastic assembly kits you’d get with DIY toys, the No-1 Series features an entire range of furniture with its unusual yet functional aesthetic. What’s worth noticing is also the fact that even though each product features multiple parts, they all are united by the “runners” that make them look like single-piece injection-molded products.
03. 2in1 Funnel by Zhang Jiang and Zanwen Li
The effective combination of a funnel and container, this fun-tainer is a dream product to have around. Its silicone shape is easy to work with as well as clean, while the vibrant color adds a dash of freshness to your kitchen. Besides, in both forms, you’re only using the inner surface of the funnel, making sure you always know which surface to keep spotlessly clean!
04. Airblock by Makeblock Co. Ltd.
Drone flying may seem difficult, but Airblocks makes drone building easy! Just by simply allowing you to plug different propeller units to a hub, the Airblocks gives you not just the joy of flight, but of also being able to orchestrate the entire project. What’s more, the modules can even be plugged into a hovercraft base, giving you two toys in one package! The Airblocks showcase innovation from concept, to execution, to even material selection. The blocks come made from expanded polystyrene that are not only lightweight but also impact resistant, letting you go wild with your creations!
05. Smart Net by Ju Young Kim & Chang Choi
The Smart Net is quite fascinating. Not only do its pillars contain infrared sensors, tracking ball movements, its net also contains an optical fiber weave that is capable of displaying scores to the players every time a point is made. Whether net displays the score in the correct orientation to both players (at any time one player sees an inverted image) seems like something of a tiny hurdle, but the idea of bringing interactivity to sports equipment is definitely something we’re going to see more of in the future! Just imagine… Football with goalposts that light up when you score!
La série The Woman Who Never Existed de la photographe norvégienne Anja Niemi s’inspire d’une citation de l’actrice italienne Eleonora Duse: « Hors de la scène, je n’existe pas ». Le travail de Niemi explore la persona des acteurs et des actrices qui quittent la scène, capturant le moment fragile et émouvant où une performance se termine et la réalité commence.
Anja Niemi est exclusivement représentée par The Little Black Gallery.
Toutes les images de The Woman Who Never Existed, 2016 © Anja Niemi/ avec des remerciements à The Little Black Gallery.
La jeune pâtissière Adi Klinghofer se fait remarquer sur Instagram avec ses gateaux d’anniversaire absolument renversants. En forme de chiffres ou de lettres, ses compositions délicates et appétissantes sont impressionnantes de détails. Bien au delà des bougies en forme de chiffres qui mettront de la cire partout sur votre gateau, ces patisseries très raffinées sont fascinantes à regarder, presque trop pour que l’on ose en couper une part.
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