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L’architecte Frank Gehry est à l’origine de l’un des lieux devenus incontournables dans le paysage culturel parisien. Depuis 2014, le bâtiment de la Fondation Louis Vuitton est érigée à la lisière du Bois de Boulogne et du Jardin d’Acclimatation.

Frank Gehry a imaginé une architecture géométrique complexe, à l’extérieur comme à l’intérieur. Les matériaux s’assemblent pour créer un ensemble unique. On découvre un navire aux douze voiles composées de 3600 panneaux de verres, perché sur un iceberg en béton fibré. Le lieu est devenu au fil des années un indispensable de la photographie d’architecture.

La Fondation Louis Vuitton est une source d’inspiration inépuisable qui donne du fil à retordre aux amoureux de design. Un labyrinthe géométrique, qui demande de faire preuve de patience et de ruse pour trouver le bon angle, le bon emplacement ou le petit détail, qui feront la différence en image.
Chacun dispose d’un regard différent sur cette structure, et peut donc être l’auteur de photographies uniques.

La Fondation Louis Vuitton a imaginé un concours photo sur Instagram. Il invite les photographes à explorer la structure sous tous les angles et à proposer leurs meilleurs clichés.
Vous avez jusqu’au 5 juin pour participer. Il suffit de partager une ou plusieurs photographies de la Fondation sur votre compte Instagram, en suivant et en identifiant la Fondation Louis Vuitton (@fondationLV), avec le hashtag #MyFLV. Les participants devront être en mesure de fournir des visuels haute définition (300 dpi). Un jury parrainé par Frank Gehry, se réunira pour sélectionner entre 5 et 10 photographies.

Les heureux gagnants verront leurs images partagées sur les réseaux sociaux de la Fondation et utilisées pour la prochaine campagne d’affichage de ce haut lieu culturel et artistique parisien. Ils auront la chance de se voir remettre un pass Collector qui leur donnera, pendant un an, un accès gratuit et privilégié à la Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Armez-vous de votre appareil photo, de votre regard aiguisé et laissez-vous prendre au jeu !

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Chicago-based tech startup Ovie has launched Smarterware, a line of food-storage products that alert users when the contents of their fridge are about to spoil.

The products are distinguished by their Smart Tags – glowing discs that signal if an expiry date is approaching through easily recognisable colour coding.

Green indicates a recently tagged food, yellow a food that should be eaten as a priority, and red a food that is likely no longer safe to eat.

Ovie‘s product line includes Tupperware-style containers, clips and “universal connectors” that can stick to any existing packaging. Each product has a slot for a Smart Tag.

While food-storage containers may appear to be too insignificant to warrant Internet of Things functionality, Ovie believes they represents an opportunity for consumers to reduce their food waste, thereby saving money and helping the environment.

The company points to statistics from the National Resources Defense Council, which show Americans waste about 40 per cent of their food, costing the average family approximately $2000 (£1450) a year.

“People don’t want to waste all of this food — it just happens,” said Ovie CEO and co-founder Ty Thompson. “We’re busy, we invest time and resources to make a great meal, and then we end up throwing away a large amount of food simply because we forget about it.”

“We wanted to help solve this problem by creating a product that would be simple to use and bring a more mindful approach to food storage.”

With ease of use in mind, the team designed Smarterware to work with the voice recognition of Amazon Alexa. This means a user only needs to speak the name of the food contained within Smarterware for Ovie to match it to relevant expiry information in its database.

Optional additional features come via a companion app, which sends notifications to a user’s phone when food is near spoiling, provides an overview of tagged items in their fridge and includes a recipe search with results filtered based on the ingredients they already have.

Ovie is the latest start-up to transform an analogue household product into an internet-connected device. Some existing examples include a smart fragrance diffuser, connected kettle and a toothbrush that tracks your oral hygiene habits.

Smarterware’s functionality is similar that of some existing smart fridges on the market, but with a more accessible price point of $60 (£44.90) for a starter set.

Smarterware launched last week on Kickstarter and is already halfway to its funding goal of $40,000 (£29,800). It is the first product from Ovie, which was founded in 2014.

The company exhibited a prototype earlier this year at the CES electronics fair, and is now about to begin pre-production. It hopes to begin shipping Smarterware in early 2019, and plans to integrate the product with other smart speakers in addition to Alexa in the future.

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A Swedish court has blocked construction of David Chipperfield‘s £100 million Nobel Center in Stockholm, stating that it would cause “significant damage” to the city’s historic waterfront.

Chipperfield’s firm was left reeling after Sweden’s Land and Environment Court ruled against plans to build cultural centre and permanent home for the Nobel Prize.

“Obviously this is not the verdict we were hoping for, and [we] are naturally disappointed,” said a statement from David Chipperfield Architects’ Berlin office.

The design, proposed for Stockholm’s Blasieholmen peninsula, is for a building featuring a golden facade of brass louvres and a glazed ground floor fronting a new city park.

But the court ruled that the scale of the building would significantly impact “the readability of Stockholm’s historical development as a port, shipping and trading city”.

City of Stockholm to appeal verdict

The ruling, on 22 May 2018, makes the future of the project uncertain. But, according to David Chipperfield Architects, the City of Stockholm will appeal the decision.

“We fully respect the open and transparent process negotiating the legal framework for the Nobel Center. Together with our client, we will seek to understand this in greater detail,” said David Chipperfield Architects.

“It is our understanding that the City of Stockholm will appeal the verdict and we hope that during this process the very public nature of the Nobel Center will become clearer, highlighting the necessity of creating places dedicated to dialogue and debate for the stability of our civic societies, especially in these times, and how it can enrich the cultural and social life of Stockholm.”

Plans already “significantly reduced”

David Chipperfield Architects won the competition for the project back in 2014. The aim was to create a building to host future Nobel Prize ceremonies in the fields of sciences, literature and economics.

Along with an auditorium for presenting the prizes, the building was designed to contain exhibition, education, conference and hospitality facilities, with a restaurant and bar placed on the top floor.

The initial scale of the cultural centre concerned some members of the public, leading to reports that the building would be scrapped. Practice founder David Chipperfield responded by accusing newspapers and trade publications of presenting minor issues with buildings as major setbacks.

Following consultations with local residents and stakeholders, the architects “significantly reduced” the size of the building.

A further revised version of the building, with small changes made to the building’s shape, was presented to the public in 2016 and subsequently approved by Stockholm’s City Planning Committee. This was followed by an approval from the Stockholm County Administrative Board in 2017.

David Chipperfield Architects ranked at number 42 on Dezeen Hot List 2017.

The firm recently completed the renovation and expansion of the Royal Academy in London, and is also working on plans to overhaul the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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