Hasta La Ideas

Organisés conjointement par Fubiz et l’agence TETRO, les Fubiz Talks vous donnent rendez-vous le 4 octobre prochain, dans la prestigieuse enceinte de la Salle Pleyel. Pour cette troisième édition, l’événement donne une nouvelle fois la parole aux artistes, créateurs renommés ou pépites en devenir. Parmi eux, le réalisateur Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Véritable autodidacte, Jean-Pierre Jeunet commence sa carrière en réalisant des films publicitaires et des vidéo clips. Sa rencontre avec le dessinateur Marc Caro va progressivement le propulser sur le devant de la scène. Ensemble, ils fabriquent un univers cinématographique unique, à la croisée des chemins entre film fantastique et fable poétique.

Delicatessen

Cet univers singulier marque leurs premiers courts métrages, puis c’est la consécration en 1991 avec leur premier long métrage : Delicatessen. Lauréat de quatre césars, le film propulse Jean-Pierre Jeunet au rang de réalisateur majeur du cinéma français. En 1995 il donne naissance à un autre film culte : La Cité des Enfants Perdus.

La Cité des enfants perdus

La Cité des enfants perdus

Vient ensuite la grande aventure américaine où il est appelé pour réaliser le quatrième épisode de la saga Alien. En 2000, Jean-Pierre Jeunet revient en France et signe Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. Avec ce film le cinéaste enregistre un succès mondial sans précédent.

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain

Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, sera sur la grande scène de la Salle Pleyel pour nous faire voyager au coeur de sa démarche créative. Pour prendre part à la troisième édition des Fubiz Talks, rendez-vous sur les billetteries de la Salle Pleyel, de la Fnac et Digitick.

Palestinian-based studio AAU Anastas has designed a flat stone-vaulted extension to a 12th century monastery built by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, to house a gift shop.

AAU Anastas designed the gift shop to be a contemporary structure that respected the historical context of the St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey in Abu Ghosh – one of Jerusalem’s most significant examples of witness of Crusader architecture.

The Crusaders in Palestine were known for using a combination of different architectural elements that they brought from abroad and local elements.

Working with local stone masons, the studio adapted existing construction principles using novel design and new fabrication methods.

Functioning as an extension to the existing gift shop, the structure connects with the monastery building on one facade.

Its grid-like ceiling is composed of 169 interlocking wedge-shaped stones that rest on massive stone columns. The system for interweaving the stones is inspired by the invention of French engineer Joseph Abeille (1673-1756), who patented a special system that allowed the building of flat vaults in 1699.

“The new shop was conceived as a stone structure,” said AAU Anastas.

“Just like most of the architecture of the monastery – including the church’s crypt – the soundness of the structure relies on a delicate work of stereotomy.”

“The techniques used for the construction rely on novel design and simulation techniques of the structure’s structural behavior, as well as on fabrication and mounting methods allowing for the assembly of precise topological interlocking,” continued the studio.

The studio said that the woven stones are the first reinforced flat stone vault of such a scale.

The new shop’s square plan is organised around a sequence of columns that line the structure’s three facades. Inside, the massive stone columns support display shelving that span across the shop’s windows.

AAU Anastas are known for creating experimental stone structures. Previously the firm has made a latticed canopy in Jericho made from three hundred individually cut and mutually supporting stone pieces, and a stone tower made from curvy stone blocks cut by robots.

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Susie MacMurray est une artiste britannique dont le travail s’étend dans plusieurs domaines : dessin, sculpture et installations architecturales. Auparavant musicienne, elle se reconvertit dans le domaine artistique et obtient une maîtrise dans le domaine des beaux-arts en 2001. Alliant la matière, la forme et le contexte dans ses travaux avec des matériaux d’apparence simples, l’artiste se définit comme une véritable alchimiste.

Pictures : This is Colossal

Travaillant avec des matériaux divers et variés, l’artiste a notamment réalisé des sculptures inspirées par les vêtements, souhaitant apporter une réflexion sur la perception de la féminité : Une robe en cottes de maille en cuivre, une autre créée à partir de gants ménagers, ou encore une autre créée à partir de 15.000 ballons de baudruche : Son talent n’est plus à prouver!
La robe en pièces de viande portée par Lady Gaga n’a qu’a bien se tenir…

Palestinian-based studio AAU Anastas has designed a flat stone-vaulted extension to a 12th century monastery built by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, to house a gift shop.

AAU Anastas designed the gift shop to be a contemporary structure that respected the historical context of the St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey in Abu Ghosh – one of Jerusalem’s most significant examples of witness of Crusader architecture.

The Crusaders in Palestine were known for using a combination of different architectural elements that they brought from abroad and local elements.

Working with local stone masons, the studio adapted existing construction principles using novel design and new fabrication methods.

Functioning as an extension to the existing gift shop, the structure connects with the monastery building on one facade.

Its grid-like ceiling is composed of 169 interlocking wedge-shaped stones that rest on massive stone columns. The system for interweaving the stones is inspired by the invention of French engineer Joseph Abeille (1673-1756), who patented a special system that allowed the building of flat vaults in 1699.

“The new shop was conceived as a stone structure,” said AAU Anastas.

“Just like most of the architecture of the monastery – including the church’s crypt – the soundness of the structure relies on a delicate work of stereotomy.”

“The techniques used for the construction rely on novel design and simulation techniques of the structure’s structural behavior, as well as on fabrication and mounting methods allowing for the assembly of precise topological interlocking,” continued the studio.

The studio said that the woven stones are the first reinforced flat stone vault of such a scale.

The new shop’s square plan is organised around a sequence of columns that line the structure’s three facades. Inside, the massive stone columns support display shelving that span across the shop’s windows.

AAU Anastas are known for creating experimental stone structures. Previously the firm has made a latticed canopy in Jericho made from three hundred individually cut and mutually supporting stone pieces, and a stone tower made from curvy stone blocks cut by robots.

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Foster + Partners has won top prize at the Archiboo Web Awards 2018, which celebrate architects and architecture companies with outstanding websites.

The London-based studio led by architect Norman Foster picked up the award for best overall website, described by judges as “a tour de force in making so much content accessible and easily navigable”.

“This is a very polished and high quality website, as it should be, and communicates perfectly to the practice’s broad international audience,” said the judges.

The website, designed by digital studio AKQA, was also praised for its integration of multimedia.

“Technology is used in a restrained manner that reflects the firm’s design ethos and the projects and information are beautifully presented with a fantastic level of detail,” added one judge.

Foster + Partners also picked up the award for best use of video.

Dezeen is media partner for the Archiboo Web Awards, a London-based organisation set up by former BD editor Amanda Baillieu to spotlight architecture companies that are using the internet in a creative way.

The programme includes 10 awards, which cover visual design, user experience, use of technology and social media.

The award for best homepage was awarded to US firm Trahan Architects, for a design that judges said offered “a perfect balance of beauty, intrigue, information and functionality”. The studio also won best use of digital imagery, thanks to renderings by The Boundary.

Meanwhile the prize for best visual design went to Heatherwick Studio for a new website, described as having a “distinctive and confident aesthetic which communicates a message that is recognisably relaxed and original but still good on detail”.

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs was one of the judges for the prize for best written content. The prize was given to Jamie Fobert Architects, for a website with a “no nonsense approach with crisp, honest writing”.

“The descriptions of the work have a nice, story-telling quality without too much jargon or too many warm words that lack real meaning,” said one judge.

Dutch firm UNStudio picked up two awards, for best offline experience and best use of social media. One judge said the studio’s “use of social media channels to convey office culture as part of the online identity of the practice is also very effective”.

The other winners were Uniform, for best use of innovation, and Bennetts Associates, for best mobile experience.

The Archiboo Web Awards winners were announced in a ceremony during London Design Festival last week.

The programme is now in its third year. Last year, the prize for best website was awarded to London studio David Miller Architects.

In a column for Dezeen, Amanda Baillieu said she set up the awards to show that the internet offers a world of opportunities for architects.

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