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Laura Zalenga fait partie de ces photographes qui aiment créer des images qui font ressentir quelque chose aux gens. Elle a rencontré Jozef Wright, un photographe de 22 ans et a passé une demi-heure à se promener dans la ville de Den Haag pour capturer des portraits de ce modèle charismatique. Une rencontre entre deux grands artistes qui donne naissance à une série inspirante.

« […] Je pense que ce que je veux vraiment, c’est simplement être libre d’être qui je suis et de créer sans avoir à me soucier de quoi que ce soit d’autre. Nous pouvons tous être différents tout en vivant notre vie et en évitant de nous discriminer ou de nous haïr », explique Jozef Wright.

A record 26 towers over 300 metres were completed in 2019 according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, while there was a drop in the number of 200-metre-tall buildings completed.

Of the 26 new supertall towers the 530-metre-high Tianjin CTF Finance Centre by SOM is the tallest. It is the seventh tallest skyscraper in the world, along with its sister tower the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre.

Records broken around the world

The record-number of supertall skyscrapers in 2019 beat the previous year’s 18 supertall towers, which was also a record at the time.

Following the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, the second tallest building completed in 2019 was the RMJM-designed Lakhta Centre in Russia. At 462 metres high it is currently the tallest building in Europe.

Algeria set the record for the tallest building on the African continent with the 265-metre-high Great Mosque of Algiers, or Djamaa el Djazaïr. Designed by China State Construction Engineering, the mosque also has the world’s tallest minaret.

Another notable supertall was the Exchange 106 Tower in Kuala Lumpar. The £7.6 billion project stalled during the Malaysia Development Berhad embezzlement scandal. At just over 445 metres it was the fourth tallest to complete last year.

Drop in skyscrapers attributed to lag from crash

Overall there was over a 13 per cent drop in the number of buildings completed that were over 200 metres.

In 2019 there were 126 of these skyscrapers built compared to 146 in 2018.

The CTBUH report suggested this was due to the lag from projects cancelled during the 2008 financial crash, and not a result of more recent global events.

China and India set skyscraper records 

China built the most skyscrapers over 200 metres in 2019, accounting for 45 per cent of the global total. It’s the fifth year in a row that China has built the tallest building as the country continues to be in the midst of a construction boom.

Shenzhen had the most new skyscrapers of any city, with 15 completions that accounted for almost 10 per cent of the world total alone. It’s the fourth time in a row the city has broken its own record.

Second to China was the US, which completed 14 skyscrapers over 200 metres. India shot up to third place with seven completions over 200 metres, having finished none in 2018.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) noted that there are several more under construction in the country that are yet to meet its completion criteria.

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If Louis Vuitton’s Pre-Fall 2020 collection gave a nod to Nicolas Ghesquière’s penchant for sci-fi, then the accompanying lookbook is a wholehearted embrace. The campaign was shot by repeat collaborator Collier Schorr, who is known for her blend of fantasy and realism.

Sci-fi and fantasy references are scattered throughout the list of stars, which includes Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, Cody Fern and Billie Lourd of American Horror Story, and Léa Seydoux, who recently appeared in blockbuster Hideo Kojima game Death Stranding. It also stars Chloë Grace Moretz, who figured in the 2018 remake of Suspiria, with Ghesquière having previously revealed his love of Dario Argento’s original. 

The campaign also features Gugu Mbatha-Raw – star of the standout Black Mirror episode San Junipero which was famously imbued with 80s references – and cult singer-songwriter Robyn, whose brand of synth pop feels suitably nostalgic.

The lookbook lovingly riffs on vintage book covers, each with its own retro font, rich clashes of colours and suitably kitsch titles like The Devil’s Mansion, Secret Sister, The Night Chaser, and Starbound. Ghesquière’s previous collections for Louis Vuitton have included references to sci-fi, such as SS18’s nod to Stranger Things, while here it seems The Exorcist played a central role.

“William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist, gave us the rights to print the cover of the book [to be used in the collection]. It started there,” Ghesquière told American Vogue. “It’s such a great symbol for me to use a fiction and incorporate it into an outfit. I thought, what’s the reverse? To use the fiction as the illustration of the fashion. It’s a kind of a mirror effect in this action of representing them all in these different characters.”

While the fashion industry has long had an on-off love affair with retro aesthetics, the crossover between sci-fi, gaming and fashion has become increasingly close-knit of late (coinciding with fashion’s embrace of Stranger Things stars like Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard).

Gucci’s AW17 campaign film, directed by Glen Luchford, borrowed cues from sci-fi B-movies – right down to its theme tune – a natural fit given Alessandro Michele’s contemporary interpretation of geek chic. For AW18, Kenzo threw its hat in the ring with a 30-minute sci-fi film about group of teens with supernatural powers.

Arguably none of these brands has brought the world of sci-fi, fantasy and gaming into the fashion world as convincingly – and lovingly – as Louis Vuitton though. The luxury fashion house famously collaborated with League of Legends for the 2019 World Championship, creating in-game apparel, clothing for a band launched at the tournament, and the all-important trophy carry case.

Ghesquière then posted a photo of himself with League of Legends champion Senna, revealing her new custom Louis Vuitton ‘skin’.

Rather than merely capitalising on cheap nostalgia or lifting aesthetics with little thought, Ghesquiere’s affinity for retrofuturism evidently runs deep – adding a welcome point of difference in the industry.

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There’s few among us that haven’t experienced feelings of insecurity, especially when it comes to our own work. So how do you deal with a crisis in confidence? Designer Kate Moross, Director Max Siedentopf and former head of 4Creative Alice Tonge share their thoughts

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Heatherwick Studio has released the latest images of its 1,000 Trees development in Shanghai, which comprises a series of giant planters that sit on staggered concrete columns. The practice is seeking a project architect to join its team in Mountain View, California.

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Heneghan Peng Architects has an opportunity for an architect to join its studio in Dublin, Ireland. The studio designed the Palestinian Museum on a hilltop site in Berzeit, which has a faceted stone facade and terraced landscaping that follows the site’s sloping topography.

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Retail project manager at Montalba Architects

Montalba Architects designed fitness brand Equinox an exercise club in Vancouver, using a material palette of blackened steel, white marble and bleached walnut, which was specifically chosen for the location due to its high number of the trees. The practice is hiring a retail project manager to join its firm in Santa Monica.

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