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It’s a wireless charger, but it’s better than a wireless charger. Cell by Ampere works as a dock as well as a UV sterilization chamber for your belongings. It’s a weirdly relevant combination of features but believe you me, Cell does a great job of being multifunctional but still being sensible. Every feature and use-case is well thought out, making it just the most conveniently handy accessory to have on you. Here, let me explain.

It’s no secret that your glossy, shiny, expensive smartphone is one of the most germ-filled things currently in your pocket. It’s also no secret that your phone is one of the most useful gadgets you’ve got on your person, so that’s really a conflict of interest, isn’t it? Cell by Ampere comes with a collapsible design that houses 2 wireless charging coils on the top, and UV-C LEDs on the base. Place your phone on top, and it fast-charges without wires, however, collapse the silicon rim around the sides and the base becomes a UV chamber, allowing you to sterilize your phone, watch, earphones, keys, or any EDC in mere minutes. Designed to be handy, Cell can be used as a UV wand too, allowing you to sterilize larger areas (like your door-handles, keyboards, food delivery parcels) by just waving the UV light over them. One could argue that being germ-free is just as much of a benefit as a fully charged smartphone, and the Cell’s 2-in-1 nature helps cover both those areas.

Things get really interesting when you realize that there’s more to Cell’s functionality. Its foldable silicone design can be half-expanded at an angle too, allowing your charger to effectively become a dock that works in landscape as well as portrait mode. Designed to allow you to use your phone while it’s getting juiced, the wireless charging surface comes with an anti-friction layer that holds your phone securely in place, and stops charging if your phone loses alignment. A USB-C output on the side of the Cell lets you even further connect a secondary charger for your smartwatch, and the collapsible design makes this entire world of functionality just as slim and portable as your phone itself. Plus, the cherry on the cake? Cell’s own wire and adapter are made from anti-microbial materials too, so your belongings are always clean… but don’t take my word for it! Just ask the guys at Business Insider, Digital Trends, and CES who called the Cell the best smartphone accessory of 2020!

Designer: Grant Shi of Ampere

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Cell – Expandable Wireless Charger that Cleans Your Phone

The Cell removes 99.9% of germs in 60 seconds with 4 UVC LEDs while powering your electronics with 2 powerful 15W wireless charging coils.

The average smartphone is 10X dirtier than a toilet seat.

Sanitize with UV Lights

Cell’s UV-C LED lights remove 99.9% of germs at the DNA level. Easily adjust the height based on what you’re cleaning.

Utilizes 4 powerful 273 nm LEDs and has a sanitizing area of 1L.

360° Sanitization Technology

Reflective surfaces and elevated platforms = 360° sterilization.

Award-winning Wireless Charger

Cell leverages their award-winning wireless charging technology — the same technology that Digital Trends and Business Insider dubbed the Best of 2020.

The designers have increased the size of our two coils to create a larger charging zone, allowing for easier placement of your device to wirelessly charge.

A second USB-C output port will wire-charge a second device. Works perfectly with their own MFi Apple Watch travel dongle.

Versatible Design. Compact & Portable.

You can use Cell in multiple ways thanks to the flexible silicone slides.

Horizontal for Netflix and Vertical for FaceTime Calls.

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Los Angles practice Studio Collective has renovated a mid-century building in the city designed by modernist architect Welton Becket in the 1960s to create a laid-back hotel.

Hotel June is a 250-room property in a white, 12-storey tower designed by Los Angeles architect Welton Becket in 1968.

Becket built a number of modernist buildings in the city, including the rounded Capitol Records Building, Koreatown’s Equitable Life Building skyscraper and the Los Angeles Music Center’s Ahmanson Theater near Frank Gehry’s metallic Walt Disney Concert Hall.

This building, which is in Los Angeles’ beachside community of Playa Del Rey on Lincoln Boulevard, was previously another hotel before it was overhauled by Studio Collective.

While the exterior was left intact, the interiors are refreshed with many built-in oak pieces, terrazzo floors and woven accents. Pink and green details add a pop of colour.

The interiors have “a sense of the new and dynamic through coastal influences and a true California spirit” said the studio. The hotel features a pared-back feeling with natural materials and subtle use of colour.

A lobby has cream terrazzo floors, a wood-clad ceiling and a bright painting on a wall designed by Brooklyn artist Alex Proba. Becket’s granddaughter, Alexandra Becket, also created wallpapers for other areas of the hotel.

Hotel rooms have white walls, woven carpeting and a mixture of modernist and more contemporary furniture pieces, including Hem sofas. Bright blue and grey are integrated into the suites for visual contrast.

“Hotel June is at once airy and cosy, blending clean lines and warm natural woods, earthy finishes, and custom furnishings,” the studio said.

White oak closets, custom platform beds and wooden daybeds are intended to evoke mid‐century designs, like those by Charles and Ray Eames and relate to the building’s history.

“Guestrooms and corridors play with colour-blocking geometries (that recall the work of local mid-century industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames),” Studio Collective said.

Bathrooms have black fixtures and showers are clad in small, square tiles in grey with dark grout.

In the hotel’s restaurant and sitting area, glass walls are shaded by slatted oak wood screens to help filter natural sunlight. A white, curved sofa and a large woven light fixture decorate the lounge, while the dining area has dark terrazzo floors and wood furniture.

Hotel June is complete with an outdoor swimming pool, patio, an outdoor bar and restaurant, a fire pit and indoor gym.

The property, which is called Hotel June to reflect new beginnings and California’s year-round summer sensibility, is the brainchild of Proper Hospitality co-founders Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen.

The Proper hotels in California, which are designed by Kelly Wearstler, include Santa Monica Proper with a similarly relaxed style and San Francisco Proper overflowing with colourful art and furniture.

Hotel June joins a number of hotels recently completed in Los Angeles, like Ace Hotel, the West Hollywood Edition Hotel by Ian Schrager and John Pawson, Arts District Firehouse Hotel and 1 Hotel West Hollywood.

Photography is by The Ingalls.

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American architect J Byron-H has created a series of colourful stools by pigmenting glass-fibre reinforced concrete and setting it in curved shapes.

J Byron-H infused concrete reinforced by glass fibre, also known as GFRC, with various pigments to create the Concrete Stools in hues of blue, yellow, pink and purple.

He then placed the material, which he describes as “pigmented slurry”, into a flat rubber mould where it was left to dry slightly before being curved over woodwork to create the U-shaped seating.

J Byron-H chose to use GFRC in order to create a juxtaposition between shape and weight, and the material. The reinforced material enabled the architect to create slim pieces that are more lightweight than concrete.

“Cast and finished by hand, the works use a pigment infused, glass-fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC) which appears deceptively monolithic,” he said. “They present a play of materiality by appearing at once smooth and rough, heavy and buoyant.”

In addition to this, the pigment is intended to give the concrete a more playful look than it is usually associated with.

“The combination of a raw, permanent material with a lightweight colourful treatment and anthropomorphic scalloped form re-inserts a sense of playfulness and control into a material often associated with weight, ruins or architectural Brutalism,” he added.

Other furniture collections have similarly played with concrete, like Bower Studios’ Concrete Melt Chair, which has a pale concrete top draped over a metallic base, and a series of squashed-looking concrete benches by Thomas Musca and Duyi Han.

Concrete Stools, which J Byron-H completed in 2018, includes three different size seats: a 55-pound bench, a 40-pound high stool and a 34-pound low stool.

Each can be made in the limited range of colour, although the finishes vary on each because the pieces are handmade.

J Byron-H, also know as Jerome Byron, is an architect who received his masters from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2014, and then worked in offices of Francis Kéré, Barkow Leibinger and Tacklebox NY. He founded his studio in Los Angeles in 2017.

His other projects include creating the decluttered nail salon Colour Camp in Los Angeles with industrial-style surfaces and pops of blue.

Photography is by Samuel McGuire.

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There’s nothing more disruptive than a product that challenges the presence of multiple markets. Meet the Paysage, a conceptual computing device that targets both laptop and desktop users with a unique hybrid design. Its design features a two-part construction – the main CPU, which sits within the keyboard-unit (like most laptops), and the screen, which rather than resting on the top of the keyboard, comes with a flexible construction that wraps around the top and the bottom, sandwiching the keyboard in between. The image above should fairly help illustrate what I mean.

This unique build is what sets the Paysage apart. Flip open half the screen and you’ve got yourself a standard laptop/netbook, equipped with a keyboard, trackpad, four USB-C ports, an Aux input, and its dedicated speakers. However, things get interesting when you realize that the entire keyboard unit detaches from the screen completely, leaving you with a much larger flexible display that you can open out and mount on a tabletop stand, giving you a desktop experience complete with a massive elevated screen and an external keyboard.

The Paysage was originally envisioned nearly a decade ago (and subsequently covered on YD too), and it’s only with recent advancements in flexible OLED displays that the Paysage seems more real. In its latest iteration, designer Kevin Depape details out the device further, with magnetic fixtures, connecting cables, and an overall design that seems like something Microsoft could pull off if they tried. A Surface DeskBook perhaps?!

Designer: Kevin Depape

Le studio d’architecture ADDP a conçu deux de gratte-ciel de 56 étages à Singapour qui seront construits en utilisant la construction volumétrique préfabriquée, ce qui en ferait les plus hauts bâtiments préfabriqués du monde.
Appelées Avenue South Residences, ces deux tours d’habitation seront construites dans un quartier résidentiel de Singapour.
« Le site se compose de deux immeubles de grande hauteur avec en toile de fond des appartements Art déco de quatre étages et une allée de grands arbres de pluie », a déclaré Markus Cheng Thuan Hann, partenaire associé d’ADDP Architects.