With spring right around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, hitting the mountains in search of snow might not be at the top of everyone’s To-Do list, yet some of the best and most consistent conditions of the year can be found as…
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More than just a hub for the film industry when it plays host to the annual Sundance Film Festival, Utah’s Park City offers charm and adventure year round. The surrounding Wasatch Mountains provide plenty…
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In conjunction with this year’s Sundance Film Festival, grooming and skincare brand Dove Men+Care hosted a pop-up barbershop, aptly dubbed the Park City Barbershop. There, we had an opportunity…
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Forget interstellar travel—there’s a transcendent resort currently taking bookings here on earth, and it’s called Amangiri. Located just over the Arizona border in Canyon Point, UT, the hotel sprawls amongst imposing bluffs with sweeping views of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. While testing out the 2013 Range Rover on…
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When a brand can embrace its heritage and simultaneously reinvent a product to improve both performance and luxury, we’re impressed. In the case of Land Rover’s 2013 Range Rover, we’re blown away. Anyone can appreciate the on-road luxury of this vehicle, but sadly few might really push its off-road…
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Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company’s new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie).
The campus, recently completed by architects WRNS Studio, is located in Lehi, Utah, and houses over 1000 Adobe employees.
Rapt Studio covered the walls with murals by street artist El Mac and tattoo and graffiti artist Mike Giant, as well as designs that reference computer graphics and technology.
Huge colour swatches from Pantone have been used on the end of rows of desks, while other walls feature examples of handwritten and digital typography.
The campus is equipped with a full-size basketball court, a climbing wall, pool and ping pong tables and a gym.
The playful interior is a reflection of Adobe’s creative business, explained David Galullo, design principal of Rapt Studio.
“We were brought in as an agent of change to showcase Adobe’s existing culture and magnify it through workplace design, drawing upon the company’s roots in creativity and innovation to fuel the space,” he said.
We’ve published several offices for technology companies on Dezeen, including a Microsoft building in Vienna kitted out with a slide and themed meeting rooms and a Google building in London with games rooms and music studios.
Last year Facebook announced that architect Frank Gehry is designing a new campus for the social media giant.
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Above: movie by Rapt Studio
Photographs are by Eric Laignel.
Here’s some more information from Rapt Studio:
Rapt Studio Unveils Design of Adobe’s New Utah Campus
Rapt Studio, an award-winning, multidisciplinary, design practice, announced the completion of its project for Adobe Systems Inc.’s new campus, located in Lehi, Utah. Housing up to 1,100 Adobe employees, the four-story, 280,000 square foot state-of-the-art building showcases Rapt Studio’s unique approach to integrated workspace design becoming an interface between a company’s brand and culture and its staff and customers.
In 2010, Adobe commissioned Rapt Studio to plan its interior design, capitalizing on the firm’s expertise in defining and designing environments around evolving cultures. Adobe challenged Rapt to create a workplace that would be both an extension and reflection of Adobe’s innovative brand and an engine for capturing its evolving culture.
“This is a benchmark project for us,” said David Galullo, CEO and design principal of Rapt Studio. “We were brought in as an agent of change to showcase Adobe’s existing culture and magnify it through workplace design, drawing upon the company’s roots in creativity and innovation to fuel the space. By aligning the interests of Adobe’s customers, employees and leadership, we were able to create a space that is the gold standard for integrated workplaces. Design should solve ongoing challenges, inspire unparalleled performance and connect people and places in a meaningful way.”
With a client base that includes The North Face, Salesforce.com, SAP and many more, Rapt’s holistic integrated practice delivers real impact by creating and connecting brands and environments to the people who use them. Rapt sought to match Adobe’s unique approach of integrating the art and science of creating digital experiences by designing an open, collaborative environment for the company’s employees, bringing brand expression outward in a public-facing way.
“Rapt’s design captures the magic of Adobe,” said Bradley Rencher, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Marketing Business, Adobe. “By making our innovative spirit manifest throughout the entire building, they delivered on the promise to connect Adobe’s brand to our employees, which in turn extends to our customers. This amazing building will not only help us attract top talent, but inspire that talent to excel here.”
Rapt filled the space with graphic reminders of the wonder that Adobe brings to the world, from images created by global artists using Adobe software to murals by street artist El Mac and graffiti artist Mike Giant in their signature styles. Adobe’s facility also features an employee café, an indoor basketball court, a rock-climbing wall, a game room named “The Bunker” and a fully equipped gym.
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Eight architecture students from the University of Colorado have designed and built a cabin in the Utah desert for a Navajo woman (+ slideshow).
Above: photograph is by Scott Zimmerman
Under the guidance of tutor Rick Sommerfeld, the students teamed up with charity DesignBuildBLUFF, who regularly work with students to provide housing for some of the 2.4 million Native Americans that live in dilapidated or overcrowded housing on tribal land.
The team were tasked with replacing the home of Lorraine Nakai, an avid collector of books, ornaments and other memorabilia. “When we met her, she had her collections piled and dispersed within her old house. She expressed a strong desire to be able to showcase her eclectic collections in her new home – they were truly a part of who she was,” explains the team.
Above: photograph is by David Hevesi
The students planned a long and narrow residence with one room spanning its entire length. To accommodate all of Nakai’s possessions, they tucked all bedroom and bathroom facilities behind a 15-metre long storage and display wall. “It transforms the interior of the house into a diverse exhibit,” say the designers.
Instead of a conventional bedroom, Nakai’s sleeping area is little more than a bed-shaped shelf in the wall, although a doorway and ladder lead up to a guest bedroom in the loft.
Kitchen surfaces are also incorporated into the wall, but a wood-burning stove is suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the room. “The fireplace, which is an integral part of the Navajo culture, stands proud as a singular object in this space,” says the team.
The exterior of the house is clad with timber and the students also added panels of recycled glass to protect the walls from the harsh desert sun and open winds.
Large windows along the east-facing elevation and a large doorway to the south allow for cross-ventilation during warmer seasons. Meanwhile, a projecting window on the north side of the building provides an indoor seating area with a view out across the landscape.
The houses’s position beside three other small buildings and a tree frames the outline of a courtyard, providing further protection from the wind.
The building was constructed in just 80 days for a budget of $25,000, the equivalent of just over £15,000.
See more stories about houses on Dezeen, including an Alpine holiday villa in France and seven woodland cabins in Portugal.
Photography is by James Anderson, apart from where otherwise stated.
Here’s a short description from the team:
DesignbuildBLUFF is a non-profit organization located in southeast Utah. The organization works with college students to help Navajos on the Indian reservation. Collaborating with DesignBuildBLUFF, during the summer of 2011 eight students from the University of Colorado at Denver designed the house, and during the fall semester moved to Utah for the build.
The house was built for an impoverished Navajo woman. With little-to-no construction experience, the team completed the house in 80 days with a budget of $25,000. The team’s final design is a true response to the client’s aspirations, existing site conditions, and extreme desert climate.
More importantly, the successful completion of this project hopes to inspire young architects and show them that with determination, persistence and the will to improve people’s living conditions, modern and thoughtful designs can be achieved even with little funding.
Students: James Anderson, David Hevesi, Zia Hooker, Courtney Hughes, Milen Milev, Cam Minor, Michelle Pollock and Josh Young.
Senior Instructor: Rick Sommerfeld
Above: site axonometric plan
Above: floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: long section
Above: north and east elevations
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An intelligent roof rack solution for switching between gear
Thomas Vollbrecht knows gear. The self-professed “fun hog” lives in Park City, Utah, where a community of avid outdoorsmen creates a demand for functional equipment. Vollbrecht first thought of SmartCrossBars—the flagship product from his company, Wasatch Powder Monkeys—while eating with his family at the B&B Cafe in Castle Rock,…
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Rapid prototyping and Kevlar construction underscore a line of handmade skis
Based out of Park City, Utah RAMP Sports (AKA “Riders Artists Musicians Project”) has just released a line of skis using next-generation rapid prototyping and vacuum molding to create their boards. Their modern equipment has allowed them to create unique molds and build prototypes in record time by making…
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Lessons in racing with Ford’s resurrected model
Ford invited me to spend the day at their Ford Racing High Performance Driving School at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. The “Boss Track Attack” was the featured program—an opportunity to push the new Mustang Boss 302 on a professional raceway was something hard to pass up.
Reintroduced in 2012, the Mustang Boss 302 is the company’s second fastest production Mustang (behind the lust-worthy Shelby GT500). Its namesake is an upgraded model produced in 1969 and 1970 to compete with the Camaro that featured a new engine dubbed the “Boss” along with a spoilers, window treatments and a rear deck. Likewise, today’s Boss 302 features performance-based upgrades including a Hi-Po 302 Ti-VCT V8 engine, a 6-speed manual transmission, Brembo front rotors and calipers, adjustable shocks, a roll cage and Safecraft 6-point belts as well as cosmetic upgrades.
The full day course—free to owners of the Boss 302—starts with some classroom time focusing on proper technique, theory and vehicle dynamics. A visit to the skid pad in a car that sits in a wheeled frame that partially lifts the body to simulate slip conditions provides instruction in how to control the car during an unintentional corner taken too fast. Properly schooled, we headed out to the course with a driving instructor to hone our skills. My group of four cars did lead and follow exercises with our instructor, followed by a ride with the instructor (individual track time with an instructor is typically included as well, though we ran out of time).
Miller Motorsports Park’s 4.5-mile, 24-turn circuit is the longest in North America, with a 3,500-foot straightaway on which the beastliest of engines can reach speeds of 200 MPH. It’s a blast to drive, and the views of a pristine stretch of the Rocky Mountains on the horizon add a scenic touch.
The Boss 302 also includes TracKey, an alternate key that enables track performance by adjusting 200 parameters for optimal performance. Using the TracKey all day we reaped the benefit of enhanced cam timing, engine braking, fuel control and a second set of power train control modules.
We also had the chance to drive the Boss 302 Laguna Seca edition, a further souped-up version with racing seats, Torsen limited-slip rear differential and a rigid cross-car x-brace among other features.
The Ford Racing High Performance Driving School offers a number of courses for Ford owners and enthusiasts, and is a great way to get to know your wheels. Visiting the track also gives one an excuse to fawn over the Larry Miller’s personal vintage racecar collection at the Larry H. Miller Total Performance Auto Museum.
Images by Evan Orensten and Jeremy Henrie
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