Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie announce new practice name


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architects Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie have announced the name of their new practice: Alsop Lawrie Ltd, trading as ALL Design.

The announcement follows their decision to leave architects RMJM and set up a new design studio in London, as reported on Dezeen Wire last week.

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Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie

Here are some more details from ALL Design:


Alsop and Lawrie announce new practice name

Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie are pleased to announce that the name of their new architecture and design practice is Alsop Lawrie Ltd, trading as ALL Design.

ALL Design will be based at Elcho Street in Battersea, London, from where the team will work on projects across the world. Up to fifteen staff are transferring over from WA at RMJM with additional external appointments bringing staff numbers to around twenty.

Scott Lawrie (left) and Will Alsop (right)

ALL Design has a number of projects under development in the Far East, Europe and the UK. At the same time ALL will be working in partnership with RMJM to carry through a number of on-going projects in London, China and Canada.

Will Alsop said: “The new studio will encompass a much more diverse range of activities including a public face at Testbed. We feel this is an appropriate new context for architects where they can embrace consultation, experimentation and fun.”

Scott Lawrie said: “We are very happy to work on anything from a tea spoon to a city, sometimes in collaboration with designers from other fields. The focus of the practice will be to ensure that forward thinking innovative design is married at all times to commercial common sense and delivery. The structure of the new office and its partners has been carefully considered to achieve this.”

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Abercrombie & Fitch Offers to Pay Jersey Shore‘s “The Situation” Not to Wear Its Clothes

An actual request or simply a publicity stunt? Either way, retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is getting some nice attention this week after a statement they released asking Michael Sorrentino, one of the stars of the reality television seriesThe Jersey Shore and who is most often referred to by his nickname, “The Situation”, to stop wearing clothing made by their company. And not only do they want him to stop, but they’ve offered to pay him not to wear their clothing. According to the Wall Street Journal, after a staffer saw an episode of the hit MTV show wherein Serrentino was wearing a visibly-branded A&F shirt, CEO Mike Jeffries decided this might damage “the aspirational nature of the brand” and cooked up the scheme to try to pay to end it. Though Jeffries also added, “We’re having a lot of fun with it,” explaining that the whole thing might not be entirely serious. Here’s the company’s full statement:

We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image. We understand that the show is for entertainment purposes, but believe this association is contrary to the aspirational nature of our brand, and may be distressing to many of our fans. We have therefore offered a substantial payment to Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino and the producers of MTV’s The Jersey Shore to have the character wear an alternate brand. We have also extended this offer to other members of the cast, and are urgently waiting a response.

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Bon Iver – Holocene

Voici en exclusivité sur Fubiz le nouveau clip de l’artiste Bon Iver sur le titre “Holocene” extrait de son dernier album. Une superbe réalisation de Nabil avec ce film tourné en Islande, et produit par NE Direction. La vidéo est à découvrir en HD dans la suite de l’article.



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It’s Gonna Be A Red Hot Fall!

imageWhen one thinks of Autumn, visions of burnished oranges, brick reds and shades of brown and camel dance through the head.


And while these staple hues are still welcome for the cooler months ahead, there’s a new color in town and it’s making a bold impression! Bright, saturated hues of cherry and true red are popping up all over the Fall season runways.


From cozy overcoats to patent pumps, from glossy lips to shiny nail lacquers … there’s no question that red hot it the new hot hue!


Get your wardrobe ready for Fall and click on the slideshow to see our picks for fave red pieces!

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Black Eyed and Bruised Ribbed, Shepard Fairey Offers Up His View of the Recent Attack Against Him in Copenhagen

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This past weekend, as you may have heard, artist Shepard Fairey was physically assaulted shortly after the opening of an exhibition of his work in Copenhagen. He and his Obey colleague, Romeo Trinidad, were reportedly jumped while exiting a nightclub, attacked by a number of men who screamed at Fairey to “Go back to America” and that he was “Obama illuminati.” By the time they’d run off, the artist had a bruised rib and a black eye. All of this followed something of a giant wall-scaling mural Fairey had painted in the city, near where a famous youth house once stood, which some local residents had seen as an encroachment by the government, despite the painting’s call for peace. After lots of press attention, Fairey himself has posted on his blog about the contentious debate over the mural and the hostilities that popped up around it (it was almost immediately defaced), why the media often seemed to slightly side more with his attackers (case in point, the Miami New Times‘ headline, “Did Shepard Fairey Deserve to Get Beat Up by Danish Anarchists?“), and offering up his view of the fight from inside the middle of the fray. Here’s a bit:

I unthreateningly asked him why he was saying that stuff to me, and what his problem with me was. He just said “YOU HAVE THE PROBLEM” and did the chest shove every visitor to a playground has experienced. Then as he raised his fists I was clocked from the side by someone I never saw. The next thing you know I’m being attacked by at least 3 guys and Romeo jumps in to help me. It was crowded, and people tried to pull everyone apart which somehow left Romeo being ganged up on by a couple guys, so I had to jump back in to help him, while I was being punched and kneed by people behind me.

They quickly ran off , and it seemed that things were over except for my wife freaking out across the parking lot. I was wrong, somehow the attackers had snuck back through the crowd and I caught a punch in the eye out of nowhere as I turned to see Romeo pushed against a wall being punched and kneed in the back. I tried to help him again, and after brief retaliation the attackers fled again.

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Médiathèque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Criss-crossing metal beams surround a first floor reading room at a multimedia library near Paris.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Designed by French architect Philippe Gazeau, the Médiathèque Romain Rolland is situated within a residential neighbourhood and overlooks a community park.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Offset behind the white lattice exterior and glazing is a second layer of criss-crossing beams, finished in black, that could be mistaken for shadows.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The reading room occupies the entire first floor of the building and surrounds an enclosed second floor mezzanine where multimedia facilities are located.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The ceiling of this room subtly undulates to create natural drainage slopes on the grass-covered roof above.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Offices, meeting rooms, toilets and an auditorium are located on the ground floor of the library.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Another recently featured building that employs metal latticework is a design institute in Hong Kong – see our earlier story here.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

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Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Here are some more details from Philippe Gazeau:


Media Library Romain Rolland

Rue Albert Giry, quartier Cité Cachin, 93230 Romainville

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The Romainville multimedia library is located in the heart of a dormitory town that is being completely renovated. The town planners wanted to open up the district by fragmenting the housing blocks, creating a central plain to provide a large park and two facilities, including the multimedia library which is intended to act as an attractive magnet on a neighbourhood level.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The new building floats between two flying carpets. Following a continuous movement, the multimedia library’s volume sweeps over the level of the street and the public garden to slide under the gentle slopes of its planted roof.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

It is the project’s roof that gives the initial driving force. The roof’s hills and valleys transmit the sweeping movement through to the level of the central plain, crossing through the large reading room on the upper floor.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

This is achieved by the negative curves reflecting the undulating movements of the roof through to the ceiling. As well as traversing, the oriented interior space of the reading room overlooking the street and garden is also traversed and suspended by the landscape as it rises up to become the ceiling.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The new media library at Romainville can be seen as a building with simple architectural forms, but with great power and expressive richness. It is a building ‘oriented’ between the new street and the large redesigned garden.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

It is a building ‘hierarchized’ on the basis of 3 superimposed horizontal sequences: a base on the ground floor, a large metal covered hall on the first floor cantilevered on both the street side and the garden side, lastly a topographically undulating vegetated roof. These three main elements structure and bring together the building’s architectural and functional image.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The project is no more extensive than the surface area of the plot proposed in the overall development plan, thereby freeing up the largest possible area for the future garden. The main volume is aligned with the new street, but the ground floor recess under the first floor cantilever is an opportunity to lay out a vast covered, sheltered passage between the public roadway and the media library.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The building takes its characteristic appearance from the first floor metal structure’s extensive columnless overhang. On the street, the monumental awning opening onto this big covered area naturally signals the entrance to the building.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Some powerful architectural sequences accompany the user or visitor from the outside right into the heart of the media library: the parvis under the awning, the exhibition hall, the vertical link space with the grand staircase, from where you come to the main reading room.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Finding one’s way around is facilitated by the large north-east and south-west windows facing each other like a pair of indoor-outdoor bookends.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

Another powerful feature of the reading room is its ceiling, which follows the underside of the undulating vegetated roof. The very fluid crossing space is also set in movement through the random shapes of the ceiling, contrasting with the straight frontage walls.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

A second mezzanine floor houses the multimedia area: on the ‘Russian doll’ principle, this area readily accessible from the adult and children’s sections hovers slightly above the rest of the browsing areas for reasons of soundproofing, while remaining highly visible and attractive from the central area.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

The two glass frontages are picture windows looking onto the city or the garden through the filter of the exterior metal structure A maintenance area midway between the glazed façade and the structure gives depth to the casing. This depth is used to install the outer blinds protecting the reading areas in conditions made to last.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

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Circular translucent skylights nested in the roof bring extra light to the central area, while providing smoke ejection from the interior volume.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

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The green roof is treated as a natural but hanging extension of the future garden. Its topography lends it a different status from the ordinary vegetated terrace roof. This roof can be seen from neighbouring buildings, and we feel it is very important that it blends in with the future landscaped area.

Mediatheque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau

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The inverted impact of its undulations is a key element in characterizing the atmosphere in the large reading room, and evidences the determination for this project to be highly consistent, with continuity between the work on the interior spaces and the handling of the exterior architecture. The metal structure featuring like a grid around the first floor, and the cantilevering over the ground floor areas are the other main examples of this.

Client : Mairie de Romainville
Architect : Philippe Gazeau
Project manager : Lorraine Pele, Benjamin Clarens
Engineers : SLH
Area : 2085 m² SHON
Cost : 3 730 000 € HT
2004-2011


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Il motorhome di Valentino Rossi

Nel paddock del MotoGP di Assen ho visto il nuovo motorhome di Valentino Rossi; il suo design lo distingue parecchio dai motorhome degli altri piloti, perciò mi è sembrato interessante approfondire questo tema. Il motorhome è la casa del pilota durante le gare del Motogp, in pratica si tratta di un grande ed attrezzatissimo camper dove riposare all’interno del paddock, a breve distanza dai box e dell’area hospitality della propria squadra.
Il motorhome pubblicato in questa pagina è il nuovo mezzo che Rossi ha iniziato ad usare durante il gran premio di Valencia nell’ottobre 2010, ed appare come un ermetico monolite nero.

E’ stato progettato e costruito da un’azienda spagnola, Caravanas Rioja, specializzata nell’allestimento di veicoli speciali, e con grande esperienza nel mondo delle corse e dei motorhome.
A differenza degli altri motorhome che possono essere considerati alla stregua di un camper, quello di Valentino Rossi è un rimorchio che necessita di una motrice. Le dimensioni sono quindi maggiori, come il comfort interno: non sono potuto entrare all’interno ma mi hanno spiegato che ospita ben 3 camere da letto e 2 bagni, oltre ad altri ambienti. Come si può vedere in queste immagini, una volta parcheggiato la larghezza del veicolo raddoppia, perché le pareti laterali si estendono in maniera telescopica. Il bello è che lo fanno anche nella parte inferiore, nascondendo completamente le ruote.

L’attenzione alla privacy è stato uno dei requisiti principali del progetto: il veicolo è completamente nero, i vetri oscurati, e l’assenza di insegne lo rende irriconoscibile. Nemmeno io sapevo di cosa si trattasse, prima che spiegassero che quello dietro le transenne era il motorhome di Valentino Rossi. Solamente il piccolo logo 46 vicino al campanello l’identifica come la residenza temporanea del pilota.

Il precedente motorhome, che puoi vedere nell’immagine conclusiva, era sempre di colore nero ma decorato invece con le illustrazioni gialle che caratterizzano da anni l’immagine personale di Rossi.

Il motorhome è sempre guidato da Uccio, il fedelissimo amico di infanzia di Valentino, che lo accompagna in tutte le gare del motomondiale e gestisce i suoi spazi personali.

CoreToon: Take It Eamesy

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With ‘The Steepest Decline in Billings Since February 2010′, AIA’s Architecture Billings Index Fall Again

Last month, we opened with a quote in the headline of a post, “It can’t get any worse — and then it does.” An apt statement indeed, as the American Institute of Architects has just released the sobering news that, for the fifth straight month, the Architecture Billings Index has dropped once again. Indicating increases and declines in billings within the industry (anything above or below 50, respectively), the Index fell more than a full point, down to 45.1, resulting in “the steepest decline in billings since February 2010.” Here’s a bit from the AIA’s resident numbers expert, who sounds as if he’s also dropping points and sliding down the Glum Index:

“Business conditions for architecture firms have turned down sharply,” said AIA Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. “Late last year and in the first couple of months of this year there was a sense that we were slowly pulling out of the downturn, but now the concern is that we haven’t yet reached the bottom of the cycle. Current high levels of uncertainly in the economy don’t point to an immediate turnaround.”

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