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The Greenhouse Project In East New York, Brooklyn. Rendering by Abruzzo-Bodziak Architects

Join desigNYC for their annual exhibition celebrating the results of collaborations between urban advocacy groups and design. The organization works to harness the power of the creative community to affect a better urban experience, imagining a better future for our cities.

As this year’s city-wide design programming reflects (most notably the New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City, this week’s Urban Week Festival, the Municipal Arts Society’s Annual Summit on Livability and Archtober Architecture and Design Month New York City) there is an urgent call for organizations like desigNYC to help heighten public perception, understanding and participation in the making of our city. desigNYC’s method: connect civic-minded designers with extraordinary nonprofits, community groups and city agencies serving the public good. desigNYC does it with people in mind and with hands-on, long-term projects, on the ground. Not too much talking, lots of doing. Not too much glamour, but real, deep, collaborative changes.

desigNYC’s annual exhibition+party celebrates the results to date of these passionate collaborations. This second round of desigNYC projects connected eight extraordinary organizations with over 20 talented design professionals who are leaders in the fields of architectural, landscape, interior, experience and communications design. The projects are creating solutions affecting a range of social and environmental issues impacting the city, including sustainable development and education, neighborhood revitalization, social justice, health and urban farming, environmental activism, etc. What is particularly amazing about these pilot projects is how scalable most of them are, Greenhouse pop-up farms, a Boat Box on Brooklyn waterfronts and Main Street urban interventions. They have true potential to influence New York City neighborhoods and inspire city organizations searching for smart, cost-effective solutions for social and urban revitalization. Check out the full list of projects after the jump and celebrate design action at the opening on Wednesday and learn how to get more involved.

desigNYC 2011 Exhibition
Wednesday, September 14th
6PM – 8:30PM
GD Cucine
227 West 17th Street
New York City

On view through October 1st

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London studio Edward Cullinan Architects have completed a concrete and steel bunker to store the British Film Institute‘s entire film collection.

Located in Warwickshire, England, the BFI Master Film Store can archive up to 460,000 film canisters inside vaults with sub-zero temperatures and specified humidity levels.

These 36 vaults are externally clad in precast concrete panels to maintain a stable thermal mass.

At the front of the building is an entrance block wrapped in corrugated stainless steel panels, which features a steeply pitched sedum roof.

This block provides workshops, a meeting room and staff facilities, as well as airtight lobbies leading to the storage vaults.

We have recently published a number of bunker-like buildings on Dezeen – see all the stories here.

Photography is by Edmund Sumner.

Here are some more details about the project from Edward Cullinan Architects:

This autumn, the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached a major milestone in its long history of preserving the nation’s film heritage. The pioneering new building is ready to house the BFI’s entire master collection of acetate and nitrate film in closely controlled environmental conditions ideal for the long term protection of this priceless and vulnerable material.

The Project has been realised through the Screen Heritage UK (SHUK) programme, a nationwide initiative funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. One of its key objectives is to prevent the deterioration and loss of the nation’s films so that they can be made accessible now and in the future. The BFI cares for the most significant film collection in the world. It represents the history of the moving image in Britain from pre-cinema through to the present day. The collection has been stored over two sites; the new building consolidates the collection into an existing site in Warwickshire.

The building is designed by Edward Cullinan Architects who led a detailed feasibility study which concluded that the BFI’s existing archive buildings could not be suitably upgraded, and that a new ‘sub-zero’ storage facility large enough to house all master acetate and nitrate material should be constructed at the earliest opportunity.

The final technical solution is the result of intense research and collaboration between the architect, engineers, film experts and the BFI to define the best method for storing such a large collection of film sustainably for the next 50 years and beyond.

At just under 3000m², the new vaults will store up to 460,000 canisters of film in conditions of -5°C at 35% relative humidity, while the construction enables the building to sustain these conditions in an energy efficient way.

Pre-cast concrete panels provide the thermal mass required to limit temperature fluctuations. Although the building form is quite simple, consisting of 30 identical cellular vaults for nitrate and 6 vaults for acetate film, the specification requires extremely low air leakage rate and must withstand intense heat in the unlikely event of a nitrate film fire. Rigorous analysis, detailing, quality control and testing has been carried out to ensure the building will provide the sub–zero temperature, low humidity and fire prevention that the film requires for its preservation.

The building is the first of its kind to store large quantities of film in such cold and dry conditions; it will also achieve a BREEAM Rating of ‘Excellent’ for its sustainable features.

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Project Data

Design Team Appointed: July 2009
Construction period commenced: October 2010
Construction Cost: £9million
Cost per m2: £3,000
Planning approved: June 2010
Building occupied: September 2011
Practical Completion Date: December 2011

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Credits

Client: BFI
Architect: Edward Cullinan Architects
Structural Engineer: Curtins Consulting
Services Engineer: Couch Perry & Wilkes
Project Manager: Buro Four
Quantity surveyor: W H Stephens
CDM Coordinator: Arcadis
Main contractor: Gilbert Ash NI

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An emerging fashion designer’s 8-bit-inspired latest collection and store

by Adele Chan

Where most go for increasingly hi-def effects, experimental Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga took a deliberately different direction with his label Anrealage, designing the Fall/Winter 2011 line around the concept of low-resolution graphics. Titled “Low” in reference to the throwback patterns, the collection includes skirt suits, coats, dresses, tights and court shoes printed with colorful square blocks, meant to resemble pixelated florals and paisleys. The resulting mosaic-like imagery attracts the eye, giving the illusion that moving further away or squinting might pull the designs into focus. The heels of the shoes are particularly striking—cleverly sculptured to look like miniature, offset blocks—reminiscent of Lego bricks.

An extension of the collection, the motif makes for a strong interior decor scheme in the brand’s Harajuku store as well. Entering the space is like falling back into a classic video game from the 1980s (minus the fire breathing plants and teleportation tubes). From the chairs and display table to carpet design and even hanging light bulbs, every piece of furniture appears to be rendered in a few pixels per inch.

Can’t make it to Japan? Get a taste with the Low Pixel print tights ¥5,775 (US$74) online.

McCann Worldgroup has released a new poster campaign to promote ticket sales for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, featuring striking illustration by HelloVon.

Starring a number of Paraylmpic stars, including sprinter Oscar Pistorius (above), the posters have an energy and excitement that has so far been somewhat lacking from the main Olympics 2012 ads.

Credits:
Creative directors: Simon Butler, Geoff Smith
Copywriter: Chloe Grindle
Art director: Michael Thomason
Illustrator: HelloVon

CR in Print

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Voici en exclu sur Fubiz la campagne média de Canal+ pour leur nouvelle série de rentrée Borgia, créée par Tom Fontana et réalisée par Oliver Hirschbiegel. L’affichage et les visuels ont été réalisé par le célèbre photographe David Lachapelle. Diffusion à partir du 10 octobre.

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• Kaeloo Animation
• Canal+ Movies
• Canal+ Schemas

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