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London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a family of superyachts for German shipbuilders Blohm+Voss (+ slideshow).
Zaha Hadid created a concept for a 128-metre yacht, which informed the design of five smaller vessels engineered by Blohm+Voss.
The upper structure of the design is formed from sinuous shapes connecting the different decks. This conceptual language has been pared down and applied to a series of 90-metre-long Unique Circle Yachts, refined so the vessels meet the technical specifications for ocean crossings.
“As a dynamic object that moves in dynamic environments, the design of a yacht must incorporate additional parameters beyond those for architecture – which all become much more extreme on water,” said Hadid. “Each yacht is an engineered platform that integrates specific hydrodynamic and structural demands together with the highest levels of comfort, spatial quality and safety.”
The JAZZ yacht, the first of five in the range, has a sharp solid prow and becomes more open towards the back. The other four boats will be customised to meet the requirements of their owners.
Previously Hadid was commissioned to design a limited-edition speedboat for American art dealer Kenny Schachter and we’ve also featured a megayacht designed by Philippe Starck for Steve Jobs.
Yesterday we published a curvaceous wine bottle designed by Hadid, while her library for a Vienna university completed earlier this month.
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Zaha Hadid designs Superyacht for Blohm+Voss
Pritzker prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid has collaborated with the renowned Hamburg-based shipbuilders Blohm+Voss to design a new superyacht.
The design concept, launched at the latest exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s work at the David Gill Gallery in London, is based around the sculptural form of a master prototype conceived for a 128m yacht. In addition, The Unique Circle Yachts by Zaha Hadid Architects for Blohm+Voss is a family of five individual 90-metre yachts that creatively explore the design philosophies of the master prototype within the technical requirements of a fully-engineered yacht design.
The overall design is informed by fluid dynamics and underwater ecosystems, with hydrodynamic research informing the design of the hull. The exoskeleton structure of the upper section is an interwoven network of supports that vary in thickness and lend a natural aesthetic to the yacht’s external appearance; evoking the organic structural systems found in natural marine formations. This exoskeleton connects the various levels and decks of the ship seamlessly via expressive diagonals. Whereas traditional yacht designs adhere to a strict horizontal order, Hadid has created an intense connectivity between the various decks and elements of the design. The fluid design language of the master prototype has been applied to subsequent variations of the Unique Circle Yachts 90-metre yacht concepts, creating a coherent design with the highest correlation between the various design options.
The 90m JAZZ yacht is the first of the five Unique Circle Yachts that has been technically specified and detailed by the naval architects at Blohm+Voss. Its lineage from the 128-metre master prototype is evident, with further technical refinements to address the specifications required for ocean crossings.
In addition to JAZZ, four further 90-metre yachts have been designed to fulfil the different requirements and individual requests of their designated owners. Each design will vary in layout according to the owner’s preferences.
The design process was very much a collaborative one, with Blohm+Voss and ZHA working together to address the practical challenges of designing a yacht while remaining true to the strong iterative design language of the master prototype. The resulting designs are the synergy of Hadid’s design vision and the technical expertise of Blohm+Voss, allowing a flexibility and customisation in the eventual design of the yacht.
“As a dynamic object that moves in dynamic environments, the design of a yacht must incorporate additional parameters beyond those for architecture – which all become much more extreme on water. Each yacht is an engineered platform that integrates specific hydrodynamic and structural demands together with the highest levels of comfort, spatial quality and safety,” explained Zaha Hadid.
Blohm+Voss has the proven experience, the in-house technical expertise, and the capacities to offer tailor-made solutions for the most demanding buyers in the superyacht market. The naval architects of Blohm+Voss are forever pushing the boundaries of technology and innovation. In recent years Blohm+Voss has built many of the world’s most prestigious mega yachts. These include the groundbreaking 394-foot “A” designed by Philippe Starck and the “Eclipse”, designed by Terence Disdale, which at 533 feet (162.5 metres), is the world’s second largest private yacht. Other Blohm+Voss superyacht projects include, the “Mayan Queen IV” and the “Palladium”.
Dr. Herbert Aly, CEO and Managing Partner of Blohm+Voss says: “On an aesthetic level a superyacht is a great design task as everything is customised down to the last detail. A superyacht is by definition an exercise in total design, where every detail is looked at with attention and refinement. In the past, in the era of steam liners, there has been an attempt of utilising ship building elements in architecture. Zaha Hadid and her team have taken this ethos and created a bold new vision and a new benchmark in the design of superyachts.
“The idea of the Unique Circle Yachts allows for variation of a genotype and its phenotypes, offering a range of possible solutions based on an cognate platform. As a result Zaha Hadid’s design is malleable to suit the very individual wishes and needs of a potential customer which lies at the heart of Blohm+Voss’ approach to yacht design. The strength of the design lies not just in its functionality and form, but also its effortless adaptability.”
Zaha Hadid Architects and Blohm+Voss have transformed yacht design; creating an innovative concept and developing this vision into a fully seaworthy design that offers dynamic new possibilities for naval architecture.
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Product news: furniture brand Duffy London has surrounded this bar with swinging seats instead of stools.
Duffy London suspended 24 chairs around all four sides of the rectangular Swing Bar.
Hung on thin wires from a freestanding frame, the chairs appear to float in midair.
The steel bar is powder coated in white, black or combinations of the two, plus other options on request.
Duffy London previously used the same concept for a boardroom meeting table and we’ve also published a swinging sofa.
Other bar designs that have featured on Dezeen include one set among ribbed timber framework and another made of 420 IKEA storage boxes.
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Product news: graphic design studio Raw Color has collaborated with Dutch furniture company Arco to reissue Arnold Merckx’s Balance table (+ movie).
Originally designed by Merckx for Arco in 1988, the Balance table celebrates its 25th birthday this year.
Raw Color’s Balance 25 set of tables maintains features including the concrete trumpet foot, a simple extension system and round table tops.
The range comes in new colours, natural, grey, rosa and green, with fixed or extendable surfaces.
Other table designs include the A-Joint Table produced by Very Good & Proper and a glass table whose legs are formed by a single steel pipe.
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Product news: industrial designer Yves Behar has added a pocket-sized version to Jawbone‘s range of Jambox wireless speakers (+ slideshow).
San Francisco electronics brand Jawbone released the Mini Jambox as the smallest in its range of speakers, which can wirelessly connect with phones, laptops and other bluetooth devices to play music.
Jawbone’s creative director Yves Behar told Dezeen that the latest speaker was developed to make listening to music on the go a more communal activity.
“People’s experience of music is pretty selfish and very much focused on earphones,” said Behar. “I think now we expect speakers to be used everywhere, from underground to office settings.”
The speakers are made from extruded aluminium, reinventing the manufacturing process from the original Jambox to reduce the number of parts and assembly steps.
“You really have to develop some manufacturing techniques that are very, very advanced in order to make a product that is affordable,” Behar said.
A CNC machine was used to create five textured patterns on the front of the speaker and users can chose between nine different metallic colours.
The speaker is managed through an app, where Mini Jamboxes in range appear as icons in their colour and texture. Many users can connect to one Mini Jambox at a time, so everyone can contribute to the music they’re listening to.
“We play the game ‘who’s music is this?’,” said Behar. “Essentially [the Mini Jambox] becomes something that allows people to jump in and play their own music.”
In Milan two year ago, tracks submitted by Dezeen readers were played through an installation of Jamboxes called Jamscape. Earlier this year Jawbone released the UP activity-tracking wristband, which monitors how you move, sleep and eat.
We’ve also featured a gadget that plays music wirelessly through vintage speakers and a wireless speaker that you wear over your sneakers.
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Here is some additional information sent to us by Behar:
The Making of the Mini Jambox
The Mini Jambox is the latest entry in the category-leading family of Jawbone speakers. The original Jambox design ushered in the era of the wireless speaker with critical and commercial success. When we first explored what the Mini Jambox could be we dreamed of a very small and pocketable size, of an experience so simple and yet game changing, and of materials and processes so refined they had previously only been used in top-end audio products. Jawbone design goals are to seamlessly integrate technology and everyday life. Mini Jambox is built on the foundation that life is constantly moving; with Mini Jambox you can pick up and bring your sound environment with you. We call it pocketable sound.
The design explorations for Mini Jambox started with a blank sheet and the idea to completely re-invent the wireless speaker, as we knew it. “It’s a strange moment when everyone loves your last product, and yet you realise the next one will have to be conceived and re-invented as if we were designing it for the first time,” says Yves Behar, CCO of Jawbone.
The user-centred insight and starting point for Mini is that people love the small Jambox size, and yet they want to take the product with them without hesitation about size or weight, from a jacket pocket to a small handbag. Delivering clear, high quality sound in a small space requires a very rigid enclosure with inherent structural integrity. To fulfil this need we explored many roads. Eventually aluminium extrusions combined with a very advanced and patented assembly method became the clear winner. This new approach enabled us to achieve the most efficient use of space, as outer skin and structural skeleton are one and the same. Form and function are truly intersected, as the overall size is the smallest, yet the rigid acoustic cavity affords maximum volume for the sound chamber. The extrusion and material also confers Mini with the strength and robustness needed in a physical object made for portability.
“In order to innovate, we have to take a process and push it somewhere entirely new,” says Yves. The demanding pursuit of refining the aluminium extrusion into an entirely new construction and aesthetic took twelve months, flexing what might be possible with a mechanical engineering assembly that requires fewer parts and assembly steps, stewarding major leaps in production capabilities at scale. “The result is that the Mini exterior skin is also the internal skeleton, in one fluid gesture; we are not just wrapping internal components with a sexy package, the package is the sound chamber.”
The Jawbone design language has always pursued minimal construction and geometry, made personal through the integral use of relief textures that are both personal and tactile. On Mini, we are pushing the boundary of rough and fast CNC, typically used to machine mechanical internal details. We flip the use of this usually hidden process, employing it externally to reveal beautiful capabilities for textures. We used large CNC cutting bits programmed to sculpt a few marks in the aluminium at high speed; the resulting intersections create new unexpected patterns. The beautiful reliefs, enhanced by reflecting light on Mini, are the result of a craft methodology developed with small machine shop partners, requiring a deep collaboration between designers, machinists, and engineers.
The CNC process innovation has transformed what’s both possible and efficient in using aluminium. We turned CNC, an industrial process, into a brush we can paint with. Mini Jambox speakers’ highly specialised perforations and unique framework channel sound for clear, elegantly routed sound. Functionally driven design that is also expressive.
The five textures and nine anodised colours allow people to make Mini into their own personality. The textures also provide a tactile grip, and each of them is carefully matched to an anodised colour that shows aluminium relief best.
From the design to the user interface and packaging, we believe Mini Jambox is our crown jewel of Jawbone design and craft. “Every element goes back to the purest expression of simplicity, performance, and elegance,” says Yves. Mini combines beautiful design and experience at the most minimal size. Providing unparalleled and uncompromised listening in a breakthrough highly portable mini package, Mini Jambox blasts rich sounds at high volume. The integrity of the Mini materials and craft enhances our music experience in ways we could only have dreamed off.
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News: industrial designer Tom Dixon has handed over the MOST design show he founded in Milan two years ago to former employee Will Sorrell, who plans to expand the brand to Istanbul and New York in 2014.
Tom Dixon, who instigated MOST in 2012 as a new epicentre for design during the annual Milan design week, has now passed the brand to Will Sorrell, son of London Design Festival chairman and co-founder Sir John Sorrell.
“I’ve taken over the running of the show – they’ve handed the brand over to me,” said Sorrell, who previously managed the show as a member of Dixon’s team. “Obviously [Tom Dixon] is not an events company, it’s a design and manufacturing company, so we were always talking about what would happen after the first couple of years.”
Dixon will stay closely involved with the brand and will exhibit at next year’s show in Milan. “They are also putting in a large contribution in terms of giving me support and advice,” said Sorrell.
He plans to expand MOST in 2014 to host events coinciding with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York and Istanbul Design Week.
“I thought there was room for a bigger satellite show [in New York] that’s a little more concise and more focussed on European brands,” he explained, adding that he’d like to see the city come together under a more coherent umbrella like the London Design Festival – which was conceived by his father with Ben Evans in 2003.
“New York design week is a very disjointed thing, not to say there’s not good design there but there’re a lot of events,” Will Sorrell said. “I’d love to see the New York events come together and create a solid design week or design festival.”
Istanbul, meanwhile, represents the meeting of east and west in design for the company. “It might be a good opportunity for brands who are looking at Western Europe more, to explore internationally,” he told us. “I think we’ve got to stop thinking of design as being in Western Europe and North America – it’s a completely global profession with people and ideas moving all around the place, so I think it’s time for people in the western world to take other designers more seriously.”
MOST has been located among the steam trains, planes and ships of Milan’s Museum of Science and Technology in a former monastery for the past two years, and Sorrell says he wants MOST to continue to present design in unexpected venues. “It’s great to combine a mix of selling design shows and creative projects – like Dezeen Studio and Faye Toogood’s installation – in a non trade-show environment,” he said. “The last thing you want to do is go to another trade show.”
Will Sorrell studied at New York University and University of the Arts London, before working for The British Council and his parents’ charity The Sorrell Foundation. He joined Tom Dixon as project manager for MOST in 2009.
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« Artfad » est une cérémonie se déroulant chaque année à Barcelone et récompensant l’art contemporain. Le studio espagnol Hey a imaginé l’identité graphique de cet évènement pour l’édition 2013, avec des créations colorées très réussis, dont la déclinaison est à découvrir en détails dans la suite.
Few creative teams are aware of the impact of design as Gauzak, the trio working on the basis that design is undeniably present in every object and every moment around them. Gauzak Design was born in…
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