Focus sur la photographe Karen Knorr qui s’intéresse depuis 2008 à la culture indienne avec des clichés plaçant différents animaux au centre de lieux magnifiques. Cette série baptisée « India Song » permet de rendre hommage à ces temples, cités et autres sites sacrés. A découvrir en images et en détails dans la suite.
by Jennifer Miller What do buffalo meat and Snickers bars have in common? They’re both fillings in beloved Nepali and Tibetan dumplings called momos. The dearth of Nepali restaurants in the US has kept the momo under the dumpling radar, but in Nepal it’s considered something of a national food….
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This coastal holiday house and swimming pool by Mumbai practice WE Design Studio is positioned over a stone retaining wall in the hilly landscape of Alibaug, India (+ slideshow).
Accommodating a family of four, the single-storey residence has a rectilinear plan orientated to face a view of the Arabian Sea to the west.
A glazed wall stretches across the sea-facing facade, offering a panoramic view from the living room and two bedrooms positioned alongside. The panels slide open to lead out to the swimming pool and surrounding terrace.
WE Design Studio constructed the walls of the house from brick and they are coated in lime plaster to give a uniform colour.
“The brief was to build a compact house for a family of four, which is easy to manage and maintain,” architect Saahil Parikh told Dezeen. “We were given a very moderate budget to work with and the construction and material choices have been largely influenced by it.”
The pale-coloured exterior contrasts with the dark grey tones of the basalt stone retaining walls that surround the building. These walls lift the house up from the steeply sloping hillside in front, but also support an access road at the rear.
Flooring inside the house displays the same texture as the surface of the terrace outside, finished in a locally sourced limestone called Shahabad.
Other houses featured on Dezeen from India include a residence with a scooping concrete roof and a house with a rooftop swimming pool on stilts. See more architecture in India.
Photography is by Ira Gosalia.
Here are a few words from WE Design Studio:
House in Alibaug, India
This 3500 square foot single family house is located on a two acre hill in Kashid, Alibaug. The house comprises two intersecting monolithic volumes that are oriented to maximize a spectacular panoramic view of the Arabian Sea.
Two stone retaining walls made of locally available basalt wrap around the front and rear of the house. The articulation of spaces is governed by the different ways in which these volumes interact with the stone walls.
The pool and deck seamlessly integrate interior with the surrounding landscape, establishing a strong sense of continuity. The house is a result of a continuous negotiation between topography, programmatic requirements and economy.
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News: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled its competition-winning proposal to build Mumbai’s tallest skyscraper.
The 400-metre-high, 116-storey Imperial Tower would become the tallest building in the Indian city if construction goes ahead.
The tower would have a slender, aerodynamic shape designed to “confuse the wind” and withstand strong currents, according to Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
Green terraces called “sky gardens” would also break up wind currents, say the architects, whose kilometre-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia is currently under construction.
The proposal includes plans for 132 residential units, some as large as 1,115 square metres, along with smaller serviced apartments.
Other projects by the same architects include a high-density, car-free city in China and a pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales – see all projects by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.
At the start of the year we took a look at the ten tallest skyscrapers set to complete around the world in 2013 – see all skyscrapers on Dezeen.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Imperial Tower Competition
Mumbai, India
At 116 stories and 400 meters tall, Imperial Tower was designed to be the tallest building in the city and a prototype for Mumbai, a densely developed but mostly low-rise metropolis whose urban future revolves around tall residential towers.
The softly curvilinear form of this tall, elegantly slender tower is aerodynamically shaped to “confuse the wind,” minimising the negative effects of wind action on the tower. Wind vortex shedding is also mitigated by the north- and south-facing sky gardens, which break up wind currents around the tower. The sky gardens also provide unprecedented access to light, views and connection with the natural world that are unprecedented in Mumbai.
Imperial Tower will also offer the most spacious and luxurious residences in Mumbai. The 76,272- square-metre tower includes 132 residential units of between 195 and 1115 square metres, along with serviced apartments of between 72 and 252 square meters. All of the upper-storey condominiums offer breathtaking views of the Arabian sea.
Architecturally, the exterior wall provides a strong visual contrast with the heavy masonry cladding of most surrounding buildings. The exterior wall is highly sustainable, blocking heat gain and diffusing direct sunlight in the hot and humid climate of Mumbai.
The sustainability of Imperial Tower is also evident in its treatment of water, one of the area’s most precious resources. Water from mechanical systems is collected and treated as greywater; rainfall is also collected for re-use by the units. High-efficiency mechanical systems, a green-wall podium and the use of native plants in the landscaping and sky gardens also adds to the project’s sustainable performance. As+GG is also exploring a plan for kitchens and bathrooms to be pre-fabricated, possibly at a nearby mini-factory that would train a new local workforce.
Services: Architecture, interior design
Client: SD Corporation Pvt. ltd.
Function: Mixed-use
Facts: 400 m height, 116 storeys
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1. Internet Early Days The first public site on the World Wide Web is now back at its original URL to celebrate the Web’s 20th anniversary. The text-only page features a brief explanation of its purpose…
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Comme la superbe vidéo Holi Slow Motion, Parker Walbeck nous invite à découvrir sa vidéo retraçant « Holi », le festival des couleurs habituellement fêtée en Inde, mais aussi organisé récemment en 2013 pour célébrer l’arrivée du printemps. De la joie, de la danse et beaucoup de couleurs à découvrir dans la suite.
Cette vidéo appelée ‘A Day in India’ résume magnifiquement les 3 semaines de voyage du duo Daniel Klein & Mirra Fine réunis sous le nom du collectif The Perennial Plate. De superbes images de moments de vie en Inde, de rencontres et de mets délicieux à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Making the rounds on the web this week, a charming set of light fixtures inject sleek design—and fun—into the realm of bottle lamps, which can run the risk of looking like DIY kitsch. Animal Farm, a series of abstract pig, giraffe, penguin, hippo and elephant figures made from upcycled…
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Retour sur le photographe et metteur en scène canadien Gregory Colbert. Avec son projet et sa série Ashes and Snow, ce dernier nous présente des photographies aux couleurs sépias prises au cours de ses voyages. Des superbes images voyageant autour du monde grâce à un musée nomade, le « Nomadic Museum ».
Artisanal leather goods inspired by the Futurist camouflage patterns of WWI ships
Applying a Futurist pattern to an ultra attentive cold-embossing technique, the designers behind the new leather accessories line Midsummer +1 give an old-world Bengali craft new shape. The brilliant leather clutches—produced by a fair trade co-operative in Kolkata, India—follows the lengthy Shantiniketan process where the leather is soaked, stretched,…
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