Spécialisé dans le portrait, voici le photographe Hannes Caspar vivant et travaillant à Berlin. Avec ses clichés, ce dernier recherche à souligner l’humanité présente dans la majorité de ses modèles. Plus d’images issues de différentes séries dans la suite de l’article.
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Le projet We Miss You est un court-métrage réalisé par 3 étudiants cherchant à comprendre ce qui manquait dans leurs vies. Avec une réalisation superbe par Sebastian Bandel, Hanna Maria Heidrich et Steffen Wilhelm de la Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg en Allemagne.
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Scultura di Sebastian Errazuriz attualmente in mostra a New York c/o la galleria di Cristina Grajales. Una volta accesa la ventola, le delicate piume del volatile iniziano a vibrare dando l’impressione di staccarsi da un momento all’altro.
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L’artiste Liu Bolin est connu pour ses peintures qu’il effectue sur son propre corps pour se camoufler. Après s’être mis en situation dans la série Invisible Man, ce dernier s’est attaqué à une peinture urbaine avec ce graffiti de New York. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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Family and PlayLab have designed a floating swimming pool for New York that would filter river water through its walls.
Called + Pool, the cross-shaped baths could be divided into four separate compartments with a lane-swimming pool, children’s area, sports pool and lounge.
The designers have launched a campaign through crowd-funding platform Kickstarter to build a full-scale prototype of one arm.
The information below is from the architects:
EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH A POOL
+ Pool is the collaborative initiative of design studios Family and PlayLab to build a floating pool for everyone in the rivers of New York City.
The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters.
As both a public amenity and an ecological prototype, + Pool is a small but exciting precedent for environmental urbanism in the 21st Century.
NYC + POOL
+ Pool is for you, for your friend, for your mom, for your dad, for your girlfriend, for your boyfriend, for your kids, for your boss, for your bartender, for your tamale guy, for that dude over there, for New York City, for everyone.
An offshore reflection of the city intersection, + Pool both exemplifies the dense, busy character of New York City and offers an island retreat from it.
HISTORY + POOL
Floating pools have paralleled the development of New York City dating back to the early 19th Century. When the city’s elite used lower Manhattan as a resort in the 1800s floating spas were located just off the Battery. After the Civil War the huge influx of immigrants required bathhouses in the Hudson and East Rivers as many were without proper bathing facilities in their homes. In the early 1900s improved plumbing infrastructure and increasing water quality concerns closed the last of the river-borne pools, relocating aquatic leisure activities to more sanitized and inland sites.
In 1972, the Clean Water Act set forth the goal of making every body of water in the country safe for recreation, and in 2007 the Floating Pool Lady – a reclaimed barge now located in the Bronx – brought back the first semblance of New York’s floating pool culture in almost a Century.
Today, as the appreciation for our city’s natural resources becomes increasingly crucial, a permanent floating pool in the river will help restore the water culture so integral to New York City.
EVERYONE + POOL
+ Pool should be enjoyed by everyone, at all times, which is why it’s designed as four pools in one: Children’s Pool, Sports Pool, Lap Pool and Lounge Pool. Each pool can be used independently to cater to all types of swimmers, combined to form an Olympic-length lap pool, or opened completely into a 9,000 square foot pool for play.
WATER + POOL
The most important aspect of + Pool’s design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls – like a giant strainer dropped into the river.
The concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed to remove bacteria, contaminants and odours, leaving only safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and federal standards of quality.
PARK + POOL
Its universally recognizable shape and unusual offshore siting immediately position + Pool as a iconic piece of public infrastructure.
Whether as a compliment to a thriving park or catalyst for a growing one, the pool can serve as a destination for weekend visitors, an island haven for busy locals, and a symbol for the surrounding neighborhood.
TEAM + POOL
After the launch of + Pool in the summer of 2010, Family and PlayLab began meeting with waterfront organizations, engineers, urban planners, environmental experts, public and private developers and community organizations to build a team to push the project forward. Likeminded institutions like The Metropolitan Waterfront Association, NYC Swim and the Department of Parks and Recreation have all been integral in shaping both the design and process of the pool itself.
The + Pool team has been working with renowned engineering firm Arup New York to study the filtration, structural, mechanical and energy systems of the pool as well as the water quality conditions and regulations necessary for the project. The team recently completed a preliminary engineering feasibility report in preparation for the material and methods testing phase.
NEXT + POOL
Following the completion of the preliminary engineering report done in collaboration with Arup, the + Pool team is now moving into the phase of material testing to assess and determine the best filtration membranes and methods to provide clean and safe riverwater for the public to swim in.
Family and PlayLab launched a Kickstarter online fundrasing campaign in June of 2011 with the ultimate goal of generating enough support to prototype the filtration system by building a full-scale working mockup of the one section of + Pool.
Research, design, testing and development will continue through the year in conjunction with permitting, approvals and building partnerships with community, municipal, commercial and environmental organizations.
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| Synchronicity Island by Jakub Szczęsny | Urban Beach by O + A | Floating gardens by Anne Holtrop |
Comme chaque année, voici le nouveau et l’excellent showreel présentant les meilleurs travaux 2011 de la part du célèbre studio The Mill New York et Los Angeles. Un travail très impressionnant en effets-spéciaux incluants des publicités, de l’animation, des clips et des habillages.
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Landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and planting designer Piet Oudolf have completed Section 2 of the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long elevated park on an abandoned railway in New York.
The project spans 22 blocks through the west side of Manhattan and is split into three equal stages, with Section 2 bringing the completed length up to one mile.
Unlike Section one, which was completed in 2009, this second phase includes a stretch of lawn.
A new platform elevated 2.5 metres above the main High Line overlooks a canopy of trees and plants below.
Photographs are by Iwan Baan, apart from where otherwise stated.
See our earlier story on Section 1 of the High Line »
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The following information is from Diller Scofidio + Renfro:
The High Line (Phase II)
Public Park: New York, NY 2011
The High Line, in collaboration with Field Operations, is a new 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan.
Above photograph is by Barry Munger.
Inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, the new park interprets its inheritance.
It translates the biodiversity that took root after it fell into ruin in a string of site-specific urban microclimates along the stretch of railway that include sunny, shady, wet, dry, windy, and sheltered spaces.
Through a strategy of agri-tecture—part agriculture, part architecture—the High Line surface is digitized into discrete units of paving and planting which are assembled along the 1.5 miles into a variety of gradients from 100% paving to 100% soft, richly vegetated biotopes.
The paving system consists of individual pre-cast concrete planks with open joints to encourage emergent growth like wild grass through cracks in the sidewalk. The long paving units have tapered ends that comb into planting beds creating a textured, “pathless” landscape where the public can meander in unscripted ways.
The park accommodates the wild, the cultivated, the intimate, and the social. Access points are durational experiences designed to prolong the transition from the frenetic pace of city streets to the slow otherworldly landscape above.
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| The High Line by Diller Scofidio + Renfro | Image and Sound Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro | The Broad by Diller Scofidio + Renfro |
Découverte de cette vidéo bien réalisée reflétant avec réussite Manhattan, le tout grâce à un travail de Josh Owens alias Mindrelic. Ce film time-lapse est intitulé “Manhattan en Motion”. Il est à découvrir en vidéo HD dans la suite de l’article.
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L’architecte Chris Precht a proposé une nouvelle structure urbaine appelée NY Billboard pour Manhattan à New York. Avec tout un réseau de passerelles et d’installations diverses, ce projet cherche à repenser la question de la densité de population dans New York.
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