May 23
New York Hat Co. Straw Fedora Hat
Posted in: straw fedoraFondata nel 1982, la New York Hat Co. ha in catalogo una vasta serie di modelli tra cui questo Straw Fedora Hat a 75 dollari.
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May 13
The New Amsterdam Pavilion by Dutch architects UNStudio has opened to the public in New York’s Battery Park.
The four wings of the pavilion give it a flower-like form, which is illuminated by different coloured lights after midnight.
Construction was completed a year and eight months ago (see our earlier story), but complications with catering prevented the pavilion from opening until now.
By day the pavilion is open to the public, providing a cafe and information point.
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Photography is by Richard Koek.
The following information is from UNStudio:
New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, Battery Park, New York, USA, 2008-2011
Placed on New Amsterdam Plein and commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, the NY400 Dutch Pavilion is presented as a gift from the Dutch government to the people of New York. The Pavilion is intended to introduce an opportunity for visitors, residents, and everyday commuters to pause and learn more at this historically important location. The Pavilion itself will be open to varying degrees throughout the day to the high number of commuters, tourists, and local residents.
The Pavilion marks the location as a destination and a hub of various activities, creating a social eddy at a site that may otherwise go unnoticed by passers-by and commuters. The programme of this Pavilion oscillates between facility services (culinary outlet and information point), and a dynamic art, light, and media installation.
The geometry of the Pavilion expresses its programmatic intentions, with the centre of the installation designed for more permanent, enclosed functions. In contrast to the enclosed nature of the core, the formal figure of the structure becomes increasingly more fluid and dispersed away from this centre as it opens onto the immediate landscape of the surroundings. The attendant ‘flowering’ or opening of the four wings of the Pavilion responds to varying orientations on the site as well as variety within the main programme. Within each wing, the contrast between the inside and the outside is blurred through the expression of continuous geometry. The geometric loop is introduced to virtually obscure the boundary between the ceiling, wall, and floor and to promote integration of the built form with the surrounding park.
Although the Pavilion will be readily visible both day and night from the surrounding skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, a welcomed human scale is established with the design. The changing geometry of the Pavilion ensures that there is no ‘backside’ to the structure; a 360-degree walk around the Pavilion reveals this non-hierarchical nature. Repetition is dynamic rather than static, allowing varying viewpoints and perspectives to be created.
As point of interest for the Battery, the Pavilion will encourage visitors to engage and interact with the displays and functions provided. The value of the project extends beyond its immediate programmatic function by first raising awareness of the historical relationship between the Netherlands and its role in New York’s history, as well as by responding to the opportunity for a welcomed social venue at this lively site.
The Pavilion has an open character, with an evolving programmatic use, as new light and media installations are changed and new visitors personalize their use of the space. The presence of the Pavilion expresses to New York City’s residents and visitors the shared Dutch and American value of the importance of open, accessible, and inviting public space in the city fabric.
Alternating art and video installations will further the historical didacticism of the Pavilion, with specific works related to Dutch culture that will coincide with major national events in the Netherlands.
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos with Wouter de Jonge, Christian Veddeler and Kyle Miller, Jan Schellhoff, Wesley Lanckriet, Arndt Willert
Advisors: Handel Architects, New York (Executive Architect) Gary Handel, AIA, D. Blake Middleton, FAIA, LEED AP, Stephen Matkovits, AIA, LEED AP, Mark Morris
Buro Happold
(Lighting Design and Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection Engineering)
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May 10
Book and Coffeeshop in Madrid by MYCC
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Spanish architects MYCC have designed the interior for a combined coffee and book shop in Madrid, exposing the original warehouse structure and inserting a glass floor between storeys.
The coffee shop is open plan with white walls, flooring more typically found in a garage and flashes of orange and pink.
The glass floor allows a view to the basement, which has an orange floor and is used for exhibitions and events.
Photographs are by Javier Ortega.
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The following is from the architect:
Intervention in a space of this kind means a job of strata, successive throughout his long life.
The typology of this place is no different from the typical that can be found, with minor variations, in the center of Madrid. Such spaces at the street with parallel structure to the walls of the main facade and a basement below ground level that has neither natural light nor ventilation. It holds no other tasks that serve as a warehouse.
By the time we receive the job, we found a long succession of these actions along the building’s history and what we offer is a simplification exercise. We simply provide an attractive space that is capable of serving as a container for the uncertainties of the program. It was never clear how many square meters would occupy the area of afternoon coffee or the amount of books that would go on sale and how many different issues, or presentations and events of various kinds had to be on the top floor or below or evening cocktails weekend and revenue could sum up more surface than other different uses.
It follows the result. To this we add a really tight budget. We get a space that has direct reference to the New York loft and referrals to the art galleries of the early seventies. The idea was to design a site with an important legacy. It should be able to converse with the various activities that take place there and to the different types of visitors. This is a cleaning and lighting job in the very literal sense of the word. We had to expand the industrial side of this place and to file the excess of minimalism, in which it is easy to fall but we were not ready. Therefore, white paint, garage flooring, naked daylight bulbs should be complemented by an intense spatial relationship. Also a series of interrelated spaces should be developed, in order to provide a sensory experience of the visit. Should be a place of action more than for observation.
The place calls the attention of passers from the street by a large and light bare space that gives us the impression that there is sufficient height and surface to hold all you could be offered. We convey the idea of space left over; there will be far from being tightened … Inside, continuous drift between haphazardly arranged tables and neither empty nor totally full shelves. In the back there is a more intimate and relaxed atmosphere painted in a wine colour, while a glass floor reveals a striking orange to invite to continue the journey. We are led to a basement that will serve as exhibition gallery even if it has to live with other programs.
Architects: MYCC oficina de arquitectura
Project architects: Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz Casares, Marcos González
Client: Tipos Infames
Location: Madrid, Spain
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Javier Ortega
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May 05
In Your Fridge
Posted in: family, fridge, in your fridge, stephanie de rougéAvec cette série “In Your Fridge”, la photographe Stéphanie de Rougé cherche à présenter les personnes avec ce que contient leur frigo. Installée à New York depuis 2006, cette artiste travaille notamment dans le domaine de la photographie documentaire au New York Times.
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Apr 21
NY Adorned – Tradition
Posted in: Adorned, black & white, N.Y., tatooLe réalisateur américain Evan Owen Dennis présente dans cette vidéo le salon de “New York Adorned” en mettant l’accent sur l’art de tatouage. Présenté comme une réelle forme d’art, ce court-métrage en noir et blanc est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Apr 11
Autour Series
Posted in: autour, olivier cuinmann, tendance floueLe photographe Olivier Culmann, membre du collectif Tendance Floue, a pu immortaliser à New York des piétons à la recherche de Ground Zero pour cette série “Autour”. Un travail visuel entre le regard des autres et les conséquences d’un tel évènement.
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Mar 25
New York by Gehry
Posted in: Frank Gehry, new york by gehryVoici le dernier projet de l’architecte Frank Gehry pour la construction d’un nouveau gratte-ciel en plein Manhattan. Cette tour intitulée New York by Gehry sera d’une hauteur de 265 mètres, pour plus de 900 appartements. Un aspect moderne à découvrir dans la suite.
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Mar 17
Julie Mercier, New York
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Feb 19
Interior designer Elle Kunnos de Voss of American studio The Metrics has created the interiors for a restaurant in New York that will change every 30 days.
Called What Happens When, the floor, ceiling and all the walls of the interior are painted black, whilst the furniture and light fittings are white.
Architectural drawings and symbols have been painted on the walls and ceiling, and each time the interior changes it will be mapped out on the floor with tape.
A grid of hooks on the ceiling mean the lighting can be constantly reconfigured.
Music and entertainment in the restaurant will also change every 30 days, as well as the food and brand identity.
As a Valentine’s Day installation, pink and purple triangles of fabric were hung from the ceiling.
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Here’s some more information about the project:
What Happens When” / Interior Design by Elle Kunnos de Voss
The overall concept for the space is a ‘work in progress’ transparency into the design process as the architectural drawings are mapped out onto the dining room surfaces in 1:1, with each Movement change red lined to manifest the process and record the transformations.
Within this frame work we will design; a new lighting scheme and fixtures, unique spatial elements to create variations of visual compositions like perspective, scale and form and a new color scheme for every 30 day Movement. To keep the space flexible for the changing light and spatial installations we have designed a grid of hooks for the ceiling.
1st Movement
SPACE / Elle Kunnos de Voss
The spatial concept for the First Movement is a monochromatic landscape of deconstructed volumes and fixtures, using a paired down aesthetic. White lines define volumes within the space, describing archetypal house and ladder shapes in a distorted perspective. The deconstructed chandeliers take their cue from a classic chandelier with cut cardboard prisms and large globe light bulbs.
FOOD / John Fraser
For the debut month Chef Fraser is serving a hearty, Nordic and Northern Germanic influenced menu which includes first courses such as Potato Skins with wheat beer fondue, pickled sausage and sorrel, Oysters with beet mignonette, sunchokes and arugula and Arctic Char with fennel aspic and preserved lemon and second courses such as Cod “Stew” with dill, squid ink and clams and “Hunter’s Plate” comprised of pig parts, bitter greens and bread dumpling.
BRAND / Emilie Baltz
The branding system developed below uses a system of iconography to represent every month of What Happens When. Each month, a new icon will represent the brand, creating a playfully abstract visual language that has potential for multiple meanings. The application of the brand icons will be flexible, translating easily into uses like urban tags that will serve as artistic means of advertising.
SOUND SCAPE / Micah Silver
Sound artist and curator Micah Silver has developed an evolving aural environment throughout the entire space. As with the design and menu, this will radically shift around shared inspirations each month. The January composition is a two hour long work that comes in and out of perceptibility and presence, an evolving landscape within which a meal and conversation can unfold in unique ways. Over the course of two hours the ear is guided through the range of human hearing. Among the source materials or sound ingredients used are “Snow slowly covering plastic foliage brought to Walden Pond in Concord, MA”, “Recordings extracted from YouTube videos made at rural bonfires.”, and the sound of orchestras warming up. From the entryway to the bathrooms, the entire experience is considered as a time-based event which can be composed for, enhancing the dining experience with sound. With speakers placed throughout the dining room, entryway, and bathrooms, the soundscape creates a connection between Fraser’s food, a sense of time, and the sense of place.
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Feb 17
Brooklyn studio Interboro Partners have won this year’s MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition to design a temporary installation in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York.
The installation, entitled Holding Pattern, will feature a twisted rope canopy stretched over the courtyard.
The space below will feature benches, mirrors, ping-pong tables and floodlights, creating a temporary urban landscape where the MoMA/P.S.1 Warm Up summer music series will be hosted. Holding Pattern will open in June this year.
MoMA and P.S.1 are also partnering with the Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI museum in Rome to create the first international edition of the Young Architects Program, with Italian studio stARTT chosen to create an event space in the museum’s piazza. More information to follow.
See last year’s installation by SO-IL in our earlier story.
See all our stories on past winners of the Young Architect Program »
The following information is from The Museum of Modern Art:
INTERBORO PARTNERS SELECTED AS WINNER OF THE 2011 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM AT MoMA PS1 IN NEW YORK
Interboro Partners’ Holding Pattern to open in the Courtyard of MoMA PS1 in June
NEW YORK, February 16, 2011—The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1 announce Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New York. Now in its 12th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop highly innovative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. For the first time, MoMA and MoMA PS1 are partnering with another institution, MAXXI in Rome, to create the first international edition of the Young Architects Program.
Interboro Partners, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2011 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.
Interboro Partners’ Holding Pattern brings an eclectic collection of objects including benches, mirrors, ping-pong tables, and floodlights, all disposed under a very elegant and taut canopy of rope strung from MoMA PS1’s wall to the parapet across the courtyard. Creating an unobstructed space, the design incorporates for the first time the entire space of MoMA PS1’s courtyard under a single grand structure, while creating an environment focusing on the audience as much as the Warm Up performance. A key component of the theme is recycling; objects in the space will be donated to the community at the conclusion of the summer. The designers met with local businesses and organizations including a taxi cab company, senior and day care centers, high schools, settlement houses, the local YMCA, library, and a greenmarket to determine what components of their installation could be used by those organizations following the Warm Up summer music series.
Incorporating objects that can subsequently be used by these organizations is a means of strengthening MoMA PS1’s ties to the local Long Island City community.
The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were FormlessFinder (New Haven, CT/Brooklyn, NY, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi), MASS Design Group (Boston, MA, Michael Murphy), Matter Architecture Practice (Brooklyn, NY, Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger), and IJP (London/Cambridge, MA, George L. Legendre). An exhibition of the five finalists’ proposed projects as well as YAP_MAXXI’s five finalists’ proposed projects will be on view at MoMA over the summer. It will be organized by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Whitney May, Department Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
Mr. Bergdoll explains, “Simple materials that transform a space to create a kind of public living room and rec room are trademarks of this young Brooklyn firm. Interboro is interested in creating elegant and unpretentious spaces with common materials. Their work has both a modesty and a commitment quite at odds with the luxury and complex computer-generated form that has prevailed in the city in recent years. With a few gestures they transform parts of the city to achieve new temporary atmospheres and attract new participants.”
Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large, adds, “MoMA PS1 is very excited about the innovative architecture of Interboro, which describes the famous MoMA PS1 courtyard as one architectural volume, especially since the YAP 2011 opening will coincide with the much anticipated opening of the new MoMA PS1 entrance kiosk by Andrew Berman Architects.”
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