La série de clichés du photographe new-yorkais Allen Skyy Enriquez, alias The Zartorialist, présente la grosse pomme de manière atypique. On pourrait croire que les clichés ont été retouchés, mais c’est pourtant uniquement à l’aide d’un prisme de verre de 15 cm qu’il réalise ses effets et de superbes photographies.
We take a tour through the staircases, gyms and study areas of Steven Holl’s Campbell Sports Centre at Columbia University in the second of two movies by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space.
Steven Holl Architects designed the building as a combined athletics and study facility for students. The movie shows activity both inside and outside, from football games on the sports pitches to conversations in the stairwells.
The film begins with the building’s busy setting on the corner of West 218th Street and Broadway, where the five-storey structure climbs up a sloping site and forms a new entrance to several existing sports tracks.
It also traces routes through the building, including on the staircases and balconies that zigzag across the facade.
Steven Holl describes the design concept for the sports centre as being based on a diagram for a football strategy in the first of the two movies.
See more images of Campbell Sports Centre in our earlier story, or see more architecture by Steven Holl Architects.
Spirit of Space has previously filmed movies about other Steven Holl-designed buildings, including an underground gallery in South Korea and the mixed-use Sliced Porosity Block in China. See more movies by Spirit of Space on Dezeen »
Architectural photography is by Iwan Baan.
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Architect Steven Holl describes how the design for his new athletics centre at Columbia University was based on a diagram for a football strategy, in the first of two movies by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space.
Completed earlier this year, the Campbell Sports Centre is a five-storey building that is partly raised up on stilts, providing both a student facility and a new entrance to the existing sports tracks of the Baker Athletics Complex.
Steven Holl explains the original concept for “points on the ground and lines in space”, like a game strategy. “Those point foundations of the building [are] where it becomes a gateway and the idea of the outer exits is as lines in spaces moving on the building,” he says.
The building features an exposed concrete and steel structure, as well as a series of exterior balconies and staircases. “Those big heads of the [nearby] Broadway Lift Bridge were, in a way, inspirations for this sort of grey steel structural shape,” adds Holl.
The interior of the building is divided into three zones, with physical exercise zones located on the lower levels and student study areas at the top. “This has to do with the aim of the scholar athlete, that you develop both the body and the mind together,” adds architect Chris McVoy.
Holl concludes by talking about how the building comes alive after dark, forming a “chunk of architecture that equally gives a feeling of light and brightness,” alongside the glowing lights of the sports pitch. “The building has a kind of life that it gives to that site at night,” he says.
See more images of the Campbell Sports Centre in our earlier story, or see more architecture by Steven Holl Architects.
Spirit of Space has previously filmed movies about other Steven Holl-designed buildings, including an underground gallery in South Korea and the mixed-use Sliced Porosity Block in China. See more movies by Spirit of Space on Dezeen »
Architectural photography is by Iwan Baan.
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our final movie from New York, design journalist Monica Khemsurov takes us to exhibitions around the Noho Design District and imparts an optimistic outlook for young designers in the city.
Khemsurov, along with her online design magazine Sight Unseen co-founder Jill Singer, set up the Noho Design District in 2010, aiming to provide an alternative platform to the ICFF trade fair.
“The idea was to be an offsite show for New York design week, in which young designers could show their work,” she says. “We wanted to make a neighbourhood that felt more intimate and had more of a fun, experimental feel than what has been shown at New York design week in the past.”
Noho is named after its location north of Houston Street in Manhattan, bounded by Broadway to the west and Bowery to the east. On the first stop of our tour, Khemsurov takes us to the district’s hub exhibition Noho Next, curated by Sight Unseen and featuring new work by twelve American designers.
Next up is the Here & There of design for travel at the showroom of design studio Various Projects, which features a canoe made from Dacron, kevlar and wood by designers Colgate Searle and Matthias Pliessnig that Khensurov assures us is “fully functional, water safe and can be floated on a lake.”
A braided textile piece woven by New York artist Dana Barnes is picked out at the preserved 19th Century Merchant’s House Museum. “Sight Unseen invited seven American designers to install their work made with modern craft techniques,” Khensurov explains.
We then go beneath the Standard East Village hotel to the Chez Andre nightclub to see the American Design Club’s exhibition titled Trophy. “This show is about everyday trophies or objects that are momentos or that commemorate moments of your life,” Khemsurov says.
Finally, she shares her thoughts on New York design scene’s current status: “In the past five years, a lot of young designers have gone out on their own and started their own studios.
“A lot of people are producing their own work, which gives them more freedom to express themselves and make interesting and exciting design, so I think there’s never been a better time for the New York design scene.”
We drove around New York in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
In our previous reports from New York, Willy Wong introduces the NYCxDesign festival and Stephen Burks takes us on a tour of the city’s High Line park.
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Ithaca design studio CODA has installed a wall that squirts water and is clad with skateboard offcuts in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York.
Party Wall was the winning entry of this year’s Young Architects Program, an annual contest organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a temporary installation offering seating, shade and water during the outdoor events of the MoMA PS1 contemporary art gallery.
CODA‘s installation is a steel-framed structure that functions as a giant aqueduct. Water travels alongs the top of the wall and is forced by a pressure tank to form a fountain, feeding a misting station and a series of paddling pools.
The cladding is made from interlocking wooden panels, recognisable as the offcuts from a skateboard manufacturer. There are also 120 removable elements that can function as benches or tables.
Water-filled plastic pillows are suspended inside the structure and help weight it down. At night, these inflatable elements are illuminated and glow through the gaps in the facade.
Party Wall will remain in place until the end of August and will be used during the annual Warm Up event – a showcase of experimental music and sound.
CODA fended off a shortlist of five architects to win the competition in January, becoming the fourteenth studio to participate in the programme. Last year’s installation was a blue spiky air-cleaning sculpture by HWKN, while previous editions have been completed by SO-IL, Interboro Partners and Ball-Nogues.
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Photography is by Charles Roussel.
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The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 Present Party Wall by CODA, winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program, at MoMA PS1 in New York
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce the opening of Party Wall, the CODA (Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY)–designed winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 14th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 is committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative 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. CODA, drawn from among five finalists, designed a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.
Party Wall is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.
The porous facade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and clad with a screen of interlocking wooden elements comprised of donated from Comet, an Ithaca-based manufacturer of eco-friendly skateboards.
The lower portion of the Party Wall’s facade is capable of shedding its “exterior,” as 120 panels can be detached from the structure and used as benches and communal tables during Warm Up and other diverse events and programs such as lectures, classes, performances, and film screenings.
A shallow stage of reclaimed wood weaves around Party Wall’s base to create a series of micro-stages for performances of varying types and scales. At various locations under the structure, pools of water serve as refreshing cooling stations that can also be covered to provide additional staging space or a shaded area from the direct sunlight.
Party Wall’s steel-angle structure is ballasted by water-filled “pillows” made of polyester base fabric that will be lit at night to produce a luminous effect. Party Wall acts as an aqueduct by carrying a stream of water along the top of the structure. The water is projected from the structure, via a pressure-tank, into a fountain that feeds a misting station and a series of pools.
“CODA’s proposal was selected because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources—the waste products of skateboard-making—to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1’s courtyard,” said Pedro Gadanho, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. “Party Wall arches over the various available spaces, activating them for different purposes, while making evident that even the most unexpected materials can always be reinvented to originate architectural form and its ability to communicate with the public.”
“CODA developed an outstanding, iconic design that will support the many social functions of our large-scale group exhibition EXPO 1: New York, while creating a unique and stunning object for our outdoor galleries,” added Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA.
The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our third report from New York, Willy Wong, chief creative officer for the city’s marketing and tourism agency, introduces the new NYCxDesign festival and explains why the city is starting to put more money behind its design industries.
NYCxDesign, which launched this year, is a new design festival that encompasses a range of existing shows including the Frieze New York art fair, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), Wanted Design and NoHo Design District, as well as a programme of new events such as designjunction’s Intro NY.
Wong explains that one of the motivations behind NYCxDesign was a report by the Centre for an Urban Future think tank, which identified the untapped economic potential of New York’s design sector.
“A few years ago there was a report that identified design as an industry that the city should really embrace,” says Wong. “There should be a moment in time when the city actually celebrates all of the great design that happens in New York.”
“In 2009 they discovered that there were almost 40,000 designers in New York, and that’s a huge concentration compared to other cities in the US,” he continues. “So there’s a real reason to invest in the sector.”
The influx of visitors that come to New York each year for the big design shows is also good for the economy, Wong goes on to explain.
“Events like ICFF bring in close to 30,000 people a year, and that’s just for ICFF,” he says. “Whenever we are taking on an initiative, we are looking at both the qualitative cultural effects but at the same time the economic impact.”
Wong believes that the city’s current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who has been in office since 2002, has “focussed on design as a competitive advantage for the city,” citing the High Line as an example of the kind of project that has helped to improve New York’s built environment. “There’s a real consideration on transforming what it means to be a city.”
We drove around New York our MINI Cooper S Paceman.
The music featured in the movie is a track called You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas. You can listen to the full version on Dezeen Music Project.
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Basés à San Francisco Sunset District Pictures a passé 12 jours à New York, emportant avec eux leur Canon 7D pour pouvoir filmer tous les moments marquants de leur voyage. En ne gardant que des séquences d’une seconde montées ensuite avec talent, le résultat permet de s’imprégner de l’ambiance de cette ville si unique.
Havas Paris a demandé au collectif de photographes Illusion d’imaginer pour la « Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine » une série de posters au style graphique épuré. Voici trois visuels en images de synthèse en 3D représentant une maison individuelle en bois, le Puck Building de New York et la cathédrale d’Amiens.
News: urban improvements such as cycle paths, parks and public transport could transform Brooklyn and help turn New York City into the USA’s leading location for technology firms, according to plans unveiled this week.
“New York City, now the second leading tech hub in the nation, can overtake Silicon Valley in the top spot,” said the Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition, as it unveiled a strategic plan to transform former industrial areas of the borough into a high-tech hub.
The coalition wants to transform the area between Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard by creating new office spaces, improving transportation and pedestrian access, and adding cycle paths, footbridges and more green areas.
New York architects WXY Architecture + Urban Design drew up the plan. WXY founding principal Claire Weisz said: “The plan will help make the Tech Triangle a great place for tech firms to be – encouraging cafes and new outdoor spaces, better cycle routes, and new spaces for startups.”
“The city has a golden opportunity in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle,” said Tucker Reed, president of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, one of the organisations backing the plan. “This new strategic plan lays out specific ideas which will make the Brooklyn Tech Triangle the most attractive place for tech to set up shop and stay.”
The initiative comes at a time when New York’s technology sector is experiencing a surge in activity, with companies including Facebook opening new offices in the city and Cornell University partnering with the city to build a large tech campus on Roosevelt Island in the East River.
This boom is part of what some commentators see as a broader shift that is seeing tech firms move away from the sprawling, suburban culture of Silicon Valley to more compact, urban locations such as New York and London.
In an article in The Wall Street Journal last year, urban studies theorist Richard Florida claimed that technology firms are moving to cities to be closer to designers and end users, as well as the vibrant urban culture that cities offer. Engineers today are “less interested in owning cars and big houses,” preferring to live “somewhere which has lots of bars and lots of places you can eat,” Florida wrote.
Brooklyn is already home to many innovation-based firms, including online marketplace Etsy and 3D printer brand MakerBot, but the coalition believes that limited spaces for new businesses could stifle growth.
In response, WXY have devised a scheme to create a “Special Innovation District” by incentivising the redevelopment of industrial buildings.
WXY’s managing principal Adam Lubinsky said: “Brooklyn’s synergy between living and working in a creative environment will benefit from initiatives like the Special Innovation District, bolstered by relocation incentives tweaked for startups and incentives for landowners to upgrade their buildings.”
The architects also propose creating a hot-air balloon-inspired observation platform, a cafe and a “tech terrace” with a huge digital screen. Brooklyn Tech Triangle claims that the proposals could act as a blueprint for other innovation districts in New York, helping the city to overcome Silicon Valley as the most popular location in the country for technology firms.
Research conducted by the coalition found that more than 9,600 people were employed in 560 tech companies in Brooklyn in 2012, which generated $3.1 billion. This figure is set to almost double by 2015.
The strategy has been backed by the public, private and academic sectors and now requires support from the government and real estate companies so over 370,000 square metres of space can be adapted to house technology and creative companies.
Several other cities have recently launched initiatives aimed at challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance of the technology industry, including the Tech City district of East London, which is home to a shared workplace operated by Google and is the site of a proposal for an office building covered in digital advertisements by architects 00:/.
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Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition reveals strategy to surpass Silicon Valley
Plan details proposals on workforce development, real estate incentives and zoning, transportation linkages and public space creation
New York City, now the second leading tech hub in the nation, can overtake Silicon Valley in the top spot, according to a strategic plan released today by the Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition. The strategy – which has broad public-, private- and academic-sector backing – calls for enhancing workforce development, increasing the availability of affordable real estate, and improving transportation and public environs. It also points out that failure to take action now could jeopardize the City’s economic vitality. Focused on the areas between Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the plan is widely viewed as the model for creating innovation districts throughout NYC.
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle is a magnet for innovation-based entrepreneurs and has emerged as the City’s largest cluster of tech activity outside of Manhattan. It is projected that in two years the area will support 18,000 tech-related jobs and 43,000 indirect jobs. However, a lack of appropriate commercial and light industrial space to support the innovation economy and an adequately trained workforce, among other factors, threaten to stifle this growth, according to the strategic plan authored by a team led by WXY Architecture + Urban Design.
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition – led by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, DUMBO Improvement District and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation – seeks to address these challenges. If the Brooklyn Tech Triangle plan is fully implemented with support from government, the real estate community, tech firms and academic institutions, up to 4 million square feet of space in the Tech Triangle would be occupied by tech and creative businesses in 2015.
Funding and other support for the Brooklyn Tech Triangle initiative has come from Empire State Development Corporation, Office of New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City Department of Small Business Services, New York City Council and Speaker Christine Quinn, Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Brooklyn Community Foundation.
“The City has a golden opportunity in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle,” said Tucker Reed, president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. “To seize it, we need to create space for tech growth and tap into our talent pools of local residents and students enrolled in the area’s 12 universities. This new strategic plan lays out specific ideas which will make the Brooklyn Tech Triangle the most attractive place for tech to set up shop and stay.”
The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition conducted an economic impact study of the tech sector in Brooklyn in 2012 that found there are more than 520 tech companies employing over 9,600 people, generating $3.1 billion of economic output and is poised to nearly double by 2015, requiring an additional 2.2 million square feet of office space. Following the study, the coalition formed a task force comprised of local tech firms, entrepreneurs, government representatives, real estate firms, area residents and civic leaders and educators to develop a strategic plan to capitalize on this upward trend.
“Innovative companies want to grow and create great jobs here. We have to unlock the potential of our real estate – the buildings that were home to New York’s industrial boom once before – to make sure they can do just that. We also have to unlock the potential of our local workforce to make sure they can give those jobs to New Yorkers for years to come,” said Alexandria Sica, executive director of the DUMBO Improvement District. “The Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition looks forward to working with residents, companies and elected leaders to turn these ideas into reality.”
“This is an activation plan for the 21st century and a blueprint for ensuring that surrounding communities can benefit from economic opportunities emerging in the Tech Triangle, and that innovation economy businesses find space to grow,” said Andrew Kimball, president/CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
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New York designer Joe Doucet created this mirror that makes the viewed look as if they’re immersed in water as a tribute to victims of Hurricane Sandy.
The blue lower half of the circular mirror refracts the light slightly compared to the total reflection of the top, so a small portion of the visage appears in both. The effect is similar to looking through a glass tank that’s half-full of water.
Joe Doucet‘s studio is located in Lower Manhattan, one of the areas worst affected by the storm, and he designed the piece to be a daily reminder of the natural disaster.
“The mirror came about by my thinking that it had been less than six months since Sandy and I almost never thought about it,” he says. “I was struck by how quickly we forget tragedy.”
Named after the unit of measurement for water depth, the one-off Fathom Mirror was created for an exhibition and auctioned off with work by other New York designers to raise money for disaster relief.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, photographer Iwan Baan captured images of Manhattan’s dark, flooded streets.
Our selection of stories about reflective designs includes a series of hinged brass mirrors that look like butterflies and a mirror with blurry edges that reflects a dreamy image of its surroundings.
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