Jul 17
MAMAMA Summer 2013
Posted in: MAMAMAIl marchio indy parigino MAMAMA ha pubblicato la nuova collezione con lookbook fotografato dal talentuoso Antoine Harinthe. La trovate in vendita sullo store online.
Jul 12
The Pixels Crossing Installation
Posted in: Forum des Halles, graphiques, Michel Redolfi, Miguel Chevalier, Trafik, tunnelMiguel Chevalier, en collaboration avec Trafik et le compositeur Michel Redolfi, signe une installation interactive pour le Forum des Halles de Paris. Des graphiques colorés constitués de LED habillent les murs du tunnel, faisant du passage une expérience sensorielle et musicale.
Jul 03
« Sphere » est le nom d’une série de clichés réalisée par le photographe français Alexandre Bordereau. Ce dernier nous propose des images de divers lieux de la capitale et de sa banlieue avec en leur centre une sphère reflétant ce que le spectateur ne voit pas dans l’image. A découvrir dans la suite.
Jun 26
Food with edible packaging is served around a circular counter at the WikiBar in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur.
The cafe is the first in a proposed chain of WikiBars selling an innovative range of WikiPearl foods that are protected by an edible skin. Products in the range include ice creams that don’t melt when touched, yoghurts that can be eaten without a spoon and cheeses that don’t need to be wrapped in foil.
Referencing the molecular structure of the food, Mathieu Lehanneur used a tessellated pattern of hexagons as the motif for the cafe’s interior.
This motif was applied to a mirrored light on the ceiling and a seating area beside the window. The outlines of hexagons also shine through the counter from lighting concealed underneath.
Glass cloches surround a selection of treats on sale, which can also be taken home using simple biodegradable bags to keep them clean. Meanwhile, the story of the brand is displayed across the rear wall.
Harvard professor David Edwards started the WikiFoods company with designer François Azambourg and biologist Don Ingber, after first developing a concept for foods that can survive without protective plastic packaging. Edwards is also the founder of ArtScience Labs and collaborated with Philippe Starck on an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without getting drunk.
Another Wikibar is set to open soon in Massachusetts and a series of pop-up and mobile bars are also planned for the near future.
Designer Mathieu Lehanneur has worked on several unusual interior design projects, from an advertising agency with caves made from pulped paper to a room at the Centre Pompidou where teenagers can hang out. See more design by Mathieu Lehanneur.
See more stories about food design on Dezeen, including prototypes for 3D-printed burgers and an edible desk lamp.
Photography is by Michel Giesbrecht.
Here’s a project description from the design team:
Wikibar by Mathieu Lehanneur
Mathieu Lehanneur is responsible for the interior design of the WikiBar, the first of many, that will open its doors at 4 Rue de Bouloi in the 1st district in Paris. A simple as well as radical concept: to offer good and eco-responsible food fighting and addressing the problem of pollution from packaging. This Wiki Food incorporates the natural principle of grapes: a sphere with an edible coating to protect the food. A principle adaptable to drinks, cream and from now onwards ice creams created in collaboration with Philippe Faure, the maestro of ice creams. Ice creams that do not melt in your hand are available in this first WikiBar!
Mathieu Lehanneur has created a decor symbolised by a mirror-light, an illuminating and reflective object formed of hexagons “a geometrical reference to the molecular structure of WikiPearl laminations (). A graphic design and a matter of cookery demonstrations for this revolutionary concept.” A symbol of the approximation of science and design, a logical onward step for the designer who has regularly collaborated with Le Laboratoire since the production of “Andrea,” the air purification system through plants. Mobile WikiBar, pop-up wiki bars are already on the horizon, and the next permanent Wiki Bar will be in the forthcoming Lab Cambridge, currently being designed. The American version of the Parisian Le Laboratoire initiated by David Edwards.
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Jun 25
Jenni Sparks BHV Paris
Posted in: Jenni SparksNuovo lavoro per Jenni Sparks dove ha disegnato questa mappa di Parigi per Rosapark e BHV store.
May 28
Dan Black – Hearts
Posted in: chic artistic, HeartsChic & Artistic ont imaginé un timelapse de 24h pour illustrer le dernier clip de Dan Black en featuring avec Kelis ‘Hearts’. Tournée sur un toit parisien, cette vidéo propose de découvrir 24 heures en quelques minutes avec l’artiste à raison d’un cliché toutes les 16 secondes. Une idée bien exécutée à découvrir dans la suite.
May 16
Water-Treatment Plant by AWP
Posted in: AWP, slideshowsFrench practice AWP has remodelled a water-treatment plant outside Paris to reveal its industrial processes to the public.
Located beside the Seine to the south of the city, the Évry Water-Treatment Plant was first established in the 1970s. Following a design competition in 2003, AWP developed a new masterplan for the site, adding four new buildings and a surrounding landscape of trees and gardens that will all be accesible to visitors.
Each of the buildings has a prefabricated concrete structure, with timber screens wrapping the upper sections to soften the industrial appearance of the facades. These screens surround large external ducts, as well as a number of balcony corridors.
The smallest of the four buildings functions as an entrance and exhibition centre for tourists, who will be able to tour the plant when it opens to the public later this year.
We’ve featured a few water-treatment plants designed by architects on Dezeen, including a combined garden and plant in Germany and a floating island that purifies river water.
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Photography is by Anna Positano.
Here’s a project description from AWP:
Water-Treatment Plant, Évry
Construction and renovation of four industrial buildings and a water park
Located on the Seine river front, close to a key metropolitan route (the Francilienne), Évry water depuration plant is a major infrastructural element that is at once symbolic and highly functional, reflecting environmental, technical and urban considerations.
The first plant was built in the 70s and the aim of this renovation is to increase and optimise its capacity. The urban dimension of the equipment has guided us towards a strategy of opening-up and hospitality. Previously rejected and hidden, this infrastructure is now relocated on the urban scene, so as to have a public role and to become symbolic. Regularly open to visitors, this equipment will become both a landmark and an experiential water filtering park.
The formal strategy consists of a main axis along the river where gardens, new buildings and tanks are located. Buildings will be renovated and their façades completely redesigned as urban scale filters.
Location: Évry, France
Client: Communauté d’agglomération d’Évry
Architects: AWP (leading architect) + Ithaques
Team AWP: Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta (partners), Miguel La Parra Knapman, Joseph Jabbour, David Perez (project team)
Engineering: Bonnard & Gardel (leading engineer)
Net surface: 6000 sqm (buildings)
Budget: €42 million
Competition: 2003
Delivery: 2012
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May 15
News: Saint Laurent has opened the doors to its new flagship store in Paris, the first to be designed by Hedi Slimane since he became creative director of the fashion house last year.
Located on Avenue Montaigne near the Champs-Élysées, the art deco-inspired Saint Laurent store features a marble staircase encased by rods of nickel-plated brass.
Black and white marble has been used for the walls, floors and a row of shelves, above which hang nickel-plated bars for displaying clothes.
The monochrome interior is reflected in the black and white photographs accompanying the opening of the store.
Formerly known as Yves Saint Laurent, after its founder, the fashion house’s name was changed soon after Slimane took over as creative director last spring.
Saint Laurent’s Sloane Street concept store in London is set to open in the autumn.
Other fashion boutiques we’ve featured lately include a shop in Warsaw with an upside-down living room on its ceiling and a Milan boutique featuring glass silhouettes of male and female figures – see all shops on Dezeen.
An exhibition of high fashion inspired by punk recently opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – see all fashion design.
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May 07
Doors, windows and recesses are picked out in yellow ochre on the timber facade of this retirement home near Paris by French studio Vous Êtes Ici Architectes (+ slideshow).
The four-storey Morangis Retirement Home was designed by Vous Êtes Ici Architectes with a Y-shaped plan that divides the interiors into three wings.
Siberian larch is arranged in vertical strips over the exterior of the building and also forms canopies across the various entrances.
The primary entrance is located at the junction of two wings and leads into the centre of the building. Additional entry points are positioned along the northern facade for service access.
The ground floor of the building is taken up by communal rooms, health facilities and staff areas. Shared dining rooms, living rooms and other social areas are grouped together around the south-east elevation and open to a private residents’ garden.
Bedrooms occupy the three upper floors of the building. The first and second floors accommodate typical residents and are divided into clusters of 13 bedrooms, each with their own dining and activity room. Meanwhile, the third floor is dedicated to patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.
Central corridors provide clear routes between the different sections of each floor. Rather than relying on artificial lighting, they each feature windows to bring in as much daylight as possible.
The third floor also features two roof terraces with direct access to ground level via a pair of outdoor staircases.
We’ve previously featured a nursing home in Portugal on Dezeen, which was this year shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award.
See more housing developments on Dezeen, or see more architecture in Paris.
Photography is by 11H45.
Read on for more details from Vous Êtes Ici Architectes:
Ehpad de Morangis – Vous Êtes Ici Architectes
How could we build a socially orientated retirement home and never neglect comfort and sensorial fulfillment?
A retirement home for all
Based on an off-plan concept led by AXENTIA as a social contractor and IMMODIEZE as a private developer, the Morangis Retirement Home was constructed with financial support from the Conseil Général de l’Essone, Regional support as well as the Regional Health Agency and the town of Morangis.
The operator and tenant of the new building is an Autonomous Public Establishment that offers stays as low as €60 per day. This low and democratic offer was attained without sacrificing the quality of service or the finish of the construction.
An orientated building
The building is constructed on 4 levels and is based on a Y-shaped plan. The building occupies the site as follows:
1) The main public entrance is located where the “Y’ strands connect
2) The north façade is dedicated to service, deliveries and employee’s entrance
3) The south façade is generously opened towards the residents private park
The plan is organized according to a few constraints: compact, rational and open towards the outside.
The living areas as well as the main activities areas (restaurant, salon) are developed around the private gardens. These areas benefit from the view and easy dedicated access to the gardens. The gardens include therapeutically themed spaces as well as more traditional paths around flower beds and a rose garden.
The rooms on floor one and two are dedicated to classical geriatric residents, the rooms are disposed into 6 units of 13 rooms each.
The third floor is dedicated to patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or other similar neurological disorders. The floor includes vast dedicated spaces for specialized activities, rest and well-being.
All the floors are accessible from the central node intersecting all of the buildings functions and patient units.
Views and light for all
One of the base lines of this project is to offer, all through the construction and all its sleeping units, framed views. Each unit has a main gathering area for activities or meals as well as a smaller area placed in front of loggia or suspended gardens. All these small areas include large windows and quality framed views.
The corridors, usually blind and suffocating spaces, always include wider spaces with outside views, this allows our elders to move around at their pace towards lights and rest areas in the buildings circulations, they may easily meet and chat with fellow residents without having a difficult and stressing path to do so.
The third floor has two large terraces easily accessible to the residents. These terraces, widely orientated towards the park, are treated as a prolongation of the inner spaces.
On an individual’s point of view, the building rooms were designed differently with windows offering distant views of the countryside and treated as hotel rooms more than hospital rooms. The windows all designed with a glass panel to the floor allowing bedded residents to have a view.
Materials and Volumes
A unique volume with different spaces: unity is not uniformity.
On the outer skin wrapping the building, openings are pierced following no specific symmetry; the sculpted facades offer various views and volumes behind the outer skin.
This envelope covering the building is made out of Siberian larch wood; these wooden boards are warm and comforting. The outer skin vibrates according to the sun and time of the day. The larch boards are top quality solid wood, they are butted together to prevent deformation and to remove defaults.
Wooden awnings extend the facades skin away from the building creating shelter from the sun and rain and protecting the ground floor’s salons and restaurants.
Every time the outer skin is punched in to form a dent in the global volume this corresponds to a specific socializing space: inner rest areas widely opened towards the park or the third floors terraces. The “dents” allow the sun and the light to reach in deeply into the building for those whom have difficulties moving about. As soon as the outer skin is breached to create a volume a different material and color is used to outline these inner volumes. A warm orange to yellow coating has been applied on the outer walls exaggerating the warmth of the light. The ambiance is friendly and warm and the yellow resonates nicely with the natural warmth of wood. As a result the dynamic spaces we offer are worth the effort needed to reach by elderly people.
This bright and lively color, stimulating without being aggressive, is also the one used for the window and door frames of the facades found under the awnings and in the bedrooms. As one approaches the building and passes below the awnings towards the yellow coating, as he is welcomed, will feel and understand the building’s harmony. One will easily understand how the building works and how it is connected to its natural and urban surroundings.
Developer: Immodieze and AXENTIA for the Conseil General du 91
Architects: Vous Êtes Ici Architectes
Location: Morangis southern Parisian suburb
Program: Retirement home with 91 rooms
Cost: 9.4 million euros
Calendar: First building permit 2010, final delivery 2013
Area: 5315 sqm, 46 parking spaces, total plot area 9950 sqm
Partners and collaborators: Dumez IDF (general contractor), FACEA (fluids engineering) LECARPENTIER (exteriors and landscaping) SPOOMS (kitchen engineering) CAP HORN (Acoustics engineering) LAPOINTE (roads and water engineering)
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May 03
Paris Liquor Store
Posted in: alcool, krizo, liquor, ninjaz, paris liquor storeThe Paris Liquor Store est une nouvelle adresse de la capitale française pensée pour tous les amateurs d’alcools « tendance ». Avec une direction artistique très réussie réalisée par Ninjaz, ces créations typographiques à la craie et au posca sont à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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