Cool Hunting Video: Christopher O’Riley: Transforming pop music hits into classical piano masterpieces

Cool Hunting Video: Christopher O'Riley


In a private residence on NYC’s Upper West Side, we recently had the pleasure of attending a thrilling performance organized by Culture Shock featuring pianist Christopher O’Riley. Renowned…

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Rock Design House

Au bord d’un lac d’Espagne, Ensamble Studio a décidé de construire la maison « The Truffle » qui a été évidée par une vache nommée Paulina. Faite tout en pierre naturelle, la maison offre un petit cadre agréable où le minimalisme est de rigueur. Des photos signées Roland Halbe à découvrir dans la suite.


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Rock Climbing Building

New Wave Architecture a imaginé ce bâtiment impressionnant pour la communauté des amoureux de l’escalade. Prévue à Polur en Iran, cette structure est une ode à la nature et une invitation à grimper sur son toit. Un lieu pensé et dédié à l’escalade à découvrir dans une série d’images dans la suite.

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Best of CH 2013: ListenUp: The top songs, albums and artists influencing an incredible year in music

Best of CH 2013: ListenUp


As 2013 comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect upon the hundreds of songs that hit our headphones, had us dancing and influenced daily life throughout the year, many of which we reported on in our weekly feature, ListenUp. Below are 12 of our favorite singles…

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ListenUp: Nashville’s Hotel War, Lianne La Havas for Converse and a classic ’80s #PrivateJam in our look at music this week

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Lianne La Havas: Twice (Little Dragon cover) South London songstress Lianne La Havas is known for heartfelt songwriting as much as her soulful voice, but it turns out she can breathe new life into other artists’ work too—as evidenced by her cover of…

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Rock Paper Scissors

Les allemands de weAREmedienkuenstler ont eu l’idée de programmer deux ordinateurs jouant à un pierre, feuille, ciseaux. Chaque ordinateur choisit une des trois possibilités, et réagit face au choix de l’autre, permettant ainsi de compter les points. Une idée étonnante à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.

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Layers of Glass on Objects

Né à Tokyo et vivant à Dusseldorf, Ramon Todo imagine de magnifiques créations en insérant des blocs de verre dans divers objets. Des oeuvres splendides et surréalistes, utilisant des roches volcaniques, des livres ou encore des fragments du mur de Berlin que l’on peut retrouver au Art Front Gallery.

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Dezeen Music Project: Facility by Dead Red Sun

We’ve been using music by London instrumental band Dead Red Sun on the soundtracks for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour movies from the UK capital.

This track called Facility builds up intricately with increasingly busy layers of post-rock guitars before a heavy dose of no-nonsense distortion kicks in halfway through.

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Interview: JIHAE : The artist on working with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and co-writing music for a Leonard Cohen poem about an orgasm

Interview: JIHAE


Many singers these days produce albums that have been laboriously groomed and primped—from almost-too-perfect Autotuned vocals to the overly airbrushed album cover—so it’s refreshing to meet a singer and songwriter with a sultry voice and raw energy who’s not afraid to express her…

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ListenUp: Fiona Apple’s “Hot Knife,” ARP’s “High-Heeled Clouds,” Tiki Disco and more in this week’s music recap

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Kitten Pyramid: Uh Oh As the UK celebrated the birth of a future prince on 22 August 2013, the hilariously named British prog rock band Kitten Pyramid released their own gem when their debut single “Uh…

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