Voici une cuisine de Valcucine pensée et dessinée afin de permettre à l’espace de s’adapter en fonction des besoins de l’utilisateur. Le tout est particulièrement résistant tout en restant élégant et design. Plus de visuels de cette cuisine du spécialiste italien dans la suite.
Throughout most of the 90s, even if you didn’t care a lick about the art world, it was nearly impossible to not read or hear something about the Young British Artists (both the people and the associated, sort-of-movement itself). But now that the YBAs aren’t so Y anymore, and members like Damien Hirst have become millionaires several times over and have maybe even gotten too comfortable inside “the establishment,” who is there to step in as the next class? The Independent has a great rundown on who these next YBAs are, picking out individual artists seem the most likely poised to step into higher-profile roles, as well as offering up a general overview of the new scene in general. In short, according to the paper, while the old YBAs loved to shock and play to the tabloids, this new classis elegant, polite, and “closer to F. Scott Fitzgerald than Irvine Welsh.”
“The work of this new generation is more thoughtful, beautiful, elegant and profound. The YBA generation tried to provoke outrage through a direct relationship with the public,” says Nick Hackworth, the director of London’s Paradise Row gallery. And he laughs as he agrees that it is not only the artwork that is beautiful and elegant, but also the artists themselves.
It will be interesting to see if lots of media attention can still be had without all those old YBA shenanigans. We’re not sure how that’s possible, but we’re more than happy to be shown the way.
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Danish firm ADEPT and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto have won a competition to design a library for the Högskolan Dalarna university campus in Falun, Sweden.
Called Dalarna Media Arena, the building will feature sloped floors that spiral around the interior.
It will be used by students and teachers at the university as well as the local community, and include a public plaza outside.
ADEPT and Sou Fujimoto collaborated with Topotek1, Rambøll A/S and Bosch & Fjord to create the design.
Completion is expected in 2013.
Here are some more details from ADEPT:
ADEPT WINS SWEDISH MEDIA LIBRARY COMPETITION WITH AMULTIFUNCTIONAL“SPIRAL OF KNOWLEDGE”
Danish ADEPT, Japanese SOU FUJIMOTO Architects and an advisory team consisting of Topotek1, Rambøll A/S and Bosch & Fjord win the competition for a new library in Falun, Sweden, with the project “Dalarna Media Arena”. The project, which consists of a 3000m2 library and an adjoining plaza, is a part of Dalarna University campus.
Dalarna Media Arena is a reinterpretation of the library – a multifunctional event- and knowledge center – targeting students and teachers as well as the local community. Dalarna Media Arena matches a new library culture, staging a wealth of opportunities for events and inspiration. The library and plaza at Högskolan Dalarna will be the city’s third space – a dynamic meeting point with activities for students, employees and visitors.
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The library is organized as a ”spiral of knowledge”. The sloping terrain continues in a ramp through the building. Wrapping itself the ramp creates a spiral-shaped space – the heart of the building for information seeking and easy orientation. This organization of program creates various learning environments where students can take part in the vibrant life of the library as well as retreat into various study niches. The different sound levels and activities create a diverse and eventful library.
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The library has its own spatial character in which library and multimedia functions unite and create synergy with the existing university. Wooden facades integrate the building in the surroundings, reflecting the local tradition of using wood as construction material.
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Dalarna Media Plaza is created in addition to the library – together they form a new landmark for Hogskolan Dalarna. Through a simple reorganization the car park becomes a new surface with ‘islands’ of activities.
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The programming of the Plaza is flexible and will be developed in the user process. The Plaza, which is a mix of recreational functions and furniture, serves as arrival area and hang-out space for users of Hogskolan, the library and visitors in the area.
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This project will help to attract people in the neighborhood, thereby anchoring the library in the local community. In addition the ambition is to strengthen the collaboration between regional and international educational and research institutions.
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With its public functions and activities Dalarna Media Library will become a dynamo in the area and an attraction for both local inhabitants and businesses. Activities in the café, exhibitions, lectures, continuing education, etc. will provide fertile ground for international exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Dalarna Media Arena is designed by an international team consisting of ADEPT (DK) and Sou Fujimoto Architects (JP) in collaboration with Rambøll (DK), Topotek1 (DE) and Bosch & Fjord (DK). ADEPT and Sou Fujimoto Architects also joined forces for the Deichmanske Library competition in Oslo, Norway.
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The jury minutes stated: “In conclusion it’s an exciting building rich on variety and with many possible meeting points integrated in a coherent environment. The proposal has solved the total program in an interesting, exciting and playful manner – inside as well as outside.”
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A summer renovation project at the University of Rhode Island has uncovered six murals created in the 1930s and 1940s for the Works Progress Adminstration. They are the work of Gino Conti, a Providence artist who completed his final set of mural paintings for the lobby of Edwards Hall at what was then known as Rhode Island State College. Historians believed the canvases to be lost until a team of workers renovating the 900-seat auditorium discovered them beneath walls and panelling erected in the 1960s. The works are classically inspired, according to URI art history professor Ron Onorato, an expert on WPA works who interviewed Conti before his death in 1983. “He was looking at European work; he went to Europe a number of times, and also examined the famous Mexican muralists in the 1930s,” said Onorato. “These murals are about values.”
The university brought in professionals from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center to remove and clean the murals, which were affixed to the walls with wallpaper paste. “We were very excited to see the uncovering of the works and further to learn they are of a Providence based artist whose family moved to Rhode Island in the very early 1900s,” said Thomas Frisbie-Fulton, director of Campus Planning and Design, in a statement issued by the university. “Our work since uncovering the murals has been to isolate them and protect them from the ongoing construction.” The goal is to eventually return the murals to the auditorium.
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The show Marketplace that aired on National Public Radio had a very poignant piece this past Friday about the hypocrisy surrounding the business, marketing, and branding of Eat, Pray, Love‘s “simplification” and “de-cluttering” merchandise.
You can listen to the segment or read the transcript on the NPR website.
My favorite excerpt from Stacey Vanek-Smith’s Marketplace piece:
[Andrew] Bennett [author of the book Consumed] says “Eat Pray Love” taps into something the whole culture has been moving towards.Bennett: “It talks about finding your inner self and spirituality and a return to simplicity and enjoying life’s simple pleasures.”
Like drinking “Eat Pray Love” tea, out of an “Eat Pray Love” cup, in your “Eat Pray Love” tunic, on your “Eat Pray Love” Malay queen bed. What could be simpler?
I was also surprised to learn about the Home Shopping Network’s “three-day ‘Eat Pray Love’-a-palooza” with more than 400 simplification-themed products, Sony’s Eat Pray Love laptop, and the Eat Pray Love prayer beads. The marketing of thousands of products surrounding this stuff-won’t-make-you-happy themed movie makes Disney film merchandising look like literal child’s play. Unclutterers are smart consumers who are not wholly against buying things, but does the merchandising industry really believe that dedicated followers of simple living are going to rush out and buy ALL of this stuff? Does the world really need thousands of Eat, Pray, Love doodads?
Apparently, the strategy for product marketing to simple living followers is: “Buy, buy, buy, and then unclutter it all so you can buy some more.”
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Following a summer of slick and snazzy sports ads celebrating athleticism in various forms (though mostly football), Puma has released this spot championing the ‘after hours athlete’, fuelled on beer and kebabs rather than Lucozade and half-time oranges…
The ad is created by Droga5 ad agency in New York, and directed by Ringan Ledwidge.
A biennial explores robot behavior with site-specific installations
Asking 11 artists and scientists from around the world to consider the “emerging behaviors” of devices, the fifth annual Biennial of Art and Technology: Art.ficial Emotion is a fascinating and provocative meditation on the future of technology.
Leonel Moura’s Robotarium SP, a site-specific robot zoo based on an existing Robotarium in Portugal, is complete with robot animals that not only have their own forms, but act in their own peculiar ways, zooming and relaxing at will.
SymbioticA, a trans-continental collective between Australia and the U.S., developed
Silent Barrage—a set of robots that make their marks on columns while rat neurons, stored in a glass container on a different continent, fire away. The creatures also take notice of the presence of visitors at the show and react by scribbling on the columns.
A national entry comes from
Grupo Poéticas Digitais. Its Mulberry Trees Project consists of five mulberry trees installed in front of the cultural center on the sidewalk. The wired trees are programmed to take cues from the sounds around them, then vibrating and making sounds when confronted with danger.
Two exhibits take on the human form directly.
Ballet Digitallique by Lali Krotoszynski turns visitor’s silhouettes into walking beings of their own.
Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head is a digital version of the artist’s head, verbally interacting with those who speak to it.
The exhibit runs through 1 September 2010.
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