Une vidéo qui vise la prévention et la sensibilisation au VIH afin de rappeler aux personnes la menace et les mesures à prendre. Une réalisation de Yves-Christian Fournier dans le cadre de la campagne One Life, avec comme baseline : “Protect yourself, understand the danger”.
Frei + Saarinen Architects of Switzerland renovated this 100 year-old parish centre in Zurich by installing walls at all angles.
The project, entitled Parish House St. Josef, involved creating a glazed entrance on the ground floor, wood-clad lobby with sloping, faceted walls, and the priest’s accommodation above.
The priest’s apartment leads onto a small terrace, with the angled roof translating to one of four sloping walls inside.
The following information is from Frei + Saarinen Architects:
Frei + Saarinen Architects converted a 100-years-old Parish Centre in Zurich and implanted a new wooden lobby with a unique atmosphere that is generated by a clash of “trendy“ facetted geometries and an old fashioned way of detailing.
The geometry of the new lobby is the consequence of stretching the formerly enclosed space towards the facades and respecting the given bearing structure.
A new rooflight accentuates the entrance to the hall.
Additionally this vertical element “slows down“ the dynamic character of the lobby.
Aditionally, a new appartment for the priest was designed at the top level.
Since a part of the former bigger terrace was covered by a roof-extension, a portion of the tilted roof became a tilted interior wall.
Thereby a new pentagonal room with four tilted walls is generated – the priest’s new “tilted“ living room.
Only two new elements are seen from outside: The new fully glazed entrance to the lobby (the glass is a custom product weighting 1.5 tons) and the new dormer window leading from the priest’s living room to the terrace thet can be partly covered.
Above: lobby process
Above: priest’s home
Above: ground floor
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It’s almost here: National Design Week (October 9-17)! Now in its fifth year, the Cooper-Hewitt initiative is part educational (free museum admission, public programs galore) and part celebrational (the National Design Awards gala). It also extends well beyond New York City, with designtastic exhibitions and events happening from Tacoma to Miami. Were we encumbered by space, time, and the UnBeige expense account, here’s seven of them we wouldn’t miss:
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One example of the silver tableware sets originally sketched out in sugar
Studio Makkink & Bey were asked by Vienna Design Week to create new work for an exhibition on table culture entitled ‘Baroque Splendour and Stainless Steel. Table Culture with a Past and a Future.’
They proposed tableware and products in answer to the Habsburg valuables found in the Imperial Silver Collection at the Liechtenstein Museum—a museum exhibiting masterpieces covering five centuries of European art from the collections of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein. The show is staged in the special exhibition galleries of the museum until 15th November 2010.
 | Congratulations to ‘Jane S.’ for winning the “Sorel Fall Sweepstakes” with her Sunday Stroll grid.Keep a lookout for the ‘Sorel Re-Boot Your Winter Style’ Sweepstakes launching November 1st! |
 | I saw ombre style tights floating around a lot last year and I’m happy to see they’re making an appearance again this year as well! Tights that slowly darken look really cool with dresses and these Dip & Dyed knee high socks by Sock Theory are a great take on the hombre tights trend. Knee high socks are always a sexy alternative to tights and these ones are so affordable! For only $10, you can create a great effect for your outfit of the day.The mix of gray and black makes this a great transition piece, too, with not just ample coverage against the cooler weather, but with versatile colors to match most things that are already in your closet! They’re formal enough for the office, but sexy enough for night-time fun! I’m looking forward to wearing these this Fall and Winter because I know they’ll add a unique flare to any of my outfits and what’s better than staying toasty and stylish? If you’re trying to show off a great pair of heels, these socks will do the trick in no time! You might want to grab a few pairs, though, because these will be in heavy rotation for sure!
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Come for the proto-cubism and Mayan sea creatures, stay for the Renzo Piano maquette! Such is the range of works now on view at the Kimbell Art Museum, which recently unveiled the final design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop for a major new museum building located to the west of its iconic Louis Kahn-designed home. The Fort Worth institution is offering visitors a glimpse of its future with a detailed scale model of the new building (pictured at right, click for an enlarged version) now on display in the museum lobby. “The model is beautiful,” says Kimbell director Eric M. Lee. “It will provide visitors with a clearer understanding of how the new building relates to the Kahn building and how it will be positioned in the landscape.”
Expected to open in 2013 and cost $125 million, the Kimbell’s Piano-designed addition will consist of two connected structures: the first, facing and echoing the west front of the Kahn building and the second, running parallel in the rear. The front pavilion will welcome visitors into a spacious, travertine-clad lobby, with major exhibition galleries extending to the north and south. A third gallery, as well as an auditorium, library, and education center, will be housed in the rear pavilion, which will be topped with a green roof (the recreational possibilities are endless…Kimbell kickball, anyone?). In addition to the green roof, which reduces heating and cooling demands, photovoltaic panels on the lobby’s floating glass roof will shade direct sun, filter daylight, and generate enough power to offset up to half of the carbon produced by the building each year. “I see designing for energy savings as the only proper, contemporary way to build, not as an ‘add on,’” said Piano in describing his approach to the Kimbell’s new building, which will require only a fourth of the energy consumed by the Kahn building.
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Pour célébrer le lancement des nouveaux modèles de la marque Selfridges, Lernert & Sander a conçu ces facades de boutiques et installations reprenant la conception des chaussures mélangé à l’univers de l’électroménager. Une production Blinkart et des photographies de Lex Kembery.
Tonight we celebrate the publication of The Elegant Cockroach by Deidre Anne Martin with illustrations by Stefanie Augustine. Friends and family are welcome to join us from 5-7pm and then it is open to the public from 7-9pm. Deidre would be happy to sign your book and Stefanie’s original collages are for sale. Please come by!
We’re in downtown Calgary, upper level of Art Central which is at the corner of 7th ave SW and Centre Street. Conveniently located along the c-train route and kitty corner from the Hyatt Hotel.
Above are images of Stefanie’s illustration work in progress.
The book is hardcover with black fabric and a copper foil beneath the illustrated slipjacket. Matte black endpapers with silky cream paper. Very elegant!
I will always remember my first introduction to the power of good product design. I was newly arrived at Apple, still learning the ways of business, when I was visited by a member of Apple’s Industrial Design team. He showed me a foam mockup of a proposed product. “Wow,” I said, “I want one! What is it?”
That experience brought home the power of design: I was excited and enthusiastic even before I knew what it was. This type of visceral “wow” response requires creative designers. It is subjective, personal. Uh oh, this is not what engineers like to hear. If you can’t put a number to it, it’s not important. As a result, there is a trend to eliminate designers. Who needs them when we can simply test our way to success? The excitement of powerful, captivating design is defined as irrelevant. Worse, the nature of design is in danger.
Don’t believe me? Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior designer at Google recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or understanding of design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test results, not human skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effective? Try it out. Google can quickly submit samples to millions of people in well-controlled trials, pitting one design against another, selecting the winner based upon number of clicks, or sales, or whatever objective measure they wish. Which color of blue is best? Test. Item placement? Test. Web page layout? Test.
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