Voici le trailer récent de la vidéo de skate « Into the Thicket ». Réalisée par le boutique canadienne de vêtements Sitka, cette création montre les tricks réalisés par des professionnels sur une rampe installée au milieu d’une forêt de Vancouver. De superbes images à découvrir dans la suite.
Focus sur l’artiste française Claire Fontaine qui a réalisé en 2011 cette superbe installation appelée « U.S.A. » composée de milliers d’allumettes de bois insérées dans un mur au Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Une véritable réussite visuelle à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Après le projet artisanal initié par le français Thibaut Malet, la marque japonaise Mokulock a eu l’excellente idée de proposer des briques similaires à la marque Lego entièrement en bois. Contenant 50 pièces, ces sachets de jouets sobres et élégants sont à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Hackney studio Gort Scott subtly added the outline of a cat’s ears to the facade of this feline veterinary clinic outside Cambridge (+ slideshow).
The architects wanted to create references to cats in the design, but agreed with the client that these details would be subtle. “After years of designing with human situations in mind, it was quite interesting also designing with cats in mind,” Jay Gort told Dezeen.
The building occupies a former joinery shed in the village of Fulbourn. Gort Scott covered the original facade with cedar slats and picked out the shape of the cat’s ears using wider sections.
“The screen was considered the most elegant and cost effective way of giving the building a more welcoming, joyful appearance in a context of fairly run-down sheds,” said Gort.
The building’s interior is reorganised, creating a large reception and waiting area at the front of the clinic. The reception desk is built from plywood and features ornate feet shaped like cat’s paws.
Beyond the reception are a series of consulting rooms, an operating theatre and a diagnostic laboratory, plus a large preparation room lit from above by skylights.
Interior walls are painted in calming shades of turquoise, with occasional details picked out in yellow.
Gort Scott is led by architects Jay Gort and Fiona Scott, whose past projects include a rugged stone house on the Isle of Man. Jay Gort also spoke at Dezeen’s Designed in Hackney Day last year, where he argued that the beleaguered British high street is actually a thriving location of “collision and conflict”.
Another veterinary clinic completed recently is a combined surgery and home in Japan.
Photography is by Angus Leadley Brown.
Here’s some more information from Gort Scott:
Cambridge Cat Clinic
The site for this new, cat-specialist veterinary practice was originally a joinery workshop, opposite an open field at the edge of Cambridge. Our client was a veterinarian establishing a new business.
Gort Scott obtained planning permission for change of use and remodelling of the existing building to also include a new cedar wood screen on the front elevation, with a suggestion of cats ears. Beyond this screen is a generous reception and waiting area with specially-designed furniture, and views back to the open field.
The main working area for the medical staff is a large multi-functioning ‘prep room’, which is top-lit by two generous skylights.
The scheme’s design includes many aspects that respond to the client’s considered approach to the welfare of her animal patients and their owners.
The building serves both as a general practice specialising in feline medicine, and also as a surgery, with a full operating theatre, lab and diagnostic area.
Above: site plan – click for larger image
Name of project: Cambridge Cat Clinic
Date of completion: 01/ 06/ 2012
Total contract value; £156,000
Credits list
Client: Cambridge Cat Clinic
Start on site date: 05/11/2011
Gross internal floor area: 224m2
Above: floor plan – click for larger image
Form of contract and/or procurement : JCT Minor Works contract
Structural engineer: Charles Tallack Engineering consultancy
Planning supervisor: AFP Construction consultants
Total cost : £156,000
Main contractor: Bob Black Construction Ltd.
Selected subcontractors and suppliers:
Windows: Velfac
Flooring: Forbo
Internal partitions: Rodecca
Joinery: Precision Joinery
Above: front elevation – click for larger image
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Ennesimo rack da muro per la vostra dueruote. Questo è prodotto a Montreal da Try Consult, adatto a manubri non più lunghi di 19 pollici.
Voici les derniers travaux du studio américain McNabb & Co, basé à Philadelphie. En effet, ils ont imaginés cette magnifique collection de sculptures en bois appelée « City Series » sous différentes formes. De superbes représentations d’immeubles de manière artisanales sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: South Korean designer Soyoon Choi has created a wooden lounge chair with armrests inspired by a ribcage.
Bone by Soyoon Choi is made from beech and painted in a bright shade of red.
The chair was launched at Seoul Design Festival last December and is available to buy directly from the designer.
We’ve featured plenty of wooden chairs lately, including some wonky chairs that look like classic designs when seen from a certain angle and another made from old broom handles – see all chairs.
Other pieces of South Korean design we’ve published include storage boxes fastened with duffle coat toggles and hand-made speakers made from ceramic and twigs.
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In recent years a wave of wooden eyewear has swept through the fashion world, introducing brands like Herrlicht and Drift, as well as the more accessible Shwood. Novel? Yes. But durable? Not necessarily. Addressing that important part of the equation is Brooklyn Spectacles, makers of faux wood acetate frames….
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This timber-clad cinema in the south of France was designed by architects Encore Heureux to evoke both the arched facades of art deco picture houses and the herringbone walls of local tobacco-drying sheds (+ slideshow).
Located beside a former military camp in Auch, Ciné 32 is a five-screen cinema contained inside a staggered row of numbered wooden sheds.
“Rather than a large infrastructure-type multiplex, we wanted to create the image of a collection of small neighbourhood cinemas together,” explains Encore Heureux.
Zig-zagging wooden slats dress the arched gables of each structure, while numbers one to five are hand-painted over the surfaces using a traditional decorative font.
One screen is contained inside each of the sheds and every one is furnished with different coloured seating.
Above: photograph is by Nicola Delon
The architects comment: “Cinema has this unique opportunity to gather different people for a common but yet unusual journey. We wish to offer remarkable conditions for such a trip.”
A sixth shed gives the cinema a double-height reception and is contrastingly clad with translucent polycarbonate.
Activity workshops are contained in this part of the building, alongside offices, an exhibition space, a cafe and a terrace.
Other recently designed cinemas include one in a former slaughterhouse and one under a motorway flyover. See more cinemas on Dezeen.
Above: photograph is by Adélaide Maisonabe
Photography is by Sébastien Normand, apart from where otherwise indicated.
Above: photograph is by Adélaide Maisonabe
Here’s a short project description from Encore Heureux:
Cinema at Auch
Concept
To built a five rooms cinema for CINE 32 association has to answer some challenges. What else than a shoe box as you find in suburban territory? What kind of identity would suit to a meeting point, place of discoveries, debates and diversity? What presence for a brand new building right downtown, in place of an old military camp? How could we propose a place and an identity that fit to Cine 32 and its actions towards an always broader and mixed public?
We came up with images of old cinemas’ pediment and tobacco dryer from the south-west of France, with their openwork natural wood façade. We also care for an assumed double life image, an adequate day and night use.
Cinema has this unique opportunity to gather different people for a common but yet unusual journey. We wish to offer remarkable conditions for such a trip.
A strong relationship
To carry this adventure out we’ve looked preciously to the relationship between architect and client. Every step of conception has produced multiple studies. For instance, projection rooms were subject to a narrative outline and climatic environments ; bases leading us to built atmospheres. Thus, we go through starry night (first room) to sunrise (second room).
Interior and façade lights were developed specifically to this project with an effort of economy, consistency and precision. As were the custom-made administration’s furnitures.
Artist Bonnefrite has lead building’s signage with a delicate touch. The main sign, on avenue de l’Yser side, is a powerful and joyful gesture toward the city. Hand-painted numbers on pediments reveal the diversity of both spaces and styles in cinema.
Strong involvement from local construction firms allowed us to respect lead time and expected budget equally with a common requirement for the result. The adventure proved to be forceful and appealing.
Above: site plan – click above for larger image
Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: first floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: front elevation – click above for larger image
Above: long section one – click above for larger image
Above: long section two – click above for larger image
Above: cinema section one – click above for larger image
Above: cinema section two – click above for larger image
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Driven to design a set of items that together form something greater than their individual parts, LA-based designer David Okum introduces The Made Collection. Now on Kickstarter, the handmade home and office accessories blend beautiful, mid-century modern-inspired aesthetics with contemporary crafting techniques. Aside from the solid aluminum trivet, the…
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