From Notcot
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:25 PM
TO PAGE 2 of "Chameleon Window Displays"! ----->
Just found a bunch of these photos on my phone… couldn’t help being fascinated by the chameleon window displays at Aritzia while wandering soho… see them all on the next page!
(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:03 PM
How would the design of the built environment, the process and practice of architecture change if women were leading and equally represented?
Nina Freedman and Lori Brown are seeking funding for "Women in Architecture", an initiative to transform leadership for women in architecture by bridging academy and practice.
From Gizmodo
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
Perhaps you're whittling the last couple of hours away at your desk, trying to look busy until quitting time. So while you're trying to make it to the three day weekend, here are some of the best design posts we showed you this week.
Dominic Wilcox has a knack for the absurd. He’s designed gold-plated luxury skipping stones, anti-theft bike stickers, and a post-it note tattoo for hand-written notes. His latest design, though,...
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
© LDS Newsroom
El “Tabernáculo de Provo”, un edificio que pesa aproximadamente siete millones de libras, sufrió un grave incendio en el año 2010. Hoy parece flotar en el aire gracias a los trabajos de remodelación: sus pesados muros exteriores descansan sobre andamios de 12 metros de altura, haciéndolo parecer tan ligero como una maqueta.
Impresionantes imágenes de las obras y un video, a continuación.
© LDS Newsroom
Patrimonio histórico y símbolo de la ciudad de Provo, en Utah (Estados...
From Core77
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
Photo by Benjamin Norman for The New York TimesIn New York City there are plenty of places to get drunk, starting with my kitchen. But most crave a more glamorous experience, and in a city of millions, glamor is often equated with exclusivity and secrecy. Faux speakeasys have become as much of a cliché as drunken fistfights in the Meatpacking District. Yet for a brief period earlier this year, a group of artists ran a true speakeasy in the most unusual of locations: A water tower atop an abandoned building in Chelsea.
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Photo by Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:56 PM
At $3.74 billion, plus another $200 million in contingencies, the “Transportation Hub” at the World Trade Center—not even the busiest station in the Financial District—will be far and away the most expensive train station built in modern history.The Hub, as it’s known in Port Authority speak, will be the crowning artistic statement of the World Trade Center complex, perhaps the last grand gesture at a site that was supposed to be full of them.
From Notcot
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:50 PM
TO PAGE 2 of "Inspiration in NYC"! ----->
For all of the NY Design Week randomness we’ve loved and already posted, flipping through our instagrams (and Shawn’s) proved the real fun happened between the events! So here’s a peek at everything ELSE that inspired and amused us that turned up on our phones! Take a peek at everything from the LOOK signage i was hunting for, to street art, to taco store floors, to the game of thrones like saw chair, the wedding we went to, the wooden beer slide, suits and surf photoshoot, and so much more on the next page… (and for those who follow our instagrams, here’s a bit more context.)
(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:49 PM
The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and architects worked with, leaned on, stole from and influenced one another in the 1970s.In a larger sense, it charts the way Southern California architects threw off the influence of establishmen Modernism and helped remake the profession in that decade.
Packed with mostly small-scale work by artists Judy Chicago, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Smithson, Ed Moses and architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli and Frank Gehry, among many others, it is easily the most surprising and opinionated of the exhibitions to open as part of the Getty L.A. architecture series "Pacific Standard Time Presents."
From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:47 PM
This summer at the almost defiantly unhip South Street Seaport, there shall be pop-up boutiques housed in shipping containers. There shall be outdoor film screenings with lounge-chair seating. There shall be SmorgasBar. And, the lords of artificial weather willing, there may be glitter rain.
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:30 PM
From Designapplause
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:07 PM
Pininfarina, the traditional designer for Ferrari has created a concept for BMW. “With the BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupé, the two time-honored companies are unveiling the outcome of their first collaboration at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2013. The BMW Pininfarina Gran Lusso Coupé is a one-off and represents the exclusive interpretation of a luxurious BMW Coupé as seen through the eyes of Pininfarina. Working in close consultation, the two design teams have created a new...From Archdaily
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:00 PM
Belatchew Arkitekter has presented a concept for transforming high-rise towers into power-generating factories. The Swedish firm’s proposal involves covering a Stockholm skyscraper with “electricity-generating bristles”. The tower in question is Henning Larsen’s Söder Torn tower on Södermalm in Stockholm. Belatchew has designed a wind farm that will top the existing building with a 16-story extension, covering the facade with “hairy-looking plastic straws designed to move with the wind”.
Join us after the break for more details and images of this proposal.
The individual plastic bristles operate using piezoelectric technology, which generates electricity through mechanical pressure. This type of technology has been explored in other applications, such as storing energy...
From Architechnophilia
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:00 PM
Bjarke Injels GroupPosted on May 24th 2013, 06:00 PM
© Iwan Baan
Arquitectos: MASS Design Group
Ubicación: Rwanda
Arquitecto A Cargo: MASS Design Group
Área: 500.0 m2
Año: 2012
Fotografías: Iwan Baan
En el año 2005, Global health pioneer Partners In Health (PIH) se asoció con el Ministerio de Salud de Ruanda para ampliar el acceso a la salud a lo largo de las zonas rurales del país, sobre todo en el Distrito de Burera, con una población de 340.000 personas. Reconociendo la oportunidad de aprovechar el diseño para mejorar los resultados...
From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 05:48 PM
