From Thecoolist
Posted on May 19th 2013, 11:05 PM
From Architravel
Posted on May 19th 2013, 10:38 PM
From Thecoolist
Posted on May 19th 2013, 10:37 PM
From Larevuedudesign
Posted on May 19th 2013, 10:00 PM
Développé par la designer Sophie de Oliveira Barata, le projet des “Alternative Limb Project” se propose de changer le regard que le grand public porte sur les prothèses « externes » (exo-prothèses, ayant pour objet la substitution d’un membre amputé), en développant un univers visuel totalement inédit s’affranchissant des codes de la simple imitation.
Elle a ainsi imaginé trois grandes tendances – réaliste, surréaliste, et irréelles – dont les images ci-dessous présentent quelques extraits. Certaines d’entre elles se proposent d’inclure des éléments bioniques, des reliefs en 3D, des effets de textures, ou encore des éléments électroniques ou sonores, des cristaux, et des compartiments secrets, etc.
Source: thealternativelimbproject.com (via ufunk.net).
Posted on May 19th 2013, 10:00 PM
Cortesía de arq.clarin.com
El pasado 11 de abril nos dejaba, a los 89 años de edad, el gran arquitecto argentino nacido en Italia, Clorindo Manuel José Testa. Hoy, apenas un mes después de su muerte, se está promoviendo la construcción de la que será su última obra, la ampliación de un comedor comunitario, proyectado hace seis meses.
El lugar elegido para la construcción de esta obra póstuma podría ser La Villa 21-24, de Barracas. El comedor, llamado “Paz y Amor”, originalmente...
From Archdaily
Posted on May 19th 2013, 10:00 PM
Completed in 1994, the Igualada Cemetery was designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos to be a place of reflection and memories. After 10 years of construction, their envision of a new type of cemetery was completed and began to consider those that were laid to rest, as well as the families that still remained.
The Igualada Cemetery is understood by the architects to be a “city of the dead” where the dead and the living are brought closer together in spirit. As much as the project is a place for those to be laid to rest, it is a place for those to come and reflect in the solitude and serenity of the Catalonian landscape of Barcelona, Spain. More on the project after the break.
Miralles and Pinos conceptualized the poetic ideas of a cemetery for the visitors to begin to understand and...
From 2modern
Posted on May 19th 2013, 09:30 PM
We’re in New York City for the next couple of days, taking in the sights and sounds at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Follow...
From Designapplause
Posted on May 19th 2013, 08:04 PM
Claesson Koivisto and Rune for Capdell
concord | claesson koivisto and rune capdell | 2013
concord | claesson koivisto and rune capdell | 2013
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about diane o’donnelPosted on May 19th 2013, 08:00 PM
Cortesía de 2NE Architecture
Arquitectos: 2NE Architecture
Ubicación: 2 avenue de la République 36140 Aigurande, Francia
Arquitectos A Cargo: 2NE Architecture
Area: 1033.0 m2
Año: 2012
Fotógrafo: Cortesía de 2NE Architecture
Cortesía de 2NE Architecture
El edificio de la guardería en Aigurande estaba en malas condiciones, con muy pocas habitaciones y de dimensiones demasiado pequeñas. El ayuntamiento estaba planeando tenerlo demolido y reemplazado por un nuevo edificio. En nuestro proyecto...
From Archdaily
Posted on May 19th 2013, 07:00 PM
Architects: Andrés López, Jesús Bozzo, Rosa Palacios
Location: Campus de la Salud, Granada, Spain
Area: 3,405 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Jesús Granada
Collaborators: Marcos Plazuelo López
Promotor: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Justicia y Administración Pública
Structure: Francisco Duarte Jiménez
Installation: Tomás Ruiz de Terry. Insur JG S.L.
Project Managers: Andrés López Fernández, Jesús Bozzo Fernández de Tirso, Rosa Palacios Garrido
Project Director: Rufino Manuel Quesada Molina
Construction: Constructora Hispánica S.A.
Budget: 2,488,176 Euros
The relationship between legal medicine and architecture hasn’t been, in general, very natural, as a consequence of the western culture avoiding matters that involve suffering. Architecture, sadly, doesn’t have magical...
From Notcot
Posted on May 19th 2013, 06:42 PM
On booths that make you feel from afar like you’re quick approaching the enthralled crowd around a mind blowing street performer as you come down the aisle… Oswalds Mill Audio’s ICFF booth had that effect. Only as you approach, you realize the group of (mostly guys) are clustered and staring at the beauty and silently listening to the sounds of their impressive speakers! While their loudspeakers, amps, record players, and more are all stunning, the OMA Mini’s beauty was burned into my memory ~ so naturally i had to share that with you first!Their speakers use a beautiful proprietary conical horn, “designed for the neodymium compression driver selected to achieve optimal performance, and cast in aluminum by a foundry in Pennsylvania,” and it’s perched on the woofer enclosures (either birch of bamboo), all designed by David D’Imperio, on a solid carbon steel stand! You can also pair the set up with a Mini Sub, whose face feels slightly hannibal mask like. As for the technical audio details, “The Mini is a very high efficiency speaker, at approx. 95db/1w/1m, and is 8ohm. This means you can use just about any amplifier with the Mini, from very low powered single ended triode amps (SETs) to high powered solid state amps, as the Minis uses professional drivers, not HiFi drivers, which distort at lower levels. These types of professional drivers offer far greater performance, and bullet proof reliability.They do not extend to the first octave, as hifi drivers do,...
From Archinect
Posted on May 19th 2013, 06:31 PM
The sense we trust the most is the sense which exposes us the least. The sense that will bring us into direct contact with life is used the least. The first is to see. What we see, we believe, but it is what we don’t see that holds the truth of what is because then it remains undistorted by our interpretation.
We think that all perception is locked within our body: The sense of seeing from the eyes, the sense of hearing from the ears, the sense of smelling from the nose, the sense of tasting from the mouth, and the sense of touch primarily from the hands. Our garden, entitled ‘outside-in’, is conceived as a visual paradox, as device that enhances such conditions in order to make the audience realize how by relying only on sight we rely on imagination, that is to say, on interpretation. In other words, how the sense of vision can become a shield that precludes us the possibility of having a holistic experience of life, one that involves the entire body and that extends beyond it...
Posted on May 19th 2013, 06:30 PM
From Notcot
Posted on May 19th 2013, 06:20 PM
Here’s the latest from London-based editor and resident zoologist, Justine Aw!While over at New York Design Week they have the Progetto Barrique (with the swing we loved here) with designers repurposing reclaimed casks… here in London, there’s a similar project upcycling beer barrels! This is one of my favorite projects from May Design Series, “The end of the Big Beer Barrel” from Switzerland-based Yask. The project’s premise is the retirement on 50 litre (11 gallon) stainless steel beer barrels in favor of a new smaller model. The iconic larger sized beer barrels will suddenly be retired from use and candidates for recycling or upcycling. The studio explored how these barrels might be used in variety of contexts. Take a peek on the next page!
TO PAGE 2 of "The End of the Big Beer Barrel"! ----->
(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)From Duende
Posted on May 19th 2013, 06:19 PM
La Maison Annick Goutal est aujourd’hui un acteur incontournable de la Haute Parfumerie française. En 30 ans, la Maison a su se distinguer par son univers intemporel et ses créations olfactives raffinées dont les maîtres d’œuvre sont Camille Goutal et Isabelle Doyen, parfumeurs de la Maison. Avec comme fil rouge l’excellence au cœur de la création que l’agence Carré Basset s’est efforcé de retranscrire dans sa proposition.
Depuis quelque temps, la Maison souhaitait renforcer son image de prestige et d’authenticité à la française et surtout apporter un souffle de fraîcheur à son univers tout en conservant son identité. « C’est une Maison qui s’est construite autour de références devenues mythiques. Sa créatrice d’abord, sa boutique de la rue de Castiglione, ses fameux flacons « godron », le motif lierre sur les étiquettes…Il fallait garder ces pépites et en même temps réorganiser leur lecture dont la logique visuelle s’était développée de façon un peu empirique au fil du temps » souligne Franck Basset, co-fondateur de l’agence Carré Basset.
La Maison Annick Goutal en association avec Carré Basset a revisité son identité visuelle dans un esprit contemporain, en faisant le pari d’une révolution douce qui capitalise sur ses fondamentaux et son pouvoir d’émotion.
Première étape : une charte graphique unifiée et impactante avec un relissage de la typographie et du monogramme et une harmonisation des étiquettes retravaillées...
