Mese: gennaio 2015

carnet de notes 276

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

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voyages

left, sri lanka, http://www.viaggigiovani.it

right, japan, http://www.besttoursitalia.it

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left, l'avana, cuba, http://www.cuba-si.it

right, rio, brazil, http://www.azamaraclubcruises.com/our-ships/explore-our-ships/azamara-journey

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architecture

water is the source of life. it is so fundamental to our lives that we take it for granted. but in some areas of the world, water shortage is an acute and a real problem. many rural villages in africa lack the simple water infrastructure to fulfill basic needs. warka projects

http://warkawater.org/

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sede iris e fmg. un progetto di risistemazione degli spazi esterni prospicienti l’ingresso di showroom e uffici del gruppo. project by massimo iosa ghini

http://www.iosaghini.it

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chinese studio o-office, making a name for itself with its masterful renovations of dilapidated abandoned concrete structures, has recently completed the youth hotel, forming part of the id town art district project covered earlier in guangzhou, china

http://www.o-officearch.com/

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casa a mare: un progetto di luca coclite e giuseppe de mattia, a cura di claudio musso. casa a mare è il contenitore di un immaginario parallelo, una seconda vita che replica gli oggetti, le abitudini, le ossessioni della prima attraverso un meccanismo di riconversione capace di fondare una nuova scala di valori

http://www.eventioggi.net/evento-casa-a-mare-bologna-54401

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after the apocalypse

from top left, clockwise: the colosseum, buckingham palace, canals of amsterdam, berlin hauptbanhof

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034102/what-famous-landmarks-would-look-like-after-the-apocalypse

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hotels, restaurants and bars

design firm brandon agency together with interior designer anna domovesova have created simple, a casual fast-food restaurant in kiev, ukraine

http://brandon.su/, https://www.behance.net/anna_domovesova

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la pampa relais & taste a melizzano: una bio-country house con orti sinergici per un nuovo approccio all'alimentazione

http://www.lapamparelais.it

design

left, superfici fluttuanti, due complementi di metallo leggeri e versatili: la console mina e il tavolino emil di frank rettenbacher per zanotta

http://zanotta.it/

right, vasi farfalla by lineasette ceramiche

http://www.lineasette.eu/index.php/it/

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nightscape di natevo, linea di mobili e arredi che incorporano al proprio interno led in grado di illuminare autonomamente l’ambiente in cui vengono inseriti. design masaki murata

http://www.natevo.com/

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vases by iitala

http://www.iittala.com

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montreal-based designer stéphane leathead has created exocet, a new concept chair that has identical slats assembled on a rotating cylinder to allow the chair to change shape with ease

http://designarium.ca/

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with each of its legs tilted in a different direction, the ops! chair looks to be unstable. designed by giò belviso, the fractured-looking chair might look like it’s going to fall apart but it’s not

http://www.giobelviso.it/index/hello.html

interiors

an urban cabin for architects. as-built arquitectura have designed an office for their architecture studio and coworking space in ferrol, spain

http://www.as-built.es/

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careland pharmacy opens in brooklyn, ny

retail design sergio mannino studio. identity design design wajskol. millwork t.alongi

http://www.sergiomannino.com, http://www.designwajskol.com,   http://www.talongi.com 

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spa

thermana lasko, slovenia

http://www.thermana.si/it/

photos

irving penn, gingko leaves, at sworders

http://www.sworder.co.uk

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vienna-based photography studio staudinger-franke have set their latest series underwater, revealing the ‘barrier’ between a human model and the transparent sheets under which they are submerged

http://www.staudinger-franke.com/

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théatre

torna in scena al teatro san carlo dopo 29 anni di assenza andrea chénier, “dramma di ambiente storico” di umberto giordano

http://www.teatrosancarlo.it

livres

marta laudani e marco romanelli, per un moderno continuo ed. forma

http://www.formaedizioni.it/

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chi è chi dell'aeronautica e dello spazio, ed. crisalide press

http://www.crisalidepress.it/

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art

left, wang ruilin unites man and myth for surreal animal sculpture series

http://www.wangruilinart.com/

right, marco ceroli, sassi

marco.ceroli@googlemail.com

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il misterioso alfabeto di grisha bruskin at fondazione querini stampalia, venezia, from 12/02 until 13/9/2015

http://www.querinistampalia.org

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pierre-adrien sollier replica celebri opere pittoriche inserendo i playmobil al posto dei personaggi

http://www.solliergallery.com/

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exhibitions

bosa: by elena salmistraro (left) and ionna vautrin (right)

at animalità, triennale di milano, 13/01 until 22/02/2015

http://www.triennale.org

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the exhibition on the work of the dutch artist, illustrator, and writer sieb posthuma called ‘a pond full of ink’ was compiled and designed by ira koers and roelof mulder. the collaboration transformed the two rooms of the gallery space in the letterkundig museum in the hague for a large-scale presentation of 240 small drawings

http://www.feltrinellieditore.it/opera/opera/il-signor-palt%C3%B2/

http://www.irakoers.nl/, http://www.roelofmulder.com/

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mostra rockwell, fondazione roma museo palazzo sciarra, until 08/02/2015

allestimento degli architetti michela e paolo baldessari

http://www.baldessariebaldessari.it/

http://www.fondazioneroma.it/it/fondazione/palazzo_sciarra.html

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la exposición 'zurbarán: una nueva mirada' ofrecerá a los visitantes del museo thyssen-bornemisza en el verano de 2015 un selecto recorrido por la producción de francisco de zurbarán desde sus primeros encargos hasta las obras claves de su periodo de madurez

http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/home

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et caetera

subterranean london: cracking the capital, a new book from art and architecture publisher prestel, assembles material from 12 anonymous photographers infatuated with accessing underground spaces and documenting them illegally

http://www.randomhouse.de/prestel_eng/index.jsp

golden globe per il miglior film drammatico, boyhood. il cast e il regista richard linklater

carnet de notes 275

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

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voyages

budapest

info@turismoungherese.it, http://www.budapest.it/link.html

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panama, i tessuti ricamati

http://www.kel12.com/itinerario.aspx?i=6474

http://www.pressstudio.com

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playa del carmen e riviera maya, petit lafitte best resort

http://www.besttoursitalia.it

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architecture

the entrance to the russian national pavilion at this year's world expo will be sheltered beneath a 30-metre-long cantilevered canopy that visitors can walk on. a team led by russian architect sergei tchoban has developed a pavilion intended to celebrate russian engineering

http://sergeitchoban.com/

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the brief of carlo bailey’s ‘antifragile’ project at columbia university’s gsapp was to design a pilot factory for ecovative, a company that develops biomaterials from natural growth processes. at three different scales, the project seeks to provide the framework for a circular economy within the brand’s business model and to hedge the risks associated with rising commodity prices and resource depletion

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/

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elevated two meters above a typical greek high-rise, this proposed urban hut allows its occupants to contemplate the city from a different viewpoint. designed by panos dragonas and varvara christopoulou

http://www.deltarchi.com/info_en.htm

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archeologie

the minister of antiquities has announced a new discovery of an old kingdom tomb in abusir for a queen who wasn't known before called "khentkaus III" during the excavations of the czech institute of egyptology

http://www.egypt.travel/

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the aztec sun stone, the colossal monument that synthesizes the astronomical knowledge that the mexica society developed, was fortuitously found on december 17th, 1790

http://www.visitmexico.com

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hotels, restaurants and bars

located at esporte clube pinheiros in the city of são paulo, the project for a japanese restaurant is located in a small strip of land between a walking mall and the lake club, originally there was a kiosk for contemplation of the lake. project by mass arquitetura, norea de vitto

http://www.mass.arq.br/

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piccole finestre triangolari forano il tetto multiforme del ristorante italiano l’angolino a tatebayashi nella prefettura di gunma in giappone, project by geneto architects

http://geneto.net/about/

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reddot hotel, taichung city, taiwan, is the transformation of a thirty-five year old hotel formerly the galaxy hotel. the building was reconstructed and got rebirth. project by steven wu wang pe-jen. interior design team: steven wu, michael hsu, lin yu-hsuan

design

cork elements for the table by amorin

design, from top left clockwise: par by nendo; furo by fernando brìzio; aro by miguel vieira baptista; gelo by felipe alar cao

http://www.amorim.com

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why not?  peddy mergui imagines (from top left, clockwise)

if nike sold oranges, louis vuitton salami, ferrari pasta and  gucci pickles

http://www.peddymergui.com/

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lumières

‘lamp neo-n’ by atelier dsgn is a minimalist lighting fixture that presents a distorted version of a single fluorescent tube

http://www.atelierdsgn.com/cz/nastenne-hodiny/

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studio meraldirubini have designed the rumbles, a collection of 3 lamps that were created using 3d printers

http://www.meraldirubini.com/

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taking inspiration from the moon’s crater-filled surface, constantin bolimond designed a concept lamp called armstrong light trap. remove whichever cylinders you want to reveal more light

https://www.behance.net/bolimond

artisanat

tsara, a undp (united nations development programme) and unido (united nations industrial development organization) are the funded projects aiming to revitalize the malagasy creative industry

http://tsaracollection.com/, http://www.undp.org/

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décoration

jen stark makes the walls melt with color at miami international airport

http://www.jenstark.com/

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jewels

gemelli ippocampo by britishbox, di silver sterling smaltati a mano

http://www.britishbox.it

mode

the "queen"

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tutte le scarpe di carrie, carrie's shoes

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Bradshaw

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théatre

catapult, magic shadows:  il viaggio incantato nella terra delle ombre

http://www.catapultentertainment.com

magazines

nemeton magazine

http://www.nemetonmagazine.net

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livres

left, ilaria guidantoni, marsiglia algeri, viaggio al chiaro di luna

http://www.albeggiedizioni.com/, http://www.unilibro.it/libri/ff

right, emilio battisti, ritrarre ritratto autoritratto

http://www.emiliobattisti.com/, http://www.mudima.net/

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cherubino gambardella, supernapoli, architettura per un'altra città

http://www.letteraventidue.com/architettura/138_supernapoli.html

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mariangela rossi, dillo con un profumo, guida alla scelta della fragranza ideale

tea editore, http://www.tealibri.it/

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botanica

rodrigo bueno cultivates botanical life within nature-filled furniture 

http://www.mataadentro.com.br/

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exhibitions

sopra il sotto – tombini art raccontano la città cablata

una mostra open air di 24 tombini ideati dai protagonisti della mioda italiana

un progetto di metroweb, da un’idea di monica nascimbeni, con il patrocinio del comune di milano, in collaborazione con la camera nazionale della moda italiana e in partnership con oxfam italia

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et caetera

viktorija pashuta imagines if men were social media networks

http://www.pashutaphotography.com/

carnet de notes 274

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

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voyages

artesina

http://www.Artesina.it

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onsen, bagni termali, beppu, kyushu island, japan

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/interests/hot.html

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gozo, sorella minore di malta

http://gozotop100.malta-vacanze.it/

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architecture

internorm partecipa alla realizzazione del rifugio carlo mollino da parte del comune di gressoney e del politecnico di torino su modello del progetto casa capriata

http://www.casacapriata.polito.it/

http://www.internorm.com/it/internorm.html

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left, in conjunction with the contemporary morocco exhibit (le maroc contemporain) at the jean nouvel-designed institut du monde arabe in paris, a giant tent has been constructed on the plaza in front of the building. designed by tarik oualalou and linna choi of kilo, the tent is constructed from more than 650-square-meters of camel and goat wool woven by female cooperatives in the saharan desert

right, new york-based soma architects has announced plans for an 11-story residential development in beirut. cantilevering over a protected 1920s house, steel exoskeleton and concrete core will support 13 new residences on top 

http://soma.us/

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 bridge in celje, slovenia. project by arhitektura d.o.o.

http://www.arhitektura-doo.si/

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as a tribute to the alpine experience and the writer charles-ferdinand ramuz, swiss studio bureau a has sited their project antoine within the alps. commissioned during an artist residency at the verbier 3d foundation, the architecture-cum-sculpture is inhabitable and structurally functional, comprising an indoor cabin with a fireplace, bed, table, stool and window

http://www.a-bureau.com/, http://www.3-dfoundation.com/

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competition for the concept of urban development of the moscow river: the finalists’ projects

http://archsovet.msk.ru/en/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=UniSender&utm_campaign=38689310

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hotels, restaurants and bars

papua new guinea's lake murray lodge: the new-this-year hotel offers a very special experience in a remote location

http://www.pngtours.com/lakemurray.html

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restaurant the rock, zanzibar, tanzania

http://www.therockrestaurantzanzibar.com/

design

the ‘mr hoverboard’ a floating device for everyone, is an experimental project created by ryan craven. he set out with an objective to build and ride a hoverboard that is practical, affordable and fun
 

http://mrhoverboard.com/

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una nuova forma di mobilità sostenibile combina la tecnologia più avanzata con uno stile sofisticato. si tratta del nuovo marchio egret e del suo rivoluzionario monopattino elettrico egret one. basta una spinta con il piede per farlo partire. progettato e realizzato ad amburgo raggiunge i 20 km/h 

http://www.egret.com

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skateboards with prayer rugs by mounir fatmi at miami untitled art fair

http://www.mounirfatmi.com/

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nick cave encrusts hustle coat with jewels at art basel miami beach

photo by james prinz photography

http://nickcave.com/, http://www.jackshainman.com/

artisanat

tsara, a undp (united nations development programme) and unido (united nations industrial development organization) are the funded projects aiming to revitalize the malagasy creative industry

http://tsaracollection.com/, http://www.undp.org/

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floors

opus mikado, intarsio in marmo in versione industrial design, pavimenti e rivestimenti ready-to-use, by lithos design

design by raffaello galiotto e alberto bevilacqua 

http://www.lithosdesign.com/en_index.aspx

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monuments restored

firmato l'accordo per il restauro dell'arena di verona

http://www.arena.it/it-IT/homeit.html

musées

nogunri peace museum, by metaa architects,  south korea

https://www.facebook.com/pages/METAA/892522190839489

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nasce a savona il museo della ceramica nell'edificio quattrocentesco del monte di pietà. autori del progetto armellino e poggio architetti, lo studio di architettura fallucca e l'architetto marco ricchebono

http://www.museodellaceramica.savona.it/il-museo/

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fluor architecture: vincent van gogh foundation, rehabilitation, extension. arles, france 

http://fluor.fr/

magasins et showrooms

marien apotheke wien, vienna’s most future-oriented pharmacy has become a holistic face lift. walking chair designed the showroom/shop including a complete new sister blister light system for the daily work. the lighting-installations and lighting objects are made from empty, recycled, clean pharmaceutical tablet blister-packaging

http://www.marienapo.eu, http://walking-chair.com/

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new showroom e15, milano

http://www.e15.com

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livres

“fragments of metropolis – berlin” presents 135 remaining expressionist buildings in berlin and the surrounding area, with colorful photography and detailed maps revealing their exact locations. by niels lehmann & christoph rauhut

http://www.hirmerverlag.de/

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claudia zanfi. i giardini di piet oudolf, bolis edizioni

http://www.bolisedizioni.it/it/

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keri smith, piccolo manuale dei grandi sbagli, ed. corraini

http://www.corraini.com/

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et caetera

the times. helhe, sur la frontière russo-chinoise, un soldat de l’armée populaire chinoise, il fait – 32° C

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turn your facial scruff into a festive tree with beard baubles

http://beardbaubles.tictail.com/

 

carnet de notes 273

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

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voyages

la terra berica e le sue ville

http://www.turismoterraberica.it

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helsinki, unesco city of design

 http://www.visitfinland.com

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norvegia. norway

http://www.visitnorway.it

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photo di viaggio by simone enei

http://www.limoney.it

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architecture

italian architect alessandro mendini has been selected to receive the 2014 european prize for architecture. awarded annually by the european centre for architecture, art design and urban studies and the chicago athenaeum

http://ateliermendini.it/

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wanda movie park, the world’s first indoor movie theme park in wuhan, china. project by stufish entertainment architects

http://www.stufish.com/

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snøhetta's tilted zero energy house completed in norway

http://snohetta.com/

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bendigo art gallery by fender katsalidis architects

http://www.fkaustralia.com/projects/

ph peter clarke, http://www.peterclarke.com.au/

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sugamo shinkin bank / nakaaoki branch / saitama / japan /

 project emmanuelle moureaux architecture design

http://www.emmanuelle.jp/01-top-eng.html

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hotels, restaurants and bars

after being approached by accor suite novotel for an interior design concept, constance guisset started thinking about the hotel as a home

http://www.constanceguisset.com/

 http://www.suitenovotel.com/gb/home/index.shtml

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in jalisco, mexico, restaurant hueso, meaning ‘bone’ in english, couldn’t have a better name for a concept which according to chef alfonso cadena was ‘inspired by darwinism’. throughout the interiors, over 10,000 cast aluminium animal bones have been mounted on timber blocks to cover the walls like a second skin. project by ignacio cadena. ph jaime navarro

http://www.cadena-asociados.com/

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25hours hotel zürich west by alfredo häberli design development

http://www.alfredo-haeberli.com/home

design

left, poltrona e pouf spring by design bernhardt & vella for potocco

http://www.potoccospa.com

 
right, pipo chair by alejandro estrada for piegatto

http://www.piegatto.com/en/

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banana chandeliers in ‘eden’ installation by gonzalo fuenmayor at faena district miami beach

http://gonzalofuenmayor.com/home.html

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curro claret worked with metalarte on a social project that produced a series of lamps made from shoelaces. the shoelaces collection involved working with people who might have had a rough past and are trying to get back on their feet. through design, it’s an opportunity to assist in their recovery

http://www.curroclaret.com/, http://metalarte.com/

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cuscino san bernardo by moroni gomma

http://www.moronigomma.it

installations

come february 9, new york city will be celebrating the opening of its seventh annual valentine’s day installation in times square. as part of times square alliance’s heart design competition, brooklyn- based and venezuelan-born firm stereotank will be constructing a heart-beating urban drum in hopes that it will bring together new yorkers through music

http://www.stereotank.com/

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photos

through the subway window glass, a serie of photos by nick turpin

http://nickturpin.com/

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fragrances

nendo ‘snow dome’ room fragrance: the transparent bottle is filled with flowers, leaves and other tiny forms in polyester film depicting its fragrance.

http://www.nendo.jp/en/

lumières

designer benjamin migliore has created molecula, a geometric lamp that doubles as a sculpture when not in use

http://www.benjaminmigliore.com/

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left, infinity mirror clock by soniktech creates an endless void of color

http://soniktech.com/

right, my sister blister by walking chair

http://walking-chair.com/studio

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from top, clockwise

raw have designed prismatica, a public art installation in montreal, canada, that is made from 50 pivoting prism, http://www.rawdesign.ca/

londra, osservatorio reale di greenwich

amburgo, facciata del fairmont hotel vier jahreszeiten

due installazioni luminose create da gerry hofstetter per il progetto itinerante the art of attentiveness, supportato da swiss

http://hofstetter-marketing.com/

magasins

aesop apre il 100° negozio a oslo

http://www.aesop.com

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magazines

disegno. la nuova cultura industriale! vol.#4

http://www.disegnomag.it/

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livres

moda, storie & stili, a cura di arianna piazza, ed. 24 ore cultura

right, walter albini, 1972

“la moda (così come la concepiamo oggi) si basa su un sentimento
violento del tempo. ogni anno, la moda distrugge ciò che aveva adorato
e adora ciò che distruggerà”

roland barthes

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exhibitions

"progetto disequilibrante" di ugo la pietra, triennale di milano fino al 15 febbraio

http://ugolapietra.com/

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the memphis group. ph studio azzurro, 1981. http://www.studioazzurro.com

koenig & clinton is pleased to announce the memphis group, an exhibition of furniture and lighting by the 1980s postmodern design collective

http://koenigandclinton.com/, koenigandclinton.com/gallery/

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et caetera

bocca by gufram

la sua unicità e autenticità viene oggi celebrata in mostra al museo maxxi di roma nell'ambito dell'esposizione 100% original design promossa da elle decor e visitabile fino al 4 gennaio 2015

http://www.gufram.it/it/, http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/

http://www.elledecor.com/