Mese: luglio 2015

carnet de notes 302

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

rawnsley park station offre la base ideale per esplorare gli scenari naturali dei flinders ranges in south zustralia. dai campi tendati sotto le stelle alle eco-ville di lusso

http://www.rawnsleypark.com.au/

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architecture

completed in 1953, the u.s. embassy in havana was a defining project of midcentury american modernism

for the first time in over a half-century, the united states reopened its official diplomatic embassy in Havana, shining an international spotlight on harrison and abramovitz's modernist shoreline classic. historically maligned by many cubans as an embodiment of american arrogance and imperialism, the building has played a pronounced symbolic role in the escalation – and now the easement – of political animosities between the two countries

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/world/americas/cuba-us-embassy-diplomatic-relations.html?_r=2

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expo, padiglione kip (nazioni unite), project studio marincola, ph nico marziali

http://www.studiomarincola.com, http://www.kipschool.org

http://www.expo2015.org/it/kip-international-school

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il 22 agosto è stato aperto il cirkelbroen, su progetto di olafur eliasson, il nuovo ponte circolare nel quartiere di christianshavn di copenaghen. il nome "cirkelbroen" (letteralmente il ponte circolare) deriva dalla sua forma: cinque piattaforme circolari di diverse dimensioni, ognuna con il suo “albero” al centro

http://ow.ly/PD4cr

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shigeru ban's nepal disaster relief shelter reuses brick from collapsed buildings

http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/

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interiors design

aj c inserts molded white cocoon into renovated warehouse home in sydney

http://www.architectsajc.com/

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loke thye kee residences, george town, penang, malaysia / ministry of design

http://www.modonline.com/

design

tehila guy inflates anda armchair of translucent and wooden parts

http://www.tehilaguy.com/

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per festeggiare l'80° compleanno, artek presenta due edizioni speciali: experimental wood relif, uno studio del linguaggio delle fibre di legno, e la maison carré table, un tavolino realizzato per la maison di louis carré nel 1958. entrambi prodotti in edizione limitata in soli 80 esemplari

http://we.tl/cUbSF3HR3z, http://www.vitra.com

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using metal and stone, jinsik kim created the half half collection to experiment with the frequently used materials

http://www.studiojinsik.com/

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copenhagen-based designer ellinor ericsson designed a series of furniture featuring giant cross-stitch patterns as a response to the question “why does nordic furniture design lack ornaments?”

http://www.ellinorericsson.com/

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art

french artist christophe guinet or more commonly known as monsieur plant, has created ‘just grow it’, a collection of sneakers that have been adorned with nature

http://www.monsieurplant.com/

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hotels et restaurants

the design agency have completed the transformation of an eight-storey office building, built in 1985, into the new generator hostel, located in paris, france

http://www.thedesignagency.ca/, http://generatorhostels.com/en/

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miguel chevalier's last project in heart ibiza, new concept by albert and ferran arià & cirque du soleil, between molecular and gastronomy food, contemporary art and digital, design and architecture and performance

http://www.miguel-chevalier.com/fr/index.html

heartibiza.com, http://vimeo.com/132451976

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known for the distinctive, visual style seen consistently in his film-making, american director wes anderson has shown his flare for interior design in fondazione prada‘s ‘bar luce’ in milan

http://www.fondazioneprada.org/?lang=en

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exhibitions

zuiderzee mythe at arcam, amsterdam

http://www.arcam.nl

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pin. a perfect match, 50 anniversary, the pinakotek der moderne, muenchen

http://www.pinakothek.de/

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omar galliani. il disegno dell'acqua

acquario civico, milano e conca dell'incoronata

http://www.omargalliani.com/, http://www.acquariocivicomilano.eu

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are you talking to me? 36 studios et 4 galeries autour du thème design et langage. ici: ronel jordaan, ndebele chair

musée des art décoratifs, paris

http://www.meetmyproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/DP-Are-You-Talking-to-me-MMP-2015.pdf

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after five successful years at the spoke art gallery in san francisco, a wes anderson-themed exhibition will arrive in new york in august. the work of 75 anderson-inspired artists will be on display at the joseph gross gallery in chelsea

http://josephgrossgallery.com/

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lumières

tolomeo mega outdoor, clorophilia and spectral light

http://www.artemide.it/home/index.action

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lamps serena by patricia urquiola for flos

http://www.flos.com/en/home

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body ornaments

mary graham crafts 'natural' fake eyelashes with foliage, egg and snow

http://www.marygraham.co.uk/

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et caetera

carnet de notes 301

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

la strada alpina del grossglockner da oggi è monumento nazionale e si avvia a diventare patrimonio dell’umanità dell’unesco

http://www.grossglockner.at/it/

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architecture

dionisio gonzález projects surreal architectural visions in nature

http://www.dionisiogonzalez.es/

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husband and wife team, architect/builder jesse bennett and interior designer anne-marie campagnolo, have recently completed the planchonella house, a home for themselves located in queensland, australia

http://www.jessebennett.com.au/

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landscapes design

landscape artist charles jencks has completed the transformation of crawick multiverse, a formal coal mine that has now become a 55-acre artland, visitor attraction and public amenity, located in dumfries & galloway, scotland

http://www.charlesjencks.com/

design

in a collaboration with seven cool architects, fritz hansen presents a unique homage to the iconic series 7™ chair, which turns 60 years in 2015. on 16 july 2015, a special exhibition opens at design museum gent in belgium. in the exhibition, fritz hansen has invited seven cool architects to offer their personal take on the iconic series 7 chair. the seven architects are bjarke ingels group, carlos ott & carlos ponce de león, jean nouvel design, jun igarashi, neri & hu, snøhetta and zaha hadid design. after the world premiere at design museum gent, the exhibition goes on tour, with oslo as the next stop

http://www.fritzhansen.com/en/fritz-hansen

http://www.designmuseumgent.be/

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eskayel has  partnered with dane co. to bring their dreamy, abstract patterns to handcrafted furniture. the new collection consists of chairs, benches, ottomans, and sofas made from denatured ash, maple, and white oak that are then covered in eskayel’s digitally-printed designs in water-based ink

http://eskayel.com/home/, http://www.dane-co.com/

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from left, pollock armchair, pilot chair, bertoia chairs

knolleurope.com

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shoji by zanotta

http://www.zanotta.it/

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from left, for dilmos

pietro consagra, http://www.pietroconsagra.it/

alessandro mendini, http://www.ateliermendini.it/

roberto mora, http://www.robertomora.it/

http://www.dilmos.com/

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korean designer samwoong lee has created the crossed stick chair, made from a jumble of wood pieces, that have been carved into the shape of a chair

http://www.lee3woong.com/

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materials

fifty shades of green, una selezione di marmi verdi dal mondo

http://www.moscatomarmi.it/purapietra.php

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exhibitions

design shin-myoung, triennale di milano, 23 luglio/23 agosto

anteprima di una delle 9 esposizioni della gwangiu design biennale (corea)

50 artisti/designer decorano i vasi verdi celadon

left and center, luca scacchetti; right, kwon yeonggeol.png

 http://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/gwangju-biennale/

http://www.triennale.org/it/   

hotels et restaurants

istanbul-based design studio autoban has completed a chinese-themed establishment in london’s soho neighborhood. named ‘the duck and rice’, the venue houses a pub with a chinese kitchen, all contained on two levels of an existing building

http://autoban212.com/, http://www.theduckandrice.com/

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ristorante potafiori, milano (ph giandomenico frassi)

http://www.potafiori.com

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design studio jouin manku have designed a new look for the restaurant at the hotel plaza athénée, located in paris, france

http://www.patrickjouin.com/en/agencies/jouin-manku/

http://www.dorchestercollection.com/en/paris/hotel-plaza-athenee

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books

gli oscar mondadori compiono cinquant'anni. per festeggiare sono stati selezionati dieci tra i libri immortali del catalogo e affidati a giovani allievi dell'istituto europeo di design, che ne hanno elaborato le copertine

http://www.librimondadori.it/, http://www.ied.it/

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photos

kapadokya is the third chapter of nomadic editions, a series of books in which italian photographer renato d'agostin explores a subject for as long as a tourist would visit a location or experience an event, without going back. text by luigi cerantola, music by claudio sichel, voices mensanax, design by tankboys, venice. at leica gallery, tokyo

http://www.nomadiceditions.com/

http://www.renatodagostin.com/

http://en.leica-camera.com/World-of-Leica/Leica-Galleries/Leica-Gallery-Tokyo/About-us-Gallery-Tokyo

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exhibitions

from top left, clockwise

the century of the poster in slovenia, mao@mao.si

il medioevo rivisitato, anton giulio mellone a gubbio, info@museogubbio.it

étienne yver, http://www.etienne-yver.com

gran tour, alla scoperta della ceramica classica italiana, santa maria incoronata, milano, http://www.expoincitta.com

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lumières

left, lamp by preciosa lighting

http://preciosalighting.com/

right, cristalon by swarovski (detail)

https://www.swarovski.com/

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musées

fernando romero enterprise: museum of south mexico

http://fr-ee.org/frprojects/

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body ornaments

thomas mailaender ‘sunburns’ old photographs onto human bodies

http://www.thomasmailaender.com/

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et caetera

http://www.christophniemann.com

 

carnet de notes 300

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

atene, athens, la collina del partenone, ph tronchin

http://www.visitgreece.gr

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architecture

herzog & de meuron's summit building in switzerland contains a mountaintop restaurant

https://www.herzogdemeuron.com/index.html

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casa brutale gives us wall-to-wall water and concrete set into cliffs above the aegean sea in what opa (open platform for architecture) promises will be a literally ground-breaking development

http://opaworks.com/

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currently under renovation in order to turn its soaring shell into a hotel, eero saarinen's iconic twa flight center has been off limits to the public since 2001. while a team of digital preservationists were making scans of the swooping curves of the building's interior, photographer max touhey was allowed access, camera in hand, to catalog the building's mid-century elegance

http://touheyphotography.com/

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yunnan museum,  kunming shi, yunnan sheng, china

project rocco design architects

http://www.rocco.hk/

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gjøde & povlsgaard arkitekter elevate the infinite bridge over danish seaside

http://www.gpark.dk/

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interiors

kengo kuma renovates a chinese tea house using hollow polyethylene blocks, in a typical quadrangle building located directly opposite the eastern gate of beijing’s forbidden palace

http://kkaa.co.jp/

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design studio plasma nodo have designed the 9 3/4 bookstore cafe in medellín, colombia

http://www.plasmanodo.com/

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design

left, twinkle by chiara andratti

right, palanco by roman & erwan bouroullec

http://www.glasitalia.com

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alessio romano has created ctrl-x, a pair of scissors that are hidden as a decorative object

http://www.alessioromanodesign.com/

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collezione in carta tassotti dedicata alle grandi città italiane ed europee. disegni realizzati a china da anna toniolo

http://www.tassotti.it

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armchair and pouf by soonsalon

http://www.madeindesign.it

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exhibitions

look back by nanda vigo on mario ceroli and ettore sottssas jr

erastudio, milano

http://www.erastudioapartmentgallery.com/

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milano insolita, fotografata da cristina fiorentini e laura rizzi

palazzo sormani, milano. 14/07, presenta giovanna calvenzi

http://www.cristinafiorentini.it, http://www.laurarizzi.it

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left, gabriella giuriato, geometrie di vetro, galleria polid'arte, spoleto

http://www.polidarte.com/

right, ryts monet, why do i want to go to mars, galleria whitelight art

http://www.whitelightart.it

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mona hatoum at centre pompidou, paris

http://whitecube.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MonaHatoumPompidouMailout

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austrian design explosion, la triennale, milano

http://designexplosion.advantageaustria.org

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sissy & franz, bagni egart, menù imperiale nel ristorante onkel taa

http://www.bad-egart.com, http://www.onkeltaa.com       

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hotels et restaurants

hotel hotel, in canberra, is a property brought about by the molonglo group. they worked with more than 60 artists, makers, architects, and designers to bring about the hotel’s quirky charm. guests enter through the massive entryway of suspended, salvaged wood which makes quite the statement. the “explosion” of wood is made up of more than 2,250 pieces salvaged from the original building that was torn down, a basketball court, and a house

http://www.hotel-hotel.com.au/ http://www.molonglogroup.com.au/

http://www.hotel-hotel.com.au/makers-artists/

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montreal designer jean de lessard has designed kinoya, a japanese bistro and izakaya, a type of informal japanese drinking establishment

http://delessard.com/, http://kinoya.ca/en/

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installations

arunkumar h g builds bottle cap pavilion with 70,000 disused plastic pieces

http://arunkumarhg.com/

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haori

three haori vintage, harmat, haori harmat

http://www.ogami.it/portfolio/haori-harmat/

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art

left, galerie clairefontaine is presently showing the work of the japanese artist hiroyuki masuyama with 84 lightboxes of his latest photographs

http://galerie-clairefontaine.lu/

right, time-stacked photos by matt molloy look like impressionist paintings

https://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_molloy/

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left, thierry fontaine, les poissons dorés

http://www.thierry-fontaine.org/

right, sarah charlesworth, red mask, sarah charlesworth and maccarone gallery, new york

kitchen@maccarone.net, http://www.sarahcharlesworth.net/

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leandro erlich’s house is pulled by the roots in karlsruhe

http://zkm.de/en

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lumières

due sfere che sfiorano l'un l'altra, copycat by michael anstassiades for flos

ph santicaleca

http://michaelanastassiades.com/, http://www.flos.com

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sister blister by walking chair design studio

http://www.walking-chair.com

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chandelier and wall lamp krokus by leucos

http://www.leucos.com/

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mode accessoirs

from top left, clockwise

elizabeth by launer, http://www.britishbox.it/

guston bag by issey miyake, http://www.isseymiyake.com/guston/

virgini by maliparmi, http://www.maliparmi.com/it/

axis by finell, http://finell.co/

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body ornaments

earrings collezione roma by antonini

http://www.antonini.it

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et caetera

wheatfield by agnes denes, festa del raccolto a porta nuova, milano

http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/

http://www.fondazionericcardocatella.org/

http://www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com/

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carnet de notes 299

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

architecture

architecture firm moon hoon have recently completed two moon, a private cultural center with a coffee shop and gallery, located in gyeonggi-do, korea

http://www.moonhoon.com/

bands multi-purpose facility transforms coastline heritage site in norway. students from the oslo school of architecture and design have designed and built a seaside sauna made up of three wooden bands that stagger up over the rocky terrain

http://www.aho.no/en/

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el proyecto del estudio moreau kusunoki architectes fue el elegido para la construcción del próximo museo guggenheim helsinki

http://www.moreaukusunoki.com/

http://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/en/finalists/winner

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la mascota è una clinica residenziale dedicata alla neurologia pediatrica, realizzata a managua in nicaragua. un progetto nato dalla collaborazione tra lo studio lparchitecture e la fondazione pierfranco e luisa mariani

http://www.lparchitecture.it/eng

http://www.fondazione-mariani.org/

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interiors

pfarré lighting design studio

http://www.lichtplanung.com, http://www.lightingdesign.de

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this bedroom is in a new york apartment, designed by incorporated

http://www.incorporatedny.com/

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design

kartell x emilio pucci present madame milano armchair celebrating expo 2015

http://www.kartell.com/it

http://www.emiliopucci.com/it

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designer elinor portnoy has created a colorful glass juicer, made from hand blown glass, which has been carved and ground to a smooth finish

http://www.elinorportnoy.com/

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bigfoot by e15
 

http://www.e15.com/

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exhibitions

flo.kyo, museo di antropologia, firenze

http://www.barnum-review.com/flo•kyo-1965-2015-photo-exhibition-in-florence/

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yto barrada, salon marocain, museo serralves, porto, portugal

http://www.serralves.pt/pt/

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gerry mulligan, il ritmo dell'immagine, galleria milano, milano

http://www.galleriamilano.com

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isia design convivio, biblioteca dell'incoronata, milano

http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1019485322.html

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hotels et restaurants

mahmut anlar revamps the w hotel istanbul as a layered jewelry box

http://www.wistanbul.com.tr/, http://www.geomim.com/

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ahwahnee hotel, yosemite national park

http://www.visitcalifornia.com/it/destination/focus-yosemite-national-park-ynp

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installations

the first images of this year’s serpentine pavilion, designed by spanish studio selgascano, have been released. the design, which forms the 15th incarnation of the world-renowned series, forms an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure consisting of panels of a translucent, multicolored fluorine-based polymer

http://www.selgascano.net/

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in concomitanza alla mostra making africa, che ha luogo al vitra design museum, quest'estate, al campus vitra a weil am rhein, il "buckminster fuller dome" ospiterà  il progetto di un pop-up store  realizzato da diébédo francis kéré,  frutto di una joint-venture tra vitra e camper

http://www.vitra.com, http://www.camper.com/it

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musèes

i divani elan di cappellini dialogano con il design del whitney museum progettato da renzo piano

http://cappellini.it/it, http://www.rpbw.com/

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qujing history museum completed by atelier alter in china

http://atelieraltercn.com/home.htm

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organisations

aigany designrelief

launched in fall 2013, design/relief is a participatory design initiative aiming to aid the communities of south street seaport (lower manhattan), red hook (south brooklyn), and rockaway (queens) in imagining a more vibrant future for themselves as they overcome the lingering effects of superstorm sandy. this special project of the new york chapter of aiga (the nation’s leading professional association of graphic designers) explores the potential of graphic designers in defining and expanding creative placemaking to positively transform communities

http://www.aigany.org

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art

spencer frazer, storm shudders

beneath the tumultuous skies of oklahoma, the national weather center (nwc) is hosting its second curated exhibition interpreting meteorological phenomena through art. the 2015 national weather center biennale includes 88 works in the towering atrium of its main building on the university of oklahoma campus

http://www.ou.edu/nwc.html, http://www.ou.edu/content/nwcbiennale.html

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antoni tàpies, fundaciò antoni tàpies, barcelona

http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/spip.php?rubrique65

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yee-haw: paola pivi brings four horses to the eiffel tower, galerie perrotin

http://www.paolapivi.com/, https://www.perrotin.com/

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lumières

campana brothers for lasvit

http://campanas.com.br/, http://lasvit.com/

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jardin des lumières by maison christian lacroix & forestier

http://www.christianlacroix.com

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tab.u luce by bruno rainaldi for opinion ciatti

http://www.opinionciatti.com

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applique matlight

http://www.matlight.it

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fantasie

designcrowd, a marketplace for digital and graphic projects, has asked its users to participate in an interesting and imaginative creative challenge — redefine city skylines by mismatching major monuments

http://www.designcrowd.com/

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the colour in early cinema

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9089646574/hyperallergic-20

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body ornaments

necklace by lora nikolova

http://www.lora-nikolova.com/

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jessica rosenkrantz and jesse louis-rosenberg of design studio nervous systems have employed an algorithm that mimics the growth patterns in flowers to create a line of 3d printed jewelry. the project, called floraform, draws inspiration from the way the flower petals push their growth to the very edge of each petal, eventually creating complex ruffles and patterns in the process

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/

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et caetera

a monk cleans a huge reclining buddha statue at a buddhist temple in malang in eastern java island on june 1, 2015 on the eve of buddha's birthday celebrated in indonesia on june 2. hundreds of buddhist devotees congregate at the ancient temple of borobudur for a religious celebration in central java island