Mese: agosto 2015

carnet de notes 304

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

oman

http://www.omantourisgov.om, http://www.originaltour.it

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architecture

the jerusalem municipality has approved plans for mixed-use "pyramid tower" designed by studio libeskind. a collaboration with local architect yigal levi, the tapered tower will rise 105-meters in the heart of the city, adjacent to mahane yehuda market – commonly known as "the shuk"

http://libeskind.com/

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entrance building van gogh museum, amsterdam 2013-2015

in 1999 kisho kurokawa architects & associates designed a new wing for the van gogh museum in amsterdam.part of this wing is a large pond on basement level. this pond will now be changed into a new entrance building. kurokawa architects made a preliminary design for this purpose that will be elaborated and realised by hans van heeswijk architects

http://www.heeswijk.nl/

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gubbins arquitectos have designed the mirador house in tunquén, chile, where it is perched above a steep cliff with views of the ocean

http://www.gubbinsarquitectos.cl/

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interiors

arsenal flat, project h2o architectes
charlotte hubert / jean-jacques hubert / antoine santiard

ph http://www.stephanechalmeau.com/

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hotels and bars

opening its doors at the beginning of march 2015, the  ‘kameha grand zurich’  designed by marcel wanders is a hotel that celebrates the rich heritage of switzerland

http://www.marcelwanders.com/news/kameha-grand-zurich-a-home-away-from-home-in-images!/

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travel company aqua expeditions collaborated with peruvian architect jordi puig, to create the aria amazon, a 5 star river cruise ship

http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/, http://www.jordipuig.com.pe/

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musées

inaugurato a mosca il nuovo spazio per l'arte: il garage museum of contemporary art, firmato rem koolhaas

garageccc.com, http://www.oma.eu/

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situated in the pudong district in shanghai, the zendai himalayas center opened several years ago to coincide with the previous world expo event that occurred in the city. with an area of 150,000 sqm, the high profile project was designed by arata isozaki. commissioned by the zendai group, the brief was to create an ‘archisculptural masterpiece for 21st century china’

http://www.zendaihimalayas.com/about_en.aspx http://www.isozaki.co.jp/

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design

since 2011, tatsuya tanaka has been engaged in his ‘miniature calendar‘, a project which has seen the creation of pocket-sized scenes of everyday life, on a daily basis. his ideas are for 365 days of the calendar year, and of the more than 1000 scenes he’s made

http://miniature-calendar.com/

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monad studio | eric goldemberg veronica zalcberg, together with musician/luthier scott f. hall, have collaborated to create the 2-string piezoelectric violin.

http://monadstudio.com/

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bike by roland kellenberger (stahlman)

http://www.stahlmann.ch

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nendo designed a new chair “twig” for alias

http://alias.design/, http://www.nendo.jp

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catable 2.0, a collection of stackable wood cubes that have small spaces for cats to hide and play inside of, by lyc architecture

http://lycs-arc.com/

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wood

il legno dalla natura alle cose. paesaggio nomade, bergamo, 5 to 16/09

http://www.arketipos.org/edizione-2015/

top, from left

table adagio by ivan paradisi, http://www.ivanparadisi.com/

alma console table by amarist, http://www.amarist.com

from tables/chairs by nicolàs aracena mueller at chamber, new york https://instagram.com/nicoarmu/

http://chambernyc.com/collections/collection_1

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exhibitions

"playing with tradition" at dublin castle, dublino

a cura di nuala goodman e mary heffernan of national historic propertries of opw (the office of public work)

from to left, clockwise: donatella pellini, isabelle de borchgrave; curneen, gorman, pesce, foggini; de vecchi; lisa farmer, seliena coyle, una burke

http://www.opw.ie/en/pressreleases/articleheading,34237,en.html, http://www.nualagoodman.com

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thomas jefferson e il palladio. come costruire un mondo nuovo

palladio museum, vicenza, 19 sept to 28 mar 2016

http://www.palladiomuseum.org/exhibitions/jefferson

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vintage festival italia, padova, 11-13 settembre

tabarri del tabarrificio veneto

http://www.vintagefestival.org/, http://www.tabarro.it/homepage.html

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 fiona tan, geografia futuro at nasjonal museet, oslo
http://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/

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left, la grande madre by fondazione nicola trussardi

palazzo reale, milano, until 15 november

http://www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.it/TGM_1.html

right, mito e natura. dalla grecia a pompei, palazzo reale, milano, catalogo electa, until 10 gennaio 2015

http://www.mostramitonatura.it/

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dimore design bergamo. tradizioni e contaminazioni, 6/09-7/10

http://www.dimoredesign.it

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street art

ill-studio has collaborated with french fashion brand pigalle to create a multicoloured basketball court between a row of buildings in the 9th arrondissement of paris

http://www.ill-studio.com/

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street artist nespoon has recently transformed the wall of a building in poland, by adding an intricate painting of traditional lace

https://www.behance.net/nespoon

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festival

oriente occidente 2015, corpi in conflitto 2. la bellezza della diversità

rovereto, trento, until september 6

http://www.orienteoccidente.it

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mode

abito selene giorgi

http://www.atelierselenegiorgi.it

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lumières

left, tabanl%u0131o%u011Flu architects debuts at somerset house in partnership with arik levy at london design festival 2015

http://www.tabanlioglu.com, http://www.ariklevy.fr/

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on william f. lamb’s iconic empire state building, creative technology studio obscura digital helped raise awareness to animals on the brink of extinction. in collaboration with the discovery channel, the event spent the whole night illuminating 40 stories of the south façade with manta rays, blue whales, cecil the lion and many other important endangered wildlife

http://obscuradigital.com/, http://www.opsociety.org/

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lamps apta by swarovski

https://www.swarovski.com/

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photos

simon norfolk, time taken at michael hoppen contemporary

http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com

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ph anuar patjane, http://www.anuarpatjane.com/#!/index

un'immersione accanto a una megattera e al suo piccolo appena nato mentre nuotano attorno a roca partida, una delle isole revillagigedo, in messico

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et caetera

smart highways that can charge your electric car are coming to the u.k. a similar project in the netherlands imagined a smart highway that could charge electric cars as they drove

https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/smart-highway/

carnet de notes 303

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

new york, the site of the statue of liberty

los angeles-based kopeikin gallery and new york-based benrubi gallery present lany, a series of aerial imagery depicting the urban and fabricated landscapes of the two cities by photographer jeffrey milstein

http://www.jeffreymilstein.com/

http://kopeikingallery.com/, http://benrubigallery.com/home

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architecture

brasil, edifício vitra, en são paulo, primer edificio diseñado por el studio libeskind en américa del sur

http://libeskind.com/

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la tenuta dello scompiglio

un progetto di recupero e rivitalizzazione di una tenuta agricola vicino lucca, trasformata in centro culturale dove produzioni artistiche e agricole convivono in un complesso ecosistema fatto di bioarchitettura, tecnologia e tradizione

progetto caturegli formica architetti associati

http://caturegliformica.com/tenuta-dello-scompiglio-architettura

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memorial center, utoya, donna, norway

project 3rw arkitekter

http://3rw.no/

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musèes

italian practice archea associati has completed a vast complex for the chinese city of liling, a region known for its production of ceramics. alongside its primary function as a museum, the site also includes a hotel and an industrial area for hands-on processing

http://www.archea.it/

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hotels and bars

celebrating japan’s ancient onsen (mineral hot spring) tradition in serene natural surrounds, amanemu is perched on the shores of ago bay, known as the ‘bay of pearls’

http://www.amanresorts.com

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noma bar was commissioned by the momofuku ando foundation in japan to create a treehouse within the woods of the momfuku ando center in komoro, japan. the project offered bar the unique opportunity to translate his simple illustration style into a three-dimensional space. the result was a treehouse that references both the forms of birds and leaves

http://momofukucenter.jp/treehouse/treehouse.html

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allestimenti

at milan’s università bicocca, italian sculptor edoardo tresoldi has collaborated with artist gonzalo borondo to realize ‘chained’, a mixed media work that interacts with architecture of the site. on the red façade of the building, borondo has painted five male figures that embrace each other in a circular configuration. large, coarse brushstrokes and a minimal palette grant the larger-than-life sized figures an abstract sensibility

https://www.behance.net/edoardotresoldi

http://gonzaloborondo.com/

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interiors

a bed that drops from the ceiling by atelier décadrages

http://www.decadrages.com/

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design

designed by maryam pousti, of studio pousti, the cheft collection is a series of furniture pieces that were inspired by persian architectural patterns seen on domes and traditional houses

http://www.studiopousti.com/

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slovenia-based designer %u010Drtomir just puts a twist on the popular style of naming by depicting objects literally, or how they would look if they were truly made out of gold

https://www.behance.net/crtomirjust9b11

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kaptura de aer designed counterpoise, a sculptural plywood chair made up of two curvy components that come together to provide balance

http://kapturadeaer.com/

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tulip chairs by kazuko okamoto for chairs&more

http://www.chairsandmore.it/it

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moon by marco poletti for cerasa

http://www.polettistudio.it/, http://www.cerasa.it/

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art

ernesto neto and  the huni kuin tribe turn vienna's tba21 into a spiritual space

http://www.tba21.org/program/current

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pge polish energy group commissioned a group of talented people to create an ‘eco-mural’ on the wall of the solina dam in poland

http://www.gkpge.pl/

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mlle hipolyte recreates a tropical jungle with hand-cut paper pieces

http://www.hipolyte.com/

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exhibitions

grazia varisco, meridiana at cortesi gallery london

http://www.cortesigallery.com

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magasins

rinasce a manhattan la libreria rizzoli nell’elegante cornice del st. james building. carta da parati by fornasetti for cole & son

https://rizzolibookstore.com/

http://www.fornasetti.com/it, http://www.cole-and-son.com/en/

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mode

l’universo di manolo blahnik si espande dalle calzature alle borse, tramite una capsule collection di sei clutch gioiello

http://www.manoloblahnik.com/

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lumières

tree branches wall lamp by insidherland

http://insidherland.com/ING/index_ing.php

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one of a collection of five lamps inspired by the transformation between the off and on state of a lamp and by the universal language of drawn electrical diagrams. by node

http://oddmatterstudio.com/contact/

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marta bordes has designed elasticlights, a collection of ceramic lamps that have a moveable part held together by elastic so that you can easily change the direction of the light

http://www.marta-bordes.com/

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at milan design week, lexus created a three-part experience inviting visitors to take a journey through the senses. a circular, ambient, architectural light that changes color depending on the weather or the user’s input, luz was inspired by mellado’s experience as an undergrad attending design school in the north of poland

http://www.lexus-int.com/, http://www.marinamellado.com/

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et caetera

splashy fabric freshens mumbai cabs to showcase local designers

http://taxifabric.tumblr.com/