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venezia film festival

everest, un film di baltasar kormákur. con josh brolin, jake gyllenhaal, jason clarke, john hawkes, sam worthington, emily watson, robin wright, keira knightley. fuori concorso

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by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

voyages

cape cod, massachusset, usa

http://www.capecod.com/, http://www.capecodonline.com/

malahide castle, irlanda

http://www.irlanda.com

architecture

designed by studio olafur eliasson, and built by the non-profit charitable foundation nordea-fonden, cirkelbroen bridge is a gift to the city of copenhagen to promote good living in denmark

http://olafureliasson.net/

ganti asociates (ga) design has won an international ideas competition with a radical shipping container skyscraper that was envisioned to provide temporary housing in mumbai's overpopulated dharavi slum. taking in consideration that steel shipping containers can be stacked up to 10 stories high without any additional support, ga's winning scheme calls for a 100-meter-tall highrise comprised of a series of self supported container clusters divided by steel girders placed every 8 stories

http://www.ganti-associates.com/

jarmund/vigsnæs arkitekter have designed a cottage for a writer in oslo, norway, located in the backyard of their home

http://www.jva.no/

a picture taken on march 14, 2014 shows the temple of baal shamin seen through two corinthian columns in the ancient oasis city of palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of damascus. islamic state group jihadists on august 23, 2015 blew up the ancient temple of baal shamin in the unesco-listed syrian city of palmyra

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/23

interiors

appartamento a torino by uda architects

http://www.uda.it/

hotels and bars

mmx architecten, together with jord den hollander and other interior designers, have completed the “letters,” a group of additional hotel rooms, that have been placed on the roof of the botel, which is a floating hotel in amsterdam

http://mmx-architecten.nl/, http://www.amstelbotel.nl/

when the designers at jouin manku (patrick jouin and sanjit manku) were designing the happiness suite at the swatch art peace hotel, in shanghai, they surrounded the bed in a half-birdcage basket made from rattan

http://www.patrickjouin.com/

http://www.swatch-art-peace-hotel.com/

thai design firm party/space/design, have created villa de bear, a restaurant in bangkok, where the design is based around the idea of a european teddy bear factory

http://partyspacedesign.com/

installations

if you’re in london before the 27th of september, make sure to stop by covent garden, to see french artist charles pétillon’s first public art installation, made from 100,000 giant white balloons, that will gently pulsate white light to symbolise the beating of a heart, and reflect the history, energy and dynamism of the district

http://www.coventgardenlondonuk.com/

http://www.charlespetillon.com/

design

tom dixon at maison & objet paris 2015

http://www.tomdixon.net

designjunction, 24-27 september

http://thedesignjunction.co.uk/

the ‘egg map’ by hungarian designer dénes sátor is an unusual tool for urban navigation. designed for those tired of fighting a folding map for ten minutes between points or to avoid the difficulty of finding wifi for an outlet in the city the analog object fits in the palm of your hand and nestles comfortably in a pocket or backpack

satordenes@gmail.com

designed by ototo, and made from bpa free toughened nylon, the ‘nessie’ set of ladles model the loch ness monster

http://www.ototodesign.com/collections/all-products

ikea

http://www.ikea.com/it/it/?cid=it|ps|exact|go|20150507_2

the q5 chair’s structure is made up entirely of triangles, each one folding into another one to form the geometric design. ukrainian design firm odesd2 wanted to pay homage to buckminster fuller, the creator of the geodesic dome

http://odesd2.com/en

art

azuma makoto is known for planting his blooming sculptures in unconventional locales such as suspending a bonsai tree within an abandoned power plant, as well as sending the same species of ornamental shrub into space for his exobiotanica project. now the japanese artist is back on earth, where he has sailed out into the hinoba-an sea, nearby the negros island in the philippines, planting a monumental floral work in the middle of the ocean

http://azumamakoto.com/

books and magazines

fueled by a similar nostalgia for the form of signage dubbed as "liquid fire" in its heyday in the 1920s, husband and wife photography team randall ann homan and al barna have spent the last five years trekking around san francisco documenting their favorite signs before they disappear. In their book, san francisco neon, they collect over 200 photos of classic neon signs lighting up the city's diverse neighborhoods, from the martini glass sign that has become a mission district icon to the art deco blade signs for the city's historic movie theaters

http://www.neonbook.xyz/index.html

left, inventario n° 10

http://www.inventario-bookzine.com/about.html

right, the walking society (camper), lars mueller publishers

http://www.camper.com/it

http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/

lumières

cyborg lamps comes from karim rashid who designed the organic shaped table light for martinelli luce

http://karimrashid.com/

http://www.martinelliluce.it/home-en?back

lamp my little neighbour by marcantonio raimondi malerba for seletti

http://www.marama.it/, http://www.seletti.it/index.php

et caetera

does form follow function?