Alan Voo House | Neil M. Denari Architects

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DuPont™ Corian® Design Studio Launches in New York

Located in the flatiron district of new york city, DuPont™ opened the first ever Corian® design studio.viadesignboom

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Indian Girl

Indian Girl from Pulp Art Book.via likecool

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Complex August/September 2009 Issue: Keri Hilson x So_Me

Yesterday we showed you the Kid Cudi cover, enhanced by artist Augor. As usual Complex magazine features two covers. The second cover feature Keri Hilson. French artist and Ed Banger Records art director So_Me worked on this cover. Once again a Complex issue that you should not miss out on.viahighsnobiety

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Brazil Contemporary – Contemporary Art, Architecture, Visual culture and Design

Three Rotterdam museums - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and Nederlands Fotomuseum - are bringing the rich culture of Brazil to the city on the Maas.

Brazil Contemporary is running since 30 May until 23 August 2009.

Brazil is inspiring, astounding, amazing. It is one of the largest countries in the world, with vast cities of millions of inhabitants that defy the imagination. Brazil is also developing at breakneck speed and is one of the economic giants of the future. But Brazil has its downside too: the depletion of the rainforest, the enormous contrast between rich and poor, the favelas. These phenomena are culturally reflected in an exciting cocktail of high and low art, of street art and politically committed art, and of different art disciplines and traditional craftsmanship. Brazilian culture will go to your head.viaarchdaily














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Juan Francisco Casas

Juan Francisco Casas is a Spanish artist that actually lives and works in Madrid. He drawings large size canvases where he reproduces images he takes with his camera.viafabrikproject













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Vallecas 51 / SOMOS Arquitectos

1. URBAN SETTING AND PROJECT
The proposed building rises eight floors above the ground along one of the limits of the block imposed by the urban planning. The great scale of the building acts like a visual screen for the green area that stands aside, physically protecting it. The volume, specifically fixed according to the rigid city-planning rules that prevail within the scope of the PAU de Vallecas, as well as the optimization of the space to obtain the estimated amount of apartments, drove us to respect the enveloped volume determined in the planning, using another series of tools to give a new urban approach to the intervention. On the ground floor, the apartments are oriented towards the later green area, whereas towards the official facade and the hustle and bustle common of a commercial street, the commercial premises and the three accesses (garage and pedestrian) are placed.



The building raises a scale reduction, a friendly relation with the surroundings spliting the facade in small units that combined with each other might be able to transmit a changing sensation, dynamic, chameleonlike. The facade crystallizes through open celled polycarbonate panels fixed on an aluminum substructure, creating a sustainable and recyclable skin. These panels achieve, through gradation of tones and brightness, combined with a substrate of neutral color determined by the outer shell of the facade, the right combination of both materials in order to make the entire façade to vibrate, entering in resonance with that light so characteristic on the city of Madrid.

In the inside, a courtyard flanked with access galleries provides the apartments with light and crossed ventilation, two facts that in this way would let them become open to two opposed facades. The light galleries made out of steel wind through the inner void and optimize the ratio of vertical access cores on each floor. At the same time they grant renewed aesthetic qualities, as well as hygiene and salubrity to the common space of relation. A translucent polycarbonate ceiling is settled like linen cloths that illuminate the accesses to the apartments. The slim stairs are solved extending out from these galleries in an overhang which jumps in the air connecting each floor.




2. PROGRAM
It is about one promotion of 123 houses of Social housing, 2 businesses and 4 underground floors for garage, to be solved in a quarter of a block. In order to save space, we propose just two vertical communication cores located at the ends of the inner courtyard. The apartments are grouped around this patio, being accessed through steel footbridges. The units prepared for handicapped people are placed on the ground floor looking out towards the green area, whereas in the main façade, access hall and garage find their place, as well as the commercial premises.viaarchdaily

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Gensler Architects Entry for Open Architecture Challenge Video

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The Creative Process

Music Painting by JUL & MAT from JUL & MAT on Vimeo.

by JUL & MAT

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Photographer Daido Moriyama

DAIDŌ is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.

Born in Ikeda, Osaka, he studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō, which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts.viakanyeuniversity

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Nichole Camarillo: Addict For Dramatics

Talent artist Nichole Camarillo has released her final painting for her "One a Week" project in which she has been giving away one painting a week for the month of July. This painting is titled Addict For Dramatics. All of her art seem to time capsules for emotion. Every potrait she paints is worth at LEAST 1,000 Words. I can not wait to own one of these. You can visit her @ NicholeCamarillo.com.

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National Library / KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten

KSP Engel und Zimmermann recently designed a 77,000 square meter library extension to accommodate the existing National Library of Beijing. The new addition will hold approximately 12 million books and be used by an estimated 12,000 people per day.

The Si Ku Quan Shu collection, “unparalleled in its historical and cultural significance”, includes manuscripts produced during the Ch’ing dynasty (1644 - 1912). The manuscripts provide a copy of all documentation relating to Chinese culture, “effectively preserving for the modern age this valuable wealth of knowledge spanning thousands of years”. KSP Engel und Zimmermann’s design focuses on the importance of the documents, “As the center and core of the library, the glazed vault for the Si Ku Quan Shu collection of China’s written cultural heritage, bound in wooden panels, is always visible, and transparent.”

Visitors enter the library through a geometrically arranged garden via broad steps set between two lower building sections, which then lead to the third story. From here, the visitor has a view of the entire library and into the extensive steel structure spanning the roof.

The library is divided into levels: located around the base is the large space containing the contemporary library with reading rooms, reference works and a reference library, then above this level is the digital library, synonymous with the future, global communication and networking. The differing levels provide a “simple symbolism of linking together past, present and future, as inter-reliant and simultaneously merging elements, lends the design cogency.” The various levels merge together allowing rows of books to alternate with reading areas.viaarchdaily

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