Plywood panels are used to conceal storage and serving hatches inside this Tokyo coffee shop by Schemata Architects (+ slideshow). (more…)
Schemata Architects creates pinewood-lined interior for Blue Bottle coffee shop
Month: October 2016
Utah – USA (by Fred Moore)
Utah – USA (by Fred Moore)
This Agricultural Expo Center in China is Not Only Inspired by Sesame Seeds But It is Shaped Like One
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The team of tvsdesign and Cospace has won the competition for the design of the Zhumadian International EXPO Center, located in Zhumadian, a city known for its agricultural industry, in the Henan Province of China. The competition sought out convention center designs that could not only serve as a location to hold agricultural conventions and trade fairs but could also connect back to the city’s historic roots in order to expand the area as a rendezvous of agriculture.
Drawing from the fact that Zhumadian is specifically known for supplying China with sesame seeds, the proposal utilizes the imagery of the seed in its shape—with rounded triangular forms—as well as in its overarching concept: “as an epicenter of activity in the agricultural industry, the convention center represents origins, life, growth, and health for the region and the people who visit the building” described the architects.
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Furthermore, the facility is oriented about a north-south axis with a design that visualizes the three elements critical to the agricultural process—earth, heaven, and people.
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The new Center will be located along the western edge of an upcoming commercial development to the west of the central city, and will be the first of three cultural buildings to arise within the agricultural park area.
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Kerstin Thompson adds intimate underground tasting room to Australian winery
A doorway discreetly set into a circular stone wall leads into this moody subterranean wine cellar that architect Kerstin Thompson has created at Australia’s TarraWarra vineyard (+ slideshow). (more…)
QUID Vicolo Luna / Lillo Giglia Architecture
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- Architects: Lillo Giglia Architecture
- Location: Favara AG, Italy
- Collaborator: Giorgio Parrino
- Area: 1500.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Salvatore & Lillo Giglia
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From the architect. Named after its charmingly christened Moon Alley, the Vicolo Luna neighbourhood is an urban quarter on the edge of Favara’s town – which is a unique web of dammusi, low stone-and-lime buildings directly derived from the Roman domus, of which dammuso is the surviving archaic Sicilian word.
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This project’s target is to toggle on urban and social regeneration dynamics, to the benefit of such complex network of old and new buildings, of public, private and venue spaces: squares, historical streets, alleyways, plazas, courtyards and gardens. It is indeed a manifold interaction between public and private, leading to a remarkable degree of cultural livelihood and to a striking nightlife, such as making Favara stealing the lead from neighbouring Agrigento regional capital and world-wide renowned historical city.
Site Plan
Based on such premises, the present project intends to apply a selective focus to ancient and ruined house buildings together with all their annex spaces, and to re-address their function to a broad range of social events: from cuisine to AD facilities (Albergo Diffuso, Diffused Hotel), from exploiting the charm of old, quant courtyards and gardens refashioned and tuned to a fresh contemporary feel to making best use of such warm and yet intimate spaces by hosting performance art events as well as resources and investments – A hub for energy to gather around a reborn, innovative and above all shared and community-based urban context.
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The multi-faceted nature of this project contributes to an open, participated and constantly evolving, in-progress cultural improvement.
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There are two dimensions working in constant interaction and sinergy: preservation works and innovative architectural planning. The outcome is a unique, defined, wholesome and complete architectural standard which introduces and operates on several spatial aspects.
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The nature of this project consists in the creative elaboration and multifield application of the old/new contrast on a roughly 1.500 square metres town quarter.
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The first phase of the project is going to be the most challenging as far as restructuring works are concerned: works will be carried out for the renovation and re-addressing of a large noble household property with several annex buldings, among which maintenance facilities once used as tool-houses and a garden.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
In the following step of the project, additional hosting facilities, currently work-in-progress, will be open to the public.
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Having to comply with strict council reglations concerning the overall building size allowed, close-up, tailored, surgical interventions were carried out, drawing out and integrating with a custom and uncompromising approach. Materials and works were aimed at creating sharp and yet natural shapes blending in a rather blunt, stratified and crystallized background.
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The present project has chosen and made sure to preserve as much as possible of the original wall structures, avoiding to disrupt the original lay-out along with the characteristc elements of the building: on the groundfloor, two crossing vaults, the arches and the wooden ceiling and roof; at the first floor, the brand new beams set in their original sloping framework design.
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From an architectural point of view, the target is nurturing a plus in each space, by using a minimal language, expressed by a choice of natural materials and neutral grey and white indoor environments, alternating neat and smooth outlines with unlayered, rough cement walls in specific spots.
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7 Little Reminders When You Feel Left Out
One morning John goes to the beach to enjoy the sunrise, and he notices a man dancing in the distance. Curious about what is that man doing, he goes closer. The man is not dancing; he is throwing something in the water.
“Hello, may I ask what are you doing?”
“I’m throwing starfish back into the ocean.”
“Why?”
“Because the sun is rising and, left on the beach, the starfish will die.”
“You do realize that the beach is miles and miles, and you can’t possibly help them all. Right? It makes no difference what you are doing.”
The man gets down, picks up another starfish and throws it into the water:
“I made a difference to that one, haven’t I?”
Whatever you do, it makes a difference in someone else’s life. However, sometimes is you the one that feels neglected and forgotten. And because maybe there is no one else to make a difference in your life at that moment check out
7 little reminders for times when you feel left out:
1. You can’t satisfy everybody
Stop trying to please everyone because some individuals won’t be satisfied no matter what you do.
Remind yourself that not everything that you lose is a loss. Some people that get out of your life are doing you a service because you are better without them.
2. You are the guardian of YOU
Love, attention, respect and appreciation for you start inside you. Offering positive and good things to oneself is not selfish. It is a matter of self-preservation, progress, and self-improvement. You are the guardian of your happiness, wellbeing, and safety.
As long as you are there for yourself, everyone else can come in and get out of your life because you have all it takes to build the life of your dreams.
3. Some people don’t deserve your attention and time
Our most precious possessions in life are time, love and energy. Use them wisely and respectful. Don’t offer them to people that leave you out just to blackmail you into offering even more.
Surround yourself with people that like you as you are. People that don’t ask you to change for their sake, pleasure or benefit.
4. The most influential person in your life is you
No one else can change your life for the better as you can. Is it not?
5. Some people have a limited capacity to understanding others
Communication is a powerful interpersonal skill, but not everyone has it or wants to use even if they do. Therefore, don’t expect to be understood by everyone.
Accept when you are not (without casting blame on one side or the other.) It doesn’t matter whose fault it is; it matters for you to learn something out of that experience and use those lessons to grow.
6. People need to like themselves
If you are a strong, accomplished and wise person some people might leave you out because they feel too small and insignificant around you.
It is not your fault nor theirs. Every person wants to like and appreciate who they are. Therefore, they seek and want the company of individuals that makes them feel important and intelligent.
Gather around yourself people with a similar level of intelligence, drive, motivation and power. You are feeling good having meaningful and comprehensive conversations, and they feel the same.
7. The future is yours
Stay focused on your goals and dreams and make them happen regardless what happens around you.
At the end of the day, if it happens to you to be left out, pushed aside, forgotten or neglected remind yourself that any relationship is a two-way street. If you are the only one putting effort into it, there is no connection, and it is time for you to move one.
Remind yourself that some people don’t deserve your time, energy and love and when they leave out of your life, they are doing a big service to you: you have the chance and the opportunity to build new, long-lasting and meaningful relationships.
When life takes something from you, it’s doing it only to make room for something new, something better.
The future is yours. Shape it as you please. Gather around yourself people that can’t imagine a happy life without you in it.
You are not a helpless starfish abandoned and forgotten on a deserted beach. You are the kind person throwing them back into the ocean. Are you not?
Strive to make a difference even when the situation seems hopeless because each time you are doing that for someone else, you feel the positive ripple effects in your life as well.
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RSAA’s Artcube Proposal Accentuates, Preservers, and Modifies Historical Silo in Norway
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Büro Ziyu Zhuang and RSAA have released images of Kunststilo, their proposal for the Tangen Collection and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Norway. The design is centered around a historical grain silo, simultaneously preserving, modifying, and adding to the existing site.
The design carves a curved void into the concrete silo, producing a shelter for visitors and revealing the form within. The circulation then follows the former path of the grain through a new structure on the eastern side envisioned as an open box with an industrial glass envelope. The extension of the silo, new volumes, and adjacent canal produce a new plaza that spans the length of the silo.
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The main feature of the proposal is the rectangular “artcube,” which accentuates the transition between the waterfront promenade to a calmer residential neighborhood. Appearing from a distance as distinct from the coastline, the artcube is constructed by two main elements. The first is the cutout of the silo, which serves as the backbone of the artcube and contains a cafe, restaurant, and lookout platform. The translucent facade can either hint at the interior space or display artwork from the Norge Tangen Collection, integrating the private collection as part of a public space.
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Courtesy of RSAA
- Architects: RSAA
- Design Team: Ziyu Zhuang, Fabian Wieser, Zhengdong Qi, Xiaoqing Liu, Hongyu Fan, Wenpu Chai, Meng Zhang
- Area: 9730.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Courtesy of RSAA
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Faye Toogood turns lava stone into fiery Magma tile collection
London Design Festival 2016: London designer Faye Toogood has glazed lava stone in a range of fiery colours for her tile collaboration with ceramics brand Made a Mano (+ slideshow). (more…)
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