To celebrate the 2016 Olympics kicking off in Rio this weekend, we’ve pinned the most popular Olympic and Paralympic design ever featured on Dezeen to a new Pinterest board. Highlights include the controversial Tokyo 2020 stadium, Team GB 2016 sports kits designed by Stella McCartney and a BMW-designed racing wheelchair for Paralympic athletes.
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With an altitude of 2,250 m, la croix de chamrousse is the highest peak of the municipality’s ski slopes. The cable car and three chairlifts that converge here and the télédiffusion de france building bristling with antennae, have deeply altered this natural site and seriously remodelled its topography.
The mountain restaurant built to meet you as you step out of the cable car, is the first stage in a project redeveloping and restoring the entire mountain cap to its natural state. It involves laying a scree path, furrow or edge, which marks a lasso-shaped boundary between the congested inner side of the crest (pylons, mountain stations, ski patrol huts) and the better protected slopes. Its design takes an encircling-edge approach and is an illusion to the imaginative world of the stronghold or tumulus.
The restaurant is a curvilinear incision in the slope that curves round to the west to escape the electric wires’ route and it is an integral part of this furrow. It is its continuation and creates continuity. It sweeps brushing lightly, underpinning, cutting and then brushing lightly again: it starts and ends by blending and connecting with the natural terrain.on either side of this incision, the natural outline of ground is restored using scree: on the roof above and on the slope downhill from the restaurant, with the exception of the restaurant terrace given a gentle horizontal slope.
Backing onto the kitchens’ back-office, the restaurant dining room extends 80 m,bending to follow the contour lines. It is intentionally narrow – 5 m on average. It creates a huge open vista with a 180° panorama from belledonne to dauphiné, including oisans. The interior of the restaurant is completely panelled from wall to ceiling in plywood panels darkened with the copper brown stain suggesting a fine noble wood at little cost. The strong contrast with the overexposure outdoors is deliberate. It creates a ‘darkroom’ that amplifies the panoramic view. When the weather is bad, this interior provides a warm refuge against the harsh elements.
When faced with a wall with over 30 years of history, rather than paint it white, as we usually do, Michael Losh shared with us his idea to take the memory of their collective studio and frame it, creating a dialogue between art and architecture.
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We had this big naked wall with approximately 7m width and 3m height with all the remains still stuck to it after the first construction in our collective studio in Lisbon.
The first idea was simply to recover the look and paint it all in white, and then think about how to decorate and intervene on it. Then with a closer look, we realized the wall had several original records written in pencil that combined with the stone and glue, not only should be preserved but highlighted because it ́s an original memory of the wall built over 30 years ago.
So we picked several canvas, studied the best position and painted all in white except the canvas areas. The result is the transformation of an ordinary and “noisy” wall into an original artwork.
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Miguel Losh
Team: João Mota, Ricardo Branco, Rita Proença e Fátima Marques.
Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). (more…)
A soaring new skyscraper dubbed the “Brickell Flatiron” is set to rise 213 meters above the skyline in Brickell, Miami. Designed by Luis Revuelta, the tower features an organic floorplate profile with wide elliptical terraces, maximizing sweeping views of Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami.
These curvilinear, flowing lines are complemented by the interiors, designed by acclaimed Italian architect and designer Massimo Iosa Ghini of Iosa Ghini Associati. The Italian craftsmanship and renaissance-revival air of Iosa Ghini’s design together with the clean functionality of Revuelta’s architecture, presenting two harmonious elements of design in Miami; old school glamor, and contemporary luxury.
Sitting at the epicenter of the downtown Miami financial district, the project will provide 548 residential units and 39,344 square feet of ground level retail. Its central location places it within walking distance to Mary Brickell Village and Brickell City Center, allowing users to take advantage of the lively cafe and restaurant scene in Miami’s most pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. The distinct shape of the building will differentiate it from the Brickell skyline, hinting at the sinuous architectural elements which also lie within.
Massimo Iosa Ghini is renowned for his industrial design as much as his architecture. The holistic awareness of the two is apparent within his vision for Brickell Flatiron, which incorporates bold furnishings and premium Italian finishes within carefully considered spatial layouts. Each of his interior spaces, which aside from the residential apartments include a sky spa, gym, theatre, library lounge, and children’s center utilizes “clear surfaces, rich textures, fine raw materials, and bright natural light.”
My approach to design is to envision a single object, conceptualizing “full” architecture in which the exterior and interior are as one. When designing the interior spaces of Brickell Flatiron, I wanted to honor and incorporate the fluid aesthetics of the building’s exterior created by Revuelta Architecture International. – Massimo Iosa Ghini
The premium ground floor retail and dining are accentuated by the inclusion of specialty artworks in the grand lobby. Large scale paintings from New York artist Julian Schnabel, produced exclusively for Brickell Flatiron, will create a culturally rich and visually interesting art gallery for residents and visitors as they enter the building.
The Brickell Flatiron is currently working through a contractual development and is set for completion in 2018.
News via Iosa Ghini Associati.
The creative process for this project was approached with the intention of achieving a new image that could adapt and reestablish a new dialogue with its context.
We took advantage of the site characteristics as well as the materials of the brand with the goal of enlarged them by embellishing the restaurant under a series of elegant and subtle interventions.
Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). (more…)
At this year’s reSITE conference in Prague, speakers attended from around the globe to present differing perspectives on the challenges of migration, with topics of interest ranging from economics, to city planning to architecture. But as revealed by the following presentations, migration is a topic that requires interrogation on a number of different scales and in a number of different contexts: from the global economic focus offered by Saskia Sassen in her opening keynote lecture, to the focused challenges of designing micro-apartments shown by Mimi Hoang of nArchitects; and even to the unusual case presented by Krister Lindstedt of White Arkitekter, when a migration is undertaken not by individual people but by a whole town at once.
Saskia Sassen
In her keynote speech, sociologist Saskia Sassen summarizes the forces that lead to migration and the ways that cities, globally, are failing to structure their economies and their design to take advantage of the opportunities presented by migrants.
Krister Lindstedt
In his lecture, Krister Lindstedt presents White Arkitekter‘s masterplan for the city of Kiruna, which due to the needs of a nearby coal mine is currently in the process of relocating two miles eastward.
Mimi Hoang
In her presentation, Mimi Hoang of nArchitects presents the firm’s design for Carmel Place, a residential building in Manhattan which New York City proposed as a pilot project to test out the effectiveness of micro-apartments in taming the city’s unaffordable rental market.
How Migration Will Define the Future of Urbanism and Architecture
Read more about the reSITE 2016 conference here.
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It is the relation between the mind, which Bucky so often talked about, and experience or experiencing that I found to be the key that unlocks his work and inspired my own.
As Buckminster Fuller explained in an 1965 interview with Studs Terkel, his relationship with his daughter was very close. Now, in a previously-unpublished essay written in 1995, the daughter of “Bucky” Allegra Fuller Snyder has shared her father’s best lessons with Metropolis Magazine – explaining how she has adopted her father’s approach to learning and understanding the world. Both of them engaged in “experiencing” the living environment, “involving one’s whole self, not being present at, or observing, something, but “doing” that thing.”
As Fuller aimed to “reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper,” physical experiences were essential to the understanding of this environment and thus, to his production. As his daughter poetically describes: “His fingertips were exploring the universe around him. His fingertips were his antennae to experience. What he processed in his mind was only ever processed through that link to experience.”
Read the full essay by Allegra Fuller Snyder “Antennae to Experience: What Bucky Fuller Taught Me” here.
