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Junkitecture
Posted by: Cane on 18th Aug 2010 in Inspiration
A school playground might seem an unusual place to encounter a jellyfish, but The Jellyfish Theatre in Southwark resembles the creature in name alone.
Seating over a hundred and built almost entirely from reclaimed materials, it is the creation of architects Köbberling and Kaltwasser, with more than a little help from the local community.
Across 4,200 man-hours; fruit palettes, old theatre sets, commercial waste, school furniture and timber donated by local residents was clad onto the steel skeleton. Disposing of large waste in the city is never straightforward, so this must have presented a welcome opportunity to many.
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Hack It Better!
Posted by: Cane on 4th Aug 2010 in Inspiration
Sugru helps you ‘hack things better.’
This isn’t about jailbreaking your iPhone, or chipping your Wii, but making real-world, physical modifications to your belongings. Sugru is a silicone modelling clay, comes in four colours and once cured, is just as resistant and pliable as the silicone we know and love.
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Stirling Work
Posted by: Cane on 2nd Aug 2010 in Creative Report
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Last week, RIBA announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize for architecture. If you don’t know the award, you’ll know some of its past winners, and chances are you will have been in or on some of the architecture. Since its inception in 1996, the prize has been awarded to 14 projects, including Gateshead’s ‘blinking eye’ Millennium Bridge, the Kubrickian Media Centre at Lords, and 30 St Mary Axe in EC3, or ‘The Gherkin’ to the architecturally relaxed.
The winner will be announced at the beginning of October so plenty of time to place your bets. The six possible future landmarks for this year are as follows:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Rick Mather Architects
Image (above): Richard Bryant / Arcaid
The 39 galleries of this new building have doubled the exhibition space at Britain’s oldest public museum. There is also a new education centre, conservation studios and the obligatory café (although it is on the roof.) The delicate, crisp new interior provides a contrast to the original 19th century building.
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In The Know (13)
Posted by: Jonathan Miller on 20th Jul 2010 in In The Know
Our occasional series where great design objects are described by those who know them best; their owners.
Jonathan Miller, of Alembic shows us something for which (as yet) there isn't a USB version of...
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Here Comes The Sun
Posted by: Cane on 5th Jul 2010 in Creative Report
images credit: Solar Millennium AG
Three large-scale renewable energy projects for today, tomorrow and...some time in the future...
Andasol
www.solarmillennium.de
Solar Millennium are currently putting the finishing touches to their third Andasol facility in the Spanish desert. Once all three are completed, they hope to provide electricity for half a million people. Their technology involves fields (think seventy football pitches each) of parabolic reflectors heating oil, to heat water into steam to drive turbines.
Apart from their award-winning 99% efficient collector troughs, another of their innovations is a thermal storage system, which retains excess heat in vats of molten salts, which can then discharge overnight, giving a more even and reliable output.
Andasol 3 will be followed by a facility in Egypt, then several more across the world.
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Louis Vuitton Maison
Posted by: Cane on 1st Jul 2010 in Creative Report
From travel bags to the Turner Prize: Louis Vuitton and the art of retail.
We visited the new Louis Vuitton Maison on New Bond Street; a 20,000 sq. ft. cathedral to contemporary art and scandalous opulence. Here are eight things you can do there without your credit card (well almost…)
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Posted by: Cane on 18th Aug 2010 in Inspiration
A school playground might seem an unusual place to encounter a jellyfish, but The Jellyfish Theatre in Southwark resembles the creature in name alone.
Seating over a hundred and built almost entirely from reclaimed materials, it is the creation of architects Köbberling and Kaltwasser, with more than a little help from the local community.
Across 4,200 man-hours; fruit palettes, old theatre sets, commercial waste, school furniture and timber donated by local residents was clad onto the steel skeleton. Disposing of large waste in the city is never straightforward, so this must have presented a welcome opportunity to many.
comments (1) | read more »
Hack It Better!
Posted by: Cane on 4th Aug 2010 in Inspiration
Sugru helps you ‘hack things better.’
This isn’t about jailbreaking your iPhone, or chipping your Wii, but making real-world, physical modifications to your belongings. Sugru is a silicone modelling clay, comes in four colours and once cured, is just as resistant and pliable as the silicone we know and love.
comments (0) | read more »
Stirling Work
Posted by: Cane on 2nd Aug 2010 in Creative Report
Last week, RIBA announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize for architecture. If you don’t know the award, you’ll know some of its past winners, and chances are you will have been in or on some of the architecture. Since its inception in 1996, the prize has been awarded to 14 projects, including Gateshead’s ‘blinking eye’ Millennium Bridge, the Kubrickian Media Centre at Lords, and 30 St Mary Axe in EC3, or ‘The Gherkin’ to the architecturally relaxed.
The winner will be announced at the beginning of October so plenty of time to place your bets. The six possible future landmarks for this year are as follows:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Rick Mather Architects
Image (above): Richard Bryant / Arcaid
The 39 galleries of this new building have doubled the exhibition space at Britain’s oldest public museum. There is also a new education centre, conservation studios and the obligatory café (although it is on the roof.) The delicate, crisp new interior provides a contrast to the original 19th century building.
comments (1) | read more »
In The Know (13)
Posted by: Jonathan Miller on 20th Jul 2010 in In The Know
Our occasional series where great design objects are described by those who know them best; their owners.
Jonathan Miller, of Alembic shows us something for which (as yet) there isn't a USB version of...
comments (3) | read more »
Here Comes The Sun
Posted by: Cane on 5th Jul 2010 in Creative Report
images credit: Solar Millennium AG
Three large-scale renewable energy projects for today, tomorrow and...some time in the future...
Andasol
www.solarmillennium.de
Solar Millennium are currently putting the finishing touches to their third Andasol facility in the Spanish desert. Once all three are completed, they hope to provide electricity for half a million people. Their technology involves fields (think seventy football pitches each) of parabolic reflectors heating oil, to heat water into steam to drive turbines.
Apart from their award-winning 99% efficient collector troughs, another of their innovations is a thermal storage system, which retains excess heat in vats of molten salts, which can then discharge overnight, giving a more even and reliable output.
Andasol 3 will be followed by a facility in Egypt, then several more across the world.
comments (1) | read more »
Louis Vuitton Maison
Posted by: Cane on 1st Jul 2010 in Creative Report
From travel bags to the Turner Prize: Louis Vuitton and the art of retail.
We visited the new Louis Vuitton Maison on New Bond Street; a 20,000 sq. ft. cathedral to contemporary art and scandalous opulence. Here are eight things you can do there without your credit card (well almost…)
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