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Poids en ordre de marche : 37 000 kg
Profondeur de forage max. : 48 m
Diamètre de forage max. : 1 800 mm
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier LIFE - INITIAL comprenant 42 logements ainsi que des bureaux.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : rue Edmonde Charles-Roux / rue Cyfflé
Fonction : Logements / Bureaux
Construction : 2021 → 2023
► Architecte : DRLW Architectes
PC n° 54 395 19 R0068 délivré le 28/11/2019
PC modificatif n° 54 395 19 R0068 M01 délivré le 18/08/2021
Niveaux : R+7
Hauteur : 25.95 m
Surface de plancher totale : 6 234,68 m²
Superficie du terrain : 1 305 m²
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today
“Curated with Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition will explore design from the birth of surrealism in 1924 to the current day; spanning classic Surrealist works of art and design as well as contemporary surrealist responses.
The exhibition will uncover how one of the 20th century's most influential movements came to impact design through its questioning of the conventional and its commitment to exploring the mind, unconscious and mystical.
It will bring together the best in Surrealist design, from furniture, interior design, fashion, photography and world-renowned artworks from Surrealist pioneers such as Salvador Dalí, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Leonora Carrington and Lee Miller, through to contemporary artists and designs, such as Schiaparelli, Dior, Björk.
The result is an exhibition filled with playful, curious and poetic objects that uncover the rich history of Surrealism and its fascinating influence on design.
#ObjectsOfDesire”
“'Miss Blanche' chair, 1988
SHIRO KURAMATA
Roses floating in transparent resin give this chair a dream-like, insubstantial appearance. It is named after the fragile character of Blanche DuBois, from Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Shiro Kuramata's design expresses Blanche's increasingly unstable sense of reality in a tragic story shot through with beauty and delusion, seduction and violence.
Manufactured by Ishimaru Co. Ltd
Acrylic resin, plastic roses, anodised tubular aluminium
Vitra Design Museum”
All text above © The Design Museum, 2022
Three Muslim women standing at back entrance to the Shah (Imam) Mosque in Esfahan.
Imam Mosque stands at the south side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid period, it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran, and is one of the masterpieces of Persian Architecture. It is registered, along with the Naghsh-i Jahan Square, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its construction began in 1611, and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-colour mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions.
Photo taken on August 20, 2007 outside the back entrance to Imam Mosque, Isfahan, Iran.
Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016
From the Guardian Newspaper 12 June 2016:
"The pavilion itself, supported by Goldman Sachs, stands, as usual, next to the Serpentine Gallery’s building, a brief walk through Kensington Gardens from the summer houses. It is made of hollow rectangular tubes, open at the ends, made of thin fibreglass sheets, which are then stacked up into a twisting shape that is at different times tent-like, mountainous, anatomical and churchy. It revels in inversion and surprise: its components are brick-like but light; they are straight-lined and right-angled, but generate curves in their stacking. A one-dimensional vertical line at each end grows from a 2D plane into a 3D swelling. From some positions, you can look straight through the boxes to the greenery beyond, such that they almost disappear. From others, they present blank flanks and the building becomes solid. It is mechanical and organic, filtering and editing the surroundings as if through the leaves of a pixellated tree.
It is designed by BIG, or Bjarke Ingels Group, a name that cleverly combines the initials of its 41-year-old founder and leader with the alternative custom of choosing names that carry some sort of meaning (OMA, the late lamented FAT, muf, Assemble). The latter is supposed to deflect attention away from individuals towards something more general: “BIG” is universal and personal at once, none too subtle in its meaning and statement of ambition and has the added attraction that the original Danish practice can call its website big.dk.
The name encapsulates Ingels’s genius, which is to combine the avant-garde trappings of an OMA with a happy-to-be-trashy flagrancy, an embrace of the values of marketing, a celebration of ego. “What I like about architecture,” he says, “is that it is literally the science of turning your fantasy into reality.” His approach has earned BIG the mistrust, awe and envy of fellow professionals, the adulation of many students and a 300-strong practice with offices in Copenhagen, New York and, as revealed in an announcement coinciding with the Serpentine launch, London.
"The pavilion itself, supported by Goldman Sachs, stands, as usual, next to the Serpentine Gallery’s building, a brief walk through Kensington Gardens from the summer houses. It is made of hollow rectangular tubes, open at the ends, made of thin fibreglass sheets, which are then stacked up into a twisting shape that is at different times tent-like, mountainous, anatomical and churchy. It revels in inversion and surprise: its components are brick-like but light; they are straight-lined and right-angled, but generate curves in their stacking. A one-dimensional vertical line at each end grows from a 2D plane into a 3D swelling. From some positions, you can look straight through the boxes to the greenery beyond, such that they almost disappear. From others, they present blank flanks and the building becomes solid. It is mechanical and organic, filtering and editing the surroundings as if through the leaves of a pixellated tree."
Original article at: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/12/serpentine-p...
In the early morning a Pakistani Pashtun man who works as a laborer in a brick kiln pauses to have his photo taken. He is holding a shovel (spade). Poverty and child labour is pervasive among workers in brick kilns in South Asia. Horses and donkeys also suffer badly. Peshawar alone has approximately 450 brick kilns. Photo taken on February 27, 2008 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This advert is for the Empire Stone Co Ltd., whose prestigious address is in the Starnd, London, but whose main manufacturing base was in Narborough, Leicestershire.
The company had been formed in 1900 and was an early example of a plant mass producing concrete and reinforced concrete components for buildings. As may be gathered they sort of tried to 'hide' the concrete element by claiming the nomenclature of "Empire Stone" to grace the product. They produced vast amounts of such items and were indeed involved in many thousands of prestigious construction projects until they closed down in 1990 - the MI5 building at Vauxhall being one of their last.
The advert shows specific municipal constructions of the inter-war years when a stripped 'neo-Georgian' was in vogue, especially for such buildings. They include;
Worthing Town Hall by C. Cowles-Vosey FRIBA
Clacton - on - Sea Town Hall, Essex, by Sir A Brumwell Thomas FRIBA
Poole's Municipal Offices in Dorset by E S Goodacre Assoc. M.Inst.C E.
Bournemouth Pavilion by Home and Knight FFRIBA
Cambridge County Offices by C H Riley FRIBA
Aylesbury County Offices by C H Riley FRIBA.
Glamorgan County Hall, Cardiff, by Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas.
There's some fine buildings there and msot are now Listed - and quite a role call of well known architects and designers of the period.
An Indian male railroad worker wearing a turban stands between a pile of rubble, including bricks, and some railway tracks. Behind him as a locomotive and a platform. Photo taken on September 18, 2008 in Delhi, India.
Poids en ordre de marche : 37 000 kg
Profondeur de forage max. : 48 m
Diamètre de forage max. : 1 800 mm
Construction de l'ensemble immobilier LIFE - INITIAL comprenant 42 logements ainsi que des bureaux.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Centre
Adresse : rue Edmonde Charles-Roux / rue Cyfflé
Fonction : Logements / Bureaux
Construction : 2021 → 2023
► Architecte : DRLW Architectes
PC n° 54 395 19 R0068 délivré le 28/11/2019
PC modificatif n° 54 395 19 R0068 M01 délivré le 18/08/2021
Niveaux : R+7
Hauteur : 25.95 m
Surface de plancher totale : 6 234,68 m²
Superficie du terrain : 1 305 m²
For ODC - Stain
I woke up really early this morning and used my telescope to snap a picture of this stain on the universe as it passed by in the heavens.
No, wait. My mistake. This is really a picture of a rust stain on my driveway. Sorry about that....
RAW conversion in Lightroom, then into Photoshop to invert the colors. I used a hue/saturation adjustment layer to convert the color of the "comet" from blue to yellow.
Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016
Accompanying notes provided By V&A Mueseum, London. Copyright the V&A Museum.
ELYTRA, Filament Pavilion
18 May - 6 November, 2016
Elytra is a responsive shelter. A robot will build new components of the structure on the site, allowing the canopy to grow over the course of the V&A Engineering Season. Your presnce in the pavilion today will be captured by sensors in the canopy and ultimately will affect how and where the structure grows.
The pavilion tests a possible future for architectural and engineering design, exploring how new robotics technologies might transform how buildings are designed and built. The design draws on research into lighhtweight construction principles found in nature. It is inspired by the filament structures of the shells of flying beetles, know as elytra.
Made of glass and carbon fibre, each component is produced using robotic winding technique developed by the designers. Unlike other fabrication methods, this does not require moulds and can produce an infinite variety of spun shapes, while reducing wate to a minimum. This unique method of fabrication integrates the process of design and making.
Like beetle elytra, the structure is both strong and very light. The pavilion's entire filament stutcure weighs less than 2.5 tonnes - equivalent to 1.4 by 1.4 m squared prortion of the V&A's wall around you.
Part of the V&A Engineering Season.
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While looking directly into the camera, a young Palestinian girl stands at the top of the staircase leading to her home in the West Bank city of Hebron in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on June 14, 2005.
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"Nothing is ugly or beautiful if no one is watching it"
Javier A. Bedrina
Give a follow:
The New York State Pavilion ruins stand silent at night while a jet streaks by overhead on it's approach to LGA.
1 minute, 9 seconds at f8, ISO 100
Given the scarcity of trees above 11,000 feet and the limitations of eucalyptus, the most abundant tree species in the area, as a building material, sun-dried mud bricks are frequently used to make Quechua Indian dwellings in the Andes of Peru.
Exterior of Char Minar in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Char Minar means "four minarets" in Tajik. The towers are technically not minarets; the building functioned as the gatehouse to a long-gone madrassa. The towers are topped with attractive aqua-colored tiles that are common in Bukhara's historic sites. Photo taken on July 10, 2012.
An Indian girl looks down at the camera from her modest home. She is about 8-10 years old. Beside her head is a bamboo ladder. Photo taken on August 27, 2008 in New Delhi, India.
From Information provided by Kew Gardens:
"Opened on International Biodiversity Day 2008, the Treetop Walkway stands in the Arboretum, between the Temperate House and the lake. It was designed by Marks Barfield Architects, who also designed the London Eye. The 18-metre high, 200-metre walkway enables visitors to walk around the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees. Supported by rusted steel columns that blend in with the natural environment, it provides opportunities for inspecting birds, insects, lichen and fungi at close quarters, as well as seeing blossom emerging and seed pods bursting open in spring. The walkway’s structure is based on a Fibonacci numerical sequence, which is often present in nature’s growth patterns."