Fast Company. Manystuff.org — Graphic Design daily selection. About « 100 Abandoned Houses. The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago.
I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence. Brush Park, on the outskirts of Detroit’s entertainment district was always an area of interest to me. For as long as I can remember the area, housing large houses and mansions, sat largely abandoned just a stones throw away from the Fox Theater, and not far from Wayne State University, the Masonic Theater, and even the central business district. How could an area that was obviously once a wealthy enclave in the city become an example of the downfall of American cities? For years the area had signs advertising the redevelopment that was about to take place.
A quick (almost daily) taste of the urban landscape. Visual News - 2/172 - The Cure For Eyeball Boredom. Cool Hunting: Design. Design Milk: Modern Design. Deep Craft. North Elevation of the new Ralph L Carr Colorado Justicial Center I spent two days this past week participating in an elaborate dedication ceremony for the new Ralph L Carr Colorado Justicial Center in Denver.
Wowhaus was awarded one of the highly competetive public art commissions for the new building, a modernist riff on classical temple architecture featuring a soaring, circular atrium capped with a transparent glass dome. The building was designed by Fentriss Architects, who are probably best know for their now iconic, tensile-tented Denver International Airport.
It wasn’t as easy as you’d think spotting the eight participating artists in an atrium chock full of attorneys, judges, state representatives, clerks, former governors (4) and all of their entourages. Colorado is very proud of its reputation as a renegade state and the majority of its legislative practitioners trend towards Maverick in both style and substance. Home. Cool Hunting. Since 1999 home of design culture, leading independent publication for design, architecture, art, photography and graphics. » Designboom » Design Blogs, The Design Blog Top 50. DAMNation, a contemporary culture republic - Damnpages. 11 April 2014 by Upcoming: Luxembourg Biennial 'Into the Process', from 23rd April to 15th June.
If you consider Luxembourg a boring banking village, only enhanced by buildings of European institutions, it is essential that you discover this rapidly changing small country for yourself as it is only 2 hours away by high-speed train from Paris. The third opus of the Design City biennial in Luxembourg is devoted to the question of design in public areas and its integration in everyday life. Against the grain of conventional clichés, the Design City Biennial organized by the Mudam is perhaps the first pretext to go and take an exploratory look at this up-and-coming country. mudam.lu more > 10 April 2014 / DAMn°43 by exhibiition, Design Museum Holon, Israel 16 April – 31 May. Opening during Holon Design Week 2014, the work of Israeli designers who engage in children's book illustration and in designing outdoor games and playgrounds, is being presented at the Design Museum.
Dmh.org.il more > Technology and the Brightest Young Minds in Music, Art, Film, and Design. Mirror lab by VAV Architects. What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror. Local studio VAV Architects temporarily installed the mirror inside the doorway to a passageway that burrows through the base of the river-spanning bridge. A slither of daylight passes around the edges of the mirror into the tunnel, creating an illuminated outline around the reflected view. The true view is revealed when the mirror is revolved around a central pivot. Other recent projects on Dezeen to feature mirrors are a shop with a central photography studio and a garden filled with a maze of grey brick arches – see all our stories featuring mirrors here . Photography is by VAV and Miquel Merce .
Heres a short project description from VAV Architects: Mirror lab. Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home.