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“Calligraphy Blanket” by Drury Brennan

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:50:05 -0400

“Calligraphy Blanket” by Drury Brennan

Looks like I like “Orchestral Crunkwave” Official...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:28:03 -0400

Looks like I like “Orchestral Crunkwave”

Official remix for @Disclosuremusic “You & Me”

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The Heartbeat of an Explosion

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:46:00 -0400

The Heartbeat of an Explosion

Rethink: The way you live

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:03:01 -0400

Rethink: The way you live

Blenheim Battalion #littlebritains

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:53:20 -0400

Blenheim Battalion #littlebritains

What Should Tumblr Spend Its $1.1 Billion On? GIFs You Can Sit...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:37:00 -0400

What Should Tumblr Spend Its $1.1 Billion On? GIFs You Can Sit On!!!

Vitra celebrates the letter “V” and its iconic Eames...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:00 -0400

Vitra celebrates the letter “V” and its iconic Eames lounge chair.

Cloned Robot Army Storms Istanbul with...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:00 -0400

Cloned Robot Army Storms Istanbul with Flashlights

Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci clones sections of video creating an endless array of cloned avatars that appear to flood through the city streets.

First constructed at the start of the twentieth century, the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:32:47 -0400

First constructed at the start of the twentieth century, the Cineteca Matadero was used as an abattoir and livestock market for around 85 years, but is now renovated to accomodate two cinema screens, a film studio, an archive and a terrace for outdoor screenings.

The illuminated orange structures dominate the three floors of the film archive, which are otherwise dimly lit and lined with dark grey-painted wood.

Woven walls also surround the two auditoriums but are painted black so as not to detract from the screens.

In the studio areas, the existing brick walls of the hundred-year-old building are mostly left exposed, although some are partially covered with wooden panels.

We’ve published a few unusual conversion projects from Spain recently. See our earlier stories about a market hall converted into a children’s centreand a civic centre inside a former prison.

Photography is by Fernando Guerra.

Here’s a bit more information from Churtichaga+Quadra-Salcedo:

Cinema Center in Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid

Refurbishment and conversion of an old slaughterhouse into a public cinema center housing a film archive, film and television studio, two cinemas, offices, canteen, and summer film patio.

Memory, memories, even bad memory always twist and fly when we work on architectural past, … yes, make a story, choose the tone, cadence, rhythm, accents, a story that naturally coexist with collective memory of the old slaughterhouse of Madrid, with another early report of new application dedicated to the movies while curled up with the forgetfulness of their own recurrent obsessions…

The magical backlight and contrast of the films, and the childhood fascination of basketry and technical human infinite geometries are the sensory triangle… the rest is to surround in spiral this atmosphere, this feeling, and define it constructively.

The tectonic history of brickland, the powerful rhetoric of the old slaughterhouse is the background, and also figure at the scenes of the story, a story in which a continuous low background, a wooden monomaterial painted in dark gray defines the new program deployed on walls, floors and ceilings, allowing a clear separation between story and History.

Against this dark carpet background, my own memory outputs a floating figures, some huge vibrant baskets that define the main spaces.

The Film Archive Area is covered by a permeable basket, huge, walkable, that filters light and works as a lamp, a huge figure of a modest orange hose knitted infinitely.

The Baskets that define Film rooms are shades of black. In the main room the orange background illuminated make the basket float until the movie begins, the background disappears and only a vibrant black surface stays.

In the small projection room, a basket-banked trough very black on black space fleet almost black wood, only when you open a window dazzles the eye.

Because the eye and limits of perception are ultimately the real protagonists of this history of cinema.

Silent Structure:

There is a constructive and structural battle, a battle to defend silent and hidden history. And to defend it is to disobey the pathology reports that distrust of the History of the factory building, do not understand that the factories of brick and masonry love to be charged… are happier and more cohesive… and that its logic is always a problem of stability and strength.

Relying on these unrepeatable walls of solid brick and lime mortar, the intervention has solved the great spam required by the program. The horizontal structure has been solved with reinforced concrete slabs, whose two-way working with the existing brick walls make a complete set of vertical load-bearing walls, distributing efforts through the generous cloth walls.

The foundations of these walls was reinforced overloading batteries slightly inclined of micropiles penetrating under the vertical projection of stepped masonry foundations.

Background and Baskets:

Upon resolution of the structure, a continuous carpet of grey painted pine flooring covers walls, floors and ceilings defining the new architecture of space.

Against this dark wood background, the monomaterial woven baskets, frames made of bent steel tubing as the guarantors of geometry, and woven with conventional industrial irrigation hoses.

Facilities:

The spaces defined by the tectonics of the preexisting, the dark background of wood and the protagonists of the baskets figures required a deliberate silence on the introduction of the facilities.

The enormous demand of fresh air that require the Plato and the Cinemas need a huge conducts that gets buried under ground most of these easements. The areas without such large ventilation requirements, such as lobbies, offices and circulation areas are solved with underfloor heating / cooling systems.

The lighting is deliberately disordered avoiding the perverse and sad homogeneity to which we are pushed by our regulations. Clusters of bulbs view dances in the walls… stripes of woven LEDs lighten the baskets and the space underneath.

Project name: Cinema Center in Matadero de Legazpi
Location: Matadero de Legazpi, Madrid, Spain

Program: Refurbishment and conversion of an old slaughterhouse into a public cinema center housing a film archive, film and television studio, two cinemas, offices, canteen, and summer film patio

Area: Built-up Area: 2.688 m2
Year: Design: 2009 • Completion: 2011

Cost: 4.104.843 €
Client: Madrid City Council

Project by: churtichaga+quadra salcedo architects
Team: Principal Designer: Josemaria de Churtichaga • Project Design Team: Mauro Doncel Marchán, Natanael López Pérez • Building Design Team: Leticia López de Santiago

The project is a conversion of oil silo into light art piece and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:29:28 -0400

The project is a conversion of oil silo into light art piece and a public space designed by Madrid based Lighting Design Collective (LDC).

It sits by the sea facing central Helsinki, Finland. Prevailing winds well known to residents are strongly present. The natural light, wind and the movement of light on the water formed the principles for the lighting concept. Walls are perforated with 2012 holes referring to the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 year.

The lighting signifies the start of a major urban redevelopment for the City of Helsinki. It functions to draw focus to unknown district and creates a landmark and a marketing device for the City. Maybe most importantly through the use of natural and artificial light it created a unique civic space for the citizens to use. Furthermore, it set a precedent for a new district for 11000 people to become the “district of light”. During the first years the silo is mainly viewed from distance when the area starts to get build. 1280 LED domes in 2700K white are fitted inside the silo behind the cut-outs and visible from several kilometres away.

LDC developed a bespoke software using swarm intelligence and nature simulating algorithms that refresh responding to parameters such as wind speed, direction, temperature, clear night and snow. System dials out every 5 minutes for new data. The patterns are fluid, natural in feel and never repeat. They are slow but speed up in relation to the wind speeds creating constantly changing mural of light. At midnight the exterior turns deep red for 1 hour. The colour refers to the former use of the silo as a container of energy. At 02:30 when the last ferry goes past to Suomenlinna lights go off.

The interior gains importance as the area gets populated. Inside is painted deep red. Daylight seeps through the pattern derived from original rust patterns on the walls. North facing wall has no perforations. 450 steel mirrors moved by winds are fitted behind the holes. With sunlight the silo appears to glimmer and sparkle like surface of water.The warm white LED grid reflects light indirectly via the red walls into the space. The moving patterns read as halos racing across the walls. The Silo is a civic space for the citizens of Helsinki. Floor was added and rigging infrastructure, power, water and emergency & cleaning lighting. Light intervention has created a new space for people.

During normal use the installation uses about 2kw of power, which is approximately 2W per square meter. The software creates a particle system that combines motion behaviors from birds, insects, an fishes to create organic and non repetitive animations for the lighting system, in a 128 x 10 LED grid. This animations are being generated using current data from the local weather, specially wind speed and direction, to create a vast and unpredictable array of light movements that give the viewer a visual representation of the weather sensations in the city. The control application was developed in OpenFrameworks, an open source c++ toolkit for creative coding, an runs in an e:cue Lighting Control Engine mx server.

Last night at @architizer #architizeraward one of these people...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:30 -0400

Last night at @architizer #architizeraward one of these people is my mother-in-law one is @amymorrisbrklyn

(via architecture reconstructed with 3D scanning by scott page)

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:42 -0400

(via architecture reconstructed with 3D scanning by scott page)

Graffiti Lab sent me a city in the mail - all assembled without...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:50:19 -0400

Graffiti Lab sent me a city in the mail - all assembled without glue from single sheets of laser-cut paper.

Which half is winning the battle?

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:45 -0400

Which half is winning the battle?

Piano Works 13 Pianoworks 13 is a short movie, which combines...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:12:42 -0400

Piano Works 13

Pianoworks 13 is a short movie, which combines live action and motion design. Over an original soundtrack played by Polerik Rouviere, four dancers perform different styles (break dance, new style, popping). The film illustrates the link between body, instrument and instrumentalist. The moves give birth to a sort of calligraphic language which is a representation of the moves themselves.

FLUIDIC - Sculpture in Motion A seemingly floating point cloud...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:41:27 -0400

FLUIDIC - Sculpture in Motion

A seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels).

This tumblr should be followed

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:12:56 -0400

This tumblr should be followed

@pluspoolny cleans the sh*t out of the east river @Architizer...

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:46:07 -0400

@pluspoolny cleans the sh*t out of the east river @Architizer @mewmuseum @ #IDEASCITY

XXX Sofa - Snuggle up or give yourself some breathing room.

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:25:18 -0400

XXX Sofa - Snuggle up or give yourself some breathing room.

Great evening with @alicesmithmusic hosted by @microsoft...

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:58:03 -0400

Great evening with @alicesmithmusic hosted by @microsoft #microsoftexperienceny #music (at The Flatiron Room)