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The Houl by Simon Winstanley Architects, Scotland
Emerging from the contours of an elevated and exposed Dumfriesshire hillside, The Houl is not only a fine contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Scottish ‘longhouse’ but also a net zero carbon dwelling that doesn’t wear its progressive eco credentials too visibly on its sleeve
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Alfa Romeo 4C GTA
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One of Narinder Sagoo’s elegant, cartoon-like project descriptions for Foster + Partners. This one is entitled Working in the park
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How to make a book with Steidl
Gerhard Steidl has spent the last forty years printing and publishing books. His legendary, unconditional obsession with his trade has led him to become the publisher of choice for an A list of artists that include Martin Parr, Ed Ruscha, Robert Adams, Jeff Wall and Robert Frank among other. Steidl is himself an artist in his way, travelling the world to discuss the saturation of colours, the perfume of ink and the comparative qualities of paper with his clients, then returning to his presses in Göttingen, Germany to assail his staff with a minutiae of details in his quest for perfection. Steidl’s passion is infectious, his client list unique and the quality of his work without parallel. These, together with his idiosyncratic approach have made him a gift for documentary film makers Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph who spent a year following the meister and his herculean schedule: ten appointments in a day; Los Angeles, Astoria, Nova Scotia and Vancouver in four days, then months at the presses. Their resulting film: ‘How to Make a Book with Steidl’ is a gem of a document.
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Palm Springs Modernism Week tour
The old-style 1960s sign which used to welcome people to the city
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The Modern Danish Warehouse pop-up store, London
The Modern Danish Warehouse pop-up store in London features vintage finds and rare items once used in Danish schools
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Lagar do Marmelo is a recently completed olive crushing facility by Ricardo Bak Gordon in Portugal
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Paris Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear
Rick Owens
Rick Owens has his woman covered in more ways than one for the winter. The American designer delivered incredible layers of sharply sliced wool fabrics and buttery leathers, each one stacked above the other like a perfectly assembled puzzle set. Curved-hem cloaks were worn with fuzzy turtlenecks pulled over models’ heads and paired with tunics, over wrapped tubular skirts. It sounds complicated but the effect was eerily cohesive and strikingly beautiful. Best of all were the fur head veils that looked just about as rigorous as nuns’ habits. -
Nowhere exhibition at KK Outlet:
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EveryDayDutch pop-up store at Selfridges, London
The EveryDayDutch pop-up store at London’s Selfridges, curated by Wallpaper* contributor Jane Withers, runs until 27th March
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Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1
The cloth-bound front cover of Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1
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Cedric Price: Wish We Were Here, London
‘Cedric Price – Wish We Were Here’, Portrait of Cedric Price
Courtesy of the Cedric Price Estate
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Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile
Realistic rendering of Voiture Minimum by Le Corbusier in steel plate and painted in black gloss
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Studio Job founders Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel stand aboard the Firmship FS 42, which was created as a personal vessel for Moooi founder Casper Vissers but will act as a blueprint for further designs
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Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres exhibition, V&A
Maggie’s Dundee, designed by Frank Gehry of Gehry and Partners
Photographer: Keith Hunter
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‘We want to be modern’ exhibition, Warsaw
'Muszelka [Small shell]’ chairs by Teresa Kruszewska, 1956
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Alfred Dunhill A/W 2011 presentation
Arranged rather effectively in a series of tableaus in the brand’s Georgian mansion, models showed off the collection’s modern fascination with things like deconstructed shoulders and reinvented dandy-esque accessories…
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‘The Border’ by Victoria Sambunaris, New York
Untitled (Border Fence, near Naco, AZ), 2010
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Inside Colonial Modern: Housing projects on the empty field of Sidi Othman in Casablanca, 1955
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The Villa Muller in Prague designed in 1930 by Adolf Loos originally for Mr. František Müller and his wife, Milada Müllerová
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Shelter Island House, The Hamptons
Tilted over-sailing butterfly roofs and walls extend out from the living space into the poolside area, serving to distort and expand the true extent of the space
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UCSF’s new research centre by Rafael Viñoly
The architects’ circuitous use of stairways and sloping walkways maximises all available space and ensures a fluid and cohesive whole.
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New York Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear
Ports 1961
What’s wrong with prim, pretty and easy to wear? Nothing - this is American fashion, after all. Ports 1961, now in the hands of designer Fiona Cibani, went gently down the approachable route, but made sure it raced ahead with excellent fabric choices. Fashion came in the form of metallic herringbone that contrasted nicely with prim proportions (think schoolgirl blouses) and the crinkly bouclé wool and super-slit skirts that were held up with ultra thin-metal belts. -
Poster for The Fixer (1968) by Saul Bass
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Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011: The Nominees
Category: Interactive
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Architecture News: Letter from the US
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Piano’s travertine-clad, single-story structure adds 45,000 sq ft of flexible gallery space to LACMA’s 20-acre campus. North-facing saw-tooth skylights light the interiors designed to accommodate both multiple exhibitions and large-scale artworks. Scuptural HVAC units, painted bright red (and set in a landscape designed by Robert Irwin) recall Piano’s Centre Pompidou in Paris, his early functionalist collaboration with Richard Rogers.
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Beauty news February: editor’s picks
Browhaus eyebrow kit
With its network of 19 salons worldwide, Browhaus is the place to turn for eyebrow and lash maintenance. To complement the brand’s signature offering, Brow Resurrection - a modern spin on eyebrow tattooing, in which sparse brows are filled in with precise strokes - Browhaus has assembled a kit of recovery essentials, which includes an anti-scarring balm and a regenerating serum, encased in this ingenious camera packaging to ensure a picture perfect finish.
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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Cloverleaf
The 1954 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint
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New York Fashion Week A/W 2011: Womenswear
Diane von Furstenberg
