On Dezeen I bumped into this project that Adam Wojtalik, an architecture student, has proposed for the Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture that has been destroyed by fire in 2008. If ever built, would this become a new challenge for Danny Way?
Archinect – in my opinion one of the best architecture blogs around – features this project named Evolver. It is a structure designed and built on the mountains in Zermatt by 2nd year students from the Alice Design Lab of the Lausnne University. I have to admit it is a little bit depressing to compare this guys skills with the ones of Italian students… anyway, I guess there are a lot of things you could do and build as a skater exploiting this knowledge!
Domus magazine issue 929, out now, comes with a map/guide of the 129 best italian contemporary architectures, according to their editorial staff:
Instant atlas – a map of new italian architecture
“[…]This Domus ‘atlas’ is a snapshot in time that can be read as initial tally of architects who are destined to produce (hopefully sometime soon) a new situation in contemporary architecture all over Italy that is more egalitarian in quality and diffusion”. Stefano Casciani
Picture number 20 features bastard store and Comvert Hueadquarters, which grand opened last October 24th; project realized by studiometrico. It shows one of my favourite angles, the bastard bowl photographed from beneath.
Friday 25 september in Corsico park named Parco Travaglia, there will be the mini combi bowl opening party.
Corsico Energy is a three days party starting today in the park and is all about Music, culture and sport.
Here we are! Today, the bowl has passed the test in front of the architects.
Now the bowl in Travaglia park (via liberazione Corsico, Milano) is open, is free and is skateable also in the night with the lights.
For the opening party we need to wait until the 27th of september.
Last night I bought the latest Abitare issue and I found out that artist Gabriel Orozco, together with architect Tatiana Bilbao, has built a fantastic house in Roca Blanca, on the cliffs, in front of the ocean and under the stars. The most spectacular element is a central pool with a diameter of 8 m, a section of a perfect sphere. Mmhh…
This Universe House, shot by Iwan Baan, has been posted on Abitare website. Nevertheless – differently from the magazine – the cross section, the most representative drawing to understand the size of the pool, is missing.
The plan above shows the concrete bowl that is now under construction in Corsico (MI), Italy. The bowl is part of a regeneration project of the Travaglia Park.
Leonardo Oprandi (project manager at LAND) has informed us that all the prefab Concrete elements of this mini combi bowl designed by mamadesignlab have been just delivered on site.
Here some pictures from last week showing the already finished excavation of the area.
A serious grand opening is expected right after the summer.
The book of the Designing Designers 2008 conference where I attended some months ago with Francesca Murialdo and Lorenzo Bini of studiometrico, has just been published.
[…] Modern communication technologies connected to the new globalized economies have created a fresh way of working that influences both space organization and methodological aspects. New offices and workplaces are created to host updated requirements, thus being substantially transformed. New type of workers – the so called knowledge workers – have introduced innovative ways of living and interacting with the working spaces […]
Four pages and some pictures of Giuliano Berarducci are dedicated to our COMVERT HQ.
Edited in english language from POLI.design you will find it soon at the bastard store or at the bookstore Hoepli or libreriauniversitaria.it for € 23,00.
I just discovered the time lapse video above (2 frames/minute) on Skate and Annoy.
It features a backyard private bowl construction in Portland, Oregon.
This concrete gem was made yesterday (6-6-2009) by Dreamland Skateparks.
They know the job!
Pic by Erica Borsa
In the picture above Lorenzo Bini of studiometrico talks about the COMVERT HQ during an Architecture lecture at UNPLUGGED ITALY: Italian architecture in Oslo some days ago.
For the occasion a booklet with three projects (our own is in) has been published: 090426-plug-sm.pdf [16,2 MB]
We feel observed…