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Contents jan ⁄ feb 2013 Departments 40 groundbreaker Massimiliano and Doriana 43 just In Dutch studio i29 employs bursts 46 graphics Stefan Sagmeister on the makings fuksas’ stunning hospitality school in france of colour to delineate space in a big office of his Happy Show in Toronto 44 just built With its raw, coiled facade, the IDenTIkIT fIelD TrIP barclays Center finally opens in brooklyn 48 fresh Take architect Martin Stubenrauch gives a crumbling tower in Umbria a new life 52 et cetera Oscar niemeyer’s new Chuck Taylors and more. also 36 contributors 50 calendar Must-see events and exhibitions from around the world 112 advertiser Index 108 Media shelf books, films and apps. What 54 giorgio biscaro The Italian designer on 96 forever in season The four Seasons’ we’re reading, watching and downloading colour and his new gig at fontana arte flagship in Toronto gets a chic new look 110 boldface Movers, shakers, winners and green do-gooders DesIgn fIle MaTerIal WorlD 114 Trailer Living large in one square metre on our cover jet-setting photogra- pher Iwan baan, who won the julius Shulman award in 2010, travelled to Stuttgart, Germany, to capture the sweeping architecture and warm interior of this home designed by UnStudio. → Page 58 100 bedroom furniture beds both minimal and 105 Transparent panels Partitions, features maximal, and an array of storage options and more that brighten up interiors 26 jan ⁄ feb 2013

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groundbreaker haute hospitality ↑ The school’s as the visionary, and unrepentantly controversial, Hotelier georges frêche, a complex of sinuous shotcrete shell is clad mayor of montpellier, france, from 1977 to 2004, concrete structures that fill the 1.7-hectare site. of in Alucobond panels and then as president of the Languedoc-roussillon the two main blocks, a three-storey Y-plan building and windowpanes in region, the late georges frêche transformed contains a small hotel, a gastronomic restaurant, thousands of size and his city, helping to boost it from the 25th-largest and a brasserie where advanced students can hone contour variations. to the eighth-largest in the country. Like President their skills with paying customers. bridges link françois mitterrand, he commissioned grands this building to a four-storey structure, entered via projets, and the latest of these, a major hotel school, an arch at the rear, which houses classrooms, is named for him. massimiliano and Doriana fuksas offices, an exhibition space and a canteen. Linear won the 2006 competition to design the Lycée courtyards separate these blocks, as well as three 40 jan ⁄ feb 2013 azuremagazine.com

In Montpellier, France, a state-of-the-art school by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas takes the culinary and hotel arts to another level by michael webb ← Occupying most of the complex’s 1.7 hectares, the two main buildings weave around each other, connected by bridges and topped with solar panels. ↙ a detail view of the connective tissue between the two main blocks. ↓ Triangular win dows bring natural light into the minimal interiors and makes dynamic patterns on the walls. satellites containing a gym, student rooms and from the Milan fairgrounds to the new terminal in changes colour with the light, while ensuring staff apartments. progress for the international airport in Shenzhen, good thermal and acoustic insulation.” Despite its complexity, the finished project China. The firm specified triangular panels in 17,000 a thousand students attend the school, but conforms exactly to the physical and parametric size and contour variations, made of alucobond, even with the heavy demands of kitchen equip- models. “We always realize our original concepts aluminum thermo-bonded to a polyethylene core. ment fuksas managed to achieve a high level without any subsequent changes, even though These were stamped with bar codes and assem- of sustainability, reducing the carbon footprint the contractor may have difficulty in mastering all bled like a jigsaw puzzle on the shotcrete shell, through orientation and rooftop photovoltaic the details,” says Massimiliano fuksas. The entire along with flush-fitting triangular windows of high- panels. and the firm stayed on budget, despite ensemble is wrapped in a taut, geometrically pat- performance glass. as fuksas observes, “This the complex design and custom fabrication. terned skin, a hallmark of recent fuksas buildings, provided a uniform finish that is easy to clean and jan ⁄ feb 2013 41



just in colour i29 creates a multi-hued interior in the least likely of spaces: an employee works training facility in Delft BY justin ridgewaY → interior design firm i29 repurposed and repainted the furnishings in the work areas according to colour-coded themes. “we try to look for the best story that can be told.” This is how i29 principals Jeroen Dellensen and Jasper Jansen, based in Duivendrecht, the Nether- lands, describe their approach. For the combiwerk Delft building, designed by VmX Architects, i29 explored the narrative theme of the combination Work initiative, a training and employment program that helps citizens with disabilities reintegrate into the workforce. The firm’s colour-coded interior puts a positive spin on the metaphorical boxes people with perceived limitations can be placed in, and speaks to the nuances and vibrancy of indiv- iduals and their unique stories. in the new building, in centrally located produc- tion halls, combiwerk’s employees and trainees perform packaging, assembly, housekeeping and postal service jobs. For its part, i29 created the open concept office areas, as well as a restaurant and other public spaces. The spatial arrangement is made visible and intelligible through strategic colour typography, a minimalist implementation of bright, bold colour blocks. The layout was informed by how the office would best serve the different end users. The colour choices, however, were ultimately intuitive, taking the shape of islands in bright shades of blue, green, orange and red, surrounded by grey carpeting and walls. All of the furniture in the office areas, including the desks, cabinetry and file drawers, were bought second-hand and refurbished; the chairs were refashioned in collaboration with Weder, another social works company. This “recycled office” con- cept originated with i29’s design for the gummo advertising agency in Amsterdam, with its grey- painted used furnishings, and has recently led to the firm’s AsgoodAsNew line of vintage furnishings and accessories. in combiwerk, the furniture melds into the colour scheme with a trompe l’oeil effect. “in an almost fairy tale–like way,” say the designers, “the building contains secret gardens full of vitality, which could be read as a reference to the contrast between external appearances and inner richness.” AzurEmAgAziNE.com JAN ⁄ FEB 2013 43

just built the game Brooklyn’s new basketball arena, by SHoP Architects, scores major changer points for a massive development BY tim mckeough ↑ the facade the saga of the atlantic yards’ fitful starts and stops is well entrance of a transit hub with nine subway lines and commuter consists of 12,000 known. The 8.9-hectare development in Brooklyn began with rail service. “The building has a remarkable repose, and it isn’t weathered steel Frank gehry’s 2006 master plan; but in a money-saving move very vertical,” says Sharples. Because Ellerbe Becket sank the panels that were during the financial crisis, developer Bruce ratner handed over basketball court below grade, “we wanted to stretch the energy electronically tagged the design of the site’s main attraction – the Barclays center, out and create civic gestures, like the canopy.” This expansive and assembled using an arena for the Brooklyn Nets (and, in 2015, the New York and outstanding oculus, wrapped in video screens, cantilevers an iPhone app. islanders) – to Ellerbe Becket. The firm, a sports architecture 26 metres over an entrance plaza, making the building’s biggest, giant, delivered a faceless, off-the-shelf box that further boldest gesture. glass walls at street level allow passersby to enraged community groups already incensed by the size of the peer in at the scoreboard above the court during games. development and the expropriation of private property that To combat the sense of a looming mass amid a neighbourhood stood in its way. That’s when ratner turned to SHoP Architects, of smaller buildings, SHoP broke down the exterior cladding into asking the New York studio to devise a different exterior shape 12,000 pieces of water jet–cut steel, each with a different size and facade for the venue, and to design the interiors of its and shape, and weathered them with collected rainwater so they clubs, restaurants and corridors. immediately, SHoP saw an looked several years old, even before installation. “This creates opportunity to do more than contribute a showy wrapper. “This a scaled intimacy that plays with the colours and fenestration of project wasn’t just about designing an entertainment venue,” windows in the neighbourhood,” says Sharples. The armoured, says partner christopher Sharples. “it was about creating a new unabashedly raw building doesn’t exactly blend in, which has neighbourhood.” attracted the attention of both detractors and admirers. However, Now complete, the 62,700-square-metre centrepiece of the for such an imposing structure it succeeds surprisingly well, still-nascent Atlantic Yards directly links to the intense urban as a welcoming new destination and transit hub, and as an icon environment that surrounds it. The low-lying coiled structure flows that reflects Brooklyn’s newly elevated status. it’s an encouraging seamlessly into the city sidewalk, connecting to the green-roofed start for this controversial development. 44 JAN ⁄ FEB 2013 AzurEmAgAziNE.com

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graphics Q&a: stefan The envelope-pushing graphic designer puts on The Happy Show sagmeister at Toronto’s Design Exchange BY nina Boccia every seven years, Stefan Sagmeister shuts down his New York office for an entire year to re-energize. After a sabbatical in Bali in 2008, the graphic designer immersed himself in meditation, psychotropic drugs and therapy and began to plan The Happy Show, informed by his decade-long exploration of happiness. Taking over Toronto’s Design Exchange in January, after debuting at ↑ Visitors can indicate their happiness levels Philadelphia’s institute of contemporary Art, the exhibit (and future film) presents thought- at the gum ball machines. ← a provocative, pedal-powered neon sign. provoking installations – glass-encased stacks of money identifying “The ideal Salary,” and gum ball machines numbered from 1 to 10, with the levels The ideas can come out of the sentence or a of gum dispensed illustrating showgoers’ average gut feeling, or sometimes i have a desire to go in level of happiness – all tied together by his own a certain direction and it just opens a completely maxims in various typography, from handwritten new world or new meaning for that sentence. it’s to neon lit. all over the place. How did you weave together the various What’s the story behind the neon sign that lights elements of the Happy Show? up when people pedal the stationary bicycle? There are a lot of spaces, some connected, some “Actually doing the things i set out to do increases disconnected, so i decided to put our old trick of [ published by Abrams Books, 2008]. The next my overall level of satisfaction.” That’s just it. i handwriting into the show, and that made every- bunch were written more consciously and probably found that whenever i think i should do something thing easier. it was necessary to have some sort of more carefully, but i might have had 10 versions and i don’t make a note and forget about it, it common thread to move the people through. And of them. We’re doing a new one now for the film, leaves a kernel of dissatisfaction with me. i also it gives them an opportunity to linger. and it has several versions; one is “Achieve Elastic discovered that exercising for 20 minutes in the Tenacity,” the other “Be more Flexible.” We’re going morning played a more discernible role in my day You use unlikely areas, such as bathrooms and with the latter because it expresses the same than meditating for 45 minutes, so i wanted to wheelchair ramps, as exhibition space. Why? thing much more clearly. if the sentence is as clear have an element of exercise. i worked with Kevin T. We do stuff in the bathrooms, in the hallways, in as possible, we can be more opaque formally. if o’callaghan of the School of Visual Arts; he knows all of the little non-spaces that museums never the form expresses the content, the viewer doesn’t the guy on Long island who made the neon sign. do anything with. But they are there, and if you have a chance to interpret it. treat them correctly you can make little nooks What inspired the Step Up to it sugar sculpture? where you can speak more closely to a visitor. How do you resolve the treatment of a maxim? Sugar is highly related to happiness. The cubes are information is always beautifully communicated There are some projects where we deliberately white, so we could project on them. it’s a silver if you can open up people’s attention with a little have no idea what the outcome will be, and that screen kind of thing, and i think it’s pretty. it wasn’t surprise. From a spatial point of view, that is goes against my natural instincts. i’m comfortable meant to be interactive, but the programmers, red easier if you hide something in a space that used knowing where we are going, but it has the advan- Paper Heart, brought that element in. Face recog- to be the janitor’s closet. tage of being fairly safe, and the disadvantage nition software allows the visitor to interact by of losing spontaneity. The reason i don’t do it more smiling, lighting up the sculpture with a burst of Do you edit the content of your maxims to suit often is because it’s scary, but the results are colour. it changes the way the audience looks at it. their typographic treatments? always good. Some of our better-known pieces, i wrote 15 sentences extremely fast, as a list in my including the “Trying to Look good Limits my Life” → The Happy Show takes place from January 8 to diary, “Things i Have Learned in my Life So Far” billboards, were done using that approach. March 3 at the Design Exchange in Toronto. 46 JAN ⁄ FEB 2013 AzurEmAgAziNE.com



fresh take a fine An earthquake-ravaged medieval tower in Umbria, Italy, is reimagined balance with a dramatic steel spine BY BarrY chong On september 26, 1997, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the italian region of umbria, killing 10 people and leaving several medieval structures in ruin. Among them was the Tower of Triponzo, which became a symbol of local grief. After hearing of the disaster, german architect martin Stubenrauch set out to restore the tower, as a tribute to the earthquake victims. But his goodwill project would be fraught with controversy and logistical nightmares. After he received state funding and the blessing of several bureaucratic authorities, his design drew outrage from the locals. instead of demolishing and rebuilding the tower, he kept the ruins, planning to support their weight via a spine-like steel structure with exterior corten bracing, which would climb what used to be the tower’s central shaft – an elegant, functional design, without ornament. “People hated me for it,” says Stubenrauch. “No tower of the fifty that once existed ever got funding for revitalization. And i had decided to leave the ruin, monu- mentalizing their tragedy.” There was also danger in stabilizing the crumbling structure. using cranes with baskets, the crew had to secure each of the loose stones – some the size of boulders – from top to bottom, tying the walls together with nylon ropes. “We were terrorized,” said Stubenrauch. “When the first major tremor hit, we had consolidated the walls but had not placed the steel support. Four workers were up on the scaffolding when the entire thing was moving like a swing.” They then drilled eight holes 20 metres deep into the tower’s solid rock foundation, enabling them to install the 680- kilogram corten brace. With the work now complete, Stubenrauch looks on his 12-year passion project with pride. “it’s beautiful to see that people have started to understand the inner logic of the work,” he says. From its inception, the tower revitalization has represented humanity’s resolve against nature’s destructive forces. one can now say that it also symbolizes the resolve of an uncompromising architect. ← The 680-kilogram corten brace holds the monumental tower’s ruins together. 48 JAN ⁄ FEB 2013 AzurEmAgAziNE.com

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Calendar January 24 to 27 interior design show toronto toronto in january may be freezing, but iDS heats of boldly customized blu Dot chairs displays the wildly ↖ boconcept shows off carmo, things up at the metro Toronto convention centre unique talents of designers around the country, including anders nørgaard’s modular sofa with vibrant new furniture and installations from 300 illus trators marian bantjes and gary Taxali. on janu ary that features exaggerated piping exhibitors. boconcept presents a finely crafted modular 25, the azure Trade Talks welcome berlin industrial and comes in fabrics including sofa by anders nørgaard, while Wetstyle launches a designer jerszy Seymour; and architect jürgen mayer H., felt (shown) and leather. collection of ultra-minimalist bathroom fixtures. The the man behind the waffle-like, all-timber metropol Parasol ↑ Marian bantjes transforms show’s two main features, Prototype and Studio north, in Seville as well as a slew of mould- breaking cultural blu Dot’s real Good chair into a return with experimental and bespoke pieces, such as buildings in the republic of georgia. graphic display of a film synopsis. a brushed brass stool by Lori Harrison. and an auction interiordesignshow.com uPcoMInG FaIrs January 14 to 20 IMM coLoGnE coLoGnE, GErMany January 9 to 12 HEIMtEXtIL, FranKFurt at the first international furniture fair of the year, where many The ultimate contract and residential textile european manufacturers launch hundreds of products, pay fair. heimtextil.messefrankfurt.com close attention to the german furniture giants. Vitra, e15 January 12 to 15 and Walter Knoll shine, displaying their latest and greatest, DoMotEX, HanovEr, GErMany including the last’s new soft seating by architect ben van an international showcase of floor coverings, berkel. inspired by the natural smoothness of geological from handwoven rugs to ceramic tiles. forms, Seating Stones (shown) drew crowds at orgatec in domotex.de october and are sure to impress showgoers in cologne. January 18 to 22 italy’s Luca nichetto creates this year’s Das Haus installation, MaIson&obJEt, ParIs furnishing the space with his works for foscarini, De Padova Parisian-flavoured decor for the home. and Venini. imm-cologne.com maison-objet.com January 23 to 27 MacEF, MILan italy’s largest home accessories and decor show. macef.it FEbruary 5 to 9 FEbruary 16 to JunE 2 stocKHoLM FurnIturE anD LIGHt FaIr LEbbEus WooDs, arcHItEct The latest in nordic interior design. san FrancIsco stockholmfurniturelightfair.se it’s fitting that before the San francisco museum of modern art FEbruary 15 to 19 hunkers down for its Snøhetta-designed facelift, it is showing aMbIEntE, FranKFurt a survey of 75 works by the late, visionary american architect, chic home accessories and giftware. whose conceptual drawings and models often grafted spec- ambiente.messefrankfurt.com tacular new structures onto the existing urban fabric. His wildly imaginative – and undeniably human-centred – unbuilt works aPrIL 9 to 14 saLonE DEL MobILE, MILan ventured beneath the earth’s core, examined seismic design and The design mecca, with hundreds of off-site critiqued postwar development. in a concept for earthquake- attractions, this year coincides with euroluce. prone San francisco, a cluster of buildings creates a bridge. in cosmit.it war-ravaged bosnia, a protective wall encloses the country while still letting people in. and in his foreboding Lower manhattan aPrIL 29 to May 2 illustration from 1999, he depicted the city, where he died just as covErInGs, atLanta aisles of tile and stone floor coverings. Hurricane Sandy was on its way out, as sitting atop exposed coverings.com rock, all its rivers dammed and excavated. sfmoma.org 50 jan ⁄ feb 2013 azuremagazine.com