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groundbreaker into thin Sanaa dreams up an ethereal set of buildings for the Louvre-Lens, the museum’s new satellite air in a former coal mining town in France BY giovanna dunmall lens, one of the poorest cities in France, may seem a strange choice for the open to the public and the society than the Louvre in paris,” says Kazuyo Louvre’s first satellite location. Yet the museum wanted to regenerate this Sejima, the firm’s other founding partner. “We did not want a huge monument, post-industrial town, and perhaps honour it. it chose a design by the Japanese but something more integrated, a kind of landscape architecture.” architectural practice Sanaa that takes inspiration from the site’s gently The three main galleries are clad in anodized aluminum, which is also sloping topography and the giant slag heaps in the distance (a legacy of the employed to great effect on the interior walls of the spectacular 120-metre- region’s mining past), and the particular light in the northeastern town. “in long galerie du Temps, where 230 paintings and sculptures – arranged as the wintertime, the sun rises very low to hit the sky in a beautiful way,” says a chronological journey through six millennia of art – are displayed on free- ryue nishizawa, one half of the partnership. “it’s a northern european feeling.” standing plinths. not a single item is hung on the walls. “The soft mirror finish Sanaa has become known for diaphanous buildings, notably the rolex on the aluminum reflects the landscape when you are outside, and the art Learning center in Lausanne and the new museum in new York, and the and the people when you are inside the galerie du Temps,” says nishizawa. Louvre-Lens is no exception. comprising six rectilinear one-storey volumes This simple idea carries throughout the project and the park, designed by that connect at the corners, and two separate structures for the restaurant catherine mosbach with landscaped routes, contours and proportions that and administration, the 27,870-square-metre museum seems to meld into the subtly recall the site’s former existence. “all of our projects become somehow landscape and almost roll with its curves across its 300-metre length. The simple. i don’t know why,” says nishizawa, laughing. His firm definitely has architects chose a spare palette of concrete, glass and aluminum to enhance a knack for stripping an idea down to the essential. The Louvre-Lens appears the connectivity with the surrounding park. The expansive central lobby, for effortless, as if it has always been there – which makes it a sophisticated example, is encased in full-height glass, with doors on all sides, to further blur project indeed. sanaa.co.jp the boundaries between museum and landscape. “We wanted it to be more 38 mar ⁄ apr 2013 azuremagazine.com

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parks dept rock An outdoor installation that got Vancouverites into play mode last hopping summer is slated for a comeback BY jim sutherland the 800 block of robson street is auditioning to ↑ resembling giant beanbag chairs, the Pop be the civic square vancouver never had. a zip line rocks are made of teflon and polystyrene beads. was installed here during the 2010 olympics, and a → a bird’s-eye view of the rocky archipelago. beach called picnurbia transformed the block in the summer of 2011. Last year, three young designers – landmark convention centre, and polystyrene architect matthew soules, and amber Frid-jimenez beads from recycled pack aging. secondly, they and joe dahmen of aFjd studio – were the latest realized that the project needn’t be metaphorical, to be invested with the task of attracting throngs conceptual or top down. instead, the materials, of people to the area. their first reaction: trepida- iconic enough on their own, could be allowed to tion. time was short, expectations were high, and determine the project’s shape. photo, top, by david niddrie; bottom, by krista jahnke soules. “one was to use as little new material as installed in time for pop rocks’ mere weeks in the as it happens, teflon sails and polystyrene beads they were given few guidelines, except that the block would be open to pedestrians only for most combine most easily as pillows – huge, gulliver-size pillows, a dozen of which were assembled and of august. “We had two parallel aspirations,” says sun. but vancouver’s Lilliputians enjoyed their possible. the other was to create something not usually experienced.” “radically sustainable” outdoor rumpus room so much that it was left in place for another month, the trio, who hold faculty positions at the university of british columbia and the emily carr making it a local success and a great example for other cities looking for simple ways to bring institute while running their architecture and play into public space. the rocks have been put design firms, satisfied that first stipulation when their research process turned up two materials into storage for future appearances, and are being ripe for upcycling: the recently replaced teflon considered for the ubc campus this summer. “sails” that formed the membrane roof of the city’s azuremagazine.com msaprojects.com; afjdstudio.net mar ⁄ apr 2013 41

focus down to The latest candle holders and vases the wire tap into the thin- rimmed aesthetic BY diane chan 1 Lup by hay With its looped handle, Lup looks like an ultra-minimal version of the old portable candlestick. Designed by Shane Schneck, it’s made of aluminum wire in copper or black with a triangular or square base. hay.dk 2 Kishu by Maya Selway 3 4 resembling an incomplete sketch, maya Selway’s oxidized copper vase comes with a shallow silver dish to hold stems. The London designer, who trained as a silversmith and jewel ler, also makes similarly delicate 2 candle holders, bowls and bottles. mayaselway.com 3 Sid by david Taylor Sid is one of 30 sculptural candle holders in concrete, steel, copper, 1 brass and leather, from David Taylor’s 5 crowd line. The Stockholm-based Scottish designer replenishes the 6 collection with new models as pieces are sold. superdave.se 4 Minimal by discipline You can place any drinking glass on the wooden base of this simple design from germany’s Ding3000 to support flowers with the help of the steel wire and loop. discipline.eu 5 V4 by Seung Yong Song recalling a wire frame dressmaker’s form, this vase by the young Korean designer is composed of a stainless steel cage over a concrete and walnut bottom. seungyongsong.com 6 Truss by Thinkk Studio Bangkok’s Thinkk Studio took cues from construction sites for its Workaholic range of desktop acces- sories. The concrete Truss vase comes with three unique steel tops for bouquets of various sizes. thinkk-studio.com 42 mar ⁄ apr 2013 azuremagazine.com

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point of view the zaha The Pritzker Prize laureate wins a competition to design Japan’s New National Stadium in effect Tokyo and puts her signature on another city BY josephine Minutillo Last summer, Tokyo announced a competition to original price tag. Yet the jurors, including norman structures bringing new life to old places in design the new national Stadium, which the city Foster and richard rogers, were seeking a symbol need of a lift. almost instantly, her buildings gain hopes will help it secure the 2020 olympics. for a new Japan. in that regard, Hadid is perhaps masterpiece status. in fact, there is already a Jury chair Tadao ando declared, “We are calling for a safe bet, precisely because her buildings are so knock-off of her Wangjing Soho complex in Beijing ideas from across the world. We look forward to visually overwhelming and instantly iconic. going up in another chinese city. This may not receiving intelligent and passionate proposals that This has been the decade of Hadid. one of the surprise her detractors. in January, after it was will mark the coming of a new age.” This they did, world’s most renowned architects, she has left rumoured that iraqi officials were in talks with her choosing 11 finalists from 48 international entries. her stylish imprint on cities across north america, despite her unsuccessful competition proposal out of these, the panel selected a bold, techno- europe, asia and the middle east. any urban for the nation’s new parliament, the jury-selected organic design that would gather a record-breaking centre looking for a brave new kind of building is firm, assemblage, disparaged Hadid’s “fashion- 80,000 spectator seats under a white retractable looking for a Hadid. To paraphrase her colleague able” style. Japan’s stadium, set for completion in carapace – a proposal by zaha Hadid architects. eric owen moss, Hadid’s main endeavour is 2018, might nail Tokyo’s olympic bid, but its main cue the controversy. chosen over Japan’s own imagining the world other than it is. impact will be to brand another corner of the world Sanaa and Toyo ito, Hadid has just one sports venue That sense of otherness has found sculptural with a Hadid original – a jaw-dropping exercise in to her name: the 15,000-seat aquatics centre, form in china’s guangzhou opera House, architectural defiance. built for the 2012 Summer games in London and azerbaijan’s Heydar aliyev centre, rome’s maXXi delivered at $439 million, roughly three times its museum, the architect’s signature swooshing 44 mar ⁄ apr 2013 azuremagazine.com

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fresh take hot The bike frame gets a revamp with Roundtail, an all new ride that is better wheels at absorbing bumps on the road BY will jones with few exceptions, the diamond-shaped bike frame has compromising performance or lateral rigidity. in just four months, ↖↑ The Roundtail dominated since the early 20th century. But a couple of years he made his first prototype, the roundtail, in collaboration frame consists of ago, an aching back from cycling hundreds of miles got entre- with montana frame builder paul Taylor. at its launch during the two tubular circles, preneur Lou Tortola of Windsor, ontario, thinking about changing San Diego custom Bicycle Show in april 2011, it set the frame- rather than the tradi- the design to make it more comfortable. “With the conventional building world alight. “people loved it,” says Tortola. So he began tional straight, rigid frame geometry, the jarring vibrations from bumpy roads travel full manufacture of the bikes, and started selling them online seat tube and stay, straight up the rear forks to the seat and the rider’s spine,” he last summer. which gives a more says. “Bicycle companies have spent millions developing compo- meanwhile, he has developed four new models, as well as an comfortable ride. sites to reduce impact and increase shock absorption, but they upcoming carbon fibre mountain bike, and has been in talks with haven’t changed the frame shape.” european distributors. “Years ago, the diamond frame was the Tortola’s concept, which he developed in 2011, does away with way to go, because of limitations in manufacturing ability,” says the seat tube and stay – two rigid, straight elements that transmit Tortola. “But today we can radically alter the design of a bike vibrations directly to the base of the spine – and replaces them frame to produce a better, more comfortable ride for everyone.” with a pair of tubular circles, to better absorb bumps without roundtail.ca Invent-a-frame Tristan Kopp, a Design academy eindhoven graduate, is also working on a unique approach to bike building. His produser concept uses a kit of connector parts: five pairs of metal pieces that hold together the seven tubes of a diamond frame. it would enable DiYers to fashion a frame with almost any material, from bamboo branches to metal pipes salvaged from junkyards or used-bike stores. The project has received some early praise on the web, though Kopp is still at work on raising funds and launching a website to take online orders by September. Yet he is already exploring ways to maximize the project’s social impact. “i want to organize work- shops with children,” he says, “in collaboration with a recycling centre, so the kids can search through the waste for the parts they need and build their own bicycle.” tristankopp.com 46 mar ⁄ apr 2013 azuremagazine.com

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Calendar april 9 to 14 → muuto expands its salone lighting collection with the pull floor lamp. del mobile ↓ in Zona tortona, nodus will launch sam baron’s milan tasselled jupon rug. With far more to see than six days will allow, milan’s furniture fair and the off-site circuit are equal parts exhilarating and overwhelming. at the rho fairgrounds, such heavy hitters as moroso, Kartell and rimadesio will unveil furnishings in dramatic displays. and at the fair’s Salone Satellite, emerging designers from across the globe will vie to catch the career-launching eye of giulio cappellini and Patrizia moroso, who are known to peruse the booths in search of outstanding young collaborators. This year’s Salone features the lighting biennial euroluce, where the likes of Flos, Luceplan and Fontana arte show off brilliant works. meanwhile, for the Saloneufficio office furniture pavilion, Jean nouvel will mount a giant installation that transforms the workplace into a more pleasurable environment. after the fair, head downtown to zona Tortona, home to product launches by such brands as Dedon, cappellini and nodus; and the Brera Design District, where such showrooms as molteni&c and Skitsch debut new pieces. But the most rarefied, offbeat designs can be found at the indie darling Ventura Lambrate. cosmit.it to august 11 upComing fairs louis kahn: the power of arChiteCture weil am rhein, germany april 19 to 21 kbis, new orleans With the recent opening of Four Freedoms Park on The latest fixtures and technology for kitchen new York’s roosevelt island – four decades after Louis Kahn and bath. kbis.com designed it – the time is right to revisit the american master’s oeuvre. This Vitra Design museum retrospective april 20 to 25 presents models, drawings and photographs of such high point market, high point, projects as california’s Salk institute (left), as well as inter- north Carolina new home furnishings and decor, mostly views with renzo Piano and Sou Fujimoto, and unseen from north american manufacturers. footage from nathaniel Kahn’s biopic, My Architect: A Son’s highpointmarket.org Journey. design-museum.de april 29 to may 2 Coverings, atlanta aisles of tile and stone floor coverings. april 21 to 25 coverings.com lightfair international philadelphia may 7 to 9 proposte, Como, italy north america’s biggest commercial lighting expo returns The best in european contract textiles. with two new pavilions dedicated to innovative roadway and propostefair.it exterior lighting. among the manufacturers on hand is SLV, whose Theos exterior light was recently installed at georgia’s may 8 to 10 Lazika municipality Building (right). innovations from Philips, solarexpo, milan, italy italy’s massive expo for renewable energy. Lutron and osram also join the roster of nearly 500 exhibitors solarexpo.com at the Pennsylvania convention center. lightfair.com may 18 to 21 iCff, new york contemporary residential furnishings and june 2 to september 2 accessories. icff.com a new sCulpturalism los angeles may 23 to 26 Taking inspiration from the radical forms that Frank gehry sidim, montreal and Thom mayne introduced to L.a. in the ‘80s, a new gen- Quebec’s residential, commercial and contract design fair. sidim.com eration of experimental designers – including Ball-nogues and Patrick Tighe – provides the focus of this show at the june 10 to 12 museum of contemporary art. Tracing the 25-year history of neoCon, ChiCago these boundary-pushing Socal structures, the show pre- The latest office furniture, task seating and sents models, drawings and maquettes of dozens of works, lighting. neocon.com including greg Lynn’s amoeboid interior and Belzberg architect’s museum of the Holocaust (left). moca.org 48 mar ⁄ aPr 2013 azuremagazine.com

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et cetera 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Taj Mahal BY sTudio joB 3 sYlki BY pod desigN 5 ode à la vie BY MoMeNT 6 aBC ColleCTioN BY aRTek FaCToRY at art Basel miami last December, at just 1.8 kilograms, this paper-thin originally designed as a textile Studio Job of antwerp devised this chair can support more than 60 times Last September, the montreal pattern in 1954 and sold by the elaborate table by inverting a replica its own weight. The per for ated seat, new media and entertainment firm metre, alvar aalto’s linear Siena has of india’s white marble mausoleum composed of laser-cut recycled responsible for producing such been applied to some 20 products, and casting it in black-coated bronze. metal, is available in matte black or lighting spectacles as madonna’s from curtains and towels to coasters studiojob.be gold. pod-design.com Super Bowl half-time performance and trivets. artek.fi was invited to create a multimedia 2 waTeR, waTeR BY joe douCeT 4 pReseRves BY MaThias hahN display in Barcelona. projected 7 hoTel o BY oRa-ÏTo onto the facade of antoni gaudí’s potable H o was scarcer than usual Traditional jam making and bottled Sagrada Família, it brought the customized lighting for the interior 2 during Hurricane Sandy. To symbolize preserves inspired the London of Hotel o, a new, futuristic 29-room the deepening water crisis, the designer’s whimsical collection of cathedral to life with a wild and vivid hotel in paris, is the designer’s nod oDe á La vie pHoTo BY pep DauDé display of colour and motion. The new York designer collected empty containers made from concrete, to the unique aesthetic of Stanley bottles he stockpiled during and metal and glass. mathiashahn.com 15-minute show mesmerized crowds Kubrick’s iconic films. ora-ito.com during La merce, the city’s largest after the storm and cast them into solid acrylic forms. joedoucet.com annual street party. compiLeD BY Diane cHan momentfactory.com 50 mar ⁄ apr 2013 azuremagazine.com