TREEHOUSE IN ISRAEL: THE YOUTH WING FOR ART EDUCATION ENTRANCE COURTYARD

Architects Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski have conceived this projects (the renewal of the Art Education Entrance Courtyard of the Israel Museum), which combines a program open to interpretation by its users with a clearly defined context.

The existing pine tree was the focus of the project, a physical anchor of the overall design concept. As a tribute to the childhood collective memory of a tree house, the architects have positioned high up in the tilted trunk, a small roofed structure where children can hide and overlook the meticulous surroundings of the museum.

  

The Urban Yoga

The Urban Yoga,  è il progetto dell' artista, architetto, ballerina e insegnante di yoga Anja Humljan, che con il suo progetto cerca una soluzione alla frenesia del quotidiano. Le sue foto comunicano serenità e pace, in quell'attimo di meditazione che si ricerca in giornate divise tra lavoro, traffico ed impegni. Il suo corpo perfetto è sospeso e puro, leggero e flessuoso in posizioni che per noi comuni mortali risultano del tutto improponibili. 

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka

Torino, Palazzo Chiablese, 19 marzo – 30 agosto 2015
Budapest, Hungarian Art Gallery, 7 ottobre 2015-31 gennaio 2016

Snowcone, winter stations in Toronto

Kinetic snowcone winter station reimagines lifeguard post on toronto beach
“Snowcone” by Lily Jeon and Diana Koncan

Inspired by the form of a pine cone, the “Snowcone” was designed to act as a stained-glass greenhouse when it’s sunny, while using protruding white petals to catch falling snow and transform the hut into an igloo after a storm.
Built with 3/4 inch electrical metallic tubing conduits assembled using bolts. The installation is made up of translucent acrylic leaves and transparent coloured acrylic panels bolted to exterior. The exterior of the warming station is easily the most eye-catching of the installations, and the views from within the structure's multicolour panels are equally impressive.

the design adapts in response to the unpredictable toronto winter weather: in the sun, ‘snowcone’ becomes a multicolor greenhouse that filters in vibrantly hued light, just like stained glass. in stormy situations, its white petal-shaped apertures collect and redistribute snow to further insulate the interior, like an igloo. petals retract, protecting the structure on the windward side, and open up to views on the eastern side.

 

Conceptual Urban Poetry

La Street art da sempre dinamica trasgressiva e piena di energia in questo ambizioso progetto si unisce ai personaggi mitologici classici. Forse per un bisogno di solidità, in un periodo d'incertezze, l'arte diventa la fusione di due emisferi che mai avremo pensato di vedere assieme. Colori iper-moderni e il classicismo dell’arte greca a contrasto su scenari urbani contemporanei,  la produzione dell'insolito progetto è del duo spagnolo Pichi & Avo, che definisce la propria arte come “Conceptual Urban Poetry”.