Frank Gehry’s Sydney Business School

The 85-year-old architect Frank Gehry, who is based in Los Angeles, has completed his first building in Australia – the Dr Chau Chak Wing building at Sydney’s University of Technology, set to open in early 2015. He designed the building to provide teaching, research and office accommodation for the UTS Business School. “I think when the university hired me they expected a shiny metal building,” he said. “I made some shiny metal models but they were things I had already sort of worked over and done. I just felt that it should be a material like in the neighbourhood. If I’d built it in metal it would have been fine too, but I think the metal would have cost more.” The Canadian-born architect said he was inspired by the way that artists use folds to explore colour, form and shadow. “Because of the technology we’ve developed we were able to design something that was primitively made – hand-laid brick – that could follow those kinds of forms and I’ve always wanted to do that with brick.” The curved forms continue inside the school, where the brick walls are finished in plasterboard. The Dr Chau Chak Wing building is named after an Australian-Chinese benefactor who has donated £13.9 million to UTS. A formal opening is scheduled for February, which Gehry is due to attend.

Family home

The Pit House is a minimalist family home designed by UID Architects, nestled on a terraced mountain hill in Okayama Prefecture near Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Based on the site condition, the architects considered a new way of architecture, where views open towards the north and the ground level is one meter higher than the road level. The small home has a unique open plan design concept, comprised of 1,237 square feet (115 square meters) of living space with two bedrooms and one bathroom.

Tombini Art, a Milano è di moda la street art

Se passeggiate per le vie della moda di Milano, vi raccomandiamo di tenere gli occhi bene aperti a dove mettete i piedi! Dal  24 febbraio 2015, e fino ad inizio gennaio 2016, ventiquattro tombini della città saranno delle vere e proprie opere d’arte.

Il titolo di questo progetto è “Sopra il Sotto – Tombini Art raccontano la Città Cablata”, è una mostra di tombini dipinti a mano che portano la firma di tutti gli stilisti italiani più famosi come Giorgio Armani, Just Cavalli, Etro, Prada, Valentino ed Emilio Pucci, Missoni, Versace.

Una mostra curata da Monica Nascimbeni, promossa e realizzata da Metroweb, l’azienda milanese titolare della più grande rete metropolitana di fibre ottiche d’Europa. Al termine della mostra i tombini saranno battuti all’asta da Christie’s e il ricavato sarà interamente devoluto in beneficenza all’organizzazione non profit Oxfam Italia, Civil Society Participant di Expo 2015.

Pitti Uomo 87 Streetstyle

Today we're going to show you some street style from Pitti Uomo 87.
For the 87th edition of Pitti Uomo in Florence we saw different styles, moods and trends. Someone loves black and white others are full of colors. But which is the real trend for the next Fall Winter 2015? It's very simple: to be normal. How can you be normal? What does it mean? There's only one answer: be yourself, do what you love and wear what you like.

Luisa Via Roma oriental obsession: the Sheng Xiao Sanctuary

Oriental Obsession was the theme of the 10th edition of Luisa Via Roma's Firenze4Ever. Following the oriental vibes, Ruggero Lupo Mengoni realized a photoshoot full of artistic experimentation revisiting the chinese zodiac, the Sheng Xiao. Meanwhile, the styling of Valentina Guidi Ottobri reflects the attitudes of six signs of the oriental zodiac: the Horse, the Tiger, the Pig, the Dragon, the Monkey and the Rooster. Here we can see the fusion between a concept, the chinese zodiac, oriental-inspired design and fashion.

Julian Schulze e le architetture colorate

Forme geometriche e colori, queste le parole chiave del lavoro fotografico del berlinese Julian Schulze. Scatti che immortalano la bellezza di architetture composte da linee e contrasti inattesi. In queste foto la bellezza degli edifici è immortalata in modo da sottolineare la forza dei colori, delle geometrie e delle simmetrie, come pattern decorativi e dettagli macro in cui la scala effettiva della città e dell'edificio si perde quasi, lasciando il posto all'armonia della forma. Porte, finestre e dettagli che colpiscono l'occhio del fotografo e conquistano lo spettatore.