carnet de notes 291

carnet de notes 291

by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

je suis nepal

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voyages

bac son valley, vietnam

http://www.vietnamtourism.com

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architecture

a new report from the wall street journal suggests that big may replace foster partners to realize the world trade center 2 (wtc2) tower – the final tower planned to be built on ground zero. The 79-story tower, originally designed in 2006, was stalled due to the economic crash of 2008. just last year, som completed the 1 world trade center. richard rogers 3 world trade center is on track to complete in 2017, after years of being on hold

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/5075167.article?origin=BDdaily

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fondazione prada, milano

rem koolhaas wanted new and old going seamlessly together – and creates with the fondazione prada in milan a collage of materials and architecture

a visitor walks past statues displayed o in the new venue of the prada's foundation. it expands the repertoire of spatial typologies in which art can be exhibited and shared with the public. the entrance building will welcome visitors to two new facilities, developed through special collaborations: a kids’ area designed by a group of students from the école nationale supérieure d’architecture de vVersailles, and a bar where director wes anderson has recreated the typical mood of old milan café

http://www.oma.eu/

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ritratti di architetti star by federico babina (3)

http://federicobabina.com/

around expo today and yesterday

townhouse galleria insieme ad alessandro rosso group e con la collaborazione dell’impresa percassi hanno inaugurato la passeggiata sui tetti della galleria vittorio emanuele II, da sempre il salotto di milano. Il nuovo passaggio sui tetti è di circa 250 metri lineari

http://www.assogroup.com

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from left: paris the tour eiffel, londres the crystal palace, milan the padiglione galleria del sempione

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installations

by adjoining 200,000 fabric-lined floatable components, christo hopes to allow the residents of two mainland towns in italy‘s lombardy region to walk on water for a duration of two weeks in june 2016. if approved, the ”floating piers” would connect both towns with the lake iseo islands via an extended, brightly colored fabric dock that would stretch across two miles

http://christojeanneclaude.net/

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design

spring is a busy time for us at pinch. our whole team has been working their tails off. this week was particularly challenging due to all the breakfast events on top of our usual late night partying. so with all our early mornings on the brain, we thought the latest collaboration between berlin-based set designer and stylist rebecca martin and photographer rita braz to be very apropos for this month’s contribution. ‘morning rituals’ is a series of tongue-in-cheek photos capturing the humor of our daily routines such as showering, drinking coffee, eating breakfast

http://pinchfooddesign.com/, http://rebeccamartin.co/INDEX-1

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magnetico by martino gamper at valextra

gamper unveiled the restyled retail space during the international design fair salone del mobile. he added magnetic sheets to the walls covered with kvadrat fabric and placed the bag collection in unusual compositions on the surface using magnets

http://martinogamper.com/, http://www.valextra.com/it

http://kvadrat.dk/

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left, the blowing man by antonio aricò for edimateria

http://www.editamateria.com, http://www.antonioarico.com/

right, monkey side by jaime hayon for bd

http://www.hayonstudio.com/, http://bdbarcelona.com/

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fattelo! is an italian design studio focused on re-purposing household waste materials for unexpected uses. the ‘noctambula’ lamp is no different. created by fattelo! designers federico trucchia and mireia gordi vila, the led light is switch-operated, battery-powered built with only a few standard components and one milk carton. no wiring, no soldering, and no big price tag

http://www.fattelo.com/

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left, sarteba: desk per reception in ferro ossidato "a corten" e acciaio satinato

http://fuorisalone.it/2015/specials/detail/3/lazio-factory-design

right, daniel libeskind composes gemma sofa for moroso with asymmetrical facets

http://libeskind.com/, http://www.moroso.it/

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the misoka toothbrush for cleaning your teeth with only water was first launched onto the market by yume shokunin in 2007. this ground-breaking new toothbrush uses bristles treated with a nano-mineral coating to assist with removing plaque from the tooth exterior simply by moistening the bristles and brushing

http://www.misoka.jp/salone2015/salone2015-en.html

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left, tavolo leonardo by marco ferreri for morelato

http://www.morelato.it, https://marcoferreri.wordpress.com/

right, plektra by ineke hans for iittala

http://www.iittala.fi, http://www.inekehans.com/

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matryoshka by lera moiseeva for nason moretti

http://leramoiseeva.com/, http://www.nasonmoretti.com/

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from top left, clockwise

studio thomas vailly. treated with contemporary methods, the material possesses crystalline qualities that one normally only finds in nature, in the highlands of iceland. the result is a product of wonder with multi layered colours and a dynamic effect on light.

http://www.vailly.com/

ruutu by ronan and erwan bouroullec for iittala

http://www.bouroullec.com/, https://www.iittala.com/ruutu

low table by patricia urquiola for glas italia

http://www.patriciaurquiola.com/, http://www.glasitalia.com/

philippe starck‘s series of low tables, along with closed and open storage furniture for glas italia, appear as ‘box within a box’ compositions

http://www.starck.com/fr/, http://www.glasitalia.com/

lumières

standard millefeuille en l'air grandallume by barda

http://barda.ca/

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philippe rahm presents ‘spectral light’ for artemide as a representation of visual wavelengths that are required to see, grow and photosynthesize

http://www.philipperahm.com/data/, http://www.artemide.com/home/index.action

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left, pendant lamps by maarten baas

http://www.maartenbaas.com/

right, pendant lamps kreis by roberto labella for covo

http://www.covo.it/

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photos

hassan hajjaj, mr m. toliver, 2013

http://www.gusfordgallery.com

art

los artistas cabello/carceller, francesc ruiz y pepo salazar serán los protagonistas del pabellón de españa en la 56 edición de la bienal de venecia. el comisario martí manen presenta un proyecto coral titulado 'los sujetos', que hace una relectura de salvador dalí (figueras, 1904-1989) como sujeto desde un punto de vista contemporáneo

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berlinde de bruyckere, kunsthaus bregenz, until 5/7/15,  ph marco ceroli

http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/

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a new sculpture has risen in the desert of qatar: “east-west/west-east,” richard serra‘s second public commission by the gulf nation. sited in a barren landscape that was suggested by sheikh hamad bin khalifa al-thani, the former emir, the installation is comprised of four steel plates incrementally placed and standing perpendicular to the ground

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/richard-serra

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as a graffiti artist, fra.biancoshock spends a lot of time on a scaffolding, painting his urban surroundings from unreachable heights. during the memorie urbane street art festival in gaeta, the italian artist has reinterpreted this tool to become an art piece in itself, turning the structural framework into a personal living space

http://www.fra-biancoshock.org/

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exhibitions

left, art acquarium: dal giappone l'arte del pesce kingyo, circolo filologico milanese

http://www.filologico.it/

right, gentucca bini for alcantara, technology of dreams

http://gentuccabini.tumblr.com/, http://www.alcantara.com/it/index.do

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 left, pino pascali alla galleria art house di bagno vignoni

http://www.art-house.it/

right, caterina silva, soggetto. oggetto. abietto. galleria riccardo crespi

http://www.riccardocrespi.com/

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galleria antonia jannone, gaetano pesce, frammenti e figure architettoniche ai quattro angoli del mondo

http://www.antoniajannone.it/

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jardins

giardini di villa landriana

http://www.aldobrandini.it/sito/giardi/cale.shtml

http://www.grandigiardini.it/

musées

shanghai's natural history museum by perkins will opens in china

http://perkinswill.com/

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the new amos anderson art museum in helsinki goes underground

http://amosanderson.fi/en/

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danse

a file picture taken on november 20, 2005 shows russian ballet dancer maya plisetskaya dancing during a performance in her honor on stage at the kremlin palace in moscow. she's now dead at the age of 89

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tapis

calicut by ruckstuhl

http://www.ruckstuhl.com/it/

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cosmo by paola lenti

http://www.paolalenti.it/

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et caetera

jessica fulford-dobson tells the story of skate girls of kabul

saatchi gallery, london

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