To promote their Power Smart month of October, BC Hydro has launched an interesting public campaign for energy efficiency by converting two shipping containers into live experimental spaces in Vancouver. For fours day, actors will live in the 3×6 meter containers “to showcase how – and how not – to live and work in an energy-efficient manner.” The two containers are meant to depict the extreme o..
It is clear that technology is constantly evolving and rapidly replacing its latest, previous creations. We all experience it, the purchasing of a product and the moment it leaves the store it is already outdated; this perpetual changing condition is the way these companies want us to feel about the objects. This momentary impulse tells us that we are relevant, current and smart by recognizing a..
We often find ourselves creating and designing for things that are outdated as we draw each line. The world we live in seems extremely uncomfortable and inefficient even though we have all this knowledge and plenty of case studies identifying such inconvenient truths. Karim Rashid mentions in the documentary "The Genius of Design" by BBC, that it seems absurd and at times perverse that we live i..
Showtime House 2010, The Borgias Media Room, Marc Thorpe and Hush Studios at Cassa Hotel and Residences Earlier this week the cable channel Showtime unveiled anexperimental exhibition at the TEN Arquitectos-designed Cassa Hotel andResidences in New York City. Invited designers were commissioned toinperprent the network's hit shows through the design of individualrooms. Invited designers include ..
Today, Emergency Exit, the Polish Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, had its opening reception, and we're happy to share images and a description of this fascinating installation. The exhibition will be open to the public starting this Sunday, August 29, until November 21. ‘A neon Emergency Exit sign hangs on the facade of the Polish Pavilion. Inside, a surreal..
It’s been a long time since we at Yatzer wanted to publish something about all the art fervor that there’s been going on lately in fellow city Istanbul, so close to Greece and in a way so far away. It seems that the time has finally come and we must admit that we couldn’t find a better excuse than the “Yekpare” Urbanscreening Projection Mapping by Deniz Kader and Candaş Şişman. Coinciding with t..
Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Called The Snow, the installation is part of an exhibition called Sensing Nature that continues until 7 November. See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka » Here’s some more information from Yoshioka: In recent years, I have been studying the essence that human beings wo..
Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes, Fall, 2009. Two exclosures: each 40’ x 10’ x 8’ metal and plastic. Two sites (both facing a great deal of pressure from their deer populations): Ridge and Valley region and Schuylkill Environmental and Education Center, Piedmont region. Curated by Amy Lipton, Co-director of ecoartspace. Deer are innocent accomplices in the destruction of the fores..
e One possible way to activate former industrial building is by inserting new programme into the existing architectural shell. In this case this is done by the gradual formation of the infrastructure for recreational activities. Introduced structures are mimicking naturally created rock suitable for free climbing according to three relevant parameters: degree of inclination, disposition of handl..
THEVERYMANY has been set up based on a continuum research on explicit and encoded protocols within design - the first implicit consequence of its core is to let traces; those traces - often under the format of simple text files - allow to exactly reproduce or alter the model, eventually share axioms... but it somehow also requires to admit and assume those traces, if so, one can learn from mista..
