Hockney and Bourgeois go head-to-head for the most beautiful, and its a face-off between Picasso, Mondrian and Hirst for the ultimate shock of the new effect. Now you can pit legendary artists against each another in a card game for art lovers
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It’s like that feeling of walking down the street and watching the heads turn. Except it’s better, because instead of looking at you, they are looking at you car.
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Have you ever seen the displays created for local CANstruction events? The sculptures, constructed in a 100 square-feet of space, are built of canned food, which is then donated to local food banks and non-profit organizations.
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Our recent post about a windowless 100 sq. ft. living apartment with three walls of simulated immersive virtual displays mimicking an array of “rooms” and the outdoor spaces proved controversial. The concept struck a dystopian chord, perhaps crossing the line where technology becomes a blatant inferior replacement, rather than a positive supplement to life. The CoeLux daylight simulation system may be accepted in a more positive light, since its simulation is more subtle, unobtrusive, and convincing.
With three options to choose from—the CoeLux 30, CoeLux 45, and the CoeLux 60—each numerical label represents the angle and light temperature of simulated by a proprietary LED lighting array designed to be installed overhead in spaces where no windows are available:
CoeLux 60: For those who prefer the more dramatic slice of tropical light, CoeLux 60 offers yet an additional solution in a skylight with cooler, vertical sunlight, and the maximum luminance contrast of light and shadow.
CoeLux 45: For lovers of the Mediterranean basin there is CoeLux 45, a skylight featuring a 45 degree ceiling beam that offers an equal balance of light and shade, best enhancing the shapes and volumes that have historically flourished in outdoor architecture.
CoeLux 30: For enthusiasts of Nordic countries, CoeLux 30 is available, with a 30 degree angle beam relative to the horizon. It is a wall window and is capable of reproducing a warm, grazing light.
Over ten years in development and the brainchild of Professor Paolo Di Trapani, coordinator of the project and a physicist at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, the CoeLux system relies upon a sophisticated optical system projecting LED-produced light through a millimeters-thick layer of nano-structured material to diffuse and transmit lightwaves in the same process sunlight reaches us through the atmosphere (also know as the Rayleigh scattering process; more described here); the effect is more true to the sensation of real sunlight compared to a typical full spectrum light system without the atmospheric scattering formulated in, designed for indoor architectural spaces where access to a window is unavailable.
From Paolo Di Trapani:
With COELUX, you can experience sunny skies anytime, anywhere. Like trying to describe the scent of a perfume or the colour of a tropical sun, it is difficult to describe COELUX’s uplifting effects due to the perception of infinite space which the technology produces. Indeed, evidence collected in the course of the project has shown that even claustrophobic individuals feel happy and relaxed when exposed to COELUX light despite remaining in a windowless room of a few square metres for a sustained period of time.
The CoeLux technology is currently part of the project “Z! Zingonia, Mon Amour”, curated by ARGOT ou La Maison Mobile and Marco Biraghi, an integrated ceiling with three openings leading up to a simulated sky.
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aamodt / plumb architects were hired to renovate a shingle-style home on Professors’ Row in Cambridge, Massachusetts where they were tasked with integrating modern elements with the existing home’s historic structure.
Massive windows were used, along with raising the ceiling, to give the room a feeling of even more space. These in the corner fill the kitchen with light and almost make you feel like you’re outdoors.
The first floor kitchen was completely redesigned to reflect the homeowners’ interests, which combined both refined and rustic materials.
High gloss white cabinets were paired with concrete countertops and custom plywood raw steel shelves.
The partially open shelves provide storage for the owners’ collection of African bowls and primitive artwork.
Additional shelves were built, similar to those hanging in the kitchen, for extra display space.
Upstairs, what once was a series of small rooms, was turned into a spacious master suite hidden behind a sliding reclaimed wood barn door.
The hallway is lined with high gloss white cabinets on one side for storage and art work on the other side.
At the other end of the hallway is the master bathroom which is clad in white wood panels.
Sitting below a skylight is the new, wood enclosed tub.
Photos by Jane Messinger.
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TEHRAN Works by 37 Iranian graphic designers have been selected by the organizers of the 11th edition of the Russian international biennial of graphic design -- Golden Bee, which will be held in Moscow from October 7 to 12. Majid Abbasi, Mojtaba Adibi, Mohammad Afshar, Shokuh Ahmadi, Armin Amirian, Faramarz Arabnia, Alireza Askarifar, Reza ... (more)
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the rain harvesting campus, that also includes a 1,500-seat football stadium, is set to open later this month in kenya's central highlands.
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The guy who once put a terrified-looking dog on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to its head and the words, 'If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog,' was only thinking he'd have a little fun with his art students when he told them to draw a hand with a raised middle finger.
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ecns Well-heeled young Chinese heading overseas to study art and design are set to change the landscape at home and abroad. Tan Xinyang said he made up his mind to study abroad while visiting a workshop at a design college in Australia a year ago. "I spent ... |
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