Cascades of water tumbled from scaffolding-supported troughs into a pool at the centre of the catwalk for British outerwear brand Hunter’s London Style Week demonstrate .
Set in a warehouse on London’s Albert Embankment, Hunter’s Autumn Winter 2015 presentation on Monday evening was developed to evoke the sights and sounds of Scotland – in which the company was founded in excess of 150 many years in the past.
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3 waterfalls have been put in inside the cavernous space, each and every straddling the catwalk.
Scaffolding poles painted to match the red-orange runway supported a series of metal troughs, staggered each vertically and horizontally like actions.
Water pumped up from the pool in the centre of the catwalk poured down from the top basin as it overflowed into the trays under.
This cascade continued for the duration of the show, creating a soundtrack of falling water that accompanied sounds of thunder and rain played in the background.
Designs wearing the Hunter Originals collection walked a loop all around the kinked rectangular catwalk, passing beneath gaps in the scaffolding.
The idea for the set design and style came from the brand’s imaginative director Alasdhair Willis. Hunter’s team then worked with manufacturing business Gainsbury & Whiting to develop the set.
Ideal identified for its rubber wellington boots, Hunter has expanded its providing given that Willis joined the company in 2013. The brand’s product selection has extended to consist of a lot more clothes and equipment, and the set patterns for its biannual London vogue displays have grow to be a lot more extravagant.
This show, which was also streamed dwell on giant screens across the Uk, builds on the Autumn Winter 2014 presentation when models stomped down a water-covered walkway among bare tree trunks.
London Trend Week took place over 5 days and concluded on Tuesday. At the House of Holland demonstrate a travelator catwalk transported models close to, even though a runway of pink foam spikes matched information on garments at Mary Katrantzou’s event.
Information: a 7-mile-long skating rink proposed for the Canadian city of Edmonton could let commuters to ice skate or toboggan to operate and college throughout winter months (+ film).
The Freezeway is the vision of landscape architecture pupil Matthew Gibbs, who designed the ice trail as a thesis task. The idea was picked as the winner of a 2013 style competition, but there are now plans to pilot the scheme in the city up coming winter.
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The trail would bridge two existing greenways to generate a 7-mile-extended route that would freeze more than in winter to produce a skating trail, but could also be used as a bike lane and promenade in the course of summer season months.
“The Freezeway task looked at the hidden possibilities that exist living in a climate that is on regular below freezing for more than five months a yr, necessitating the development of a lot more totally free, enjoyable pursuits to lure people outdoors in that extremely sedentary and isolating time of your,” explained Gibbs. He imagines nearby residents utilizing the path to skate for leisure, or to get to operate.
The project was the winner of the 2013 COLDscapes contest, launched by Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Layout Collaborative, which called for architecture and layout proposals tailored to cold climates.
“The essence of this thought was constructing a skating trail for the city of Edmonton – it was the amount a single request by citizens in the survey performed by the winter city strategy, asking folks what they would like to see to make winter existence a lot more liveable,” said Gibbs.
Components of the envisioned route would run alongside the city’s railway tracks and roads, even though other folks would reduce by way of parkland and plazas. Shops, cafes and skate rental offices would be dotted along the route for convenience.
Visualisations for the project demonstrate the path illuminated by icicle-shaped lamp posts at evening. Metal prongs arching from each post would allow icicles to kind in winter, although in summer water jets set into the arms would spray a cooling mist into the air.
Rubberised crossing factors would let pedestrians and vehicles to negotiate the frozen trail without having the risk of slipping.
A prototype of the trail will be piloted at the Edmonton Ski Club subsequent yr, funding for which Gibbs imagines will come from crowdsourced donations. “This task is not meant to be a tax payer’s burden,” he told Dezeen.
The general cost of the venture is as however unknown and Gibbs’ proposal outlines three variations of the trail – a naturally frozen path, a refrigerated version and a carved ice block.
Diagram of the icicle-shaped lamp posts
“We are going to be undertaking exploratory conversations with stakeholders,” a representative from Edmonton City Council told Dezeen. “Edmonton is a northern city, and we are often seeking for inventive and modern techniques to embrace our winter-ness and make winter more enjoyable for our citizens and guests.”
3D-printing with residing organisms “could transform the meals market”
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: food designer Chloé Rutzerveld has developed a concept for “wholesome and sustainable” 3D-printed snacks that sprout plants and mushrooms for flavour (+ movie).
Rutzerveld’s Edible Development task consists of 3D-printed shapes containing a mixture of seeds, spores and yeast, which will start to grow soon after only a few days.
“Edible growth is exploring how 3D printing could transform the food industry,” she says in the movie. “It is about 3D printing with living organisms, which will build into a fully grown edible.”
Each of the basket-like 3D-printed structures, which Rutzerveld presented at Dutch Style Week 2014, consists of an edible centre of agar – a gelatinous substance that permits the seeds and spores to sprout.
As the plants and mushrooms increase, the flavour also develops, transforming into what Rutzerveld claims is a fresh, nutritious and tasty snack after only a couple of days.
“As it comes out of the 3D printer you can genuinely see the straight lines of the technology,” she says. “But as it develops, you can see organic shapes. You can see the stages of development and the improvement of taste and flavour.”
The aim of the venture, which Rutzerveld produced in collaboration with the Eindhoven University of Technological innovation and research organisation TNO, was to investigate ways that 3D printing could be utilized in the food business.
“By 3D printing food you can make the manufacturing chain quite short, the transport will be significantly less, there is much less land required,” says Rutzerveld.”But also you can experiment with new structures. You can surprise the customer with new meals and issues that have not been accomplished prior to.”
In certain, Rutzerveld wanted to find a way that 3D printers could be employed to produce fresh and wholesome food at house.
“A whole lot of men and women think industrialised production techniques are unnatural or unhealthy,” Rutzerveld says. “I want to show that it does not have to be the situation. You can actually see that it really is all-natural. It really is truly really wholesome and sustainable also at the same time.”
Nonetheless, Rutzerveld’s task is even now at the study and growth stage and she admits it will be a long time ahead of anyone is able to 3D-print her snacks at residence.
“It will get at least an additional eight to 10 many years ahead of this can be on the market,” she concedes. “The technologies actually want to be developed considerably additional.”
Chloé Rutzerveld
This film was filmed in Eindhoven at Dutch Design and style Week 2014. The music in the film is a track known as Loved ones Music by local hip hop producer Y’Skid.
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers is an ongoing collaboration with MINI exploring how style and technology are coming collectively to shape the potential.
News: a competitors will be launched subsequent week to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the renowned German artwork and style school was based among 1925 and 1932.
The Basis Bauhaus Dessau plans to open a new museum in 2019, coinciding with the centenary of the historic college founded by architect Walter Gropius.
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It will provide a everlasting exhibition area for the foundation’s comprehensive archive, which is the world’s 2nd biggest collection of Bauhaus heritage material and involves approximately 40,000 objects.
“The planned Bauhaus Museum Dessau will for the first time supply the possibility to current to the public for the long term the excellent collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Basis under the ideal attainable conservation problems,” said the organisers.
The creating will be found in the Dessau city park. The aim is for museum and park to “strengthen and complement” each and every other, creating a new cultural destination within the city centre.
Main image: Bauhaus College creating in Dessau. This picture: Spot for new museum
1 of the most essential artwork and design and style colleges of the final century, the Bauhaus was a substantial catalyst for the Contemporary style motion and aided revolutionise 20th-century artwork and architecture practice. Alongside Gropius, it was directed by architects Hannes Meyer and Mies van der Rohe, whilst teachers incorporated artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
The college existed in 3 German cities: Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933. It at some point closed underneath strain from the Nazi-led government.
In 1996, the complexes in Weimar and Dessau were listed as World Heritage Internet sites by UNESCO.
In 2012 a contest was launched for a Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. No winner was picked, but Berlin-based architect Heike Hanada was later given the commission, alongside professor Benedict Tonon. The unique completion date was scheduled for this yr.
In 2005 Japanese firm SANAA was selected to extend the existing Bauhaus Archive museum in Berlin – a building designed by Gropius in the 1960s. The project was later on abandoned, but a contest for a new Berlin Bauhaus museum is expected following yr.
Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin
The Foundation Bauhaus Dessau will launch its two-phase contest on two March and entrants will have until 13 April to submit their patterns.
In accordance to the organisers, the winning proposal will be one particular that “implements the desired qualities and quantities in a functional overall idea within the specified value and time frames, positioning the Bauhaus convincingly in a modern manner”.
The budget for the undertaking will be €25 million (£18 million). Half of this will be funded by the federal government, while the other half will come from the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Well HELLO! Oh pleased day, the kitchen island is done! I busted my butt yesterday painting for hours to get it completed up so I could show you this week. It is so freaking amazing, I really like it! Love it adore it enjoy it.
I’m usually proud of what I generate in our property but this one particular could be 1 of my favorites. I keep searching at it thinking, I DID THAT. And it wasn’t crazy expensive either. It is a great feeling.
If you don’t forget, last year for the duration of the family members area renovation we pulled up the island to patch the floors. I needed to move it away from the cabinets a minor bit and we had to correct the floors to do that. They had to tear it apart to consider it out of the kitchen:
And my “art” venture was created. ) The squiggles are just previous glue from previous island tasks. If you’ve followed along in excess of the years you know this tiny island has undergone a Lot of redos. This is the last one particular. I’m not touching it yet again. Ever.
I employed the unique island and built off of it – 1st by making a wine rack out of scrap wood:
I’m positive at this stage some of you had been like, uhhhh…OK…
You need to Trust! 🙂
Next came the cabinet at the end of the island that will property a microwave sooner or later:
I just developed a standard box with screws and wood.
It sat like this for a whilst – I hosted a celebration, had pals over…all with the intriguing island on show. The greatest portion of it so far was the new size and the butcher block countertop – I Enjoy possessing a bigger island. It is great my pals. I additional about two and half feet to it in complete.
Next up came the supports I built on the side:
I know some of you have mentioned that the chairs are near together – there’s actually 5 inches in between them and it’s plenty for us. I did not want to make the island any greater – that area at the finish where the table used to be has grown on us and we enjoy having it open now. (Prior to it felt enormous, so humorous.)
Also, in the eleven years we’ve lived in this house we’ve by no means had two grown grownups sit down at the island next to every other anyway (when it was just a two seater). When we have events one man or woman sits, one particular leans, and our final celebration I truly pulled a single of the seats off to the side by the new cabinet and sat there so I could talk to folks. So the spacing works fine for us – but if you try out this you will have to figure out what functions best for you!
I planked the complete thing with the identical cheap underlayment I utilised on the fireplace in the household area. And to tie to two locations collectively even a lot more I painted it the very same shade – Peppercorn by Sherwin Williams. It ties the complete room collectively superbly!:
I’ll take you on a tour of my island. ) The cabinets were portion of the outdated island, certainly. Everything previous that is new. The wine rack is seriously great and I require to go get some more wine to fill it up. (I may possibly have celebrated with a glass last evening.)
The new cabinet at the finish will have a shelf ultimately – I will not set up that till we get the microwave that will go in right here. I’m not sure what I’ll do with the bottom shelf – for now it holds cookbooks and I adore that we have additional storage!:
I even now need to have to pick up a cover for the outlet, but otherwise the portion is carried out for now. I employed plywood for this cabinet because it is less expensive — you can see the grain of the wood but sooner or later most of it will be covered with the microwave:
Yes, our Valentine hearts are nonetheless up. )
I informed you more about the stools and how I minimize them down right here. I was initially going to hold the unique shade of our island, a lighter blue/gray, but the stools looked awful with it. So I went with the darker and I adore it!:
All of those cabinets will be created up to the ceiling and will be painted sooner or later. In the complete light like this the Peppercorn colour goes a small blue in pics but in person it’s a lot more gray. There is a definite blue undertone though.
I’ve been striving to figure out a excellent accent color to use in the kitchen — I realized in the household room and our bedroom (where I have a wall painted the identical colour) that I enjoy green with it. So green it will be…with some blue mixed in – I’m loving blue towards all the white on the new window seat:
The strategy is to take down those cabinets (the microwave will be replaced with a hood) and do shelving in that spot. I believe this view will be fairly outstanding when that’s accomplished:
I have an additional thought for that wall that came into my head the other day. I’ll have to see if it will work. That’s like phase six out of ten phases of this kitchen, so it will be awhile. 🙂
But for now we are enjoying the first two phases that have come with each other better than I could have dreamed – the window seat and the island:
The new bigger island can make me want to cook and bake all the time! I could have to make some brownies to celebrate. It is so wonderful and turned out even greater than I could have hoped.
I located this super previous image and had to share, just simply because it’s entertaining to see the modifications in excess of the years:
I’ll share a handful of a lot more specifics and how I used one of my favored equipment on this undertaking tomorrow! For now, I rest. I might just consider a nap on prime of it. 🙂
Diagram of the icicle-shaped lamp posts
Diagrams 
Chloé Rutzerveld
Main image: Bauhaus College creating in Dessau. This picture: Spot for new museum
Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin
