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How To Make Funky Workspace Design Inspiration

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Oct 26, 2014

The office is a place of business or commercial activities. Many different kinds of office design that is used to support the beauty, order and performance activity in office can be comfortable and certainly can improve the focus and discipline. That must be considered for designing the interior office is the first office. Errors in managing the interior design will create an office would look messy even seem narrow, therefore, should be properly addressed in the composition Funky workspace design inspiration.

For this type of office which is in one building, interior design is the most important made the office entrance. You have to give the impression of comfort any employee or guest who will enter the office you, so determining beside entrance which gives that impression. Because using a minimalist concept, you should not need too much interior designing in the entrance area, because that is the next most important lobby space, to arrange a small room set corner office lobby. And do not forget to put a chair and table minimalist for employees who receive guests in your office. To add Funky workspace design inspiration, complete with ornamental plants in the corner of the room.

The Funky workspace design inspiration will also help you to focus on work. You will not be bothered with a lot of ornaments and a variety of things in the bottom left and top right of the atmosphere of your office design.

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Hawkins\Brown Use Wooden Partitions To Create Temporary Warehouse Home For The Bartlett

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Oct 26, 2014

Architecture firm Hawkins\Brown has converted a pair of north London warehouses using timber dividers to create a temporary home for The Bartlett school of architecture .

London studio Hawkins\Brown carried out the conversion for University College London’s Faculty of the Built Environment – The Bartlett – on Hampstead Road, north London.

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The firm has created the interim space for architecture students and staff while it remodels the school’s permanent campus in central London.

“The fit-out has been designed to provide the school with a temporary home that will not only support its exemplary teaching and research, but also encourage new practices of teaching, research and collaboration within the robust shell of these former warehouses,” said Hawkins\Brown partner Euan Macdonald.

Wooden partitions inserted into the open-plan warehouse space divide studios from the main body of the building in stall-like compartments. Simple shelves bracketed to the timber panels provide storage space for students.

Smaller cubicles for tutorials and private study are differentiated from the main floor plan by patches of grey carpet.

The space has movable furniture and large tables that create flexible spaces, aiming to encourage a sense of community among students.

Power outlets are suspended from electrical cables in the ceiling, which has been left with the industrial pipework and cable cages exposed.

White rectangular baffles hung vertically from the ceiling muffle sound within the large, open-plan building. Rows of high-level windows and strip-lighting illuminate the space.

Hawkins/Brown will renovate the school’s current “tired and uninspiring” campus in Wates House to include a new foyer and cafe, exhibition space and art workshop facilities on the ground floor as part of a £20 million development.

A complete remodelling of the upper floors will provide a range of teaching and research spaces, including seminar rooms, studios, offices, a library and computer rooms.

The school will return to its permanent residence in autumn 2016.

Hawkins/Brown was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2013 for its work on the regeneration of Park Hill estate in Sheffield, recently covered in our Brutalism series. The firm also created a brightly painted timber extension for the Oily Cart Theatre in south London.

Photograph by Tim Crocker.

Storms' Music Video Reinterprets Charles And Ray Eames' Powers Of Ten Film

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Oct 25, 2014

Music: directors Martin Lorenz and Martin Allais recreated Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 film exploring the scale of the universe for Barcelona-based band Storms’ new music video.

Lorenz and Allais, who direct together as Martin & Martin, were inspired by the opening lyrics from Storms’ track Colores: “Todo es de colores”, which translates as “Everything is colourful.”

“We thought it was very suggestive and also very open – like the universe,” Allais explains. “When we went to see the Eames’ film Powers of Ten we thought it was a very cool idea to create the narrative of our video.”

“The video is a tribute to Eames, to Powers of Ten, to the universe and of course to the fact that everything is colourful.”

The Eames’ film (above) starts off with an overhead shot of a couple picnicking in a park, before zooming out by factors of ten until the entire universe is revealed.

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The film then reverses, focussing on the molecular and then atomic level.

Lorenz and Allais emulated scenes from the film using stop-motion animation and a variety of materials including stones, sticks, and plasticine.

The directors used swirls of oil and ink to give the impression of galaxies and constellations, while bouncy balls were used to represent atoms and molecules.

“It was great to have the Eames movie as a reference, because it has a very clear structure,” Lorenz said. “It allowed us to go wild within the pre-defined parameters. There is a colour scheme, but the materials and techniques are changing constantly. “

“We did everything very lo-fi,” Allais added. “It took us ages to produce all the different techniques we wanted to explore. It was a very small team and everything was handcrafted with patience.”

The intention behind the video was to draw attention to what all humans have in common, the directors said.

“The music video is more than a ‘version’ of the Eames movie, ” Lorenz explained. “Beyond cultural differences there can be an understanding that goes beyond borders. We think that this understanding is a problem of scale. If you zoom into the things that really matter we are not so different. The visuals in the music video represent this idea.”

Philips Wing By Cruz Y Ortiz Completes The 11-year Renovation Of The Rijksmuseum

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Oct 25, 2014

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will next week open a remodelled exhibition wing, as the second and final phase of the major renovation by Spanish firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos .

Photograph by Luuk Kramer

Built in and around extensions added between the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century, the Philips Wing brings together new and historic elements to create a contemporary exhibition space for the Dutch art museum.

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, who completed the first phase of the renovation in 2013, planned the wing around a new double-height atrium, conceived as a smaller version of the grand entrance court.

Photograph by Luuk Kramer

A new glass roof brings allows daylight to flood in from overhead. Below this, the architects have installed an acoustic baffle and lighting fixture with the grandeur of a chandelier – just like the ones already installed in the main atrium.

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This space, located just beyond the museum’s recently added Asian Pavilion, is also known as the Fragment Building, as two of its major architectural features are fragments of demolished 19th-century buildings from elsewhere in the country.

The first of these is a two-storey-high stable facade from a castle in Breda. With its brick construction and sandstone piers, it stands in contrast to the bright white walls and contemporary chandelier, which is spaced out to line up with the historic arches.

The floor is finished in Portuguese limestone, in keeping with other parts of the renovation, and a staircase with a glass and steel balustrade leads up to the galleries on the first floor.

These rooms had previously been used to house part of the museum’s collection while the first phase of the renovation took place.

Few changes were made to these spaces, which boast gridded skylights, octagonal floor plans and unusual corner doorways.

A curving balcony extends along the front edge of the atrium to connect the two sides of the galleries. Halfway along, a recessed window offers a view outside the building.

The second architectural fragment can be found at the rear of the wing – a staircase tower from Franeker. Above this, Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has added a silk lighting installation that rises and falls in billowing motions.

A restaurant and espresso bar can be found on opposite sides of the Philips Wing, fitted out by interior designer Paul Linse, who has been responsible for all of the museum’s new dining spaces.

Shylight by Studio Drift

The space will feature only one permanent exhibition, located on the ground floor. The 17th-century lacquered tearoom, understood to be one of the oldest in the world, has been restored and furnished with Oriental objects from the Golden Age.

The Philips Wing at the Rijksmuseum opens next weekend with an exhibition of 20th-century photography featuring works by Brassaï, Man Ray and Jacques-Henri Lartigue.

Photography is by Ronald Tilleman, apart from where otherwise indicated.