Modern Design Magazine 06 DEZ 2007 (Architecture Art Design)

8/7/2019 Modern Design Magazine 06 DEZ 2007 (Architecture Art Design)

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- I will be writing to you shortly, as soon as I nish reading your latest issue, which, being so dense in coverage, doesnt seem to have an ending :))- T. E., Mlaga

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- Just picked up a copy o this on Saturday at The Passion Ca, San Pedro and was extremely impressed. Congratulations - I dont know much aboutpure art and design, but taught Modernism and Post-Modernism in lm to second year university students and you seem to be aiming to touch allthe bases. Very much looking orward to your next issue!- K.J.E., San Pedro

- Today I started reading this months issue and just elt that I have to tell you that it is even better than the others. Though I do think the magazineis absolutely abulous, I would like to make a suggestion. As you can see, I represent some artists. ......most o them are living on the coast. I thereoresuggest, that you in each issue eature an artist living on the coast.......

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US $1.6 millionLoo HouseSim Jae-Duck of Seoul, Korea is a

sanitation worker and founder of theWorld Toilet Association (yes there issuch an organisation!). And to prove hemeans business, hes built the worldsonly house designed in the shape of aloo. The US$1.6 million structure openedto the public last month. 74 year oldMr Sim who was born in a toilet plans to live in the house until hedies. Toilets were once regarded asstinking and dirty places. Not anymore. They must be treated as thesanctuary that protects human health,

he said. A moving story if ever there

Crazy house......stunninglocationThis New Guinean tree roost seems to have beenbuilt by Ewoks with death wishes (remember thosefictional species of hunter-gatherers in the StarWars universe?). The views are out of this world butyou probably have to tip the pizza guy an arm anda leg for home delivery!

If trembling withfear, writhingin anticipation,vomitingprofusely thenqueuing up to doit all over againfor thrills andexcitement is yourthing, then thesehighly innovativerollercoastersdesigned bythe worldsbest structuralengineers are on

the cards for you.Some disappearinto special watertunnels, othershave cars thatrotate on death-defying axes,while others areso tall youllprobably throw upjust looking atthem!

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This is utter rubbishYoull like this one. This clever group of 30 leadinginternational designers and creators are talking use less

here quite the antithesis ofuseless. Using every practical mediaplatform to get their message across,

Utterubbish explores and highlightsthe many ways design can pave theway for a sustainable future. Thetwo-day UseLess Conference formedpart of the Singapore Design Festivallast month and focused on how designcan create value for self, society andthe world while aiming to inform andinspire new ideas, discussions andcollaborations.

positive.negativeThis dynamic arch and infill has beendesigned as a strategic interventionby J Mayer H Architects at KickenGallery in Berlin. The arch, whichdivides the gallery into two spaces,is complemented by a movable, free-standing infill positionedto either accentuate the division between the two spaces of thegallery, thereby enticing visitors to explore the concealed areabehind it, or aligned to create a less tangible division thatobliquely cuts up the space, drawing attention to its contrastingcurved shape while reemphasising the gallerys role as the mainspace for photography.

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SirNormanFoster

isborn!

Avid Modern Design readers willremember our eature on NormanFosters SuperYacht design or YachtPlusthats coming on stream next year, as

highlighted in our August 07 issue. Itwas such a radical departure rom hisamous high-tech, land-based projectsthat we couldnt resist lling you in onsome o Foster + Partners completedand ongoing worldwide projects moresolidly attached to terra rma.

Good Lord Britains starchitect

Text:Chris Dove


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Bilbao Metro,Spain, 1988-95

Reichstag Parliament Building,Berlin, Germany, 1992-99

Kicking o on our own Spanish tur, Foster+ Partners have given us yet another

reason to visit Bilbao in the north i onlyto take a trip along Bilbaos Line One andadmire its breathtaking architecture romabove, within and all-around. Conceivedwith architectural, engineering andconstruction integrated within a sharedvision, the stations dramatic curved ormsoer fexibility or uture change and thecurved glassy structures at street level dubbed Fosteritos make or an entirelyunique entrance lobby, their shape sug-

gesting movement engineered to admitnatural light during daylight hours. Thestations are lined with preabricatedconcrete cladding and completed withvirtually maintenance-ree preabricatedmetallic elements.

Following the sensational Wrapped Reichstag project by Christos andJeanne-Claude in 1995, reconstruction began revealing striking imprints othe past including grati let by Soviet soldiers and the original piano nobileand courtyards which F + P reinstated. Within its masonry shell, the interior

transparent opening places its activities in view with an observation platormallowing people to ascend symbolically above the heads o their electedrepresentatives in the chamber. The building uses renewable bio-uel, which,when burned to produce electricity, is ar cleaner than ossil uels and resultsin a 94% reduction in CO2 emissions. Surplus heat is stored as hot water in anaquier 300 metres below ground, pumped up to heat the building or to drivean absorption cooling plant to produce chilled water. At its core a light sculp-tor refects light into the chamber with a moveable sun-shield blocking solargain and glare. As night alls, this process is reversed.

The hugeglazed cupolais a symbolof clarity,transparencyandGermanysvigorousdemocratic

process.

Bilbao Metros architecture dramatically boasts exible, futuristic curved glass. Image courtesy of Nigel Young (Foster & Partners)

Images courtesy

of Nigel Young

(Foster & Partners)


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Enjoying an esti-mated hal millionvisitors each year,Sage Gateshead is aregional music centredesigned ater exten-sive consultation withaudiences and musi-cians. The windsweptnature o the site

suggested a coveredconcourse along thewaterront to link theauditoria, resultingin the entire complexsheltered beneatha broad, envelop-ing, shrink-wrappedroo. Containingcas, bars, shops, aninormation centreand the box oce,the concourse is amajor public spaceacting as a oyer orthe auditoria and as acommon room or theMusic School locatedbeneath it. With itsinormal atmosphereand unrivalled viewsacross the TyneBridge arch, this has

become one o thecitys great socialspaces.

The SageGateshead,Gateshead, UK,1997-2004

With unrivalled viewsacross the River Tyne,the entire complexis sheltered beneatha shell-like shrink-wrapped roof.

Image courtesy

of Nigel Young,

(Foster &

Partners)



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Located on the south bank o the River Thames near Tower Bridge, City Hall is the purpose-built home o the Greater London Authority, Londons local

government and one o the capitals most symbolically important projects, expressing the transparency and accessibility o the democratic process as asustainable, virtually non-polluting public building. A deliberately distorted glass sphere, the building is designed around a magnicent interior ramp downwhich people can symbolically walk above the debating chamber o their elected representatives. The visual and physical imagery o this ramp is such that itadvances the symbolism o Fosters earlier Reichstag in Berlin.

City Hall, London, 1998-2002

Londons seat of Local Government lends its visual and physical geometry from Berlins Reichstag. Image: Nigel Young (Foster & Partners)



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These apartments located on the edge o a slope look down overSt Moritz towards the lake. Timber orms the buildings exterior asboth the indigenous architectural material and a highly renew-able resource, aiding the environment through carbon dioxide

consumption while growing and since the timber is locallyorested, little energy was used in transporting it. Fusing state-o-the-art computer design tools with centuries-old constructiontechniques, this environmentally sensitive building is seamlesslyinserted into the local landscape.

Chesa Futura,

St Moritz,Switzerland,2000-04

Largebalconiesface thelake andsurroundingmountains.

Images:

Nigel

Young

(Foster &

Partners)



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Occupying a central role in the intellectual lie o Berlin,the Free University is one o the citys most symbolicallyimportant institutions and one o the leading universities inGermany. F + Ps redevelopment included the restoration othe campus iconic Modernist buildings and the design o anew library or the Faculty o Philology (ie learning spokenand written methods o human communication). The Facultyoccupies a site created by uniting six o the Universityscourtyards: our foors contained within a naturally venti-lated, bubble-like enclosure clad in aluminium with glazed

panels and supported on steel rames with a radial geom-etry. An inner membrane o translucent glass bre lters thedaylight and generates a sequence o generous, light-lledspaces in which to work. Amusingly, the librarys cranial ormhas earned it the nickname The Berlin Brain.

Free University,Berlin, 1997-2005

The Berlin Brain each oor swells or recedes with respect to the one above or below it. . Images: Rudi Meisel (Foster & Partners)


Carefullydesigned tosensitively


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Leslie L DanPharmacy

Building,University oToronto, Canada,2002-06Providing state-o-the-art acilities or 1,000+ students,the multiunctional building centralises all teaching,research and administrative spaces into a single struc-ture, uniting the largest pharmacy aculty in Canada.Its main mass is elevated above a 20 metre high, ve-storey, colonnaded circulation space naturally lit toprovide a hub or undergraduate activities by allowingconvenient access between the basement lecture the-atres, laboratories and library. Two silver-coloured podsare suspended within this space, the larger housing a60-seat lecture theatre and reading room, the smaller aclassroom and aculty lounge. Wet labs or postgradu-ate research are housed on the upper foors while anatrium runs through the building bringing natural light

into the laboratory support spaces.

Palace o Peaceand Reconciliation,

Astana, Kazakhstan,2004-06 The largest o the ormer Soviet Republics,the President o Kazakhstan commissionedF + P to design the Palace o Peace as aglobal centre or religious understand-ing. Home to a 1,500 seat opera house,a university o civilisation and a nationalcentre or Kazakhstans various ethnicand geographical groups, this diversity isunied within the pure orm o a pyramid62 metres high with a 62 x 62 metre base.

Clad in stone with glazed inserts repre-senting its various internal unctions, thepyramid has an apex o stained glass byartist Brian Clarke. The assembly chamberis elevated at the top supported on ourinclined pillars representing the handso peace. Lits rise up the inward leaningwalls to take delegates to a receptionspace lined with vegetation o the hanginggardens o Astana and a broad glass lensset in the atrium foor casts light down intothe opera house, creating a sense o verti-cal continuity rom the buildings lowestlevel to the very top.

yrespondto itsimmediatesurroundings.

Image:

Nigel Young

(Foster &

Partners)

The soaring central atrium is animatedwith spectacular cast light patterns.Image: Nigel Young (Foster & Partners)



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This 150,000 sq m mixed-use complex at the heart o Amman is close to thenew Al-Abdali city centre. The site, an extraordinary carved-out rock shel setagainst a sheer 30m backdrop, presents physical challenges similar to thoseaced at ancient Jordanian sites such as Petra. A rough-hewn podium hasbeen inserted with strong, vertical cuts into a line o natural rock. Groupedtogether on this podium will be a set o six inter-connected, sculpted towers

including a boutique hotel, residential units, oces, shopping and leisureactivities. The deep spaces between the towers house a variety o shelteredpublic spaces including a sunken amphitheatre and large, sheltered piazza.The towers have double-skin aades with screens whose horizontal linesrecall delicate rock strata and whose unction is to stimulate air circulationand provide shading.

Occupying an entire city block between the Marina Centre and the Civic District, thescheme will create a 150,000 square metre eco-quarter in downtown Singapore. Agenerous canopy protects the public realm at ground level, buering the spaces

beneath rom the extremes o the tropical climate. Above the canopy rises a verticalcity o clustered towers incorporating commercial, residential, retail and two highend hotels, as well as a d irect green link to an MRT station. Oering a light and com-ortable environment, Beach Road is providing an exemplar sustainable quarter orSingapore with its design potential to achieve the Green Mark Platinum Rating.

Living Wall, Amman,Jordan, 2006-09

Beach Road,Singapore, 2007

With transparency at the higher levels and at the towers base, views across the city are unimpeded.Images: Foster & Partners

The Singaporean ideal of the city in a garden with its lush planting and sky gardens.Image: Foster & Partners M o d e r n D e s i g n 1 9


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Camp NouStadiumor FCBarcelona,Spain, 2007

Spaceport America, New Mexico, USA, 2007

Motor City,Aragon, Spain,2007-10

Already the largest stadium inEurope, its enlargement willaccommodate 106,000+ anstogether with extensive newacilities including hospitality andpublic areas. A new roo will shel-ter the ans while the stadium willbe enclosed by a brightly colouredmosaic outer skin wrapped aroundthe building and continuing overthe new roo. The multi-coloured

enclosure comprises overlappingtranslucent tiles in club colours,symbolising the loyalty anddevotion o FC Barcelonas answorldwide.

Less solidly attachedto terra rma than theother projects eaturedhere, this will be therst private spaceportin the world. The build-ings sinuous shape inthe landscape and itsinterior spaces seekto capture the dramaand mystery o space

fight itsel, articulat-ing the thrill o spacetravel or the rstspace tourists. Makinga minimal impact onthe environment andorganised into a highlyecient and rationalplan, the Spaceporthas been designed torelate to the dimen-

sions o the spacecratwith a careul balancebetween accessibilityand privacy. Designedto have minimalembodied carbon andew additional energyrequirements, thedesign aims to achievethe prestigious LEEDPlatinum accredita-tion. The low-lyingorm is dug into thelandscape to exploitthe thermal mass,buering the buildingrom the extremeso the New Mexicoclimate as well ascatching the westerlywinds or ventilation.Natural light enters viaskylights with a glazed

aade reserved orthe terminal building,establishing a platormor the coveted viewsonto the runway.

A major new leisure and cultural zonewithin a new motor sports centre in Alcaiz,Aragon. The smooth orms and volumes othe building are sculpted by solar and windpatterns with a lightweight roo that foats

over the entire complex. Motor City will usepassive environmental controls as well asharnessing renewable energy, enabling thewhole complex to be carbon neutral. Theroo integrates sustainable design elementssuch as photovoltaic cells and solar thermaltubes on its surace together with an array owind turbines. The sweeping roo culminatesin a tower which gives the development itsidentity and when illuminated at night, willbecome a beacon or Motor City. This is the

latest in a group o projects Foster + Partnershave recently won in Spain, including Ma-drids City o Justice, the HQ or Repsol YPF,a winery or Faustino and a masterplan orSeville. Viva Espaa!

The Spaceport lies low within the desert-like New Mexicolandscape. Image: Foster & Partners

Inspired by the sleek aerodynamic aesthetic of the racing car. Image: Foster & Partners

On match nights, the stadium will glow, providing a newarchitectural icon for the city. Image: Foster & Partners



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Londons

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007Designed by internationallyacclaimed Danish-Icelandic artistOlaur Eliasson and award-winningNorwegian architect Kjetil Thorseno architectural practice Snhetta,this timberclad structure resemblesa spinning top and brings adramatic vertical dimension to

the original single-level paviliondesigned by Pritzker Prize-winningRem Koolhaas.


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A wide spiralling ramp made two complete turns allowing visitors to ascend rom the Gallery lawn to the highest pointor views across Kensington Gardens as well as a birds eye view o the chamber below. Exploring the idea o verticalcirculation within a single space, the architects reconsidered the traditional, single-level pavilion structure by adding athird dimension: height. The vertical movement o visitors in the Pavilion complemented the horizontal circulation inthe exhibition spaces at the adjacent Serpentine Gallery.

Visitors ascended rom the lawn to the roo via the ramp which unctioned as a mediator between the Pavilion interiorand its surroundings. Whilst journeying upwards, they encountered the interior space ollowed by an enclosed stretch othe ramp with the surroundings only glimpsed through the louvered acade.

Photos courtesy of Olafur Eliason


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Beijings Solar EnergyEfficient Building (SIEEB)The Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy-EfficientBuilding (SIEEB) at Tsinghua University in Beijingis designed to maximize passive solar capabilities

and is fitted with state-of-the-art active solarelements.

Architect Mario Cucinella and Milan Polytechnicconceptualized the structure to educate andshowcase possibilities for energy-efficient building,particularly with regard to CO2 emissions.

Photos courtesy of Danielle Domenicali


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The project is a collaboration between the Ministry orEnvironment and Territory o the Republic o Italy andthe Ministry o Science and Technology o the PeoplesRepublic o China. The SIEEB takes on a symmetriclayout that opens towards the south with steppedexposures and a central courtyard. Integrated photovol-taic arrays shade terraces while capturing solar energy.Double glass aades with horizontal sunshades createthe buildings exposed exterior on the east and west.Pivoting glass louvers with refective coating cover the

exterior walls o the courtyard to regulate daylight andsolar gain. The northern exposure is heavily insulatedand mostly opaque to shield against cold winter winds.

Over 1,000 square metres o photovoltaic panels supplyprimary energy needs. With a ocus on minimum CO2emissions, the architects opted or gas engines withelectric generators or supplemental energy. Recapturedheat is used or hot water, winter heating and com-bined with absorption chillers or cooling in summer.Conditioned air is dispersed via displacement ventilation

and a radiant ceiling system enhances thermal comort.Room temperatures and lighting are sensor-controlledto minimize energy use when rooms are vacant.

The SIEEB houses the Sino-I talian Cooperation Programor Environmental Protection, a collaboration oreducation, training and research with a ocus on energyconservation and emissions reduction. The structure andthe program both stand as an example or uture energystrategies a welcome trend in a nation heavilydependent on coal.



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Photo courtesy of Alberto Seveso


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Unrivalled designer, artist, inventor and eco-engineer, Michael Jantzen rom the Human Shelterorganisation in Caliornia knows a thing or two about wind and even more about creatingstructures that take account o natural elements.

The mechanics o his proposed Wind Shaped Pavilion arent a million miles rom that o a Rubiks Cube. Made entirely out o lightweight abric,each o its six main segments twists randomly around its central support rame in response to fuctuations in the wind. This means that the shapeo the pavilion continually alters with only a slim chance o it ever returning to its original symmetry.This truly great concept not only makes or an interesting space that can be used as a public or private pavilion, it also generates enough electricalpower or its illumination at night. And, depending on the scale and materials used, the structure has dynamism built in as it could realisticallybecome a groovy apartment block or hip commercial building.There isnt a sel-respecting architecture, design or home-related magazine that hasnt eatured Michaels work, so to check out his portolio oorward-thinking ideas on this and many o his other original projects, visit www.humanshelter.org

A experience

Michael Jantzens

MIND-BLOWINGWind Shaped Pavilion

Text:Chris Dove

Photo courtesy of Wind Shaped Pavilion


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Suzhou Museum, China

The uture o Chinese modern architectureby I.M. PEI ARCHITECT with PEI PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTS

Designed by

PEI Architects,

the new

SuzhouMuseum

adjoins the

landmarked

Zhong

Wang Fu, a

complex o

19th-century

historical

structures and

the Garden o

the Humble

Administrator,

a 16th-centurygarden listed

as a UNESCO

World

Heritage site.

Photos courtesy of Kerun Ip


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Nicknamed the Venice o the East and located on the lower reaches o the Yangtze River 100miles northwest o Shanghai, the new Museum couldnt wish to have been built in a morehistoric and culturally signicant setting. The 2,500 year old Suzhou city is renowned or its pic-turesque scenery, 1,600 stone bridges, pagodas, meticulously designed gardens, its importanceas a centre or Chinas silk industry and an increasingly popular tourist attract ion.

Covering 17,000 sq m and comprising 7,500 sq m o exhibition galleries, a 200-seat audito-rium, curatorial oces, conservation studios, a study library and art storage acilities, the mu-seum design takes its cues rom the rich vocabulary o Suzhou traditional architecture with itswhitewashed plaster walls, dark grey clay tile roos and intricate garden architecture. However

these basic elements have been reinterpreted and synthesized into a new language and order one that is contemporary and orward looking as a possible direction or the uture o Chinesemodern architecture.

As with traditional Suzhou architecture, the museums design is organised around a series ogardens and courts that mediates between the building and its surrounding environment.The main Museum Garden is a contemporary extension and commentary o the Garden o theHumble Administrator to the north. As visual connections between the two properties are notpossible due to the high garden walls, water is used physically and metaphorically as a bridgebetween the two properties.

The new Museum Garden and its smaller Gallery and Administrative Gardens arent landscaped

based on traditional and conventional approaches rather, new design directions and themesseeking the essence o traditional landscape design can be distilled and reormulated intopotentially new directions. This new approach to Chinese garden architecture is a highly visualexample o the transormation rom made in Suzhou to created in Suzhou.


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BrazilsHotel Unique

Nights in white satin at

Text:Chris Dove

Photos courtesy of Hotel Unique


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Ignore its uninspired name HotelUnique does what it says on thetin. Its a unique stopover point

All well and good rom the hotel exterior but its the interior were really interested in. Designed byamous Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake, once you step into the hotel lobby, youll be blinded by thelight practically everything is white with touches o chrome everywhere you look. Six foors with 95apartments play host to careully arranged objects with ne details.


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tin. It s a unique stopover pointlocated in the historic, tourist andcultural centre o Sao Paulo, close

to the citys nancial centres, airs,exhibition halls, theatres, showsand entertainment centres, andwith its highly visible landmark

boldly stretching across the SaoPaulo skyline, youd be mad to missa unique opportunity to revel in its

4-Star luxury.

Shades o white, sand and brown provide elegant and well-balanced colours to the rooms with supe-rior comort added to the contemporary decoration. Floors o prime Brazilian wood lead to brightand airy bathrooms equipped or an energizing shower or a relaxing whirlpool tub as guests revelin a private source o pure water.

Wide round windows oer exciting vistas rom the rootop terrace and swimming pool, giving unri-valled views o Sao Paulos skyline. Dont be turned o by the crimson colour o the pool i you goor a dip, youll be rewarded with groovy underwater sounds. And the hotels technology-advanced,sel-sucient energy sources have everything to meet the modern travellers green liestyle. HotelUnique is part o Design Hotels.

Hotel UniqueAv. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio 4700Jd Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazilwww.hotelunique.com.br

Bookings can be made at www.designhotels.com



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Photo courtesy of Dutch Daze


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You may remember we previewed this key design event in Eindhoven, Netherlands in October (see Modern Design, Issue 3)so, by way o a ollow-up, weve highlighted this one piece that particularly stood out rom among the 100+ participatingexhibitors.

Titled Dutch Daze by young collective Dutch Daze, this recently ormed group o nine design graduates rom Arnhem workindependently but present themselves as a unit. Dutch Daze dazzles with surprising, mind-blowing product design: dancinglamps, rebellious ashion accessories, superb ceramics and glassware. See or yoursel with this imaginative some would go so

ar as to call it creative oering rom these rising stars o Dutch design.

Check out Dutch Design Weeks many other exhibits at www.dutchdesignweek.nl

Update on Dutch Design Week 2007Grunge Garbage?


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Alarcn is a beautiul city in the province o Cuenca, situated hal way between Madrid and Valencia. As beautiul as it is though, the 16th century Church o St Johnthe Baptist located in its principal square had allen into rack and ruin and had been neglected or centuries.

That was until 1994 when a young artist named Jess Mateo without sponsorship or commission took it upon himsel to trace the outlines o what were tobecome the Alarcn murals. Aged just 23 at the time, Mateo re-sketched, re-drew and repainted the huge proportions o the church interior, surmounting technicaldiculties as well as the ormal and chromatic complexity o his single-minded project, and committing himsel to six years labour in the conned space.

This ancient, deconsecrated edice had all the necessary eatures to house Mateos contemporary, radical artistic statement, oering a permanent home to his secu-lar artwork as he took advantage o the exceptional interior layout o the space, creating his distinctive decorations. 1995 saw the creation o a cultural association tosupport his personal project by way o ar tistic patronage. More than 1,500 people rom all over Spain responded by giving their backing to his works o art a eatalmost unimaginable in this day and age. Many have likened Jesus work to a miracle.

Through its 1% Cultural programme, the Spanish Culture and Development Ministries supported the project by ully restoring the building, installing publicacilities and ensuring its security to make it into an open art centre providing the young Spanish painter with a unique 21st century international stature when itopened to the public on 15 July 2004. Declared o International Artistic Interest by UNESCO in 2007, the name o Jess Mateo is orever ingrained into the religioushistory o one o Spains most important medieval cities.

To see more o the Alarcn Murals, visit the ocial website at www.muralalarcon.org in Spanish only.

Celebrating 10 years ofJess Mateos

Alarcn MuralsOn 3 December 1997, UNESCO placed the murals oyoung Spanish artist Jess Mateo under its auspices,symbolising the cultural and artistic importance o thissole individuals initiative.

Photos courtesy ofJess Mateo


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Weve workedvery hard for oneyear to prepare


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Maintaining its position as one o the (New) Seven Wonders o the World in July all eyes were

on China again in October as the Great Wall became the centre o international attention,hitting the heady heights o ashion news with its rst ever big show or luxury Italian ashionhouse, Fendi. At well over 1,500 miles along its entire length, this must be one o the longestashion runways in history. A deliberately extravagant venue or Fendi to show the world andChina in particular that they re ready or business with the waking Asian giant.

Exquisitely kitted out by Karl Lagereld and Silvia Fendi, 88 models strutted down this unusual,well-lit catwalk, especially constructed on a raised platorm on a restored part o the Wall atJuyongguan, an hour north o Beijing. Showing o a colourul mix o urs and silks completewith belt buckles and Fendis signature Baguette bags, the show is estimated to have costaround US$10 million (6.9 million). Thats one hell o a ashion budget.

Lagereld said he played with circles as his theme or the show, creating the combination oarcs and symmetry symbolising harmony. I experimented with the cuts and prints to achievea graceul eect that would look good on Chinese models. The models sported mid-caldresses in sheer and semi-opaque, worn over shorts with matching round-toe strappy stilettoheels. Fities-style prom dresses and ur jackets were also on show as models dressed in Fendisseasonal must-haves tottered down the stage steps, oten requiring assistance as they reachedthe end o the runway.

In the worlds astest growing economy with 1,500 new millionaires made every day, Chinais increasingly attracting the attention o global brands keen to help them spend their newlyound riches and desire or Western luxury. Also launching its rst perume, Palazzo in October,Rome-based Fendi aims to become a star brand with its core shoes and handbags businesscurrently accounting or 60% o sales with urs and ready-to-wear making up another 30%.

Fashion f irst for FendiAs catwalk venues go, they dont come more exclusive than theGreat Wall o China.

year to prepare

the collection.Where do wego after? Maybethe moon. Why

not? DesignerSilvia Fendi on apossible locationfor next yearsfashion show.

Photos : 88 models walk the runwayat Fendis Fall/Winter 2007 fashionshow on the Great Wall of China,19 October 2007. Designs by KarlLagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi.

Images courtesy of Lucas Dawson/Gettyand Andy Wong/AP

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The 18th edition o ArtFutura the estival o Digital Cultureand Creativity has becomeSpains reerence point or art,technology and digital culture.Oering an extensive programo activities in museums andcultural centres in 11 dierentSpanish cities, the increas-ingly important annual esti-val explores development inthese elds during the last 12months with an international

panorama o new media, in-teractive design, installations,exhibitions, live perormances,videogames, digital animation,conerences and workshops.

Celebrating Spains

ArtFutura Festival

Barcelona

October 25-28 2007

Artist:Moebius

Artist: Moebius


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Since its inception in 1990, ArtFutura has shown how art and science are ollowing parallelpaths more than ever and its now impossible to view art as a separate discipline rom newmedia, the internet and digital technology. Organisations and companies involved includesuch heavyweights as United Visual Artists, Pixar, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Media Labrom MIT in Boston, and with an illustrious showing rom the great and the good o the multi-media world, it was only tting that the title o this years key theme was The Next Web.

DAY 1: THE NEXT NET

Spread over three days, the rst sessionbrought us up-to-date with the revolu-tions in the web that have taken placeover the last two years now reerredto as Web 2.0 transorming it into aspace o social participation and collec-tive cooperation which cyber culturetheorists o the early 90s would never

have imagined. And, along with theboom in participative social networkscatering to every possible age groupand liestyle, some o the internetsoriginal utopias which saw it as anopportunity to build a parallel andautonomous world with its own ruleshave also regained strength.

This session encouraged provocativedebates on where the web is goingnext with key thinkers, technolo-gists and entrepreneurs o the digitaleconomy leading the way. Theseincluded Steven Berlin Johnson a keyanalyst o digital culture during thislast decade who presented his latestproject Outside.in: a service that ltersthe content o users on the Web withwhat occurs in its own neighbourhoods. And much attention was placedon Daniel Linden, head o Linden Lab, creators o the renowned virtualworld Second Lie (see our eature on SL in Modern Design, Issue 5).Daniel is the closest that the virtual world has to a politician in charge.

As much notorious as misunderstood, Second Lie has become the mostsuccessul embodiment o the idea o the net as an immersive three-dimensional space.

Artist:Roshi Ishi

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DAY 2: STEREOSCOPIC 3D

The creation o immersive synthetic worlds wasa key eature dedicated to the next great tech-nological transormation o the worlds o cinemaand animation: digital cinema in stereoscopic 3D(creating the illusion o depth in an image). Whenit comes to competing with new digital leisureHollywood believes that cinemas time has come.

Directors such as Robert Zemeckis, JamesCameron and companies such as Sony PicturesImageworks demonstrated and analysed thework theyre undertaking in the production oimages in stereoscopic 3D. For the rst time, Rob-ert Zemeckis new production Beowul was airedas the rst super production lmed in digital

stereoscopic 3D, recreating the work o AngelinaJolie and Anthony Hopkins in digital animation.

One o the up-and-coming creators o indepen-dent digital animation, Ben Hibons nine-minuteshort titled Codehunter was screened as parto the ArtFutura Show. Originally developedor MTV Asia based on the aesthetics o 1980sEuropean comics, Codehunter has eatured inover 30 estivals around the world this year andreceived prestigious prizes including the Golden

Nica rom Ars Electronica, the IMAGINA prize andthe Promax/BDA.

DAY 3: NEW GENERATIONVIDEOGAMES

This years ArtFutura ocused on innovationand playability in video games. One o the newgeneration o video games, Little Big Planetwas created by Media Module and is alreadychanging the way we play the user, not thedeveloper, creates the characters. Similarly, thesenew generations o user created games areleading to more highly nished action gamessuch as Heavenly Sword described as the mostambitious game o 2007. Developed by NinjaTheory exclusively or the PlayStation 3 consoleand released worldwide in September, its authorsgave an exclusive presentation on how these newgeneration videogames also involve spectacularsuper-productions never seen beore.

Visitors to ArtFutura 07 were also able to enjoya spectacular 800m marquee dedicated toelectronic leisure in the orm o a NextFUN andXperimental Arcade. Here they were able todiscover interactive pieces such as the KhronosProjector a projection system that changedthe spectators relationship with the screen. TheXperimental Arcade was a special games roomin which the latest releases were mixed withproducts rom independent studios, artistic proj-

ects and other examples rom the less conven-tional side o videogame culture.

ARTFUTURA 2008

This years estival wrapped up with live shows, perormances and a well-attendedparty with the organisers promising an even bigger and better event next year,and with GaleraFutura promoting many more aspects o new digital creativity.Among the projects theyre currently working on is a large-scale exhibition inMadrids Museo Nacional Reina Soa or 2008, backed with the support o Spains

Ministry o Culture.

Photo above left:The German studio,realities:united,

developarquitect5uralprojects whichvisually integrateinto the urbanlandscape.Mercatde les Flors,Barcelona

Photo above:La Ballena Building:Mercat de les Flors,Barcelona



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The award-winning

Project Drop HouseThough its been cruelly compared to an over-sized biodegradable cat carrier, you can see or yourselves: Drop House is as alternative a dwelling as youll ever seeon these pages a completely preabricated timber construct, easily transportable and very quick ly put together. So when you tire o living in the same street,just nd a new location, up sticks (literally) and youll soon be home and dry.

Conceived by our young Parisian architects calling themselves DROP, they won their rst design competition in the 2005 Modular Architecture Challengeorganised by Algeco the European leaders in modular construction. The project aims to exempliy private housing, industry and customisation by allying size

and surace constraints, maximising spatial comort and creating a comortable space with a strong identity and character.

Their design recently transormed rom a prototype to a ull size 48 square metre display o elementary architecture is turning heads or its potential tominimise waste, reduce energy and allow its occupants the option to move at whim. The design is weighted along a single central axis with pop-out extensionsorming the domestic unctions: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and entry grouped together in small units that expand the principal volume.

The layout provides maximum space within the constraints o a completely portable steel rame container that can close-up like sliding trellis drawers. Wideopenings allow a visual expansion on the exterior space, preserving its intimac y while at the same time minimising any distractions rom potential onlookers orintruders.

Transportable by road truck as a single component, the only xed parts are its concrete oundations and connections to electricity, water, and telecommunica-

tions networks. When properly sited, the structure presents an opportunity or passive solar collection maximising thermal perormance. The external joinery iscomposed o lacquered aluminium with thermal break and low-emission double glazing while the back is insulated with closed timber cladding on steel sand-wich panels with 80mm rock wool. A distinctive spatial experience adding another dimension to the range o sustainable preab housing.


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GOLD-PLATED DRINKING AND DINING

The Mystical metalWe hear of

grandmothers in

the good old daysreceiving gold shotsfrom doctors for their

arthritis, as well asfor its other supposed

health benets.If gold was good

enough for granny

then, its even betterfor us now.

5,000 years ago, the Egyptian Alchemists o Alexandria developed an elixirmade o liquid gold, believing that gold was a mystical metal that representedthe perection o matter and that its presence in the body would enliven,

rejuvenate, and cure a multitude o diseases as well as restore youth and perecthealth.

In medieval Europe, gold-coated pills and gold waters were extremely popularas Alchemists mixed powdered gold into drinks to comort sore limbs, one othe earliest reerences to arthritis. And during the Renaissance, Paracelsus (1493-1541) the ounder o modern pharmacology developed successul medicinesrom metallic minerals including gold.

Today, gold is added to ood and drink as an eye-catching novelty in Europeancountries including Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy, thanks to a World

Health Organisation agreement to use gold as ood additive Number 175 and aEuropean Union agreement to use it as ood additive Number E175.

sprinkled with gold,

ice cream topped with

gold akes, liqueur with

24k gold!!! What more

could a Diva ask for??

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Heading or a gold rushThe amous Swiss spirit Goldschlger (German or gold lea maker) is a strong (43.5%, 87 proo), clear cinnamon schnapps liqueur swirling withhundreds o ne, visible 24k gold lea fakes. I t orms the main ingredient in 110 eccentric sounding cocktails including Golden Nipple (mix with Baileysand butterscotch schnapps); Fatkid on the Rocks (mix with Gold tequila, vodka, water, ice); and Liquid Crack (mix with peppermint schnapps andJgermeister). Not sure whether to stay away rom that last one or to just drink to them all!

The amount o gold in a 750ml bottle o Goldschlger amounts to a princely US28.8 cents on the international gold market (according to goldprice.org,rates last updated 24/10/07 at 18:22 GMT), so even with a belly ull o the stu, youre never going to get rich; however, since its currently being parodiedin the lm Superbad (one o the characters has to purchase an alcoholic drink called Goldslick Vodka), Goldschlgers popularity is steadily increasing. Itspromoters claim it may aect your equilibrium, giving you a light-headed eeling with the gold fakes delivering a stomach-churning gold rush but they

would say that: gold fakes have no real impact on the body and since the amounts are so tiny, theyre insucient to react with anything.

For the less hardened drinkers among us looking or an equally sensational gold kick , whats described as a precious metal rom our rich land inused intoa premium cuve rom South Arica has just come on the market. Aurum Brut is a hand-crated wine combined with Harmony Pure Gold (Harmony is theworlds 5th biggest gold producer). To enjoy the ull eect o the gold fakes in suspension, they advise you to drink Aurum within ve minutes o pouring(stockists: Wine Direct, email: [email protected]).

Meanwhile, the orthcoming Washington DC Food Saety & Security Summit to be held in March 2008 issued a recent press release tit led Is the Ultra-Luxury Gold Flakes Martini the Next Big Thing? or those who like the best o everything and dont mind being seen in public enjoying a bit o luxury.Made with real 24-carat gold fakes that glitter enticingly in the glass, the Gold Flakes Martini is made with ultra-premium, quadruple-distilled Gold FlakesSupreme Vodka, A guaranteed magnet or eyeballs at the swankiest restaurant or nightclubits ascension to virtual cult status is almost certain asdemanding luxury lovers savour a clear taste superiority. (Stockists: Shaw-Ross International Importers, email: [email protected])

Golden plattersI liquid Au 79 (gold) isnt your poison, thenedible gold may be more to your liking. SaranRisotto with Goldlea is a amous recipe byItalian celebrity che, Gualtiero Marchesi.Gold sprinkled sushi eaten with KinbashiGold Chopsticks is approaching the heighto decadence: these ancy chopsticks comestued with gold fakes between them sowhen you break them open gold sprinkles

all over your meal; Gold Lea Sake being theperect accompaniment.

Ice cream desserts topped with gold fakesare a unique way to polish o an adventurousmeal, as created by a New York restaurantand served or US$1,000; while a Gold Tartinadessert made with caviar and edible gold leais another delectable, super-costly option.Finally, theres simply no better way to impressher than with a luxury box o DeLaes Gold

Swiss chocolates adorned with shiny fakes o24-carat edible gold and to impress him withDeLaes nest hand-rolled Dominican cigarwrapped in 24-carat gold lea (www.delaee.com). Guess were all sorted or Christmas

THE A-Z OF MODERNARCHITECTURE

Editor: Peter GosselPublisher: Taschen

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Selling and hotcakes springto mind or this indispensabletitle covering not only architectsbut groups, movements and styles rom the 18th to 21stcenturies. Unlike most architecture encyclopaedias whichoverdose on buildings and foor plans rather than on theirdesigners, this volume puts the architects in the spotlightand eatures their portrait, a quotation and short biographyas well as a description o their important works, historical

context, general approach and illustrations includingdrawings and photographs.

MODERNISM REDISCOVERED

Authors: Julius Shulman,Hunter Drohojowska-Philp,Owen Edwards, Philip J

EthingtonPublisher: Taschen

This three volume set bringstogether over 400 architecturalgems rom across the UnitedStates, Mexico, Israel and HongKong. Each project and photograph was personally selectedrom over 260,000 photos taken over a two year period. Theteam o authors construct an inormative, lively oral history andportrait o the times, augmenting the photos with an in-depth

introduction; captions on decorative elements; biographies okey architects; and personal refections rom the publisher.

FRED CLAUS

Starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin Spacey,Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz,Kathy Bates

An all-star cast or this timely com-romp in which brotherly loves provesto be something o a sore point. Fred,envious o his saintly, goody-tooshoes sibling Nicholas Claus, agreesto help Nick out in return or a avour.So ar so good until you realise theavour involves Fred making toys, atask he is ar rom capable or committed to completing. WithChristmas rapidly approaching, Freds antics could not only

jeopardize the merriest time o the year at the North Pole, butalso or millions o people around the world. A hilarious cli-hanger to have you chuckling your socks o! .

MARTIAN CHILD

Starring John Cusack, JoanCusack, Sophie Okonedo

John Cusack, regarded as oneo the most versatile actorsin Hollywood, plays a writerstruggling to come to termswith the death o his anc.Finding a six year old boywho thinks hes rom Mars, Cusack tries to adoptthe boy in an attempt to create a amily while theboy, desperately wanting a ather, is troubled byhis Martian roots. With Cusacks sister Joan playingthe sister o Cusacks character, the amily theme

running throughout is entirely plausible andtouching.

DARFUR NOW

Starring Don Cheadle, HejewaAdam, Pablo Recalde

Rated PG or thematic materialinvolving crimes againsthumanity, this documentaryshowcases the eorts o sixpeople attempting to stop thegenocide in Darur and bringhumanitarian relie to themillions trapped in the ongoingwar. A UCLA student with nopolitical experience passes a state bill to stop money romgoing to Sudan while the Prosecutor o the International

Criminal Court plays a central gure in the World FoodProgram. Incidentally, Cheadle and his Oceans 13 co-starsraised nearly $10 million or the Save Darur charity.

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Text:Paul Manchester

can a band signed to a major label beunderground (or independent)? WhileGarage Rock (or its sub-genres like

Garage Punk) is generally released onindependent labels that is a literal ratherthan figurative use of independent.In addition, Indie Rock covers awide spectrum of styles, music andinstruments whereas Garage Rocksticks pretty close to its raw mid-sixtiesroots.For me, the kings of the Garage Rockscene remain the Sonics, a 1960sNorthwest US band that I was lucky

enough to see live recently in NewYork. At a time when the Beatles weresinging I Wanna Hold Your Hand,

I Wanna Be Your Man, and I SawHer Standing There the Sonics werebelting out Psycho, Boss Hoss,

and Strychnine (teenage boysUnholy Trinity of girls, cars, and drugs,respectively).But dig a bit deeper today and youllfind there are real Garage bands allover the world, from Los Peyotes inArgentina to the Frantic V in Greece,from the Urges in Ireland to Muck & theMires in the USA, from the Maggots inSweden to Shutdown 66 in Australia,from the Rockfour in Israel to the

Unchayned right here in England.http://www.dirtywaterrecords.co.uk/

Part 3 Yesterday, today andtomorrow

Today there are many bands who referto themselves, or are described bysome sections of the media, as beingGarage Rock when really theyre notmuch more than indie bands with a littlebit more punkiness (e.g. the Strokes,Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, etc).Indie, short for Independent, Rockinitially was a term for artists that wereunsigned or signed to independentrecord labels although for many years

it has been used as a synonym forunderground music.which in mostcases it emphatically is not i.e. how

Images above:Los Peyotes in concert

Musics MinalmalistsWhat is it about Garage Rockthat can at tract more than 100,000 people to its underground music festivals?We asked Paul Manchester, co-owner of Dirty Water Records label to explain exactly what is garage rock in aspecial three part feature covering its birth in the 60s, through the 70s to the present day.


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Last month, we invited readers to snap a photo of their favourite building or anything that inspiredthem architecturally. Needless to say, we had a good and varied response, demonstrating thewide appreciation of both modern architecture and great buildings from around the world.

The top three photos are as follows:

First Place: This fantastic InterActiveCorp HQ Building in New York City, designed by Frank Gehry one of the leading Modern Architects and taken by Tony Lee from Marbella.

Second Place: A photo titled: Past and Present Distortions taken by Sylvie Chadourne fromwww.visualartworld.com, San Pedro de Alcntara.

Third Place: The Step pyramid at Saqqara, Memphis, Egypt by Glyn Williams from Gaucin, Spain. Photo takenwith a Nikon F3 with tri-X f ilm.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 3 WINNERS! And thank you to all who took part.

November photo contest winners

Second Place Third Place

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From A to BReaching for the skies and new heights of design

Airbus A380vBoeing 787Dreamliner

Were talking about an airplane[A380] that is representingaviation in the 21st century interms o eciency Jens Bischo, Vice President or the

Americas, Luthansa

Photos(thispage)coutesyofAirbus

Virgin Atlantic is pleasedto introduce the Boeing 787Dreamliner as our aircrat othe uture Steve Ridgway, Chie Executive

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Flying the banner Greener. Cleaner. Quieter.Smarter, Airbus the worlds largest airliner promises passengers on its newest feet o A380sthat they will enjoy an unparalleled experienceaboard no matter which class o service they areseated in. The 525-seater, double-deck, our-engine European airliner made its maiden voyage

in April 2005 and its rst commercial fight thisOctober, hence all the fapping and hand-wringingweve been hearing about it recently.

In perormance, specications and cabin comortterms, Airbus claim to have the upper hand statingthat theirs is the most advanced, spacious andecient aircrat ever conceived. They point outthat the A380 has a maximum takeo weighto 590 metric tonnes and a range o 15,200 km.Sounds impressive. Equally impressive sounding

is the planes cabin layout: versatile on both decksand oering more space to rst, business as well aseconomy class, along with wider seats and aisles.

Banging the biouel drum meanwhile, Boeingis introducing its 787 Dreamliner as a state-o-the-art aircrat designed to reduce greenhouseemissions and provide more sustainable air travel.Designed not only with uel eciency in mind,Boeing have made sure that passenger comortand interior design play a key role in improvingthe overall pleasure o fying or its 250 maximum

seated passengers. Using new technologies suchas lightweight carbon-bre or the uselage and

wings instead o aluminium sheeting, Boeing hasbeen able to substantially reduce the airplanesweight. It also increased the uel eciency o itsnew engines, yielding an overall reduction in uelconsumption o almost 30%. Because o the newmaterials, the humidity in the cabin can be muchhigher than beore so providing better passenger

comort.

Heeding NASAs warnings about how increasingair travel could account or hal a degree increasein carbon emissions per decade and keeping theireye on the increasingly heated debate aboutair travels (and air travellers) carbon ootprint,Boeings eorts deserve keen applause sincetheir Dreamliner is a revolutionary aircrat in thisregard. Beore you rush to book your super-greenseat though, be warned: Boeing only went into

production with the 787 Dreamliner in 2006 so itsrst fight isnt scheduled or take o until the endo the rst quarter o 2008, with ull certicationand entry into service due late November/December next year.

So whose jumbo is better?Commentators at the 10th Dubai AirShow (11-15November 2007) placed Airbus way ahead oits competitor, calling the showdown betweenthem very much Airbuss show, especially sincethe ormers showing at the International Paris

Air Show in June. This might also have a lot todo with the act that hal way through the Dubai

Show, Emirates Airline announced theyd put in abig order or A380s and Paul Griths, ormer Heado Gatwick Airport and now Chie Executive Ocero Dubai Airports, announced theyll soon have 26international gates ready, willing and able to landA380s in.

Encouraged by Royal Jordanian Airlines purchaseo 12 787s and not to be outdone at the very sameevent, Boeing and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE)signed a strategic partnership deal or 100 Boeingplanes (comprising a mix o 737s, 787s, 777s and747s). Lee Monson, Boeing Commercial AirplanesVice President o Sales or the Middle East and Aricastated: Royal Jordanians condence in the 787 isbased on a sound strategy o updating its long-haul feet with an airplane that will provide greateciency and superb economics. Royal Jordanian

were the rst Middle East carrier to order Boeingsast-selling 787 so in an industry where the stakes canliterally get no higher, this is obviously welcome newsand a visible sign that the demand or green air travelis on the rise.

Since the two planes arent yet on a level playingeld, its hard to judge which is or will be better:Airbus is touting its greater capacity and customerservice; Boeing its technical and uel eciency. Wellhave to wait and see which o them encounters thegreatest headwind or tailwind, or i other enlightened

airlines are waiting in the wings to compete in thecommercial and non-commercial fight markets.

Image (above) coutesy of Boeing

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Having started enjoying taking photos with his Sony DSC-T5 point-and-shoot camera in 2006,ace photographer Alexandre Duret explains the techniques he uses to create his extraordinarilyunique Wee Planets images, focusing on his spherical panoramas and stereographic projectionsfeatured in Modern Designs THINK series throughout Issue 5.

All these pictures are 360x180 panoramas projected to look like small planets.

To build a 360x180 panorama you have to take pictures on all directions, butnot only on the horizon. You should also shoot the sky (zenith) and the ground(nadir). A missing zenith is not important i you only plan to build a planet. Thisinitial panorama is built rom many individual pictures using specic technicaltools to create control points, to gure out rom the control points how eachpicture should be distorted and to stitch the distorted pictures together.

Converting the panorama into a planet can be done in dierent ways. Firstlyusing the polar coordinates lter o your photo editor or secondly using stereo-graphic projections which usually look ar better, achieved using a programmeplug-in called mathmap. Im now using a DSLR on tripod with a panoramic headbut until November 2006 I used a simple t ripod without panoramic head. Eventhough the tripod wont rotate the camera around its nodal point, it still helps toreduce errors.

La Gode: built from 55pictures.

Parc dpartementaldu Val-de-Marne: builtfrom 50 pictures andhand-tinted black andwhite on hard-to-correctexposures.

Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir: builtfrom 48 pictures, this bridge was inauguratedthis year and does not yet appear on thesatellite maps. The pictures of this panoramawere shot during a 24-hour photo marathon.

A room with a view II: built from 8pictures..

The rst 48 planets (beore February 2007) were all shot with my Sony DSC-T5

point-and-shoot camera. The problem is that there is no way to lock the expo-sure, so the 50+ shots it takes to make a panorama are all exposed dierently.Someone pointed me to a blender to colour adjust a picture to match itsneighbour, even though using the blender to colour correct an entire pan-orama is dicult and time consuming. I then bought a DSLR (Pentax K10D), soall panoramas taken ater February 2007 will be shot with it and Im now usinga Pentax 10-17mm sheye lens. I also use a special tool to copy the EXIF datarom one o the shots into the nal panorama. This way fickr knows when thepanorama was taken and people can look at it i they want.

To view Durets online gallery o over 200 colourul Wee Planets, type in thisfickr link: http://www.fickr.com/photos/gadl/sets/72157594279945875/

Think Again - Explaining last months THINK feature


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A generation which grew up with Sonys PlayStation GranTurismo will need no introduction to previous iterationsof the iconic Nissan GT-R and whos to say that todaysadolescents have wasted their youth fiddling with theirjoysticks? Those of you who prefer the waistband of your

jeans to grip your waist rather than be suspended justsouth of the arse cheeks may have been overlooking arare, performance car bargain.

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The old ormula was pretty eective: start with a 2-door Nissan Skyline coupe, disguise the humble origins by adding aggressivefares and spoilers on every possible surace, t all wheel drive, and stu in a high perormance turbocharged 6 c ylinder engine,which could easily be chipped to yield even more power. The result was an exceedingly ast car with very sure-ooted handling,albeit with mincab ambience on the interior.

For the next generation o the GT-R Nissan has started o with a clean sheet o paper, designing this car aresh, rom the groundup. The design brie or the GT-R was to put supercar perormance in the hands o all drivers in all conditions. Thats a lot harderto execute than it is to write, because most cars providing supercar perormance only do so in dry conditions, on a baby bottom

smooth race track, with a very capable driver at the wheel. However, much o the time the weather isnt perect, nor are the roadswe drive on, and most o us are not good enough drivers to regularly push perormance cars to the limit without pranging them,regardless o how much testosterone we may produce.

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To veriy its claims o supercar perormance its no secret that Nissan hasbeen benchmarking the GT-R against the Porsche 911 Turbo in testing, andon paper it stacks up very well against the German perormance fagship.The specication or the GT-R includes a 473 bhp twin turbo V6 engine, allwheel drive and a 6 speed automatic transmission which can be shited in 0.2seconds via F1 style paddles mounted on the steering wheel. All o this high-tech wizardry results in the GT-R scorching rom 0-60 mph (0-100 Km/h) inaround 3.5 seconds, with a top speed o around 190 mph (305 Km/h).

As part o its design brie Nissan has also devoted signicant attention to thehandling o the GT-R. This includes three suspension settings which can becontrolled rom the cabin: comort, normal and R mode, the latter cateringor occasional trips to the race track. Moreover, with its all wheel drive systemthe GT-R promises to stick to the road in most weather conditions like day oldchewing gum to a training shoe.

One o the signature eatures o the previous GT-Rs interior was a large,centre-mounted LCD, providing a plethora o inormation rom turbo boostto cornering orce. The video-gaming generation will eel completely athome with the bewildering quantity o data in the new

model, as Nissan has enlisted the creator o Sonys GranTurismo to assist in the design o the menu system ornavigating through all o the available inormation in themultiunction display.

Externally, Nissan has created a resh, modern design,without the generic appearance o so many Japanesevehicles. However, the styling cannot be called beautiul,nor is it entirely cohesive rom all angles, notably theC-pillar supporting the rear window. Like it or notthe results are beyond dispute, since the Nissans

aerodynamics are more slippery than a Tefon coated eel,which should result in relatively good uel consumptionor motorway cruising.

The GT-R goes on sale in Japan this month (December2007), with release dates or Europe and North Americastill to be announced. Although pricing or the Europeanand North American markets has yet to be determined,expect it to be very competitively priced compared torivals rom Germany and Italy oering less accessibleperormance. In this raried market segment it remainsto be seen whether the user riendly supercar dynamicso the GT-R are suciently compelling to overcome theless than prestigious Nissan brand image.


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