Júzcar - The Smurf Town

Photo by Nucamari


Júzcar is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The municipality is situated approximately 22 kilometres from Ronda and 113 from the provincial capital. The town is one of the White Towns of Andalusia, with buildings whitewashed. In spring 2011, buildings in the town (including the church and gravestones) were painted blue to celebrate the premiere of the Smurfs movie

Paris Timelapses

Two great Paris timelapses: the first covers everything while the other focuses on the details.

Wip and Co - Paris Sightseeing Tours

- Place de la Bastille - Place Saint-Paul - Palais du Louvre @ Rue de Rivoli - Place de la Concorde - Ave des Champs-Elysées - Arc de Triomphe @ Place Charles de Gaulle-Etoile - Ave de la Grande Armée - Palais des congrès @ Place de la Porte Maillot

- Porte Dauphine - Avenue Foch - Arc de Triomphe @Place Charles de Gaulle-Etoile - Avenue Kléber - Trocadero - Iena Bridge - Eiffel Tower

- Quai Branly - Alma - Invalides - Pont Alexandre III (Bridge) - Grand Palais - Avenue des Champs-Elysées - Concorde - Assemblée Nationale - Boulevard Saint-Germain - Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Wip and Co - A Walk Trough Paris

Wip and Co

Walking through Paris, from Saint-Michel, Latin Quarter to Place des Vosges, Le Marais.

Taken between 9:30 and 10:30am, so there are not many people in the street.

Music : Johnny B. Goode, by Chuck Berry

Starting in Rue Gît-le-Coeur
0:12 - rue Saint-André-des-Arts
0:17 - place Saint-Michel
0:19 - Saint-Michel Fountain
0:25 - rue de la Huchette
0:32 - rue du Chat qui Pêche
0:34 - quai Saint-Michel
0:38 - Petit Pont
0:44 - parvis de Notre-Dame
0:48 - Notre-Dame Cathedral
0:53 - rue du Cloître Notre-Dame
1:12 - pont Saint-Louis
1:13 - City Hall
1:18 - rue Jean du Bellay
1:22 - pont Louis Philippe
1:39 - rue des Barres
1:48 - place Baudoyer
1:54 - rue du Roi de Sicile
2:13 - place Saint-Paul
2:20 - rue Saint-Antoine
2:28 - inside Hôtel de Sully
2:34 - place des Vosges

made out of 667 photos

BIG + OFF - The Research Centre of the University of Jussieu, Paris

The video for the Research Centre of the University of Jussieu, the competition winning design by BIG and OFF architects. The new multidisciplinary research centre, Paris PARC, located between Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe and the open green park of the Jussieu Campus will become a significant addition to the campus, strengthening the international appeal and openness of the leading French University for Science and Medicine.

As a form of urban experiment the Paris PARC is the imprint of the pressures of its urban context. Wedged into a super dense context – in terms of space, public flows and architectural history – the PARC is conceived as a chain of reactions to the various external and internal forces acting upon it. Inflated to allow daylight and air to enter into the heart of the facility, compressed to ensure daylight and views for the neighboring classrooms and dormitories, lifted and decompressed to allow the public to enter from both plaza and park and finally tilted to reflect the spectacular view of the Paris skyline and the Notre Dame to the Parisians.

Urbanized

From the director of "Helvetica", a documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

Director: Gary Hustwit

OLGGA Architects - 100 Social Housing Units in Caen

100 logements sociaux par OLGGA from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

Architect: OLGGA Architects
Client: Caen Habitat
Images and Film: ArtefactoryLab
Director: Olivier Campagne / Renny Bossu
Montage Intro: Jerome Pesnel
Modeling 3D / Texture: Tokiko Maekawa
3D / Compositing: Romain Bourzeix
3D Animation: Emeline Degand
Graphics: Mirjam Linschooten
Music: Brice Tillet

Such an interesting presentation of the concept!

OLGGA Architects put together this creative video presentation for a social housing competition in Caen, France. The mixed-use building includes 100 affordable housing units, ground floor retail units and community spaces. The residential units gradually stack up to six stories, maximizing the potential of the site while remaining sensitive to the surrounding context. Stepped terraces provide private outdoor spaces for each dwelling unit while simultaneously allowing for optimal daylighting and natural ventilation.

Archdaily

Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye, Poissy, France

Film by Onnis Luque 

Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [sa'vwa]) is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931.^[3]

A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture, and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style.

Originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family, the house fell into disuse after 1940, and entered a state of disrepair during World War II. It passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 (a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time). It was thoroughly renovated from 1985 to 1997, and under the care of the Centre des monuments nationaux, the refurbished house is now open to visitors year-round.^[4] [5]

BIG - “Urban Future” / Design Miami 2011

Architects: BIG
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Collaborators: Kollision Aarhus, Schmidhuber + Partner
Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen
Project Leader: Martin Voelkle
Team: Daniel Kidd, Chris Malcolm, David Tao, Laura Youf, Lucian Racovitan
Client: AUDI AG
Size: 190 m2

BIG + Kollision + Schmidhuber & Partner team up to bring BIG’s vision of future urban mobility to life for AUDI at Design Miami/ 2011, running from November 30th through December 4th adjacent to Art Basel Miami Beach. BIG originally presented the concept as an entry for the 2010 AUDI Urban Future Award introducing a future city paved with a digital surface that liberates the streets from existing boundaries and allows for a new flexibility of public use.


he 190 m2 three-dimensional LED installation provides a glimpse of the future city where the public space is shared between pedestrians and driverless cars. The entire surface would be infused with a continuous flow of information allowing for real-time interaction between vehicles and their environment. Mounted above the Design Miami installation, 3D cameras track the movement of passers-by processing the data into a generative artwork that feeds back into the LED panels.


“Our pavilion for AUDI renders visible the invisible forces that flow through our city – the driverless car is relying on sophisticated sensory and computational technology that constantly observes and calculates the dynamic space that the living city constitutes. The result is an architecture of movement whose forms have not been predetermined by the architect but are constantly being recomposed by the people populating the pavilion.” Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Partner, BIG.


“We have created 190 m2 of future public space around the concept car, visualizing how pedestrians and cars interact digitally. Pedestrians are creating digital safe zones and the movement of the car is simulated, navigating between people. We believe that infusing the surface of the city with information technology will create a new kind of true shared space – a condition similar to a public square. In a single day, the function of the street may alternate multiple times between entirely pedestrian, vehicular, or even recreational functions. ” Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner-in-Charge, BIG.

Arhdaily

Google Maps Indoors

Google Maps has introduced new feature Indoors as logical next step. The videos bellow illustrate the applicability of this feature in airports or malls, and I really like the message that all the previous maps have left you at an entrance door. This app among everything else, for me as a virtual tourist, brings a joy of getting inside of many places like NYC High Line or Colosseum in Rome (that is just is presented in the advert video...who knows what else is there :). Bliss.

Hillman Curtis - Artist Series : Daniel Libeskind

Hillman Curtis is the author of the Artist Series, the set of videos with established and celebrated artists speaking about its work and views on art. Among many interesting videos which can be found in this series on his websites there is one with Daniel Libeskind.

David Hillman Curtis is a filmmaker, designer and author. His film work includes "Ride, Rise, Roar", a feature length documentary on David Byrne which premiered at SXSW 2009, as well as several national commercials for Ogilvy/IBM, online commercial work for Rolling Stone, Adobe, Sprint, Blackberry and BMW and the popular documentary series "Artist Series". He has also produced nine short narrative films; "Bridge", was selected as one of only seven shorts for the GenArts 2009 festival in New York, "Embrace", and "Spinal Tap" each won "Best Dramatic Short" Webby Awards.

As a web designer David has designed sites for Yahoo, Adobe, Aquent, the American Institute of Graphic Design, Paramount and Fox Searchlight Pictures among others.

His three books on design and film have sold close to 150 thousand copies and have been translated into 14 languages.

David Hillman Curtis' work has been featured in numerous design publications worldwide. He has also lectured extensively on design and film related subjects throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. He was nominated for the Cooper Hewitt National Design award in 2009.

He generally goes by his middle name, Hillman.

Spirit of Space - Waterline Chicago

Chicago + Weimar
Spirit of Space

Creating films solely about architecture will bring many benefits to the architectural profession and the public’s awareness + understanding of the value of the designed built environment.

The cadence of morning rush hour reflects the rhythm of the Chicago River, but how often do we allow the river to reflect a wandering glance from us? This "glance" aims to bring to light the potential of Chicago's socially under utilized, aqueous artery.

Isay Weinfeld - Square Nine Hotel, Belgrade

Images Courtesy of Square Nine Hotel

Project: Square Nine Hotel
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Author: Isay Weinfeld
Collaborator architect: Domingos Pascali
Project manager: Elena Scarabotolo
Design team: Adriana Aun / Adriana Zampieri / Ilza Fujimura

SUPPLIERS
Woodworks: Moveis Teperman
Marble: Marble & Granite Service Srl – VR Italy
Flooring and Wood on façade: Indusparquet

DATES
Beginning of the project: 2005
Building completion: February 2011

Ben Mendelsohn - 60 Hudson Street / Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors

Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
from Ben Mendelsohn
on Vimeo.

Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.

Featuring interviews with Stephen Graham, Saskia Sassen, Dave Timmes of Telx, Rich Miller of datacenterknowledge.com, Stephen Klenert of Atlantic Metro Communications, and Josh Wallace of the City of Palo Alto Utilities.

Paris Squares

We start with my favorite Place de la Bastille and continue with Place de la Concode, Place Charles de Gaulle and finally Place de la Nation. Enjoy!

Place de la Bastille

The square straddles 3 arrondissements of Paris, namely the 4th, 11th and 12th. The square and its surrounding areas are normally called simply Bastille.

The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution(1830) stands at the center of the square. Other notable features include the Bastille Opera, theBastille subway station and a section of the Canal Saint Martin. Prior to 1984, the formerBastille railway station stood where the opera house now stands.

The square is often home to concerts and similar events. The north-eastern area of Bastille is busy at night due to many cafés, bars, night clubs, and concert halls.

As a consequence of its historical significance, the square is often used for political demonstrations, including the massive anti-CPE demonstration of 28 March 2006.

Julien De Smedt - Holmenkollbakken Ski Jump, Oslo

Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and a capacity for 30,000 spectators. Holmenkollen has hosted the Holmenkollen Ski Festival since 1892, which since 1980 have been part of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and 1983 the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup. It has also hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 1930, 1966, 1982 and 2011.
The hill has been rebuilt 19 times; important upgrades include a stone take-off in 1910, an in-run superstructure in 1914, and a new superstructure in 1928. During the Second World War, the venue was used as a military installation, but upgraded in the late 1940s. Further expansions were made ahead of the 1966 and 1982 World Championships, as well as in 1991. From 2008 to 2010, the entire structure was demolished and rebuilt. As of 8 February 2011, the hill record is unofficially held by Anders Jacobsen at 142.5 meters. The official hill record was set at 5 of March 2011 by Andreas Kofler at 141 meters. The hill is part of Holmenkollen National Arena, which in addition to cross-country and biathlon venues has the normal hill Midtstubakken.

Sarah Klein and Tom Mason - Sub Cities

A films by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason
Concept by Jennifer McClory


A series that explores that moment of uncertainty and magic that happens when you emerge from the depths of the subway system.

© Redglass Pictures 2011, redglasspictures.com

Paris

Music by Duke Ellington

"Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face... I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion." - Ezra Pound

New York City

Music by Erik Satie