Casa Decor Barcelona 2009

Ayer pude asistir a Casa Decor, este año la exposición se realiza en Casa Llorens, finca premiada en 1907 como mejor edificio modernista.

La muestra se puede apreciar en 5 plantas, en las tres primeras encontramos los ambientes que componen el interior de una vivienda, eso si elevado a la glorificación del detalle, en los que puedes deleitar todos tus sentidos, con esta mezcla de materiales, colores, diseño y tecnología.

Hasta el 13 de Diciembre.
Ubicación: Corcega 261(Esquina Enrique Granados)
Horario de 11 a 21 horas ( incluido dias festivos)

LITTLE BOY

Baños Montorgueil en París

Imagina que has caminado todo el día en París entre museos, calles, parques, tiendas.y todos esos rincones donde te puedes perder en esta maravilla de ciudad... y no tienes mas fuerza en tus pies para caminar. Pero has hecho tu reserva en este hammam, donde de repente te encuentras con el agua caliente de un baño turco y dos plantas con decoración inspiradas en el Medio Oriente, donde puedes tomar un sauna o una sesión de hidromasaje, combinado con inciensos velas y relajantes. Aquí tienes el número telefónico 01 44 88 01 78 para hacer tu reservación .

Aux Bains Montorgueil
55 rue Montorgueil
75002 Paris

Fuente:news-e.hoosta.com/.../

UNA HORA EN THAILANDIA

www.silomspa.com

CASA SERENO MEDELLIN

Jaime Rendon arquitectos.

This house is located at the suburbs of Medellín (Colombia), 2,150 meter AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level).
The outstanding visual over the valley (named Valle del Aburrá), and the native forest that surrounds the house make this site unique in its type.
The longitudinal house location in reference to the plot enables walking trough while enjoying the exterior outlook.
The built-in white concrete volume encloses the social and the service zones, as well as the bedrooms. The built-in black stone volume surrounds the master bedroom and the private study (wood-box), both are linked by a iron built-in bridge.
Sun-light and shade splits the social zone in summer time, as result of the patio, the study, the bedrooms location against south and east facades.
At the end of the year, the sun is south located and the whole area has a steady shade over the social zone, not only because of the house location but the native forest sun shade effect.
The entry is a dual connotation, i.e., colossal and tiny, which best elucidates the "zaguán y el alero" (hallway) very popular in the traditional Colombian houses.

www.noticiasarquitectura.info

IGLESIA SANTA MONICA

By Dan Stewart
Spanish firm Vicens + Ramos is a reclusive practice, but this iconic/iconoclastic church in Madrid is hard to miss

The Iglesia de Santa Monica in Madrid, designed by Spanish architect Vicens + Ramos, is a church unlike any other. Clad entirely in weathering steel, it resembles an expressionist war memorial more than a religious building. The completed building was the third design that the architects came up with for the building. Original proposals for a more traditional church in concrete fell by the wayside as there were insufficient funds. Vicens + Ramos’ solution was to shape the church to fit the awkwardly placed site and build it entirely from Corten steel with plasterboard panelling inside. The building is long and narrow, curved to fit the road along its westerly aspect and cut off abruptly at the north-easterly face. Described by the architect as “an explosion, frozen in an instant after detonation”, the sculptural protuberances at the north end seem to jostle for the light, and almost resemble a hand pointing heavenwards. “Vicens + Ramos prefers its clients and projects to remain secret even though it has been designing in Spain since the late seventies” Appropriately, this is the end of the church in which the altar sits. The windows, covered in mesh, form a disjointed pattern that resembles a cubist painting. The architects asked five artists to create the interior fittings of the church, including the crosses, altar and decorative images, and each did so free of charge as the priests had no money to pay them. Vicens + Ramos, which designs predominantly in a modernist style, prefers its clients and projects to remain secret even though it has been designing in Spain since the late seventies. Its buildings include a social sciences building at the University of Navarra and the Las Encinas house in Madrid.

Read more: http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3141927#ixzz0XhVThaNr

The sartorialist

Mas alla del dibujo.

http://www.garyfernandez.net/

Gary Fernandez.

Spanish illustrator Gary Fernández has been drawing since he was a child, but he began to be seriously interested in illustration while working in the design team of the Spanish magazine Vanidad in 2003/2004.

At the beginning of 2008 he published his first book project called “Introduction to Fantastic Girls, Future Landscapes & The Most Beautiful Birds Ever Seen”. It was inspired by the sketchbooks he had been saving for years. A source of endless visual inspiration, this project became the starting point for Gary’s current illustration work. Gary spends his time trying to come up with new worlds full of details, beauty and imagination. He creates environments inspired by the things he loves, the worlds he believes should exist and his life experiences.
When he is not working, you can find him traveling, at a live music venue, in a second-hand bookstore or enjoying a good glass of wine in downtown Santiago, Chile, where has just moved.
Gary Fernández believes in the idea of illustration as a tool for showing the hidden beauty of the ordinary things.
http://www.jedroot.com/illustrators/gfa/fernandez-bio.php