February 2012
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Wang Shu wins the Pritzker Prize
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The architecture of the 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate Wang Shu, opens new horizons while at the same time resonates with place and memory. His buildings have the unique ability to evoke the past, without making direct references to history. Born in 1963 and educated in China, Wang Shu’s architecture is exemplary in its strong sense of cultural continuity and re-invigorated...
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Red Carpet Baggers
By Suzy Menkes, The New York Times Style Magazine, 14 Feb 2012
Now when should I start my “Suzy” collection? I have all the credentials: I’ve sat front row at a gazillion fashion shows; I’ve rubbed platform soles with countless celebrities. Victoria Beckham smiles at me and has even shown me her new daughter, Harper Seven.
Would it take any more to turn me into a fashion brand?
The idea...
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Tokyo Coffee
By Oliver Strand, Ristretto/NYTimes 16 Dec 2011
When I tell people that I went to Tokyo to check out the coffee, I get two reactions. One is bewilderment — as if I went to Denver for the surfing. The other is fascination: those who pay attention to coffee know that Japan is the world’s third-largest importer (after the United States and Germany), with obsessive buyers who regularly land the...
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Baudrillard / Moebius
via but does it float
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Composers as Gardeners
By BRIAN ENO edge.org, 11 Oct 2011
About the time when I first started making records, I was also starting to become aware of a new sort of organizing principle in music. I think like many people, I had assumed that music was produced, or created in the way that you imagine symphony composers make music, which is by having a complete idea in their head in every detail and then somehow...
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
Every year since 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the Serpentine Gallery’s summer Pavilion for Kensington Gardens. That makes eleven Pavilions so far, our contribution will be the twelfth. So many Pavilions in so many different shapes and out of so many different materials have been conceived and built that we tried instinctively to sidestep the unavoidable problem...
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The Beau Brummels of Brazzaville
By Tom Downey, Wall Street Journal 29 Sep 2011
The Sapeurs of Congo are the world’s unlikeliest fashionistas, ordinary workingmen whose inspired style helps them survive in a country torn by civil war.
At La Main Bleue, an outdoor club hidden in the back alleys of Brazzaville, Hassan Salvador enters like he owns not just the Congo but the world: Gianfranco Ferré umbrella stretched open...
January 2012
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Viajante / Townhall Hotel
Favorite meal in London. Marvelous interplay of flavours with each ingredient clearly coming through to the palette. European flavour profiles layered with a strong hint of the Asiatic. Surprise flavour combination of the evening, chocolate-mushroom, integrated into a ganache, on top of a rosemary milk mousse
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Tokyo's vertical thresholds #2: Ryue Nishizawa
By Roberto Zancan, Domus 16 Dec 2011
(continues from #1)
Compared to the “public” aspect of the Shibaura Building by Kazuyo Sejima, the private residences by Ryue Nishizawa and Sou Fujimoto presented here pertain to opposite spheres of the urban context. The first is the four-storey home that Ryue Nishizawa designed on a tiny urban lot in response to his...
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Tokyo's vertical thresholds #1: Kazuyo Sejima
By Roberto Zancan, Domus 14 Dec 2011
X–raying the everyday A good part of the latest projects by Kazuyo Sejima and her followers might possibly be seen as variations on Mies’s principle of the plan libre, taken in terms of an open space free from internal structural hindrances. The space itself is emphasised by the transparency of the external walls and the positioning of all vertical...
December 2011
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The Viridi-Anne show invite, fw2008
Kenichiro Ohara / Nign
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Invasion of the $10 Wardrobe
It seemed at first like a strange Japanese version of Gap. Towers of denim bathed in LED light, sweaters saturated in every color, and armies of sales pixies flitting about like bees in flight. But then the clothes sold. And sold. And continued to sell (even through the recession, when sales actually increased). As Uniqloembarks on a major global expansion, Jessica Pressler meets the man who...
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The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained
Pogue’s Posts NYTimes, 15 December, 2011
By David Pogue
In some ways, the most interesting stories in tech for 2011 weren’t the products. They were the companies. Or, more specifically, their chief executives. Or, to be more specific still, the C.E.O.’s’ idiotic blunders. There was Hewlett-Packard’s chief, Léo Apotheker, whose software company background apparently left him baffled...
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WatchMr Chow’s Symphony
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