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Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts. The design brand has been celebrating the artistry of traditional woollen crafts for the last eight years, bringing a unique contemporary aesthetic to age-old techniques. Roddy Clarke meets the studio’s founders and explores the mindful and ...
Villa Savoye: Le Corbusier’s exemplary modernist building
Architecture. 20.01.20. Villa Savoye is a definitive example of a modernist building. Set in the Parisian suburb of Poissy, it was designed by Swiss architect and modernist titan Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret. Built between 1928 and 1931, largely from reinforced concrete, it marked a critical moment in Le Corbusier’s career.
From the Archive: A short history of the Sony Walkman
2022年11月15日 · The prototype was based on a tape recorder that had been designed for journalists in 1977. The original Walkman was made of aluminium and the metal case was coloured blue and silver. Later editions moved over to black plastic casing. When it launched it sold for around $150, and after a slow first month of sales the Walkman became one of the ...
Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles
2020年3月31日 · The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. Modernist architecture has two chief guiding principles: form follows function and truth to materials. Functionalism, a term coined by American architect Louis Sullivan, stated that the building’s purpose was paramount to the design, and took precedence over beauty. Truth to materials was a ...
From the Archive: A short history of Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair
2023年7月4日 · Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer was known for his innovative furniture design and use of tubular steel. Though he created many pieces of furniture in his time, the Wassily chair is his most iconic piece. The chair was designed in 1925, inspired by a bicycle frame. It is made of curving tubes of steel and leather slings that create a ...
Modulor Man by Le Corbusier - ICON Magazine
2009年6月23日 · The Modulor Man is a recurring silhouette in Le Corbusier’s buildings and art. Will Wiles looks back at this phenomenal form. In Le Corbusier’s buildings and art a recurrent silhouette appears: the Modulor Man. It’s a stylised human figure, standing proudly and square-shouldered, sometimes with one arm raised, the mascot of Le Corbusier’s system for re …
One World Trade Center: A fortress enveloped in glass
2020年3月23日 · The concept for One World Trade Center underwent several revisions. After a controversial redesign by Childs, the design was further revised in 2005 when the New York Police Department expressed concerns over the safety of the glass lobby. Their initila suggestion featured a protective concrete wall, that was criticised for looking too military.
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic - ICON Magazine
2020年3月30日 · The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance and embodies its creator Mies van der Rohe’s famous maxim “less is more”. This distinctive chair was designed by modernist titan Mies in 1929 in collaboration with fellow German ...
Who designed London’s “wobbly” Millennium Bridge?
2020年1月25日 · Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an abstract, modernist sculptor who often worked with metals from discarded industrial objects. He was celebrated as one of the greatest British sculptors of his generation, and spent much of the 1990s developing what he called “sculpitecture”. The bridge collaboration with Foster combined Caro’s interest in ...
10 buildings by Norman Foster - ICON Magazine
2020年3月4日 · The Bloomberg Building is impressive for it’s innovation and holistic approach to design. For example, rainwater and grey water from basins and showers is used to flush the toilets. The Bloomberg Building was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018. Millau Viaduct by Foster + Partners. Photo by Nigel Young.