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Stacking chair
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BENEWORKS
WITH VISIONARY
DESIGNERS.
PAUL RAFTERY
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LENS-LOUVRE IN FOCUS
Theres a significant new arrival
in the post-industrial landscape
of Lens, a former mining town in
northern France. A new outpost
of the Louvre, designed by
SANAA, has landed like a
shimmering spacecraft but
can the dream of arts-led
regeneration make a difference?
Rob Bevan visits SANAAs delicate
creation to see how it holds up
against the gritty reality of the
slag heaps and unemployment
of its surroundings
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DROOG AT 20
Ever since Droog Design burst on
the design scene 20 years ago it
has been hard to overstate the
importance of its humorous and
idiosyncratic take on the
relationship between critical
design practice and domestic
living. Trailblazing a path for
innumerable Dutch designers, as
well as casting a huge influence
internationally, Droogs impact
has been tremendous. So what
now? Grant Gibson meets Renny
Ramakers to find out
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F RoBERT FISCHER
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FEATURES
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REGULARS
RICHARD HARRIS COLLECTION
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OPENING SHOT
Ezra Stollers image of Robert
Law Weeds modernist parking
shed shows that in Miami, even
garages can be gorgeous
VIEW
A Letter from Prison: Trenton
Oldfield, co-founder of Londonbased urban event coordinators
This Is Not A Gateway, was jailed
for his protest during the Oxford
Cambridge boat race. He writes
to us from HMP Wormwood
Scrubs; New furniture gallery at
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REVIEW
Exhibitions: Johnny Tucker
reviews Barbara Hepworths
Hospital Drawings series in
Wakefield; Lucy Williams
collages render high-modernist
icons with care, says Herbert
Wright; Enya Moore reflects on
the position of contemporary
jewellery at the Design Museum.
Events: Gwen Webber reports
from Design Miami. Books:
Thomas Wensing takes a look at
work of influential modernist
firm Brinkmann van der Vlugt
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PRODUCTS
ARCHIVE
Marking two decades of the
singular Dutch contemporary
design collective Droog Design,
our archive feature bookends
the reflective interview with
cofounder Renny Ramakers.
The first extended feature
published in Blueprint, this
months archive article is taken
from our October 1996 issue,
when the question on everyones
lips was What is Droog?
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OPENING SHOT
MIaMI ParkING GaraGE, 1949
The work of Ezra Stoller perhaps epitomises a theme weve recently been exploring,
of how architectural photographers control the way most of us view and understand
a building, since the majority of peoples experience of a structure will be through this
medium rather than a personal visit. Stoller (1915-2004) created many iconic images
of iconic buildings, such as Saarinens TWA Terminal, van der Rohes Seagram Building
and Lloyd Wrights Guggenheim Museum. He also documented a great deal of the
American post-war industry, from printing to Heinz.
Beyond Architecture is an exhibition opening this month at New Yorks Yossi Milo
gallery that draws on Stollers full archive of more than 50,000 photographs. Most are
in black and white though some, such as this 1949 shot of a Miami car park designed
by architect Robert Law Weed, glory in colour as well. The exhibition runs 24
January-2 March. yossimilo.com
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ENHANCE YOUR
ENVIRONMENT
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VIEW
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Above: A culverted
river on the site was
a factor in deciding
to make the ground
level smaller that
the mass above
Right: Exposed
brickwork is used for
the staircase areas
JONATHAN KEENAN
Roger Stephenson
Architects has created a
major new building for music
school Chethams. Johnny
Tucker went to Manchester
to find out the score
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Academic school
Music school
Atrium
Concert hall
Recital hall
Outreach centre
DANIEL HOPKINSON
Music tech
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CoURTEsY PAsEL.kUEnZEL
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Above: Touchscreens
accompany every
display to deliver
up digital labelling
Right: NORDs design
respects the spaces
original architecture
yet provides a
contemporary stage
for the displays
furniture pieces
arent displayed
chronologically
but in sections
dedicated to
construction and
decoration methods
legacy of making things, NORDs
empathy with the furniture is
apparent, as is its understanding
of materials. Having won the double
RIBA award in previous years for the
Dungeness Shingle House and the
Olympic Park Primary Substation,
NORD goes from strength to strength.
This project, spearheaded by the
director of its London office, Graeme
Williamson, serves as further proof.
The furniture gallery also marks
the grand introduction of digital
labelling to the V&A, and grand
it is. For a generation dependent
on products, digital labelling is
controlled by a stroke on a
touchscreen. Freestanding
touchscreens accompany each display,
allowing visitors to select objects of
interest and learn more.
Fittingly, space-age interactive
tables in the centre of the room are a
particular highlight. Commissioned by
NORD, with digital interfaces designed
by All of Us, the two interactive units
are at workbench height, with samples
strewn along the top, another
deliberate reference to the making of
the furniture. By holding one of the
samples of ebony, brass or bone, one
gets a feel for the material and with
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A LETTER FROM
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PRISON
I ANTICIPATED A
PRISON SENTENCE...
ONE ONLY NEEDS READ
SOME HISTORIES OF
THE NATION TO KNOW
THIS IS THE WAY THE
CROWN LIKES TO ROLL
19th-century vault, I was quickly put
at ease when a number of soon-to-be
fellow prisoners greeted me some
coming over to shake my hand,
suggesting their favourite swimming
spots and sharing comments along
the lines of fuck the system. Its been
like this ever since, whichever wing
Ive been moved to; brilliant banter
and gestures of solidarity.
Movement, believe it or not, is
one of the main factors of life in
prison. The Peoples Movement Office
perhaps the ultimate gatekeepers
can make a substantial difference
in the quality of everyday life in here.
Its where visits are agreed,
notifications posted, religious services
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Monolink.
One solution
for linking
and stacking.
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historically the visual arts
have always addressed
death, but Gian Luca Amadei
asks how has design,
architecture and planning
dealt with this grim reality?
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ACHTUNG!
ERIK SPIEKERMANN
Erik Spiekermann
set up MetaDesign
and FontShop, and
worked in London
from 1973 to 1981.
A teacher, author
and designer, he
is a partner at
EdenSpiekermann,
which has offices
in Berlin and
Amsterdam
MELVIN GALAPON
STEFAN MLLER
GLAZED EXPRESSION
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HANGAR BICCOCA (MILAN)
ON SPACE TIME FOAM
Until 3 February
Artist-architect Toms Saraceno has
created an aerial structure accessible
to the public. The piece is made up of
three levels of clear film that visitors
can view from the ground or the brave
can climb on to. Saraceno is famed for
his inventive installations, which
transform perceptions of architectural
spaces. hangarbicocca.org
THE
YEAR
AHEAD
JANUARY
HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON
LIGhT ShOW
30 January 28 April
southbankcentre.co.uk
FEBRUARY
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON
BLUE FIRTh: SAME OLD, SAME OLD
2 February 26 May
royalacademy.org.uk
TATE LIVERPOOL
GLAM! ThE PERFORMANCE OF STYLE
8 February 12 May
tate.org
V&A MUSEUM
DAVID BOWIE IS
23 March 28 July
vam.ac.uk
RIBA, LONDON
ThE BANALITY OF GOOD: SIx
DECADES OF NEW TOWNS,
ARChITECTS, MONEY AND POLITICS
25 March 11 May
architecture.com
APRIL
RIBA, LONDON
VENICE TAKEAWAY: IDEAS TO
ChANGE BRITISh ARChITECTURE
26 February 27 April
architecture.com
MARCH
PALAIS DES FESTIVALS, CANNES
MIPIM
12 March 15 March
mipim.com
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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (NEW YORK)
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2012:
DANH VO
Until May
Vietnam-born, Berlin-based artist
Danh Vo is the ninth to receive this
prize, which recognises achievements
in contemporary art. An exhibition of
work by this exciting young conceptual
artist juxtaposes the historical and
the personal, using arrangements of
mainly found objects. guggenheim.org
COURTESY MOAA
MAY
JULY
JUNE
VARIOUS VENUES
LONDON ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
22 June 7 July
lfa2013.org (coming soon)
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
LE CORBUSIER: AN ATLAS OF
MODERN LANDSCAPES
9 June 23 September
moma.org
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
2013: THE SPIRIT OF UTOPIA
4 July 5 September
whitechapelgallery.org
SEPTEMBER
VARIOUS VENUES, LONDON
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL
14 22 September
londondesignfestival.com
FLOW (LONDON)
FORMING WORDS
Until 17 May
An exhibition based on how form and
structure can be inspired by text.
Selected artists have been invited
to create new works based on pieces
of writing of their choice. The work
on display will traverse disciplines;
jewellery will be exhibited alongside
silver teacups, ceramic vessels and
enamelled plates. flowgallery.co.uk
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
ART UNDER ATTACk: HISTORIES
OF ICONOCLASM IN BRITAIN
2 October 5 January 2014
tate.org
TATE LIVERPOOL
ART TURNS LEFT
1 November 16 February 2014
tate.org
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISA GENZkEN
Nov 17 November 10 March 2014
moma.org
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Sanaa:
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Louvre-Lens is conceived
as a modern interpretation
of the Paris Louvre, with
a central entrance flanked
by rectilinear wings
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Along with football and brass bands, they
like their chips in working-class Lens and
Chez Cathy, a friterie in the towns western
suburbs, apparently serves some of the best.
Cathys cafe now has a new neighbour;
like an alien visitor from Planet Chic, the
Louvre-Lens the first satellite branch of
the worlds most visited museum has
landed in a depressed Flanders mining town
near the border with Belgium.
Lenss population of 36,000 is twice
as likely to be unemployed as the rest of
France. Youth unemployment is as high as
the areas surrounding slag heaps some of
the tallest in Europe as there hasnt been
an operating mine here since the Eighties.
More than 100,000 jobs vanished from the
area at the turn of the millennium.
When Grard Depardieu filmed
Germinal, the 1993 adaptation of Zolas
classic novel of a harsh mining community,
in Lens he found contemporary conditions
to be still so desperate that he founded the
Germinal lassociation to help alleviate
hardship in the region. Unsurprisingly then,
Lens hopes that winning the bid to host the
new museum will transform its fortunes.
Daniel Percheron, president of the
Nord-Pas de Calais region and who led the
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COURTESY SANAA
Below: SANNAAs
Louvre-Lens has a reverse
alchemy, rendering the
solid ethereal
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to costumed balls, in a bid to integrate
into the needs of the town. In Sejimas
own words, We wanted to make a new
kind of public space, a beautiful object that
emphasises the diffuse light of the area.
Museum security will not, hopefully,
put paid to a free-flow in and out of the
glazed entrance hall, which stands in for
IM Peis glass pyramid in Paris. The space
is articulated by curved, frameless glass
pods, like cells in a petri dish. Each cell has
a purpose: ticket office, bookshop; each sits
beneath a metal mesh soffit that oversails
the entire pavilion. Some cells have a
further pod, like an off-centre nucleus.
So far, we are in familiar territory of
transparency and apparent immaterial
lightness, experiential effects SANAA has
been exploring since the 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art at Kanazawa,
Japan. Beyond the entrance hall is the pice
de rsistance the 120m-long Galerie du
Temps, a partition-free big box space for
art containing a 500-year creative timeline,
illustrated by 205 works mined from the
Louvre mother lode in Paris. It begins
with sculptures from ancient Syria and
concludes with Delacroixs Liberty Leading
the People, one of Frances most cherished
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including placing the paintings on plinths
within the space rather than hanging them
on the walls allowed SANAA to take the
radical step of erasing the walls. Lining
the gallery in polished aluminium, each
of the long flank walls curves almost
imperceptibly, and the floor too a gentle
concave rises to a gentle ramp, recalling
in miniature the Turbine Hall of Londons
Tate Modern. This subtle flexing helps
to turn what could have been a shed into
a mesmerising space, top lit at intervals
between razor-thin and white-painted steel
beams.
On close examination there is barely a
straight line in the entire museum, with the
external walls curving slightly in response
to the contours of the site, a former waste
tip with a mineshaft to one side of it.
This is a huge building, says Sejima,
and the site has a lot of historical points
contour lines, the shaft, the topography.
We like to retain these things as much as
possible, to respect them. These defined the
shape. Aluminium, she adds, reflects light
much more softly than stainless steel. In
comparison with their recent projects, the
Louvre-Lens has a good deal more finesse
than the New Museum on New Yorks
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YOSHIAKI TSUTSUI
MARSEL LOERMANS
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in the Far East as the creative director of
Yii/HAN Gallery in Taiwan, Ramakers
has her new hotel. This is set up for a few
reasons, she tells me. One is we wanted
to show how our products can be used
because many people think that they are
too conceptual and not serious And the
second thing is that I want to focus on
exhibitions and debates.
The brand might not be the media
darling it used to be, but it can still point
to a healthy legacy. Dry Tech, for instance,
brought craft and technology together in a
manner thats currently de rigueur; likewise
Do Create remains an early example of
user-centred design. Most importantly,
Bakker and Ramakers were hugely
responsible for defining our perception of
Dutch design, bringing to wider attention
a handful of designers in Bey, Wanders and
Jongerius to name but a few, whose global
influence inspired a new generation to
redefine the parameters of design in a postindustrial age. As Charny eloquently puts
it, Droog was concerned with the liberation
of doing it yourself and engaging ideas and
making, seeing design as a platform for
saying things as well as making products. It
was very exciting.
It certainly was.
IAN TONG
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The inspiration
that flows from water.
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1943 with an earthen floor and no windows
on the remains of a gunpowder magazine
that had burnt down in 1930. There was
neither electricity, lighting nor heating, and
sometimes water flowed through it. Initially
Pierce just added a door and makeshift
windows; he planned to put in a cement floor
and to plant a grass roof later. Schwitters also
asked for a skylight as an additional light
source for the main wall, which he started
work on first.
At that time Cylinders was certainly not
a rural idyll; bearing the scars of its past as
forestry site used in charcoal production, it
had run wild and was now the scene of much
hard work to turn it into a viable agricultural
business and estate. Schwitters felt at ease
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PROFILE
ALBERT
SPEER
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You havent seen anything until youve
sketched it, Albert Speer Jr tells me over
coffee, but then the architect reveals
that he hasnt drawn for a decade. I talk
architecture, he says, smiling gently. What
I have learned is, dont stop thinking too
early. You have to think until the solution
becomes so simple. I used to tell my
students, if you havent dreamed about the
project then you never thought about it.
Speer was in London for the Olympics.
We were sitting on the sun-deck of the
MS Deutschland, the German Olympic
Committees base for the Games, docked
in the shadow of Canary Wharf. Speer and
two partners from his practice Albert Speer
and Partners (AS&P) were staying on board.
The Deutschland is an ber-kitsch setting.
The waiters, dressed in whites and silently
moving from table to table on the deck, could
have walked out of a Berlin kaffeehaus of the
Thirties. Onboard its a riot of mock baroque;
Liberace would have felt at home. It was a
world away from the icy corporate monoliths
that encircled us, and a lot more fun.
Speer was enjoying the Olympics: It is
crowded, crowded, crowded but marvellous.
I was in Beijing and in Munich in 72 but
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his capacity as a member of the German
Olympic Committee; as an architect he was
impressed by the architecture of the Olympic
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Frankfurt-based AS&P is one of
Germanys most successful architecture and
urban practices, and has had considerable
success outside of Europe, particularly in
the Middle East and China, where it has
had an office in Shanghai since 2001. The
120-strong practices work is divided 50:50
between architecture and urban design.
AS&P was probably one of the first practices
to actively embrace green design, way before
it got into fashion in the early Eighties.
Intelligent, sustainable design is an area
where Speer has subsequently carved a
name for himself and inspired a subsequent
generation of German architects, such as
Christoph Ingenhoven, who recently won
the commission to build the new Google HQ
in the San Francisco Bay area.
The word sustainability had not
been invented back then, Speer says, a
rare smile crossing his face. We were the
first green architects. The influential
German newspaper Sddeutsche Zeitung
described Speer as the green conscience of
the industry. AS&P recently designed 400
Passivhaus apartments, which use between
five and 10 per cent of the energy of a normal
house. These are the questions of the future,
asserts Speer, who wrote a book entitled Die
intelligente Stadt (The intelligent City). In
Germany the energy price is so high that
alternative green power is a necessity. In the
Left: A prize-winning
competition entry for the
urban plan of Nanchang,
capital of the Jianxi
Province and, with
approximately 5 million
residents, one of Chinas
growing number of
middle-sized cities.
Right (facing): Local
sandstone panels serve to
articulate the weighty
cube-like Criminal Court
Complex in Riyadh,
symbolising strength and
jurisprudence.
Above: A comprehensive
remodelling of a former
tram depot in Frankfurt am
Main introduced 11
townhouses, with a total
of 156 apartments, all
built to passivhaus
standards.
Right: The Lyoner Care
apartments are part of a
concerted change in the
Frankfurt cityscape, from
office district to residential
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Above: As draftsmen,
Albert Speer Sr and Adolf
Hitler shared disciplinary
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The Chetham School of Music is a
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walkway. The library should become one
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This environment inspired
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of the facade. They were arranged in such a
way that the terracotta panels are perfectly
horizontal and all joints and gaps run
parallel around the building. Ceramic
panels were also fitted to the walkable roof
surfaces, which measure 1,360 m2 in total;
these panels are 50 mm thick and feature a
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raK Ceramics has introduced its
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