Stylesight’s Graphics Team takes a look at a series of works by American photographer Nicholas Alan Cope.
L.A.-based photographer Nicholas Alan Cope focuses on architectural and still-life imagery. Employing a monochromatic palette, Cope creates stark, organic visuals. A bold use of natural light and negative space creates abstract scenes based on L.A. buildings. The following series of works come from the
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Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize, announced last week that the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japanese architect, Toyo Ito.
Toyo Ito and the TOD's Omotesando Building, Tokyo - 2002-2004
The 71 year old architect is actually the sixth Japanese Laureate of the prestigious award, following into the steps of the late Kenzo
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Following the collaboration between Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm OMA and Prada for its F/W 13 menswear collection, Studio Job took its turn to partner with Viktor & Rolf for the womenswear show last week in Paris.
In the past few years, runway design has become more and more determined by the impact and visual memory of fashion shows, entailing the involvement
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Last week the Vieux Port pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners for Marseille, was unveiled to commemorate the city's status as European Capital of Culture 2013.
Located on the world heritage-listed port of Marseille, the structure consists of a beautifully simple yet highly scenographic mirrored canopy where the sky becomes one with the water reflections below. Foster + Partners collaborated with
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The Serpentine Gallery in London has announced that award-winning architect Sou Fujimoto will design the 2013 edition of its annual Pavilion.
At 41, Fujimoto is the youngest architect to accept the honor of designing the temporary Pavilion in Hyde Park, London. His project will consist of an ethereal web of 20mm steel poles creating a semi-transparent delicate structure where the surrounding
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The concept by RCA Interior Design student Rob Vinall has been chosen to facelift the Topshop Oxford Street flagship store during the upcoming London Fashion Week.
The brief challenged the participants to design a fresh interior system that would “encourage shoppers to engage with boutique clothing and provide an inspirational and stimulating customer experience.”
On the strength of his experience as a
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This January saw Prada stage its F/W 13 menswear fashion show in a domestic interior that embodies its "ideal house", designed by long-time design partner OMA.
Rem Koolhaas’s architecture firm OMA, as well as its AMO research-dedicated branch, are certainly not new to partnering with the Prada fashion brand: they have been collaborating for over a decade, ranging from store concepts
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The creative director of Japanese lifestyle brand MUJI, Kenya Hara, has enlisted an impressive roster of world-renowned architects and designers from Europe, U.S., and Japan to design a series of downloadable house structures for dogs.
Architecture for Dogs is an online platform for dog owners to peruse through thirteen designs, download their blueprints, and build the easy-to-assemble structures. Pet owners will also
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As part of cultural critic Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture series, Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry proposed plans for a holiday house in Essex that takes inspiration from fairytales, local follies and cultural eccentricities.
The house, due for completion in 2014, is a collaborative effort between Perry and architectural practice FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), and will complement the roaming landscape of the
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The Stylesight Graphics Team adores Bruna Canepa’s collection of minimalistic renderings, reminiscent of Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian.
Bruna Canepa is a São Paulo-based illustrator and architect student, fascinated with space and buildings from her native city. Her diagrams combine clean geometrics with simple yet effective coloration to create these exploded view drawings. With her innovative illustrations and futuristic style, Canepa
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As Olympic news continues to roll in on a daily basis (just this morning the torch was lit for it's 78-day journey) the Active Team has to call out how impressed we are by the evolution of the London landscape as it prepares for this international event. The conversion of unused or dated spaces into massive arenas and multi-use stadiums
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The annual, online Graduate Directory from Wallpaper* features 130 emerging creative talents, recently graduated, from the realms of design, fashion, architecture, visual communication and photography. This year, fashion graduates have been selected by online platform Not Just A Label.
Not Just A Label was started in 2008 by former banker, Stefan Siegel to help his aspiring friends struggling to profile their
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To coincide with OMA/Progress, a major exhibition now showing at the Barbican based on the work and ideas of ground breaking architectural firm OMA, founding partner Rem Koolhaas gave a talk last Thursday evening to a sold out audience.
Introduced by the show's organizer as a "radical and inspirational ideas machine", Koolhaas's lecture explored his assessment of the modern condition, providing
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New York director Gary Huswit has released Urbanized, a fascinating documentary that explores the design of our major global cities and the future of our changing urban landscapes.
Urbanized is the third in a trilogy of films that follows the cult Helvetica (2007) a film about the Swedish typeface, and Objectified (2009), a film on the topic of industrial design.
With over
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Last week saw the arrival of the BMW Guggenheim lab to New York’s East Village - a six-year worldwide initiative that will explore issues regarding contemporary urban life.
The ‘mobile laboratory’ has been designed by Tokyo practice Atelier Bow-Wow and described as "a lightweight and compact two-story traveling toolbox”. It is completely collapsible and can be shipped anywhere, and re-assembled easily.
Over
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