Modern Design Magazine 09 MAR 2008 (Architecture Art Design)

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- To discover a proper design magazin e on the Costa Del Sol is a breath o resh air. I am sick and tired o pseudo-ashion, pseudo-design publications, 99 percent o which are plain ads or tacky restaurants and bloody properties where no one dares to buyanyway. So when I saw a stack o the new MODERN DESIGN MAGAZINE in our buildings caeteria, I was so glad that at last, a kickass magazine about kick ass architecture and design has been born!- http://marbellastyle.blogspot.com/2007_11_11_archive.html

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Briefed by the UKs medical researchcharity Wellcome Trust to produce amajor window display to illuminateEuston Road in central London, lightingdesigner Paul Cocksedge Studio hascompleted this temporary installationacross the full length of the building.Featuring two outstretched arms, themagic skin periodically disappears to

reveal glowing neon veins and arteriesusing a unique electronic materialcomprising glass neon tubes which allowlight to pass through them but also stopthe light with a flick of a switch. Thisdramatic attention-grabber can be seenby more than 1.8 million passers-by eachyear, providing the perfect opportunityto engage the public with the charityswork. One of the hands intentionallypoints to the building next door

drawing the publics attention to therecently launched Wellcome Collection, apublic venue exploring the relationshipbetween medicine, life, art and history.

Synthetic BACTERIA

Wellcome withOPEN ARMS

After several construction delays, the floatingcity of Venice is getting closer to having a 4thbridge across the Grand Canal. D esigned by Spainsmost widely recognised modern architect, SantiagoCalatrava, the new Ponte di Calatrava is a long,sweeping curve constructed from local Istrianstone, glass and steel and its painted red a verymodern design thats intended to blend in with

the nearby SantaLucia train stationand Piazzale Romawhich it links to, making it convenient for travellers whollno longer have to cross the canal or pay to ride the vaporetto.Controversy remains though about the bridges accessibilityto those in wheelchairs so the city council has promised toinstall egg-shaped lifts for the disabled which its hopedwill be more reliable than Venices existing platform lifts. Holdyour breath this spring as huge Sighs of relief are heard formiles around when the bridge is finally completed.

Walking into the sales office for theChicago Spire is like stepping intoa modern art museum. In the lobby,a large egg with white doves restson a blue background, created byarchitect Santiago Calatrava. Thisgushing quote refers to new Condosthat have just gone on sale in theultra luxurious Chicago Spire, US.The sky high structure has sky highprices too: at 2,000 feet, the buildingis the highest residential housing

in the world and with prices rangingfrom $750,000 to $15 million, Windy Cityprices trump any of Donald Trumps!

Were entering the realms of science non-fiction here solook away now if this level of technicality isnt your cupof tea (dads going to love this bit!)Pretty as a picture,this is the largest man-made DNA structure prepared bysynthesising and assembling the 582,970 base pair genomesof a bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0. Havingcreated the whole world of synthetic life, researchersat the J Craig Venter Institute in the US world leadersin the field of synthetic genomics are also lookingto create a living bacterial cell based entirely onthe synthetically made genome. This involves inserting thesynthetic chromosome into a cell and booting it up to createthe first synthetic organism. DNA of what they call Mycoplasmalaboratorium will revolutionise the field of synthetic biologyand defy the natural life system. Though critics of the scienceare gathering and expressing huge interest in exactly whichpart of our bodies Mycoplasma genitalium bacterium comesfrom, this milestone is expected to do wonders for humanityand bring solutions to practical problems including diseases,energy and global warming...

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A double dose of

Calatrava DesignsPonte di Calatrava Venices 4th Bridge!

High ARTin Chicago

Urbantransport ofthe future?Designed as a solutionfor the future of urbantransportation which keepsgetting more stuffed everyday, the City Car concept iscreated by the Smart Citiesgroup at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology,US. The agile vehicle turnson the spot and drivessideways for parallelparking, taking limited

public space by foldingand stacking like shoppingcarts. Theyre powered byan omnidirectional (alldirections) robot wheelencasing an electric-drivemotor as well as suspensionsteering and brakingsystems. With no engine ormechanical parts betweenthe wheels and driverscontrols, the system offersgreat flexibility in designand is a smart move in theway transport solutionsare heading.


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Bend it like. . . .BrooklynFour giant waterfalls will be flowing inNew York this summer as part of a publicart project designed by Berlin-based Danishartist Olafur Eliasson. One waterfall willbe constructed beneath the Brooklyn Bridgewhile others will fall from free-standingscaffolding towers on the East River. Itsabout seeing water in a different way,

said Eliasson when he unveiled the planson 16th January. The wacky waterfalls willrange in height from 90 to 120 feet aroundthe same as the Statue of Liberty from headto toe and have made front page news inthe New York Sun accompanied by equallyexcitable press headlines proclaimingEco-Tourism Falls to New York. The $9-$11million project is supported by mayorMichael Bloomberg whos thrilled that thefalls will rise so high more than halfas high as the Brooklyn Bridge roadwayand visible from the Seaport, from BrooklynHeights and from the Governors IslandFerry, showering water, water everywhere!

Trying but failing to out-smart us at ourown game having seen design plans for DiseoEarles Dubai Maritime Tower, this latest exampleof truly capitalistic architecture is the WaveTower by Spanish architects Studio A-cero. Theproposed mixed-use tower sporting commercial, office and high-end residentialfacilities will be the first on the Dubai waterfront built literally on the

water. A large undulating plane creates a bridge tothe base of the tower, folding upwards as one of thetwisting silk-screened glass sides of the structure.Located in the central business district of Dubai,the tower will be 92 floors high (370 metres) whencomplete. Its structure is addressed through V formunions between individual parts of the plan with thebuildings centre used as the vertical circulation corefor elevators etc. Common spaces create interior skygardens to improve air quality and naturally regulate

temperatures while the silk-screened glass skin helpsin solar control. The building also boasts state-of-the-art sustainable technologies to minimise energyconsumption and maximise water efficiency.

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Inviting us to Seethe differenceyou can maketo help combatglobal warming,Earth Hour at 8pmon Saturday 29March 2008 takesa stand throughthe simple actionof turning offthe lights for anhour, delivering apowerful messageabout the needfor action. Theyaim to capturethe hearts andminds of peopleall over the worldin major capitalcities includingCopenhagen,Toronto, Chicago,Melbourne,Brisbane and TelAviv. Organisedby WorldWildlife FundInternational,the first EarthHour took placein Sydney inMarch 2007 when2.2 million peopleand 2,100 localbusinesses turnedoff their lightsin a massivecollectiveeffort, reducingSydneys energyconsumptionby 10.2% theequivalent effect

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Sleeperz Hotel Manchester, UK

The striking new Sleeperz Hotel will be located di-rectly opposite Manchester Piccadillys busy listedrailway terminus. It eatures eight oors containing94 bedrooms with a multi-purpose lobby, breakastroom and double height entrance area on theground oor, with a multi purpose lobby and plantroom above situated towards the north side othe building. According to Manchesters Planning

Department, It will provide a distinctive newlandmark on this highly prominent site; assist inthe regeneration o the Eastern Gateway Area andcontribute to setting an appropriate design qualitybenchmark or uture development in this locality.

Spijkenisse Compact Dynamic Bus Terminus,

Rotterdam, Netherlands

This design marries lightweight structural ormsto the existing Metro station and sets a new ovoid

glass pavilion against these geometries. Canopies

comprise plywood and stainless steel clad aerooil

sections supported on alternately inclined steel

tube legs and or the external walls o the ree-orm

kiosk building housing the ca, bookshop and

lavatories. Intelligent control systems maximise

exibility in the bus platorms with arrivals and de-

partures announced via electronic screens through-

out the complex. Designed with KCAP Rotterdam.

Stack A Bridge Dublin, Ireland

Combining grace, drama and delight, this ambi-tious bridge design results in a landmark structure

linking Lombard Street and Custom House Quayat Stack A in the city centre. Comprising a simplethree span structure with open steel decks risingin a gentle arc towards the centre, its a simplestructural and mechanical strategy with expressive

cantilevered and counterbalanced supports orthe opening decks. Views o the bridge rom eachbank are dominated by changing perspectives othe oversailing stainless steel arms whether openor closed, with the light changing according to theweather and rom day to night.

Whale Island Park, Tianjin, China

This 50-hectare strip park adjacent to the new Cen-tral Business District o Tianjin eatures water-basedleisure acilities including yachting it boasts a10,000 square metre Yacht Club rowing, windsur-ing and canoeing with associated clubs, marina andshopping. The park is divided into dierent gardens

based on the identities o the associated activities

eg the childrens activity garden with sunken

50,000 square metre aquarium and a promontory

garden or ice skating, model boating and observa-

tion tower with camera obscura.

Chaise Longue: A seat or La maja desnuda

(Goyas The Naked Maja)

This elegant Chaise Longue is made rom spruce

or beech veneers laminated to orm an undulating

plane o resilient timber rames. Four moulds o

subtly diering shape are used to impart a gradual

twist to the line o the piece. Timber veneers an

out at high points adding urther to the inherentspring o the twisting geometry. Whether sitting or

laying, the chaise imparts a twist to the trunk o the

body and a direct gaze rom sitter out to the room,

based on Goyas painting La maja desnuda ( The

Naked Maja).

Fumin Bridge Tianjin, China

Winner o a 2005 international design competition,

Fumin Bridge spans 180m across the Hai-He River in

the centre o Tianjin. The bridge comprises a aring

cable-stayed, tied tubular arch spanning diagonally

across a six lane highway between the north and

south river banks. A tall parabola opens out rom

solid tapering steel legs to an open spiral truss at

its centre. During the daytime the open centre o

the bridge will blend with the sky and at night the

bridge is oodlit with the cables lit in a radiating

shower o silver and gold.

For more info visit: www.clasharchitects.co.uk

1 | Sleeperz Hotel Manchester, UK. 2 | Grey scale renders o Sleeperz Hotel Manchester.


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1| Spijkenisse Compact Dynamic Bus Terminus, Rotterdam, Netherlands: The Netherlands has a reputation or dramatic transport buildings and its latest Clash

Associatesspiky bus station in a Rotterdam suburb is certainly a chip o the old block, BUILDING Magazine. 2| Stack A Bridge Dublin: Daytime shot with cantilevered

and counter-balanced supports or opening decks reecting the marriage o art, architecture and engineering. 3| Whale Island Park, Tianjin China: The park is like a

woven textile divided into dierent gardens based on the identities o the activities, complete with observation tower and aquarium. 4| Chaise Longue: Based on Goyas

painting La maja desnuda (The Naked Maja) and designed in association with Peter von der Osten and Yuchi Kodai. 5| Fumin Bridge Tianjin, China: This award-winning

bridge designed with Waterman International shows o its grand tubular arch with dramatic shot o the bridge by night.

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ofcedABostons leading architecture and design frm

2007 was a record award-winning year or principal partnersMonica Ponce de LeonandNader Tehrani.

They received the United States Artist Fellowship in Architecture andDesign as Target Fellows; the National Design Award in Architecture

rom the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Museum in New York; theAmerican Institute o Architects/LA Design Award or their Helios

House project; and the AIA/LA Library Building Award or their designo the Rhode Island School o Design Library.

The rms work ranges in scale rom urniture to urban design and

inrastructure with a ocus on architectural crat, detailing andprecision. As catalysts or transormation in architecture, the practiceseizes on the challenges unique to each project: the peculiarities

o a site; requirements o a specic program; and the specics o atarget audience. As the oundation or every Ofce dA design, theyinvestigate the potentials o materials and construction techniques

imported rom elds outside architecture, showing the practicesenormous capacity or diversity.

As outlined in our eature on Monica and Nader (see Modern DesignIssue 7, Jan 08, Women in modern architectureat www.d-earle.com/

magazinedownload.html), much o the rms research is dedicatedto an exploration o how to improve on contemporary modes o

construction as they investigate industry standards and evolvingtechnologies derived rom digital manuacturing processes. This ri gour

and sensitivity has allowed them to develop a portolio o projectsaround the world rom Boston to Caracas to Beijing uniquely

marrying local crat and tradition to global and contemporarytechniques, as evident in our review o some o their LEED-ing edge

projects not solely or their commercial clients but also coveringState-side urbanism, institutional, installations and urniture designs.

CommercialHelios House Los Angeles, California

As well as winning last years AIA/LA Design Award, Ofce dAs Helios House project was the worlds rst LEED rated gas st ation or oil giant BP. LEED which stands orLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design promotes a suite o standards or environmentally sustainable construction and it was Ofce dAs unique approachto the design and construction that caught the imaginations o the highly demanding LEED Selection Jury.

Designed in collaboration with LA architects Johnston Marklee and Copenhagens Bjarke Ingels Group, Helios House was conceived as a living laboratoryto stimulatedialogue, promote education and oster discussion on the topic o environmental stewardship. The water, heat, energy, lighting and materials systems o HeliosHouse were built to maximise sustainability and energy efciencies; so an important element o the project was to upgrade the original station, built in the mid-70s,by using recycled old materials and installing sustainable, recyclable new materials including a green roo with solar panels and recycled glass mixed into concrete.

The sitestwo pre -existing billboards adjacent to the bus stop were incorporated into the design, drawing attention to the stations experimental andeducational mission and taking ull advantage o the site to provide easy access or local visitors and employees, thereby addressing larger urban

and social issues. Through the integration o multi-modal transportation, by optimising a strategic setting and by playing on the distinctiveeatures o LAs landscape and suburbanism, Helios House uses design to proer novel urban, architectural and engineering solutions.

It reinvents the gas station experience, restores the antasy and aspirations that gas station design once embodiedand melds design with inventive abrication and sustainable building practices into a multiaceted

communication strategy.

Photo: courtesy of Eric Staudenmaier

Text:Chris Dove


Fleet Library Rhode

Photos: courtesy of John Horner


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Institutional

Interfaith Spiritual Center, Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts

Monica Ponce de Leon once taught at this place in which anyone can be reverent. Bringing people together under one roo or prayer, reectionand constructive dialogue, the design or this unique installation provides or the specic requirements o distinctive religious aiths while simulta-neously maintaining neutrality so as not to bias any spirituality, aith or iconography. Unusually or a community project, Ofce dA took the needso each religious group into account when designing this exible space which diers rom other university halls o prayer which are conceived asneutral, tending not to accommodate the specic needs o a broad range o religious aiths.

Organised on an east-west axis, the space is capped with three suspended domes making orientations towards the east, west and centre possible.Movable seating and carpets can be organised in a variety o arrangements to reinorce the lighting schemes or the various events taking placewithin the space. To that end, the design provides the Center with t wo antechambers that unction as mediators and collector spaces or thevarious user groups. The antechamber to the east unctions as a Blue Room meeting space and small library containing extensive storage units orreligious and ceremonial arteacts. The antechamber to the west houses a oot-wash Ablution/Private Prayer Area oering worshippers a privatecontemplation space as well as a acility to perorm ritual ablutions with storage or shoes and carpets. Nestled between the antechambers, theMain Hall serves as a 120-person Sacred Space where groups come together or everyday events, ceremonies or or a variety o ormal unctions.This Hall is clad in glass illuminated rom behind to create a special ambience or services. Multiple lighting settings allow the creation o dierentcharacteristics or the space, depending on the nature o the event.

Fleet Library, Rhode

Island School of Design

Providence, New

England

The Fleet Library isan example o thesuccessul synergyo preservation,engineering andintervention. The libraryhouses an extensivecollection o art anddesign volumes,magazines, multimediaresources, group studyareas, classrooms andadministrative ofces.The banking hall has abarrel-vaulted coered

ceiling 50 eet high,marble columns andstunning details andis on the NationalRegister o HistoricPlaces. The challengewas to preserve thehistoric character o thespace while adhering torigid new mechanical,saety and accessibilityrequirements allwithin a project budgeto $200 per square oot.

Given the impossibilityo tting the newprogram in the existingsquare ootage, twonew pavilions housingkey programmaticcomponents werepositioned within

the barrel-vaultedvoid o the main hall,enabling the additiono new study spaces,a reading room anda circulation islandmaking use o everysurace and pocketo space to maximisetheir unctionality.Pavilions are conceivedas colossal pieces ourniture raming areading lounge in thecentre envisioned asa collective livingroomor studentdormitories housed

above the library all helping toenhance the composition, characterand strength o the existing hallwithout mimicking or trying to copy itsarchitecture. In addition, both pavilions

were preabricated o-site to allowinstallation and dismantling i needed inthe uture in the most efcient mannerand with minimal disturbance to thespace.

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Massachusetts

Located in a space ormerlyoccupied by the OldColony Trust Bank, MantraRestaurant emergedout o two divergentarchitectural strategies.Though dilapidated andworn, the existing space wascomposed o tall proportionsclad in an extravagantlygrained marble and steel-lined vault replete with amonumental three-oot-thickvault door. Firstly, a simpleapproach to renovation andreconstruction was all OfcedA needed to restore the

space to its original aura andsplendour. At the same time,the mandates o a restaurantrequired spaces o varyingkinds some public, othersmore private and intimate.

Thematically, all materialsused steel, wood, plaster,glass, among others wereabsorbed by methodsconventionally attributedto apparel design orsartorial techniques. Therestaurants service spacesare lined with long, plushsilk curtains concealingthe support areas rompublic view while using thecurtains as acoustic controldevices. Polished plaster-lined volumes drape romthe ceiling in three niches

to conceal all mechanicalspaces containing heating,ventilating, air conditioning(HVAC), sound and lightingelements. Tall metalchain-mail scrims (buildingscarves) line other publiczones, theatrically lit toreveal and conceal collectivespaces rom intimate ones.A glass screen rames theview o a back alley, a narrowurban trough o spacedelicately and surreallyexposed to the lush dininginterior. A laser-scored steelmirror ripples as a oldedribbon behind the length othe bar, reecting a distortedimage o the space to itsaudience. O the variousinstallations, one piecestands out as the main icon:

a colossal wooden structureknown as the Hookah denashions a pleated still-lieinside Mantra, anchoring themain axis o the restaurant.

The Upper Crust Boston, Massachusetts

Located on Bostons historic Charles Street, Upper Crust is designed as both a neighbourhood pizza joint and culinary boutique.Given its sensitive location among other high-end businesses, the establishment addressed this paradoxical scenario through adesign thats at once economical and extraordinary. Exposed to the street through a large storeront vitrine (a glassed-in cabinet orcase), the main dining area eatures a wood oor and aluminium ceiling, both absorbing multiple unctions by way o continuoussuraces that navigate varied geometries in accordance with programmatic, technical and spatial mandates. Cherry wood slatswrap down the wall as wainscot panelling, continue as ooring, ascending onto a communal table or the clientele and terminating

as a higher surace or the ches pounding board. Similarly, a suspended ceiling wraps the existing HVAC equipment, diusersand sprinkler heads, creating a quilted canopy overhead. Fabricated rom laser-cut aluminium panels, the olded and bent suraceproduces a continuous geometry appearing as a single gure. Both theatrical and monumental in composure, the ceiling and oorcapitalise on their relationship with the street to make a strong iconic presence.

Photos: courtesy of John Horner

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Urbanism

West End Bridge, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

As one o the most characteristic bridges in the city o bridges, this pedestrian bridge has the potential to change the tideo public lie on the riverront with its arch making a positive impact on the citys skyline. The bridge works with a string-bowtruss typology, alternating the orientation o the bow above and below the circulation deck to ampliy the gure o the existingbridge. The existing bridge structure is a tied arch utilising pre-stressed arches or the support o a t hin deck. Cables supportingthe light-bridge deck are tension only st ructural elements so the existing roadway and pedestrian walkways provide a balancedload while the open truss/cable structure and the thin deck reduce the eects o wind perpendicular to the bridge.

Installations

Immaterial Ultramaterial, Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, Massachusetts

Drawing on the historic links between architecture and textiles, thin plywood andrubber team up to borrow techniques rom apparel design to discover a new categoryo tectonic relationships. Simultaneously working with and against the nature o theirchosen materials, the students attempted to exacerbate the materialsspatial, tactile

and experiential potential, importing manuacturing techniques to give syntactic andtailored precision to the illustrationsvarious edges, seams and connections. Pleating,darting and tabbing give structural rigidity and ormal precision to their respectiveinstallations.

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Steven Holl Architects Department of Philosophy,New York University

Modern Design Issue 4 eatured Holls much-celebrated addition to The Nelson-Atkins Museum o Art in Kansas City,Missouri (see www.d-earle.com/magazinedownload.html), described by The New Yorker magazine as: Not just Hollsnest by ar, but also one o the best o the last generationHoll has produced as striking and inventive a piece oarchitectural ormand yet it is a serene and exhilarating place in which to view art.

Equally worthy o note is Holls interior renovation project at the Department o Philosophy in the Arts & Sciencesaculty at New York University. The building exists within the NoHo Historic District (North o Houston Street) and thejurisdiction o New York Citys Landmarks Preservation Commission. Its part o the main NYU campus within the citysGreenwich Village, sited on-access to Washington Square Park. Holl was commissioned to design the 30,000 square eet1890 corner building at 5 Washington Place or the consolidation o the Department within a concept which organisednew spaces around light and the phenomenal properties o materials.

A new stair shat below a new sk ylight joins the 6-level building vertically with a shiting porosity o light and shadowthat change seasonally and is designed to encourage greater social interaction. The Ground level, utilised by the entireUniversity, contains a new curvilinear wooden auditorium on a cork oor while upper level oors contain Faculty Ofcesand Seminar Rooms decorated in dierent black and white shades and textures according to Ludwig Wittgensteinsbook Remarks on Colour.

Opened at the beginning o the new academic year on October 2nd 2007, the Department o Philosophy is now aconsolidated new presence in both the city and on campus with the new interiors giving the Department a unique,luminous image in a acility eaturing aculty and graduate student ofces, seminar rooms, a periodicals library andlounge and a ground oor 120-seat cork auditorium. Holl also designed the acultys urniture, coat hooks, light xturesand door handles, taking a genuinely holistic approach to his vision or New Yorks leading academic institution.

Photos: courtesy of Andy Ryan

"University buildingsneed to ocus asincubators orinteraction betweenstudents and aculty.It was a pleasureworking with auniversity that waswilling to broadenits design approachby including ourstaircase that now

unctions as thebackbone o thebuilding," saysSteven Holl.

Text:Chris Dove

Let:Scenethrough a prism,

this dramatic

staircase is the

centrepiece o

the new NYU

building. The

shiting porosity

o light and

shadows change

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This unique tower sited in Dubai Business Bay,designed by Costa del Sol based Diseo Earle,

carries throughout the project the concepto porosity and openness. This concept helpsreinorce the idea o each commercial space

and each user experience being uniquewithin the building. It contains many large

openings corresponding to main entrances,view corridors, and outdoor and indoor activity

terraces. These large, dynamic openings pourvast amounts o natural light into the building

and create unique spaces.

Building breakthrough in

DubaisBusiness Bay

From thebeginning o thedesign process, itwas decided thatthe structureo the buildingwould haveenough depthto allow thewalls to unctionas passivesolar, therebyshielding thebuilding romthe summer sunwhile allowing

the winter sunto enter with itslower angle tothe building ace.The buildingalso containsphotovoltaicpanels or energycreation andpassive coolingsystems such assolar chimneyswhere hot aircreated by thesun sucks all thewarm air out othe building. Thisis a strategy thathas been usedor millennia inthe desert.

Designed asa commercialtower, it willcontain 60storeys o

commercial businesses with 8 storeys o underground parking. Themajority o parking spaces are made up o mechanical, automated parkingwhere one drives into a bay, leaves the car and the car is moved withinits box to a location or storage. The system knows the habits o the userthereby moving a car urther away until the typical hour o retrievalwhen the smart system brings the car near the exit bay to reduce waitingtimes. Imagine being in your ofce, pressing a button and having your carwaiting in the building lobby without having had anyone touch it or stealyour car radio. No more keys to the paint job.

The aspiration o the developer, Tameer Holding, is or an ultra-modernexpression o 21st-century ecological work spaces that can adapt towhatever new work methods are around the corner. The tower neededto express the uniqueness and quality o the companies that would leasespace there. The tower is organized according to movement, where timingand sequence generate random relationships while also providing privacyand uniqueness on each oor.

The tower has a planned completion date o June 2011.

Text:Michael Earle



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Martin KlimasBreaking Statues are a ascinating portolio o photos showing the last moments o clay sculptures and ceramic statueslives justbeore splitting into millions o tiny ragments. And its the nal impact as they smash to smithereens that Klimas so cleverly captures in his trickystill-lie camera action. The simple but amazing eect captures objects in a solid state in which they only exist temporarily blink and youvemissed the all-important moment o impact!

By photographing objects at their breaking point, Klimas shows them with new character and meaning. Last months porcelain statues show themtaking on a sense o motion, almost as i they have lives o their own. Klimas has made shattering art into an art itsel with some o his subjects Kung Fu ghters or example looking as i they really are in erce personal combat.

The Dsseldor artist uses a high-pressure shooting device he developed himsel, ring it at his target such as a careully arranged ensembleo owers and vase while the camera takes a single photo its high-speed shutter released by the sound o the impact. Klimas visualises thecontradiction between the simultaneity o beore and ater, o absolute standstill and movementCapturing this transitory moment is an over-the-top way o dening the photographic medium as an historical witness.

Martin Klimas will be exhibiting his smashing new series in his home city o Dsseldor until 22 March 08. Visit COSAR HMT Gallery or inowww.cosarhmt.com or see our AGENDA or details.

THINK AainMartin Klimas Breakin StatesLihts, cameraSMASH! Photos this page:

His latest:

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Inkjet Prints

depict a series o

ve disintegrating

ower vases, again

shot on impact as

they shatter beore

our eyes the tops

o each remaining in

one complete piece

while the bottoms are

dramatically blown

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We caught up with Eddy in Januaryduring his one-man exhibition ondisplay at the Society or Culture&RecreationCasinodeMarbella

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maki Ar Wi Wd:Eddy Parkies ead-ri ar i ma-aiqe

Remember atschool when

you were taughtto calculate atrees age bycounting the

numbers oannual growthrings inside its

stump? Wellheres a lesson in

artistic calculusinvolving its

most admiredby-product:

adaptable,natural wood.

1 | Tendance

2 | Propecter,

3 | Imagier

4 | Univers

5 | Variante

Photos: 1-5 (Courtesy o Eddy Parkiet)

The natural depth and detail shine

through each piece, bringing out the best

in each hard wood creation in an ever-

changing display.

Artistic sculptor-cum-mathematician Eddy Parkiet has unique ways withwood. His ramed, tabular, kinetic art sculptures consist o highly polished,

geometric pieces o wood with the capacity to renew their appearance in aninnite number o ways. So many ways inact, they can be moved around

into several billion diferent combinationsto ensure you never run out oways to display them and are never bored with the view.

To give you an idea o the countless combinations just one piece can congure, check the mathson this: Eddys 8-piece wood sculpture titled Changementmeasures 27cm x 57cm in size and canbe changed into 10,321,920 combinations! That means itll take 28,279 years o daily permutation

changes beore you see the same image again. On another piece, i he was to change thepermutations every ve minutes, hes calculated that hed reach 95 years o age beore coming back

to the original shape. Genuine Math-magique!

Eddy and his ans are ar rom bored with the countless permutations which can be viewed withineach piece. He had the idea or this concept 24 years ago when originally working as a restorer o

historic monuments, so hes used to changing architectural perspectives and detailed construction

techniques. Following a terrible car accident he was unable to continue his line o work and had moretime to devote to his passion or making wood sculptures.

More thaninteresting, itsextraordinaryThemagic is inside andyou dont lose itits all in peoples

heads, everyonecan nd somethingin the pictures thatothers dont see.Eddy describing hiswood sculpturesappeal.

& Recreation Casino de Marbellawhere we were ortunate to enjoy aprivate viewing o 14 o his speciallyselected pieces, all lovingly carvedout o all manner o light and darkhard woods: Cayenne Sap, Oak,Walnut, Cherry Tree, Elm, Ebony andSycamore-Maple to name just a ewo the mix o woods comprisingEddys one-o pieces. Granting usa one-to-one interview, Eddy washappy to share the tricks o histrade and unusual technique withus, sparing not a second thought todismantle several pieces beore oureyes to show us the magical deptho his creations.

Interview with EddyParkiet

Dene your artwork in a couple

o words. A picture which is anoriginal sculpture within a rame.

What is the idea or this original

sculpture?To change all the curvesinto dierent rames and to showwooden pictures as discoveries.

What are the diferent elements

involved in making them?Theyhave to be very well thought outas I play with geometric gures. Itscomplicated and subjective andvery creative Ive been working onthem or years!

How long does it take to make

the pieces?From 48 hours or smallpieces to months or the larger

pieces.Is there a name or your process?Sculptures in math-magiqueand kinetic art. You can createor discover dierent things movement o all the pieces bychanging them is a discovery. Itsaliveits your reedom to make italive as one o the unique things inthe world.

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Eddys delicate dismantling process involves:

1. First placing the piece on a table or l at surace,

shining a spotlight on it to bring out the detail

o the grain, then removing the outer rame and

backing board on which the pieces are mounted.

2. Sliding the individual wood carved pieces along

long thin wooden slats which hold all the pieces

together.

3. Making symmetrical or non-symmetrical

movements with the pieces in any number o

combinations to make new images: More changes

than there are grains o sand in the universe. For

example, Eddy made a pyramid shape working rom

the centre circle to reproduce a symmetric image

(below let) and an asymmetric image (below right).

4. Each time, Eddy creates a one-in-a-million

design which can also be ashioned into unique

combinations o symmetrical and non-symmetrical

patterns within the same piece.

Photos: 1 - 4 (courtesy of Trisha Miller): Eddy dismantling his 40-piece Cheery Tree Wood sculpture titled Ondes(Waves), said to be a real mandala coming rom the classical

Tibetan, Chinese or Indian language and philosophy o Sanskrit meaning never-ending circle, like ripples on a pond, a long meditating process. This mandala represents wholeness as a

model or the organisational structure o lie itsel: a cosmic diagram that reminds us o our relation to the innite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.

What are peoples reactions when they view your wood sculptures?Many peoplestand and admire them or what they are as strong sculptural art works, oten not realisingthat the individual pieces are interchangeable and that i they come back tomorrow, thepieces will look totally dierent you cant control how the images are going to come out!

Can you describe your eelings or this work?What it is is stronger than me. All thewooden rames can interchange but they never have the same eect or project the sameimage. Theyre dierent, impressive and interactive and are part o imagination and reality.

Why did you come to Spain? For the smile o a riend.

Are you able to adapt yoursel to each situation like a chameleon? I dont knowitsdifcult to talk about mysel...

What new projects are you working on at the moment? Wood can be made thesame as skin tattoos by inserting tiny pieces o dierent wood colour into the grains andveins o wood. Nobodys doing this and its very intensive work so I havent been able todevelop it yet.

Are you a dreamer or mathematician?Im not a mathematician as such as maths is ineverything in nature, even a ower maths is part o my artwork but I place art beoremathematics.

View Eddys wonderful woodworks at www.eddyparkiet.com then make a date on Friday

7 March at 19:30 hours for his jointly-hosted FUSION DE ARTISTAS Exhibition (FUSION OF

ARTISTS) at Casa La Concha, Calle Jubrique 45, Urb. Rocio de Nageles, Marbella. Phone

Milena for bookings on Tel: 646 520 883 and see our AGENDA pages for details.

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WHEN I LOOK AT ITPhoto-sclptres b Madrid-born artist, ISIDRO BLASCO

The art o construction takes on a new graphicdimension in these contrasting photographicimages rom Madrid-born artist Isidro Blasco.Combining architecture, photography andinstallation to recreate images o interiorspaces and exteriors o buildings, Blascosphoto-sculptures are three-dimensional visualarticulations o a particular place that providebroader insights into how we perceive ourselvesin a man-made environment. With little interestin the ormal practice o photography, Blascouses the photographic process to orm the value,shape and density o the nal three-dimensionalsculpture, representing his personal and subjectiveperception o a particular environment.

Blasco starts a piece by taking photographs whilestanding in a xed location so that all the imagestaken at a specic site are rom one point o view.

He then makes miniature architectural maquettes(concept models) beore starting to work on thenished piece, laminating the photographs beoremounting the multiple views o rooms or ediceson complex wooden armatures (the ramework

around which the sculpture is built). Beginning witha single angle in a room or rom the street, Blascoconstructs a new spatial experience rom a serieso altered perspectives, ragmenting the singleviewpoint into a myriad o possibilities.

Blascos work is very much inuenced byAnalytical Cubism. Like Picasso and Braque, heuses ragmentation and presentation o objectsin multiple points o view to provoke change inthe viewers perception. The eect or the viewercan be surprising, disorientating and intimate allat once, a kinaesthetic re-experiencing o spacethrough disjointed photographic mapping.

In his large photo-construction Old City Interior(above ), were plunged into a cramped domesticspace where we have the sense o the make-do,crowded, oten conning quality o much o

urban apartment lie. Building 1, another largepiece, is an exterior view giving us a perspectiveon the hectic communal lie that a Shanghaiapartment house shelters, while Building 8, asmall wall-hung construction puts an apartment

house in the context o the street scene and otherbuildings. Art critic Paul Laster comments: Blascosinquisitiveness and do-it-yoursel constructionmakes his work lively and...generously invites our

curious contemplation. By baring his domestic soulwith lm and props, he transorms everyday lieinto the extraordinary.

Blasco lives and works in New York and has shownhis work extensively including solo exhibitionsat Spains prestigious Museo Nacional Centro deArte Reina Soa in Madrid and Fcares Gallery alsoin Madrid. His work is in the collections o NewYorks Museum o Modern Art; Queens Museumo Art in New York; Fundacio Pilar i Joan Mir,Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and the Museo de ArteContemporaneo de Elx in Alicante on Spains CostaBlanca.

Blascos 2008 tour o WHEN I LOOK AT ITheads toShanghai in China next month in the aptly namedContrasts Gallery whose philosophy is to celebrateand exaggerate dierences while exploring therelationships between art, architecture and design.Blasco ts perectly into this mould and will be apopular draw or ans o Shanghais aspiring artisticcommunity over the next three months.

Isidro Blasco WHEN I LOOK AT ITat ContrastsGallery, Shanghai, April 27 June 7 2008. [email protected] or details or visitwww.contrastsgallery.com

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5.5 designers areadesignresearchandconsulting firmcreatedin 2003 withresearch teamscommittedto discoveringthe

hottestnewobjects , crucial toprogress inthisbusiness . tomeetthiscommitment, theydevelopinnovativeproductsatlow

prices, offering companiessolutions tailoredtotheirneeds. a ndastheiropeninvitationstates: ifyouwanttomoveforward

throughresearch , comeseeus! afterseeingtheirdiverseyetdynamicspreadofcreativity, howcouldyoupossibly refuse?

forafunkyfoursome, 5.5 designers dontdothingsbyhalf!

cinq cinqdesigners

5.5

Text: Chris Dove Images: Courtesy of Thomas Mailaender & 5.5 designers

showing how to accord a second lie to a

productinvolving new ways o dealing with

common objects ound on rubbish tips, on the

streets, in homes or let unsold and stacked

high in industrial sites. Their novel approach

was to neither restore these objects (return

them to their original orm), nor change their

intrinsic use (change their unction) but to

give them a new lie (by standardising the

intervention) through the simple actions that

can be reproduced by anyone or by a new in-

dustrial process. Also in 2003 was their

collection o particuliresin their rst pub-

lication Sauvez les meubles(Save the ur-nishings); many more exhibitions including

the Paris and Milan Furniture Fairs; urniture

designs or Laayette VO in collaboration with

Saguez & Partners; and their design o beach

urniture mobilier en sable(sand urniture)

in 2004. The success o their 2005 publication

Young European designerscame alongside

brazen appearances at the Shanghai Furniture

Fair and Bangkok DesignersWeek with pro-

ductions such as La Corbeille edition o lamps,

sugar handle coee cup and coat-hanger rack,

and design o a home cinema hi- unit or

Oz somehow tted in as well this was long

beore home cinemawere the popular buzz-

words we so requently hear bandied about

today. Three years into their operations

in 2006 saw the team winning the Grand Prix

de la Cration de la Ville de Paris (Paris Grand

Prix or Creation) while their publication One

hundred and one things to dosold hundredso copies. That same year they launched their

hysterically cynical campaign TRIP FOR 5.5

TO THE DESIGNERS DAYSduring which they

queried: What price is it necessary to pay to

live perect holidays? Tour operators do not

stop slashing prices on paradisiacal destina-

tions. But are not these preabricated journeys

pure marketing products which show a

program o clichs even beore making you

dream? This trip at 5.5 is a real concentrate

o holidays. A true one alse journey which

pushes to its paroxysm the holiday discount,

to live at home ater a hard workday(in

other words, theyre taking the mickey out o

here today, gone tomorrowholiday shops

oering bargain bucket discount prices!). And

2007 also saw them showing at the Salon du

Meuble de Paris where they presented their

Style IV range o lamps and chandeliers, and

exhibited their chez droog @ homecollectionincluding their Food Factory Brunch project.

1| Cinq Cinq: Portrait of the young designers. 2| Space design: This bedroom

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1|FrancortPersonalShopper02,04 and13: Presented as a stand at an international liestyle show in Frankurt, 5.5s collection conceived spaces as Twin productshighlighting

the theme o duplication. 2|Vynil+Clock: Black domestic vinyl and plastic wall clock mechanism. 3|Francort PersonalShopper10. 4|Lampe branche01:Part o the

Ordinary Objectscollection o white enamelled steel tube and white lamp-shade, French norm, maximum 40w bulb, delivered with multiplug adaptor. 5|StyleIVLamp: See

Modern Designs Shopping SelectionI ssue 8 at www.d-earle.com /magazinedownload. html or ino on the Style IV Lamp). 6|Cofret4Tasses1000:From Les ditions limites,

the 1,000 sets o 4 dierent porcelain cups are each numbered in series and were awarded the VIA LABEL 2006. 7|PhilippeGhostLamp:Designed or La Source/Flos, this spooky-looking lamp is a 3-legged, double-bulb lamp with a Pansements Bequille perspex chair perched on top and white cloth thrown over it! 8|Mobilier Jardiner Scenette:Made

rom hi-brate concrete, this urniture to garden range eatures grass covered chair, bench and table making them resh, green and 100% unctional. 9|Chandelier3000:This

candlestick rom the Ordinary Objectscollection hangs gallantly like a chandelier as its spheres glow bright warm and yellow.

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1| Ansedesecure 01, 05 and 02: Labelled Ordinary Objectsbut since when have coee cups eaturing handles made rom 100% granulated sugar been ordinary?

2| 70 Pour Bernardaud: Creamer casting n17porcelain crockery made or the Bernardaud Foundation in Limoges, France. 3| Piece Unique Fauteu: Pansements

Protheseda Ssise Assise; Pansements Bequille 2. 4| Deects o Deco: Screw you! This wacky range o cutlery, tableware, glassware and even a TV remote control take designout o your hands and into their dominant position in any household super un or all ages and highly original talking points!

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welikethis guy alot . h is mind-blowing wind shaped pavilion

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Following

our Jantzen Feature in

Modern design issue 6, dec 07 (online at

www.d-earle.coM/Magazinedownload.htMl), one oF his latest

Functional art designs is For a transForMable structure called the M-velope, created to

provide a special place in which to Meditate. the shape and interior light quality oF the M-velope can be changed

by Folding the surFace oF the structure into Many diFFerent coMbinations. each plane oF the structures surFace is covered

with panels subdivided in diFFerent ways. these panels are hinged to each other and to the Main support FraMe allowing

each panel to be Moved and easily attached to the Main support FraMe with pins at two locations.

the First Fixed position oF the panels opens the M-velope in nuMerous unexpected ways. the second Fixed position opens

up the structure More and Many transForMations are possible when the panels are opened and/or closed in diFFerent

coMbinations. M-velopes current Floor area Measures 8Ft and its height approxiMately 12Ft, depending on how the panels

are Folded. the size oF the entire space can be increased by Joining More M-velopes together in a Modular Fashion while

benches with Fold-up backrests built into it can coMFortably seat a MiniMuM oF eight people. the M-velope is designed

with a steel support FraMe and slatted panels Made oF sustainably grown western red cedar wood, stained to give it its

green colouring. since M-velope doesnt require any Foundations you wouldnt even need to obtain planning perMission or

a building perMit to erect it in Most places and as the entire structure is preFabricated, it can be easily transported to and

asseMbled onto alMost any site. a sMall solar panel can be Mounted onto the M-velope, or in close proxiMity to it, iF power

is needed For lights, sMall appliances etc. For More M-velope iMages and inForMation, visit www.huM anshelter.org

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Gb g, c cg, gg g . . . .

what on earth

does it all

really mean?...

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Dont change your light bulbs,change your leaders U2 lead singer and anti-poverty/climate change campaignerBono takes a sideswipe at governments while attending the

World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 January 08

ENERGY CRISISWHAT ENERGY CRISIS?

Things are moving so quickly in the climate change debate that were jump starting this months analysis by diverting our energies tothe issue o energy usage, waste reduction and waste management. Our liestyle and growing wealth have had a proound eect on theenergy sector in recent decades with increasing demand or all orms o energy, soaring oil prices, uncertain supplies and ears o globalwarming meaning we can no longer take unlimited energy supplies or granted.

EU leaders have made a commitment to encourage energy efciency with new technologies, increase renewable energies, replace ossiluels, diversiy our energy supply and reduce carbon emissions. With these goals as his priority on 24 January 08, European CommissionPresident Jos Manuel Barroso put orward a package o proposals saying: Our mission, indeed our duty, is to provide the right policyramework or transormation to an environment-riendly European economy and to continue to lead the international action to protectour planet. Our package not only responds to this challenge, but holds the right answer to the challenge o energy security and is an op-portunity that should create thousands o new businesses and millions o jobs in Europe.

Barroso outlined ve key principles which shape this complex package: respecting targets, showing airness to all Member States, usingcompetitiveness to minimise the costs to the European economy, promoting a comprehensive international agreement to cut green-house emissions and starting work now to halve global emissions by 2050. An ambitious programme, the Directive aims to establishbinding national targets o a 20% reduction in energy consumption with 20% o energy derived rom renewable sources by 2020 and abinding 10% minimum target or biouels in transport.

Three sectors are implicated by renewable energy: electricity, heating and cooling and transport, and its up to Member States to decideon the level o contributions rom these sectors to reach their national targets. Because the drive towards a low-carbon economy impactsall countries, emissions trading schemes within the EU and beyond will help oset carbon use by providing economic incentives to coun-tries making the greatest emissions reductions. Member States will also be given the option o achieving their emissions targets by sup-porting the development o renewable energies in other Member States and third countries in a kind o you scratch my back, Ill scratchyoursarrangement, transerring knowledge, expertise, methods and systems rom one country to another.

THE ADVANTAGES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY

Everyone rom economic think tanks, scientic orums, environmental campaigners, political parties, business groups with vested inter-ests and institutes o higher education have been quick to provide cost-benet analyses supporting their view on renewables, publishingand distributing details o their research ndings in print and on the web beore turning up on endless TV programmes commenting asexpertson energy industry dynamics.

The EU is keen to publicise how the numerous benets o renewable energy will aect us as a society and as individuals. Today, while only8.5% o our energy is provided by renewables relative to gas, oil and coal in the total energy mix, rom a security o supply perspective,renewable energy generated in the EU means it is less subject to supply disruptions and mitigates uel price increases. With a growingvariety o renewable energy sources available, the Commissions analysis shows that achieving our targets by 2020 will mean:

- Savings o 600 to 900 million tonnes o CO2 emissions per year holding back the rate o climate change and sending asignal to other countries to do the same- Reductions in ossil uel consumption o 200 to 300 million tonnes per year, most o it imported making energy supplies

more certain or European citizens- A boost or high-tech industries, new economic opportunities and jobs.


BUT ARE WE PREPARED TO PAY THEPRICE?...

While we start to eel the pinch in our pockets anda prick in (some o) our consciences, householdersacross the EU are already uming at the highly likelyprospect o seeing their energy bills rise seven old

SO WHAT RENEWABLE ENERGYOPTIONS DO WE HAVE?

Here we look at the intermittent renewable energysources including solar, wind and tidal powerwhich will be our key sources o power generationin thecoming decades:

The use of solarenergy has not

been opened upbecause the oil

industry does notown the sun.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,

we borrow it from our children.

- Native American Proverb

the efciency o conventional solar cells but ata quarter o the cost. As Diseo Earles PrincipalArchitect wrote in his recent blog (see www.d-earle.com/blog/blog.html), products like theselight and heat sensitive active technologywindowsor switchable glazingare one o the newwaystohelp combatglobalwarming Depending


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prospect o seeing their energy bills rise seven-oldin the coming years to und the costly investmentsin renewables. Were repeatedly told that investingin renewable energy makes economic senseand at an estimated cost o 13-18 billion peryear, it had better make a great deal o sense.With todays eye-watering oil prices, renewablesare increasingly seen as an economically soundalternative although we can expect to see the costo renewables alling over time similar to t he costpattern o inormation technologies.

In 2007, global investment in sustainable energyincreased by 43%. Market revenues or solar, wind,biouels and uel cells are orecast to increase toapproximately 150 billion by 2016, while recordlevels o investment in wind, solar and biouelsreect technological maturity, a growth in policyincentives and increased investor condence.Conversely, the cost o ossil uels, notably oil, hasbeen steadily increasing since 1998.

Renewable energy sources also contributeto increasing local and regional employmentopportunities with the EUs 30 billion turnoverin renewables providing some 350,000 jobs. It sbelieved hoped? that the EUs proactive policiescombined with national governmentsinvestmentin renewables inrastructure through publicprivate partnerships (PPPs) will provide thesenew industrial opportunities beginning with thetransition to a low carbon economy rather than orradical and sudden adjustments in reductions.

ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTv ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

With the three scary words world economicrecessionon the tip o everyones tongues and atthe top o Januarys World Economic Forum agendain Davos, Switzerland, qualitative not quantitativemeasurements o economic success are neededi were to encourage developing nations to avoidthe unwanted consequences o rapid developmentwhich governments in the over-industrialised Westare now wringing their hands over: zero economicgrowth scenarios were bandied about in Davosbeore we tip over the edge o climate changeimpactaccording to visiting economists andphysicists. Reerred to as green bets, there are bigopportunities or business in adopting renewableenergies: consumers are increasingly demandingthem and it gives companies a competitive edgeby being uture prooedin providing green goodsand services. Even though recent research showsthat top companies arent yet prepared to takeglobal warming seriously, this situation is expectedto change drastically as governments look indetail at their current and uture energy needsbased on orecast population growth and businessdevelopment policies.

in the coming decades:The solar revolution

Solar energy is ree, unlimited and produces noair or water pollution so is a natural super sourceo renewable energy. For obvious reasons, sun-blessed southern Spain is a shining example o aregion o solar excellence with solar power stationsin Seville and Almeria leading the way. Seville inparticular is operating the rst EU commercialconcentrated solar power tower generating 11Megawatts (MW) o electricity enough to power6,000 homes without emitting a single iota o

greenhouse gas. The revolutionary tower worksby ocusing the reected rays on one location,turning water into steam then blasting it intoturbines which drive a generator and produceelectricity. The entire plant will ultimately generateas much power to service Sevilles 600,000 people,making a major contribution to our renewableenergy targets while providing a dazzling ideain a dazzling location.Andaluca is t he Spanishregion with 347,182 m o solar panels nearly40% o Spains total 930,235 m according to theInstitute or Energy Diversication and Saving, withthe Junta de Andalucas Energy Agency oeringincentives both to households and businesses toencourage solar panel installation.

Nanosolar power

And its not just Spain making waves in the solarpower stakes. Solar panels are big, clunky andheavy and require special installation i theybreak, replacing them costs an arm and a leg. Withthese problems in mind, Nanosolar has devised away o making solar panels as thin as paint rom aprinting press. The PowerSheet is made rom a layero solar-absorbing nano-ink printed onto a oil-thinmetal sheet, technology with a key advantage obeing cheaper to make as the process produceshundreds o eet o solar panels per minute soits viable to generate a watt o electricity or lessthan $1. This cheap alternative power source sawNanosolar becoming the worthy winner o PopularScience Magazines Green Innovation o the Year.

Solar powered glass

The evolution o solar-power reveals how aCaliornia-based company has started makingPower Glass utilising innovative technology whichallows transparent glass windows to produceelectricity rom solar power. Manuacturingcompany Xsunx has created super-thin semi-transparent coatings that can be used to createlarge area monolithic solar cell structures thatyou can see through, this transparency makingit desirable or placing over glass, plastics andother see-through structures, operating at hal

- Ralph Nader,

1980

I have no doubtthat we will be

successful inharnessing the

suns energy.... Ifsunbeams wereweapons of war,we would have

had solar energycenturies ago.

- Sir George Porter

It isnt pollution that is hurting the environment, its theimpurities in our air and water that are doing it.

- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

ways to help combat global warming. Dependingon the need o the building, the glass reacts tochanges in light and direct sunlight to becomemore or less opaque like changing rom glassesto sunglasses considerably reducing the carbonootprint that a structure creates. While smartglass technologies will make a huge dierenceto creating energy efcient buildings, theyll alsomake a huge dierence in the aade designpossibilities o how a building is detailed and therhythm created with the enestrations, addingpowerul new tools to the architectural palette.Smart glass or everyoneindeed.

Windy cities

Wind energy is plentiul, renewable, widelydistributed, clean and reduces greenhousegas emissions. As its name suggests, this is theconversion o wind energy into electricity usingwind turbines modern energy-conversionmachinery doing the job traditionally done bywindmills. According to the Global Wind EnergyCouncil, 2007 was a record year or wind energywith 20 GW (Gigawatts) o new installations a huge leap o 30% compared to 2006 newinstallations, meaning the worlds total installationshad increased by 27% to over 94 GW by the endo last year. While this still represents less than 2%o world electricity use, in progressive countrieslike Denmark this accounts or nearly 20% o theirentire electricity production compared to 10%in Spain and Portugal and 6% in Germany andIreland.

Weve all seen rows o wind turbines gracing eldsthroughout the countryside where wind power is

produced on large scale wind arms connected toelectricity grids. At present, t he uctuating natureo wind is being careully managed so there areew problems in using wind power to supply upto 10% o total electrical demand. O course, asthe demand or wind power increases, electricitygenerating capacity at a larger scale is beinggreatly encouraged by organisations including theEuropean Wind Energy Association. In light o theEuropean Commissions recent announcements,theyre stepping up their activities and launchinga Wind Energy Finance Forum or wind energyinvestment as part o the European Wind EnergyConerence & Exhibition at the Brussels Expo inBelgium between 31 March and 3 April 08.

The tide is high

Tidal energy uses the sun and moons gravitationalorces to generate energy as the tide is the resulto their inuences. Tidal power plants require abarrage (a barrier) to be built with gates at t heopening o a bay or river system to create anestuary (a big basin). The gates create dierences


in water levels between the estuary and the ocean enabling thegeneration o electricity. For example, when the tide alls, thereceding water retreats back to the ocean by passing througha turbine located in the barrage, thereby generating electricity.Electricity can also be generated when the open gate letswater ow into the estuary during peak periods o high tide.Tidal energy has major economic and environmental benets:

probably be built at Hinkley Point on theBristol Channel coast o Somerset in Englandare being watched closely, especially dueto ears about leukaemia or people livingnear power plants. Commercial interests arepowering French company EDF as the worldsleading nuclear investor yet with nuclear saidto mitigate around only 2% o energy and ash i d b l h l


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it doesnt require any uel, tides rise and all every day in aconsistent pattern, the economic lie o a tidal power plant is 75to 100 years compared with the 35 years o a conventional ossiluel plant and tidal energy is clean and renewable.

With these numerous advantages in mind, the UK is building agiant barrage across the Severn Estuary which already boasts thesecond highest tidal range in the world. Harnessing its powerwill provide up to 10% o the UKs electricity supply by 2012 (orour non-UK readers, the Severn Estuary is the stretch o waterdividing Wales rom South-West England). The 10bn (7.4bn)10-mile (16km) barrage between Lavernock Point near Cardi toBrean Down in Somerset has lots o support with equal numbers

o environmentalists disapproving. While this support to theUKs energy needs is welcome, this is a special conservationarea and a unique habitat or wildlie, providing ood or 63,000migratory and wintering water birds. This could be irreversiblychanged by such a massive project with tree huggers earingthe potential loss o such a unique eature o our bioregion. Talkabout damned i we do, damned i we dont it seems that nomatter how much we try to do the right (green) thingrom theoptions open to us, theyre potentially dangerous to somethingor someone to either the planet or ourselves.

Braced or biouels

An increasingly popular orm o clean transport uel whichhas seen revolutions in car design, biouels are produced rombiological raw materials including plants and crops like sugarcane, sugar beet, starch (corn or maize) which, when combinedwith ermented yeast produce ethanol (ethyl alcohol) ie liquiduels. Natural plant oils can be burned directly in a diesel engineand these oils can also be chemically processed to producebiodiesel. While a Greenpeace statement on 15 January 08pointed out that there is as yet no criteria or ensuring biouelscome rom well-managed sources, biouel industries are

expanding in Europe, Asia and South America.

Within the EU, its updated biouels directive has set 2010 asthe goal by which time each Member State should achieve atleast 5.75% biouel usage o all used trafc uel increasingto 10% by 2020. As o January 08 however, these aims arebeing reconsidered in light o recent environmental and socialconcerns associated with biouels including rapidly rising oodprices and deorestation reports warning that some biouelsbarely cut emissions at all and others can lead to rainorestdestruction, driving up ood prices or prompting rich rms todrive poor people o their land to convert it to uel crops. Wehave seen that the environmental problems caused by biouelsand also the social problems are bigger than we thought theywere. So we have to move very careullycommented EUEnvironment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. We have to havecriteria or sustainability, including social and environmentalissues, because there are some benets rom biouels.

Nuclear gets the nod

Nuclear energy is produced when a ssile material such asuranium-235 (235U) is concentrated such that nuclear ssionb

takes place in a controlled chain reaction and creates heat whichis used to boil water and drive a steam turbine to generateelectricity. Currently providing 7% o the worlds energy and

16% o the worlds electricity, as an alternative to coal burningits gaining growing groups o ans. The UK governmenthas recently announced a big push or nukes to providesecure, clean, aordable energyaccording to Britains EnergySecretary John Hammond, with nuclear being in the publicinterest.

Greenpeace have grave doubts though, criticising theGovernments love aair with the nuclear industry andpointing out that Nuclear will make no contribution toour electricity until years ater the energy gapneeds to bedealt with. Nuclear power wont stop climate change: evenwith ten new reactors, nuclear could only deliver a our percent cut in carbon emissions some time ater 2025. Nuclearpower wont ensure uel security: Nuclear only produceselectricity. Most o our oil and gas is or heat and transport.Nuclear is irrelevant.Greenpeace are already taking the UKgovernment to the EU courts or illegally burying nuclearwaste under the Irish Sea, so the announcement that therst o a new generation o civic nuclear power stations will

HOW SEVILLES SOLAR TOWERWORKS (Source: BBC Science)

1. The solar tower is 115m (377t) tall andsurrounded by 600 steel reectors (calledheliostats). They track the sun and directits rays to a heat exchanger (receiver) atthe top o the tower.2. The receiver converts concentratedsolar energy rom the heliostats intosteam.

3. Steam is stored in tanks and used todrive turbines that produce electricity orSevilles residents.

theres estimated to be only enough nuclearto power base energy needs or 48 years,urther investment in this power source isnecessarily o major interest.

Watt rain power???

Inhabitants o cold, damp countries cannally eel their climatic conditions havea viable, earth-saving purpose: one o thelatest, greenest energy harvesting techniquesinvolves converting the mechanical energyrom alling raindrops into electricity. A team

rom CEA/Leti-Minatec (Europes top centreor innovation and expertise in micro andnanotechnology) has published a studyin physics journal Smart Materials andStructuresdemonstrating the possibility orecovering kinetic energy rom the impacto a raindrop. To measure such energy, theybuilt a rain-catcher which allows them tocontrol the amount o water alling on topo a piezoelectric material (a material ableto convert mechanical energy into electricalenergy). Their ndings showed slow allingdroplets produce more energy than highalling droplets and the larger the waterdroplet, the more energy generated with 1droplet generating between 1 microwatt and12 milliwatts, and that or every square metreo surace the process could generate about1 watt-hour per year. While this outlandishidea isnt going to power your iPod anytimesoon, theres ample room or progress:supporters o this airly new technologyremind us it wasnt so long ago that solar

power was derided as an insignicant sourceo renewable energy. Look how ar wevecome since then.

Waste not, want not

Waste management is the key plank inthe battle to reduce energy consumption.Thankully, the new 3 Rs are beingcommunicated to school kids and adultsalike: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. A simpleprinciple yet many people think reducingwaste is someone elses concern as theycontinue to litter streets, reuse to recycleand are happy dumping illegal or hazardouswaste into rivers including greenhouseemitting ridges and appliances suchas mobile phones all this while localauthorities provide special waste disposalunits and recycling plants. Again, accordingto the 2007 Sustainability Report by MlagaUniversity, the amount o rubbish weveproduced in the past seven years has

increased by just over 50%. Say no more.

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R HrsMan and natre lands in CAC Mlaa One of the most inflential American artists on the international art scene.

CAC Mlaga is the venue everyones heading to this month or amedNew York artist Roni Horns rst solo exhibition in Spain, compiled dur-ing the last decade and titled Man and nature.

Horn explores the mutable nature o art through sculptures, workson paper, photography and books, describing drawing as the keyactivity in all her work since drawing is about composing relationships,allowing her to concentrate on the materiality o the objects depicted.Horn crats complex relationships between the viewer and her workby installing a single piece on opposing walls, in adjoining rooms orthroughout a series o buildings. Describing her artworks as site-dependent and expanding the idea o site-specicity associated withMinimalism, Horns work embodies the cyclical relationship betweenhumankind and nature a mirror-like relationship in which we at-tempt to remake nature in our own image. As such, CAC Mlaga is anentirely appropriate setting or Man and naturewith its naturally warmenvironment bringing out strange sensations and a surprising attrac-tion in the viewer, especially as she ocuses on key issues surroundingemininity and human relationships.

The guiding thread throughout the exhibition is the portrait a me-dium she has developed to its ull potential in recent years. She is as-cinated by individuality and in the particular rather than the general,

the real, identiable woman above the others. This seemingly simpleimage masks a complex process o observation and documentation o

human experiences and memories which, through her painstak-ing, meticulous work capture the tiniest, most imperceptiblechanges in reality, highlighting the importance o observation andperception.

Her CAC exhibition hosts gems including one o her most amousand recognised, Doubt by Waterconsisting o twelve images pro-duced as six double-sided photographs mounted on aluminiumstands. Their contents include ice, a portrait o a young personand the heads o several stued birds so lielike that spectatorseasily become conused as to the nature o what they are seeing.As much in this work as in others, water is an element to which theartist constantly returns. As she hersel says, Aside rom the physi-cal, sensual reality o water, the thing that I love is its paradoxicalnatureI never intended to have water in everything I do, but Ialmost eel that I rediscover it again and again.

Besides viewing the photographs and installations, CAC visitorscan consult two o her latest publications: Index Cixousinspiredby author Hlne Cixous and Weather Reports You, dened asa collective portrait o Iceland, a land she knows to perectionthrough her personal and poetic reerences to the country withwhich she maintains close contact, and whose scenery and isola-

tion rom the rest o the world have been a decisive inuence onthe evolution o her work.

Man and Naturerunstill 30 March 08 visitwww.cacmalaga.orgor details o openinghours. Roni will also beexhibiting in LondonsTate Gallery o ModernArt in February 2009 plenty o advancewarning or ans who

just cant get enougho her!



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Jean-CharlesdeCastelbajacAhead of his 60th birthday next year, we prole the work of fashions most inspiring,

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youthful designers whos long been giving the competition a run for their money.

It must have been his 1967 encounter with the Dada Movement that put Jean-Charles de Castelbajac on theroad to eccentric creativity. Dadaism is the collective name or a group o 1920s anti-war campaigners who

rejected the prevailing standards in art through their anti-art cultural works. Anti-art works like JC crating acoat jacket out o his boarding school blanket an act which got people talking about his impeccable cutting

and sewing skills, making him instantly amous and creating the impetus or his much-loved plaid patterns.

By 1969, JC hosted his own rst ashion show using unusual abrics to say the least: oor cloths, sponges,oilskin cloths, cuts o camouage material while the same year dressing the likes o Jimmy Page or a LedZeppelin concert at Londons Olympia. Perhaps this is what earned him his rst Elle magazine cover shot ayear later at the age o just 20. Creating singular pieces or the likes o MaxMara and Sportmax earned him

international status as the new Courrges o the 70sand his interactions with important avant-garde artists,designers and musicians including Robert Mapplethorpe, Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, The Sex

Pistols, Andy Warhol and Elton John immersed him in the broadest social and business collaborations everexperienced by a Couturier.

A material alchemist, JC has un transorming dust cloths, bandages, even Teddy Bears into clothes worthyo true museum pieces. He takes his love o colours rom the playul world o a child and his quirky approach

gives his creations a unique reshness and innocence. Designing Kappa ootball shorts or the LA Olympicsand opening his rst shop in Japan with sell-out ashion show to an unprecedented 10,000-strong crowd in

1977 catapulted him urther into the international limelight. This enabled him to create his own companynamed, unsurprisingly, Jean-Charles de Castelbajacalong with receiving an invitation to mingle among other

heavyweight designers as a member o the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Couture.

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A sweater ull o gloves

comes in handy in JCs

wacky Accumulation

collection

2 | Robe dress with Keith

Haring, 1990

3 | Not yet in the shops,

The Smileyhooded

micro-mini is part o hisorthcoming collection

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With his vision and uncanny ability to predict social change anduture trends, JCs ever-youthul eye clearly understands thesynergy o sport and ashion. Hes creating skiwear or Rossignolcombining technology and ashion, an outdoor trekkingcollection was launched in 2006, as well as a tennis collection orLe Coq Sporti with dance wear and more ootball gear to ollow.Having dressed up Sarah Jessica Parker in hit TV series Sex And


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An icon o his time, JC orged his own creative path throughoutthe 80s and 90s: teaching in Vienna; exhibiting in New York andLondons Victoria & Albert Museum; painting dresses or LoulouPicasso; designing Tributedresses eaturing Mickey Mouse andKing Louis XVI; and collaborating with cult artist/social activistKeith Haring and American grafti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat indesigning a hip new line o Graftidresses. It was at this timehe started working on his Accumulationcollection a bizarrerange o coats, jackets and jumpers draped in gloves, socks andFrench berets. He even designed new Ministerial clothing orPope John Paul II and 5,000 clergymen, this liturgical designmaking its public inauguration during the 1997 World YouthDayin Paris.

From his spectacular year 2000 hype showlaunching hisAutumn/Winter ready-to-wear collection in ex-French PresidentMitterrands metro station, to the opening o his rst Parisianconcept store, to the launch o his rst perume doudou(thebottle was designed like a translucent red hot water bottle andwon a 2001 Design Prize), JC always transports our imaginationslike a magician to his universe rich in colour and emotion.Takinginspiration rom the world o the Maison, JCs interest is alsodrawn to designing carpets, armchairs and lamps with renowncompanies including Ligne Roset.

The City; written a antastic noveltitled Eneco; launched hisown short lm Htel Kittyornia; eatured in the 2006 Popagandaexhibition at Londons V&A; and launched a new Denimcollectionor Lee Cooper, JCs expanding his portolio urther and wider.

Hes launched a line o gooy accessories in his Toy-Toycollection eaturing a cotton sports bag, lightweighttravel trolley, must-have iPod case and pocket wallet eachtagged with unny messages like Fashion is totally addictiveandAbuse o credit cards causes a phone call rom the bank. And asa very public mark o respect, he became the ascinating subject

o a Paris Fashion Museum retrospective last year, celebrating his40 years helping celebrities the world over to look good and eelgreat in his unusual, attention-grabbing outts.

1 | A group photo in tribute to Andy Warhol

2 | The Dogmanwas part o the 2007 exhibition in Muse Galleria

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