The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens

The vertical gardens of French botanist and artist Patrick Blanc--featuring structures covered in orchids, ferns, exotic plants, and epiphytes freed from the constraints of gravity--transform the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into an exotic spectacle to dazzle the senses in The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens.

"Unfinished Spaces" [Norman Foster hand in the unfinished Cuba’s National Art Schools]

Unfinished Spaces is a documentary about Cuba’s Fidel Castro-commissioned National Art Schools, one of the most spectacular architectural "achievements" of the Cuban Revolution. The incomplete five distinct brick and terracotta marvels of three Italian architects, Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti, will now have the hand of Norman Foster.

Foster has been selected to convert Vittorio Garatti’s School of Ballet, partially built in 1961, into a new arts complex in the name of Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta. Foster called the building “an iconic ruin of early Modernism”.

Unfinished Spaces é um documentário sobre a Cuba de Fidel Castro e as Escolas de Arte Nacionais, um das mais espectaculares “conquistas”  da arquitectura da revolução cubana. As distintas cinco maravilhas de tijolo e terracota inacabadas de três arquitetos italianos, Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, e Vittorio Garatti, terão agora a mão de Norman Foster.  

Foster foi selecionado para converter a Escola Vittorio Garatti de Ballet, parcialmente construída em 1961, num novo complexo de artes em nome da estrela do ballet cubano, Carlos Acosta. Foster refere-se ao edifício como "uma ruína ícone do início do Modernismo".

go OEST

go OEST from jimi sibs on Vimeo.

About

T-shirts with Local Identity and Social Awareness

Mission

A OEST decidiu ajudar a ADDHU para combater a fome no Kenia.
 

OEST decided to help ADDHU to fight hunger in Kenya.

Na compra de qualquer artigo é doado 1 euro ao programa alimentar da ADDHU.
Every item purchased will donate 1 euro to ADDHU's food program.

Para mais informações:
For more information: http://www.addhu.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ADDHU-Associação-de-Defesa-dos-Direitos-Humanos/79148803373

Description

Tudo começou com um stencil intrinsecamente ligado ao seu contexto regional. A aceitação desta "simbologia" por parte da população local foi determinante na medida em que acabou por se transformar num ícone perante a comunidade surfista local e estrangeira.

It all started with a stencil linked to its regional context. The acceptance of this "symbol" by the local population was crucial in what became an icon for the local community and foreign surfers.

from  https://www.facebook.com/oeststencil

Carlos Ferrater - Camp Nou

Zaha Hadid - Guangzhou Opera House

Two methods of making Adobe Bricks

Construction Time Lapse: 30 Story Building Built in 15 days [China]

Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus Molten Salt Storage

Very few Australians are aware of molten salt storage technology and how it allows us to switch to 100% renewable energy in a very short space of time.

Russell Beard of Earthrise goes on a tour of Gemasolar, near Seville, Spain - the first Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus molten salt storage (CSP+) plant to produce energy 24 hours per day. This power tower plant produces 20MW, enough to power 25,000 homes but much bigger CSP+ plants are now being in the Middle East and the US that will produce 100MW and 150MW. Even larger CSP+ plants are possible.

Pose and Ewok x Ironlak x SuperVision.

Darling Quarter, Sydney

Darling Quarter, Sydney. For ASPECT Studios from Design By Kai on Vimeo.

Do Ho Suh Fallen Star at U.C. [San Diego]

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2011/09/09_fallenstar.html

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012_Ai Weiwei, Herzog & de Meuron

Ahead of the opening of this summer's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Crane.tv gets an exclusive look at the specially commissioned structure designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The dream design team responsible for the Beijing National Stadium come together again to create the team's first collaborative edifice in the UK. Here, Pierre de Meuron talks about the joys of working with Ai Weiwei, while the infamous artist makes a special cameo to share his interest in combining art, design and architecture to introduce new possibilities and social.

OMA - Plan for Hong Kong

LEARN

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Vhils [Alexandre Farto] - Street Artist

http://alexandrefarto.com/

Grafikis, what is it?

"Grafikis® is a new form of digital art that explores the Wallpaper of free cutting out. They are author’s works which are applied directly on the wall, using a wallpaper with unique characteristics. This project is clearly a new spreading art vehicle and of its fruition. Grafikis® are unnumbered reproductions and therefore they are works of art accessible to every one. Grafikis® gathers several participants, through invitation, like plastic artists, illustrators, photographers and designers. "

See more at http://grafikis.net

What is architecture?

This is a short film by MAYA Design about architecture in its broadest sense.

Zaha Hadid - London Acuatic

The Festival Place at Goyang