JAY Z ft Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail (Official Video)

 Watch the official visual for “Holy Grail” by JAY Z featuring Justin Timberlake. Directed by Anthony Mandler.

JAY Z ft Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail (Official Video)

REGE PE DEAL by Subcarpați & Argatu’

EN: REGE PE DEAL (King on the hill)  is brand new Subcarpati in collaboration with Argatu ‘. The song is from the upcoming album – PIELEA DE GĂINĂ (Chicken Skin) and “is about that moment when living in a city doesn’t pay off anymore, but simply you realize that it’s much better to move to the country”-Bean

RO:REGE PE DEAL este noua piesă marca Subcarpați, în colaborare cu Argatu’. Piesa face parte de pe viitorul album – PIELEA DE GĂINĂ și „este despre acel moment în care nu mai rentează să mai locuiești la oraș, ci, pur și simplu, îți dai seama că e mult mai bine să te muți la țară”-Bean

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REGE PE DEAL by Subcarpați & Argatu’

Volvo's SPA coupe concept

This is the Volvo Concept Coupe, the first design study from the manufacturer’s latest styling chief, Thomas Ingenlath. It shows off Ingenlath’s new styling direction, which we’ll see debut on the next XC90. So expect features that exemplify what he describes as “the powerful calmness of a lion”, and “distinctive, surprising delight details” on the SUV when it lands next year.

Under the styling, there’s a 400bhp 2.0-litre petrol engine with a turbo and supercharger driving the front axle, while the rear end has its own electric motor. Which all sounds very futurleand, but Volvo’s told us it’ll only supply 2.0-litre four-cylinder engines in its cars in future, either petrol or diesel and appended with forced induction, electric power, or both.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside, there’s a hand-cut crystal gear lever, leather dash, woven carpets, and a big portrait touch-screen in the centre console, which replaces pretty much all of the buttons.

 

 

All images © VOLVO

 via TOPgear

Volvo's SPA coupe concept

Oda Dental Clinic by Studio Meta-

DesignDaily: Oda Dental Clinic introduces a warm welcoming lobby through its unique design. Inspired by ornamental quality of a mouth, Meta- creates a fluid space mimicking a mouth by using wooden stripes as mouth palate, white contemporary sofa as teeth and combined with natural elements such as vertical green wall. The design of the lobby interprets a different way of experiencing being inside a mouth by providing a comfortable space, interactive pocket space and integration of natural color and materials. The essential is to let patients be inside the clinic then forget the typical image of a clinic.

 

 

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via DesignDaily

 

Oda Dental Clinic by Studio Meta-

GAMA - Student Music Club by 81.WAW.PL

GAMA – Student Music Club by 81.WAW.PL

 

 

 

 All images © 81.WAW.PL and OMI MIEDIA

GAMA - Student Music Club by 81.WAW.PL

'Floatastic' pavilion by QASTIC Lab

via Archdaily: Designed and constructed by QASTIC Lab, ‘Balance Through Buoyancy’ is a temporary research pavilion called “Floatastic” which was designed and built for a private client to serve as a shade pavilion for a wedding ceremony. Situated in Edgerton Park, in New Haven Connecticut (an Olmsted planned landscape), this deployable structure aims to create a floated shelter which avoids imposing any loads to the ground, which traditional structures require. Instead, it proposes a well-fabricated balloon, which is filled with Helium to raise the imposed loads of fabric veils and any possible dynamic environmental loads toward the sky.

Buoyancy is achieved through the efficient harnessing of a noble gas. The idea of ‘Flesh’ is explored through the pavilions possible functions and effects, by which an abstracted mass can impose on fabric surfaces in both relaxation and tension. It is within this dialogue of the helium container and the loads that we can test possible architectural and spatial effects, with articulation between Balloon edges and fabric veils exploring the possibilities in which the complex surface veils are relaxed or in tension in double curvature configurations.

Making use of the method of reversing load bearing systems, the form of the pavilion is defined by geometrically precise formwork that is then fabricated with randomly varying edges both for the horizontal balloon and the PVC pipes on the ground to allow for varied functions at different heights, climates and locations.  Since the surrounding environment and microclimate fluctuate in every 24 hours cycle, our studies found that the floating pavilion will experience many buoyant conditions which are unique however steady.

Metaphorically, Floatastic” envisioned to be a surrealistic and breathtaking imitation of the jellyfish that appear alive and tries to swim against the external forces in the water. However, rather than being in the water, ‘Floatastic’ questions its audiences to unconsciously know if they are floating in the sea or on the ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Info via Archdaily

Photography © Net Martin Studio, Brian Lapola

 

'Floatastic' pavilion by QASTIC Lab

The House Cast in Liquid Stone by SPASM Design Architects

“A second home on a rocky outcrop at the start of the western ghats (highlands), Khopoli, in Maharashtra, India. An area of high precipitation in the monsoons, and equal heat during the summers, the site changes remarkably from March to July, with the onset of the south westerly monsoons. Basalt the local black rock of the region is what this site was about.”

The architects, SPASM Design, chose to build the house as an accretion on this rocky basalt outcrop with the same inherent material transformed. An outgrowth which was made of a mix of water, sand, cement and the granular basalt. Concrete finely honed to serve as refuge, to face the climatic changes that the site offered. The house was conceived as a cast for human occupation, a refuge which trapped the views, the sun, the rain, the air, and became one with the cliff edge it stood on. Akin to the growth of a coral, the substance of the walls and roof dictate the experience of inhabiting the site.

“Stone has been used in many forms, based on use, wear, grip, texture. The dark saturated black matt-ness conjures a cool sense of refuge and calm. Photographs cannot express the sense of weight when one approaches, or the sense of release at the edge of the pool at the far end of the open terrace, the feeling of burrowing deeper enroute, past the stacked stones, to the lower bedroom.”

“The house, a cast, an object for living, whatever you may call it, has transformed into a belvedere to minutely observe and sense the spectacle of nature, of shade as a retreat against the sharp tropical sun, the resurgence of life, a sudden Bburst of green, when the hard pounding monsoon arrives, the waft of breezes filling the air with the fragrance of moist earth, the movement of stars across the very dark night skies. To heighten the drama of the the site through what we build, without building a dramatic building.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Info and images via Archdaily

Photography © Sebastian Zachariah

 

The House Cast in Liquid Stone by SPASM Design Architects