Photography @ 03 November 2008, “No Comments”
clothing @ 16 September 2008, “No Comments”
Comme des Garçons collection for H&M is only to be put out later in the year, but some scans and details from the collection have emerged.
According to H&M:
1. No kids’ stuff. H&M says, “We wanted something for kids, but she [Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons designer] didn’t feel like it, so we didn’t.”
2. The line is, “mostly black and with Japanese tomboy airs, the H&M collection includes a range of tailored jackets, many deconstructed, along with cropped pants, baggy shorts and a variety of skirts in stretch wool. On the perkier side are polkadot knits in jersey or merino wool, colorful shirts - some with dots - and a “showpiece” coat-dress decorated here and there with dense Victorian ruffles.”
3. There’ll also be a unisex perfume with notes of cedar and patchouli.
The collection has so far failed to muster much online enthusiasm, and I can clearly see why. Comme des Garçon’s avant garde, edgy stylings have been completely watered down, to the point where this has become quite a blah offer. Maybe the remaining collection will bring something new and exciting.
Photography @ 25 August 2008, “2 Comments”
more about the holga foto you can click the photograph on main web
architecture @ 31 July 2008, “2 Comments”
Work: Hotel Melia Patagonia
Architect: José Domingo Peñafiel - www.penafielarq.cl
Architects Contributors: Enrique JOGL, Marlene Fischer, Fernanda Krauss, Peter Peñafiel, Sandro Figueroa, Gonzalo Sure.
Location: Street Klenner 349, Puerto Varas, Region X, Chile
Year: 2007
Property Management: Conarq
Land Area: 19.380m2
Built surface: 11.000m2 remodeled, new 4.500m2
Construction: Covalco
Engineers calculation: Luis Soler and Associates
Built in 30 years, the building of former large hotel in Puerto Varas, did not lend itself to the demands of a contemporary hotel. With its long and wide aisles, huge rooms and dining rooms, bedrooms girls with small bathrooms, oversized service areas for current needs, remodeling was a major challenge. When it was decided to preserve the building-because of the image of the old hotel in memory of Puerto Varas-from the architectural point of view we were facing a complicated problem.
An initial decision was to accept the building as it was. Does not purport to make a radical change of style or structure or general distribution nor his personality.
It drew the match original building on areas have clearly oversized, which today could not be done. Major corridors, huge rooms and dining rooms were consolidated as its milestones. The rooms grew by adding spaces between them. The bathrooms were cleared and bleached. All its facilities were replaced.
The garden is cleared, was left species and valuable trees and enhanced its original layout preserving the character of a garden years but fresh and bright.
The decoration work was done with the idea of environment in Patagonia. This meant minimizing the best materials to use, choosing only natural materials and colors, wood, leather, parchment, wool, linen, cotton, iron.
The hotel has two characters simultaneously; vacation and work. However, its furniture and equipment show an image relaxed, loose, informal and welcoming.
Furniture seating are appropriate and to invade. Sofas and chairs are wide, deep, low. The body, rather than sit upright in them, are recuesta, remaining in attitude of sleep. This is the atmosphere of the new hotel. This feeling is achieved in the halls, at the bar, on the terrace or even in the dormitories.
The original building was stiff and hard. The original structure was respected. We used the wood to “soften” walls, floors and skies. The image of the hotel into the street from the yard and front entrance was symmetrical. Added a body of wood in front of the entrance door, a porch turned that broke with the symmetry of access and the street, leaving the hotel in a “behind” a small forest. The building no longer appears planted on the street but behind a group of trees.
Elevation and details
News @ 25 July 2008, “2 Comments”
Want to say is that open slowly