a classic! m.
Medium: Cut-and-pasted paper with watercolor, ink, gouache and color pencil on gelatin silver photograph (aerial view of London)
WEBSITE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
12.28.17 DREAMHOST TOASTED MY BELOVED WEBSITE — I’M WORKING DAY AND NIGHT TO GET IT BACK TO IT’S SPLENDOR FOR MY GLOBAL READERSHIP.
TEMP BETA PORTFOLIO — 01
in short i will have to create a new mysql database and start nearly from scratch. unfortunately I have lost around 1500 posts and images etc. this is quite unbelievable even with backups. dreamhost crippled the database to no end. in closing please choose your hosts well. I would highly recommend MEDIATEMPLE — hands down the cream of the crop!
what you see now is simply a placeholder until I get the database up and running and determine the new direction of the bvs website. it will of course be trend-spotting, traveling, creating and bringing you the latest and greatest global design news. it will also include an extensive portfolio redesign with numerous additions and by popular demand … a store once again!
I am saddened by the horrendous incompetence resulting in years of lost research and writings but I am grateful for the kind words, emails etc from my visitors — you guys rock! thank you kindly!
feel free to browse around. just please do excuse the dust and some empty images … I have too many visitors to shut it down. I will push on and create the best bvs web presence yet! wish me luck! it looks like I might need it — cheers! michael_bvs
Half-Painted Hotel by Kiev-Based Designer Pavel Vetrov
wild graffiti based design concept. m.
kiev-based designer pavel vetrov has conceived the interior scheme of a hotel room, which sees a clear division between white space and color. the two opposing styles are split down the middle in a definitively straight line, breaking the space into two distinct compositions.
Harbin Opera House, China by The Beijing Studio MAD
brilliant flowing form. love the sculpted wood central form. m.
Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza.
The Harbin Opera House is the first and largest building that MAD has designed as part of Harbin Cultural Island, a major new arts complex among the wetlands of the Songhua River.
The 79,000-square-metre building features a three-petalled plan. One houses a grand theatre with space for up to 1,600 visitors, while the other is a more intimate performance space for an audience of 400.
The building is designed to mirror the sinuous curves of the marsh landscape, with an exterior of smooth white aluminium panels and glass.
RACISM
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white. wood. steel.
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‘Waterlicht’ — “The Northern Light of The Netherlands’ by Daan Roosegaarde
stunning etherial environmental installation. m.
from february 26 to march 1st 2015, passersby the flood channel of the netherland’s river ijssel can experience something incredible seemingly hovering in the dutch skies — the latest artwork by daan roosegaarde. ‘waterlicht’ — described by first visitors as the ‘the northern light of the netherlands’ — comprises undulating lines of light spreading across a site of over 4 acres. the collaboration between studio roosegaarde and the dutch water board rhine and ijssel materializes as ‘a combination of awareness and a dreamscape’, as described by the dutch artist and innovator. ‘by adding — aside from the latest LED-technology — experience and perception, we create a virtual flood.’
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