Jil Sander New Store by Andrea Tognon Architecture

crisp minimalist retail + fashion design. love the diverse materiality. m.























As if to honour its German roots, high-end fashion brand Jil Sander introduced it’s new retail design at the flagship store on the swanky Kurfürstendamm thoroughfare in Berlin. Occupying a ground floor unit of a landmark structure built in 1900 with an ornate art nouveau façade, the new aesthetic, created by Milan-based practice Andrea Tognan Architecture, is almost defiantly modern and understated, and clearly extrapolates Jil Sander’s clean designs. Geometrical forms of the square and the rectangle largely define the premises, along with more fluent shapes that convey a zen-like sense of spatial harmony, and yet provide functionality at the same time.

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Frederiksvej Kindergarden by Kim Høltermand

yet again … absolutely stunning work from the copenhagen based photographer. m.









Architectural photographer Kim Høltermand‘s minimalist style shows that what’s the most important is hidden in the details.

Focusing mainly on architecture and landscape, Høltermand has worked for the likes of Apple, Adobe or Behance, just to name few. His award-winning images have also appeared in numerous publications, such as Port Magazine, The Great Wide Open book by GESTALTEN or GRAFIK Magazine. His photos of ‘Frederiksvej Kindergarden‘, a project by Danish studio COBE, are highly focused on details, giving the viewer a slow peek at the materials it was made of. This simplicity, combined with the rawness of black and white, corresponds with the project’s main idea — the roof line was built as if the child would draw it, reminiscent of a sketch.

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Gentle Hint Chair by Kazakh Nissa Kinzhalina

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Kinzhalina, who runs the studio NN Brand Design with fellow designer Anastassiya Leonova, is a master at creating #furniture that pulls a disappearing act. The duo’s Urban Philosophy Chair, made of metal and translucent plastic, appears a floating metal shape that changes based on the direction in which you view it. Their Living Light lamp sits on the floor and looks like an empty cube into which light is being poured. Each gives us just a hint of its traditional counterpart and expected form.

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Video — Elements: An Experimental Art Film by Maxim Zhestkov

beautiful work by the russian artist. m.

Elements, an experimental art film by Maxim Zhestkov, follows more than two billion black and white spheres through a series of experiments within several enclosed spaces. Throughout the film the particles swarm through different white rooms, each labeled with subtle wall text that broadly defines the physics of each animation such as flow, diffusion, and pressure. Set to a score of hauntingly hollow tones, Elements is intended to express laws of nature and mathematics, visually representing the composition of particles found in each of us.

“The film is a trial to explore the idea that everything around us and inside us is made from simple elements or blocks which can be arranged in complex relationships and become compound structures,” says Zhestkov. “We could project this idea into emotions, behaviors, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.”

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Materials, Colors + Textures in Architecture at Venice Biennale by Studio Marco Piva

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on the occasion of the 15th international architecture exhibition in venice, studio marco piva presents an exhibition that focuses on the aesthetic and functional research behind his contemporary design development. located in the scuola grande della misericordia — a building by 14th/15th century italian sculpture and architect jacopo sansovino which just reopened after renovations completed by gruppo umana — ’designing the complexity: materials, colors, textures’ looks at the structural and aesthetic aspects that go into realizing a built project.

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