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Sailboat Tara is in Paris (on the Petit Palais' bank) until january 11st. This boat has been doing a lot of expedition around the world (for example in 2005, French artist Pierre Huyghe and some friends of his went to Antartica doing some research) and now exhibit its last journey in Artica. Tara was built in 1989 after having beeing designed by Luc Bouvet et Olivier Petit , architects for Jean-Louis Etienne, a client passionnate in Antartica. Principle was to create a solid boat able to slip - with rudders and fins obviouly removed - on icefield in order to stay on it just in the same way that norvegian navigator Fridtjof Nansen did with his boat, Fram in the XIXth century. This last exhibition last one year and half between 2006 and 2008 and consisted in a drift on the north pole's ice field while scientific research were achieved. More informations, pictures and videos on Tara's official website

Sailboat Tara is in Paris (on the Petit Palais' bank) until january 11st. This boat has been doing a lot of expedition around the world (for example in 2005, French artist Pierre Huyghe and some friends of his went to Antartica doing some research) and now exhibit its last journey in Artica. Tara was built in 1989 after having beeing designed by Luc Bouvet et Olivier Petit , architects for Jean-Louis Etienne, a client passionnate in Antartica. Principle was to create a solid boat able to slip - with rudders and fins obviouly removed - on icefield in order to stay on it just in the same way that norvegian navigator Fridtjof Nansen did with his boat, Fram in the XIXth century. This last exhibition last one year and half between 2006 and 2008 and consisted in a drift on the north pole's ice field while scientific research were achieved. More informations, pictures and videos on Tara's official website

Here is a new restaurant built in the north of Auckland by a kiwi office called Pacific Environment Architect. found by Marksor on Contemporist / more pictures on official site .

Here is a new restaurant built in the north of Auckland by a kiwi office called Pacific Environment Architect. found by Marksor on Contemporist / more pictures on official site .

That is how ends our thematic about SMALL. We're a bit sorry not to have found a real coherency with it, but what we can extract from this, would probably be that SMALL is definetely a human scale which can possibly be built by a small group of people trying to express their creativity. Size, economy, technicity, involvement are issues which can, most of the time, be proceed by a small amount of persons and therefore can make a lot of projects happenning. SMALL in public space can thus, be a sum of discreet participation of people to the democratic construction. picture: Oliver Bishop-Young 's garbage dumpster

That is how ends our thematic about SMALL. We're a bit sorry not to have found a real coherency with it, but what we can extract from this, would probably be that SMALL is definetely a human scale which can possibly be built by a small group of people trying to express their creativity. Size, economy, technicity, involvement are issues which can, most of the time, be proceed by a small amount of persons and therefore can make a lot of projects happenning. SMALL in public space can thus, be a sum of discreet participation of people to the democratic construction. picture: Oliver Bishop-Young 's garbage dumpster

Luz intima is a guerrilla intervention in la calle del Pez in Madrid where the collective, Luzinterruptus installed twenty six domestic shades on urban lights. This operation lasted for one night. It is a quite discreet appropriation of public space which I hope would give some motivation for other people to act on commun space. found on dezeen

Luz intima is a guerrilla intervention in la calle del Pez in Madrid where the collective, Luzinterruptus installed twenty six domestic shades on urban lights. This operation lasted for one night. It is a quite discreet appropriation of public space which I hope would give some motivation for other people to act on commun space. found on dezeen

Local river is the last published project of paris based office Matthieu Lehanneur (with Anthony van den Bossche), which proposes a "locavore" (people who only eat food produced in a radius of 100 miles of them) tool of producing local fish food and vegetables with an absolute control of its owner. Beyond the beautiful design, I do suspect it to be full of irony (at least I hope), by giving such a litteral and luxurious proposition. It was exhibited this year in Artists Space in New York.

Local river is the last published project of paris based office Matthieu Lehanneur (with Anthony van den Bossche), which proposes a "locavore" (people who only eat food produced in a radius of 100 miles of them) tool of producing local fish food and vegetables with an absolute control of its owner. Beyond the beautiful design, I do suspect it to be full of irony (at least I hope), by giving such a litteral and luxurious proposition. It was exhibited this year in Artists Space in New York.

Wired.com currently presents an interesting article about Netherlands' plan for saving the country from huge future floods there. More than fighting these floods, this plan tries the best as possible of coping with water by flooding some areas preventing some others (like cities) from them.

Wired.com currently presents an interesting article about Netherlands' plan for saving the country from huge future floods there. More than fighting these floods, this plan tries the best as possible of coping with water by flooding some areas preventing some others (like cities) from them.

This installation by LAVA ( LAboratory for Visionnary Architecture ) (Stuttgart, Abu Dhabi & Sydney) is a lightweight architectural sculpture made of high-tech nylon which has been digitally cut by CNC (Computer Numeric Code) machines thanks to patterns unfold by computer. I would be glad to know that it could bring some more light into the building, but I won't be so sure about that... more pictures on Plataforma Arquitectura

This installation by LAVA ( LAboratory for Visionnary Architecture ) (Stuttgart, Abu Dhabi & Sydney) is a lightweight architectural sculpture made of high-tech nylon which has been digitally cut by CNC (Computer Numeric Code) machines thanks to patterns unfold by computer. I would be glad to know that it could bring some more light into the building, but I won't be so sure about that... more pictures on Plataforma Arquitectura