Month: December 2015

Watch Zaha Hadid’s Dining Pavilion Come Into Fruition

by Shiela Kim, Architizer

Design Miami/ kicks off its 2015 edition today with, as always, a rather impressive list of headliners from all of those spheres. Some of them will be part of the Revolution Project, a showcase of limited-edition prefabricated pavilions and homes and the brainchild of real-estate developer Robbie Antonio.

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Among Revolution’s highlights, architect Zaha Hadid designed the clamshell-evoking Volu dining pavilion in collaboration with Patrik Schumacher, a partner at her eponymous firm. True to form, they conceived an amalgam of fluidity and flow, organic forms, geometry, and high-tech edginess, all of which contribute to a sort of futuristic style.

The structure resembles a network of bands that connect around cellular voids — beginning in the floor, then gathering into a vertical, spine-like stem that grows upward before folding once more to form a cantilevering canopy. Louvers fill the roof’s apertures, while solid panels fill the floor’s 35 hollows.

Completing the look, bespoke furnishings also designed by the pair sport the signature aesthetic of Hadid’s other pieces that eschew exposed joints for fluid curves.

If you’re in Miami for the festivities, see Volu in person at the Collectors Lounge (19th Street and Meridian Avenue) now through December 6.

Zaha Hadid is the real star of design events infiltrating Miami this week

by William Menking, The Architect’s Newspaper

Zaha Hadid’s Pavilion.

Zaha Hadid is not only one of the best known architects in the world, but after pursuing her own personal visionary path for over forty years, she is one of the most bankable. Her drawings and design objects are all over the 2015 design fairs this week in Miami.Craig Robins’ bespoke Corian bathroom by Hadid. (William Menking / AN)

Revolution Precrafted Properties is showing a backyard pavilion (top) and Sarah Myerscough Gallery from London is showing a series of collaborative vessels by Zaha Hadid and Gareth Neal (below), that sell for $30,000 (plus tax).

In addition, the star of Harvard’s design schools kickoff party at Miami developer Craig Robins’ house was his bespoke Corian bathroom designed by Ms. Hadid.

Not even the David Adjaye–designed backyard pavilion was a match for this all white maintaince room.Vases by Hadid. (Petr Krejci)

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The annual event Design Miami is now open

Design Miami, an annual design event, officially kicks off (December 2-6). One of the highlights is the “Revolution” project initiated by real estate developer Robbie Antonio. More than 30 well-known architects, designers, and artists have joined forces to create A living space that emphasizes both advanced technology and cost-effectiveness. Among them, the dining room “Volu” designed by Zaha Hadid combines streamlined shape with high-tech material buckling treatment, and precise digital cutting technology can reduce material waste during production. Set new standards for environmental protection.

URL: http://miami2015.designmiami.com/

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Amar’e Stoudemire wants to become ‘a legit’ art collector

by Mara Seigler, Page Six

Former Knick Amar’e Stoudemire has immersed himself in the art scene, saying his goal is to become “a legit and serious collector. It’s for my children — when they get older they can look back and say my father had this art in 2015,” the dad of three said during at a Surface magazine Design Dialogues event Tuesday at the W Hotel South Beach.

Stoudemire, who joined the Miami Heat this year, works with a team to help him pick pieces.

“I have a pretty strong advisory group that I chat with on a normal basis just to be fully equipped and knowledgeable on the market,” he said. “Emerging artists are risky, so you want to make sure that you’re surrounded by good people who know the most about art and who will lead you in the right direction.”

Stoudemire name-checked street artist Retna, who recently did the album art for Justin Bieber‘s “Purpose,” as someone he’s interested in.

The baller added, “A lot of athletes are so submersed in training and becoming the best that we can possibly be, so tunnel-vision to that … hopefully the rest of us will catch up soon and educate themselves and become collectors.”

Amar’e was previously involved in the fashion world. “It all depends on what you want to spend your money on — you want to buy a painting or you want to buy a Balmain jacket. You have to look good while buying art,” he quipped. Joining him on the panel was real estate developer and art collector Robbie Antonio.

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Zaha hadid launches prefabricated dining pavilion at design miami

by Philip Stevens, Design Boom

the first in a series of limited edition pre-crafted pavilions and homes launches at design miami/ 2015. conceived by design and real estate developer robbie antonio, the revolution precrafted project unites more than 30 of the world’s preeminent architects, artists, and designers to create a series of technologically advanced yet cost-efficient living spaces.

named ‘volu’, zaha hadid’s contribution to the collection is a contemporary dining pavilion. the structure presents a bold silhouette, forming a typical fusion of design, lightweight engineering, and precision fabrication. containing bespoke furniture, the design continues a rational, geometric production by embedding the tectonics of manufacture within the form itself.

the ‘revolution’ series calls for technologically advanced yet cost-efficient living spaces
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defined by sophisticated digital processes, the pavilion has been developed in such a way that its components are, at most, singly curved. such innovations were computer programmed to integrate fabrication constraints into the design, while enabling engineering feedback in an iterative delivery process. consequently, this allows for comprehensive design development of complex and expressive forms through the bending of flat sheet materials.

the structure presents a bold silhouette, forming a typical fusion of design and lightweight engineering
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comprised of a series of structural bands collecting at the spine and expanding overhead, the patterning of the pavilion is guided by the varied structural loading conditions. through analysis of the geometry under load, the pavilion’s topology is digitally optimized to remove unnecessary material, resulting in the lightest possible design solution — an organic structural logic that recreates the many of the same principles found in nature.

bespoke seating furniture is incorporated
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image courtesy of revolution precrafted properties

project info:

name: volu dining pavilion
designer: zaha hadid with patrik schumacher
type: dining pavilion
options: 10 seater, 6 seater
dimensions: 6m l x 4.6m w x 3.2m h
floor area: 20 sqm

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EDEN

by Marcelwanders

REVOLUTION PRECRAFTED, 2015

Architecture Design | Interior Design

As part of the Revolution Precrafted Properties collection, Eden (2015) is a luxurious precrafted home designed from a human perspective and built from the inside out. This peaceful sanctuary dispels the notion that prefabricated houses ought to be only practical and inexpensive. Eden is where families reconnect with others and create treasured memories, in a monumental setting. The inside becomes spacious through the amplified use of glass, and finds its only border in plants that serve as breathable boundaries. The extended roof over the terrace, connecting outside to inside, creates a limitless living area. The roof is sustained by two rows of hand-woven textile columns that cast shadows during the day and light up dramatically at night. The materials, colours and finishes create an authentic setting that offers a true sense of belonging.