Design The New Stuttgart City Library - Germany

Korean architect Eun Young Yi’s proposal was selected in 1999 from 235 competition entries as the plan for the new central library of the City of Stuttgart.
Yi has created a monolithic cube with two floors underground and nine above. Essentially all of the building, both inside and out is white. The main library floors circle an open-plan with the levels connected by open staircases. Books line the outer walls of each floor.
As a cool nod to the fact that the building is a storehouse of words, the word “library” is installed in four languages on the outside walls. On the North wall in German (the local language), West in English (lingua franca), South in Arabic (the language of ancient knowledge and of Stuttgart’s sister city, Cairo) and East in Korean (Yi’s native language)
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Tomas Seraceno

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At Hamburgerbahnhof museum.
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
until 15 January 2012

New products!

"Your trash is someone else's treasure"
We find and collect discarded plastic bags to create accessories like handbags and bow ties. All our goods are crafted in Berlin and inspired by the city's urban environment.
The colors vary depending on the materials used making each piece unique.
Recycled, casual, comfortable, and playful each piece is 100% handmade ensuring outstanding quality and individuality.

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Advice to shink in slowly

Advice ti sink in slowly is an on line platform that helps graduates to pass on advice and inspiration to where it can make a difference.
Is an ongoing series of posters designed by graduates for the purpose of passing on advice and inspiration to first year students. An advice poster is given as a welcoming gift to every student starting a course at participating Universities when they enroll.

Everyone has a piece of advice they wish they had known earlier, but often don’t have the chance to pass that advice on to where it can make a difference.

Advice is subjective and above all, it is the attempt at the exchange that matters most. But, by passing on advice in a creative way, it is possible to create something that lasts, that people will want to live with and which may let the advice sink in slowly and help out later on.


http://advicetosinkinslowly.net/home

Bags Mohajer

Bags Mohajer
… is a project of mainly Afghan underaged refugees. Many of them worked in Iran as tailors earning money to enable them to travel to Greece. In „Villa Azadi“ the asylum seekers make bags out of clothes which are donated to the camp. 99% of the kids are boys therefore most of the bags made are from women’s clothes. Through their tenacious creativity they transform these discarded garments into a variety of bags. Additionally, they use material from deflated and discarded rubber dinghy boats from the beaches in Lesvos. A great majority of these dinghy boats were used by the refugees themselves when they travelled through adverse conditions from Turkey to Greece. The dinghy boats were mostly overloaded and in poor condition thus forcing the immigrants to risk their lives to arrive in Greece. On top of these problems, a lot of dinghy boats were destroyed by Frontex (the European Border Agency) or by the refugees themselves on arrival in Greece, so Frontex wouldn’t be able to send them straight back. From the dinghy boats they create laptop bags, wallets, sports bags and other bag varieties. The refugees also recycle plastic clips from the life jackets they used on their journey to Greece.
This project is not supported by any organisation, therefore the tailors rely on donations.

Some pictures from the tailors:

Some Bags:

Tonight 4 Nov. Solidparty organized by Mohager Bags is being held at

Rauchhaus

Mariannenplatz 1A

Kreuzberg, Germany

21:00-00:00

free entrance

infected designers featuring @ Troedelei

 

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