HQ Hostel - Bangkok

"HQ Hostel offers a new boutique accommodation. The architects set out to create a unique experience for travellers, within the context of a commercial building that maintains the harmony of the street façade. Great attention was paid to the planning of space and circulation, the building’s drilled aluminium composite façade creating privacy during the day and moving beams of light at night.

Rather than try to deny or disguise the fact that hostel design must consider space efficiency, HQ celebrates this as a positive aspect, with the internal planning and colour palette inspired by the traditional Japanese Ryokan.

The interior finishes are simple and feature robust materials honestly exposed, such as cement, brick and steel, which are combined with thoughtful details such as quality cotton bed sheets and pillows, to create a more valuable experience for the discerning traveller on a budget."

5/3-4 Silom Soi 3 (Soi Phiphat), Silom Road, Bangruk, Bangkok Thailand
(66) 02 233 1598
hqhostel.com

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Glow In The Dark Tour Photo Book - Kanye West

"Are you ready to glow in the dark? Crash landed alone on an unknown planet for the entirety of his Glow in the Dark set with huge space scapes behind him, Kanye West takes you on a musical and visual odyssey that no antihero has taken you on before. This deluxe volume represents another leg of that voyage, giving you a gorgeous photographic ride through West’s life, both on and offstage, as well as into the intimate technologies of his creative process with top visual artists of today. The instrumentals are tracks from his set remastered to echo John Williams’s famous score ("Jesus Walks" is Vader’s theme). In personal sketches and reference imagery, 3-D models of the holodeck-ian stage, and costume designs (including his Grace Jones–inspired outfits for opening act Rihanna), West once again expands a medium and triumphs in the artist’s epic struggle to be creative. With a CD including previously unreleased instrumentals from the show as well as an interview with tour collaborator Spike Jonze, the book is not only a memento of one of the most successful musical performances of the year, but it is also an experience all its own."

KANYE WEST: GLOW IN THE DARK
- Interview with tour collaborator Spike Jonze
- 288 pages with gatefolds / 9⅝” x 13” / 400 photographs /CD with unreleased music and interview
- HC w/jacket $50.00 U.S., $62.00 Canadian, £30.00 U.K.
- Deluxe edition with Clamshell case: 12½” x 16½” / 978-0-8478-3294-1
- Release date: October 20 2009

Stampd’ LA 2009 Fall Footwear Delivery 2

"Stampd’ LA give us a look into the second drop from the footwear brand’s Fall 2009 delivery. Featured are four styles including their The Cooley Hi, Acid Slow, Boeing, and InDeanne, all utilizing Stampd’s traditional mix of leather and canvas uppers. Each style was produced in limited quantities (250 pairs), equipped with leather lining, leather toe cap and smoothed rubber vulcanized sole. They are now available via select retailers worldwide as well as the Stampd’ LA online store."

Yarra House, Melbourne - Leeton Pointon Architects

"A fluidity of surfaces is witnessed from within the Yarra House designed by Leeton Pointon architects and Susi Leeton architects. Floors become walls; walls become ceilings; and ceiling open up to sky. From approach, the entrance looks like a cave formed by rendered concrete walls. Only the slight and irregular black window frame insertions appear to allow light into the house. But once within, light falls through the double-story void from above in all directions. Light enters through openings in thick off-form concrete and cascades down oak and white plastered surfaces. It then washes over limestone and marble, illuminating art, furniture and every handcrafted and natural surface throughout the house.

The focal point and central pivot of the house is a sculptural circular stair. This transitional element divides the entire double-storey spaces as it stretches out under a steep exterior site.Curved surfaces play against rigid lines in a style that the architects describe as ‘archaic’ – an effortless blend of both the primitive and artistic. Materiality was the primary factor in the selection of timbers, stone and every other interior feature.

The house is sited south of the Yarra River in one of Melbourne’s many beautiful neighbourhoods. The team of architects won an Architecture Award for Interior Architecture at the 2009 Victorian Chapter Awards. - Andrew J Wiener"

CONVERSE SKIDGRIP HI (HUF X 1HUND(RED))

"Team HUF have joined the fight against AIDS in Africa by contributing to the Converse 1HUND(RED) artists project. Lending their creative talents to the Skidgrip hi, Keith Hufnagel and Hanni El Khatib have created a simple monochrome upper covered in an ‘H’ repeat pattern that references vintage skate graphics and type. “We wanted to reference the skate and surf vibe of the 1980s and the Skidgrip was a great, authentic foundation.” The shoe will be available from October 3rd, with a percentage of the net wholesale price going to AIDS relief in Africa."

source: www.sneakerfreaker.com

Enclosed Open House - Wallflower Architecture + Design

"The client’s desire for the home to have a perception of substantial private space has resulted in the development of a spatial program that internalizes spaces such as pools and gardens normally regarded as external to the envelope of the house. By zoning spaces such as the bedrooms and servants’ quarters on alternative levels, i.e. 2nd storey and basement levels, the ground plane is freed from walls that would have been required if public and private programs were interlaced on the same plane.

The site is approximately 25m wide by 48m deep, and because of the intermingling of internal gardens and column-free vistas, there is a continuous and unbroken visual depth of 40m that ties together the entrance foyer, swimming pool, formal living area, internal garden court and formal dining areas.

Environmentally, the contiguous and interconnected space encourage the slightest breezes, whether they are prevailing and therefore air-movement is horizontal, or convectionally circulated, which the courtyards help generate. For the owner, it is the experiential serenity that unencumbered space, a gentle breeze, dappled sunlight and the hush of water rippling on a pond that is priceless in our dense and busy urbanscape."