Ramenskoye is a town in Moscow Oblast in Russia, located 46 km southeast of Moscow. Its name means ‘the edge of forest.’ The town is not only known for Zhukovsky Airfield, where the majority of Soviet aircraft were tested, but also for its painted houses. Check out some more of these wonderfully designed buildings - link
Photo Muammer Yammaz, Copyright Alexander and Bonin, New York
Doris Salcedo, born in 1958 in Bogota, Colombia, is a leading member of a new generation of artists who have achieved international acclaim during the past eight years, partly as a result of their choosing to live and work in their countries of birth. This installation by Doris Salcedo was part of the 8th International Istanbul Biennial. Eighty Artists from 40 countries participated in the 8th Biennial under the conceptual frame “Poetic Justice.” The sculpture shown here is a site-specific installation (untitled), filling the gap between a row of buildings with a staggering 1,600 wooden chairs.
This “Micro-Compact Home” [m-ch] was inspired by Japanese tea houses, the Smart car and first class air travel. They are lightweight, modular, mobile and very minimal 2.65m (roughly 77 sq ft). That equates into a 266 x 266 x 266 centimeter cube ‘Home,’ Imagine that? It’s not for the claustrophobic, a dwelling non-the-less, for one or two people.Interestingly, incorporating everything a person needs in a home in its super compact design.
The tiny cube provides a double bed on an upper level and working table and dining space for four to five people on the lower level. The entrance area has triple use: it functions as a bathroom and drying space for clothing, in addition to a lobby. Costing 50,000 Euros, this little prefab integrates state-of-the-art technology into its compact design, boasting a sound system, flat screen TV, and temperature controls. It requires no furniture and all storage space is cleverly concealed within the structure of the dwelling.
More on the Micro-Compact home here.
Stencil to Newspaper To Stencil, seen at Wooster Collective. Recently, The Star, a newspaper in Toronto did a fashion layout using some of Poster Child’s posters as a background.
To let them know that he was watching, he put the model up on the same wall as a stencil in the same scale as the photograph.
