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BE OPEN Art is happy to announce that Guzel Zakirova @guzelzakirart, Almatian Uighur visual artist, has been selected the Regional Artist of the month (January 2024) as an artist who best represents the artistic tradition of Central Asia.
In 2024, BE OPEN Art continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists, whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. The first stage of the second year of the programme will cover the countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The stage will last 3 months, with a winner named and awarded 500 euro at the end of March.
BE OPEN Art is happy to announce that Guzel Zakirova @guzelzakirart, Almatian Uighur visual artist, has been selected the Regional Artist of the month (January 2024) as an artist who best represents the artistic tradition of Central Asia.
In 2024, BE OPEN Art continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists, whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities. The first stage of the second year of the programme will cover the countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The stage will last 3 months, with a winner named and awarded 500 euro at the end of March.
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Designed by Spanish architecture and design studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, this newly completed home, dubbed Casa Sabater, arises from its implementation in the environment. The building unfolds through a very clear geometry, shaped by the landscape. This strategy, combined with the slim proportion of the construction, allows for an increased perimeter of the dwelling’s contact with the exterior, creating a system of courtyards that seems limitless.
Designed by Spanish architecture and design studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, this newly completed home, dubbed Casa Sabater, arises from its implementation in the environment. The building unfolds through a very clear geometry, shaped by the landscape. This strategy, combined with the slim proportion of the construction, allows for an increased perimeter of the dwelling’s contact with the exterior, creating a system of courtyards that seems limitless.
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Architecture office Studio Gang with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris has designed a hotel building that is going to be an energetic new social center in downtown Denver. The texture and rhythm of its sculptural façade is strongly tied to the building’s hotel function. Each vertical scallop is the width of a guest room, and its windows change in size in response to the character of the building’s public and private spaces.
Architecture office Studio Gang with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris has designed a hotel building that is going to be an energetic new social center in downtown Denver. The texture and rhythm of its sculptural façade is strongly tied to the building’s hotel function. Each vertical scallop is the width of a guest room, and its windows change in size in response to the character of the building’s public and private spaces.
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Developed by global architecture studio SOM, the project of Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India, reimagines the travel experience, transporting passengers through a landscaped transit hub and terminal inspired by Bangalore's “garden city” heritage. The new terminal offers a sequence of spaces, each integrated with a variety of landscape features, creating a calm oasis within the bustle of an international airport. By doubling the airport’s annual capacity from 25 million to 50 million passengers, Terminal 2 positions BLR as one of the major airports in India and the world.
Developed by global architecture studio SOM, the project of Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India, reimagines the travel experience, transporting passengers through a landscaped transit hub and terminal inspired by Bangalore's “garden city” heritage. The new terminal offers a sequence of spaces, each integrated with a variety of landscape features, creating a calm oasis within the bustle of an international airport. By doubling the airport’s annual capacity from 25 million to 50 million passengers, Terminal 2 positions BLR as one of the major airports in India and the world.
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BE OPEN Art is happy to announce the Artist of the Year 2023, selected by the majority of votes among the monthly ratings. Our congratulations and the €1,000 prize go to the gifted Jean D’amour Imanishimwe, a Rwandan visual artist.
Graduate of the Nyundo School of Arts, Jean is the co-founder of HUZA ARTS RWANDA gallery whose objective is to give a platform to young local artists to exhibit and sell their artworks.
Aiming to showcase young talents, every month of 2023 BE OPEN Art invited art enthusiasts to choose the best artist among those 20 exhibited in the gallery. The artist whose works gained the majority of votes throughout the year became the Artist of the Year.
BE OPEN Art is happy to announce the Artist of the Year 2023, selected by the majority of votes among the monthly ratings. Our congratulations and the €1,000 prize go to the gifted Jean D’amour Imanishimwe, a Rwandan visual artist.
Graduate of the Nyundo School of Arts, Jean is the co-founder of HUZA ARTS RWANDA gallery whose objective is to give a platform to young local artists to exhibit and sell their artworks.
Aiming to showcase young talents, every month of 2023 BE OPEN Art invited art enthusiasts to choose the best artist among those 20 exhibited in the gallery. The artist whose works gained the majority of votes throughout the year became the Artist of the Year.
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Lifepack by multinational product design team Solgaard looks like a conventional carry-on suitcase only on the outside. Inside, it features a patented integrated shelving system. Once the traveler opens the suitcase, they only need to lift the handle up and hang the six-pocket shelf on it.
More versatile travel bags in our blog
Lifepack by multinational product design team Solgaard looks like a conventional carry-on suitcase only on the outside. Inside, it features a patented integrated shelving system. Once the traveler opens the suitcase, they only need to lift the handle up and hang the six-pocket shelf on it.
More versatile travel bags in our blog
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Created in Portugal, where around 1 million tons of food are lost annually while the textile sector is responsible for up to 20% of the contamination of fresh water, Sacalho tote bag by designer Gui Giantini uses a completely biodegradable composition, resourcing the waste of garlic peels for its fabric production.
More sustainable bag options in our blog
Created in Portugal, where around 1 million tons of food are lost annually while the textile sector is responsible for up to 20% of the contamination of fresh water, Sacalho tote bag by designer Gui Giantini uses a completely biodegradable composition, resourcing the waste of garlic peels for its fabric production.
More sustainable bag options in our blog
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Every month of the last decade of 2023, works by 20 emerging artists from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic - Brazzaville, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé & Principe were posted at the online gallery as part of The BE OPEN Regional Art competition for the public to select their favourites.
This time, BE OPEN proudly invited Aidan Salakhova, a world-renowned artist, sculptor and gallerist, to select the Artist of the Region for Central Africa out of the three monthly winners, and her choice is Marcel Tchopwe, a young artist born in the Far North of Cameroon. Through his work, the artist tries to throw light on the inadequacy of university training in relation to the job market for the Cameroonian youth. The artist will now be offered a grant of 500 euro from BE OPEN.
Every month of the last decade of 2023, works by 20 emerging artists from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic - Brazzaville, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé & Principe were posted at the online gallery as part of The BE OPEN Regional Art competition for the public to select their favourites.
This time, BE OPEN proudly invited Aidan Salakhova, a world-renowned artist, sculptor and gallerist, to select the Artist of the Region for Central Africa out of the three monthly winners, and her choice is Marcel Tchopwe, a young artist born in the Far North of Cameroon. Through his work, the artist tries to throw light on the inadequacy of university training in relation to the job market for the Cameroonian youth. The artist will now be offered a grant of 500 euro from BE OPEN.
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Commissioned by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, ‘Perpetual Spring, The Climate-Correcting Machine’ by Obra Architects based in Seoul and New York is a one-of-a-kind pavilion that served as a public venue for the centennial exhibition ‘Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future’ back in 2019. Perpetual Spring was also a climate-correcting machine, an urban device acting as a place of public refuge during the city’s months of inclement weather and a remainder that the global climate emergency is a human-created crisis. It was disassembled in May 2020 after the exhibition’s closing and is scheduled for further development and reopening in Jincheon, approximately two hours outside of Seoul.
Commissioned by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, ‘Perpetual Spring, The Climate-Correcting Machine’ by Obra Architects based in Seoul and New York is a one-of-a-kind pavilion that served as a public venue for the centennial exhibition ‘Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future’ back in 2019. Perpetual Spring was also a climate-correcting machine, an urban device acting as a place of public refuge during the city’s months of inclement weather and a remainder that the global climate emergency is a human-created crisis. It was disassembled in May 2020 after the exhibition’s closing and is scheduled for further development and reopening in Jincheon, approximately two hours outside of Seoul.
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A collaborative team of two local studios, Esrawe Studio and Cadena Concepts, has transformed a former car mechanical workshop in the neighbourhood of Mexico City into a new boutique for the fragrance and home scent brand Xinú Marsella. The project seeks to bridge the gap bewteen urban life and the natural world, serving as a green oasis amongst the city jungle. the retail space comprises a wooden pavilion surrounded by a living garden. The radial axis of the wood pavilion guides visitors through a sensorial journey, connecting with the surrounding garden. Beyond being a store where one can buy scents, candles, and home products, the pavilion showcases the synergy between handmade luxury, nature, design, and craftsmanship embedded in the olfactory arts.
A collaborative team of two local studios, Esrawe Studio and Cadena Concepts, has transformed a former car mechanical workshop in the neighbourhood of Mexico City into a new boutique for the fragrance and home scent brand Xinú Marsella. The project seeks to bridge the gap bewteen urban life and the natural world, serving as a green oasis amongst the city jungle. the retail space comprises a wooden pavilion surrounded by a living garden. The radial axis of the wood pavilion guides visitors through a sensorial journey, connecting with the surrounding garden. Beyond being a store where one can buy scents, candles, and home products, the pavilion showcases the synergy between handmade luxury, nature, design, and craftsmanship embedded in the olfactory arts.
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Paragraphica, an innovative camera developed by Danish designer Bjørn Karmann does not need a lens to make a picture. Instead, it utilizes a text-to-image AI and location data to generate "photos" of specific places and moments. When looking through the viewfinder, users are presented with a real-time description of their current location, which is made possible via combining the data from open APIs, such as the address, weather, and time of day. By pressing the trigger, the camera then transforms this description into a scintigraphic representation of this description.
More instant cameras enhanced by AI in our blog
Paragraphica, an innovative camera developed by Danish designer Bjørn Karmann does not need a lens to make a picture. Instead, it utilizes a text-to-image AI and location data to generate "photos" of specific places and moments. When looking through the viewfinder, users are presented with a real-time description of their current location, which is made possible via combining the data from open APIs, such as the address, weather, and time of day. By pressing the trigger, the camera then transforms this description into a scintigraphic representation of this description.
More instant cameras enhanced by AI in our blog
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Vancouver-based artist Zung Hoang has unveiled a fully functional 35mm vintage film camera that can be assembled using 582 LEGO pieces. Named ZH1, the affordable and portable camera includes a working shutter button, a film advance and take-up reel, a winder lever with wind release, and a customizable lens. The biggest challenge for the designer was to make the body lightproof to avoid light leaking out of them while capturing a shot, while keeping the design portable.
More bespoke designs built using LEGO bricks in our blog
Vancouver-based artist Zung Hoang has unveiled a fully functional 35mm vintage film camera that can be assembled using 582 LEGO pieces. Named ZH1, the affordable and portable camera includes a working shutter button, a film advance and take-up reel, a winder lever with wind release, and a customizable lens. The biggest challenge for the designer was to make the body lightproof to avoid light leaking out of them while capturing a shot, while keeping the design portable.
More bespoke designs built using LEGO bricks in our blog
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Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has recreated one of Claude Monet's most well-known paintings using 650,000 LEGO bricks for an exhibition in the Design Museum in London. The piece covers the entire length of one wall at the gallery and is built of 22 different colours, converting Monet's brushstrokes into a depersonalized language of industrial pixel-like parts.
Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has recreated one of Claude Monet's most well-known paintings using 650,000 LEGO bricks for an exhibition in the Design Museum in London. The piece covers the entire length of one wall at the gallery and is built of 22 different colours, converting Monet's brushstrokes into a depersonalized language of industrial pixel-like parts.
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Everything Has a Sole is the concept by the Copenhagen-based design studio PUTPUT, who were commissioned by Bianco Footwear to create a campaign for their 2015 Spring/Summer collection.The team used various elements – bread, hair, fruit, balloons, sponges and paper – to create playful installations that represent the shoe.
Everything Has a Sole is the concept by the Copenhagen-based design studio PUTPUT, who were commissioned by Bianco Footwear to create a campaign for their 2015 Spring/Summer collection.The team used various elements – bread, hair, fruit, balloons, sponges and paper – to create playful installations that represent the shoe.
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Researchers from the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have teamed up with fashion brand Ministry of Supply to produce a 4D Knit Dress using heat-activated yarn that can be transformed in real-time to fit anyone’s unique body. The project combines several technologies – heat-activated yarns, computerized knitting and 6-axis robotic activation to create a garment that is sculpted to create a personalized fit or style. Heat-activated yarns are embedded within a unique knit structure to create controlled transformation, while maintaining softness, stretch and resilience. Using an efficient tubular knitting technique, a 6-axis robotic arm heats specific areas to take-in – mimicking the design process of pinning and tucking used in traditional dress tailoring to create a perfect fit.
Researchers from the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have teamed up with fashion brand Ministry of Supply to produce a 4D Knit Dress using heat-activated yarn that can be transformed in real-time to fit anyone’s unique body. The project combines several technologies – heat-activated yarns, computerized knitting and 6-axis robotic activation to create a garment that is sculpted to create a personalized fit or style. Heat-activated yarns are embedded within a unique knit structure to create controlled transformation, while maintaining softness, stretch and resilience. Using an efficient tubular knitting technique, a 6-axis robotic arm heats specific areas to take-in – mimicking the design process of pinning and tucking used in traditional dress tailoring to create a perfect fit.
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Brazil-based studio Breathe Design & Strategy has conceptualized a modern take on a classic piggy bank, which allows the user to see where their money is going, like in a digital wallet, even if it exists in physical form. Sensors on the slot at the top of the pig-shaped device detect when a coin is inserted and pass this information to a connected smartphone, while the mobile app lets users monitor the comings and goings of their savings.
Brazil-based studio Breathe Design & Strategy has conceptualized a modern take on a classic piggy bank, which allows the user to see where their money is going, like in a digital wallet, even if it exists in physical form. Sensors on the slot at the top of the pig-shaped device detect when a coin is inserted and pass this information to a connected smartphone, while the mobile app lets users monitor the comings and goings of their savings.
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Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi has been commissioned to design a multifunctional building for community use on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. The resulting project comprising five interconnected, yet relatively private angular volumes accommodates a library, a room for tea tasting, musical performances, and workshops for agricultural education, as well as storage for farming tools. The architecture and the environment complement each other: while the windows of the building frame a picturesque view of the surrounding fields, its sculptural form serves as an artistic backdrop to the vibrant blooms.
Chinese architecture studio Atelier Xi has been commissioned to design a multifunctional building for community use on an ice-chrysanthemum plantation in Xiuwu, China. The resulting project comprising five interconnected, yet relatively private angular volumes accommodates a library, a room for tea tasting, musical performances, and workshops for agricultural education, as well as storage for farming tools. The architecture and the environment complement each other: while the windows of the building frame a picturesque view of the surrounding fields, its sculptural form serves as an artistic backdrop to the vibrant blooms.
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MAD Architects has revealed the design for the renovation of the warehouse on the southside of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Cement Factory, once one of the three largest cement factories in Shanghai. MAD's renovation envisions a three-dimensional hierarchy of time and physical dimensions through the juxtaposition of old and new structures. The renovation will preserve the original industrial architectural look of the warehouse, while replacing the old roof by an ark-like metal 'floating' volume. The contrast between the roughness of the old concrete and the smoothness of the new metal will give new life to the dilapidated factory building.
MAD Architects has revealed the design for the renovation of the warehouse on the southside of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Cement Factory, once one of the three largest cement factories in Shanghai. MAD's renovation envisions a three-dimensional hierarchy of time and physical dimensions through the juxtaposition of old and new structures. The renovation will preserve the original industrial architectural look of the warehouse, while replacing the old roof by an ark-like metal 'floating' volume. The contrast between the roughness of the old concrete and the smoothness of the new metal will give new life to the dilapidated factory building.