JULIEN PARTICIPATES IN ISTANBUL WORKSHOP

12 October, 2012 at 12:29

IDEAS CITY: Istanbul is a three-day conference in Istanbul on October 11th, 12th and 14th, 2012, organized by the New Museum, New York, and held in conjunction with the inaugural Istanbul Design Biennial and the Audi Urban Future Initiative. Special thanks to SALT.

IDEAS CITY is a festival that explores the future of cities around the globe with the organizing principle that arts and culture are a driving force behind the vitality of urban centers. IDEAS CITY was founded by the New Museum as a major collaborative initiative between dozens of arts, education, and community organizations working together to effect change. The festival is held every other year in New York (the next one will take place from May 1–4, 2013) with satellite conferences and workshops taking place in international cities during the alternate years. IDEAS CITY: Istanbul is the first of these international events, addressing this year’s IDEAS CITY topic of Untapped Capital.

Julien De Smedt will take part in the Ideas City: Istanbul World Café workshop

Sunday, October 14th, 2-4pm @ SALT Galata
Bankalar Caddesi 11, Karaköy 34420, Istanbul

JDS AT ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

11 October, 2012 at 15:47

We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition (Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known in the context of the first Istanbul Design Biennial.

(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known, curated by Cedric Libert, gathers 100 architectural projects. As a proposal between fact and fiction, it assembles a collection of emblematic buildings and urban situations found in the city of Brussels, presented in a book and assembled on a large 4m x 4m model.

One of JDS’ most emblematic projects, the .BE buildings will be featured in the show.

Opening : Friday October 12th 2012, 19:00
Exhibition : October 13th – December 12th 2012

Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Meclis-i Mebusan Cad. Liman İşletmeleri
Sahası Antrepo N° 4
34433 Karaköy – İSTANBUL

Istanbul Design Biennial – http://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org

THE NEW WAVE IN DANISH ARCHITECTURE

10 October, 2012 at 14:23

Finally, a comprehensive book on all the insane ideas and projects we’ve committed in Denmark and abroad since 2000.
More about the book can be found on the publisher’s website.

JDS RUNNER UP IN HANGZHOU HEADQUARTERS

10 October, 2012 at 14:21

JDS have been awarded 2nd prize in the international competition to design the headquarters for CETC, one of China’s largest technology companies. JDS scheme proposed linking CETC’s 5 separate departments into one central knowledge loop where all staff can join together for meetings, sports, relaxation and communal learning. The project is located in the Xi Xi wetlands, west of Hangzhou and is for 100,000 sqm of Class A offices.

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OUR ROOFTOP PENTHOUSES IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE

10 October, 2012 at 14:01

This week’s New York Magazine features our Rooftop Garden and Penthouses in Copenhagen. See it online here.

ANTWERP POLICE STATION NEARING COMPLETION

10 October, 2012 at 13:42

Our project of a police headquarters and station in Berchem, a neighbourhood of Antwerp, Belgium, is nearing completion. This project is JDS first realised building in Belgium! See the project details here.

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JURA HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION

10 October, 2012 at 12:07

The little house on the prairie is nearing completion in the Jura region, France. This modest private commission is Julien De Smedt’s first realised design for a family house.

The project was nearly cancelled for planning permit reasons when a an article came out in the local press calling the house the ‘skijump residence’. The journalist was referring to the fact that we had also designed the skijump in Oslo where Jason Lamy Chappuis, a skier from the village, had won the Gold Medal at the World Championship in 2011. Soon after we were called up to re-explain our design to the authorities which eventually granted it planning permit.

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JDS DESIGNS FOR TV

8 October, 2012 at 14:03

Julien De Smedt has just delivered the design of a Museum to be featured in the new Danish TV series THE LEGACY to be broadcasted in 2014.

THE LEGACY is a character-driven drama series that examines what it means to be a family in a time when traditional patterns of family life have undergone radical change.

The series draws its inspiration from films and TV series such as THE ICE STORM, THE CELEBRATION and DOWNTON ABBEY.

The director of the series is the internationally acclaimed actor and director Pernilla August who has worked with directors such as Ingmar Bergman, George Lucas, Jan Troell and Bo Widerberg. In 1992 she won Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her part in Ingmar Bergman and Bille August’s film THE BEST INTENTIONS.

The series is a modern family portrait – a depiction of the ‘68 generation and their children. A tale of the marked traces that a time of violent upheaval has left on modern family life – whether this takes place against the background of a seemingly detached and progressive artist home, or in a more traditional, community-oriented, sports-centred rural environment.

THE LEGACY is set in and around the countryside mansion house, which has been the setting for the life and work of the internationally-renowned artist Veronika Grønnegaard.

The series traces the story of Veronika’s four adult children, whose distinctive upbringing has affected their lives in very different ways. They live scattered until Veronika dies, when they come together again to take stock of her legacy.

Shortly before her death, Veronika bequeaths the house to her daughter Signe, whom she gave up for adoption. Signe lives with her boyfriend in a quiet residential district in the local town, and has never learned the truth about her origins. This is to have fatal consequences.

What for the four siblings should have been a quick and painless division of Veronika’s estate marks the beginning of a journey into secrets and lies which turns their lives upside down and forces them to look at both themselves and each other with new eyes.

Directed by Pernilla August

Created by Maya Ilsøe

Starring

Trine Dyrholm
Jesper Christensen
Lene Maria Christensen
Carsten Bjørnlund
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Marie Bach Hansen
Trond Espen Seim

XX MODELS: YOUNG BELGIAN ARCHITECTURE

17 September, 2012 at 14:19

The “XX MODELS. Young Belgian Architecture” exhibition is a selection of 20 promising young architectural practices, with 20 models of one of their first large-scale projects and 20 talks. Inaugurated in 2008, this series of micro-exhibitions and talks is coming to an end. BOZAR ARCHITECTURE and A+ are celebrating their four seasons by publishing a catalogue of the series and inviting the 20 practices to bring together, for one last time, the models of their achievements.

Come join us for the opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, the 26th of September at 18.30h! RSVP here.

More info about the exhibition here.

27/09 > 25/11
XX Models. Young Belgian Architecture
Palais des Beaux-Arts
Rue Ravenstein, 23, 1000 Brussels
Tuesday – Sunday 10h00 – 18h00

Brooklyn Night Bazaar At Venice Biennale

17 September, 2012 at 13:36

Take a look at New Museum’s blog post on the Venice Biennale featuring our project Brooklyn Night Bazaar as part of the US pavilion.

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