Sunday, December 24, 2006

MERRY VIXMAS / to all of you


IT'S VIXMAS-TIME and I'm taking some days vacation in Copenhagen. This picture on the Vixton Skyline is taken from the Johannelund's hill by Vinsta Business Zone. Please klick on the image to see the complete view.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

BEAUTIFUL 1 / on a scale roundabout dog to z4








IN VIX HERE ARE SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL ITEMS
tor rest the eyes on, and I not only thinking about all young females frequenting exiting entertainment palaces and facilities like Filmstaden, Vallingehus, Ahléns etc. My intention is to start a new series in the blog on unexpected esthetical aspects in my own NewTown.

In the Vallingby roundabout (I call it Southern Star) i aimed a pair of funny small roundabout dogs (sv. Rondellhundar ) of an unclear race, maybe some kind of Street Crossing =D

At Vix Automobile Zone, the blocks placed in a row after Jamtlandsgatan (aka Street Meet Street) where several high status car dealers like Citröen and BMW have their operations, I spotted several nice BMW Z4 sportscars and the luxury high end € 50.000 car Citröen C6. Something to watch and dream about dark days in December. (click the image above)

Conclussion Is the free everyday street art or the expensive product the winner? I think all is the winner because the objects or artefacts are results of individuals design ambitions and output from their creative thinking, concept planning and most of all – dreams.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

DARIN VIX PERSONALITY / nr one

DARIN THE IDOL 2004 GRAND SLAM WINNER who released his third hit album Break the News last week lives in and very much enjoys his life in Vinsta-Vallingby Design City (aka Vixton or just Vix). Vix is great, he explains in an interview in a daily paper 1). In the trendy artsy fartsy magazine RedPages Sthlm (2) Darin explains that he moved from Viksjö to Vix two years ago and how he and his family allways have lived for and loved music.

Now and hereby he is by me, the editor TomSmok€ acting as autocratic sole judge, the first person awarded, and as this claiming the number One (01/50) first out of celebreties in a wholistic row in the new right now declared and established Vix hall of fame called Vixton Personalities (VIP), a small exclusive (1‰-group out of the 50k population). This group will consist of honorable rewarded famous individuals living in Vixi, persons acting as good examples for young people and as such acts as ambassadors promoting Vixi.

International culture and entertainment centers like Billyburg (brooklyn/nyc/usa), X-berg (berlin/de), Nørrebro (cph/dk), Stureplan and Sofo (se) have clearly got a hungry underdog rising in the competition in Vix. The Desing City is clearly ungdergoing a strong eclecticaly rise with a superb blend of design, culture, technology, low and high, 1950-ies dreams of a equalistic social utopia, ultra futuristic genres side by side with vintage trash-chique elements.

1) Boisen, F. (2005) Välllingby är toppen [Vix is Great] StockholmCity
2) (2006) Sveriges enda popstjärna [Sweden's Only Popstar] RedPages Sthlm

Saturday, November 25, 2006

BEST ARCHITECHTURE / Kasper Salin prize

THE ARCHITECHTURAL RENEWAL PROJECT of Vixton D.C. has been awarded as ”Best planning project in Sweden 2006” at the Kasper Salin Gala friday 24 November. The gala is an annual event celebrating and revarding the best architechture projects in Sweden.

Vixton's architechtural reshaping and expansion follows and combines two paths: 1) the original 1950ies genre of positive postwar language, and 2) a new modern direction.

The prize was collected by the municipal commissioner in housing subjects Mikael Söderlund from the leading Moderate Party.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

100% / net society

NEW E-TV A MODERN IT SOLUTION developed in and dedicated for Vixton needs. The product and services was presented thuesday night at the Culture House ”The Stairs” (Trappan). The developer is eCentret an organization developing net-services and technologies, focused on accessibility for all citizens. The eTV-project is carried out in cooperation with the great Real Estate owner Svebo and The local bransch of the City Council of Stockholm.

100% accessability to the internet could be achieved and is the aim for eTV public service. With broadband and an eTV box with remote controll different types of content could be presented on an ordinary TV. Other pros is that the views could be more clear cut, easy to read, and adapted for local user groups needs. The implementation start is a result of close studies of users and the service will be free for the first period.

Developer and usability architecht Marcus Davidsson, at eCentret said that eTV will operate on top, parallel with the regular broadband traffic, requireing 3-5 Mbits/s. For that reason 10 Mbits/s in broadband speed is recomended. In the near future 100Mbit/s will be ordinary broadband speed where new HDTV system will use 22 Mbit/s.

Different types of services will be offered as: TV (from 4000 possible channels) movie on demand, washing machine booking, local weather forcasts (2 km radius), games, music, sharing etc.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

DUO DESIGN / twrs

CONSTRUCTION SPOT VIXTON — Vinsta-Vallingby (eng. Walltown) Design City (pop. VIXI*) is one of Europe's biggest construction projects and building sites right now . The local district is one of the highest density high-rise building areas in Sweden (defining high-rise buildings as free standing ”proto skyskrapers” with >12 stores over ground) with about 20 high rise towers (Emporis, 2006), most of them placed out in a a layout of a close knit circle or garland surrounding the core centre of the new rising Design City.

DuoDesignTowers (DDT, name introduced now) in the Circle is a 12 store tower-pair at the crossing – Areway (aka Vixistreet) and Angermanna street (aka Wallstreet). I will present my vision of how DDT could be conected to the new fashion mall block/district constructed on the other side of the road, a complex of two buildings designed by Gert Wingardh of Wingardh Architecht House (the image above).

DDT could be connected to each other with a low entrance building in two stores (one half under ground), and the towers developed to a high status appartment hotel or highly attractive condons/residental appartemnts for young people, perhaps students in a possible future Design University College.

The facades could be prepared in a transissional manner from white to the orginal gray color verticaly. Tower 1 (man) white from top and tower 2 (woman) the reversed way. This represents an abstract ideography of the eastern representation of a concept of dualsim and man/woman (Yin/Yang) toghether in unity, both equal. Circled chinese ideographs for male and woman could be lit and transfered on to the facades by OLED lightning from the ground at night.

At the corners there could be vertical banners in Vixton-profile-red maybe with firmly designed addvertisements on a base of metal constructions, inspired by the buildings of mega city Tokyo. A graphic presentation of the concept is on the way.

70 fashion shops will be localized in the new fashion blocks. Fashion is the key factor driving customers to new shoping malls according to a spokes person at the centers marketing company Ruth.

* Vixi also have the meaning ”I have lived” in the latin language, often used in a biography when looking back to a completed life.

Friday, November 03, 2006

FOOD SQUARE / opening


TONIGHT THE INDOOR FOOD MARKET WAS FINALY OPENED.
A female string quartet entertained, chefs and shopkeepers presented theirselves and their goods. Presents was given away to happy and curious shoppers.

A coffee and tea shop, cheese masters, charcuterie, bakery and spice shop is hosted under one roof. Soon a fish market and a turkish deli will be opened to make the market complete before christmas.

Learn more on the Food Square. Press release from Svebo

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

DESIGN / city in 2008


VIXTON-VALLINGBY IS RISING to a new developing colorful sunflower - a new ABCD-city where D represents Design concepts.
The Company Centrumutveckling is one of the creative forces behind the strong revival. 2008 the new Vixton Design City will be finished serving 210.000 people in the district.

Latest news on the project of redefining Vixton you find here

Saturday, October 28, 2006

ILLUMINATED FLOATING ROOF / official opening

A CIRCUS CIRKOR ARTIST HIGH UP under the ceiling when the Vixton-Vallingby Center Roof was officialy opened friday night at 18.00. Approximately two thousand people attended to experience the light show with several artist appearing, like a fire juggler accompanied by strong expressive music.

The Roof with spotlights attached beneath is designed by architect Henrik Rundquist of KHR. Also visit swedens famous Cirkus Cirkor's web site