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