Studio Gang transforms Wisconsin power plant into Beloit College student union

US firm Studio Gang has completed its transformation of a coal-burning power plant into the wellness-focused student union for Beloit College in Wisconsin with a suspended running track looping through the building.

The 100-year-old plant building, which is located between the campus of the arts college and Rock River in Beloit, was updated to include a fitness centre and a gymnasium with a three-lane track and an eight-lane swimming pool.

Studio Gang added a pedestrian bridge and a polycarbonate field house to the building

Originally called Blackhawk Generating Station, the plant was first built in 1913 by Wisconsin Power and Light. It was expanded in 1927 and again in the mid-1940s before being decommissioned in 2010.

Studio Gang's project for Beloit College, called Powerhouse, retained and updated the original red brick, yellow brick and concrete structures, and added a new 17,000-square-foot (1,579-square-metre) volume made from translucent polycarbonate walls and steel framing.

Large windows are slotted between the translucent panels

As such, Powerhouse is segmented into three volumes that form the arrangement of three key facilities: the swimming pool, the track and the field house.

The translucent structure on the northern side contains a field house. The panels are arranged at angles to one another to create slender long gaps for windows in between. At night, when artificial lights are turned on, the entire structure glows up.

The suspended running track loops through the building

In the middle, a larger brickwork volume hosts a suspended, three-lane running track that loops around the first floor of the building partially extending into the field house and the swimming pool on either side.

In addition to the sports facilities, Powerhouse includes a number of recreational spaces for students, like a coffee shop, lounges, a conference centre, a lecture hall and a theatre.

Existing brickwork runs throughout

Studio Gang also added a new pedestrian bridge that punctures the brickwork structure to connect Powerhouse to the existing campus, and created a link from the college and the town to the Rock River.

Inside, the firm chose a stripped-back industrial palette that pays homage to the history of the building – including existing weathered brickwork and steel structures.

The running track also extends into the field house

Another key element of the project is that, rather than using air for heating and cooling, it uses water-supplied radiant panels.

"Buildings usually use air for heating and cooling; however, water, which is much denser, is actually more efficient," said Studio Gang.

"Radiant panels integrated into the building's surfaces are able to use energy from the river water for most of the Powerhouse's heating and cooling needs, improving comfort within the building and maintaining the highest quality of air, while also significantly minimising total energy use."

The swimming pool is on the southern side

Other power plants that have been adaptively reused include the former Philips power plant in Eindhoven, which has been transformed into an innovation hub by young architect Janne van Berlo.

London's decommissioned Battersea Power Station is also undergoing redevelopment and will become the centrepiece of a 17-hectare Thames-side masterplan by Rafael Viñoly.

The project is set to include a public square designed by BIG, and housing designed by Ian Simpson Architects, dRMM, Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners.

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Project credits:

Associate architect: Angus Young Associates
Civil engineer: RHBatterman & Co
Lighting and mechanical/environmental engineer: dbHMS
Landscape architect dbHMS
Landscape architect: Applied Ecological Services
Acoustics and A/V consultant: Threshold
Signage, wayfinding consultant: 3st/Span
Pool consultant: Ramaker & Associates
Athletic consultant Hastings+Chivetta Architects
IT consultant True North Consulting Group
Cost consultant: Dharam

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AHEAD Europe 2020 awards winners announced in video ceremony on Dezeen

AHEAD is announcing the best new hotel designs in Europe today, in a video ceremony broadcast by Dezeen for the hospitality awards programme.

The ceremony will be broadcast in two parts from 6:00pm UK time and can be viewed in order below. The most recent part of the ceremony is also included at the top of this story.

The event is hosted by Sleeper Magazine's editor-at-large Guy Dittrich and will feature exclusive video content from the AHEAD nominees, as well as from the judges and sponsors of the awards programme.

The AHEAD awards celebrate striking hospitality projects from across the world and is split into four different regions: Europe, Middle East and Africa (MEA), Asia and the Americas.

The 2020 Europe leg of the competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the continent between June 2019 and May this year.

Last week, Dezeen broadcast a ceremony announcing the winners of the AHEAD MEA awards 2020.

Dezeen also broadcast a ceremony announcing the winners of the AHEAD Americas awards winners 2020 as part of Virtual Design Festival in June this year.

 

AHEAD Europe 2020 – part one
6:00pm UK time

In the first part of the ceremony, the winners will be announced for categories including Bar, Club or Lounge, Guestrooms, Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces, Renovation & Restoration, Conversion, Resort, Spa & Wellness and Lobby & Public Spaces.

 

AHEAD Europe 2020 – part two
7:00pm UK time

The second part of the ceremony will see the winners of the Newbuild,  Lodges, Cabins & Tented Camps, Restaurant, Suite, Visual Identity  and New Concept categories, and the AHEAD Europe Hotel of the Year will be revealed.

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Chila Kumari Singh Burman overwrites Tate Britain's neoclassical facade with neon Diwali installation

Bollywood posters and fluorescent effigies of Hindu deities have been superimposed on Tate Britain's portico, as part of an installation designed by artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman for the museum's fourth annual winter commission.

Entitled Remembering A Brave New World, the design was unveiled to coincide with Diwali, the five-day Indian festival which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness.

In this spirit, Burman clad the museum's facade in a menagerie of multi-coloured neon lights, which penetrate the darkness of London's shortening days, overshadowing the building's traditional, neoclassical architecture and its historical connotations.

The installation encompasses the portico and pediment of the Tate Britain

"It's important to critique buildings like this because they're very Eurocentric," Burman told Dezeen.

"So, I just thought: why not do something that captures the moment what we're all going through right now? I felt like it needed a blast of joy and light. And Diwali is about good over evil, about hope, unity and the light at the end of the tunnel."

Burman, who describes herself as a Punjabi Liverpudlian, drew on a bricolage of cultural influences to create the installation, which merges Indian mythology with pop cultural references, inspirational slogans and cherished childhood memories.

The luminous silhouette of an ice cream van, for example, which stands on the landing of Tate Britain's grand staircase, is a nod to the fact that her father purchased one after moving to England and struggling to find work as a tailor.

A neon sign on the staircase nods to her father's old ice cream van

Featured next to positive exclamations like joy, love, light and truth, is spiritual imagery such as the third eye, the Om symbol and various deities such as the elephant-headed god Ganesha.

In a characteristic fusion of Burman's feminism with her Indian heritage, the artist also included an image of Lakshmi Bai, the queen or rani who once ruled the princely state of Jhansi.

Today considered an icon of freedom, she died on the battlefield while fighting off the British in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, surrounded by an army she had trained herself.

The installation's title, Remembering A Brave New World, is emblazoned in purple on the front of the building

Perched atop the building's pediment, the iconic statue of Britannia is overlaid with an image of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction but also a saviour and protector who has come to be viewed as a feminist icon.

Emblazoned above, in playful subversion, are the words "I'm a mess".

"Most of us, because we're working from home, are waking up feeling a bit of a mess," said Burman. "So Britannia is a mess because I'm a mess. And everybody says: that's really good Chila because, in a way, Britain is in a mess."

An image of Hindu goddess Kali is superimposed on the statue of Britannia

To create a technicolour spectacle even during the daytime, the Corinthian columns are wrapped in fairy lights and larger-than-life versions of Burman's artworks, including the collage Punjabi Rockers, while doors are pasted over with posters of Bollywood stars.

"Originally it was going to be all girls but we didn't have enough images of girls that were high resolution, so I thought we'll add some men in it," the artist explained.

"I didn't want men on it, I don't know why. Some of the men look like idiots."

The installation will be on display until the end of January, with London mayor Sadiq Khan saying he hopes it will cheer up the capital's residents during the coronavirus lockdown and beyond.

"Chila's colourful tribute to her Punjabi and English heritage is a great way to mark Diwali's celebration of light over darkness and will be a symbol of hope during these difficult times," he said.

The columns are wrapped in blown-up versions of Burman's previous artworks

Tate Britain's previous winter commissions have seen Anne Hardy transform the building's facade into a ghostly ruin while Monster Chetwynd propped a giant, glowing slug on its balustrade.

The Tate came under fire this summer for a failure to tackle institutional racism in its galleries, with a mural depicting child slavery and Chinese caricatures on display in its Rex Whistler restaurant while pandemic-related job cuts reportedly affected black, Asian and minority ethnic workers disproportionally.

Under mounting public pressure, the museum recently cut its ties with its longtime patron, art dealer Anthony d'Offay, who previously took pictures of himself posing with a racist golliwog doll.

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Rado to launch four new watches in virtual design week on Dezeen

Dezeen has teamed up with Rado to present Rado Design Week, a week of virtual content exploring the design of the Swiss watch brand's four unique new timepieces.

Rado Design Week will be hosted on Dezeen from 30 November to 4 December, showcasing watch designs by four renowned studios: Italian duo Formafantasma, British designer Tej Chauhan, Japanese studio YOY and Indian duo Thukral & Tagra.

Each of these designers has created an addition to Rado's True Square Collection, a range of watches characterised by square faces. This collection is one of Rado's most iconic, with a shape that's rooted in the brand's history.

"Cutting-edge and futuristic designs"

These new Rado watches draw on the brand's history as a pioneer of high-tech materials and innovative technologies, but also look to the future.

The designers have worked with contemporary shapes, finishes and displays to create watches with a distinctly modern feel.

"You can expect cutting-edge, out-of-the-box and futuristic designs that make each of these timepieces unique, beautiful and functional," said Rado.

For the first four days of Rado Design Week, Dezeen will present videos revealing the design concept behind each watch.

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will also conduct live interviews with Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard and each of the designers, which will be broadcast live on Dezeen throughout the week.

The week will conclude with an exclusive competition, offering Dezeen readers a chance to win a Rado watch of their choice from the collection.

Rado's first virtual design week takes place from 30 November to 4 December

Rado Design Week marks a pivotal moment for Rado, which started out in a workshop in Lengnau back in 1917. Although the brand often hosts events to launch its new watches, this will be its first virtual design week.

It follows in the footsteps of Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival, the world's first online design festival. With a rolling programme of online talks, lectures, movies and product launches, it explored new ways of bringing design to a global audience, at a time when it was impossible to attend physical design events, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rado Design Week takes place from 30 November to 4 December at www.dezeen.com/rado-design-week.

Here is the schedule:

Monday 30 November
10:00am – video about the Rado True Square Digital watch by YOY
4:00pm – live talk with YOY and Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard

Tuesday 1 December
10:00am – video about the Rado True Square Formafantasma watch by Formafantasma
4:00pm – live talk with Formafantasma and Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard

Wednesday 2 December
10:00am – video about the Rado True Square Tej Chauhan watch by Tej Chauhan
4:00pm – live talk with Tej Chauhan and Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard

Thursday 3 December
10:00am – video about Thukral & Tagra's watch for Rado
1:00pm – live talk with Thukral & Tagra and Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard

Friday 4 December
10:00am – competition to win Rado True Square watch

All times are UK times (GMT).

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Ten design and technology projects by Hongik University graduates

Augmented reality glasses designed for tourists visiting foreign cities and a device for sterilising clothing feature in Hongik University's technology-focused school show.

The 10 exhibited student projects offer insight into the diversity of the senior design projects completed at the South Korean university this year, which explore themes ranging from self-driving cars to a monastery concept store.

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Hongik University

University: Hongik University
Course: BA Industrial Design
Studio: Design Application Studio
Tutors: Keun Lee, Sung-Gul Hwang, Tate Eunyoung Kim, Jae-Yeop Kim, Sook-Yeon Kim and Joo-Yun Kim
Degree show: www.hongik-id-degreeshow.com

School statement:

"Hongik University's Industrial Design major students have the online degree show to give the people insights into the bright future life in product, mobility and spatial design. The degree show 2020 goes with the theme of 'Design Without Designing', which emphasises the essence of the things rather than the externality in the Covid-19 era.

"The 10 representative design projects out of total 76 senior design projects this year show the future smart life through the self-driving, mixed reality, Internet of things, and big data, and demonstrate fascinating design concepts through the inspiration by Korean heritage and the world-renowned brands' heritage."

Visit the school's online degree show here.

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Tesla Trans by Jaeeun Kim

"We are living in various periods of transition. Tesla Trans is the concept of a vehicle interior as a midpoint that connects the house and the outside. It encompasses both autonomous and human driving, and it is possible to drive in different modes like a moving room.

"If you take the wheel, it will become the interior of the existing Tesla car, and if you turn back the seat and open your table, it will become your own mobile cafe."

Student name: Jaeeun Kim
Project name: Tesla Trans
Tutor: Keun Lee
Instagram: @jennyisworking

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Colour Out of Space by Hyewon Seo 

"Colour Out of Space is Jaguar's future luxury autonomous vehicle. I aimed to redesign Jaguar's most beautiful past in the most futuristic way and used the new 3D sketch software a lot.

"The biggest feature of the vehicle exterior is that it is covered with a stretchable display. Therefore, the colour and graphics of the vehicle can always be changed. This was defined as the mobile media facade, and is named Colour Out of Space after its unusual colour."

Student name: Hyewon Seo 
Project name: Colour Out of Space
Tutor: Keun Lee
Email: hyewon.seo95@gmail.com
Instagram: @_hyewon_seo

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G-Core concept – Honda X G-Shock by Changmin Bae

"Freedom is the first and original keyword since the motorcycle has been invented. Riders have enjoyed freedom through it and expressed it through various cultures. I thought about what generation Z's motorcycle and their riding fashion will be, not these days typical retro styles. So this G-Core concept is my answer.

"I propose a new style and culture with the collaboration of mobility brand Honda and fashion watch brand G-Shock, through the keyword Gorpcore, which create a fresh style by combining practicality and their own characters."

Student name: Changmin Bae
Project name: G-Core concept – Honda X G-Shock
Tutor: Keun Lee
Behance: https://www.behance.net/Bae_changmin

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Gyozip by Jiyoon Kim

"Gyozip is an interactive scalable partition system designed to enhance and encourage joyous interactions between the users. 'Gyo', meaning interaction in Korean, and 'zip', reflecting the image of a single fastener, is put together as its name to reflect the main experience of scalable social interaction.

"Gyozip allows for changing levels of interaction. By altering the openness of Gyozip, users can selectively interact with others – closing, when busy, opening up when idle. Gyozip not only creates diverse patterns and degree of openness but also works as a fidget and catalyst for interaction between people in various atmospheres."

Student name:Jiyoon Kim
Project name: Gyozip
Tutor: Sung-Gul Hwang
Website: imdoldoli@creatorlink.net
Email: imdoldoli@gmail.com

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CALDO by Hyoseon Jeong and Minjoo Bok

"The need for sterilising clothing is increasing along with the concern of infectious diseases. CALDO eliminates viruses, dust mites, and germs within a few seconds. It also sterilises and removes creases using ultra-fine steam. The camera sensor embedded in the soleplate automatically detects the type of fabric and adjusts the temperature, pressure, and steam pattern accordingly.

"CALDO provides scent cartridges made in collaboration with perfume brands so that users can fragrance their clothing with their favourite scent. The remote control display shows information about CALDO's status, the detected fabric, and its steam type."

Student name: Hyoseon Jeong and Minjoo Bok
Project name: CALDO
Tutor: Tate Eunyoung Kim
Email: kxxhyox@gmail.com and bokminjoo@gmail.com

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Home Cardio Bolt Boxing by Hyemin Eom and Jeong-a Seo

"Home Cardio Bolt Boxing is a new approach to home fitness. It includes a smart punching bag, gloves, and a platform of live sessions. Users can get in their cardio while punching to the music from the bag's speaker.

"The bag lights up to the beat and guides through the combos. A heavy-duty spring allows a gentle rebound. The gloves protect the knuckles and the palms are covered with mesh to make them breathable. Bome Cardio Bolt Boxing's wrist weights can intensify the workout. Most importantly, it is designed to blend in with your home's interior and can be used as a home speaker too."

Student name: Hyemin Eom and Jeong-a Seo
Project name: Home Cardio Bolt Boxing
Tutor: Tate Eunyoung Kim
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/hye-min-e-a1a209103/ and linkedin.com/in/jeong-a-seo-538638150/

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Omnis-Data Marketplace by Soohyun Park and Jiwon Yun

"Omnis-Data Marketplace is a project about the future scenario where you can buy and sell personal data. 'Omnis' is a data agent service that connects people who create data in daily life and people who want to get new insights by using data.

"With products from Omnis, three scenarios are presented from the most common data to private data."

Student name: Soohyun Park and Jiwon Yun
Project name: Omnis-Data Marketplace
Tutor: Jae-Yeop Kim and Sook-Yeon Kim
Website: www.jiwonyunn.com and www.behance.net/parksoo
Email: jiwoneee97@gmail.com and a01038061586@gmail.com 

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Voyager by Seunghye Han, Soomin Son and Sieun Roh

"Voyager is a pair of AR glasses for foreign city travellers. Once users rent Voyager AR glasses with e-scooter, these glasses make city travelling richer and more convenient with a variety of AR services provided.

"Especially with navigating for electronic scooters integrated with scheduling app, users can easily visit unfamiliar spots in the city. Furthermore, users can watch and explore dynamic and vibrant AR guides at tourist destinations."

Student name: Seunghye Han, Soomin Son and Sieun Roh
Project name: Voyager
Tutor: Tate Eunyoung Kim
Website: seunghye-han.myportfolio.com, www.behance.net/sonsooomin67af and linkedin.com/in/sieun-roh/

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Archive Moleskine: Moleskine Space Branding by Haim Jung

"In medieval European monasteries, monks transcribed the Bible to cultivate their mind. The luxury notebook brand Moleskine will open a monastery concept store in the middle of Seoul for Korean millennials who need time to reflect on themselves in their busy daily lives.

"Customers can personalise their notebooks, make records and have time to focus on themselves in 'Archive Moleskine'. The space is designed in a structure in which curves overlap many times, inspired by the similarity between the arched structure of monastery and the curved form of paper. The image used etching techniques reminiscent of the Middle Ages."

Student name: Haim Jung
Project name: Archive Moleskine: Moleskine Space Branding
Tutor: Joo-Yun Kim
Instagram: @haaim.j

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Orbit: Marine Serre Brand Experience by Dayoung Kim

"A concept space project for French fashion brand Marine Serre comprises a conceptual outdoor garden, cafe and showroom which visitors can experience the futuristic identity of the brand. The design of the concept space is inspired by the Moon, implying various philosophical ideas of the brand.

"The main attraction, rolling ball installation, is a unique structure that penetrates all the underground showrooms from outdoor gardens and cafes on the first floor. Balls that roll infinitely in the same orbit symbolizes the brand's values that connect various cultures, times and places together."

Student name: Dayoung Kim
Project name: Orbit: Marine Serre Brand Experience
Tutor: Joo-Yun Kim
Website: www.dayoung-kim.com

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