MINA PERHONEN

Minä Perhonen is a japan fashion designed by Akira Minagawa. The name of the brand originates in Finnish "minä" means "I" and "perhonen" is "butterfly," with a wish to make many beautiful designs like those of butterflies' wings. . The design process begins with sketches, which are made into their original fabrics. Also, they aspire to develop new material s and techniques with production centers of home and abroad. In Italy you can find Minä Perhonen to Chicchi Ginepri in Milan.
 http://www.mina-perhonen.jp/en/
 http://www.chicchiginepri.it/

modern architecture in amsterdam #1

Nell'immaginario comune Amsterdam è la Venezia del nord, tutta casette antiche e canali, ma se hai la fortuna  di avere come compagno di viaggio un architetto, o se semplicemente sei un appassionato di architettura moderna, basta uscire un po' dal centro per scoprire case popolari e campus studenteschi realizzati a costo quasi zero grazie ai container usati sulle navi, edifici residenziali colorati o a forma di balena dal design all'avanguardia e tanto, tanto altro. Del resto, in una città dove persino le bare  possono essere cool (vedi foto sotto), c'era da aspettarselo.

Qubic  case popolari per studenti realizzate dagli architetti dello studio hdvn, 715 case container che ospitano 1000 studenti temporaneamente in atttesa che vengano costruite le case "vere"
Stavangerweg 50-877 At, Amsterdam

 Qubic a social housing for student by hvdn architects  there are 715 container-houses, 1000 students will temporarily be housed here waiting the new real housing developments start
Stavangerweg 50-877 At, Amsterdam

In the collective imagination Amsterdam is a small Venice of the North full of small old houses and canals, but if you have the luck to travel with an architect, or simply if you are a modern architecture lovers, you can just go out a little bit from the centre to discover social housing and campus built with a small amount of money thanks to container, the same generally used in the sheeps,  colorful residential building or with a whale shape, with an avantgarde design. In a city where the even the coffin are cool, (see the picture below) you could expect that.