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Things that inspire us: 

Petstools by Hanna Emelie Ernsting

“The desire to relax at home, to cuddle up on the couch and put your feet up serves as a constant inspiration for the designs of Hanna Emelie Ernsting.

With Pets she transforms the purely functional, everyday footstool into a delightfully cozy companion enhanced with new aspects. You can put your feet up…or plunge them into the soft material to warm them. Pets are true eye-catchers and can add a humorous and playful contrast to more conventionally furnished living spaces.

With few details enhancing the minimalistic shapes, Pets evoke associations with animals and irresistibly invite you to “pet” them and be amused. The many different animal forms offer creative combination possibilities and will spark the collector’s passion.”

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Organ Care System. In an organ transplant surgery, timing is critical. Doctors drop organs into a plastic bag and put them on ice. But lungs soon stop breathing. Hearts stop beating. The organs essentially shut down and start to deteriorate. This means doctors have only about five to 10 hours to get the lung from the donor into the recipient. If the travel time is too long, the organ can’t be used and goes to waste. An Andover company known as TransMedics came up with world’s first commercial, portable, warm blood perfusion system that allows a new type of organ transplant, called a living organ transplant. This new technology, called an Organ Care System, is designed to maintain organs in a warm, functioning state outside of the body to optimize their health and allow continuous clinical evaluation. Hearts beat, lungs breathe, kidneys produce urine and livers produce bile. The device is currently not FDA approved but is undergoing clinical testing.

MICHELLE PFEIFFER as SELINA KYLE/CATWOMAN Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

Dimitar Lazarov

Caracara House, Bocas de Nosara, Costa Rica,

QBO3 Arquitectos

DOUBLE FEATURE: ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL METAPHOR

PARASITE (2019) AND US (2019)

Okay, this pairing doesn’t make for the most relaxed of evenings, but despite their violence and brutal social commentary, both of these movies are still partly comedies (albeit dark, satirical ones).

The symbolism employed is very similar: a family finds their comfortable Modernist home infiltrated by a matching, but much more deprived, household of four.

 In both films, the social themes are manifested architecturally, as a world of ‘above’ and ‘below’.  An airy, light-filled house sits obliviously over an underworld of sewerage-flooded sub-basement apartments, hidden panic-room dungeons, or subterranean tunnels. While the inhabitants above enjoy their exposed beams and plate glass windows, and fret about boat purchases or hors d'oeuvres choices, they remain happily ignorant of the conditions within which those beneath them are trying to eke out an existence.

In both films the central argument is one that has enormous relevance to architecture: that in large part it is not who we are intrinsically, but rather the dignity or depravation of the circumstances/environment we find ourselves in, that can shape our behaviour, and even our character. (Poster by by Choi Ji-Su for the French steelbook release)