In February 2012, a fire raged on the edge of the Antarctic. It resulted in loss of life and the destruction of Brazil’s Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, dedicated to scientific research in the frozen continent. Brazil’s government swiftly built emergency accommodation to shelter staff and ensure research could go on, while an international architectural competition to design a replacement station was held in 2013. It was won by Curitiba-based Estúdio 41, a dynamic firm operating in fields including residential and commercial, and led by Emerson Vidigal, Dario Durce, Eron Costin, Fabio Faria, João Gabriel Rosa and Martin Goic.
‘We had never done anything like this before,’ says project architect Vidigal. ‘So we did extensive research on polar stations built in the past ten years.’ That said, they tried, as always, to work without preconceptions. One pre-requisite, though, was a design based around industrialised components that could be shipped to the site.
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Guiding Light - Designer Joe Armitage follows his grandfather's footsteps in India, reissuing his elegant midcentury lamp and creating a new chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
For some of us, family inheritances I tend to be burdensome, taking up space, emotionally and physically, in both our minds and attics. For the London-based designer and architect Joe Armitage, however, a family heirloom has taken him somewhere lighter and brighter, across generations and continents, and into the path of Le Corbusier. This is the story of a lamp designed by Edward Armitage in India 72 years ago, which has today been expanded into a collection of lights by his grandson Joe.
POLE POSITION
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URBAN OASIS
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WARM FRONT
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BALCONY SCENE
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ENSEMBLE CAST
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Survival mode
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FLASK FORCE
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BLOOM SERVICE
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SECOND NATURE
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