McFancy

Today’s demanding consumers expect even their beloved, favorite brands to step up their game. Many run-away online successes of offline brand “stunts” attest that consumers expect, and get really excited about, experiences that are unusual, fun, thought-provoking and emotionally engaging. With the power and immediacy of social media, surprising offline events and stunts have now turned into truly powerful promotional tools.



For McDonald’s, we envision a cool, surprising and fun mix of concepts. First is McFancy, an upmarket temporary McDonald’s store that launches at Fashion Weeks around the globe — London, New York, Paris, Milan, Sydney, Hong Kong. McFancy is part art installation, gathering spot and, of course, a restaurant that offers a traditional McDonald’s menu but packaged in a way that makes a playful yet stylish nod to the lifestyle of the highly desirable, influential consumers that attend Fashion Weeks.



Waiters in tuxedos, silver service, private dining areas, and packaging co-created with the fashion brands that present at Fashion Week — Burberry burgers, Chanel fries on black packaging, Paul Smith Sundaes…A bit of fun among the serious business of fashion. A bite of comfort food among all the elaborate cocktail fare, Private dining rooms, a raised catwalk that winds around the perimeter of the space, and with a central bar area providing a dramatic focal point. The ceiling is constructed from stretched fabric, ribbed to provide articulation and define zones. The form of the ceiling is accentuated through the use of LED lighting




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Alguns locais de trabalho que marcam pelo seu design e organização

Dtac Headquarters Bangkok
July 5 2010



Large companies with thousands of employees often give just a cursory nod to creating an appealing, exciting and comfortable workplace. Enter the thousands of pool tables and vending machines that are supposedly making work more fun. Lucky for its 3,200 employees, one of Thailand’s leading telecommunications firms, Total Access Communication PCL under the dtac brand, did much more.









Uppercut Offices - Montreal
May 12 2010

Upperkut, a young communications agency, takes up residence in the basement of a fully operational church, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal, Canada. How do you design the space without compromising the dynamic and fun character of the agency, and without altering the ceilings and other acoustic components of the building?











Macquarie Investment Bank - Sydney
March 22 2010

Macquarie investment bank’s new harborside office building, One Shelley Street, at King Street Warf in Sydney has been collecting accolades and awards for not only architecture and design but also for environmental sustainability and workplace functionality.












Vodafone Head Office - Portugal
January 11 2010

In 1984, Vodafone was a tiny UK startup. Today, it is one of the world’s leading mobile telecommunications companies with activities around the globe. Vodafone’s well publicized Portuguese headquarters is located on Avenida da Boavista in Porto (Oporto), the namesake of Port wine and Portugal’s second global city after Lisbon.












Post Panic - Amsterdam
December 7 2009

Maurice Mentjens Design, based in Holtum, the Netherlands, continues to delight and draw attention with its imaginative work. We have featured a couple of their store projects here and here, but this time, we are fascinated by the studio/office/production facility they designed for PostPanic.PostPanic is a creative design and animation studio, but it is also a production company that animates, produces and directs its creations in-house. PostPanic produces mainly commercial projects for the international advertising, retail, broadcast and music industries. Clients include Nike, MTV and Coca-Cola.


When PostPanic decided to move to a new large facility located in Westerdoksdijk, a new high-density district in Amsterdam, it commissioned Mentjens to come up with interiors that would accommodate the various production and design teams, and also be flexible enough to suit a staff whose numbers can fluctuate from 14 to 40 depending on the workload.

Technology Center Medical Science - Berlin
December 4 2009


This sleek and shiny new building is the Technology Center Medical Science (Das Science Center Medizintechnik), located in central Berlin between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.

The clinical feel and sweeping forms are what makes this such a cool complex. The façade is designed to resemble the structure of muscle fibers. If you visit the Science Centre within, you will learn all about it and will never look at this building the same way again.



The building owner is Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH, one of the world’s oldest and largest companies designing, manufacturing and selling prostheses and orthopedic products. It was founded in 1919 by Otto Bock to meet the needs of war veterans. The top three floors of the new building are taken up by the company and its training and demonstration facilities.

Ljubljana City Administration Center
November 14 2009



The work coming out of the talented team at OFIS Arhitekti of Ljubljana is consistently elegant and graceful, with a refreshing honesty and clarity. Many of their buildings exude a peaceful balance of curves that are never frivolous, sharp angles that are never harsh, and materials that are earnest and timeless.

Another recent example is their entry in the international competition to design the Ljubljana City Administration Center. OFIS’s suggestion came third in the competition that posed a considerable challenge of having to juggle the new buildings among existing, protected buildings and existing underground facilities as well. The total area of new buildings for the project is 42.288m2.



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O Messiaen Quartet, depois de vencer o 12.º Concurso Internacional de Música de Câmara Contemporânea em Cracóvia (Polónia) e o 1.º Concurso Internacional de Música de Câmara, cidade de Alcobaça (e de se apresentar na Casa da Música, no Porto), vem agora ao CCB com umas das obras mais emblemáticas do século XX. Composto por jovens músicos de origem russa que se conheceram no Conservatório Tchaikovsky de Moscovo, o quarteto é já uma formação de mérito reconhecido.

MESSIAEN QUARTET
ALEXEI MIKHAYLENKO clarinete
KSENIA BEREZINA violino
NICOLAY SHUGAEV violoncelo
ZLATA CHOCHIEVA piano


OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Quarteto para o fim do Tempo


Escrito por Olivier Messiaen em 1941, enquanto estava detido num campo de prisioneiros de guerra na Silésia, o Quarteto para o Fim do Tempo é uma obra com uma força espiritual assombrosa.
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5 Champagne Cocktails - The best way to add spirits to your sparklers

If you're in the some-things-are-best-left-alone camp, we get it. You don't exactly have to be a wacky, die-hard fundamentalist to feel that Champagne cocktails are unnecessary; given a lovely flute filled with even the most straightforward sparkling wine, it's easy to make the argument. But here's one of the glorious things about a bottle of Champagne: You don't have to choose. Start out sipping it straight, and then break out those mixers and gild that lily.

Once you've mastered the Bellini, the French 75, and the Death in the Afternoon, spare some bubbles for the sparkling mojito and these other Champagne concoctions.

Chandon Pom Fizz

1/2 oz Grand Marnier Liqueur
1/2 oz Pomegranate juice
2 to 3 oz Chilled sparkling wine
Strip of orange peel

Pour the Grand Marnier and pomegranate juice into a sparkling wine flute. Fill the glass to the top with the sparkling wine. Twist the orange peel over, drop it in the glass, and serve at once.

Black Velvet

1 part Guinness stout
1 part Brut Champagne

Fill an empty Collins glass part-way with a Guinness (or other stout beer), top with Champagne. Stir.

Air Mail

2 oz Amber rum
1/2 oz Fresh Lime juice
1 teaspoon honey
5 oz Champagne

Combine the rum, lime juice, and honey in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir, the pour into a collins glass. Add Champagne.

Champagne Mojito

3 oz Brut Champagne
4 Sprigs fresh spearmint
3 tsp Superfine sugar
2 tbsp Fresh lime juice
1 lime wedge

In a bar mixing glass, muddle the mint with the lime juice and sugar. Add Champagne, stir, and strain into a Champagne flute.



Champagne Cocktail
Ingredients:

1 Sugar cube

3 Dashes Angostura bitters

Brut Champagne

Twist of lemon
Preparation:

Drop the sugar cube in a Champagne flute, and moisten it with 3 dashes of Angostura bitters. Top with Brut Champagne, squeeze a lemon twist and drip it into the drink.

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