ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 2 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/890222/vanille-gymnasium-raphael-betillon-et-guillaume-freyermuth-architects-plus-ctv-architects Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:00:00 +0000 Cristobal Rojas https://www.archdaily.com/890222/vanille-gymnasium-raphael-betillon-et-guillaume-freyermuth-architects-plus-ctv-architects In a text which written in 2001 entitled The Default Aesthetic,Vanilla flavored beauty, the artist Etienne Cliquet, defines the bases of a new aesthetic appeared on the Internet of the relation between man and machine. It shows itself in the form of oldfashioned, simple interfaces, result of a collaboration man / computer in which the design is totally absent. Indeed, the established dialogue can be only pragmatic, the machine lacking any shape of sensibility.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/189754/mcdonalds-interiors-in-france-patrick-norguet Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Kritiana Ross https://www.archdaily.com/189754/mcdonalds-interiors-in-france-patrick-norguet McDonald's has put Patrick Norguet in charge of designing the new architectural identity for its restaurants in France. A project which is exciting in terms of its scope as well as in its technical and sociological constraints since it concerned McDonald's returning to its founding myth: familial fast food. If the brand was originally founded on the family, its image has little by little slid towards a more urban and adolescent tone. A return therefore to McDo’s DNA with this new interior design that Patrick Norguet, literally and figuratively, matches with getting back to roots.

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