A million thanks to everyone who supported us!

bastard store wins the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award

ArchDaily is for sure the most visited Architecture blog out there. On the 10th of May 2009 ArchDaily published a very comprehensive and beautifully edited post about our project bastard store and created a huge link between studiometrico, bastard and the world. That was just the beginning…

On the 18th of January the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2009 Award, an invitation to all readers to select the best projects posted in 2009 according to 13 different categories, was launched. bastard store was selected as ‘eligible’ in 4 categories. But there’s much… much more!

After the first round and thanks to the support of many, bastard store is  now one of the 65 finalists and will be challenging 4 other projects to become the number 1 in the category Interiors!
So… now it’s up to you, friends, lovers, colleagues, clients, visitors, relatives, Facebookers and Twitterers! Vote for us and spread the new if you think that the bastard store deserves the title of ArchDaily Best Building of the Year 2009!

There are still 5 left, but there’ll only be 1 winner…

Pics by Giuliano Berarducci and Beatrice Sugliani

During the weeks that followed ONLYWOOD, some attention was raised on COMVERT HQ. Curious people started to search, ask, talk and write about the project… This is a good thing for studiometrico, Bastard, Atelier LC and specially for Comvert, a fantastic company and an unforgettable client who’s kicking it hard in this ‘supposedly’ difficult moment. The web has been the most generous and reactive among all the media. If you want to know our opinion about the things that have been written…

archinfo.it has made the most complete and interesting article. Carlotta Eco, who’s an architect and a jurnalist, has been as serious as curious. She contacted us to collect all the necessary information, she came to visit, watched people skating and edited an article that we fully appreciate.

lospremiagrumi.com has probably been the quickest blog to ‘post’ us. A couple of days after the opening Tommaso Maggio had already published a short, but very nice article featuring pictures he had taken during the party and a good selection of the images we had made available.

It took a while before domusweb realized what we had done… but the article they have published is defenetly accurate and stylish. It features – perhaps is the first time for an architecture magazine – a real skateboarding photograph and it brought a lot of visits to our blog in the 48 hours we lasted on their hompage!

blogosfere deals with ‘style & fashion’ which is not really our cup of tea… but they were actually very nice, they came to the opening party and were even interested in interviewing us! Unfortunately our performance hasn’t been a memorable one.

internimagazine just published a nice photograph and wrote few words, but that’s basically what they usually do, so we are happy anyway…

la repubblica was the only newspaper that even printed something about us. The article actually focuses on skateboarding as a youth phenomenon and presents a photograph of Bastard bowl under construction, but doesn’t mention studiometrico at all. Anyway it was because their article that The Godfather came to knock on our door, so we are thankful.

kishirikiblog and inoda-sveje are japanese blogs, so we don’t have a clue what they’re saying… apparently they just talk about the party and forget to put even a small link to our blog, perhaps they just want to look cool in japan but… hello! we’d like that too…

blog.bastard.it is run by the guys at bastard and is about skateboarding and street culture. This blog is by far the biggest source of web visits for us. They support us, they never forget to give credits to people and they are our mates, we love them!

la voce is an independent newspaper that has given voice and credits to us. Unfortunately they didn’t seem too interested in the photographs, but they might be more into words, so what they wrote is accurate and precise.

Giuliano Berarducci, who’s a skateboarding photographer (and is shooting COMVERT HQ for us) has been interviewed on the affiliate skateboard company website. The article is very cool, Giuliano talks about his work in the U.S. and claims COMVERT HQ is ‘the hot thing right now in Milan’. We just have to believe him.

Current is a web tv. It’s  ‘about what’s going on in your world: all the things you and your friends are actually interested in that you won’t find on any other news site or cable TV channel.‘ Usethemind came to the COMVERT HQ grand opening party with his video camera, but found us all too drunk to give interviews… Therefore he showed up on a more sober afternoon and produced this small video that made our mothers very proud and happy…

Last (but not least) Abitare – the Italian Magazine that everyone (even not architect) has read once – found out about our project and turned its spotlights on us for a little while !

Few months after their move into their new home, Those Lazy Italians at Bastard, with the help and guidance of Marco Clozza (a.k.a. The Engineer), are eventually busy with the construction of the Bastard Bowl, their spectacular and hazardous ultimate recreative device. Daily updates of the construction works are available here.

See also previous posts about this project:

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 2

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 3

Casacomvert!