East Coast Architecture Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Fashion Architect (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
[pic BKRW ] You want fashion and architecture? I'll give you some. Hell, I'll even throw in a pop star and a dose of avant-garde art, while we're at it. So, here's Lady Gag a debuting her new ballad at the MOCA's 30th anniversary party, wearing a hat designed by Frank Gehry and a dress by Prada, while playing on a Steinway grand piano painted pink with blue butterflies by Damien Hirst . [pic Nicola...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Maxxi Contemporary Arts Center, which was completed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects last week, will open to the public after all collections have been moved in.
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The famous Palm Springs, CA architectural gem, the John Lautner-designed Elrod House is on the market...for $13.89 million! The PrairieMod Squad had a chance to see this fantastic residence in person during the Dwell on Design Conference a few years back. See more here. Image via redfin.com
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Theodore Dalrymple discusses the architect as totalitarian : At the exhibition, I fell to talking with two elegantly coiffed ladies of the kind who spend their afternoons in exhibitions. “Marvelous, don’t you think?” one said to me, to which I replied: “Monstrous.” Both opened their eyes wide, as if I had denied Allah’s existence in Mecca. If most architects revered...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | yesterday
The proposed Atlantic Yards project cast a pall over the celebration between the starchitect who was canned from the project and developer Bruce Ratner during the topping-off ceremony for the Beekman Tower. The New York Observer - Gehry Gets Topped Out in Lower Manhattan By Eliot Brown Developer Bruce Ratner (left) took some time away Thursday from fretting over his planned Atlantic Yards project...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Brooklyn Paper By Michael P. Ventura This article includes a thumbnail history of the proposed Atlantic Yards project and a question as to whether the project (or even just the proposed Nets arena) will ever be built. In 2003, Ratner finally unveiled his plan for Atlantic Yards — a 16-skyscraper residential, hotel, office and commercial complex with a basketball arena at the core. His goal...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation's biggest rapidly expanding suburbs, says USAToday | via 'nother pull quote: ""Places that have done the worst are places where basically real estate was the economic engine," says Ed McMahon, senior research fellow at the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit group that promotes...
The Art of Fiction (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Urbis was designed and built, following the 1996 IRA bomb which ripped the heart out of the city, it was as part of a new visioning of that part of the city. Public space was transformed, with that part of the city, ravaged by sixties town planners and soulless shopping centres, opened out again so that the great buildings of Chethams, the Corn Exchange and the Cathedral became integrated back...
Violinist.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Laurie Niles: I realized on Thursday night that despite having listened to recordings of the Alban Berg Violin Concerto countless times, I hadn't come close to understanding it. Seeing a live performance enlightened me; moreover, seeing a live performance with violinist Gil Shaham , conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall energized my senses. The evening also included...
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Muji's going to start selling hole-punches that knock out patterns that can be threaded between two Lego bricks. They go on sale in a week, and open up many possibilities for crafty Lego extensions. LEGO for MUJI Paper and Block Sets (via Make) Previously:USB devices stuffed into legos -- Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing Frank Lloyd Wright Lego -- Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing Patching ancient...
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wow, who tore up Theodore Dalrymple's urban fabric and replaced it with a tower in a garden? If there were no conservative polemic blogs for cranky, reactionary modernism haters, I'm sure the Manhattan Institute would've invented them. Oy. The Architect...
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