Off Center (Free subscription) | yesterday
… is the Eero Saarinen-designed Jefferson Memorial Expansion aka Gateway Arch aka St. Louis Arch. I placed it near my City Capitol and a couple blocks away from Mayor Saarinen’s house in the city of Gateway. Sure looks nice! Permalink | No comments yet | Add to del.icio.us
Off Center (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
This may be a bit inside baseball, but Taylor Carik links up Minnesota Monthly’s amusing chart of just how cool you are (or aren’t) in the local art scene: I am, apparently, not very cool. I must take issue with the mnartists.org dig, but would hope anyone setting up their own site would keep their mnartists.org [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- On a four-year international tour of Europe and the United States, the landmark exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Futurethe first major museum retrospective of this Finnish-born American architect's short but prolific careerwill be jointly presented at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts September 13January 4. An opening-weekend
Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
On a four-year international tour of Europe and the United States, the landmark exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future-the first major museum retrospective of this Finnish-born American architect's short but prolific career-will be jointly presented at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts September 13-January 4.
BusinessWeek Online (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The airline's $743 million Terminal 5 at JFK is designed to provide passengers a stress-free and stylish experience
asap news (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
JetBlue’s new terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport is currently undergoing a series of checks to ensure that it will be up and running by its scheduled opening on October 1. The airline is in the final phase of its four-year, $743 million project of creating a new home base for [...]
MSNBC.com: Travel News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
As a symbol of the last century of flight sits in its shadow, a new JetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport is undergoing a series of tests ahead of its scheduled opening on Oct. 1.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
GENT.- Design from the first decades following WW II is garnering great public interest. Commemoration exhibitions on Expo 58, the Brussels world fair, are abound. Before 1975, Design museum Gent did not possess any collection from the post-war period. Moreover, the museum was closed between 1958 and 1973. Thanks to interesting acquisitions and countless donations the museum can
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
JFK’s AirTrain will operate entirely free on charge on Friday, July 25, to celebrate the airport’s 60th birthday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced in a press release. AirTrain rides between terminals, parking and rental car...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Rediscovering Saarinen, the man behind the Gateway Arch, Dulles, and some really comfy chairs. [more …] Share This
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Rediscovering Saarinen, the man behind the Gateway Arch, Dulles, and some really comfy chairs. [ more ... ]
Freshome (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Nelson Coconut Chair is a chair that has an innovative design, and an innovative shape. Intended to combine comfort with freedom of movement, the shape of the Coconut Chair’s white molded shell was inspired by the shape of Eero Saarinen's Kresge Auditorium at MIT. Echoing both the auditorium's triangular shape, as well as a portion [...]
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
TWA Terminal When Eero Saarinen, the architect who designed both Dulles International Airport and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, described the state of his profession in 1959, it sounded a lot like our own architecturally muddled times: Our surroundings, he observed, “have become total chaos.” Saarinen, who is the subject of an absorbing retrospective at the [...]
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Ar (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
For more St Urho's Day information see St Urho - Legendary Patron Saint of Finland Happy St Urho's Day 2007 (last year's links) delicious tag urho St Urho, of course, drove the grasshoppers out of Finland, saving the grape crop;...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/03/2008
The Queen will be familiar with Terminal 5 already. It will have been hard to ignore the arrival of Britain's largest covered space, on its own the sixth-biggest airport in Europe, from Windsor Castle, six miles (10km) west. Up close, though, what will she find?
