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Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
What? No Ikea and its Swedish meatballs'?? Cafe Surfas, the eatery at Surfas gourmet and kitchen supply store in Culver City, tops Bon Appétit's list of the 10 best in-store dining spots. Says the mag: Southern California's premier restaurant supply...
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Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | yesterday
His projects have impressive moves, the volume and the materials of the buildings make it seem part of the landscape with fascinating inserts. The architecture of Antoine Predock is a unique experience for its users. <!--break--> Antoine Predock was born in 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri. He studied at the School of Architecture at the University of New Mexico and graduated from Columbia University....
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
I recently reviewed the new book from Pomegranate on the exquisite art glass windows at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed D. D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY. Read another article on it here. Image copyright Sharon Cantillon
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The National Trust For Historic Preservation's magazine has a great article on the extraordinary effort to save and restore the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Dorothy Turkel House in Detroit, MI. Read it here.Image via The National Trust For Historic Preservation
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Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Ok, sit back and relax, I want to tell you the story of the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin 2 floor light, now reissued by Yamagiwa. The original design was produced as a pendant light for a gymnasium back in 1933,...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
ELIKINS PARK, PA (AP).- Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the architect? Few people have. Which is why the members of Beth Sholom — who worship in the only synagogue ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — are stepping forward to tell the story of how their landmark spiritual home was built. Described as a symbolic Mount Sinai made of concrete, steel and glass, the iconic building...
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
There are several houses around the country that you can now rent to get "The Wright Experience." Here's an article about what it's like to stay at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Louis Penfield House in Ohio. Read it here.
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Here's a link to an article on visiting public Frank Lloyd Wright sites. See it here.
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Ecology of Absence (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
St. Louis has a long way to go to catch up to Chicago. While our Archdiocese senselessly demolished a motel by Charles Colbert this year, Chicago city government has been working to demolish the Michael Reese Hospital campus planned and co-designed by Walter Gropius. This week, the city's wreckers demolished the power plant shown above, which was completed in 1953 and designed by Gropius' The Architects...
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Dornob Designs (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
There is not much to see from a distance: faded red-brown roofs barely rise above the level of the surrounding desert landscape, and blend in with the ground against the blue sky and white-capped mountains in the distance. Beneath the rusted core-ten steel roof-scape and between textured rammed-earth walls, however, sits a house that is anything [...]
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Vulli Sophie the Giraffe Teether (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Get more detail about LEGO Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater 21005.
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Gods of the Copybook Headings (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The good doctor advises: Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately,...
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Sandpiper's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Last weekend Steve and I toured Fallingwater , a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house belonged to the Kaufmanns . I may be misspelling the name, because it's late at night and I'm baking pies, and I my contacts are blurry, but ANYWAY.... Kaufmann's -- remember the department store? Those Kaufmanns . Their son was a student of Wright -- the connection that created the business relationship...
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Frank Lloyd Wright’s youngest granddaughter, Elizabeth Catherine Wright, has just published the love letters her parents wrote during their courtship at the height of the Great Depression, 1932-1933. The book, Dear Bob, Dear Betty, is also a sequel to recent titles exploring the tumultuous years of Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal life, as it highlights the fallout from these events on the...
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pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I can't avoid Oprah anymore. I don't click with most pop-cultural phenomenons. Though you might find this amazing, I somehow get through life without Dr. Phil, a shamwow, Lady GaGa, a slap chop, Cesar Millan or a snuggie. Just call me a clueless Neanderthal, but I just have no need to waste my time or money on such schlock.
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