International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Tel Aviv, the capital of Mediterranean cool, has been getting more and more practice at being a host over the years, and it's starting to show.
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
From the New York Times' The Moment blog: This evening, rush hour commuters on Xicui Road in the western part of Beijing will be treated to the sight of a 20,000 square foot LED screen displaying videos that are twelve stories high. It will be the official debut of the Greenpix ...
Eater (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Today the Times runs an epic tribute to Florent, the 23 year-old Meatpacking District staple that will be closing on June 29th. Since it's been around so long in such a dynamic neighborhood and because its owner, Florent Morellet...
Mousetrap Technology (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
For many Romans, these are jittery times. For the first time in a generation, the mayor of the Eternal City, once a left-wing stronghold, is on the political right; he is the former neo-Fascist Gianni Alemanno. He swept to power...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
SAN JOSE, CA -- 03/07/08 -- The 22nd anniversary of the sister city designation between San Jose, California, and Dublin, Ireland, began today with San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed hosting a celebratory kick-off welcome breakfast for the Dublin Lord Mayor..
The Wealth Report (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Anybody Home? A mansion in Greenwich, Con. for sale at Sotheby's Realty online I'm always amazed at how the richest neighborhoods are also among the most empty. If you walk down any side street along South Ocean Drive in Palm Beach, Fla., even at high season, the only people you see are landscapers and contractors. At [...]
CubeMe (Free subscription) | 15/02/2008
The Douglas House design by one of our favorite architects, Richard Meier is based on the shores of Lake Michigan. The house is one of several spectacular residences Richard Meier completed early in his career and that helped to solidify his reputation. The whiteness and pure geometry of the house stand in sharp contrast to [...]
Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
NEW YORK, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - Richard Branson, Senator Ted Kennedy, Richard Meier, Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and Jacques Pepin Among First Big Thinkers to Mount Virtual Dialogue on Limitless Range of Topics Spanning Sociology to Spirituality to Souffles The launch of Big Think (www.BigThink.com), the first online venue for the growing global conversation about where we are and...
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Alex Steffen: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier tells Vanity Fair that we're his top site: Sustainable strategy is one of the focuses of my practice today. World...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
FishbowlDC: The Anti-Post Ads FishbowlNY: Flavorpill Launches Internet TV Show FishbowlLA: Sundance Dispatch: Par-tayz TVNewser: Scarborough on 'Grossly Inappropriate' Gibson Commentss GalleyCat: Bobby Fischer's Last Days in Icelandic Bookstore UnBeige: Richard Meier, Budding Garmento AgencySpy: Publicis and Google: The Exchange...
http://www.lycio.info/feeds (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Many of the historic quarters of Ulm, Germany were decimated by Allied bombings. Now the city has healed the last architectural wounds of war with a new museum, the Weishaupt Kunstalle, designed by Wolfram Wöhr; and other buildings designed by Richard Meier, Stephan Braunfels and Gottfried Böhm. Source : International Herald Tribune (Subscribe)
LA Times (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
Design questions raised at the center's birth on a hilltop remain relevant as its relationship with the city evolves. During much of the 1990s, as the Getty Center was rising on its Brentwood hilltop, a couple of stubborn questions dogged the hugely ambitious project: Would Richard Meier's design ever have anything meaningful to do with, or say about, the cityover which it loomed? Or would it exist...
::Surroundings:: (Free subscription) | 17/11/2007
The 11,000 sq. ft.West Village triplex owned by Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy is available! Run right over! According to a story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal , Mr. Joy purchased the space overlooking the Hudson River in 2002, hired Richard Meier , who designed the building, to design the interior, but never moved in. The property is listed by New York power realtor Roger Erickson of Sothebys...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
Two thousand years ago, the poet Virgil wrote in the didactic Georgics about, What makes the cornfield smile. Like the farm-owner poets that would follow, he wrote of the bucolic view of farms. More recently, poets reveal connections between the beauty of the farm and the destructive ways we grow food. In Wisconsin, this long standing connection is made tangible at the Wave Books' Poetry Farm. With...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
The Richard Meier apartments beside the West Side Highway in Manhattan Jeremy Fletcher and Alejandra Lillo, designers at Graft, an architecture and design firm based in Berlin, Beijing and Los Angeles, were working out a dialogue between voyeurism and exhibitionism, they said, when they designed the swooping, shiny white interiors of the W Downtown, a glass-walled [...]
