greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Pentagram has nice coverage of Abbott Miller's work for the crisp signage and graphics systems at Thom Mayne's spectacular new building for the Cooper Union. Which looks, in some of its particulars, quite like Roni Horn sculptures. I look...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
-- Red ink: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reported an $8.4-million deficit for the fiscal year that ended in June. (CultureGrrl) -- Broadway deal: The Shubert Organization has entered into an unusual, three-year deal with producers...
FrontBurner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Glenn brought us some details yesterday from the groundbreaking. Ryan Jones from our web team was there, too, and offers more reportage after the jump: Victory? Victory! The Perot Museum of Nature and Science broke ground on its new digs near downtown yesterday, kicking off a three-year construction phase that will culminate with a 180,000-square foot facility [...]
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Abbott Miller has designed the environmental graphics for @cooperunion's new academic building designed by Morphosis.
Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/09 “Ronald Reagan picked Frank Sinatra and Bill Blass. Bill Clinton appointed Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno, and violinist Isaac Stern. The Bushes, father and son, chose a whole bunch of people you probably never heard of. But when it comes to sheer glitz and celebrity firepower, Barack Obama may have outstripped them all with [...]
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Not long ago, in connection with a story I'll be posting soon on Time.com, I had a conversation with Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who heads the Santa Monica-based firm Morphosis. This fall New York got its first building by Mayne, a really compelling project in the East Village that holds offices, laboratories [...]
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Residential and commercial construction alike doubled in New York under Mayor Bloomberg, who rezoned over a fifth of the city to create large parcels for development under the assumption that the economy would continue to boom. Now, stalled megaprojects like Brooklyn’s City Point complex leave depressing holes in neighborhoods, serving as daily reminders of the [...]
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Proving that he is indeed the coolest world leader ever, Barack Obama's newly appointed Arts and Humanities Committee boasts actor Edward Norton, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, Sex And The City's Sarah Jessica Parker and virtuoso Cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The 25 appointees, announced earlier this week, are charged with working with organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National...
Top ART News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
“ T he arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather paintings and poetry, music...design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.” ~First Lady Michelle Obama WASHINGTON, D.C. -- W hat do Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker , actor Forest Whitaker ,...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
If eclecticism was the goal for Barack Obama in choosing members for the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, then he has succeeded hands down, judging from today's announcement of 25 appointees. Ranging from Hollywood actors to veteran...
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Granted he’s won the Pritzker Prize and had a string of recent successes, but all the same we were more than surprised to get a forwarded White House press release from Morphosis today touting the appointment of Thom Mayne, one of the industry’s gruffer individuals, to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He [...]
Design Observer (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I never thought I would say this about a work by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, but I think 41 Cooper Square is too small.
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The recent work of Frederick Fisher and Partners is deceptively simple. At the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica and a new academic building at Caltech, among other projects, Fisher has used a spare, restrained, formal approach to deal...
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Morphosis Architects, under the direction of renowned architect and UCLA distinguished Professor Thom Mayne, has completed the first floating house permitted in the United States for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans. The FLOAT House is a new model for flood-safe, affordable and sustainable housing that is designed to float securely with rising water levels.
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The gossip goldmine that is the Monterey Design Conference (held at the lovely Asilomar conference center) has delivered yet again. Somehow all the ocean mist, the fragrant Pine trees and the camp-like atmosphere (not to mention plenty of booze) seem to open up the floodgates that are architects’ mouths. Thom Mayne started the fireworks with [...]
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