Check out Red Squared this summer, a temporary art and architecture studio/exhibit running from July-September in downtown Spring Green, Wisconsin (136 N. Lexington Street). Red Squared will display the art and architectural work, which has and is currently taking place at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. More details after the jump... Download and read the flyer and press release for...
In January 1944, Wright described his choice of color and material as “Exterior: Red-marble and long-slim pottery red bricks.” If Wright had had his way with his wealthy client, Solomon R. Guggenheim, the mining entrepreneur, the Guggenheim Museum would not have been near white. The architect made designs not only in red, but in pink, peach, [...]
David Chipperfield, Bennetts Associates and Rafael Viñoly have been shortlisted to design a new £60 million architecture school and library for the University of Greenwich in south-east London.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a new style of art and architecture was born in Barcelona. Modernisme, a variant of Art nouveau, was embraced by many artists and architects. Common characteristics of this architectural design include: all aspects on interior and exterior decoration and design follow the art form use of parabolic arches in decorative and structural elements elaborate use of wrought...
Robert Miles Kemp’s talk was always interesting and occasionally spellbinding, most of all when showing the work in responsive robotic structures. His videos of simple blocks self-assembling into what he called “nano-architecture” are quite extraordinary (sometimes eliciting a collective delight...
Last night the Architectural Association school officially launched their summer pavilion in Bedford Square. Designed by level 2 students at the school, "Driftwood" is built from a plywood spruce structure provided by a Finnish timber merchant, with the cladding consisting of 28 layers of 4mm thick plywood. The flowing, heavily computer-aided design, which the designers say is inspired by...
Longtime critics of Atlantic Yards know that the removal of architect Frank Gehry is part of a pattern of not-so-trustworthy behavior by developer Forest City Ratner (whose reps swore for months that Gehry was still the architect), but New York magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson, like some other architecture aficionados, treats it as the ultimate betrayal.In a recent article headlined
I love this! Jeff Skilling speaking about Frank Gehry on May 18, 2001: “The uniqueness of Frank Gehry’s work is the blending of the functional with the artistic to create an innovative product,” said Jeff Skilling, Enron President and CEO. “This is a quality Enron relates to every day as we question traditional business [...]
[Streets that'll be blocked off on Tuesday. LAPD says that you must have a ticket or be credentialed to get into the above area] The Tuesday Michael Jackson tribute likely will be no spontaneous city-wide musical love fest, no urban love-in. At a press conference in downtown this morning, city officials, AEG execs, and the LAPD presented a plan for a tightly-controlled memorial, and encouraged Jackson...
MINNESOTA GOVERNOR Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, was on The Brian Lehrer Show today. Asked what he thought about climate change, he said that while he's not completely convinced, he knows that pollution causes enough problems to convince him that we should fight it. He could have added that Peak Oil...
Brace, Los Angeles. Just how big will the crowds be for next Tuesday's Michael Jackson tribute at Staples Center? On CNN, Jermaine Jackson expressed worry about Staples Center's ability to handle all the fans, telling Larry King: "There's 20,000 people just coming from the U.K." One silver lining, of course, is that an influx of tourism will help the city's struggling hotel industry . As...
Photograph: Christopher Thomond Zaha Hadid's music pavilion for the Manchester international festival is almost complete. The Guardian's Art & Design editor Charlotte Higgins discusses the project with Zaha . Tom Service, music editor, follows up with his thoughts .
Mousavi the architect | US Housing Awards | Johnston Marklee interview | the architecture of video games | the bathroom reinvented | tipsy in Shanghai | 22% of Game Show Audience Members Think Gehry Can Fly | Fighting back | a model for our times | toothpick city | green roof law grows |
[At $37.5M , this Time Warner Center penthouse became the biggest deal of '09.] We're taking the day off to get our America celebrations started early, so here's a look back at some of the week's top stories: Curbed Roundtable: July State O' the Market Report , That's Rather Fraudulous: A Peek Inside Madoff's Penthouse , Madonna's $40M Townhouse Now Just a $32.5M Townhouse , Hammocks Run Amok on Long...
"As both Berkeley and Oakland debate their downtown plans, there is growing recognition that the fight against global warming requires greater urban density. Global warming is changing far more than just the climate. It's altering the way environmentalists view development...." East Bay Express
Few outlines of the Manchester International Festival 2009 The line-up sees spectacular and one-off events including music from Kraftwerk, Elbow, De La Soul and Antony and the Johnsons, singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright’s debut opera, an epic group show by Marina Abramović, dance by Carlos Acosta, mind-blowing work by Zaha Hadid and a daring walk-through production with original music by Damon Albarn.
New York’s Chelsea galleries also expanding Soon to expand: Arnie and Larry in the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (AP Photo/Jennifer Graylock) Galleries hit by the recession may be closing in New York and London, but Larry Gagosian is undertaking an ambitious expansion of his space in Beverly Hills. In addition to his gallery in Los Angeles, Gagosian oversees three spaces in New York, two in London
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