Uncertain Futures is a two-year snapshot of the student work produced at MIT's Department of Architecture. It is an invitation to a conversation with MIT about the types of narratives of relevance that we - architects, scholars, researchers - tell ourselves daily, in order to do our work, in order to demand the extraordinary, in order to invent, experiment, and innovate. The book opens with Forecast...
It's Project Runway 's first season filming in LA , so of course the show has to take a field trip to the Getty. The designers were asked to make dresses inspired by something at the museum, and the results were a little less promising than that Project Runway alum's Disney Hall affair we showed you a few weeks ago. Most chose pieces in the museum to work off of, but Althea picked the Getty building...
Jason Rodriguez, reportedly a former employee of architecture and engineering firm RS&H, opened fire today in his previous workplace. Last count is 2 dead and 6 injured. Orlando police are still searching for him. Google News Update: He's been caught
I just finished my day of judging the Civic and Community session of the WAF in Barcelona. The festival competition is divided into sixteen categories, with each session winner going into a final round to determine the Building of the Year. My session’s jurors included the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and the Canadian (now living [...]
New York's Pulltab Design recently sent me some images of a rooftop project that features a little bit of " urban rust ." Situated atop a 1900's walkup in Manhattan's East Village, the design is "a space for both reading and entertaining," consisting of a penthouse and garden. [photo by Elizabeth Felicella | courtesy Pulltab Design ] The penthouse and garden are two projects for...
Well known and seasoned designers added some really elegant leather beds to the new collection from Poltrona Frau this year. Patrick Norguet, Roberto Lazzeroni, and Jean-Marie Massaud put the final touches on an already outstanding bedding collection that follows the...
The Alameda County judge who presided over the dispute between UC Berkeley and tree-sitters seeking to block a construction project, Barbara J. Miller, was found dead Friday at her home in Oakland. She was 58. Judge Miller was found a little after 6 p.m.,...
Meinhard von Gerkan designed Berlin's main railway station , opened in 2006, formerly Lehrter Bahnhof under the communist East German government. The redesign of the train line began immediately upon the fall of the Berlin wall and was seen as a significant step for reunification after its hellish post-war period. The structure allows as much daylight and transparency into the spaces as possible. The...
Architecture lovers and foodies come together in a new package that combines a private tour of the P hilip Johnson Glass House site in New Canaan, Connecticut with a three-course dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. This exclusive package is available for $400 per person and includes a two-hour tour with access to five Johnson-designed structures - Glass House, Painting Gallery, Sculpture...
The �Walled Garden� is an oft-used metaphor to describe an area of the web that is somehow closed off � think AOL in the 90s, or any site that lives behind a paywall. To some, these areas of the net are exclusive avenues to brilliantly curated content. To others �Walled Gardens� are threats to the open nature of the net. Elizabeth Goodman, a PhD student at the UC...
From some sneak peeks of the latest update to the Sustainable Sites Initiative ( more from L+U here ), I was both excited about the next iteration and establishment of more rigorous set of criteria, and a bit curious how it was going to maintain some of the necessary distance, inclusivity and poetry that is lacking in many other site rating systems. I'm not sure how I feel about the new split between...
This month, please join us on for a special screening of High-Energy Double Channel videos by Cal Artians, hosted at Ball-Nogues Studio in Downtown LA during Art Walk . Organized and curated by Cal Arts educator and artist Nancy Buchanan , the special screening will feature work by Cal Artians Megyn Cawley, Kaylan George, Jacob Jones, Steven Klems, Pele Kudren, Alex Lorge, Sarah Manuwal, Natasha Mendonca,...
Our farm is a great place to hang special family items for everyone to enjoy. When I was at our farm yesterday, I took special notice of some framed poems written on birch bark. Imagine spending the summer on an...
Chandigarh Police Constables Recruitment Results 2009 At www.chandigarhpolice.com Chandigarh Police has been playing a key role in keeping the city Beautiful-Chandigarh a role model city as was dreamt by its planner Le-Corbusier. Though he planned the city for only 5,00,000 people, but today its population has crossed those limits but the police force remains lesser in number. Read More From Orginal
Fallingwater Photo Gallery | Fallingwater House Pics & Information Fallingwater location is Mill Run, Pennsylvania. It is also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by Famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 from southwestern Pennsylvania (Rural Area), 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. Read More From Orginal Site
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