I attended a briefing by the DesignSingapore Council's International Advisory Panel on Friday that discussed making healthcare an economic driver of this city-state in the future. Now think about this. As the politics of the US continues to grind on around providing all Americans with the basics of health care, the government of Singapore has put together a panel of some of the world's top designers...
Its fascinating that Le Corbusier was a modernist zealot, well, on paper, at the start... but seemed to just contradict all of that tight modernism with a whole lot of primitive, Picasso-esque, suspiciously colourful, decorative paintings - which I think is very balanced, in truth. "Je suis un acrobate de la forme", he reckoned. And I dont know if his famous l ittle cabanon was all that functional,...
What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi, the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid on the outskirts of Rome’s historic quarter? My guess is that he would have been ecstatic. This 17th-century pope, one of the most prominent cultural patrons in Roman history, understood that great cities are not frozen in time. He loved dreaming up lavish new projects over breakfast with...
Former Taliesin Apprentice, John W. Geiger, has undertaken a really exciting website documenting his experiences while working with Frank Lloyd Wright and his personal ideas regarding the geometry behind Wright's architecture. One of the first article explorations of this architectural geometry discusses Wright's Oak Park home. Read more by following the link. Image copyright John W. Geiger
OK - I'll start running again... My meager attempt at exercise - running - has dwindled to sporadic episodes this year . I have iron-clad excuses: I was traveling I just got home We were working extra hours It was raining My ____ hurt. (Fill in the sexagenarian blank) Meanwhile, my resistance to stress dwindled as well . I must be part rat. “It looks more and more like the positive stress of...
The famous Palm Springs, CA architectural gem, the John Lautner-designed Elrod House is on the market...for $13.89 million! The PrairieMod Squad had a chance to see this fantastic residence in person during the Dwell on Design Conference a few years back. See more here. Image via redfin.com
Just over a year ago, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum completed a three-year restoration project for its great landmark building by Frank Lloyd Wright. Among much else, the beautifully done project put a grayish white skin on the original...
Theodore Dalrymple discusses the architect as totalitarian : At the exhibition, I fell to talking with two elegantly coiffed ladies of the kind who spend their afternoons in exhibitions. “Marvelous, don’t you think?” one said to me, to which I replied: “Monstrous.” Both opened their eyes wide, as if I had denied Allah’s existence in Mecca. If most architects revered...
The Brooklyn Paper By Michael P. Ventura This article includes a thumbnail history of the proposed Atlantic Yards project and a question as to whether the project (or even just the proposed Nets arena) will ever be built. In 2003, Ratner finally unveiled his plan for Atlantic Yards — a 16-skyscraper residential, hotel, office and commercial complex with a basketball arena at the core. His goal...
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