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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | yesterday
tradingmarkets.com White-haired and charming, Olin excels at both sides of his business. In courting Brooklynites suspicious of the Atlantic Yards development, it's usually Olin who takes the lead, not his frequent collaborator, Frank Gehry. Gehry is perhaps the most famous architect in the world, but at public forums on the project, he mainly sits quiet. Olin does the talking. article NoLandGrab:...
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Speak Up (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The thirty-one winners of the inaugural Chicago International Poster Biennial are currently on display until October 29th in Chicago's lovely Daley Bicentennial Park, just off to the side of Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion and across the bridge designed by Gehry as well. Below are images of the exhibition, and if you haven't had a chance do check the winners over at Design Observer . Congratulations...
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Picketing Henry Ford (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
When Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project (EMP) was built in Seattle, it was marketed as a design that reflected the ingenuity and outside-the-box thinking that characterized the tech revolution. It was a monument to a “countercultural” narrative: software engineers like Paul Allen were the rockers of the new economy, who had started as hippies and [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Last weekend Noémie Lafrance’s Sens Production company completed a two-week stint at Bard College, where she presented “Rapture” on — not in — the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Atlantic Yards Report tries to match Gehry with his celebrity twin: Gehry, whose reputation is taking a bit of a turn south, as the Canadian magazine MacLean's recently reported, is neither Columbo nor Dirty Harry when it comes to Atlantic Yards. While he surely is laboring to create an innovative basketball arena, his willingness to produce renderings that do not merely obscure but actively deceive...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum unquestionably made the Spanish town of Bilbao an international destination; not to be left out of the action, the HQ of the health department there is also outstanding…
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
So, what character from pop culture does Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry most resemble? Remember, in the 2006 documentary, "Sketches of Frank Gehry," Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Foundation, observed, “Somebody asked me once about Frank’s ego. I said: You shouldn’t be put off by the kind of Columbo-like exterior. Y’know, the crumpled raincoat and the sort of shuffling,
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The Jersey Journal, Editorial Remember when the New Jersey Nets of the NBA was expected to move out of the Meadowlands Sports Complex to a Frank Gehry-designed arena in Brooklyn? It is quite possible the Nets will be staying with us a bit longer. The Wall Street crisis and legal problems are close to making a worst case scenario a reality for team owner Bruce Ratner. ... Having already spent millions,...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
This summer's outdoor pavilion at London's Serpentine Gallery is, believe it or not, the first project Frank Gehry has had built in England. Time's Richard Lacayo swung by to have a look and take some pictures. (The surprise: No curves, just angles.)...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Filed under: Art , Big Givers A group of 13 highly covetable artists including John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns and Richard Serra have donated print editions of their work to raise funds for Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Los Angeles-based print publisher Gemini G.E.L. commissioned the group of artists to create what they're calling the "Artists for Obama" portfolio , a...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
photo: Chet Yeary II/ If Corus Group , an Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer, has its way and their new work into developing solar cell paint comes to pass, the whole concept of what types of material can be used for generate electricity through photovoltaics could change. At least that’s the promise. Renewable Energy World is saying that production on Corus’ solar steel sheets could begin in three years,...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Since its founding in 1938, Knoll has worked with such renowned designers as Eero Saarinen, Frank Gehry and Mies van der Rohe. Recently, the company teamed up with the fashion house Proenza Schouler to create its newest upholstery designs. See...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Architect Frank Gehry is best known for his eye-popping architectural designs, but he took time out from support beams and frames to create this unusual men’s watch for fossil. Instead of using a numerical…
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Serpentine Pavilion, Frank Gehry, 2008 /PHOTOS: LACAYO I thought I'd make this mostly a picture day. Every summer since 2000 London's Serpentine Gallery, which is located in Kensington Gardens, asks a prominent architect who has not yet built in England to design a temporary pavilion for a site adjacent to the Gallery. Quite a few major names have gotten their first Engish commission through this...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
For years the architect has been lauded for ushering in a new cultural era. But the climate appears to be shifting. Macleans By Nancy MacDonald As starchitect Frank Gehry's reputation begins to sour, he has "become a lightning rod for criticism of developer Bruce Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards development." There's a "culture of affirmation that surrounds Gehry," says the well-known art critic...
