What Gehry, evergreen at 82, has been building up there on the site of a former parking lot on the border of New York’s financial district, close by Brooklyn Bridge, is an $875m (£543.3m), 870ft, 76-storey residential tower, clad in heroic, sculpted folds of stainless steel. It houses 903 rental apartments – none are for sale – with prices ranging upwards of $2,630 a month, and is due for completion in five months’ time – although the builders who show me around say that some 200 flats have already been let.
#TEDTALKS: How to Get Your Ideas to Spread
Posted: February 27, 2013 Filed under: More FC3, Repost, Uncategorized | Tags: Design, Ideas, TED Talks Leave a comment »
In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur and blogger who thinks about the marketing of ideas in the digital age. His newest interest: the tribes we lead. Full bio »
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Antony Gormley’s Mind-bending Scupltures via @TEDTalks
Posted: September 7, 2012 Filed under: Repost | Tags: @tedtalks, Antony Gormley, Body, FF, Sculpture Leave a comment »
In his talk, Gormley gives the insight behind his works Rearranged Desert and Learning to See. He also gives a peek at his work Blind Light, where he used light and water vapors as materials to create something of a cloud. The piece is meant to be an experience, and observers are invited to stroll through it.
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Stunning Photography by Gordon McBryde
Posted: March 4, 2012 Filed under: Photography, Repost | Tags: Creative, Images, Photo, Repost 2 Comments »From bright, colorful pictures to that other side, darker and moody… photography passes by both extremes in a fraction of a second, and it’s great how the same photographer gets to picture both ends just perfectly. I know this guy for some time now, and it came the time to tell the world about him. Gordon McBryde is an awesome photographer that takes some amazing pictures… he also makes some great manips from his images, that only turn his art into something even better. One thing that I’ve always thought about his work, is that it’s just the thing people love to post on tumblr, and when you take a look at these, you’re gonna probably relate to that. For more of his great pieces, visit his portfolio at DeviantART.
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Stunning Photography by Gordon McBryde
Stunning Photography by Gordon McBryde
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Awesome Modern House by Mima Architects
Posted: January 16, 2012 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Architecture, EcoMonday, JustArch, Minimal, Minimalism, Modern, Portugal, Prefab 6 Comments »After a strong finish to 2011 and slow start 2012 (slow only in terms of blogging), I would like to share this really cool project with you.
For those interested in becoming Architects, Architecture Education is offered in an increasing amount of ways. From night school to accredited online degree programs, it is possible to participate in the evolution of structure and design. Design and community inspire learning and technological advancements expand the possibilities for what will stand and what will not. The movement toward a environmentally friendly society also creates a need for students who have fresh ideas and a green thumb, so to speak. In the coming decades, the need for students with the knowledge necessary to convert old buildings into efficient ones will give many a chance at a career that makes an impact on the beauty and function of the world around them.
Designed by Mima Architects, the Mima House has a modular structure and can be divided into rooms with a grid of removable partitions.
This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (all photographs by José Campos).
Plywood panels transform the windows into walls to create privacy where necessary.
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NEW YORK CITY REIMAGINED
Posted: September 28, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Architecture, ArchRecord, JustArch, JustArchitecture, NEW YORK CITY REIMAGINED, NYC, Renzo Piano 1 Comment »
City officials and developers have long imagined a dazzling future for the airspace over the gritty, 26-acre West Side Rail Yard, near Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. A plan to transform the site into a mixed-use area with glass towers and pockets of green space is finally gaining traction. Click Here for the rest of the story
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Like every Manhattan resident, the Whitney Museum has long griped about the need for more space. After years of failed proposals to expand its Marcel Breuer-designed home on the Upper East Side, the museum’s board voted in 2010 to build an entirely new facility, by Renzo Piano, in the Meatpacking District. Groundbreaking occurred in May, with an opening planned for 2015. Click here for the rest of the story.
Architect Perspective: Frank Gehry Genius of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Posted: September 21, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, More FC3, Repost | Tags: Architecture, Disney, Form, Gehry, LA 2 Comments »Check out this great post on the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry.
Fabrikstrasse 15 by Gehry Partners
Posted: August 1, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Architecture Record, Basel, Campus, Design, Fabrikstrasse 15, Frank Gehry, Gehry Partners, Kamran, Linda C. Lentz, Master Planning, Modern, Novartis, Pharma, pharmaceutical, Planning, Switzerland, Urban, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Leave a comment »Completed in 2009, Frank Gehry’s Fabrikstrasse 15 is an icon on the growing Novartis Basel campus. In the evening its brilliant sculptural form is underscored by layers of light — all on the interior — that gently wash the facade, illuminate the workstations, and glow from within its core.
Photo © Thomas Mayer
Basel, Switzerland Breaking the bounds of of Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani’s master plan, Fabrikstrasse 15 by Frank Gehry stands in a surprising juxtaposition to the serene array of rectilinear buildings that dominate the Novartis campus. It is located at the geographic heart of the campus, in full view of the company’s renovated 1939 Forum 1 International Headquarters building, and across the street from a refined stretch of porticoed offices and labs by Adolf Krischanitz, Rafael Moneo, Lampugnani, and Yoshio Taniguchi. The highly visible, independent site gave the architect freedom to exploit his expansive, free-spirited style.
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Houston Ballet Center for Dance by Gensler
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: AR, Architecture, Arts, City, Dance, Design, Gensler, Houston Ballet Center for Dance, JustArch, Modern, Theater, Theater District, TX, Urban 2 Comments »
- Photo © Nic Lehoux/Gensler
Program: A six-story, 115,000-square-foot home for the Houston Ballet and its academy, located in the city’s theater district. The project includes nine dance studios, a dance laboratory, dressing rooms, a common room, and offices. An open-air pedestrian sky bridge connects the new steel-structure building to the ballet’s performance space next door, the Wortham Theater Center.
Design Concept and Solution: Imagining the center as a living billboard for dance, Gensler wanted to create a building that would showcase the activity of the dancers within. The architects drew inspiration from the proscenium stage, stacking double-height rehearsal studios atop each other so that passersby below see the studios framed by the center’s black granite facade. The architects continued this framing effect on the inside by surrounding the studios’ interior-facing windows with walnut planking. They kept the fixtures and finishes minimal and neutral-toned to further emphasize the activity of the dancers: long, lean lighting strips and clear glass railings (along with the lines of the walnut planking) provide a static backdrop for the movements of the dancers.
Total construction cost: $46 million
Architect:
Gensler
711 Louisiana, Suite 300
Houston, TX 77002
Phone 713.844.0000
Is It Time to Unfriend Them on Facebook?
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: Repost, Social Media | Tags: Chris Voss, Cool Material, Facebook, Funny, just for fun, Social Media 3 Comments »By Mike Newman
There comes a time when you have to do some Facebook housecleaning. Your News Feed has become clogged with updates from “friends” you barely know and somehow you’ve been included in message chains you have zero desire to be on. Sure, at one time you wanted the most friends possible to prove to cyberspace that you were king of the internet, but that feeling has faded and now you just want to stay in touch with a more select crew. Here’s how to decide who gets the boot:
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DSLR Bank
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: Photography, Repost | Tags: Canon, Cool, Cool Material, DSLR, Gear, Nikon, Tech 1 Comment »At the rate I’m going with my photography hobby I am going to need to get one of these!
Contrary to popular belief, piggy banks aren’t just for people under the age of ten. Ok, maybe banks shaped like pigs are, but having immediately accessible storage for your change is something people of all ages can appreciate. All the better when it’s shaped like your latest digital single lens reflux investment and will most likely be used as a fund for that new polarizing filter, lens or just another night out on the town. When it’s not working hard to keep track of all your dollars and cents, it also conveniently doubles as a prop for photo shoots and school plays because it has a detachable lens and all the buttons and switches of a real camera. This is one camera that will actually pay for itself over time. $24
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Archaeology Museum of Álava
Posted: July 7, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Archaeology, Architect, Architectural Record, Architecture, Álava, Cool, Design, Espana, Magazine, Mangado, Mangado & Associates, Mangado and Associates, Modern, Museum, Repost, Spain, Vitoria 3 Comments »Written by David Cohn
Francisco “Patxi” Mangado, the 54-year-old Spanish architect, compares his bronze-clad Archaeological Museum of Álava in Vitoria, Spain, to a “coffer guarding a treasure.” He has developed this apparently simple conceit at a number of different levels in the work, so that it acquires a sensual resonance that reaches beyond words to convey his poetic intent.
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Photo © Roland Halbe
The architect uses the contrast between the building’s bronze and glass skin and its setting within Vitoria’s medieval core to further develop his evocation of archaeological layering. A quiet city of 230,000, Vitoria is the capital of the Basque region, with a rich history dating back to the sixth century AD. The museum, a mixed concrete-and-steel-frame structure, is part of an ongoing effort by local authorities to rehabilitate the medieval center, which has been in decline through most of the 20th century. Located on one of its livelier streets lined with bars, old shops, and a few monumental buildings, the museum adjoins the 16th-century Bendaña Palace. In 1994 the palace was renovated to house the Fournier Museum of Playing Cards as the town’s homage to a well-known local industry. The two museums now share a common entry court.
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Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights
Posted: July 6, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Architecture, Gehry, Guardian, Multi Family, New York City 4 Comments »This article was written by Jonathan Glancey and published on guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 5 July 2011. A version appeared on p19 of the G2 section of the Guardian onWednesday 6 July 2011.
8 Spruce Street. The tallest luxury residential tower in New York City, was designed by the architect Frank Gehry. (Photograph: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
It’s Frank Gehry’s first skyscraper – a twisting, rippling tower that is transforming the New York skyline. Jonathan Glancey talks to the 82-year-old architect about realising a lifelong ambition.
The dazzle and the ritz . . . 8 Spruce Street, next to the Woolworth Building. (Photograph: Wade Zimmerman/Arcaid/Corbis
I’m getting tearful,” says Frank Gehry when I ask him how he feels about finally making his mark on the Manhattan skyline. “My father grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, 10th Avenue, on the city’s West Side.” Irving Goldberg was one of nine children in a very poor immigrant family; his son changed his name in the early 1950s. “He started work at 11,” says Gehry. “He had a hard life. I’d like to share 8 Spruce Street with him. Hey, Pa! I got to build a skyscraper right by the Woolworth Building. That’s me, Dad. Up there!”
Lincoln Restaurant Pavilion
Posted: June 29, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: AR, Architecture, Architecture Record, Beautifulstranger, Design, Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, FXFOWLE, Great, High Line, HL, Modern Arhcitecture, New York, Open Space, Scofidio, Starkitects, Urban Leave a comment »Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE
Written by Linda C. Lentz
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Built up on a plinth, and clad in relentless swaths of travertine, Lincoln Center was once considered by many to be a remote acropolis of culture. A half century after it was built, the iconic mid-20th-century performing arts compound is coming down to earth, or at least to the surrounding streets of New York City’s Upper West Side.
The podium and stone remain. But a whimsical glass pavilion — the latest phase in the eight-year redevelopment of the 16-acre campus by collaborating firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DSR) and FXFOWLE — is engaging theatergoers, tourists, and the neighboring community with a first-rate restaurant, state-of-the-art film center, and a rare patch of urban green on its roof.
Indeed, this populist intervention in many ways culminates the team’s efforts to revitalize the complex and its intersecting thoroughfare, West Sixty-Fifth Street, a master plan initiative responsible for the previously completed Alice Tully Hall renovation[RECORD, June 2009], and the Juilliard School extension [RECORD, February 2011]. This is largely due to the comprehensive 40,000-square-foot project’s strategic location on the site, as well as the critical programmatic elements the architects were required to incorporate into it: cultural, public, and private.
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