From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 08:28 PM
Architecture Day Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2013
One of the most iconic buildings in Rotterdam, the Hofpoort on the Hofplein, will be transformed into a 24-hour city on Friday 21 June and Saturday 22 June. All are welcome to come and eat, drink, dance, relax, breakfast, discover, meet, skate, create, shop and much more. For a full 24 hours the Hofpoort will be the epicentre of Architecture Day in Rotterdam.
The Hofplein area used to be regarded as the pulsing heart of Rotterdam. AIR, the Rotterdam architecture centre, ZUS – De Dépendance centre for urban culture and Rotterdam ArchiGuides are joining forces to bring it back to life again on Architecture Day. For 24 hours they will combine to transform the Hofpoort into a vertical city where there is something new to experience every hour.
The Hofpoort, better known as the Shell building, was built in 1976 and has 24 floors. Most of these floors have been vacant for some years. The abandoned office floors will be fil...
From Designboom
Posted on May 24th 2013, 08:23 PM
a personal look at the corners of the amazing frames from classic masterpieces exhibited at the louvre museum and the metropolitan museum of art.
The post the golden shadow by carlos duque appeared first on designboom.
From 2modern
Posted on May 24th 2013, 08:00 PM
We’ve been throughly enjoying the month-long Color of the Day series on Design Sponge, in which the history of color is explored via brief, often...
From Archdaily
Posted on May 24th 2013, 08:00 PM
Architects: Architecture Matters
Location: Malvern, Melbourne, Australia
Project Director: Anthony Gionfriddo
Project Architect: Rebecca Dodd
Area: 179.53 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Christopher Alexander
Architecture Matters sought to negotiate the contrasting hard-edged urban and idyllic parkland settings surrounding the Stonnington Animal Pound site, responding to the contemporary architecture of the existing Pound building and adjacent Stonnington Depot complex, whilst meeting the projected requirements for sustainably housing the municipalities’ growing population of lost and abandoned cats in ‘best-practice’ accommodation.
The resulting wedge-like, steel clad building, with its relatively simple, cost-effective though dynamic forms and textures sits somewhere between the ‘duck’...
From Notcot
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:25 PM
TO PAGE 2 of "Chameleon Window Displays"! ----->
Just found a bunch of these photos on my phone… couldn’t help being fascinated by the chameleon window displays at Aritzia while wandering soho… see them all on the next page!
(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:03 PM
How would the design of the built environment, the process and practice of architecture change if women were leading and equally represented?
Nina Freedman and Lori Brown are seeking funding for "Women in Architecture", an initiative to transform leadership for women in architecture by bridging academy and practice.
From Archdaily
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
Architects: Cornell University Sustainable Design
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Cornell University Sustainable Design
Professors: Jeremy Foster, Kifle G Gebremedhin, Werner Goehner, George Hascup, Alex Mergold, Arthur Ovaska, Andrea Simitch
Students: Barry Beagen (Project Director), Andrew Fu (Lead Designer), Shuping Liu (Construction Drawing Coordinator), Thomas Shouler (Structural Engineer), Jonathan Leape (Construction Manager), Mikey Jiang (Utilities), Karen Chi-Chi Lin (Marketing and Communications), Carly Dean (Exhibition Director and On-Site Safety Manager), Jesse McElwain (Director of Development) Sidney Beaty, Joe Beaudette, Yen Chiang, Christine Chung, Alex Cote, Jorge Cuervo Manrique, Mercedes Cuvi, Will Dibernardo, Robert Dicker, ...From Gizmodo
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
Perhaps you're whittling the last couple of hours away at your desk, trying to look busy until quitting time. So while you're trying to make it to the three day weekend, here are some of the best design posts we showed you this week.
Dominic Wilcox has a knack for the absurd. He’s designed gold-plated luxury skipping stones, anti-theft bike stickers, and a post-it note tattoo for hand-written notes. His latest design, though,...
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
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El “Tabernáculo de Provo”, un edificio que pesa aproximadamente siete millones de libras, sufrió un grave incendio en el año 2010. Hoy parece flotar en el aire gracias a los trabajos de remodelación: sus pesados muros exteriores descansan sobre andamios de 12 metros de altura, haciéndolo parecer tan ligero como una maqueta.
Impresionantes imágenes de las obras y un video, a continuación.
© LDS Newsroom
Patrimonio histórico y símbolo de la ciudad de Provo, en Utah (Estados...
From Core77
Posted on May 24th 2013, 07:00 PM
Photo by Benjamin Norman for The New York TimesIn New York City there are plenty of places to get drunk, starting with my kitchen. But most crave a more glamorous experience, and in a city of millions, glamor is often equated with exclusivity and secrecy. Faux speakeasys have become as much of a cliché as drunken fistfights in the Meatpacking District. Yet for a brief period earlier this year, a group of artists ran a true speakeasy in the most unusual of locations: A water tower atop an abandoned building in Chelsea.
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Photo by Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:56 PM
At $3.74 billion, plus another $200 million in contingencies, the “Transportation Hub” at the World Trade Center—not even the busiest station in the Financial District—will be far and away the most expensive train station built in modern history.The Hub, as it’s known in Port Authority speak, will be the crowning artistic statement of the World Trade Center complex, perhaps the last grand gesture at a site that was supposed to be full of them.
From Notcot
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:50 PM
TO PAGE 2 of "Inspiration in NYC"! ----->
For all of the NY Design Week randomness we’ve loved and already posted, flipping through our instagrams (and Shawn’s) proved the real fun happened between the events! So here’s a peek at everything ELSE that inspired and amused us that turned up on our phones! Take a peek at everything from the LOOK signage i was hunting for, to street art, to taco store floors, to the game of thrones like saw chair, the wedding we went to, the wooden beer slide, suits and surf photoshoot, and so much more on the next page… (and for those who follow our instagrams, here’s a bit more context.)
(Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org)From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:49 PM
The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and architects worked with, leaned on, stole from and influenced one another in the 1970s.In a larger sense, it charts the way Southern California architects threw off the influence of establishmen Modernism and helped remake the profession in that decade.
Packed with mostly small-scale work by artists Judy Chicago, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Smithson, Ed Moses and architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli and Frank Gehry, among many others, it is easily the most surprising and opinionated of the exhibitions to open as part of the Getty L.A. architecture series "Pacific Standard Time Presents."
From Archinect
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:47 PM
This summer at the almost defiantly unhip South Street Seaport, there shall be pop-up boutiques housed in shipping containers. There shall be outdoor film screenings with lounge-chair seating. There shall be SmorgasBar. And, the lords of artificial weather willing, there may be glitter rain.
Posted on May 24th 2013, 06:30 PM
