Not Architecture, but REALLY important!

Too busy lately to post anything, but just in case someone reads this…
If you haven’t bought Brian Wilson’s SMiLE yet, do the following:
1) buy it. (through iTunes, preferably)
2) listen to it for the rest of the week
3) reflect on how inferior Sgt. [...]

The Annual McGraw-Hill Promotes Itself Awards…

The results are in for the annual Architectural Record/Business Week Awards (sponsored by those young upstarts at the AIA )…I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats for months over this.
The awards are bestowed upon architects and clients who ” best utilize good design to achieve important objectives for [...]

Charles Gwathmey is a scary, scary man…

If i have to wait until I’m this old to be a rockstar architect, there’ll be hell to pay.
Here, the corpse-like Charles Gwathmey, of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, stands stoically atop his new vomit-inducing “Sculpture for Living” in Astor Place. New York Magazine uses the under-construction building to speculate on the future [...]

Mendelsohn in Manchester

The UK’s ‘Building Design Online’ review the new Mendelsohn exhibition currently underway in Manchester - and walk away somewhat disappointed at the path of the Architect’s career.
“We ask of our heroic architects that they pursue a course of enquiry that is both restless and persistently vital. We want them to continue to [...]