The MEME gauntlet has been thrown
Like John, who passed this along to me, I am a meme virgin. Unless you count a somewhat frustrating, somewhat drunk, bar conversation on “memes.” …but i don’t want to think about that right now. So without further ado…. Total volume of music files on my computer:At home: ~1.5 GB (I just wiped my hard [...]
The only blog with a food court
Behold! The Mall Blog! A fellow midwesterner waxing nostalgic on the glory days of shopping. …spend some quality time with each photo, and truly enter its space in your imagination, and hear the Muzak; you’ll be transported back to a wonderful, magical time and place, when life, and the world, was much simpler, and malls [...]
Fortress: Manhattan
Today, the revised WTC “design” was announced, and this latest masterpiece from David Childs is just a slightly reworked version of the design he cribbed from a Yale student. The new additions? a 200 ft windowless, “impregnable” concrete and steel pedestal and a centered spire bringing the height to 1776 feet – the only remnant [...]
"Federal" & the architecture of politics
I regret to say that this post is probably one day too late. On Tuesday, June 29, NYC’s Storefront for Art and Architecture will open the exhibit Federal, a 24 hour film and series of photographs by Mary Ellen Carroll. The subject of this exhibition is The Federal Building in Los Angeles, designed in 1969 [...]
The Ara Pacis Museum
Arcspace strolls around Richard Meier’s Ara Pacis Museum in Rome. The Museum is designed to display and protect the Ara Pacis Augustae, a sacrificial altar dating to 9 B.C. And now a lesson on how to say a lot without really saying anything – compliments of Richard Meier & Partners’ website: The location of the [...]
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