More Giant Statues…
More Goodness from the Architecture Foundation. I’d like to present Lacaton Vassal’s submission for the Foundation’s new building, a competition won by Ms. Hadid almost a year ago (above). Yep. That’s a giant lady in her undewear knickers. I haven’t written much about them lately, but for obvious (and not so obvious) reasons, Lacaton [...]
Shooting Foster
While cruising the Architecture Foundation’s website, this t-shirt caught my eye. Was this a new design from some ironic London Archi-hipster fed up with Foster’s domination of the city? Unfortunately, no. “I Shot Norman Foster” is an exhibit displaying the work of 5 photographers from various design fields, commissioned by the Foundation [...]
Not-So-Koolhaas
Check out this annoyingly scathing review of Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library. I can understand the pragmatic difficulties of the building, but the author gives no credit to the architectural ideas and concepts behind the design, choosing instead to depict Koolhaas as the naked emperor and failed filmmaker.
…silly and unsettling, there are the doors on [...]
"This Door Was Not Johnny Cash’s Door"
Slate’s Paul Reyes tours Johnny Cash’s childhood home, only to find the smell of cigars, a drop ceiling, and a soy bean field. The renovated, dilapiated, might-have-been mecca is a far cry from the cotton field farmhouse he expected.
This was where Johnny Cash played the piano; where his mother read the Old Testament out [...]
FG+SG
55 photo essays of contemporary Portugese Architecture and other recent work by architect and photographer Fernando Geurra.
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