Breaking News: Oscar Niemeyer Still Alive
I thought this was old news, but it arrived in my inbox today, and it was just too good to pass up. Apparently Oscar Niemeyer (that’s Oscar Niemeyer?!?) will be designing a monument against the US blockade on Cuba. The description is amazing: “… the 98-year-old communist architect remains active and will design a statue [...]
Growing Home
Prefab? Nah. Try Treehab. As in Tree habitation. I know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t the tree fort you had when you were 10 (or in my case, 17), this is science, baby. Dr Mitchell Joachim, part of the MIT Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group, ecological engineer Dr Lara Greden and architect / archinect’er [...]
Adam Sandler: Architect
well, almost… Check out the trailer for Click. A new movie where Sandler plays an overworked architect who finds a truly “universal” remote control, letting him fast forward through his life and stuff. (I think i wrote this movie when i was 11) Featuring appearances by David Hassellhoff, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Christopher Walken, [...]
"Step One: Buy some shiny yellow wrapping paper"
Turn your city into Koopa’s Kingdom. “Because it’s really awesome.”
"Together Again"
In today’s New York Times, Nicolai Ouroussoff waxes on the relationship between art and architecture as he consider’s SANAA’s New Musesum of Contemporary Art Building. In recent years, it has become dismally clear that the art institutions that redefined New York culture in the 20th century are no longer invested in propelling it forward in [...]
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