If You’re Reading This, BMW Wants You.

Falling Water sits idylically over its little waterfall - an image that even your mom can recognize - when suddenly a wrecking ball swings into frame, mercilessly smashing those elegant cantilevered balconies we all hold so dear.
And this is how BMW is courting the Creatives; by strumming on our aesthetic hearstrings. “What if [...]

Downtown -Everything’s Waiting For You…

A radical change could be in store for San Francisco’s skyline and the goatee’d techie (and increasingly prada-clad architect) denizens of SoMa. City officials want to raise building height limits in the area, paving the way for two new 850 foot high towers and one new 1000+ foot tower, intended to be the tallest American [...]

one LOST foot

It’s a well-documented fact that I love me some giant statues. That being said, did you see LOST last night?
Ruins of an enormous four-toed statue?
awesome.

"This is so stupid looking, it’s great!"

It’s documentary fest hear in San Francisco, and the Bay Guardian reviews Sketches of Frank Gehry.
…despite all the grotesque, garish fun houses of titanium and glass, his work also radiates a peculiar warmth and friendliness. Unlike, say, Freedom Tower overlord Daniel Libeskind, whose attempts at sentiment come off about as soft and subtle as the [...]

Vlad the Inheritor

The headline read “Architect to Inherit Dracula’s Castle.” (Under no circumstances, by the way, should this to be confused with “Dracula inherit’s Architect’s Castle” - referring, of course, to Mr. Childs, Mr. Libeskind, and a certain downtown Manhattan development.) At a ceremony this Friday, Bran Castle - the 13th century Transylvanian fortress that inspired Bram [...]