Freedom Tower Take 1 2 3 4

It’s summer again, and you know what that means; iced tea on the balcony, broken air conditioners, post-collegiate backpacking, and of course, a new design for the Freedom Tower. Yes, it was EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO when blogger whipping-boy and modern-day Peter Keating, David Childs, unveiled his post-cribbing revision of America’s [...]

Have Your House and Eat it Too

Cleaning out the TiVO this weekend, I found a few forgotten recordings, including Food Network Challenge: Incredible Edible Mansions. Most of the *ahem* “mansions” were elaborate, typical gingerbread fare. One ambitious young chef, however, decided to interpret F-dub’s Fallingwater. Much like the original, the strength of Gingerbread Fallingwater’s cantilevers was a cause of [...]

Nouveau Nouvel

…or should it be “neuf?” Regardless, with buildings opening on both sides of the Atlantic this week, Dr. Evil is a busy man. The Musee du Quai Branly opens in Paris tomorrow, to much acclaim and more than a little controversy. President Chirac’s pet project is to be for Non-Western Art what the Louvre [...]

New Dwellings

Go check out Dwell’s new and improved home on the web. Besides a great looking and more user-friendly new page, Dwell.com will be host to editorials, reader-submitted materials, design resources, project profiles, and - taking a much appreciated cue from ICON - the “nice modernists” have posted a complete online archive of their 2006 [...]

ooh…Pout for me Jacques!

I like a lot of their work - especially the <a href=”http://jamestamp.com/2005/07/san-francisco-retreat.html“>new DeYoung - but geez…Herzog & deMeuron sure seem like real assholes. First, they’re making <a href=”http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2005/01/scent-of-meuron.html“>shit-smelling perfume, then they’re posing pretentiously (they can’t helpt it! they’re swiss!) for the essential <a href=”http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2005/08/photo-shoots-and-new-museums.html“>photo shoot that completes each H&dM project, and now they’re giving annoying [...]

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