Toledo Glass Pavilion
New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff stops to smell the roses during his visit to Sanaa’s new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. It is not architecture with a Big Message. It is about empathy for the human condition. Once you drift outside again, the tree branches seem to sway more gently, [...]
PARK(ing) DAY: CALL TO ACTION!
Cheeky San Francisco art collective, REBAR are seeking collaborators for a truly inspired détournement. Last year, they created a much need greenspace in a metered parking spot, and now they’re looking to do it again — on a city-wide scale. REBAR opened eyes worldwide by temporarily transforming a metered parking spot into a PARK. We [...]
What is Monometro?
London 2012? yes please. The ultimate advantage of the low cost MonoMetro railway track is that it supports a broad carrying capacity range of vehicles spanning from Mass Transit (20,000 pphpd) Medium Range Tramway class (7-10,000 pphpd) to Personal Rapid Transit vehicles carrying 12 passengers per vehicle. It is thus ideally suited to an extremely [...]
Specs and the City
In all but name, September is Architecture Month here in San Francisco. The AIASF (That’Architecture and the City celebration “engages members of the public, design enthusiasts and architects and designers with a deeper appreciation for San Francisco’s rich architectural and design community.” What does that mean to you? An orgy of building tours, exhibitions, design [...]
ARTIFACTS
A few quick links for the middle of the week. The New York Times on The New Old House. Now you can live in that picturesque country fixer-upper without all the inconvienences of, you know… a picturesque country fixer-upper. An impassioned plea from The Times Online for “design heroes” to take over roles now occupied [...]
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