Architectural Illustration: Heavy Water
While browsing through Fecal Face, I found a link to New York-based artist Scott Teplin. Using an illustration style that reminds me of something between a comic and a children’s book – and I mean that in a good way – Teplin’s “Heavy Water” series was inspired by a hezbollah military strategy that called for [...]
Pamphlet Architecture
Pamphlet Architecture is once again issuing a “call for ideas,” and there’s just one week left to complete your paradigm-shifting, name-making manifesto. The postmark deadline for submissions is January 16, 2007. The winning submission will engage important issues facing architecture, landscape, and/or urban design today in a way that is as visually provocative as it [...]
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
On my way to work this morning, I snapped a few pictures of the Libeskind-designed Contemporary Jewish Museum.” The final image is of course the presentation rendering, and I regrettably admit that prefer the construction photos to the final product. I want to like his building, I really do, but there’s just too much working [...]
The TMA Glass Pavilion
While home for the Holidays, I finally got to visit the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. Almost the entire structure is enclosed by glass walls — including the furnace area, as seen in the above photo. Not only is this furnace part of the University’s glass blowing program, but it’s also used [...]
