Fashion, Architecture, Taste?

No, not them. Today we’re looking at two recent fashion shoots that use high-profile, recently restored architectural works as set pieces.On the left, a fashion shoot from last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. The photographs were taken at FLW’s recently restored Hollyhock House in Los Angeles. And in case you’re wondering: Alexander McQueen (Life [...]

Wesley Meuris’s Gilded Cages

The work of artist Wesley Meuris expands our definition of “architecture” to include “cage” and our definition of “cage” to include “art.”Cage for Alopex lagopus (Arctic Fox), 2006 The incredible nightlife in the tropical forest, 2007Obviously, these cages (can they even be called cages?) aren’t meant to duplicate the natural environment of their intended [...]

Feathers and Stones

I know Steven Holl reads Knut Hamsun, but is he also a Paul Auster fan?
From an Auster-centric post earlier this week, emphasis added:The plot summary of the play reminded me of Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance. It’s the story of two incredibly eccentric billionaires, Feather and Stone (who are so rich that at times [...]

San Francisco from the Bay Bridge

Circa 1971:click the image for a GINORMOUS version.Did you see Zodiac? That movie does an incredible job of channeling 1970’s San Francisco, and there’s a particular scene that has to be one of the coolest uses of a building as set-piece in film (after Cremaster 3 and King Kong). In order to illustrate the passage [...]

Cities Within Cities Within Cities Within…

Last week, A Daily Dose of Architecture reported on a new movie written and directed by Charlie Kauffman, he of Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine fame. Synechdoche, New York, is about “a stage director who ambitiously attempts to put on a play by creating a life-size (!) replica of New York inside a warehouse.” [...]

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