From Gallery to Gamespace: The Site Specific Work of Chris Saucedo
[Christopher Saucedo, untitled, installation at Good Children] A sculptor with a sense of humor (“postmodernist fun,” some have said), Chris Saucedo creates site-specific work that transforms galleries into gameboards and back again. In the above image, a small scale-model of the New Orleans art gallery, Good Children, has been built in the form of one [...]
More Terrestrial Starship Yards
[image via io9] From J.J. Abram’s new Star Trek prequel / re-imagining, comes this construction shot of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. However, in a counter-intuitive and perhaps counter-canonical move, it appears that the iconic ship is under construction planetside. We’ve already seen terrestrial ship-breaking yards for crashed and decommissioned space craft, but if you’re building [...]
“The Most Awesome Building in The Universe”
[image via ABC] In Monday night’s episode of How I Met You Mother, main character Ted Mosby Architect is competing against “Swedish architecture collective” Sven for a Manhattan high rise commission. In a perfect parody of hipper-than-thou über architects, the three architects named Sven made their pitch like we imagine every European architect must — [...]
A Crisis of Conscience and Containers
In the wake up the economic, housing, and automaker crises, we find ourselves in he midst of a new global dilemma — enter: The Shipping Container Crisis. Yes, The Shipping Container Crisis. An NPR piece describes the ready-for-cinema story of complex personal relationships and interweaving lives (paging Paul Haggis…) affected by the lack of the globally [...]
Barack Obama: First Architect
Some architecturally relevant little-known-facts about President-elect Barack Obama, courtesy the Daily Telegraph: He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician His house in Chicago has four fire places He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso So there [...]
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