poster power. it’s real.
And there doesn’t seem to be enough of them when you see really good ones. Really good ones are on display for a month in Chicago’s Daly Bicentenniial Park.
The medalists:
The poster exhibit runs until October 29 in Daley Bicentennial Park. See the 31 winners at Design Observer and Chicago International Poster Biennial official site.
See additonal posters featuring animals.
The Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House sets on five – foot – high risers. On 9/14 it was under water. The Fox River near Chicago has risen two feet above that.
The director of the historic site says “It’s gut – wrenching. You have to come to terms with the fact that Mother Nature will always win in a power struggle.”
“It’s an absolutely devastating scene,” said James Peters, president and CEO of Landmarks Illinois, which manages and operates the house for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in a statement today. “At this point, we are fairly confident the 2008 tour season, which was scheduled to extend through November, is over.” Now the nonprofit will have to raise money to repair the steel-and-glass Farnsworth House.
On Saturday, Landmarks Illinois volunteers paddled boats to the house to helped raise the furniture out of harm’s way. The Fox River has also flooded three nearby bridges and many houses.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation bought the 1951 house at auction for $7.5 million in 2003.
“Weather-based damage and destruction of older and historic sites is a national issue, and in the case of the flooding of Farnsworth House, which we saved with our partner, Landmarks Illinois, it is also a personal one,” said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in a statement today. “Our principal concern is for the safety and welfare of members of the public directly impacted by the storms.”
Mies designed it to let flood waters run underneath, but in sixty years it has been flooded six times, including half a million dollars damage in 1966. Time to jack it up?
found via DesignObserver. Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune architecture critic, asks what can be done.
A home that makes the Smart car, standing side-by-side, look like a SUV. No, an 18-wheeler.
“Micro-Compact Home” [m-ch] was inspired by Japanese tea houses, yes, the Smart car and first class air travel. They are lightweight, modular, mobile and very minimal 2.65m (roughly 77 sq ft). That equates into a 266 x 266 x 266 centimeter cube ‘Home,’ Imagine that? It’s not for the claustrophobic, a dwelling non-the-less, for one or two people. This is not a tent, a trailer, but a home, in a super compact design.
The tiny cube provides a double bed on an upper level and working table and dining space for four to five people on the lower level. The entrance area has triple use: it functions as a bathroom and drying space for clothing, in addition to a lobby. Costing $80,000 USD, this little prefab integrates state-of-the-art technology into its compact design, boasting a sound system, flat screen TV, and temperature controls. It requires no furniture and all storage space is cleverly concealed within the structure of the dwelling. (more…)
the problem and the solution
These stairs are beautiful. An artform. No 5 inch stilettos or alcohol allowed. This is a very clever solution. You have to wonder who conceived of the problem in the first place…
Title: Stair
Object: Stair
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Client: Private Residence
Design: Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom
Date: 2006
via TAF
joseph (joe)) fujikawa, 81, died december 31, 2003, at his winnetka home.
joseph fujikawa, born 1922 in los angeles, was an american architect who worked with ludwig mies van der rohe and took over his office after mies died.
his architecture was heavily influenced by his teacher and boss. his associates would say joe wanted to be more like mies than mies himself.
he began his studies of architecture in 1940 at the university of southern california and finished his undergraduate degree at the illinois institute of technology in 1944.
he also did a master’s degree under mies van der rohe at iit. in 1944 fujikawa started his architectural career in the office of mies van der rohe. in 1976, some years after mies’s death, the name of the firm was changed to fujikawa, conterato, lohan & associates. in 1982 fujikawa joined gerald (jerry) johnson and founded fujikawa johnson & associates.
fujikawa’s was forced to relocate to a colorado internment camp during his junior year of college led him to iit. he said, “i was there for about three months until i was admitted to iit. i applied because i heard mies was director, and i knew mies only by reputation from a book called the international style. the barcelona pavilion of mies’s was in there. that really impressed me.” mies said, “ja, come,” and fujikawa remained devoted to the miesian vocabulary for all his life.
survivors include his wife, grace; his daughter, elizabeth; his son, stephen; two sisters, aster ikezoye and mary nakatsu; and a brother, john fujikawa.
[ notable buildings ]
55 east erie, chicago
the buckingham, 360 east randolph, chicago
chicago mercantile exchange, 20 south wacker drive, chicago above > chicago mercantile exchange | 1987
columbus plaza, chicago
fairmont hotel, 200 north columbus drive, chicago
metcalfe federal building, 77 west jackson boulevard, chicago
north harbor tower, 175 north harbor drive, chicago
three illinois center, 303 east wacker drive, chicago
mutual benefit life building, chicago
two illinois center, chicago
fujikawa conterato lohan: formerly the office of mies van der rohe, was my second client in my own newly formed business. the first being chicago mayor michael (j) daley. i was asked by joe to create an identity and an award (above) for the world trade association in chicago. there i met the president of the association, robert s ingersoll. mr. ingersoll was chairman and chief executive of the chicago-based borg-warner corporation as well as former ambassador to japan. this began a great run of commercial real estate projects for my business. and i picked up mentors in both joe and jerry.
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