A new architecture criticism.
When you ask around, a lot of people will suggest that architecture criticism is about making negative judgments on unwanted tendencies in the built environment, or a part of it.
Seven-story picnic basket.
If you company made baskets, what you your HQ look like?
3 questions for 8 emerging voices.
The Architectural League’s 2009 Emerging Voices honorees interviewed by Archinect.
The questions:
1) How did you initiate Hutchison & Maul Architecture? What motivated you and gave you the confidence to go out on your own?
2) How has the ongoing economic crisis impacted your practice?
3) What is your outlook for the next 5-10 years? What kind of work do you hope to be doing, and how do you plan to get there?
The honorees:
* Hutchison & Maul Architecture
* Andrew Berman Architect
* A-I-R [Architecture-Infrastructure-Research]
* at103
* coen + partners
* LevenBetts Architects
* Dellekamp Arquitectos
* Gray Organschi Architecture
Lego. Frank Lloyd Wright.
The official announce – ment of the new line of licensed Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO sets.
Created in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Brickstructures, Inc. and the LEGO Architecture brand, the first two sets in the series are The Guggenheim and Fallingwater.
Here are the detail via the press release we received:
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.
The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”
With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium. Builders of all ages can now collect and construct their favorite worldwide architectural sites through these artistic replicas.
Both exclusive Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture sets contain booklets that feature traditional building instructions along with exclusive archival historical material and photographs of each iconic building.
According to Director of Licensing and Product Development, Doug Volker, “The LEGO product was one that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation had considered pursuing for several years. It was the vision, passion and creative desire of Adam Reed Tucker to capture the essence of Mr. Wright’s most famous buildings using the medium of the LEGO brick that brought this partnership into being.”
“Mr. Wright’s buildings are a treasure trove of possibilities,” says Adam Reed Tucker, innovator of the Architecture Series for The LEGO Group. “I wanted to create these marvelous buildings for years, so I’m thrilled to be working with the Foundation in order to include Mr. Wright’s timeless buildings in this series, which conceptualizes the very essence of each building in LEGO bricks.”
Images copyright LEGO, Brickstructures and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
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Green arches.
LEED Honors for McDonald’s HQ via businessweek [PR]
Libeskind wins seoul.
Studio Daniel Libeskind Wins International Master Plan Competition to Create 34 Million Square Foot, $20 Billion New Riverfront Development District in Seoul, South Korea.
The plan, called Archipelago 21 because each of the linked neighborhoods functions like “islands” within a sea of green park space, will contain a total of 34 million square feet of built area. The $20 billion development is slated to break ground in 2011. The development entity is Yongsan Development Co., Ltd, a South Korean conglomerate. The district will also contain new cultural institutions, educational facilities and rapid transportation systems.
“We are proud to be selected for this major project from among so many distinguished firms,” Mr. Libeskind said. Finalists included Asymptome, Foster+Partners, Jerde Partnership and Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Studio Daniel Libeskind worked with ARUP and Martha Schwartz, Inc. on the winning entry.
Daniel Libeskind established his architectural studio in Berlin, Germany in 1989. Upon winning the design study for the World Trade Center Site in February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters to New York City and the office is now headquartered two blocks south of the original World Trade Center site. SDL also has two European offices based in Zürich, Switzerland and Milan, Italy; as well as a number of site offices located around the world: San Francisco, Denver, Bern, Toronto, Milan and Hong Kong.
Daniel Libeskind’s architecture continues to reflect his profound interest and involvement in philosophy, art, music, literature, theater, film, and urbanism.
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Horizonless manhattan.
I love roller coasters. Especially the very first huge plunge. This would be a good ride.
According to the designers:
“They’re intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward…The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands. As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer’s local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.”
Edgard Varêse and Le Corbusier – Poême électronique
Edgard Varese & Le Corbusier, Poeme Electronique, 1958. Multimedia installation at The Philips Pavilion at the World Fair
Frank Behry. Mintimalism.
Modern architecture-themed ice cream sandwiches sold from a truck. Los Angeles of course. via designobserver [PR]
2030 forcaster.
A free tool to “help project teams set energy mix goals for the 2030 Challenge.” Perkins+Will is proud to offer the 2030 Challenge Energy Estimating Tool for use by the community.