November 2, 2008 – 8:40 am
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Cecil Balmond: Solid Void at the Graham Foundation
The Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts presents a site-specific installation by structural engineer Cecil Balmond: Solid Void. View the exhibit at Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago. The gallery is open Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm and admission [...]
September 5, 2008 – 9:35 am
Sometime during the next few weeks, those in France should make a trip out to Granville, the seaside town where Christian Dior once lived in a big pink house on a cliff. His home has since been transformed into the Musée Christian Dior, and the current exhibition, “Dandysmes: 1808-2008” displays silk cravats, David Bowie’s smoking [...]
September 2, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Airborne Environments:
Aircraft as micro-world? Newson’s “design language” for the airplane, we read, “is defined less by what the passengers see than by how they feel.”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/airborne-environments.html
Urban Play
Exhibition installed throughout Amsterdam and Utrecht.
droog design and scott burnham have assembled groups of innovative designers and architects from around the world to create thirteen urban [...]
Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm = Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life
“It’s NASA meets Archigram meets Manuel de Landa meets Theo Jansen – a walking city gone off-world, communicating via secure satellite to earthbound observers back home”
Archigram drawings coming to life, sign me up.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/architectural-pathway-to-artificial.html
Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
A thoughtful essay on the implications of massive infrastructure [...]
sneak peek: jean of eieio via Design*Sponge
first up today we have a sneak peek into the oakland, ca “treehouse” of jean orlebeke, of obek design and the designer behind the fantastic wrapping papers by eiei-o studio (be sure to check out the awesome new digital prints too!). thanks so much to jean for opening [...]
Kivik Pavilion by David Chipperfield and Antony Gormly
Gormley says: “I see the work as a meditation on the status of sculpture and architecture and their respective relationships with light, mass and space using the material most associated with modernity: concrete.”
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/17/kivik-pavilion-by-david-chipperfield-and-antony-gormley/
London Biotopes
P, a little nanodorkus for ya.
The largest part of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals we take [...]
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