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Airstream!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:16:45 -0500

Airstream!

peterwknox: friday. almost friday…. (i miss summer,...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:46 -0500

peterwknox:

friday.

almost friday…. (i miss summer, too)

Felt Chair Cover by InboundThread on Etsy

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:45 -0500

Felt Chair Cover by InboundThread on Etsy

SPaN (via Design Trust for Public Space) ‘The Urban...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:07:00 -0500

SPaN (via Design Trust for Public Space)

‘The Urban Camouflaged Birdhouse,’ my firm’s contribution to tonight’s auction at the annual Design Trust benefit! I’m looking forward to hob-nobbing with crazy awesome designers…

“An idea spawned by conceptual art visionary Larry...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:15:57 -0500

“An idea spawned by conceptual art visionary Larry Mayorga, the light display for the event will be dependent on the music and exclusively designed for the bands. The production is one that will result in a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space, lighting and their relationship with the constructed environment and the music. This will become a responsive art/light installation that will trigger an intimate and emotional connection between the music and the viewer, an experience only fully appreciated in physical presence! (via Paper Garden Records Presents: Multiverse Playground - Special Events - 3rd Ward)

The Textile Trunk

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:14:10 -0500

The Textile Trunk:

Bringing Antique and Vintage Textile Treasures of Europe to Your Door

urbangreens: Inhabitat » Herzog & de Meuron Unveil New...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:20:56 -0500

urbangreens:

Inhabitat » Herzog & de Meuron Unveil New Miami Art Museum

“Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their finished design for the new Miami Art Museum, which will be a stunning building surrounded by hanging gardens with tropical plants.”

via 25timesasecond

tumblelikeyougiveadamn: Google Earth (lower case) Alphabet -...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:47 -0500

tumblelikeyougiveadamn:

Google Earth (lower case) Alphabet - The Netherlands

Productspec | Speak Edition 36 JEFFREY MILLSTEIN for Nick Gray!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:48:00 -0500

Productspec | Speak Edition 36

JEFFREY MILLSTEIN

for Nick Gray!

Happy Birthday Jeff! Hope you’re having fun on your...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:45:12 -0500

Happy Birthday Jeff! Hope you’re having fun on your birthday.

ambivalence: The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:54 -0500

ambivalence:

The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report.

Yet the authors of the study, to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reached no consensus on whether the melting could be attributed mainly to humanity’s role in warming the global climate.

(via Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat, Study Says - NYTimes.com

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Oh, I would love to see this in person.

How the City Is Sneaking Great Little Buildings Into Unexpected...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:00 -0500

How the City Is Sneaking Great Little Buildings Into Unexpected Places — New York Magazine

“The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down. It no longer has a choice. For decades, the trinity of quick, cheap, and ugly dominated the city’s building program. Quick was always a chimera, and cheap remains sacrosanct, but ugly won’t cut it anymore. Agencies that once indifferently crammed schoolkids, cops, low-income residents, and garbage trucks into an assortment of interchangeable brick boxes now hire brand-name architects to infuse public buildings with panache….

(David) Burney’s wave of public buildings is striking for its motley vigor. Each design emerges from a specific constellation of site and response, not from some officially sanctioned style. Instead of imposing uniformity, the DDC is demanding imaginativeness. Rather than choosing designers that will do what they’re told, it is asking them what can be done. And so the agency quietly demonstrates that architecture is not just a tool to sell luxury condos, but a democratic art.”

adeandabet: caro: peterfeld: jollilama: Geologists confirm...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:55:40 -0500

adeandabet:

caro:

peterfeld:

jollilama:

Geologists confirm that a 35-mile-long rift that opened in Ethiopia in 2005— it ripped apart more than 20 feet in just days — is likely the start of a new ocean..

(Here’s the article)

I’m actually thinking of paying the $15 to read the article.

landscapearchitecture: landscapelifescape: “Dansmonarbre of...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:53:04 -0500

landscapearchitecture:

landscapelifescape:

“Dansmonarbre of Grenoble, France, is a company “specializing in arboreal activities.” One of their projects, the Hermitage, was less arboreal and more shed-like, a “place to allow a person or a couple to experience special wilderness for a few hours, overnight or several days.” Its walls are infinitely adjustable, transforming it according to whim and weather.”

Hermitage Hut By Dans Mon Arbre Adjusts to Climate : TreeHugger

I love this outdoor room. infinitely adjustable!

evrt: Launching tomorrow and lasting through Thursday (Nov. 4 -...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:33:31 -0500

evrt:

Launching tomorrow and lasting through Thursday (Nov. 4 - 5), Blu Dot and Mono have teamed up to create the REAL GOOD Experiment (Experiment = creative marketing campaign). They will be randomly placing Real Good chairs on curb sides throughout NYC, for people to take freely. The idea is to find out where the chairs end up, and how people use them. Click through to book mark, and check in tomorrow!

Wrap Wrap Wire Management Tool : Remodelista

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:21:27 -0500

Wrap Wrap Wire Management Tool : Remodelista

Emerging NY firm re-imagines the urban hotel Urban Oasis - Times...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:08:42 -0500

Emerging NY firm re-imagines the urban hotel

Urban Oasis - Times Square Hotel

The project, a 55-storey hotel in Times Square comprised of a 3,500 sq ft ground floor restaurant, a 3,000 sq ft spa and gym facility, 540 rooms, and a 3,000 sq ft sky lounge.

Nature, as a literal and conceptual imperative, is integrated throughout the design to create a serene respite in the densest of urban fabrics. Architectural components embody nature in re-imagined forms, and extract its intrinsic productive beauty. Strategies emerge that contribute to unique spatial experiences and superior environmental quality. By exploring the juxtaposition with the surrounding urban context, a new adaptation of Nature lying between the natural and artificial, reveals the dynamic qualities of the site and imbues natural forms with new meaning.

Creating an oasis-like experience, a vast skylight in the lobby is layered with a screen of wood baguettes that integrates building systems and allows natural light to filter deep into the space. The recessed entry strengthens the street connection and overlapping zones of restaurant, bar, lounge and lobby encourage public interaction inside.

Reception is defined by an interior ‘forest’, which pulls guests from the busy street into a quiet garden that naturally filters indoor pollutants from the air. A digital canopy montages images of naturally occurring geometries with urban forms creating a visual interrogation of their presumed dichotomy.

The hotel rooms are conceived as being a retreat, a sanctuary within the forest - the bed and desk forming a tent encampment below a ceiling of super graphic natural forms, light filtering through window shears of organic cut out patterns.

The lights of Times Square encircle the rooftop Sky Lounge. A zone of mirrored ceiling panels extends natural light into the space, and a variegated wood ‘trunk’ encompasses the lounge core. The ceiling panels are laser cut with a foliated pattern, creating a stainless steel canopy of leaves at the top of the city, while reflecting the twinkling visage below.

SPaN - Stonely Pelsinski architects Neukomm

I am proud to say that I contributed much to the above content and text for our WAN Awards entry. Cross your fingers that it wins!

Lighting: Box Pleat Pendant Lamps : Remodelista

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:27:05 -0500

Lighting: Box Pleat Pendant Lamps : Remodelista

"I’d like to do a movie in space. If possible I would like to try to actually shoot some of it on..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:29:43 -0500

“I’d like to do a movie in space. If possible I would like to try to actually shoot some of it on location in space. That’s my preference.”

- Wes Anderson [Access Hollywood] (via peterwknox)

Can’t wait to read about Wild, Wild Wes

Dan Baum's New Orleans Journal

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:25:18 -0500

Dan Baum's New Orleans Journal:

Notes from his reporting post-Katrina (The New Yorker)

““Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” an old song asks; another reminds us, “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” Since Katrina, I’ve often been asked (though never by someone in New Orleans) why the country should bother rebuilding it. Is it really worth the billions it would take to protect this small, poor, economically inessential city, which is sinking into the delta muck as global warming raises the sea around it? But the question of “whether” has been settled—New Orleans is rebuilding itself, albeit slowly, fitfully, and imperfectly. Now it’s only a matter of how and how long. That is better news than perhaps the rest of America fully understands.”