Roche has announced it will not proceed with the 43 storey tower designed by Herzog de Meuron for Basel. Tages Anzeiger1 Comment mb
The Architect’s Journal reports that Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid have been selected for the redevelopment of Mecca. The scheme could involve a huge new structure around the central Haram mosque that will eventually be capable of holding three million people, making it the ‘highest occupancy’ building in the world. AJComments Off mb
Yamasaki’s Bank of Oklahoma tower, which is a virtual 1:2 scaled version of one of the World Trade Center towers. Completed three years after the WTC, the facade is virtually identical to the towers in New York. However, the resolution at the ground level is not as sophisticated as the WTC’s with solid circular arches replacing the gothic arches formed by the warping of the facade system in NY.
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Carsten Höller’s Double Club has opened in London. The installation, presenting ‘two types of beauty,’ consists of a bar, restaurant and nightclub that are split into Western and Congolese parts to generate a perspective on double identity and cultural coexistence. The installation is presented by the Fondazione Prada. Watch an interview with Höller and his team at the Guardian.Comments Off mb
Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance Italy’s most notorious femme fatale, has been unmasked in Australia. The Independent.Comments Off mb
Miquel Barcelo has completed his painting for the ceiling of the UN Human Rights room at the UN Headquarters in Geneva. 100 tons of paint drips from the ceiling forming an extraordinary technicolour cavern. More.
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This trailer for upcoming film My Playground combines two of our favourite things: parkour and BIG’s Mountain Housing project. The film which is set to be released next year is about free running, parkour, and movement through urban space. The clip shows two of the free runners navigating through the carpark of BIG’s Mountain Housing project in Copenhagen amongst a number of other pieces of contemporary architecture.
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“Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair with book in hands, glasses perched on his forehead.” 1946 Link
“Parking sheds of the High Court Building, used as living quarters by permanant security guards, contrary to the wishes of designer, Le Corbusier.” 1958 Link
“78-yr-old AT&T stockholder Mrs. Louise Bucker of Milwaukee WI looking at full-size model of co.’s Telstar experimental communications satellite, at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories.” Link
“(L-R) Actors Kier Dullea & Gary Lockwood in publicity still from motion picture ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’” 1968 Link
“A model of a manned satellite which the US will send into outer space.” 1959 Link
“Cybernetic anthropomorphous machine (CAM for short), demonstrating how it can walk 5 mph., or lift 500 lbs. w. one foot, & dance at least as good as an elephant, as its inventor G.E. engineer Ralph Mosher sits in cockpit at the controls funded under an Ar” 1969 Link
“Shining rows of newly-made 15 cm. shells amassed side-by-side on table where male worker is using a hammer & stamping tool in the assemblage of several more shells in the Pilson Shell Dept. at the Skoda munitions factory.” 1938 Link
“Aerial of ships in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.” 1969 Link
“Seismograph recording of Pacific tidal waves caused by earthquake.” 1946 Link
Okay, that’s enough for now. Have a nice weekend!
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A glass-walled public television studio for WNET.org will open in the base of the Lincoln Centre, currently being renovated by Diller Scofidio & Renfro. NYT.Comments Off mb
Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has decided to build his own museum. NYT.Comments Off mb
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective is ready for the public after months of drafting and painting by a team of 65 artists and students. It will open on Monday at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, where it will remain on view for 25 years! via NYT.Comments Off mb
Bryan Boyer on the trailer for Star Trek — “this sequence of images presents a typical Abramsonian connundrum: technology will always fail you, but you will only have more technology to help. Nature is just a backdrop; it’s literally a landscape and nothing more.”Comments Off mt
Australia could play a key role in the race to build the world’s first space elevator. News.Comments Off mb
Wallace and Gromit are to return in A Matter of Loaf and Death, a 30-minute Christmas special the BBC. Guardian.Comments Off mb
Eric Talmadge joins the maiden voyage of the U.S.S George Washington, a floating city with a population of around 5,000, 67 aircraft, two nuclear reactors and 1.8 million kilograms of bombs. IHT.Comments Off mb
The discovery of the 138th pyramid creates mixed feelings for Egyptians. IHT.Comments Off mb
Jonathon Glancey looks at the affects of previous recessions on architecture and what architects can expet this time. ‘I didn’t lose any work in the first recession I experienced,” says Zaha Hadid, “because I didn’t have any work.”Guardian.Comments Off mb
Vote for your favourite architecture school lecture series poster!
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Gehry’s Museum of Tolerance, to be built over a Muslim burial site in Jerusalem, has been approved by an Israeli court. Butterpaper has links to a letter of protest (signed by Charles Jencks and Beatriz Colomina amongst others) and some further background on the project.
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Obama to set up an Office of Urban Policy.
“Yes, we need to fight crime. Yes, we need to strengthen our cities. But we also need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution. Because strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions, and strong regions are essential for a strong America. That is the new metropolitan reality and we need a new strategy that reflects it”Comments Off mt
Alice Rawsthorn looks at how the economic slump could be good for design. IHT.Comments Off mb
The Guardian invited 5 architects and designers to redecorate the Oval Office for Obama. Slideshow.Comments Off mb
The Guardian reports that an EU court has ruled that Lego is to lose its patent and with it the exclusive right to manufacture interlocking plastic bricks. Article.Slideshow.Comments Off mb
Wired reports that the Pentagon has launched a flying-car project with its Personal Air Vehicle Technology. Skycar city here we come.
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Spend the night in a Swiss nuclear bunker that has been transformed into a zero star hotel by two artists who insist that the Cold War atmosphere is “damned comfortable.” Spiegel Online.Comments Off mb
An isometric public service announcement on Ensuring The Future of Food by returning to traditional diets and buying locally produced foodstuffs.
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Congratulations to SC buddies Tribe Studio for winning the 2008 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work for their proposal to fill in Sydney’s CBD with ultra thin buildings. Also, to Nobbs Radford for their Pool Rehabilitation. No pics up on the site yet unfortunately. We will post a couple when they become available.
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