Category: asides

Dan Hill visits Finlandia and finds a couple of intriguing ‘benign errors’ on the building. Firstly, that the subtle bowing of the marble panels on the facade is in fact a defect resulting from the extreme weather differential in Helsinki, a ‘mistake’ that the building is all the better for. And secondly, that seen across…

Matt Seneca on a panel from Francois Schuiten’s Nogegon: There’s a massive, airy openness to this picture, denying the spotted blacks that don’t actually exist in real life for the panoply of slightly different tones that do. (An airy openness, I might add, that dovetails quite nicely with the picture’s subject matter.) Too, the hand…

Charles Holland, writing about the Sterling Prize (awarded to Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi in Rome), and how it awards architects for buildings ignoring the role of the many hundreds of other people involved in the actual manifestation of a building: There is an enormous gap between the process of designing and the physical reality of building.…

The Sydney Architecture Walks website has had a facelift. And now they have bike tours too! If you have not been on one of Eoghan’s walks around Sydney (the Utzon Opera House walk in particular is excellent) you are missing out.

Images up online for DRAW’s interior refurbishment of the UTS Great Hall. More on the project at DRAW’s website.

Bracket is calling for entries for its second issue, this time concentrating on ‘Soft Systems’: Bracket 2 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic amongst others–…