Repeat – Writings on Architecture: Bobbing for Mies – Robert Venturi at IIT ‘…he saw Gehry’s bandshell in Millennium Park as carrying on ‘the idea of the great American loft tradition … essentially a loft with applied ornament, which are these potato chips’…’ (via DYWSC?) In Alabama, a Poor County Is Rich in Modern Architecture …
I bought my first Apple product yesterday. A big part of the attraction with Apple products is the quality of the design, right? A comprehensive approach that gets all the details just right, right? Rob: ‘I’d like a 60Gb iPod in black* please.’ Apple: ‘That’ll be £299 please.’ Rob: ‘I assume the headphones that come …
City Comforts, the blog: New Urbanism’s main weakness ‘New Urbanism’s official voices have not effectively separated – in the public mind – site plan from architectural style. That anyone can still associate New Urbanism with ‘traditional’ facades is New Urbanism’s major weakness.’ – I couldn’t agree more found by me, collated by del.icio.us., published by …
Nurri Kim – Tokyo Blues ‘The city as seen through one material’: beautiful photographs of the city and its protector – the blue tarpaulin (via Space and Culture) found by me, collated by del.icio.us., published by deloxom
Al says: No success in the President’s medal I’m afraid, I made it to the final shortlist of 95 but here’s who won: www.presidentsmedals.com/results.aspx?w=1&dop=0&part=2&year=2005 Some good work, well deserved I think! Al
The Cube Is Coming Ken Shuttleworth’s project in Birmingham. Tetris meets a Rubik’s cube. found by me, collated by del.icio.us., published by deloxom
* I’ve removed the mp3 due to lack of webspace – you can listen to the interview along with several others on the BBC web site: John Tusa interviews.
Holyrood – It’s our £431m BMX park ‘…one group who have been delighted with Catalan architect Enric Miralles extravagant design are the city’s young BMX bikers and skateboarders – who have adopted it as a play park…’ (Keep your own bookmarks online at del.icio.us.)
More letters and a suggestion for your (my) Christmas wish list. It was my boss’s birthday last week. Here at the office we usually end up spending a considerable amount of time trying to decide what gift to get when birthdays come around. This time the solution came to me in a flash and I …