May 2010
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Technical Aside
(A) This is our 50th post on Tumblr;
(B) A lot of you are following;
(C) We’re psyched to be here.
And now, we’d like to know more. Ask us anything, or tell us anything about what you like reading vis-a-vis architecture.
Most importantly, a huge portion of this content is coming from our main site at Architizer. Have you checked it out? It’s pretty damn skippy (and due for a...
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“Then emotion steps in with a word-desire that opens the floodgates: DAZZLING,...”
– “Restlessly inventive” starchitect Jean Nouvel explaining the VIBRANT RED of his design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London.
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Architectural Treasures from LOST →
Nice geodesic dome you got there, pal.
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Psssst!
Someone who reads Italian better than I figured out these screenshots mean AutoCAD is coming back to the Mac.
The last time Autodesk’s AutoCAD drafting software was made available for Apple computers was in 1992.
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“You have all of these glass condos, but everybody’s putting up crazy curtains....”
– Stephen Martin is a young architect and a keen observationist. He also thinks Frank Gehry is kinda the pits.
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Exclusive: Insider's Account of 200 West Street
AKA the new Goldman Sachs building, as also reviewed by one Paul Goldberger for the New Yorker in this week’s addition.
We know the bank is powerful, wealthy, and controlling. Then what kind of architecture screams “omnipotence”? One that’s quiet on the outside and over-the-top on the interior, apparently. Goldberger describes how Goldman commissioned “forward-looking architects” — Office...
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Starchitect video interviews straight from the... →
Charles Gwathmey, Philip Johnson, and Hugh Newell Jacobsen and more. Thank you kindly, Duke University!
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Straw Men Redux
abitlate:
Compare. Nicolai Ouroussoff, May 5, 2010:
Change comes slowly, at least psychologically, to Greenwich Village, which, despite the double-decker tourist buses and the crowds (still) lining up for cupcakes in front of the Magnolia Bakery, persists in thinking of itself as a sleepy bohemian enclave.
So the design for the New School’s 365,000-square-foot University Center on...
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Of the 79 countries to build pavilions in the... →
Archi-gram is on the same tip we are.
…this year, here are some of the show-stoppers:
Denmark Pavilion
Germany Pavilion
Latvia Pavilion
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