Our Zeitgeist tagged with “Architecture”
3) Simpler Times - looking to the future by grabbing ideas from the past
Working out of Eindhoven, Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma explore materials – like compostable bowls made out of flour – that speak to a simpler time. Their Botanica vases are borne of a collaboration with Italian plastic innovator Plart, and are made of natural polymers that existed before the discovery of oil.
4) One Millionth Tower - landscape and other ideas to make living spaces more "live-able"
The ideas expressed in One Millionth Tower take their inspiration from the Tower Renewal project in Toronto, and include examples of ways in which residents would like to make their homes happier, whether through planting vegetable gardens, connecting buildings separated by parking lots with inventive landscape designs, and adding pop-up structures for use as entertainment venues, hair salons, and even prayer hubs.
5) The Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement spread from city to city, capturing the world’s imagination with the slogan – “We are the 99%” – that lives on. Before being forced out of the parks, it reclaimed public property for public protest and transformed these parks into anarchic settlements with a sanitary department, lending library, kitchen and other communal functions. Whether you liked it or not, it had an impact.
6) The (European) shows must go on - design fairs have big plans for 2012 despite rough economy
The biggest design fairs – IMM and Orgatec in Cologne, Heimtextil in Frankfurt, Maison et Objet in Paris and, the biggest of them all, the Salone del Mobile in Milan – are planning big events this year to prove that innovation holds the key to economic prosperity.
7) Spruce Street, New York
Frank Gehry’s first skyscraper is a knockout. At 76 storeys, it is home to 903 rental apartments, a public school and a luminous stainless steel exterior that ripples like waves – an asymmetric feature that works its way into the interiors. Besides offering renters spectacular views of the Brooklyn Bridge, 8 Spruce Street is a testament to the firm’s commitment to pushing the envelope (so to speak) in computer modeling software. The tower cost $875 million, which is not much more than the non-descript luxury residential towers going up everywhere else.
8) The Weekender - a very useful web-only map of New York's subway system
Redesigned by Massimo Vignelli, it shows which trains are running (and more importantly which ones aren't running) on weekends. The goal is to help commuters plan their trips into the city with up-to-the-minute news on service changes due to the chronic slowdowns caused by construction and maintenance. Flashing dots identify stations that aren’t in full service. It’s a clever gadget that is actually helpful.
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Azure magazine and other Architecture newsletters released their big stories in the construction, architecture, and design industries. We love following this stuff and we’ve created a recap of our Top 8 favorite hits: 1) Serious furni [...]
Posted by: Keltie Munro on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
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I love when “research” time comes around at the office. It gives me a valid excuse to do what I clandestinely do the rest of the week: Surf the Internet. We’re deep into work on an architectural firm and researching all th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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Perhaps not surprising, their objectives and audience needs and behaviour seemed best addressed through the creation of a blog. Senior members of the Henriquez team already kept personal journals and they wanted to archive and share their inspirations, opinions, rants, sketches, and even articles written on design and architectural topics. Also functioning as a modern upgrade to the old fax blast newsletters they used to send out,
the blog Archimemo was born.
The next challenge though, was how to tie their less formal, almost sketchbook-like articles, with their corporate website and portfolio. Through some careful analysis and planning, we created an editorial method of promoting certain posts from the text-based blog format to their Flash-based website via what we called "the tunnel" using
RSS.
The project was a challenge with hiccups and pitfalls like any other, but in hindsight I think we did a good job of meeting their creative brief and hope you agree.
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We really enjoy working with architects. The simple fact that we speak the same language of design and work in the creative field, often immersed in a similar processes makes it all the more appealing. Last year we were fortunate to be aske [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 20th, 2009
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The base of the house is fixed but has a ‘second skin’ that slides to expose more sunlight to the glass section of the house or exposes the interior courtroom to the open sky. Simple, elegant and intelligent. Watch the movie tha [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, February 27th, 2009
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Just found out about this as a friend photographed the foundations being dug. It will be when complete the tallest building in Europe and the UK. From what I remember of London it will be a good addition to a somewhat rundown area. Check ou [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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I have just learnt of the company Future Systems. The founder Jan Kaplický died earlier this month but leaves behind a most impressive portfolio of both architecture and product design. Two pieces of work that are well worth a mention are [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
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In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with a Lotus Merit in the interactive categor [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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Dubai. I have a strange fascination with Dubai, I would love to visit the city that seems to change substantially every few years. You live in a hot climate but like to ski – build ‘Ski Dubai’ If you like to go to Disney l [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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We just received an intriguing promo from the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) for their current exhibit titled, Clip/Stamp/Fold 6 The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. The exhibition is based around the explosion of o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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A key to the redesign of the SALA website was to present the UBC School of Architecture as a leader in the education of architecture, as well as to reflect a culture of design, research and community within the four recently merged departments. Additionally, the site required the delivery and management of a vast amount of program and admissions information in diverse graphic and textual forms in an easy to navigate format.
In contrast to the many brochure-style school websites, the SALA site presents the exemplary work that is produced on an ongoing day-to-day basis by its community. The design dynamically features content individually input by staff, faculty and students using a Drupal platform as a content management framework and an HTML and Flash presentation layer. Through the provision of individual blogs/conversations and the areas of the site provided to key groups, the site fosters interaction, exchange and exploration amongst the SALA community.
Congratulations to Mark, Ben, Haig, Amanda, Kevin, Cameron, Matthew, Sarah and everyone else who had a hand in bringing this terrific project to life.
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We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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At the Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim, Austria, guests receive a door code before arrival and let them selves in. Click here to see images.
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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We are happy to announce the launch of UBC’s School of Architecture’s new website. The site offers students, faculty and alumni the ability to upload content and comment on other’s work. We think the custom Flash Tag bar s [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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Bono and the boys are busy at work on the tallest building in Ireland, a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project. The tilted triangular 600ft. building [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 15th, 2007
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Random surfing this morning turned up this fascinating look at how an entire airplane factory was camouflaged during WW2. Located in Burbank, the obvious solution was Hollywood-style trompe l’oeil to disguise the factory as an average [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 7th, 2007
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We are happy to announce the launch of MEJA.ca, a site that we’ve developed for Marceau Evans Johnson Architects. The site is built on a WordPress content management framework that allows the company to update their online portfolio o [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | 2 Comments »
