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Gehry, Gehry specialFrank Gehry spews forth in an interview with Newsweek... why do his cardboard chairs cost over $800 more now than the originally did? He doesn't know. How is it working with Brad Pitt? He hasn't heard from him. Etc., etc., etc.
Cellular FantasyI haven't heard anything about Michele Saee since my SCI-Arc days. Still producing intricately layered and detailed sculptural spaces... here an interesting intervention in a landmark bank building in Los Angeles (see his website for more images).
Map fetishGeoff may be my long lost evil twin... or maybe it's the other way around... in any case, he shares my fascination with maps (topographic and otherwise) and provides some amazing images and links.
Tanks for the MemoryLynn Becker Mayor delves into the Chicago architectural competition to repurpose its historic water tanks.
Holl's Water PlantArchitecture, infrastructure and landscape meet: a Connecticut water treatment plant designed by Steven Holl's with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.
Gardens Designed for Space and Time. Especially Time.Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf profiled. "Oudolf is among a cohort of leading designers who bring something novel to garden-making in the 21st century: a deep knowledge of plants."
Woven InteriorsA home interior replicated by artis Do-Ho Suh, except he did it using translucent nylon.
MIOculture Bendant LampA unique idea for lighting. A flat-pack shade made from laser-cut flexibile steel that is easily bent allowing you to give it your own personal style.
Glowing PlacesA concept from an investigation into innovative ways for people to interact with light in public spaces. The plastic seating, embedded with LED (light-emitting diode) strips and sensors, measure the presence of people over time.
Design - online archivesA digitized record of Design journal (a British government sponsored publication) for the years 1965 to 1974. A fascinating way to avoid actually working... hey, it's educational, right?
An artist with plantsHazel White remembers Berkeley, California landscape designer Suzanne Porter who "was a really good artist, and also a great garden builder" and provides a list of the favorite plants in her palette.
Compostmodern Design ConferenceA one-day conference pivoting around the role of graphic and industrial design in creating sustainable societies. San Francisco: Saturday, January 21, 2006.
A green 'tree house'The Sydney Morning Herald pays a visit to the home of husband and wife green architecture team Rod Simpson and Andrea Wilson. Simpson Wilson Architects is based in Greenwich, Australia.
Wildflower Meadow GlacierAn autonomous robotic sculpture that plants flowers and monitors local climate change and CO2 levels. The robot is a prototype for a large sculpture idealized for Central Park's Wildflower Meadow.
MARK: Another architecture magazineThe publishers of Frame have launched a new (pricey) architecture magazine.
Suburban earthworksSome amazing photography of the creation of housing developments from a series called "Suburbia" (2002) by Sergio Belinchón, and Geoff's usual thoughtful accompanying commentary.
Dr. Evil's Lair Evolves"Thanks to associations with technological authoritarianism, modernism earns a bad rap. But look around: The future turned out worse than the modernists predicted."
Halprin's FDR MemorialThe Washington Times features a nice overview of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, FASLA.
For sale: Kozely/Farmer Residence in Venice, CAWe saw the Kozely/Farmer Residence (designed by Sant Architects with landscape by Jay Griffith) on the CA Boom II home tour last July. Listed at $1,995,000 for 1,700 sq. ft... say whaaaaaaaa?!
Prosthetics for wounded furnitureFrench designers 5.5 provide a whole new way for designers to think green.
Mississippi Wal-Marts may apply 'new urbanism' in rebuildingOn one level bizarre, yet on another inevitable, Wal-Mart is toying with various urban/new-urban/pseudo-urban formats.
Tastemakers: ArchitectureForbes tries to identify ten architects who are most influencing the American landscape... gotta admit that I found this article to be pretty damn boring, but here it is none the less.
Remember the de Young?Now that the media storm has calmed down, Arcspace features Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum in San Francisco.
More green... roofs that isGreen roofs has been a recurring topic on Land+Living. If, like us, you just can't get enough, World Changing has a post dedicated to green roofs with images and links.
150 Examples of SustainabilityRe-f-use is a design exhibition on sustainable product design currently touring Europe.
Communist Block RenaissanceGerman architect Hervé Biele's first built project takes advantage of the country's housing surplus in old plattenbauen by breaking down the towers into smaller units, and recycling the prefabricated concrete panels into rehumanized modular housing."
Paula Scher's Atlas of the WorldGraphic designer Paula Scher paints elaborate maps. "...nothing’s in the right spot. I put in what I feel like. It's my comment on information in general. We receive a lot of information all the time and mostly it’s lies or slight mistruths."
Lecture: Building in the AftermathThe first in a series hosted by The National Building Museum will be held November 14. The panel includes: Suzanne Turner, FASLA; Paul Farmer, AICP; Richard Moe; Thomas J. Campanella; Angela O'Byrne, AIA; Henry Hatch.