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The de Young Is ... DeLovelyLots of press for the De Young... and the article titles are getting worse by the minute. (photos)
Re-flectFurniture made from salvaged architectural structures by Rhode Island based artist/fabricator Jeff Soderbergh.
'Every day I wake up and think of my building'Danish architect Jorn Utzon has never set eyes on his masterpiece, the Sydney Opera House. Now, at last, it is being completed to his original design.
Metropolitan Design Center Image BankOver 28,000 free downloadable images. The focus of the collection is the Twin Cities metro region in Minnesota from the early 1990s through the present. Several thousand more images are being added in 2005, including many from outside Minnesota.
An exhibitionist museum, tower and gardens expand the notion of museum spaceMore on the new De Young Museum in San Francisco which opens this weekend.
Brad Pitt, Frank Gehry and hot glue, baby!"Use the hot glue gun to work on that model, Brad... perfect, love the concentration! Now, Frank, you stand over there... and tilt your head in towards Brad... very nice."
Rachel Whiteread at the Tate ModernRachel Whiteread, "the world's leading sculptor of space," has created a work of monumental scale for the Tate's Turbine Hall. The work will be on display October 11, 2005 through April 2, 2006.
The De Young: not your average art-filled boxJohn King reviews the new De Young Museum in San Francisco designed by architects Herzog and de Meuron with landscape architect Walter Hood. Video, pictures, and more...
Where Eden Could Order Its PlantsOn the edge In their garden overlooking Puget Sound Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones freely combine American natives with plants found around the world.
Prada MarfaArtists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have erected a sculptural piece in the form of a sealed luxury boutique in the middle of desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization in sight.
Lawn necktieI'm not a big fan of gratuitous lawns (the green-wall-to-wall-carpet mentality)... hanging a lawn around your neck seems about right to me.
Interview with Blu Dot founder John ChristakosMoco Loco features an interview with John Christakos of furniture design and manufactuering company Blu Dot.
The Peacemaker"As he works on the landscape at the de Young museum in San Francisco, observers wonder: can Walter Hood bridge the divide between public space and in-your-face architecture?"
More Mies: Crown Hall in pictures and filmBack in August we posted about the re-opening of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall at IIT. Coudal has posted a nice page dedicated to the masterpiece featuring a film montage, still photos and links. Enjoy!
Save the environment: drink beerThere is a trend in beer making towards organic ingredients, sustainable brewing principles and many brewers are donating profits to worthwhile environmental causes.
Was There an L.A. School of Architecture?"The unruly L.A. School, overlooked by the critical establishment, was in fact an incubator of ideas and thinking about urbanism." Metropolis looks at last month's SCI-Arc exhibit 'Whatever Happened to L.A.?'
Not A CornfieldPruned talks about artist Lauren Bon's "living sculpture" near downtown Los Angeles on a 32 acre brownfield site known as "The Cornfield" which slated for a future park.
The fantastic disappearing plastic, just add waterAustralian company Plantic has developed a plastic product made of 90 percent corn starch and a number of other organic materials, including water, fatty acid and oil. When water is applied it actually disappears (not just dissolves) releasing water
Ahead of the curveStraight lines are out, sloping walls are in. Jonathan Glancey reviews the Zaha Hadid designed Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark.
The Afterlife of EnvironmentalismIn an article published in The American Prospect, John Meyer follows up on the 'death of environmentalism' by offering 'the afterlife of environmentalism'.
In a Brooklyn BayouAn interesting story about a displaced New Orleans architecture firm: the staff of Ledbetter Fullerton Architects, displaced by Katrina, is living and working in a vacant assisted living center in Brooklyn.
Eastern blocksMoscow has one solution for its decaying constructivist housing: demolition. But who will save these avant garde masterpieces? The Guardian tracks down the city's last utopian architecture. Don't miss the small link for "More photographs" under the p
Scrapile InterviewedWe have featured the work of Brooklyn furniture company Scrapile a couple times, first back in December 2004. Jill over at Inhabitat recently caught up with Carlos Salgado and Bart Bettencourt, the guys behind Scrapile.
Building Industry Growing Ever Greener?"Like mom and apple pie, everyone professes love for green buildings. But because there's big money at stake for whoever gets the stamp of approval, there's keen financial interest in the definition of green."
Adjustable garden lounge chairA simple and understated, but a nicely detailed and designed piece of outdoor furniture by Brooklyn based Robert Martin. Laminate-bent mahogany frame with perforated stainless steel seat and back.
Residential Modernism in CaliforniaThe San Marin Independent Journal writes about the history of California modernism (including Eichler and Thomas Church) as part of an article about an upcoming seminar on modern landscapes.
Melbourne's green gambleMelbourne's Council House 2, currently under construction, is a bold experiment in environmentally sustainable design. But according to some architects and critics, the building is aesthetically challenged and too expensive to serve as an effective m
Smart ConcreteElectrically conductive "smart concrete" developed at the Composite Materials Research Laboratory can sense changes in electrical resistance as the material goes under stress.
LA GreenGreen is the theme of this weekend's LA Times Magazine which includes a story about Lawrence Scarpa & Angie Brooks home in Venice (the "Solar Umbrella" featured on L+L before) and other related "green" articles (see right sidebar).