See Australian Design Review. Note to self: west-facing wall will pose a few challenges, no?
And see this example in the Sudan, a housing complex for hospital employees…
Entries Tagged 'ARCHITECTURE' ↓
psst: wanna live in a container?
February 25th, 2010 — ARCHITECTURE, READING, LOOKING
Battleship Island
February 22nd, 2010 — ARCHITECTURE, READING, LOOKING
Once the most densely populated place on earth. On Magnesium Photos.
Unhappy hipsters
February 19th, 2010 — ARCHITECTURE, DIVERSIONS, DÉCOR, READING, LOOKING
is a tumbler blog (or so I’m told). Imaginary photo-narratives built on images from Dwell.
environmental art – not
January 29th, 2010 — ARCHITECTURE, AVERT YOUR EYES!, TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN
When you paint an office building, you have to clean lots of rollers everyday. So you use the Dulux Envirowash System, don’t you? Gives a good impression, doesn’t it? Corporate responsibility at its best…
And then at the end of each day you empty about 100 litres of grey paint into Lake Burley Griffin, and then you hose down the evidence.
Positioning it over the stormwater drain opening should have given the game away…
tourism + art =
December 25th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, CONTRIBUTORS
(thanks to Bill and Amanda’s capacity to navigate between dross and gloss)
a twice broken column…
December 18th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, ARTISTS, CONTRIBUTORS
Iconophilia discovers artist/lettercutter Ian Marr’s latest work in the Harris and Hobbs garden – Classical column with folkloric expletive, 2009. Brushing History against Fame, the column was salvaged from the demolition of Coogee Court House (c.1870), and the stone plinth was salvaged from Cate Blanchett’s previous Hunters Hill house during renovations a few years ago…
a strong case for christmas decoration
December 18th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, DÉCOR
Iconophilia suggests: surely some local Wittgenstein afficionado must be the author of this spectacularly austere house in Watson Rise in Canberra?
Shigeru Ban
November 12th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, READING, LOOKING
London’s Digital Cloud
November 12th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, READING, LOOKING
A rainy night in London: architecture and pyrotechnics
November 9th, 2009 — ARCHITECTURE, READING, LOOKING
Fireworks 2009: 6th November, in Bedford Square.
In the pouring rain, a crowd of stalwarts watch the restaging of Bernard Tschumi’s 1974 fireworks display – Architectural Manifesto 1 – First Works, outside the AA School in Bedford Square. This architectural event is conceived by Bernard Tschumi and is a re-enactment of a fireworks show realised in 1974 at the AA by Tschumi and a group of tutors and students including Nigel Coates. According to the author, Fireworks 1974 was conceived ‘as making a point about the pleasure of architecture and the beauty of its uselessness, and realised through a «détournement» (or creative misuse) of Guy Fawkes Day’. The work, together with a short text, was shown originally at the RCA exhibition Space: A Thousand Words, and published in 1978 as the first of Bernard Tschumi’s Architectural Manifestos (a key contribution to the tendency that became known as The London Conceptualists).
Fireworks, a recurrent topic throughout Tschumi’s career, were also used to inaugurate one of his most celebrated designs, Parc de la Villette in Paris, which displayed another splendid pyrotechnic event choreographed by the architect in 1991. Fireworks 2009 returns to Tschumi’s first obsessions about decoding the close-knit relations between events, actions and spaces, and how these might be deployed through complex notation systems which have seduced several generations of architects.
