The Olympics is fast approaching and the world is waiting to see if China is ready. While we toil away here in the swampy heat of New York City, the nation of China scurries to prepare for the world’s eyes to fall upon it. The fantastic photoblog over at Boston.com has released a series of images of the final push with just 3 weeks to go. The futuristic nature of the architecture balanced with the traditional imagery and eerily quiet street scenes is spectacular. But I have to wonder, if this is…
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Faux-science has been the basis of ARCH DL but now it seems real science is catching up to our insane ideas of what building materials could be. Invisible Nanotube Cables! Super strong, super light, super invisible cables would make for some pretty interesting structures.
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Over 4th of July weekend in New York City, the streets are blissfully quiet, the crowds subside in SOHO, and the whole damn place quiets down to the murmur. You feel like you’re in Berlin for a weekend. You also end up seeing things you normally don’t and for whatever reason, I noticed a lot of Smart cars this weekend parked on the street.
I couldn’t help but think further about the success of Smart car in the US so far, and hopefully what it means for other cars pushing the future…
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There is nothing worse than an artist who busies fleets of contractors and piles of money to half-assedly remind us what a sick artist mother nature is.
Compared to the beautiful sun-tunnel he built in the Tate, this is a rainy scaffolding.
Yawn.
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Chapels transformed into lofts, old airplanes reborn as railroad apartments, and vacated hangers - with their jets long gone - now shelter community water parks. Humanity’s continued swell and consumption has rendered recycling an absolute necessity, but a few forward-thinking architects see it as more than that: this is recycling as art.
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Last night we had the pleasure of previewing the Public Farm 1, by WORK ac. Earlier this year we tried to get members of their firm to compete in ARCHDL IV, they said NO, because the LVHRD event was just a couple days before the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program submission deadline in February of this year.
With just $70,000, they built a giant floating garden out of cardboard tubes. They house live chickens, recharge cellphones, offer a food processor to chop up vegetables, a water feature, periscope, digital dioramas, rubber seating,…
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English giants Foster+Partners are working on the two most disparate projects imaginable: a first-class elephant enclosure for the Copenhagen Zoo, and the world’s first spaceport for cosmic tourism.
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The team at Super Colossal, an Aussie Architecture firm, recently spent some time in Google Earth flying over Canberra, an Australian city that became a playground for modernist architects & their principles throughout the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Let’s call it proto-Dubai.
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ARCHDL II champions Grzywinksi Pons latest build, a throughly modern home in Queens, is featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s Hyper Design issue. The home’s construction was marred by zoning ordinances and protests by neighbors, delaying completion by 8 months. One look at its features and you’ll understand why many of the neighborhoods older residents saw something they didn’t understand - and like all old people - began to complain.
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the apartment is having another one of its unforgettable events tomorrow night tackling the ultimate in sustainable activities. Come be a part of a conversation so esoteric your IQ goes up by proxy, that is if you can make it inside (usually has a line around the block so come early).
Details after the jump…
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This weekend, May 16-18th, the Meatpacking District will be host to innumerable tables, chairs and models sipping free organic vodka. Joining them are LVHRD members John Truex and Holler Design’s Matt Alexander and Melissa Watkins. Both are showing emotionally moving pieces of limited edition furniture at Shelly Steffee with an opening reception on Sunday from 5-9pm.
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Playing The Building, opening May 31st, marks the New York debut for David Byrne’s sonic infrastructure experiment, one where he uses the water pipes, steel beams, and pillars of a building to produce music.
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