Eliasson’s waterfalls come down next monday (Oct 13th), and if you haven’t taken the time to go look at them, you are missing out. Furman st, south of Old Fulton is a sweet spot to see all four of them, and seeing all of them in the context of the city is the best way to go. They are sweet, regardless of what we may or may not have said in the past about them. Here is proof: “Hungry for fine art I’ll be the waiter at your table, I’ve…
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…
Madeline Gins & Arakawa have decided not to die.
Gins & Arakawa are a husband and wife poetic architecture team who have been working 45 years to create habitats that prolong the life of the inhabitants by taking away any sense of stability.. Their latest is the Bioscleave House in East Hampton, built to cradle tentativeness:
“It gets you back to your basic, generative level of existence…You cannot resolve your view to any one horizon. Therefore you feel mighty tentative.”
There are no level surfaces; there are poles to help you…
Stanley Greenberg’s photographs of urbanity’s secret innards are on display now at Gitterman Gallery. The 4 collections represent 15 years of work.
Our assessment: general nastiness; fragments to shore against your ruin.
From the press release:
FEBRUARY 29 – MAY 10, 2008
GITTERMAN GALLERY
170 EAST 75TH STREET NEW YORK , NY 10021
T 212.734.0868 F 212.734.0869
WWW.GITTERMANGALLERY.COM
Gitterman Gallery is proud to announce our representation of Stanley Greenberg, a contemporary artist we have admired for many years. We will exhibit photographs from his four series of work spanning the last…
Headgear that helps children empathize with all god’s creatures:
Hi kids, welcome to the future where you will laugh, laugh, laugh at the iPhone. The iPhone!
via WMMNA
The World, “water-based island masterplan” off the coast of Dubai, is ready for developers to start building custom $10 million island communities and resorts.
Massive sand-tankers built The World one archipelago at a time by spraying earth into the sea. How God is that?
Transportation around the aqueous city-state will be almost entirely by boat, ensuring that it’s only a matter of time before these azure waters are the setting for some imaginative outburst of zombie plague. This entire setup seems like an ad from the Umbrella Corporation.
We know the end is always drawing rapidly and extremely nigh: visions of nuclear holocausts win Pulitzer Prizes.
If you want to be comfortable during mankind’s final days you should buy a missile base, the 20th Century’s Castle. Used during the the 1960s to house various ICBM missiles–Atlas E “coffin launchers,” Atlas F and Titan–these underground bunker-silos were capable of sustaining dozens of people for weeks at a time.
The founders of 20th Century Castles, Edward and Dianna Peden, live in a refurbished Atlas E site near Topeka, Kansas. Since they…
Waterstudio’s designs for a floating mosque in Dubai reminds us of the future waterwold we imagined for ARCH DL II : Grzywinski Pons Architects and Arquitectonica built aqueous amphitheaters with iPod jumbotrons.
The Arab Emirates is really on top of the whole water-building thing. Do they know something we don’t, or just something we’re not paying attention to? Get out your ark, kids, in 1000 years the Church will be saying Christ had gills.
On an isolated coast at the northernmost tip of Spain, Carmen Salgado and José Miguel Oriol commissioned their dream house from Madrid-based Nolaster architects.
The front of Casa OS sits on a small hill looking out over the sea; stilts support the back end, making a natural cavern-yard out of the lee of the hill.
The landscaped roof is an organic extension of the hill–not an off-limit precipice. Certain sections are retractable so rooms become part of the hill; you could hike up from the beach and jump through the roof into…
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, designer of the yet-t0-be-finished (but almost!) Centre Pompidoul-Metz cultural center, will be speaking next Tuesday at Cooper Union on architecture and the environment.
Mr. Ban was the man behind using cardboard tubes to house refugees from the Kobe earthquake in 1995. Through the UN he shipped tube houses to Turkey and Rwanda as well: “Refugee shelter has to be beautiful,” he says. “Psychologically, refugees are damaged. They have to stay in nice places.”
FCTS: Shigeru Ban: Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th St: TSDY 2008.01.22: 7pm: $10.…
Graffiti Research Lab built their own bullet time camera rig for a hip hop video they shot with Styles P, AZ and the Large Professor.
Not only is the video sick, but they left instructions on how to build your own ghetto rig.
Lots more pictures here; and then you have the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfyu-RFWYs
Some truly unique domiciles you probably do not live in, but you may visit:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, United States
Thanks to Art Krush for compiling this list. We would like to add these three:
Edificio Corporativo y Centro de Clasificación y Distribución, Chile
Free Spirit Spheres, Canada (More treehouses here and here)
Selexyz Bookstore, Netherlands
This list is by no means exhaustive; if you saw other buildings last year you’d like to live in (museums…
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