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.
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.
Our friends at Life Without Buildings have brought to light yet ANOTHER striking similarity between the vehicle design of early Star Wars films and famous architects.
Jon Chonko from thehappycorp spent two days going up and down a ladder, pencil stenciling THE AWARDS across this wall at the Art Directors Club.
It’s the kind of thing that makes your eyes believe in God: one minute the words are there and the next minute they’ve spread out into a massive line-flock. The letters exist only because the lines BEND. Lines,…
We think New York is past the point of gentrification; you’re hard-pressed to go outside and NOT find these things.
Before the gaze of Middle Eastern hyper-wealth affixed itself to Dubai, there was a push to bolster luxury tourism along the Sanai Peninsula.
As Dubai grew (financially and vertically) investors halted their projects, shifted their capital and resources, and left a considerable number of resorts unfinished.
If flanked by the sea, by trees, by anything lively, they would certainly be…
Interesting situation on the B train from Brooklyn this morning:
I was standing in the doorway listening to my iPod very loud. I do this so I hear ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT WHAT I WANT TO HEAR.
The train was moving along at a nice clip when I felt a tug on the back of my jeans, about calf-high. I turned…
The fourth in our Architect’s Duel series, ARCHDL IV was a timed model building competition between KONYK and FX FOWLE, held before a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg.
If you’re familiar with our Architect’s Duel, you know how it goes. The night was broken into three rounds: 30 minutes for sketching plans, 90 for building models out of an unconventional…
The latest version of Google Earth features some major updates. We’ve got videos and a quick run through of each…
Our friend Jim over at Life Without Buildings just scooped the scoop of the century. Any dork worth their salt knows the inspiration for Han Solo’s bachelor space-freighter was a cheeseburger with an olive next to it. Or was it?
Zaha Hadid watched Flight of the Navigator non-stop for seven years before conceiving the newest member of the Guggenheim family.
Redbird Reef off the coast of Delaware is an underwater habitat built from old NYC subway cars. Over 700 carriages sit at the bottom of the sea, Davey Jones style, where fish congregate to seek shelter and sell candy bars to support their ‘basketball team’ - even though they are never wearing a jersey.
The project is a success … for…
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
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