30.06.07 – The Opera House has just made it onto the World Heritage List, so that’s good.
30.06.07 in buildings heritage
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by anna @ 21.06.07 04:25 pm
hmm, have these people ever seen ANYTHING Howard Arkley did??
methinks not…
oh the beigeness
07.06.07 in weird-wonderful
What to do when you’re a billionaire… so much money so little time. A Mumbai billionaire has found an efficient way to offload money by building a 245m high storey house for his family, so he can get a good view of the Arabian Sea. It contains six floors of parking, and space for 600 household staff. Leighton Asia, an offshoot of the Australian company, is building it now. An indian blog describes it as, “a fortunate island in the midst of a flat-broke ocean of humanity.”
Local architect Hafeez Contractor reckons all is well though: “This is a right way to build a private house in a congested city. A man like him in any other city would have 10 to 15 acres of land to himself.”
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03.06.07 in weird-wonderful
The New York Times Magazine’s glossy Sunday Supplement is devoted to “Ecotecture”. Amidst articles on Shigeru Ban, and Diller Scofidio & Renfro and the mayor of Curitiba, the magazine has one billed “In near isolation in Australia, Glenn Murcutt is designing houses that reimagine the woolshed.” You could think there was no one else designing here from that sentence. In the four page interview, Glenn says, “On sustainable architecture: “Most of it is bloody awful. Much of it isn’t architecture, and some of it isn’t sustainable.”
22.05.07 in sustainability
A skyscraper prefabrication factory is set to open in Dubai. Brainchild of an Italian architect, David Fisher, the first tower to be built off site will be a 68 storey rotating skyscraper in… Dubai. Each floor rotates independently, activated by voice. This allows the building to, “constantly change shape.” Very useful. Another handy feature, not particularly environmentally friendly either, is that residents can put their cars in the lift and take them up to their floor with them. Handy! Amazingly this structure is billed as a green building – gaps between the rotating floors will scoop up enough wind to power this and four other buildings. The architect bills his work as, “a total revolution in the 3,000 year history of man building homes.”
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07.04.07 in weird-wonderful
Remember how houses used to be really small, before rumpus rooms and spa baths were invented. Now you can live like your great great grandparents, by your self a very 19th Century looking Lusby or Rockport, or if you’re after something a little more… Godsell, you could try the “z-glass”.
Plans are all US$997 and covered in nostalgic imperial measurements.
They will build to your order, but there is a $4 per mile for delivery from California, which could make it a bit pricey.
TUMBLE WEED
07.04.07 in weird-wonderful
James Law Cybertecture of Hong Kong have designed a large docked ipod for the increasingly weird Dubai. It isn’t quite an ipod as you can’t play illegal downloads on it while you commute. But you can live in it, so they’ve called it an iPad. Which kind of sounds like Hype Ad.
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28.12.06 in weird-wonderful
The UK Guardian had a large feature section on Modernism in 2006, on the occasion of a major exhibition opeing at the V&A. It included this article by Robert Hughes.
13.09.06 in theory
I wrote this article for arch-peace last month during the Lebanon incursion/invasion/whatever you want to call it. It’s about Eyal Weizman’s investigations of the use of architectural theory in modern war planning in Israel. Very spooky. It was written for architects for peace. Worth scanning some of the others too if you have a moment or ten.
31.08.06 in theory
David Mitchell profile from 2005.
27.09.05 in architects
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Horden Cherry Lee has developed the “Micro Compact Home” which come in small pods that can be clipped together. Elements of the design are based on the Japanese tea house.
07.08.05 in architects
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A Business Week interview with Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems in 2005.
02.08.05 in profiles
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Mike Grimshaw locates comfortable ‘wallpaper’ modernism on the ism timeline, with references to whiteness, ornament, Loos, Sullivan and Johnson: “…what is happening is a modernism without theory, without context, that exists as style alone”.
15.04.04 in theory
New York Times – “Now that this is a po-pomo world, how is Modernism to be understood? Artistic progress has proved to be an illusion. Manifestoes have become impossible.”
15.04.04 in theory
Peter Corrigan profile by Norman Day, written after Corrigan won the RAIA Gold Medal in 2003.
01.09.03 in architects profiles
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