Articles from 06/01/2009:

Miscellaneous
The Catch: $325/month for East Village Threesome
The Catch, in which we present everything-looks-good-e xcept listings, needs you! Send your nominees to tips@curbed.com and we'll consider them for public shaming. What/Where: A three-bedroom [...] Read »
Burg Hipsters Lose a Place to Freeze Off Ya Ya's
It's gone. East River State Park is closed. The gate on the 7-acre park was locked on January 1 so the state could save money and it won't reopen until April 1. The grand savings are expected to total... Read »
from modern
Shell house
Normally, I don't like curvy walls in architecture – seems like an indulgent waste of space, or something . . . but the Shell house by ARTitechnic Architects of Japan has so much going for [...] Read »
Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet
If I have several blogging resolutions for 2009 – and I do – one of them is definitely to read InfraNet Lab more often. [Image: Offshore energy islands, via InfraNet Lab ]. Easily one of [...] Read »
The ballots? Counted. The Magic 8-ball? Asked. The smoke signals? Deciphered. The three men in a room? Consulted. Friends, the people have spoken, and their demand that the Neighborhood of the [...] Read »
Ningbo Historic Museum | Wang Shu
On Sunday December 28, MovingCities met up in Ningbo with architect Wang Shu 王澍 [Amateur Architecture Studio]. In preparation for an upcoming feature on some of his recently built projects, [...] Read »
Chicago Streetscenes: Two Views of the Gehry BP Bridge in Winter
..."urban prosthetics"..."inhabit able toys"..."spatial corrections" ludens ,brainchild of ivan hernandez quintela is one i meant to blog a minute ago...actually in addition to the luden's website [...] Read »
Big thanks to Rick, who swiftly solved the mystery of the half timbered brutalism which came up in the preceeding post. It turns out that the images were stills from a startlingly brilliant film [...] Read »
Plug: Junk Jet
I have a couple of pieces in the second issue of Junk Jet (link to suitably mid nineties animated gif-tastic website). One on the Popemobile, and the other on bad, really bad construction. Its [...] Read »
The shape and proportion of rooms
Why do we like the proportions of certain rooms more than others? Is there a formula, like the Golden Ratio, for calculating the ideal proportions? The 16th century Italian Architect Andrea Palladio [...] Read »
Opinions
Bunkspeed’s Hypershot - Render Them Speechless… in Minutes,… Not Hours
The catch line for Bunkspeed’s Hypershot 3D architectural rendering application is “Render Them Speechless… in minutes,… not hours.” My first reaction was, “Too good to be true and [...] Read »
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Is it symbolic that on the very day the US State Department opened its monolithic, Orwellian embassy building in Baghdad, it revealed what one news agency referred to as an “upmarket” longlist [...] Read »
Television broadcast of Renovation Nation (Discovery channel) featuring the renovation of a traditional LA bungalow into a environmentally sensitive and sustainable home for and by Jeremy Levine [...] Read »
Coney Island Soap Opera Continues: Sitt Postures, People Gawk
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Coney Island thing gets curiouser and curiouser. Today's Post carries a story about how developer Joe Sitt is negotiating with eccentric [...] Read »
· Vacant office space growing: here comes the next financial meltdown [NYT] · 7 Train riders to be fucked on weekends for, oh, about 8 years [NYP] · Want to hire an ex-mortgage broker? [Crain's] [...] Read »
It's been over three years since my last post. Yikes! Time really flies when you're having fun (and trying to do 20 other things at the same time). While this blog has suffered from neglect, [...] Read »
We knew there had to be fall-out from the implosion of the economy, but now we're starting to get quantification on just how bad it is. Just in time for Christmas eve, Crain's Chicago Business [...] Read »
"Dezeen is edited by Marcus Fairs , author of the major new book Twenty-First Century Design (published October 2006) and former editor of icon magazine .A furniture design graduate, Marcus began [...] Read »
10 Pin
The Bachelorette Pad: Before Photos
It's a new year and I have a new project to share with you! Well, it's not that new but I'll get to that part in a minute. When I asked my client if I could post about her apartment on the [...] Read »
Fortifications Tour
In between discovering this thing the other day and sitting down to post about it this morning – it was cancelled. What was it? A fortifications tour through the United States and Europe, planned [...] Read »
News
A nearly finished renovation of a five-story, 83-year-old building downtown added classrooms, offices, and a cafe for only $3.5-million. Read »
The re-opening of the National Museum of American History's new building last summer was met with much fanfare, enthusiasm and a block party on Pennsylvania Ave with speeches from Nancy Pelosi [...] Read »
Technology
from Inhabit
Milan’s Stunning Green Super City
Milano Santa Monica is a lush green super city that is scheduled to sprout up just outside of Milan. Envisioned as a stacked series of high-rises overflowing with flowering terraces, the self-contained [...] Read »
from + MOOD
Casa Corten | Marcio Kogan
A minimal design by Marcio Kogan, Casa Corten House. A simple plan with high ceiling level and large opening that use to harmonize between inside and outside. When you walk through the building, [...] Read »
The spate of bad news for local landmarks continues with an update on Ninth Avenue's Cheyenne Diner, which has been shuttered for nine months while awaiting a move from Hell's Kitchen to Red [...] Read »
Is MTV's The City merely a propaganda tool used by insecure West Coasters to exact revenge against the totally awesome and superior island of Manhattan? Let's consider it! From the Times' engrossing [...] Read »
Top Towers | Konigsberger & Vannucchi
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It Happened One Weekend: Pimp My Lobby, 15 CPW Sets New Record, Jackson Heights Culture Wars, More!
1) Rothkos and Chihulys and prints by Milton Glaser! Babbling brooks, plasma screens and twenty-six-foot-long fireplaces! Buildings like the Platinum near Times Square and the Atelier on Far [...] Read »
Me he propuesto crear una REd de propuestas ciudadanas eficaces con grado de autonomía y de aprendizaje propia. Es una pena que ante tantas necesidades que gravitan en el ámbito local no tengamos [...] Read »
Arrested Development
Instead of putting people under house arrest – where they'd stay at home all day, unable to leave their own property for weeks or months at a time – you instead send them out to some perfect [...] Read »
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The Dadameter is a tool for the profiling of language at large scale and the historical tracking of artistic and literary movements. It brings about a new alliance between art, science and global [...] Read »
In the winter of light
"There are architecture photographers [who] refuse to photograph anything from November up to February," Michiel van Raaij writes on his blog Eikongraphia . "In their view the long shadows and [...] Read »
Education
Basilica Palladiana: Geometry studies by Sophie Corkhill, BArch student Manchester School of Architecture. (more...) Read »
Below is 6-1/2 minutes of Thom Andersen's 169-minute essay Los Angeles Plays Itself . In this clip the director asks if the Utopian ideals of LA's 20th-century, modernist residential architecture [...] Read »
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan
[Image: Standing stones beneath Lake Michigan? View larger ]. In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University, [...] Read »
Less Stuff Is Better Design
I know I've been harping about this since I first got the idea for the Two Dozen list in 2004: the Roaring Two-Thousands created a lot of drek by designers because they were "designers", not [...] Read »
In an indictment to be unsealed today, the rigger who oversaw the raising of the tower crane on East 51st Street that last March collapsed and killed seven people will face a slew of charges [...] Read »
...But even interior architects/designers need to be careful about the weight and connections of interior finishes. Patrons at a new Boston restaurant were injured when wood panels fell on them. Read »
House VvG
Vianen, Holland. Grosfeld Van Der Velde Architecten : Read »
Monday, Monday
My weekly page update: Living Tebogo in Johannesburg, South Africa by BASEhabitat. This week's book review is Earth Architecture , by Ronald Rael. Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: On [...] Read »
Alpine Transit Visitor Center
A simple form made from standard containers for an alpine transit station by andreas fuhrimann, gabrielle hächler architects ( afgh ). Read »
Arquitecturas
StrangeHarvest
Josh Azzarella. Untitled #23 (''Lynndied'') Next Nature... Read »
Architectural Works
ORDOS 100 #7: MOS
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Bento Golçalves House / Studio Paralelo
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from dezeen
Contemporary Pagoda by Daniel Simmons
Toronto-based designer Daniel Simmons has designed a conceptual shrine for meditation called Contemporary Pagoda. Read »
from dezeen
Shell by ARTechnic architects
Japanese architects ARTechnic have completed Shell, a holiday villa in Karuizawa, Japan. Read »
Space standards for new homes
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