Roots - Laura Facey

On a visit to Devon House, one of the premier Historic Sites in Kingston, Jamaica I came across a magnificent piece of artwork. The sculpture, placed at the entry to the gardens of Devon House, appears at first glance to be corten or rusted metal, resembling industrial waste left out to weather. Roots as the works are called, are actually salvaged from a massive tree trunk, and bear their own story of being carried by hand from the inner countryside of St. Ann.

Artist, Laura Facey

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The perspective chair designed by Pharrell.

The recently completed railway bridge by Santiago Calatrava will serve as a gateway to the Holy City, Jerusalem. The bridge was designed to be a light and transparent structure with a single pitched pillar pointing in the direction of the city.

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Apologies on the slight pause in posts. I am presently on vacation for a few weeks.

In the meantime chomp on these

Bucky exhibition | decolonising architecture | winner of the USC Architecture YouTube Competition | the architecture of cell phones - the green version |

The Cult of Design

The Cult of Design
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designer action figures...literally action figures of your favourite designers

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion

- Brad Pitt

The actor is slated to design an "environmentally-friendly" 800-room luxury resort (hotel & leisure complex) in Dubai of which he is among a team of design consultants for the project. The proposal will be unveiled next month. In the meantime Brad Pitt is currently helping to build 150 homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

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more fetish

architectural festish gone bad...a woman who has a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel Tower. Also check out this

The Plaza and Public Library are the winning vision in a competition for the revitalization of Dudley Square, Boston. The proposal by Architect Gregory Minott, won for its depiction of the renovated library and was credited with keeping an appropriate scale for the neighbourhood.

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Gregory was a former schoolmate at the Caribbean School of Architecture

new architecture links

ArchSociety is a a global architecture community physically based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The site contains a discussion forum, a growing collection of articles, download contents, and architectural news updates.

Also see their blog

Arcilook is a fairly recent blog focused on architecture of the future.

Turned Earth is run by a California based design-build landscape designer. The site continually features their own work with photographs and drawings

& finally The Architectural Scholar. Frustrated by the lack of informative architectural projects being posted on other websites/blogs he sought to fill the void by creating his own for those interested in the academic, conceptual, and innovative pursuits of the discipline of architecture. Sounds like fetish to me!!

NYLON tunnel | Wired Bridges | 2012 Olympic Stadium by HOK/Peter Cook | RIBA 2008 Awards winners | Love letters by Zaha Hadid | The multi-cultural city suburbs | Online tour of architects homes |

Metropolis interview with Brazilian Architect/Planner/former Mayor and Governor of Curitiba Jaime Lerner

dirty house

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found image of David Adjaye's Dirty House

now Holl does it

Following our recent post on Furniture designed by Architects, Steven Holl has joined the ranks. This accomplished architect, and writer of such stellar works as Parallax, has recently completed a prototype bamboo bench called the Porosity Bench.

For more on Steven Holl and his love of well...all things porus

MoPo 2008

Eikongraphia's recap of the best "most popular" architecture blogs for 2008.

we are no.12 - so thanks to the fans

MoPo 2008

1. BLDGBLOG
2. City of Sound
3. Archidose
4. Pruned
5. Interactive Architecture
6. Architecture.mnp
7. Subtopia
8. Life Without Buildings
9. Tropolism
10. Mirage Studio 7
11. Strange Harvest
12. Architechnophilia
13. The Where Blog
14. The Arch
15. Super Colossal
16. Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy
17. Brand Avenue
18. Architecture Chicago Plus
19. Hugh Pearman
20. Varnelis
21. Lebbeus Woods
22. Part IV
23. Eye Candy
24. Architectural Videos
25. Kosmograd

check out the review by candyland...interesting to say the least

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when architects design

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

Mies van der Rohe, Time magazine, 18 February, 1957

The perception of architects are that we are most challenged by big projects, the bigger they are the greater the challenge. Ahh alas but the smaller projects can cause as much if not greater grief. Here is a visual taste of architects' attempt at furniture design.

The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Easy chair by Frank Gehry

Chaise Lounge by Le Corbusier

Nomos table by Norman Foster

Aqua table by Zaha Hadid

West Seating by Amanda Levete/ Future Systems

Barcelona Couch (1929) designed by Mies van der Rohe

the Long Chair is a bench made from a continuous steel tube designed by Schemata Architects

images of the CCTV building by OMA

blog wunderlust: 26 May 2008

Jackson Pollack | Origami: furniture | for your car | 50 ways to help the planet | container heaven | the last modern architect? | Hotel Palafitte: rising tides | Biggest drawing in the world | Design & the Elastic Mind

in the words of Monty Python, "and now for something completely different"

Archi-suits, described as suits containing the negative space of specific structures that allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them. These clothing allow an intervention with spaces meant to prohibit occupation.