I Want to Change the World

Karim Rashid's visual standards of minimalist design with his fresh, colorful, sinuous, and sensual objects all captured on paper "I Want to Change the World"

"To ‘recover the tradition of japanese buildings’ and to reinterpret it for the 21st century" - Kengo Kuma on Design Boom



link via archinect

I'm so in love

The Eva Solo Coffee maker, brewed on the original design of coffee - bean and water.

ps. my birthday is in April - someone please...I beg of you

Glenn Murcutt Masterclass

Glenn Murcutt (far right) hosted by the University of Newcastle will hold their annual international masterclass in July 2006, Australia. The cost will be Aus$7350, a 50% discount of two scholarships will be offered to applicants from " developing countries" with a low GDP capital.

From left Lindsay Johnston, Rick Leplastrier, and above Peter Stutchbury
Damn - they never offered me a discount when I went.

Also see the New Zealand Masterclass

Architecture:
Many outsiders think this is a terrific, artistic career, but they don't realize how long it takes before an architect gets to design a building.

from Land+Living

Can you take the heat?

HotSeat is a chair competition presented by OFS and Metropolis Magazine.

Design Criteria: Incorporate wood in materials usage, sustainable, progressive, accessible, aesthetically pleasing, technologically relevant, environmentally conscious.
Finalists will be awarded a trip to Dallas, TX to present their designs at the opening of OFS' Dallas Showroom. The winning entry will also have their design developed and incorporated into the OFS product offering

Deadline: March 31, 2006.
For more information

ok Superman... I know u want to save the world from poorly designed/constructed projects but u can only save one island at a time!

A Daily Dose of Architecture

Mercat de Santa Caterina on A Daily Dose of Architecture

Just some photos of my recent travels to St Lucia via Antigua and back. enjoy






Martini bar...see below for results


architects and client - yea, I know!


Luxury resort under construction - not melon


The food!!


melon snagging - it was a working weekend


St Johns, Antigua from my hotel room


back to my island

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Another one

here's another blog on architecture called appropriately, Architecture & Morality

agriculture meets architecture

Whilst farming towers are not new, by any means, rarely have they been done with such architectural elegance. This kind of architecture meets argiculture may satisfy some the demands of an ever growing society. Created by architect Pierre Sartoux, the example is dubbed the living tower.

See more at Inhabitat

my mother would have killed me if she knew I spelt agriculture incorrectly

archi-tourist

Okay again I'm going to be off for a few days playing the archi-tourist. Take a look at what I WON'T be seeing this time around. But hopefully I'll be able to fix that with views and locations to some rather important architecture from this end that need to be added to the mix.

Be back on the 9th

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Big Brother to grow trees

Saw this lovely image on fellow site BLDGBLOG and the notion of Big Brother "growing" trees to observe one's activities really interested me. This could take voyeur porn to a whole new level.

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

On December 15, 2005, the newly elected President of the Republic of Poland, accompanied by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, presided over the opening ceremony of the architectural competition for the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The initiative to create the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is a joint project of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage on the one hand, and of the Mayor of Warsaw, supported by a resolution of Warsaw Municipal Council, on the other hand. The authors of the Museum project fully expect that the Museum of Modern Art In Warsaw will stand out among other similar facilities because of the following factors:

- the Museum has a unique location adjacent to the Palace of Culture and Science, and hence is endowed with a special moral and historical context;- the Museum building is an attractive structure;- the art collection groups high-quality, unique items;- the Museum intentionally projects its presence into the city’s public space.A Preliminary Concept for The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw was prepared and adopted by the Museum Programme Advisory Board on August 28, 2005, and subsequently, on September 12, 2005, was recommended by the Board of the Museum as the departure point for further work on the program, as well as for preparations for an international competition for the design of the Museum.

Full Details http://www.museumcompetition.pl/

design in kind

My Japanese co-worker a resident UNV Architect (United Nations Voluteneer) is reknown on island for her use of colour. She and I quote,"[was] interested in bringing back colour & vibrance back to the island" - rather important since 90% of the country's architecture was either destroyed or had to be abandoned after the Souffeire Hills volcano began eruption after 300 years of dormancy.

Anyhow I digress...

Because her use of colour on the buildings she designed is so well appreciated, many locals have asked her "advice" on the painting of their homes & businesses. I would say that there are at least 50 examples of such on island - all remarkable. Now this isn't colour for the light of heart but she manages with each example to win over the more conservative. I previously showed the Nursery School in Brades, as well as the Mortuary at the St Johns hospital with palettes quite unusual for their typologies.

More remarkable is that she takes her role as a volunteer very seriously, taking no compensation for her advice, aside from a "thank you" and a possibility of a generous act in the future. Hence the title of this post, "design in kind." Of course this has extended to other works, redesigning someone's kitchen, working drawings, it varies - but done for nothing more than a kind gesture. It also manages to be infectious as I've extended my talents designing a small extension, a pool house, etc with gifts ranging from a box of Cohibas, a bottle of wine, the best of Nina Simone cd, etc.

I know those out there worried about the erosion of the profession into nothing more than pencil pushing will probably hiss at this notion. But are there any other stories out there of design in kind - let me know, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. With 2006 dawning on us all is it time to rethink architecture as more than a service industry and perhaps as a gesture of kindness & the committment to quality design at no cost?

Happy New Year

box on sticks

by Micha de Haas

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas to all the fetish fans out there. Hope you all have a great one.

Natural Space



Online magazine celebrating sustainable design and architecture throughout the world.

ARCHTEAM, Czech Republic

designbuild practice MEDIUM.


And because its the season for it...

And something for the eyes... Eyecandy

On and another; terra non firma - the neon green is so 80s, i love it

fixing "the fix"

Many apologies the previous post by SANAA's Museum of Comtemporary Art is actually in Bowery, not Brooklyn.

what am I pimping today...

End of the year with thoughts of misletoe, the blog seems to be the furhtest from my mind...or is it?

I start by welcoming another site, the agora

and this....



Hotel Saratz by architects Hans-Jorg Ruch. The Swiss architect is known for his intelligently designed, exquisitely crafted conversions and extensions of existing alpine buildings.

more on SANAA, interview at DesignBoom, "Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishiwaza have been working collaboratively under the name ‘sanaa’ since 1995. Sejima studied architecture at the Japan Women's University before collaborating with architect Toyo Ito. She launched her own practice in 1987 and was named ‘young architect of the year’ in japan in 1992. Nishizawa studied architecture at Yokohama National University and, in addition to his work with sejima, has also maintained an independent practice since 1997."




Love the box - be the box!!

100 concrete boxes

The Chinati Foundation
Originally uploaded by informedmindstravel.

Land art will always have a place on "the fetish"

Error on that previous post regarding Zaha Hadid at the Lourve, the winner of the competition was in fact Mario Bellini. Images to come.

thanks Javier for the correction

get your fix

SANAA's (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa) New Museum of Comptemporary Art in NYC, an array of staggered cubes balancing over the streets of Brooklyn, is the past feature on Archidose.

this is so me

CAD Flúnk·y
n. Arch. Slang pl. -kies or -keys
CAD Monkey (see IV) who never got around to learning CAD, therefore does the colouring-in, either by hand or with Photoshop. Often progresses through the company quicker then the CAD Monkey due to more of an interest in reality and inability/disinterest in making software tools work.

Picked this one up from Archidose, Zaha Hadid to construct a Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris.



Very trippy

a simply beautiful option to the aweful grey & black boxes usually seen on desks everywhere

Phaeno by Zaha Hadid

Emilio Ambasz is constantly attempting what he calls a 'reconciliation of the man-made with the organic;' this manifests itself with structures embedded into the landscape as if growing themselves.

The Green TreeFrog's two-layered structure consists of an upper and a lower skin of green translucent corrugated polyester. Squashed between the glass skins lies a lighting system of fluorescent tubes giving off the luminous glow.

via Fabrica

Trahan Architects wins an Emerging Architecture award for the Catholic Church complex in Louisiana



see the other winners published in the Architectural Review

I'm an unhappy camper. My badass camera is on the fritz and this seems to be a trend with me - own a camera for a bit and then boom, it dies. This makes 4th camera (and second digital) that has died in the last 8 years.

Anyhow I've sent off for a new one. More comact similar features.



anyone knows how to get my sony repaired

Blocks

Blocks
Originally uploaded by stillthedudeabides.

I dunno what this is..but I found it on flickr and I like it. Seems like a modern interpretation of Sea Ranch

Cantilevering out to the ocean, the Holman residence found precedent in the paintings of Picasso. The layout curves as if dancing with the coast line, offering dramatic vistas along its ridge. Durbach Block architects where commended with two nominations from the RAIA for this residence in 2005.

Two iPods and a microphone. Party entertainment takes one a new form

Keeping up the jones's

RAIA awards



more from the RAIA awards

Troppos Architects


Historically, the phrase going troppo came into prominence during World War II. It meant to be heat affected, one went off, a little mad in the heat of the tropics. This is the story of two architects who went troppo, but in doing so, found another state. For them it meant becoming acclimatised, not going off at all, but understanding the place. Going troppo was revealing—even enlightening—and it would provide the basis for a new practice of architecture in Australia’s Northern Territory.

see monograph

Koolhaas to design 2006 Serpentine Pavillion

Pritzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas will design next year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion.

see bdonline for more

Swedish Architects & designers Claessen-Koivisto-Rune

living legend...

Jamaican born Bridgette Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe



apologies on the late post - I'm a little under the weather today

previous link to Alexander Wong

Foster Lomas Architects

With a style and inspiration that is eclectic and changing with each project, projects seem obsessed with getting materials right.



ps. happy brithday mum