27 December 2006
22 December 2006
18 December 2006
14 December 2006
Rubber Balls
Photo: Tony Cenicola/NYTimes
Clear glass balls dipped in red, green or white industrial rubber are $24 for a box of four at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum shop, 2 East 91st Street, (212) 849- 8355 or cooperhewitt.org.
12 December 2006
Jim Isermann
Design for Kyle Brackett Memorial Quilt
Pencil on paper: 1994
The Names Project
Finished quilt panel is located in Block 3754
All but Ageless, Turtles Face Their Greatest Threat: Man
New York Times
Photos: Imke Lass for The New York Times, at the University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Lab
From top, a leopard tortoise, a South African land-based species and a common pet. Center, a New Guinea snakeneck turtle, a carnivorous species found in the river system in the southern part of the country. Above, a big-headed turtle, native to mountain streams in Southern China and related to North American snapping turtles.
nytimes.com/2006/12/12/s...e/12turt.html
09 December 2006
9900 Wilshire Boulevard
LOS ANGELES // RICHARD MEIER
Located on a prominent eight-acre site between Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards, the project constitutes the western entrance [of] the city of Beverly Hills.9900 Wilshire is designed to achieve Gold LEED certification through environmentally sensitive architecture and building systems. The buildings are ultra-thin in support of a sustainable design concept to maximize daylight and natural ventilation. Each residence includes cantilevered terraces and balconies that shade the clear glass as well as create depth and scale at the building elevations.
Comprises 252 luxury condominium residences contained within two twelve-story buildings, two four-story loft buildings, and five townhouse units. Neighbors: the Hilton Beverly Hills Hotel and a golf course.
Thanks to http://www.outnext.com/on/
06 December 2006
25 November 2006
16 November 2006
Knoll
NYTimes:
Imago, Knoll Textiles’ name for its line of fabrics sandwiched between sheets of resin, has introduced three new designs: from left, Whisper, a lacy floral; Zen, squares with a ribbed surface; and the raffia-like Allure. The sheets can be used for room dividers, door panels, signs, ceiling panels and backsplashes. The material “allows privacy within a space while allowing light to come through,” said Dorothy Cosonas, the creative director for Knoll Textiles in Manhattan. “It can be die-cut, sawed and bent.” Whisper and Zen are available in black, white or red; Allure comes in nine colors. The patterns are sold in 4-by-8-foot sheets in six thicknesses ranging from one-sixteenth of an inch to half an inch, at $480 to $1,472 per sheet. Information: (866) 565-5858; knoll.com.
13 November 2006
23 October 2006
18 October 2006
Hiroshi Sugimoto
C1023, 2006
Galerie Marian Goodman
79, rue du Temple
September 16–October 25
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new “Colors of Shadow” series, the first he photographed entirely in color, is a feat of aesthetic and technical prowess that beautifully merges the artist’s abiding interests in architecture, sculpture, and photography. Striding away from the notion that a photograph is a found object dependent on chance, Sugimoto donned his architect’s cap to prepare his subject—a Tokyo apartment—in advance. First, he had the walls finished with shikkui, a traditional, brilliantly white Japanese plaster. Then, he aimed his camera toward the homogenously toned surfaces from three different angles in order to capture the natural play of light and shadow on them throughout the day.
As one might expect, Sugimoto’s “Colors of Shadow” do not shout, they whisper. One might even mistake them for black-and-white images. The monochromatic grisaille of the tightly framed interior is rendered in pale shades, with occasional dominant blue or yellow tones. In some spots, darker gray shadows provide depth to the smooth walls and sharp corners, while bright light washes other areas into flat abstractions. It’s a cliché, but the photographs literally draw you in. The resulting experience is simultaneously complex and simple. Your eye hungrily explores a space that, in its monastic emptiness, calls the mind to rest. Here, more than ever, Sugimoto demonstrates his unmatched capacity to tantalize the viewer by sculpting light and shaping time.
15 October 2006
12 October 2006
06 October 2006
03 October 2006
26 September 2006
24 September 2006
Jacob Hashimoto
Senza titolo - 2006
carta, filo di nylon, bamboo, acrilico
200 x 150 x 20cm.
http://www.studiolacitta.it/LaCitta/Mostre/index.php
22 September 2006
20 September 2006
17 September 2006
15 September 2006
14 September 2006
Peter Danko
Recycled seatbelts are the webbing on the 47½-inch-long Arbor Tandem Loveseat by Peter Danko, an eco-modernist designer in York, Pa.; $985 at Vivavi, 644 Manhattan Avenue in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, (866) 848-2840 or vivavi.com.
Terunobu Fujimori
Dormitory of Agricultural College of Kumamoto
University of Tokyo
Photo: MASUDA Akihisa
Venice
From the NYTimes:
The big surprise for those who made it to the weekend opening of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition was that it was so hard to find the architecture. Organized by Richard Burdett in the cavernous, decaying rooms of the Arsenale, the core of the show is a sprawling, ambitious look at the evolution of cities — Barcelona, Mumbai, Cairo, Caracas — in an era when the global population is pouring into urban areas at a fantastic rate. Mr. Burdett packs his exhibition with eye-popping statistics, painting a picture of emerging megacities in which poverty is as stunning a feature as density or scale.
06 September 2006
01 September 2006
31 August 2006
Wallpaper LAB
From NYTimes: Artists have long designed wallcoverings, and now a new company, Wallpaper LAB, has made such rarefied wallpapers its raison d’être. An exhibition of its inaugural line of 15 papers by, from left, artists including Fred Tomaselli, Douglas Gordon, Carol Peligian and Phoebe Washburn, will open Sept. 7 at the Lennon, Weinberg Gallery in Chelsea. The digitally printed designs come in 42-inch rolls with repeating patterns or continuous images. A set of rolls for a single design costs $3,500 to $45,000. The designs will be at the gallery, 514 West 25th Street, until Oct. 14; (212) 941-0012. Wallpaper LAB is at (212) 330-7127.
30 August 2006
25 August 2006
God of Architecture
An artist in Argartala, India, puts the finishing touches to a clay statue of Biswakarma, the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, ahead of a festival on 17 September.
AP Photo
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