27 December 2006

22 December 2006

Pentagram Studios

18 December 2006

Maarten Baas

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

December

Division Day

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

Maarten Baas

Photo: M van Houten

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/features/design6.php

Maarten Baas


Clay Series

Photo: M van Houten

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 clichĂ©, 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

Heath

Greenwich Village

Apartment: James Gager and Richard Ferretti

12 October 2006

Big Sur, California

Metropolitan Museum of Art

06 October 2006

Viktor & Rolf

03 October 2006

26 September 2006

Habitat for Humanity: New Orleans

http://www.modelhomeproject.com/

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

Wolfgang Tillmans


Adam, Head Down. 1991.
Chromogenic color print.
11 1/2 x 8 3/4".

Dan Halter



Stone Tablets/ Bitter Pills 2005
13 x 13 x 7cm each, installation dimensions vary

20 September 2006

17 September 2006

Romain Duris



Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Gieves & Hawkes Buckshot Pattern Brogue



Photo: Jens Mortensen/NYTimes

15 September 2006

New York City Hookah

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’ĂȘtre. 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

Bouroullec Brothers

Campana Brothers


Fernando and Humberto Campana: Alligator Chair

Thomas Heatherwick

25 August 2006

David Douglas Duncan

Micro


microcompacthome.com/index.php

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

Kellan Lutz