The 200 Artists and Architects that contributed to the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition ‘Contemplating the Void’ now have their work available for public auction!
This is incredibly exciting, because while many of us will never have a chance to have a house designed by one of these many esteemed architects, we can have a piece of their work to hang in our unexciting homes.
Here are 16 projects by architects and Architizer members you might want to check out: read more
The exhibit Landscapes of Quarantine opens Tuesday, March 9th with an opening reception at 7pm at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
It is a group exhibition exploring the spaces of quarantine, from Level 4 biocontainment labs to underground nuclear waste repositories.
Landscapes of Quarantine is curated by Future Plural – Geoff Manaugh (BLDG BLOG) and Nicola Twilley (Edible Geography). It is designed by Glenn Cummings (MTWTF).
The exhibition press release in full: read more
Core77 recently unveiled the winner of this month’s 1 Hour Design Challenge. To the uninitiated, Core77 runs a series of competitions that address a unique topic (past competitions include The Future of Digital Reading).
The topic for this month was emergency shelters, which in the wake of the earthquakes in both Haiti and Chile seems particularly apt. While there were dozens upon dozens of submission, the editors of Core77 selected the entry ‘Lifetent’ by Dan Ostrowski as the winner.
Dan described the project:
Based on the reports coming out of Haiti, I decided that a natural disaster refugee was a transient person that would migrate to new locations in search of safety, food, and/or medical help. I developed an inflatable tent because of its lightweight, easy transport, and minimal storage space when not in use. A GPS tracker was added so that rescue teams could know, before entering a ND zone, where they are most needed. The Lifestraws were added in an attempt to stave off water born pathogens and the use of mosquito repellent fabric was indented to stave off malaria.
Click through to the winning announcement to see more about the winner and the nine notable mentions that the Core77 crew selected. Also check out the discussion forum where you can see all of the entries in their entirety.
We are happy to announce that on March 18th, we will be hosting a party in Los Angeles at the new A+D Museum space. In partnership with Haworth, Dwell Magazine, LA Forum, SCI-Arc, FORM Magazine and BLDG BLOG, the event will be an evening to meet fellow Los Angeleno architects as well as a celebration of Los Angeles architecture culture.
Architizer Los Angeles Launch Party
March 18, 2010
A+D Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd
If you are in the Southern California area we heartily encourage you to attend. RSVP to rsvp@architizer.com.
Leading up the the big event, we will be celebrating Los Angeles architects and projects on the site, so if you fit into that category be sure to get your work up to be featured.
The inaugural exhibit at Ron Arad’s Design Museum Holon opens tomorrow, ‘The State of Things,’ featuring more than 100 objects that collectively reflect issues concerning the practice, consumption and cultural impact of contemporary international design.
The exhibit opens on March 4th and runs through May 15th.
It is curated by Barbara Bloemink, with assistant curators Julie Lasky, Aric Chen and Garth Walker. The categories of the exhibition are: New Essentialism, Mutant Remix, Of the Body, Social Anxiety, Super Beauty, Craft Economy and Design Lab.
We have a sneak peak inside the exhibit, as well as a tour around the structure, which opened in January of this year.
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A tour of Brooklyn’s most expensive real estate listing is bound to impress.
Architizer was recently allowed to take a tour of the four-floor, four-clock’ed penthouse at One Main Street in New York City’s most populous borough.
(image courtesy of DUMBO NOW)
The building was built in 1914 – one of many buildings designed for Robert Gair, a wealthy industrialist of the post-Civil War era who made his fortune in a specialized technique for creating cardboard.
The penthouse used to house mechanical equipment for the clocks and a water tower. It can be yours for $25 million.
The view from the tub (not bad!!)
The kitchen, designed by Minimal, is equally impressive.
There is, of course, your own elevator to ride.
Going up!!
Eventually, you reach the top where there is an indoor-outdoor terrace that has sweeping views of the entire New York city region.
A few more shots.
The Manhattan Bridge
MORE:
The entire gallery on Facebook.
Minimal (on Architizer – and website)
The history of the building (via NY Times)
The real estate listing.
It’s official, I am becoming ‘that guy’ who google searches ‘architecture’ in his spare time just for fun. Ordinarily I wouldn’t go around publicizing this kind of outrageously dorky behavior, but I found the image results to be kind of interesting.
I guess I was expecting a Frank Gehry building to be number one.
Or maybe the Louvre?
The Acropolis?
The Pantheon?
Nope. read more
Last evening at Studio X, the latest winner of the Spontaneous Architecture competition was announced.
The theme this month was responding to the crisis in Haiti. Participants were asked to address the question of not only creating emergency shelter, but in the wake of the literal collapse of Parliament, creating emergency institutions. read more
Tonight is New York make a concerted effort to attend the Rebuild Haiti event brought to you by Architecture For Humanity New York and Brooklyn Bowl.
It is always a blessing when a good old time can be combined with an extremely worthy cause.
There will be drink specials from 6-7pm.
Tickets are 10 Dollars online and 15 at the door.
You can buy them here.
There will also be performances by Skidmore Fountain, Naked Heroes, and In Cadeo.
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Whythe Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Find out more about Architecture for Humanity New York here.
The latest issue of Surface Magazine, 81 – the Spring Fashion Issue – has more than clothing to entertain the eyes.
A peek inside the pages will please even the most lax architecture enthusiast – and might be especially pleasing to Architizer readers – no fewer than five firms and projects you can find on Architizer are featured.
You can click over to their website above to view all of these features in more detail – Surface has a great online magazine portal that makes for very easy browsing.
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