November 9, 2012
Photo: courtesy of Junn Lee
Practically everyone knows that Steve Jobs revolutionized technology with his Apple products, but many forget he was once chief executive and lead investor of Pixar Animation. Well, Pixar hasn’t forgotten. The wildly imaginative movie studio has honored the computer whiz by naming its new headquarters in Emeryville, California, the Steve Jobs Building, which is particularly appropriate since Jobs helped design the structure himself! The tech master conceived of the sleek and simple atrium, saying that he wanted it to “look good 100 years from now.” (Seriously, was there anything he couldn’t do?) The entire finished building wraps around the atrium, allowing for collaboration and group exercises instead of isolated work spaces.
[via pixar times]
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September 14, 2011
Earlier this year, Swiss architect and programmer Michael Hansmeyer introduced his magnificently baroque cardboard columns, which, with their algorithmically-derived 8-16 million facets (distinct surfaces), each bear more complexity than most entire buildings. Hansmeyer is back, this time with a new set of similarly complex columns, only now made from plastic. More after the jump!
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August 8, 2011
Photo: IDBEST
800 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms, and a whole lot of helium balloons. Out in Herriman, Utah, Bangerter Homes has meticulously reconstructed the iconic house from Pixar’s Up. More after the jump!
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February 28, 2011
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey finally agrees to spend $3.4 billion on Santiago Calatrava‘s proposed World Trade Center Transit Hub. [via New York Times]
Architect Michael Hansmeyer generates the “World’s Most Complex Architecture” using laser cutters and algorithms invented by Pixar; one result is a standing column derived from between 8 and 16 million polygonal faces. [via Co.Design]
Zaha Hadid‘s Guangzhou Opera House opens in China; construction on the nation’s largest opera house started way back in 2003. [via Design Boom]
2010 proved a record setting year for ice-melt in Greenland, GOOD Blog reports via City College’s Cryospheric Processes Laboratory. [via GOOD]
Mohamed Elshahed writes in Design Observer about the role of public space in democracy and how Tahrir Square set a stage for the January 25th Revolution. [via Design Observer]
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