Today’s News - Tuesday, October 1, 2019
● A music festival company is taking its luxury "SHIFTPODs," hexagonal, yurt-like camping tents, to the hurricane-devastated Bahamas with the goal to house 5,000 people.
● Wainwright and others profile designers and their innovations that "could change the world" - including a Belgian firm "trying to kickstart a radical shift in the way architects and builders think about construction, designing for reuse from the beginning."
● Hagberg poetically ponders "memory, hope, and loss" as she wanders Calatrava's Oculus transit hub at NYC's WTC, where "you can just walk around and around and you'll feel both completely alone and never alone - it is a site of horrors and wonders, intimate and immense."
● Grob Plante considers "the rise of the zombie malls - extravagant facilities that offer almost everything. Why travel among home, job and fun when you can move to a mall and never leave?"
● Mafi marvels at Hadid's "stunning" Beijing Daxing International Airport: "Perhaps more than any other architectural element, it's the ease of navigation that makes her design so special."
● Welton talks to Olcott re: Ennead's new wing for the Peabody Essex Museum "in one of the oldest cities in America, one filled with a very tightly regulated preservation commission. The challenge may have been great, but the results are exquisite."
● Morgan cheers Brown University's new Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship in Providence, Rhode Island: "At a time when colleges and universities are commissioning starchitects to design big-ticket items - it is refreshing to discover a modest, barebones triumph."
● King parses Kate Orff's plans for a new 5-acre park - a "constructed ecosystem," for the first phase of the San Francisco Giants' "long-delayed 28-acre Mission Rock project."
● Brussat cheers Duncan Stroik's "honest architecture" in a "hilarious video" for the Bulfinch Awards lecture series. "A beautiful building is the only truly honest building."
● Harrouk parses "the creative process of the four pioneers of modern architecture," and why Corbu, Mies, FLW, and Kahn's "projects and practices are still influential to our modern times.
● A 6-minute video re: the Bauhaus legacy: "The pioneers of modernism wanted to develop healthy airy pleasant homes for working people that were cheap to build. Many present-day architects and urban planners feel indebted to the Bauhaus's agenda and innovations."
● NYC's 9th annual Archtober launches today, offering "enriching entertainment, dialogue, and activities. The seemingly endless list of events might be overwhelming, but Metropolis has you covered."
● In 2020 Galway, Ireland becomes the European Capital of Culture, "a year of extraordinary creativity and disruption - with the themes of landscape, language and migration."
● Two we couldn't resist: Ravenscroft rounds up some hilarious responses to the UK housing minister's speech about architects "moving into a new age where they will be creating 3D buildings for the first time."
● Hopkirk has her own round-up of hilarious responses to the speech, which included: "We need to get more people into construction - if we have this new way of doing it - 3D architects, 3D visionaries, doing it ... on a computer - lots of younger people will want to come into that arena of jobs."
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Weinstein: "Simon Unwin envisions children in their playful place-making defining architecture's essence in 'Children as Place-makers.'"
● ICYMI: ANN feature: Maxinne Rhea Leighton: What is a Sage? Climate Week and the Design Profession: This is not about fighting climate change. This is about standing with the planet, our communities, our youth.
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'Revolutionary' pods finding a new purpose for survivors of brutal disaster: Music festival company Insomniac is taking its skills in luxury camping to the Bahamas to help those who need housing after Hurricane Dorian: ..."SHIFTPODs"...hexagonal, yurt-like tents...provide amenities that are considered "revolutionary" for camping, yet necessary for long-term living...air conditioning and electrical outlets. The company is hoping to reach the goal of housing 5,000 people.- AccuWeather |
Oliver Wainwright, etc.: The Light at the End of Tunnel: These designers are rethinking how we dress, recycle waste and even dye our hair. Their innovations could change the world - and the way you think about squid, coconuts and rubble: Building a future from the ground up: : “Forestry in the city” is how Belgian architect Maarten Gielen describes the work of his practice...where the wood isn’t from living trees, but harvested from condemned buildings...[his] firm is trying to kickstart a radical shift in the way architects and builders think about construction, designing for reuse from the beginning, and changing people’s perceptions of the value of secondhand materials.- Observer (UK) |
Eva Hagberg: Memory, Hope, and Loss: A thing about the Oculus is that you can just walk around and around and you’ll feel both completely alone and never alone. You’ll feel the weight of everything that came before and the total and unregistrable freedom of the new...[It] is a site of horrors and wonders, intimate and immense...The Oculus almost didn’t get built, and it was always going to get built. Everything that happens has happened before, and everything will happen again. It’s an oval. It’s designed that way. -- Santiago Calatrava- e-flux |
Stephie Grob Plante: The Rise of the Zombie Mall: Hundreds of big retail centers have gone under, but the shop-til-you drop lifestyle isn’t dead yet: Paco Underhillrefers not to malls but to “alls,” extravagant facilities that offer almost everything...Why travel among home, job and fun when you can move to a mall and never leave? -- Victor Gruen- Smithsonian magazine |
Nick Mafi: Zaha Hadid's Stunning Beijing Daxing International Airport Is Finally Completed: After five years of construction, the multibillion-dollar structure is now the world's largest single structured airport: Perhaps more than any other architectural element, it's the ease of navigation that makes Hadid's design so special...We live in a digital epoch of architecture that has allowed fantastical buildings to shift from the theoretical to the materialized. Yet that doesn't always mean that computer-enhanced designs will be admired, or stand the test of time. It's too soon to tell...For now, however, the design has shown that alchemy is still possible in modern architecture.- Architectural Digest |
J. Michael Welton: A New Wing for PEM by Ennead Architects: Richard Olcott...charged with designing an addition to the widely respected Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass...the challenge, he says, was to create contemporary architecture in one of the oldest cities in America, one filled with a very tightly regulated preservation commission. The challenge may have been great , but the results are exquisite.- Architects + Artisans |
William Morgan: Good Design on Thayer Street [Providence, Rhode Island]: At a time when colleges and universities are commissioning starchitects to design big-ticket items...it is refreshing to discover a modest, barebones triumph inside the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship...it is worthwhile to look at how Brown University is addressing the recent entrepreneurship-as-academic-field phenomenon...Oftentimes the challenges of a tight budget bring out the inventive best in designers. -- ZDS Architecture & Interior Design; 3SIXØ Architecture- GoLocalProv (Rhode Island) |
John King: SF Giants unveil plan for a 5-acre ‘constructed ecosystem’ along bay: ...features several landscaped hillocks...to serve as buffers to expected sea level rise...new park design offers the first glimpse of the Giants’ long-delayed 28-acre Mission Rock project...will be followed within weeks by architectural proposals for four buildings...that would join the park in Mission Rock’s first phase of 10.5 acres...If all this sounds complicated, so is the saga of the Giants’ quest to make Mission Rock happen. -- Kate Orff/Scape; Jeanne Gang/Studio Gang- San Francisco Chronicle |
David Brussat: Duncan Stroik’s honest architecture: ...he takes a hammer to the “honesty” that supposedly undergirds classicism, especially this holy triad...blows them to smithereens with a sense of humor that only adds relish to the old adages’ demise...A beautiful building is the only truly honest building...“Principles of Architecture Disproved by the Renaissance” is well worth watching...watch excellent Bulfinch lectures by Arik Lasher, Matthew Bronski and Justin Shubow. -- Institute of Classical Architecture & Art- Architecture Here and There |
Christele Harrouk: The Creative Process of the Four Pioneers of Modern Architecture: ...and why their projects and practices are still influential to our modern times. Le Corbusier and the Program; Mies van der Rohe and the Constant Search for the Truth; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Space-Time Integration; Louis Kahn and the Spiritual Value- ArchDaily |
The Bauhaus Legacy - Decent housing for all!: The pioneers of modernism wanted to develop healthy airy pleasant homes for working people that were cheap to build. Many present-day architects and urban planners feel indebted to the Bauhaus's agenda and innovations. [video]- Deutsche Welle (Germany) |
What Not to Miss at Archtober 2019: October 1 marks the start of New York City’s month-long celebration of architecture and design. Here are our recommendations: Launching its ninth iteration...offers enriching entertainment, dialogue, and activities...The seemingly endless list of events...might be overwhelming, but Metropolis has you covered. -- Center for Architecture- Metropolis Magazine |
In 2020 Galway, Ireland becomes the European Capital of Culture, a year of extraordinary creativity and disruption: Galway 2020 begins in February and runs through until the end of January 2021. Developed through more than 100 partnerships with 33 different countries represented...with the themes of landscape, language and migration. "Making Waves"- Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture |
Tom Ravenscroft: Architects mock UK housing minister for revealing that "3D architects" are doing it "on a computer": Esther McVey...gave a speech announcing that architects are using computers as a "new way" to design buildings...[She] seemed to suggest that architects are moving into a new age where they will be creating 3D buildings for the first time.- Dezeen |
Elizabeth Hopkirk: Housing minister ridiculed for ‘3D architects’ remark: Industrialising housing could put it on par with £40bn automotive sector, Esther McVey tells conference: “We need to get more people into construction...if we have this new way of doing it - 3D architects, 3D visionaries, doing it ... on a computer, there’s a whole new raft of jobs. Then lots of younger people will want to come into that arena of jobs.”- BD/Building Design (UK) |
ANN feature: Norman Weinstein: Who Isn't a Born Architect? Simon Unwin envisions children in their playful place-making defining architecture's essence in "Children as Place-makers."- ArchNewsNow.com |
ANN feature: Maxinne Rhea Leighton: What is a Sage? Climate Week and the Design Profession: This is not about fighting climate change. This is about standing with the planet, our communities, our youth.- ArchNewsNow.com |
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