20030731
Pentagon Memorial Concept Models Displayed in New York
The concept models prepared by the six finalists for the Pentagon Memorial Design Competition will be on display from June 30, 2003 until August 12, 2003 at the New York Municipal Art Society. The exhibition hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The address of the Municipal Arts Society is 457 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022
pentagon
.: gisela 2:47 PM
MADE : Tackling Architecture With a Table Saw
.: Jonas 10:24 AM
20030730
The Wall
"On Friday, after meeting with Mr. Abbas, Mr. Bush raised the subject in remarks to reporters, and when questioned about it, said, "I THINK THE WALL IS A PROBLEM," adding that he had already discussed it with Mr. Sharon." (NYtimes)
.: Jonas 4:52 PM
Anyone wants to submit a paper to DOCOMOMO's conference at Columbia University from September 29th - October 2nd 2003?
Deadline is September 15th 2003.
call for papers
.: gisela 1:03 PM
Officer Chintua Alozie, fighting crime yesterday as part of the NYPD's 60-day trial with the $5,000 Segway, says, "It's easy to use." (nypost)
.: Jonas 10:50 AM
20030728
Flash Mob Report
.: Jonas 11:36 AM
20030727
"The notion of combining architectural celebrity and high-design fireworks to attract visitors is commonplace now in the planning of everything from museums to Prada boutiques. But in stadium design the notion is new." (Nytimes)
.: Jonas 11:03 AM
20030725
More for China : Learning from III :
"The owner and operator of The Venetian Casino Resort in Las Vegas, is planning to spend up to $10-billion to recreate "The Strip" in Cotai, Macao, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. [..] As planned, the development includes 20 mega resorts and 60,000 hotel rooms, exhibition and conference facilities, theaters, showrooms, shopping malls, spas, dozens of restaurants and entertainment facilities, including, of course, casinos." (globeSt.com)
Considering this and recent posts on the republic, it turns out to be "Learning from China". Rem knew it all along:
"Koolhaas put up a photograph of Shenzhen, China, a boomtown of modernist towers, none more than eight years old. He explained that this urban region will grow from 12 million residents to 36 million in the next two decades. He informed the students, who spend years in school and then more years in grueling apprenticeships, that, in China, 40-story buildings are designed on Macintoshes in less than a week. In the context of this hyperdevelopment, the traditional architectural values - composition, aesthetics, balance - are irrelevant. The speed of international demands is completely out of pace with the ability of traditional designers to respond; construction has left architecture on the sidelines. Each year in the Pearl River Delta, he told them, 500 square kilometers of urban substance are created. This is the equivalent of Paris, doubled. Western architects, by comparison, build nothing. They are virtually extinct. " (wired)
.: Jonas 4:59 PM
20030721
The Zurich office Burkhardt +Partners will build the new Basketball Stadium for the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Bejing. It seems the Chinese go 100% for the high gloss renderings for their games. This one will cost them 250 Mio Dollars.
BauNetz
.: gisela 12:34 PM
20030717
LMDC: The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation today announced that 5,200 submissions have been received from 62 nations and 49 states for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, making it the largest design competition in history.
.: Jonas 8:23 PM
Evan Douglis is the new Architecture Chair at Pratt. Congratulations Evan !
.: Jonas 7:24 PM
20030715
Dean's 'grassroots' campaign seems to be going well: his blog
.: Jonas 8:06 PM
Architect and Developer Clash Over Plans for Trade Center Site (NYtimes)
.: Jonas 10:25 AM
20030711
Preston Scott Cohen won the The Tel Aviv Art Museum! Thank you, Zvi. It looks phantastic.
BauNetz
.: gisela 12:48 PM
20030710
NURBS-based projects win international competitions in series. What a relief from the recent POLYGON-based excess downtown. It's geometry after all.
Henn Architekten win Beijing International Automotive Expo
.: Jonas 1:38 PM
20030709
Blogs in the Workplace: "Entrants are forbidden to discuss their proposals.." but at some point we'll have the pleasure to view all those blogs that capture the diverse efforts for the wtc memorial competition. Here is one.
.: Jonas 12:00 PM
20030707
Kaja wrote: (Re)Designing the High Line
ideas from an international competition to transform this once visionary elevated rail freight line structure into a public space that both advances historic preservation & non-motorized transportation options, can be seen in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall. Q? e-mail josh@thehighline.org or visit thehighline.org
opens Wednesday, July 10th 6-8pm
.: Jonas 12:07 PM
20030702
"Each mark on the above map represents within a 75 foot grid the location of remains recovered at the WTC site from October through May, 2002." (Coalition of 9/11 Families)
"The Memorial Warriors: For many spouses and parents of 9/11 victims, mourning meant getting involved. Now their moral authority and media sophistication -- not to speak of their anger -- have made them crucial players in the future of downtown. [..]
At almost every press conference, in almost every interview, Regenhard will say that what killed her son, a probationary firefighter, was not our policy in the Mideast, a lapse in U.S. intelligence, a failure in airline security, the force of two jetliners, the depravity of Osama bin Laden, or the zealotry of nineteen homicidal maniacs. She will say the towers themselves murdered her son. The towers and the forces that built them." (newyorkmetro)
.: Jonas 4:15 PM
20030701
They will throw the party
"Assuming, as a common rule of thumb, that maybe half of the people who registered for the World Trade Center competition will actually send in a design, the jury will be looking at 6,500 entries. If a juror gives each of them just a one-minute look, that will be 108 hours, or about three solid weeks of work just for that first pass. [..] The sponsors of the World Trade Center contest say there will be an exhibition at some point of all or some of the entries. That should be fascinating to visit." (BostonGlobe)
.: Jonas 4:34 PM
make sure who you invite is connected:
www.theyrule.net
.: jason 4:20 PM
Too bad, it would have been such fun to throw that memorial competition party we talked about. Bar code scanner at the door; admission with full scale copy of competiton entry (30 X 40 inches).
"Entrants are forbidden to discuss their proposals, and the jury will review the submissions anonymously in an attempt, rebuilding officials say, to avoid the kind of political pressure that so infused the selection of Daniel Libeskind's overall design for the site." (NYtimes)
.: Jonas 12:43 PM
Our young friends just informed us that Lego's Spybotics are a 'must have'. Get one for your godchild and one for yourself. Hey Sawad, can your robots take on the Spybots ? :) Also, you recently hosted this symposium on games and war; anything online yet ?
.: Jonas 12:19 PM
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