International Experiments in Architectural Overhauls, after a long summer moving onwards

This blog has been around long enough, scrabbling parts and pieces together with it's sister projects and interests. All summer it's been on hiatus and, I promise you, while the updates have been slow I've been gathering fuel for the fire. Now the challenge is to write some decent posts and organize these jumbles of links.

There is a reason why the picture above looks like a massive rebuilt engine piston, and [warning: profound architecture word] simultaneously a sizable collection of kegs - this has been a long time in the making and is going to require a lot of work and a supply of my 'magical blend' of choice.

But you don't have to take my word for it...



...which would beg the question: "Why do Hipsters drink cheap beer?"

MANIFESTATIONS II

the f'ing best thing i've seen in a long time: click, look, be amazed!it's international, it's experimental, it's architecture - that's what we're all about. http://zulmiradesign.blogspot.com/

MTA turnstile portraiture

women are heroes portraits/murals

The artists and geographers of cracked paint

a building that rotates on it's base - vintage early modern design

3dimensional paper structures create portrait/busts

a building that punctures it entire self

Architectural photography from the inside out.

Julie Mehretu, it drawing/painting/whatevering doesn't get any better than this

Although Adam Cvijanovic's work makes an attempt

signs of perspective

these link lead to breifs in artistry, perspective, and parking garage navigation:

see the installation here
more on the artist here

"My Cantilever is bigger than your Cantilever"

This entire article has been shamelessly cribbed from "bLoGoğlu" Blog, I enjoyed the writing (that is an excellent title) and the pictures were fantastic (check out the link for them). So I could resist not adding it to the archives here, show some link love and check out the other musing on design at bLoGoğlu.

And now...

"Jean Nouvel of Paris, France has been chosen as the 2008 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor was held on June 2, 2008, in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress. A $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion was bestowed on the 62-year old architect. Jean Nouvel, Paris. (b. 12 Aug. 1945)

The "Endless Bridge to nowhere" between the fourth and fifth floors of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis is the "longest cantilever of occupied space" in the world, equivalent to fourteen stories in length and taking more steel than required to build the Eiffel Tower. The effect is certainly amazing, voking a sense of wonder.Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MNThe Guthrie Theatre follows Nouvel's acclaimed Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland, opened in 1998. Situated on the picturesque Vierwaldstättersee shore, the facility is also known by the acronym of its German name, KKL (Kultur-und Kongresszentrum Luzern). It also contains a large scale concert hall, as well as museum and exhibition space, meeting rooms, restaurants, and a rehearsal hall. A flat floor auditorium with one balcony, Lucerne Hall can seat 900 people with the use of telescopic seating. The hall is complete with a stagehouse and rigging systems for theatrical events, trade presentations, and audio-visual presentations. The hall can also ccommodate a wide variety of popular and folk music, as well as smaller classical recitals. The flat floor style of the hall is equally suited to concerts with standing audience, anquets, and cabaret theater. The rear wall of Lucerne Hall can open up to the lobby and, in turn, to the outside, to accommodate much larger flat-floor events such as rock concerts and exhibitions."

More links to infolinks on Jean Nouvel from our favorite resources:

From NPR

From NYTimes

interview with BLDGBLOG

...ok not an interview preformed by me, not my any means - but a good link here to one by someone else and also a link to a lecture presentation by him here

MANIFESTATIONS I: Architectural Graffitti, drawings and riffs

by the artist known as 'truth' shows what he's got:
http://www.truthtag.com/main.php

Gordon Cullin illustrations:
http://themeasurestaken.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

CCTV photoset on flikr, evolving a strange hulk drifting in the smog:
http://flickr.com/photos/rudenoon/sets/72157603600124481/

With an eye for elements of an additive nature, this web ap. now offers the reverse - subtractive properties:
http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/

Nether additive nor subtractive, this in from strange harvest:
Form Follows Dysfunction: Bad Construction & The Morality of Detail

The fanatic, decon + crazy forms of:
Günther Domenig

Chinese Modern c/o NPR reporter

Doris Salcedo

Interview with BLDGBLOg's Geoff Manaugh from the LA Times

Painting and Photography...and architecture?

Photography and Architecture - Middle of the End Exhibit at SCAD 1, and 2

The Newamsterdam Project

Fresh in from NPR : In the city of Boston the New Amsterdam Project is more than just personal transportation, these bikes take the idea od bike-messenger to next level : the bike-trucker.

But you don't have to take my word for it:



Also from NPR, an article on the Crimanimlz, an LA base bike activist group getting down on the downtown freeway.