For those not familiar, this Bi-annual event takes place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. amidst the political rallies and museum goers that make our nations capital what it is. For two weeks in October the Mall becomes a stage for some of the most innovative and promising new technologies in passive, sustainable, and [...]
Visual Acoustics
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner [...]
Future Complex: by SKRIPT
Our Dear Friend Julian Guzman (AKA Skript) is one of Boston’s finest emerging artists. His work brings elements that quite ordinarily would seem to clash or better yet, deemed “not acceptable” in this town. The combination of his love of architecture and the ‘line’ seems to be at ease with the wild and challenging nature [...]
The Highline open in NYC
Weeds never looked so good.
This summer O Z I I O had an opportunity to check out the newly opened Highline Park on New York City’s East Side. The Highline is an elevated urban park on the ruins of the old freight line that serviced the meat packing district of New York City. City official [...]
Frank O. Gehry “Since 1997″ Exhibition Milan
The first exhibition dedicated to renown architect Frank O. Gehry made its opening yesterday at the Triennale Di Milano Design Museum. Recognized as one of the worlds most influential architects, the Canadian master is most recognized for his creation of the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los [...]
The Third and The Seventh
At first glance, this looks like a stylized video shoot of Louis Kahn’s Library at the Phillips Exeter Academy. Well…in some ways it is, but the real relevance is that this was created using only Computer Generated Graphics.
This piece was created by Alex Roman, which isn’t his real name, he was born Jorge Seva, but [...]
Futura 2000 Odyssey Two Exhibit
Odyssey Two, runs throughout Art Forum Berlin and highlights 20 years of work by urban art pioneer FUTURA 2000.
The show focuses on the dual themes of memory and the past, and the influence these have on an individual’s imagined world. Futura’s obsessions with space and hyper-industrial landscapes grew from his adolescence: a time when man [...]
Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects will Collaborate on the Design of the Barclays Center
BROOKLYN, NY.
Bruce Ratner, the Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), the developer of Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, announced last week that the award-winning architectural firms Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects will collaborate on the design of the Barclays Center, the new world-class sports and entertainment venue that will serve as the anchor [...]
BLDG BLOG – word frequency clouds
Geoff Manaugh – former editor of Dwell Magazine – has produced a book based on his new publication ‘The BLDG BLOG Book’. Aside from being a massively interesting study of contemporary design and architecture, its also inspiration for other applications.
Below is a word frequency cloud generated from you can toggle the inputs; the images thus [...]
Re-imagining Boston’s stalled projects
Boston’s stalled construction sites
– from the site of the former Filene’s building to Harvard’s stalled science center in Allston — have become eyesores dotting the city’s landscape.
The Globe’s Casey Ross asked some local artists and architects to reimagine these stalled projects and come up with ideas to make them part of the city’s culture again. [...]
