February 2010
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Modernismos Mexicanos
Juan Sordo Madaleno, Edificio Palmas, 1975
La Exposición Modernismos Mexicanos se inaugurará el próximo 11 de Febrero del 2010 en el Centro de Bellas Artes de Bruselas Bélgica [Bozar]:
SUCURSAL DEL BANCO DEL VALLE DE MEXICO, Mexico City Architect: Augusto H. Álvarez 1958 © Image courtesy of the ‘Archivos de Arquitectos Mexicanos, UNAM’
Como parte del festival ¡MÉXICO!, Modernismos...
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“Part of me thinks that the iPad not supporting Flash is sweet justice for every...”
– Geoff Manaugh [@bldgblog]
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WatchSteam Tunnel Music (via BLDGBLOG):
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve. Watch the school’s underground steam infrastructure be transformed, temporarily, into a thunderous musical instrument. Somewhere between subterranean calliope and mutant wave organ, steam-powered explosions of sound threatened to deafen everyone as it turned 2010.
Pratt’s steam-powered plant is...
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Carlos Slim, Mexico's $59 Billion Man, to Build...
BY Cliff Kuang Wed Jan 27, 2010
The sphinx-like telecom magnate is building a wildly futuristic art museum, designed by his son-in-law.
Carlos Slim, the Sphinx-like Mexican telecom baron who also owns a huge chunk of The New York Times, seems studiously plain. But it looks like he’s ready to step up the flash. As Bloomberg reports, the billionaire is erecting a wildly futuristic building...
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13 vasos
*Imagen del evento.
El pasado Miércoles 27 de Enero del 2010 se llevo a cabo la presentación del libro 13 vasos de la colección a+d>mx de Nouvel Studio/Arquine Editorial.
En el libro se documenta el proceso de conceptualización, diseño y producción de 13 vasos que Nouvel Studio comisionó a importantes figuras del diseño y la arquitectura mexicanas.
Los diseñadores de estos 13 vasos son:
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WatchDROOG BY ATELIER BOW-WOW
A video about a renovation by Atelier Bow-Wow for Droog Design - featured at the Droog Art Basel Miami showcase.
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How to Become a Famous Architect
Death to Manifestos. Viva How-To’s!
Becoming a famous architect shouldn’t take too long, but don’t expect too much. It’s not a passport to riches, nor an introduction to high society. But if it’s what you want, here’s how to do it in easy 10 steps:
1. First, pay a visit to any well stocked newsagent. Buy one copy of each design magazine. You will use these to...
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Green Architecture
My recent post about the architecture—or rather lack thereof—in the film Avatar evoked an unusual amount of reaction. Some felt that I had joined the cult of avatar-of-earth worship the film espouses; others thought that I showed signs of resisting the truth of Mother Earth’s and Pandora’s (the planet on which most of Avatar takes place and which is a more luxuriant version of our own)...
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AEROPUERTO CON PAISAJE
Fredy Massad y Alicia Guerrero Yeste Publicado en ABCD las Artes y las Letras - Número 933
Podría plantearse que la trayectoria del estudio b720 Arquitectos, fundado en 1997 por Fermín Vázquez junto a Ana Bassat y Adriana Plasencia, se ha desarrollado de manera inversa a la de la mayoría. De una forma, tal vez poco convencional, que le ha dotado prontamente de una responsabilidad y un...
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China Wants its Own Version of the NYC High Line
An award-winning proposal is similar to New York’s famous elevated park—except huge. Massive. Ginormous.
Cities from San Francisco to London have caught High Line fever, attempting to build elevated parks inspired by New York’s own. China is joining the fray now, and the results, as you’d expect, are mammoth in scale and ambition.
The main problem was renovating an...
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WatchSO-IL Pole Dance Project was named winner of this year’s MoMA Young Architects Program
[seen at archinect]
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WatchEcobici, un programa diseñado por la compañia SMARTBIKE para el Gobierno del D.F. comenzara a funcionar el 15 de febrero
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Arrancan en DF bicis públicas
Con mil 114 bicicletas, el sistema conectará a 82 cicloestaciones en puntos como Metro Sevilla, Chapultepec e Insurgentes
Ciudad de México (17 enero 2010).- A partir del próximo 15 de febrero, el sistema de bicicletas públicas del Gobierno del DF comenzará a ‘rodar’ en las Colonias Juárez, Condesa y Cuauhtémoc, a fin de reducir el uso del automóvil y los índices contaminantes, como...
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The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure
Infrastructure plays an important role in our everyday life. It is the part that drives the urbanMachine. In recent years the work and especially the design of the infrastructure ‘objects’ has received a lot more public attention. The idea of ‘beautiful’ infrastructure ‘objects’ has obviously settled by now and this demonstrates the new Nai Publishers publication ‘The Landscape of Contemporary...
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Casa Ali Bei, Barcelona
Don’t you love that flooring?
[via LOLITA blog]
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ZDENEK LHOTSKY en el MUSEO FRANZ MAYER
ZDENEK LHOTSKY en el MUSEO FRANZ MAYER (Mexico D.F.)
HOY (Enero 21), ENTRADA LIBRE a la conferecia de ZDENEK LHOTSKY (Studio Pelechov), y las infinitas posibilidades del vidrio a las 18:00 hrs. Auditorio del museo http://www.lhotsky.com
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DE SUSTANCIA REAL
Fredy Massad y Alicia Guerrero Yeste Publicado en suplemento ‘Cultura/s’, La Vanguardia, Barcelona - Número 396 El equipo Harquitectes fundado por Xavier Ros, David Lorente, Josep Ricart y Roger Tudó, viene trabajando desde 2000 desde su despacho establecido en Sabadell, afirmando una trayectoria que, en su avance, supone una enérgica afirmación y reivindicación de una comprensión...
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How can designers help Haiti?
The empathy that provides designers with their intuitive and creative advantage can also ignite a compelling need to help others, such as when we witness the kind of devastation and suffering that nature has unleashed on the people of Haiti. Members have been asking how they can contribute toward saving lives and providing hope for the future, and whether there is a means for AIGA to organize...
The Broader Crises In Haiti: A Country Without...
After 9-11 how much money did you have in your pocket? Could you have lived off of that for a week? What if you lived in LA and it was destroyed? The port gone, no airport, no electricity, no cellphones, no ATMs, no gas, banks closed, dozens of people you know are dead, over a million people making their way into the streets of your home town. How would you feel? How long until you would grow...
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Gigantic Mexican Megacrystals Created by Climate...
Every once in awhile it’s nice to remember that nature is the best designer. Case in point: these 11 meter-long gypsum megacrystals discovered in caves near Chihuahua, Mexico. The massive crystals were formed over the last 200,000 years due to climate change. The local climate shift from wet to dry trapped water inside the crystals. At the same time, evaporation during dry spells clumped calcium...
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Bug Dome / the WEAK!
Inspired by insects, the Bug Dome is a small sheltered area used during the SZHK Biennale for underground bands, poetry reading, and discussions, and after the Biennale as an un-official gathering place for illegal workers from the Chinese countryside. Built on a wasteland of a ruined building site in-between the Shenzhen City Hall and an illegal workers camp, the structure is intended to...
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La forma sigue a la funcion, y esta a Dios [que...
Ciudad de México (15 enero 2010).- No es raro que Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora se desvele. El sacerdote benedictino puede pasar horas sin dormir diseñando sus iglesias y capillas, en las que busca reflejar los valores del Evangelio: sencillez, humildad, verdad. Y mientras trabaja en eliminar lo superfluo, piensa en la música de Bach. “Me pregunto, ¿lo haría Juan Sebastián así nomás? Me...
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Kremlin Concert Hall by OTASH/OTAKO Studio
Serbian/Russian OTASH/OTAKO Studio recently finished reconstruction work on Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace. The auditorium of this gigantic concert hall in the heart of Moscow, formerly known as Palace of Congresses, received a major update and was officially inaugurated in the presence of state and public representatives on November 4, 2009.
For more info and images, click here
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EARTHQUAKE (again)!
When are we going to get seriously to work on this problem?
Earthquakes are the result of natural, tectonic changes in the solid crust of the earth and, as such, are not inherently catastrophic. Their bad reputation comes from the destruction to human settlements that accompanies them, when buildings collapse under the stress of forces produced by earthquakes. This destruction is not the...
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2010
Paraty House, Costa Verde, Brazil, by Marcio Kogan
Wallpaper* Announces Winners of Design Awards 2010
Wallpaper* published the winners of their 2010 Design Awards. Entries come from every possible part of the design field, from architecture to fashion design to industrial design, and were awarded in 66 respective categories. A panel of judges, including icons like architect Steven Holl,...