These two, plus the studio have kept me away, but I’ll be back soon…with a vengeance.
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Archive for the ‘architecture’ Category
I’ll be back… I promise
Thursday, January 21st, 2010System:System
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
SOFTlab was invited by curators Christina Vasallo and Adam Henry to the show System:System, opening this coming Friday at 21 Monitor Street in Brooklyn. The show, in the words of the curators:
A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish and its sister school. Rather than let the building fall into disrepair the parish has found ways to breathe new life into it through a rotating schedule of film shoots, screenings, dance performances, and art exhibitions.
So many thanks to Brandt Graves and Carrie McKnelly for the invaluable help putting the show together.
Read more info on the show here.
A few more images, courtesy of Alan Tansey, after the jump below.
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Tron 2
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Joseph Kosinski’s Tron 2 trailer is out. Stand in line!
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Evolo #1
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Tonight at 7pm is the launch of the first edition of Evolo magazine at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Don’t miss it, I’ve seen a preview of the magazine (courtesy of my good friend Carlo Aiello, Editor-in-Chief) and its is fantastic.
Read more about the history and mission of the magazine @ the Storefront’s site here .
See you guys there.
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WILDCHILD Opening
Friday, July 10th, 2009
I made it last night to the WILDCHILD show at the Bridge Gallery. The work on display is absolutely fantastic and the opening was quite a succes.
Take a look at a few pics of the show below.
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WILDCHILD
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
This evening is the opening of the show Wild Child in the Bridge Gallery down in the LES. The show is curated by Bridge Gallery + Peter Macapia. SOFTlab made the exhibition’s site, featuring a cellular war between East Coast and West Coast. Check it out here.
The list of people include:
THEVERYMANY,
Kokkugia,
KolMac,
SOFTlab,
Emergent,
Aranda/Lasch,
p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s
among others.
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mode[Lab]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
My good friends and hyper-talented guys behind studio[mode] – Gil Akos and Ronnie Parsons – have just launched mode[lab], the lab component of their studio. In their own words: mode[lab] “is conceived of as a laboratory and serves as a knowledge base for design research and experimentation. The laboratory is distributed in nature and operates across multiple time-scales and locations ranging from intensive workshops to design studios throughout North America and Europe.
Our primary objective is to discover novel and inventive design solutions through the identification of key concepts relevant to contemporary architectural discourse and the development of related maps of action.”
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High Line
Monday, June 8th, 2009
My good friend Hayley from EFGH just sent me these pics of a sneak-peek from Sunday at the (soon to open) High Line project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Kudos of course to everyone involved in the project, a refreshing addition to a park-starved section of the city.
View more images after the jump below.
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Laser Cutting in NYC
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
We’ve recently launched a sister company called Anyline that provides laser cutting services for Designers, Architects and Artists (or anyone else who needs it really!).
We’re offering a special price of *$50.00/hour* until *June 30th*, so go dig out some of those old files or send us your current project to be laser cut!
Check out the website at www.anyline-ny.com
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Evan Douglis is RPI’s New Dean
Friday, May 15th, 2009This morning I received an email from Pratt announcing that the Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture, Evan Douglis, will be leaving Pratt and becoming the Dean of the School of Architecture at Rennselear Polytechnic Institute. Congratulations Evan, and good luck!
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EFGH Featured in Frames Magazine
Friday, May 8th, 2009
GAUD ++
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Last night was the (second) official opening for the GAUD++ show at Pratt. The show, which features a cross section of the work produced at the Graduate School in the past year, was curated by Mike Szivos and Maria Tsaftari together with a group of students.
View a few more images after the jump below.
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Autogenic Structures
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
I made it this evening to The Storefront for Art and Architecture for the launch of Evan Douglis’s book: Autogenic Structures. As usual, it was great seeing so many friends and colleagues.
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Blue Marlin Lighting – Phase II
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
The second phase of the Blue Marlin lighting project was the design and installation of lamps for the existing/future conference rooms and reception area. To continue with the same language as the overall lighting of the space, we developed a chandelier out of the same laser-cut/flat packed elements we used in Phase I and off the shelf components. As you can imagine, I have by now a masters in pipe bending…
More images after the jump below.
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Blue Marlin Lighting – Phase I
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
SOFTlab recently completed a lighting installation at the Blue Marlin offices in NYC. 6 pairs of branches populate the ceiling and not only distribute light, but articulate and organize the space. The branches end in the light fixtures which we designed and fabricated at the studio, while the rest of the structure was made out of standard electrical conduit.
Take a peek at more images of the installation after the jump below.
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MIT
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Smart Cities vehicle prototype.
We just got back from Boston after being invited by MIT to give a lunchtime lecture. My good friend Daniel Cardoso, a PhD candidate there was kind enough to show us around the media lab, where a few -very generous- people showed us some of their work. We had a chance to see the fabrication labs and some of the robotic work being currently done there, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. Dimitris Papanikolaou gave us a full presentation on his Mobility on Demand (MOD) project for the Smart Cities group, not only was that incredibly generous, but an amazingly interesting solution to urban mobility. What I think was among the most interesting thing -not only of his project but of the lab in general- is the reality of it all. A lot of the research being conducted there is for real applications / products / solutions, which is very refreshing to see after having been involved in architecture school for some time now, where a very small percentage of what is produced has real-world implications. We had as well the opportunity to meet up with our friends Carlos Rocha (ex-Media Lab and current Honda scientist) and Skylar Tibbits.
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Koolhaas’s Prada Transformer
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Alice Tully Hall
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I made it tonight for the opening night at Alice Tully Hall for an incredible performance: Diaspora Sefardi, From Medieval Spain to Eastern Mediterranean. an exceptional concert of revived medieval songs and ballads in what I imagine can be considered old Castilian.
The show itself was just the excuse to make it to the building of course, and right from the approach, the building is truly fantastic: the huge lobby, with a gigantic glass paned curtain wall on one side and the warm wood behind the bar give it the right contrast between scale and warmth. The super long bar of course works wonderfully in crowded evenings like tonight. Heading towards the auditorium itself, the ceiling height is much lower and the scale becomes much more intimate. You walk below the ‘watch-me-im-uber-rich’ balcony then turn right and down towards the auditorium. Upon walking into the orchestra level there is a shift which is pretty surprising: the height from the floor to the balconies is quite low but it soon opens up. The scale of the space is just perfect and the wood/resin paneling looks incredible. It is quite remarkable how close everything looks to the original images. Truly a fantastic building, and can’t wait to go there in the summer.
A couple more images after the jump.
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Koolhaas’ TVCC on Fire
Monday, February 9th, 2009Mos wins P.S.1
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Third time’s the charm right? And I kept thinking this was a ‘once in a lifetime shot’ type of deal.
Take a look at the primitive huts here in the NYT slideshow.
Just as a refresher, the other two entries were in ‘07 (Prehistoric Future) and ‘04 (Plug-in Drop-out)
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