I had the pleasure today of taking a tour of Morphosis’ new building for the Cooper Union (thanks Hayley!). The building, which will be completed approximately in May 09 will be the new science and engineering labs for the school.
Take a peek at some more images after the jump below.
My good friend Gabe and I made it last night to Irving Plaza to see Tricky. I had seen him play at the same venue about 5 years ago and the concert was horrible, so I had my doubts about this one. This time around though it was absolutely incredible.
Among the first set, was a cover of ‘The Lovecats’, The Cure’s amazingly good ’83 song. Every one of Maxinquaye’s (still a favorite) songs was beautifully performed. And his daughter (Masey?) rocked.
SOFTlab entered the City Racks Competition. The proposal was not just about creating a bike rack for New York City, but about creating a networked environment and brand to nurture a culture of bike riding. The design takes advantage of the dispersive nature of bike racks and current technology to record, measure, and display personal, neighborhood and citywide data.
We didn’t make it to the final 10, but we’re still pretty happy with what we produced. Check out more images after the jump below.
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About 20 minutes after hearing a muffled ‘boom’ while at work, subsequently looking at each other not knowing what it was we just heard, all the lights flickering at the studio and then stepping out for a coffee, this is what 27th St. looked like.
According to one of the firefighters, it was an electrical fire.
To me, it sounded more like a power generator blew up, then the fire followed.
Update: ConEd trucks are all over it now. So yep, must’ve been electrical…
The New Yorker has an interesting article on Buckminster Fuller’s vision and (failed) projects, soon to be on display at The Whitney Museum of Art here in NYC. It poses the question of WHAT is it exactly that is relevant -yet so hard to pin down- of Fuller’s trajectory.
Read the article here.
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Today was the opening for Cooper Union’s end of year show. I got to walk around the architecture and art shows and saw a lot of beautiful models, some great drawings, and a few fun/smart pieces of art.
The one above was one of my favorites: a hand crank break dancer + MC Hammer zoetrope. Can’t beat it.
See images of some interesting projects on view after the jump.
International Pillow Fight Day is all about the feathers…at least it was for me…floating in the air, catching the light…beautiful feathers. Oh and beating everyone senseless with a pillow till my arms hurt all the while laughing maniacally. It was a brief moment of anarchy, people simultaneously laughing, crying and choking on feathers. Beautiful feathers.
The event was undoubtedly well documented as there were easily as many people with cameras as pillows, and a few true brave souls with both. I leave you with a link to some great Flickr photos and one to a YouTube edit that keeps it short but gives a good sense of the whole progression of the event.
Nicolai Ouroussoff from The New York Times has an article on Manhattan’s rise of residential starchitecture.
We’ll see how long this trend lasts.
Read the article here.
The NY Times takes us inside Jetblue’s Terminal 5 -Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal- for a sneak peek. I will only (continue to) fly Jetblue from now on.
Check it out here.