League Prize 2010: Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak, ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS
Recorded: June 29, 2010 Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak founded ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS, a Brooklyn-based architectural office, in 2009. Responding to the theme, the firm writes: It...
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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Barnes Foundation
Barnes Foundation Project Presentation Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects November 9, 2009 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects present their design...
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Father and son architect team Quinlan and Francis Terry at their studio in Dedham. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
In a warren of rooms inside a 400-year-old townhouse on the Essex-Suffolk border, a counter-revolution against the most dramatic rebuilding of the London skyline in decades is gathering strength.
Eschewing computer power for sharp pencils and tracing paper, father and son architect team Quinlan and Francis Terry are drafting classically inspired designs for some of the capitals most prominent sites in a fightback against plans for hundreds of new skyscrapers.
Working from offices wallpapered with copies of the Times from 1957 in the picturesque historic town of Dedham, they are the antithesis of their modernist rivals in central London studios. But their latest scheme confirms them as a spearhead of a growing movement for an alternative urbanism.
As part of a bid for one of the most sought-after and prominent super-prime sites in the capital, they have drafted a gigantic apartment groundscraper on the site of the armys Hyde Park barracks in the style of the Paris city blocks planned by Georges Eugne Haussmann in the 19th century. It could be the sign of things to come. David Cameron last month appointed Quinlan Terry to a government panel advising on new housing design standards and awarded him a CBE.
With its stone facade and mansard roof, the traditional proposal for the site, which the Ministry of Defence is considering selling off, is the latest gambit in a broadening campaign against schemes for clusters of towers on prime land, maximising profits at the expense, critics argue, of human-scale streets and public spaces.
The counter-movements key players include Prince Charles, who earlier this year made a speech backing a new wave of traditional architecture to help solve Londons housing problems; Paul Murrain, an urbanist and until recently an architecture adviser to Charles; and Nicholas Boys Smith a former adviser to the chancellor, George Osborne who has set up a lobby group against the direction development is taking under the banner Create Streets.
About 250 towers of more than 20 storeys are being planned in London according to research by the New London Architecture centre, sparking unfavourable comparisons with the unchecked development of Dubai and Shanghai.
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Architects- Even if you win, You still a rat Vocal Cover by Corey Hsu from Stay Wide Awake
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Architects - Gravedigger (Against The Waves cover)
Cover of the song "Gravedigger", originally written and performed by Architects (from the album "Lost Forever//Lost Together" - Epitaph Records). Recorded and mixed by Jess de Luis. Cover...
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A monumental mistake? Zaha Hadids Tokyo Olympic stadium has drawn criticism from Japanese architects. Image: ZHA Photograph: AP
If nearly every venerable architect in the host country slams your proposed design for a building as a monumental mistake and a disgrace to future generations, its probably a good idea to reconsider. Not so Zaha Hadid, who, after facing calls for her Tokyo Olympic stadium to be scrapped following a petition of 32,000 signatures and an open letter of opposition from a host of eminent Japanese architects simply accused the locals of jealousy. I think its embarrassing for them, she said. I understand its their town, but theyre hypocrites. The fact that they lost [the competition] is their problem.
Youll have two icons sat side by side. What could be better than that? So asked Rob Tincknell, the man in charge of the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, before unveiling his plan to build an architectural petting zoo around Giles Gilbert Scotts brick cathedral of electricity. The power station-reborn-as-mall will be reached along a high street (AKA a gauntlet of luxury apartments), with a wiggling glass worm by Norman Foster on one side and a scrunched-up metal flower by Frank Gehry on the other, terminating in a big swoopy hole scooped out by Danish funsters, BIG. Its the kind of car crash of competing icons that might make you wish the place had been left as a majestic ruin.
Since the Shard broke on to the London skyline as a dazzling crystal spear, many have been the lesser buildings that have tried to emulate its fractured facets with the odd bit of wonky glass hung askew. The city is now littered with crumpled glazing and angular floor-plates terminating in useless acute angles. These are not urban jewels, nor do they reflect a vision of a multi-faceted world. Theyre ugly hulks with shoddy details those ambitious multi-angled joints usually bodged with a splurge of mastic and the result just looks like something went wrong with a Sketch-Up computer model, the whole thing triangulated to oblivion. If in doubt, keep it orthogonal in 2015.
Heres an idea for a makeover. Why not flay the skin off a supermodel and stretch it over your own body? You might have difficulty seeing, given that your eye-holes probably wont match up, and you might not be able to breathe through that misplaced mouth, but no matter. Youll look great. And you can apply the same idea to your buildings. The six-storey 300-room student accommodation block youre planning might not fit behind that nice four-storey Victorian brick frontage, but what the hell. You can squeeze it in. Theyre only students. They wont realise that their windows look out on to a blank brick wall and that they cant fully open their front door. And the conservation officer will give you extra Brownie points for retaining a beloved heritage asset. Win win.
Time was when the lord of the manor went in through the front door and his lesser servant-serfs went in round the back. But the chances are that the apartment block youre designing isnt the new set of Downton Abbey, so theres really no excuse for specifying a poor door. If your housing association client insists on the affordable housing units having a separate entrance for maintenance reasons, then at least design it on equal terms as the market-rate housing and dont hide it down a service alley next to the bins.
Pier Solar and the Great Architects, Critique Cruelle.
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Architects - "Daybreak" - Drum Cover by Bastian Thusgaard
Here is another drum cover of mighty Architects. This time of "Daybreak". As usual Dan Searle did a great job writing the drum parts. Learning this has been so inspiring and it #39;s such an amazing...
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Written by Craig McKee Saturday, 13 December 2014 00:00 Prominent Illustrator's Work Now in Permanent Collection
To call it unlikely would be an understatement.
A work of art that challenges the official account of 9/11 has been accepted into the permanent collection of the 9/11 Museum in New York City. And surprisingly, the piece was created by an artist who is best known for his illustrations in the mainstream media.
Anthony Freda who has contributed provocative political art to publications like The New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Playboy says he has no idea why the museum would accept his painting, titled "9-11 Questions."
The original "9-11 Questions" by artist Anthony Freda is now owned by the 9/11 Museum, though it is not clear whether its curators intend to ever display it in public.
"I still can't figure out what is in the museum's mind letting me in there, because literally every part of my being is fighting against the official narrative that they are trying to promote," he said in an interview. "The thing that fascinates me, and they admitted this, is that this is the only piece in the entire collection that questions the official narrative in any way."
Freda met with museum staff for 90 minutes to donate the art and to answer questions about the images it contains. The entire exchange was filmed for a documentary called Behind Truth Art, which is planned for release in 2015. (This 30-minute preview shows highlights of the meeting.)
Museum officials told Freda that "9-11 Questions" will rotate with other works on display and that it may also be included in traveling 9/11 art shows organized by the museum. But he concedes that museum officials, now that they own it, can do whatever they want with the piece including locking it in a vault forever.
Freda created the work eight years ago, when The Village Voice commissioned him to illustrate its article "Fakes on a Plane," which was intended to "gently make fun" of online 9/11 documentaries like Loose Change and the people who believe them.
Editor's Note: This fascinating and provocative technical piece on NIST's manipulation of the WTC 7 evidence is broken down into a series of six articles. The second installment (below) is PART 1: NIST and Popular Mechanics Fabricate Myth About WTC 7's "Scooped-Out" 10 Stories. The first installment was the INTRODUCTION. Stand by for the next four installments, to be published monthly.
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