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A tribute to Enric Miralles

A tribute to Enric Miralles
Enric Miralles passed away in 2000 at a young 44, leaving behind a rich body of architectural work and a wife, Benedetta Tagliabue. Her along with their studio EMBT, organized Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada to have tribute paid to Enric at a picnic for his friends and family in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his passing. It’s a beautiful sand-painting, the very nature of which is fleeting serving as a...
Posted by on Nov 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments

Architectural fashion

Architectural fashion
This stuff by Joshua DeMonte is suprisingly not black, charcoal, or even ebony. It’s white. Go figure. Other than that it’s pretty architecturally inspired. It’s like if you had tiny elves build clothing for you and they reinforced it with arches, columns and masonry. Its a shame he used such anachronistic and dates architectural inspiration though – What would Calatrava think? [Joshua...
Posted by on Sep 8th, 2009 | 1 comment

Chain of inspiration

Chain of inspiration
Santiago Calatrava bases a lot of his work on biology, fusing his engineering prowess and architectural sensibilities with bio-mimicry of naturalistic forms. Then he paints it all bone white. He makes no secret of this inspiration though some astute intellectuals would argue that nothing can be gained from attempting to mimic the beauty of a butterfly, for instance, since one can never succeed in actually coming out...
Posted by on May 20th, 2009 | 0 comments

LEGO FLW

LEGO FLW
The LEGO Architecture series has some new entries thanks to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Brickstructures Incorporated. You can now get a set for Falling Water or the Guggenheim (pictured). According to the PR people, “With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with...
Posted by on May 5th, 2009 | 0 comments

Here & There

Here & There
Jack Schluze and Matt Webb’s design consultancy in London has produced Here & There (seen above) which visualizes Manhatan simultaneously as a map in bird’s eye view and as a projection at eye level view. They invert the curvature of the earth to create a horizonless view. It seems pretty effective in visualizing the environment both. Thankfully they aren’t silent about it too. If you check...
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