Filtered Feeds
After battling a cold for the last few days, I'm trying to catch up on the wealth of posts in my Bloglines feeds, about 200 earlier today. Instead of clicking "mark all read" and ignoring them entirely, I whittled down them to the following list:
Architecture:
Design & Related:
Chicago:
Architecture:
[25] the essay
A functional look at Herzog and De Meuron's Laban Centre.
Archinect T-Shirts!
But it's Art!
David Sucher picks on Frank Gehry and his BP Bridge.
Magic Salt De-Ices Roads with Distillery Waste
Perhaps a solution to Sucher's concerns?
Royal Homes Q Prefab House
Optibo
Multifunctional housing for DINKs...you know who you are.
Frei Otto to Talk at RIBA
Finland Summer House
Rear Window Stylings at MOMA
Design & Related:
Rishi Tea
Sustainability Planning: First, Do No Harm
A paper by Peter Gordon with links to other papers by the USC professor.
Art of the Skateboard Deck
The Gates Start to Grow
Christo & Jeanne-Claude's installation going up in Central Park.
Chicago:
100 Headless Figures in Grant Park
These photos are Grand
This is Grand's announcement of the winners of their 2004 photo contest.
Brown line stops closing for construction?
The CTA said they wouldn't...but now they might.
Bikes on Metra
It's about time!
Optibo looks pretty...but it's so small. I was trying to imagine how it would look with dirty clothes piled up in a corner and a bicycle hanging leaning against the wall....
ReplyDeleteThe Gates in Central Park seems like a nice touch. But I don't get the attraction of the headless men in Grant Park. Why headless?
Yea, optibo might have a hard time dealing with the clutter and detritus of daily life, but it's a pretty cool idea: furniture stowed in the floor until it's needed. Very Japanese, eh Eric?
ReplyDeleteThose headless beings also appear to be armless. Perhaps they lack heads as a means of expressing anonymity, by removing our most overt display of identity. That might start to get at what the artist's intention is.
The space-function flux is quite Japanesey, as is the tiled bathroom floor slanting, I presume, toward the drain beneath the sink basin.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I trust those attractive glass shelves to bear the weight of whatever clutter SafetyNeal points out is bound to accumulate, however.