Designed by Messana O’Rorke, Ten Broeck Cottage features a contemporary addition to a traditional Dutch home in New York state. The deep red-brown side panels on the extension have a warm appeal, especially amidst the winter environment. To see more photographs of the exterior and interior, visit Archdaily.
(via Pawling Print Studio)
The Rally to Restore Sanity: In response to the “national political discussion with extreme rhetoric,” Jon Stewart declares he will host a “Rally to Restore Sanity” on the National Mall in DC on October 30. The rally is intended to reach “the people who’ve been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs)—not so much the ‘silent majority’ as the ‘busy majority.” Watch the full announcement here, and watch Stephen Colbert’s counter-rally announcement, the March to Keep Fear Alive.
Architectural photographs by Josef Schulz that digitally remove any indications of location, age, size, or environment, allowing the viewer to see the architectural details of the buildings.
Vignelli Exposed: Discovery of the last remaining New York City subway map, designed by Massimo Vignelli, in the 57 street F train station.
Series of layered photographs by Phillip Maisel produced by long-exposures shots while flipping through Facebook photo albums.
I had never heard of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx before reading the New York Times article on his retrospective in Brazil. The graphic quality of Marx’s sidewalks and plazas in Copacabana are immediately arresting, and they have fundamentally branded on my mind a whole new canvas for design.
Read the article or view the slideshow, which shows how the retrospective focused on the breadth of Marx’s work—from tapestries to paintings, on top of his celebrated landscape design projects—to show “how his work in one field bled into the work in the others.”
Marcus Buck has a series of photographs called “Architectural Remains” that show the architectural imprint of demolished buildings on those still remaining. I love stumbling upon buildings like this in built cities, where often, it is not only an architectural imprint that shows the residues of another building, but the architectural structure itself is missing a neighboring floor or roof line.
Dwell goes inside the sleek home of typedesigner Erik Spiekermann (and be sure to view the slideshow).
I feel particularly ambivalent about the Let’s Colour Project, a worldwide initiative to transform grey spaces with colorful paint. Though I am a proponent of design interfacing in the public realm, I think the grey stone streets of Paris have their own, architecturally crafted, beauty.
I sincerely hope that this is not my future: GSAPP = sleep: simple math from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture.
This log cabin caught my eye, for while the “ordinary cabin is laid out with lengthwise logs stacked to make its outer walls,” designer Piet Hein Eek did not hide the log ends. Instead, he exposed the natural structure of a pile of logs.
Each end of this small cabin is a beautiful pattern of stacked logs, and when the top-hinged windows are closed, a “passersby might mistake the structure for a pile of logs” (see photograph below). However, inside is a fully-equipped, sleek recording studio.
I first watched Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire when I was writing one of my college application essays (the subject: my experiences working at the Orem Public Library throughout high school).
This library scene remains one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema. Filmed in the Berlin State Library, designed by Hans Scharoun, the two angels walk through the library’s intricate modernist architecture, but they also weave through the library patron’s thoughts. With the harmony of collective thoughts humming, beautifully combined with an operatic voice, Wenders transforms the library into a sacred space. I wish this video had subtitles, because at the end of the scene, the Homer figure appears, recalling passages from The Odyssey.
Wings of Desire was recently re-released by the Criterion Collection.
An amazing timeline on the history of the Guggenheim museum. Click the “next” button in the upper right corner to see all of the images.
A far too praiseworthy review of the MoMA exhibition Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity.
Brand New published the redesigned logo for the New York Public Library and included some of the initial sketches. I favor the full-body lion, instead of the encircled face (which bears too much semblance to The Lion King for my liking). But I like how the logo makes the imposing lion statues, guarding the front entrance to the building, as iconic of the library. It reminds me of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore.”
© 2011 Jessica Svendsen