Irony The Archives
Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Barry Bergdoll Breaks Silence About American Folk Art Museum
Saturday 13 October, 2012
The Pampered Pooch: Outrageous Pet Furniture
A dog really can be man’s best friend, and admittedly, there are those of us who treat our pups (and cats, for that matter) more like royalty than possessions or peers. We get so enthralled with that happy little face and frenetically-wagging tail when we walk in the door that we’d just about do anything [...]
Thursday 23 August, 2012
The Transparency Project / Perkins + Will
©2009 Christian Phillips Photography. RWU North Campus Residence Hall, by Perkins+Will
Thursday 23 August, 2012
The Transparency Project / Perkins + Will
©2009 Christian Phillips Photography. RWU North Campus Residence Hall, by Perkins+Will
Friday 20 July, 2012
Clever Anamorphic Typography Project for Interiors with a Twist
We ran across a simple, yet “heavy” interior design idea that could be applied to any room in search of personality. Thomas Quinn painted letters above his parents’ garage, delivering the message: “Face reality as it is”. From the perfect, steady message, it is enough to move a step back to see how the perspective [...]
Thursday 19 July, 2012
Clever Anamorphic Typography Project for Interiors with a Twist
We ran across a simple, yet “heavy” interior design idea that could be applied to any room in search of personality. Thomas Quinn painted letters above his parents’ garage, delivering the message: “Face reality as it is”. From the perfect, steady message, it is enough to move a step back to see how the perspective [...]
Sunday 22 April, 2012
Where is LEED Leading Us?…And Should We Follow?
CityCenter, a LEED Gold Building in Las Vegas, demonstrates the irony of a LEED Certified, sustainable, building in the unsustainable context of the desert.
Thursday 29 March, 2012
The Indicator: How We Write Architecture
Guiseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Como, Lombardy, Italy, 1936. Photo by ilConte via Flickr. Photo note: The artist, Alfredo Jaar, in a 2006 interview, regarded Terragni’s Casa del Fascio as the “perfect memorial to Gramsci.” Jaar used the building’s blank right facade (originally left uninterrupted for propaganda) as a canvas for projecting a sequence of [...]
Wednesday 28 March, 2012
The Indicator: How We Write Architecture
Guiseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Como, Lombardy, Italy, 1936. Photo by ilConte via Flickr. Photo note: The artist, Alfredo Jaar, in a 2006 interview, regarded Terragni’s Casa del Fascio as the “perfect memorial to Gramsci.” Jaar used the building’s blank right facade (originally left uninterrupted for propaganda) as a canvas for projecting a sequence of [...]
Tuesday 27 December, 2011
Exit 45 / Chiasmus Partners
© Youngchae Park Architect: Chiasmus Partners Location: Danwon-gu, Ansan, South Korea Year: 2010-2011 Collaboration Artist: Sang Cho Materials/products used: Steel Structure, Painted, Glass Curtain wall w/ Aluminum louver Photographs: Youngchae Park