Jan 16
Miyi Tower by Studio Shift
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Los Angeles-based architects Studio Shift have designed Miyi Tower as part of a new town south of Miyi County in China. (more…)
Jan 16
Calvin Klein Battles Preservation Board and Neighbor Over Design of His Future Southampton Home
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One of the reasons you probably chosen to not own an oceanfront house in the Hamptons is because it sounds like a major hassle. You’re never really there except for the summer, you have to pay someone to come and clean it while you’re away, and so on. And if you’re like Calvin Klein, you’re realizing it all the more, as he’s in the middle of an ongoing back and forth with the Southampton Village’s Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, as well as his neighbor, over his trying to knock his current home down and build a new, far more modern one. The Board seems relatively okay with it, as the former owner of Klein’s place greatly altered the interiors and exteriors, leaving only the shell of the original, built in the ’20s. But while he waits for their approval, his neighbor has been writing to the Board asking that they make Klein change the design of his proposed new home, saying that it doesn’t fit well with the rest of the neighborhood:
In a letter to the review board, [Klein’s neighbor Mr. William J. Williams Jr.] wrote that the proposed new buildings do not fit into the neighborhood and that he found [architect Mr. Michael Haverland]’s attempts to connect the architecture of the proposed buildings with the original du Pont mansion to be very strained, “to say the least.”
“If approval of the proposal is inevitable, I wonder whether Mr. Klein might be persuaded to have the buildings be sand-colored to fit in with the dunes behind and wetlands in front, instead of in-your-face white, which makes the buildings look like a hospital clinic or Florida office building,” Mr. Williams wrote.
At least it’s the dead of winter right now, so it’s fine that these mini-battles are going on, but we’re guessing Klein’s hoping to wrap it all up and start bulldozing so he can still get a few days of summer in at his sparkly new place this year. Also, his neighbor’s name is “William J. Williams Jr.”? That’s too much of the same letter over and over again, sir. Still, despite our snarky attitude, we very much appreciate your desire to keep things in check (we probably wouldn’t want Klein to build something weird next to us either). For more info on all of this, we recommend hitting up CityFile.
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Jan 15
Kalmar Museum of Modern Art by Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter
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Kalmar Museum of Modern Art in Sweden was designed by Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. (more…)
Jan 14
Jan Kaplicky 1937-2009
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Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems died in Prague yesterday, aged 71. See news reports for more info. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.
Dec 18
Louis Agassiz
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The statue of Louis Agassiz, fallen from the Zoology building at Stanford after the earthquake in 1906. Someone was quoted in the papers as saying Louis Agassiz “was great in the abstract, but not in the concrete.”
Dec 11
Alexa’s Top 90 Design Weblogs
Posted in: UncategorizedWant to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we’ve compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 – not bad.)
1. Treehugger
2. MoCo Loco
3. Inhabitat
4. Cool Hunting
6. NOTCOT
10. Design You Trust
12. Swissmiss
13. Cribcandy
14. Josh Spear
15. Design Observer
16. Positive Space
17. Hawksmont
18. Oh Joy!
19. It’s Nice That
20. Functioning Form
21. The Ad Mad
22. Sub-Studio
24. Reuben Miller
27. Poppytalk
28. Print Pattern
29. 2Modern
30. Design Sojourn
31. Roadside Scholar
32. Idealist
33. Curiobot
34. Design Notes
36. Land Living
37. Designers Block
38. Decor8
39. Architectradure
40. Design Crack
41. Absolutely Beautiful Things
42. Design Sponge
43. Serial Consign
44. Elit Alice
46. Twenty1f
47. 30gms
49. Oh My So Cute
50. Cuteable
51. Rolling Rains
52. Style Court
53. Scoutie Girl
55. Bookmarkd
56. Redsil
57. Push A Pixel
59. DesignTaleStudio
61. Trend Insights
62. Funfurde
63. 49 Sparks
64. Studio469
65. Neo Nomad
66. ImedaGoze
68. LedLightRay
69. PagePlane
71. Raven’s Nest
72. Design Scout
73. Rebang
74. Reverseorbit
75. Inert Greymatter
76. Trendmatter
77. Design Boston
81. Greenwix
82. Old Glutton
83. Blog Sessions
85. Dog Opus
86. Rag and Bone
88. Lena Corwin
89. Obsidian Dawn
90. All the Best
Dec 02
Dorm Room by Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand
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Living in graduate student housing isn’t all that glamorous… the architecture and interior design of my temporary living situation is new and clean, but lacks any semblance of taste, character, or style. The most frustrating thing is knowing that a much better solution could have been realized at the same cost or even cheaper. Also, I know I’ll get fined if I try to change anything… I would stay in school indefinitely if it meant living in a dorm room imagined by Le Corbusier and Perriand!
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