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Richard Ferrier Passes Away

On August 12, 2010 By

Richard Fer­rier, 66, passed away Wednes­day, Aug. 6, 2010

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Christo­pher Genik has been named dean of the NewSchool of Archi­tec­ture & Design in down­town San Diego. He suc­ceeds Gil Cooke, who was in the post nine years. More Genik, who will assume his new post Oct

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Tes­sel­lated Man­i­folds was cre­ated by stu­dents from Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity in St.

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by Tiffany Chu Step­ping into the freshly dec­o­rated apart­ment by Jean-Paul Gaultier at Tro­cadero in Paris, I felt as if I had been trans­ported into a quixotic dream, com­plete with a choppy jour­ney through a triage of dis­parate scenes. In a grey area where expres­sion and aes­thetic surely over­ride func­tion and util­ity, it is nev­er­the­less intrigu­ing to expe­ri­ence the con­tin­u­ously blur­ring bound­aries where fash­ion and archi­tec­ture meet.

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The office build­ing located near Toulouse in France, is a project by Stu­dio Bel­len­cour Archi­tects . A work with an amaz­ing com­po­si­tion, use of shapes and mate­ri­als! Bel­len­cour Archi­tects man­aged to join the straight and hard lines of two office build­ings with a layer of con­crete so light that looks more like paper.

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Urban A&O NYC INC.

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For­get designer expla­na­tions and archi­tec­tural the­ory for a moment, skip augmented-reality buzz-art and over-hypedAR gam­ing … then take a look at the ‘real­ity’ on the ‘ground’ as it is: move around this series of white cubes and cre­ate your own shad­owy won­der­land at the inter­sec­tion of art and archi­tec­ture. This light table looks like it is some­how cast­ing shad­ows, and the result is an inter­ac­tive illu­sion that puts you in the design-driving seat. Shadow-puppet struc­tures emerge as you move around the blank boxes

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Brook­line, MA-based Jin Choi & Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine recently received the 2010 Boston Soci­ety of Archi­tects Unbuilt Archi­tec­ture Award for their “Land of Giants” project. The design trans­forms mun­dane elec­tri­cal pylons into stat­ues on the Ice­landic land­scape by mak­ing only small alter­ations to exist­ing pylon design. Bustler I love this project!

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Man­hat­tan is only a few miles wide and roughly 10 miles in length, and just about every square inch has been developed.

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The lat­est Future Trends Sur­vey pub­lished by the Royal Insti­tute of British Archi­tects’ reveals that a double-dip reces­sion is “almost certain.”

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