The Town of Kiruna in Sweden is cracking apart. Like an earthquake in slow motion the ground near Kiruna cracks and sinks in an ever widening circle which is beginning to tear apart the city. A huge Iron ore Mine to the west of the town has caused the earth to subside around the mine [...]
I’m unsure what to make of this essay about working at O.M.A. On the one hand I’m thrilled by the thought of working there in a kind of supercharged electrical field of design, where ideas are ruthlessly produced, used ,discarded, reworked. On the other it sounds like a slightly authoritarian production office which [...]
Hah! Lifes a bitch so why not write a song about it and form a choir watch the Helsinki Complaints choir. (via swissmiss)
A New Eero Saarinen Exhibition has launched in Helsinki (07.10-06.12) at the Kunsthalle here is the press release. That this is the first retrospective of the Architect is quite staggering given his body of work which, along with the Eames perhaps sums up U.S.A’s post war expansion best in the field of design. His list [...]
I have been very busy at work but have been enjoying the Ted Talks while sitting at my computer. For the Architects among you there are Cameron Sinclair and Joshua Prince-Ramus giving talks. There are many other highlights as well though, Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt offer a different perspective, Rick Warren fights it out [...]
