Archive for October, 2008
Helsinki Biennale 2008
Helsinki Biennale 2008 is going to be a World Fair. We have secretly built pavillions and all that shit in the cellar of Design Museum Helsinki. The World Fair will take place 25.10.2008–25.1.2009. It will be noisy, magnificent, and über gigantic. More than 50 most interesting artists from Finland and over 100 of our favorite [...]
Skateboarding, Space and the City
Skateboarding, Space and the City by Iain Borden amazon.com|.uk Iain Borden effectively tells the history of the rise of skateboarding, board and boardpark history and the evolution of skateboarding itself. Lefebvre‘s The Production of Space is the main jumping off point for this book but necessarily reinterpreted through the attitude of skateboarders to the city. [...]
Saarinen Under Threat
Gabion has an article on Saarinen’s London Embassy and how it is under possible threat (via). But the support is by no means unequivocal, and that’s par for the course in the UK especially where most Architectural critics still can’t seem quite to escape from the Pevsner monologue whispering to them in their heads. It [...]
Close Encounters
Timothy Ryback had a closer encounter than he would have liked with the subject of his new book Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life. While Looking through an Architectural History of Berlin he recounts what he discovered between pages 160 & 161 a wiry inch long black hair that appears to be from [...]
Shanghai Expo 2010 Finnish Pavillion
The Finnish Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 will be built to a design by JKMM. Called ‘Kirnu’ which I think translates as (milk?) churn. A somewhat understated iconic design with a really promising internal space that opens out to the sky. I quite like it but…… I wonder however how relevant expos [...]
Open House Helsinki 2008
Open House Helsinki is on 02.10.2008 this year. A good Finnish and English programme also. Highlights for me look to be the visit to the ‘Bunkkeri’ and Lecture by Bjarke Ingels of (BIG).