Posts filed under “Asides”
Koolhaas Interview in Der Spiegel
These days, when a building is constructed, there is less individual involvement. Take the old SPIEGEL building by Werner Kallmorgen. One can assume that (SPIEGEL founder) Rudolf Augstein saw this building as his personal statement. There was something at stake for him when he had it built. It was supposed to reflect the identity of [...]
100 Estonian Houses
A great, and long post showing again why Estonian Architecture punches way above it’s weight.
Helsinki Library Competition
It’s been long expected, but finally announced, there will be an international competition to design Helsinki Library beginning of 2012. The site is in Töölönlahti, in the area between the Makasiinipuisto park and the Töölönlahdenkatu street. update: there is now a website to keep everyone updated about the project. Not to mention Facebook page and twitter [...]
Helsinki is….
Helsinki is 1st in July/Aug Monocle Magazines most liveable city survey (see video) but 13th in ECA most expensive city survey. Update: and there is alot in Monocles weekly podcast about Helsinki, including an interview with Dan Hill of Sitra.
Best Office
“We do have a shot at building the best office building in the world,” Jobs told the Council members, “Architecture students will come here to see this.” Ideally Apple wants to move into the campus in 2015. (via)
Slow Slide
A great post at bldgblog about slow landslides. For more than a month now, a “slow-motion landslide” near the New York/Vermont border has been dismantling a small town, day by day, square foot by square foot. These are natural unlike the slow moving destruction at Kiruna.
That Goal
Mikael Granlund goal against Russia in the 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship Semi Final.
Architecture of Tax Evasion
A great post about tax-optimised Architecture, how taxation laws have effected the built environment historically.
More Than A Building?
From aggregat456 there is a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a film exhibition of Jim Sterling‘s Leicester Engineering building. The director is Joseph Bedford, have a look at the video and then go to the campaign page.
Jürgen Mayer H at 0047
Jürgen Mayer H will be giving a lecture in Oslo at 0047 on 1st February at 6pm. This would be something I would love to go to if only I could. The lecture is free just register here.
Falu Red
RGB (128, 24, 24) is also known as Falu Red, a traditional pigment out of silicates iron oxides from Falu Copper Mines. A recycling strategy that used to tinge every single timber construction across Sweden with the same tone. – via deconcrete a really nice architetcure weblog which I’ve also added to my links list. [...]
Cities at Audiolab
Audiolab is one of my favourite podcasts, but the Cities episode is wonderful. Go listen now.
The Architectural Gap
Charles Holland in a great short article about the Sterling Prize talks about the problem of Architecture versus Building. There is an enormous gap between the process of designing and the physical reality of building. Architects get so used to equating drawings and models with buildings – despite the vast scale, material and factual differences [...]
Finnish Building Regulations to be Updated
The Finnish Building Regulations are going to be updated from 2012, the main thrust being improving energy efficiency. I believe that Finnish Regulations in this area are somewhat behind those of the rest of Scandinavia. I will see if I can get up to date examples it might make an interesting comparison. Anyway the stated [...]
Open House Helsinki 2010
Open House Helsinki 2010 is running from 1st to 4th September, again it’s part of Helsinki Design Week which looks better than ever.
City 2.0 to Europe
Living PlanIT and Cisco systems have announced a collaboration to build the next generation city in Northern Portugal. It is going to integrate IT into the fabric of the city, we will see if unlike Dongtan this project can make it off the drawing board.