At Renzo Piano’s newly opened @GardnerMuseum extension. Shadow gaps galore.
In front of Renzo Piano’s Morgan Library. “Act like a building!”
Eero Saarinen’s Kresge Auditorium swathed in color for 2.009 at MIT yesterday.
Love what H&dM did with this industrial power station. Best building-from-the-outside in Madrid, imho. (@ CaixaForum)
Richard Rogers’ vaulted undulating ceilings at the Madrid airport. Nice sight for sore eyes this morning.
Stopped by the @MIT_slab mtg last week + peeked into studio. I do not miss this.
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Gateway to the West! Standing underneath the St. Louis arch. Cross-sectionally, it is a triangle.
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Icewall installation that plants seeds when it melts by Yushiro (Taken with Instagram at MIT Killian Court)
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Spotted: Gorgeous midday sun streaming thru Norman Foster’s new courtyard @MFAboston #architecture (Taken with instagram)
The Kogod Courtyard designed by Foster+Partners at the Smithsonian Institution. It used to be a pretty uninhabitable open air space in the middle of the historic US Patent building, but is now a prime location for having tea in the cafe and napping on the huge marble slabs.
So I peered into jean nouvel’s institut arabe du monde last weekend, with the unexpected company of a heavy squall and three chatty architects from strasbourg.
The stairwells and elevators felt quite hulking and industrial, but the study spaces were tranquil. What with all of the anticipatory hoopla and the culturally-non-ignorant patterns, it was a shame that the brises-soleils (consisting of 240 motor-controlled metal apertures to open and close based on desired sunlight filtering) never really worked.
Though I will give him credit that his reason for being an architect pretty much hits the spot for why I wanted to become one, all those years ago:
“I am a hedonist, and I want to give pleasure to other people.”
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field trip! because i’m modeling it, antoine told me to visit mathieu vinceguerra’s apartment last week.
mathieu showed me how his flat was designed around all his collections of…things…and i could feel the comic bookiness wrap around me. coincidentally, it was actually this story in dwell that i flipped through awhile back that spiked my interest in h2o.
those are pretty exhibitionist shelves. i wonder what i’d show off. my beloved solar-powered bouncing flower?
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i discovered two such liaisons at work this week.
1. I went to a client meeting for a chateau project we are working on, and sat next to the landscape designers. It was Louis Benech and his team - the Louis Benech that is also dating Christian Louboutin.
2. I am making two more models for a September exhibition of up-and-coming French firms, selected and hosted by Pierre Bergé…who is the partner of the late Yves Saint Laurent.
During Bergé’s eulogy of Saint Laurent, he reflected on their lifetime of memories, saying;
“I remember your first collection under your name and the tears at the end. Then the years passed. Oh, how they passed quickly. The divorce was inevitable but the love never stopped.” [source]
Paris is so intertwiney. What intrigue.
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