Archive for May, 2010

• 2010/05/30 ARCHITECTURE | Burnaby Public Library Tommy Douglas Branch :: First Impressions posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged "The Greatest Canadian", 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition, Adele Weder, Barcelona Pavilion 1929, Bing Thom, BPL, Burnaby Highgate, Burnaby Middlegate, Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby Public Library Kingsway Branch, CEI Architecture, Diamond+Schmitt, Edmonds Library, Edmondslib’s Weblog, God is in the details, Hon. Thomas Clement Douglas, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, North Vancouver, North Vancouver City Library, Oscar Niemeyer, Surrey BC, Tommy Douglas Branch
• 2010/05/21 ARCHITECTURE | WEST COAST MODERNISM :: BURNABY PUBLIC LIBRARY KINGSWAY BRANCH ::: 1962 – 2009 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, LOGOLANDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY tagged Bob Bandringa, BPL, BPL branches, BPL history, Burnaby Public Library history, Burnaby Public Library Kingsway Branch, CEI, CEI Architecture, Diamond+Schmitt, James Cheng, Mies van der Rohe, modern architecture in Vancouver, Peter F. Smith architect, S.R. Crown Hall, Tommy Douglas Library, Vancouver Public Library Kitsilano Branch, VPL, West Coast Modernism
• 2010/05/21 ARCHITECTURE | West Coast Modern :: The Opening of the New Vancouver Public Library ::: 1 November 1957 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC ART tagged Carnegie Library Vancouver, Collingwood Branch, Dr. Kay Lamb, libraries, Lieutenant Governor Frank Ross, Modern architecture, Ray and Charles Eames wire chairs, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, Semmens Simpson Architects, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver 1938-1963, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 1957-1995, VPL Historical Photographs, West Coast Modern, West Coast Modernism
• 2010/05/20 DESIGN | LONDON 2012 :: MASCOTS ::: A FIRST LOOK AT WENLOCK AND MANDEVILLE posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | LONDON, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, OLYMPIC GAMES, VIDEO tagged CCTV, George Orwell, Graham Harrop, Iris Design London, Kang & Kodos, London 2012 logo, London 2012 mascots, London 2012 Summer Olympics, Quatchi Watch, Stephen Bayley, The Guardian, Wenlock and Mandeville, Wolff Olins
• 2010/05/20 SCULPTURE as ARCHITECTURE | London 2012 :: Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Tower ::: “A Grand Design” or “Garbage” posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | LONDON, EXPO 62 | CENTURY 21, OLYMPIC GAMES, PUBLIC ART tagged 1951 Festival of Britain, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Anish Kapoor, Cecil Balmond of Arup, Cloud Gate, Eiffel Tower, Frei Otto, Günther Behnisch, John Maltby photographer, Lakshmi Mittal, Millennium Park Chicago, Montréal Olympic Stadium, Munich Olympiaturm, Munich Olympic Tower, observation towers, Olympic Tower 2012, Otl Aicher, Paris Exhibition 1889, Roger Mayne photographer, Roger Taillbert, Seattle World's Fair 1962, Skylon, The ArcelorMittal Orbit, The Orbit, The Space Needle, UK’s largest sculpture
• 2010/05/16 REVIEW | BOOKS :: «ON ARCHITECTURE: COLLECTED REFLECTIONS ON A CENTURY OF CHANGE» by ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CITIES | NEW YORK, PHOTOGRAPHY, STAMPS + MONEY, URBAN PLANNING tagged "On Architecture: Collected Reflections On A Century of Change", 2 Columbus Circle, Ada Louise Huxtable, Alfred H. Barr Jr., archeseum, Arne Jacobsen, Charlie Rose, clutter, Danish Modern, Edward Durell Stone, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Owen Gehry, Ground Zero, Guggenheim Museum New York, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art, Isamu Noguchi, Jeff Wall The Destroyed Room, Minoru Yamasaki, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Philip Johnson, Philip L. Goodwin, Rockefeller Center, Scandinavian design, World Trade Center
• 2010/05/16 COMING | EXHIBITIONS :: LIONEL THOMAS «ABSTRACTIONS 1949-1990» @ WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC ART tagged Brock Hall, Lionel Thomas, Origin & Evolution of the Alphabet, Patricia Thomas, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, Symbols of the Cuneiforms, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver 1938-1963, Untitled (Symbols for Education), Vancouver Public Library Central Branch 1957-1995, West Coast abstraction, West Vancouver Museum, WVM
• 2010/05/16 COMING | ARCHITECTURE :: WEST COAST MODERN HOME TOUR ::: WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS tagged "November Sea", Arthur Erickson houses, Coast Modern Film, Erickson/Massey Architects, Ezra Stoller, Gordon Smith, John Fulker, Smith House Vancouver, Smith Residence II, Steven Zhen Wang, West Coast Modernism, West Vancouver Museum
• 2010/05/15 LIFE FILE | THE EXPO FILES :: LIFE MAGAZINE ::: 31 MARCH 1967 :::: «TOMORROW’S PUEBLO: EXPO 67′s CONTROVERSIAL ‘HABITAT’» posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY, URBAN PLANNING tagged Habitat 67, LIFE FILE, Life magazine, Montréal architecture, Moshe Safdie, prefabricated housing
• 2010/05/15 FOOD | «SUSHI POPPER» :: SPACE STATION GOOD? posted in ADVERTISING, CORPORATE IDENTITY, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, SPACE RACE tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo Program, Bill Mitchell, Gemini Program, instant food, John Glen, NASA food, Outer Space Tang, space age food, Star Trek TOS food slot, sushi, Sushi Popper, Tang
• 2010/05/15 FOOD + DESIGN | VANCOUVER :: SUSHI MART ON ROBSON STREET posted in ADVERTISING, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, LOGOLANDIA, RETAIL DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY tagged Japanese food, Robson Street Vancouver, sushi, Sushi Mart, Sushi Poppers
• 2010/05/09 DESIGN, CULTURE + ENVIRONMENT | THE PILL TURNS 50 :: THE MARKETING OF THE FIRST MIRACLE DRUG OF THE SPACE AGE posted in ADVERTISING, CORPORATE IDENTITY, FASHION, GRAPHIC ARTS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, RETAIL DESIGN, SPACE RACE tagged "John Rock's Error" by Malcolm Gladwell, "Planning Your Family" Enovid-E, birth control, CBC, David P. Wagner, Enovid-E, Erica Jong on the Pill, family planning, first oral contraceptive pill dispenser, free Mother's Day cards, Gregory Pincus, Happy Birthday the Pill, Happy Birthday to the Pill, John Allemang, John Rock, Malcolm Gladwell, Margaret Sanger, Min-Cheuh Chang, Museum of Menstruation, Philip Morris, prototype pill dispenser, Searle Enovid, Sputnik, the "Compack", the "Pill", the "Pill" 1960 - 2010, the "Pill" 50 years graphic, the "Pill's" 50th anniversary, The Globe and Mail "As the Pill turns 50, the little agent of modernity still arouses trouble", The Mike Wallace Interview - Margaret Sanger, The Space Age, U.S. patent number 3143207, vintage Tampax ad, visions of the future
• 2010/05/08 THE PHILIPPINES | General Eleksyon 2010 :: The Marcos Era in Retrospect ::: “He Got Things Done” posted in AIRLINES + AIRPORTS, ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | MANILA, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, THE PHILIPPINES tagged America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines", Cultural Center of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Imelda Marcos, infrastructure in the Philippines, James Hamilton-Paterson, Manila International Airport, Manila International Film Center, Marcos infrastructure projects, MIA, MIFF, Miss Universe 1975, Philippine International Convention Center PICC, Philippine Plaza Hotel, Pinoy Eleksyon 2010, The Marcos Bridge, The Philippines at Expo 70, The Philippines Elections 2010, The San Juanico Bridge