Archive for September, 2010

• 2010/09/27 BOOK DESIGN | Vancouver’s Most Awesome Douglas Coupland + Penguin Books :: «Speaking to the Past» ::: UPDATE: Banned from the Group! posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXHIBITIONS, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY, TYPOGRAPHY tagged "City of Glass", "Still No Free Energy", «Penguin Composition Rules», BOOK DESIGN, censorship, Design in Brtitain, Design Museum, Edward Young, Jan Tschichold, Jan Tschichold’s Penguin Composition Rules adapted for web writing, London Zoo, Nikola Tesla, Penguin Books 75th Anniversary, Penguin Books Flickr group, Penguin Books penguin logo, Penguin logo, Penguin penguin, Penguincubator, Speaking to the Past: A Penguin 75th Anniversary Project by Douglas Coupland", Vancouver's Most Awesome#1", visions of the future
• 2010/09/23 BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS | Visions of the Future :: Oscar Niemeyer + His Non-City of the Future posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, OSCAR NIEMEYER, URBAN PLANNING tagged "Cruelty & Utopia", Marcel Gautherot, visions of the future
• 2010/09/21 ARCHITECTURE | Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory :: Saved! posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | VANCOUVER, MID-CENTURY MODERN tagged Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
• 2010/09/18 ARCHITECTS + URBAN PLANNING | 2010.09.16 :: Oscar Niemeyer’s Footbridge, Rocinha + Favela Painting posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, GRAPHIC ARTS, OSCAR NIEMEYER, UNCATEGORIZED, URBAN PLANNING tagged Brazil elections 2010, favela painting, Rocinha
• 2010/09/16 STARCHITECT JEWELRY | »Oscar’s curves, Oscar’s jewels« :: The H. Stern Collection by Oscar Niemeyer posted in ADVERTISING, ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, CORPORATE IDENTITY, designKULTUR✭ STARS tagged Diane von Furstenberg, Elsa Peretti, Fashion, Frank O. Gehry, H. Stern, jewelry, Oscar Niemeyer, Starchitect, starchitect jewelry, Tiffany
• 2010/09/10 ARCHITECTS | Rio de Janeiro 2010.09.10 :: Oscar Niemeyer Receives the Spanish Order of Arts and Letters posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, URBAN PLANNING tagged Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, Aviles, Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer, Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España, Spanish Order of Arts and Letters
• 2010/09/10 VIDEOS | Japanese Recipes :: Recommend This! ::: »Cooking with Dog« on YouTube posted in designKULTUR✭ STARS, FOOD + DRINK, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, VIDEO tagged "Cooking with Dog", cute poodles!, food shows, Francis, Hamburg Steak, Japanese cooking, Japanese food, Japanese recipes, Japanese TV shows, Maru (cat), YouTube
• 2010/09/09 ARCHITECTURE | Icons of 20th-Century Architecture :: Buildings that Sparked My Childhood Imagination posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, BRASIL, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | LOS ANGELES, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, CITIES | NEW YORK, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXPO 39 | DAWN OF A NEW DAY, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OLYMPIC GAMES, OSCAR NIEMEYER, UNCATEGORIZED, URBAN PLANNING tagged 20t-ce, Alvar Aalto, Arthur Erickson + Geoff Massey, Auditorium of the University of Technology, Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library, »Katimavik» [Canada Pavilion], Bailey House, Barcelona Pavilion, Bauhaus, Brno, Buckminster Fuller, Canada Pavilion, Casa das Canoas, Case Study House No. 21, Case Study House No. 22, Case Study House No. 8, Chandigarh Secretariat Building, Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Eero Saarinen, Fallingwater, Farnsworth House, Festival Plaza, Finish Pavilion, Fitzpatrick House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gateway to the West, Gerrit Rietveld, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Habitat 67, Helsinki, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Jørn Utzon, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Kaufmann Desert House, Kenzo Tange, Kramer House, Le Corbusier, Lever House, Lovell Beach House, Lovell Health House, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Man in the Community, Mies van der Rohe, Moshe Safdie, National Congress/Congreso Nacional, New York World's Fair, Norco, Notre Dame du Haut, Oscar Niemeyer, Pacific Palisades, Palace of the Dawn/Palácio da Alvorada, Palm Springs, Pierre Koenig, Racine, Richard Neutra, Rietveld Schröder House, Roderick Robbie, Ronchamp, Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Chase House [Kings Road House], Simon Fraser University, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, St. Mary's Cathedral, Stahl House, Swiss Pavilion, Sydney Opera House, Taro Okamoto, Tower of the Sun, Trans World Airlines Flight Center, USA Pavilion, Villa Savoye, Villa Tugendhat, Walter Gropius, Washington Dulles Airport, Willy Walter, Yoyogi National Gymnasium
• 2010/09/07 designKULTUR | Year One :: 7 September 2009 – 7 September 2010 posted in GRAPHIC ARTS tagged anniversary, blogs, designLULTUR
• 2010/09/05 CITIES | TOKYO :: The City as It Appeared ca. 1960 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, TRANSPORTATION | PRIVATE, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, VIDEO tagged Tokyo 1960, Tokyo architecture
• 2010/09/04 ARCHITECTURE | »SUNROOF VANCOUVER« :: A BLUE SKY TOUR ::: 1 SEPTEMBER 2010 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, OLYMPIC GAMES, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, VANCOUVERISM tagged Acton Ostry Architects — Stella, Arthur Erickson + Geoff Massey — The MacMillan Bloedel Building, Arthur Erickson — Robson Square, Bogue and Babicki engineers, Caesar Pelli — Pacific Centre, City of Vancouver — Georgia Viaduct, Crown Life Place, Gerkan, Howard Bingham Architects — Capitol Residences, James Cheng — Living Shangri-La, Ken Lum — Monument to East Vancouver, Larry Beasley, Marg + Partner Max Bögl — BC Place Stadium Re: Construction, Moshe Safdie — VPL Library Square, Olympic Village 2010, Paul Merrick — Cathedral Place, Peter Busby — One Wall Centre, Peter Cardew, Residences on Georgia, Rhone and Iredale, Stantec Architecture Ltd. in collaboration with Endall Elliot — Patina, The Beasley, The Qube, Vancouver City Hall, Westcoast Transmission Building