Archive for the ‘OLYMPIC GAMES’ Category

• 2011/02/06 ARCHITECTS + MOSAICISTS | Furniture from Dpot Brasil :: Niemeyer + Athos (via Estudiobola) posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, FURNITURE, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OLYMPIC GAMES tagged "Talento Brasilerio", Athos Bulcão, Brasil, Brazil, Designers, Dpot, Estudiobola, Furniture, Oscar Niemeyer
• 2011/01/31 AIRPORTS | YMX :: Aéroport International Montréal-Mirabel International Airport ::: 1975-2004 posted in AIRLINES + AIRPORTS, ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, OLYMPIC GAMES, SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, TRAVEL tagged 1975, Airports, architecture, Aviation, Avro Arrow, “future think”, city of the future, Eero Saarinen, expo 67, Gérin, Lajoie, LeBlanc et Edwards architectes, Mirabel, Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montreal, Papineau, Papineau-Gérin-Lajoie and Edwards, Passenger Transfer Vehicles (PTVs), Politics, Québec Pavilion, Quebec, Referendum, René Levesque, Transport Canada, Visons of the Future, Washington DC, Washington Dulles International Airport, white elephants, YMX
• 2010/12/15 ARCHITECTS + MUSIC | 3 :: »The Samba of the Architect« ::: Niemeyer’s Sambódromo Makeover for Rio’s Olympics posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, BRASIL, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, OLYMPIC GAMES, OSCAR NIEMEYER tagged Antonio Carlos Jobim, Apotheosis Square, Black Orpheus, Brazil, Carnaval, Governor Leonel Brizola, Leonel Brizola, Lila Bôscoli, Marquês de Sapucaí Avenue, Olympic Games, olympics, Orfeu da Conceição, Oscar Niemeyer, Passarela do Samba Darcy Ribeiro, Rio Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Samba, Sambadrome, Sambódromo, The Architect of Samba, The Samba of the Architect/Samba do arquiteto, Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, Vinicius de Moraes
• 2010/11/11 ARCHITECTURE | Separated @ Birth :: Beijing National Stadium + Cape Town Stadium posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, CORPORATE IDENTITY, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, TYPOGRAPHY tagged 2010 World Cup, Beijing 2008, Beijing National Stadium, Cape Town Stadium, GMP Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, Louis Karrol and Associates, Olympic Gammes, Point Architeeccts, South Africa 2010, The Birdsnest
• 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
• 2010/09/04 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
• 2010/06/19 SCULPTURE | Public Art :: «Monument to East Vancouver» by Ken Lum posted in ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, OLYMPIC GAMES, PUBLIC ART, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged "Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, "Monument to East Vancouver", "shangri-la to shangri-la", "The Remains of the Olympiad", ‘Vancouver Report", Black and White", Clark Drive, Cultural Olympiad, Danielle Egan, Fortress of Solitude, Ken Lum, Olympic public art program, sculpture, Superman - the movie, Superman 1, truck routes, Vancouver 2010
• 2010/06/11 EXHIBITIONS | «1:26 – IN STUDY MODEL WONDERLAND FROM HALIFAX TO VANCOUVER» :: RICHARD HENRIQUEZ’S DOOMED OBSERVATION TOWER posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BERLIN, CITIES | LONDON, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, EXPO 62 | CENTURY 21, OLYMPIC GAMES, SPACE RACE, URBAN PLANNING tagged 1:26 Au pays de la maquette d'étude de Halifax à VancouveR, 1:26 In Study Model Wonderland from Halifax to Vancouver, Anish Kapoor, architectural maquettes, Arup, Berlin Television Tower, Cecil Balmond, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University, Fernsehturm Berlin, Gregory Henriquez, Henriquez Partners, Henry Moore, John Norton, Knife Edge (Two Piece), Little Mountain, London 2012 Summer Olympics, Observation Tower Inc., observation towers, Queen Elizabeth Park, Seattle, Space Age, Space Needle, The ArcelorMittal Orbit, view cones, visions of the future
• 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
• 2010/02/28 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE CHAMPIONS OF THE GAMES :: FULL MEDAL STANDINGS posted in CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged 14 gold medals, Canadian medals, final medal count, Vancouver 2010 list of countries, Vancouver 2010 Olympic
• 2010/02/28 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE CHAMPIONS OF THE GAMES :: ROBERT SWANSON’S O CANADA HERITAGE HORNS TRUMPET CANADIAN MEDALISTS posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC tagged 1967 Confederation Train, 2010 Winter Olympics, Alexandre Bilodeau, B.C. Binning, BC Electric Building, BC Hydro Building, Berwick and Pratt, British Columbia, Canada, Canada Place Vancouver, Canadian Centennial of Confederation 1967, Canadian confederation, Centennial of Canadian Confederation logo, Central Heat Distribution Ltd., civic soundscapes, Gastown Steam Clock, Jenn Heil, Jennifer Heil, mid-century Vancouver modernism, Nine O'Clock Gun, O Canada, O Canada Heritage Horns, Olympic Games, Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver, Paul Merrick Architects, Robert Eugene Swanson, Robert Saunder Horologist, Robert Swanson, Southwell Controls Ltd., Stuart Ash Paul Arthur and Associates, The Electra, Thompson, Vancouver
• 2010/02/27 2010 VANCOUVER WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: THE MASCOTS ::: MY MUKMUK(S) posted in CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged Mukmuk, Vancouver 2010 mascots
• 2010/02/27 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: MASCOTS ::: «MEET THE MASCOTS ON ICE» MUKMUK, THE MISSING MASCOT posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, OLYMPIC GAMES, RETAIL DESIGN, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, VIDEO tagged Jibjab Mukmuks, Mukmuk on ice, Mukmuk skating
• 2010/02/23 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: RESOURCES ::: THE OLYMPIC DESIGN DOT COM posted in ADVERTISING, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXHIBITIONS, GRAPHIC ARTS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, TYPOGRAPHY tagged graphic artists, Markus W. Osterwalder, Olympic graphics, OlympicDesign.com, The Look of the Games, The Look of the Games 2010
• 2010/02/22 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE BOMBARDIER BRUSSELS 2010 OLYMPIC TRAM LINE posted in ADVERTISING, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BRUXELLES, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXHIBITIONS, EXPO 58 | A WORLD VIEW :: A NEW HUMANISM, GRAPHIC ARTS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, URBAN PLANNING tagged Bombardier Flexity streetcars, Bombardier streetcar, Brussels World Exhibition 1958, Olympic Line Vancouver
• 2010/02/19 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | SELLING THE GAMES :: GERMAN HD TV AD «2010 OLYMPISCHE WINTERSPIELE» posted in ADVERTISING, CORPORATE IDENTITY, MUSIC + MUSICIANS, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, TRAVEL, VIDEO tagged 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games, 2010 Olympsche Winterspiele, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, 2010 Winter Olympics German television ad, Munich Olympics 1972, vancouverite1989, YouTube
• 2010/02/19 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: YVR AIR CANADA HANGER SUPER GRAPHIC posted in AIRLINES + AIRPORTS, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE, TYPOGRAPHY tagged 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, Air Canada, Leo Obstbaum, Olympic graphics, Pearson International Airport, supergraphic, The Look of the Games, Vancouver 2010 desktop wallpapers, YVR
• 2010/02/18 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: «THE LOOK» @ THE MAIN POST OFFICE posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | TORONTO, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, STAMPS + MONEY, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged César Pelli, Exploring Vancouver 2, General Post Office Vancouver BC, Harbour Centre, Main Post Office Vancouver, McCarter Nairne and Parters, Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower Vancouver, WZMH Architects
• 2010/02/18 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE LOOK OF THE GAMES :: OLYMPIC WALLPAPER ON MY MONITOR posted in ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged 2010 wallpaper, Leo Obstbaum, Olympic wallpaper, The Look of the Games Vancouver 2010, wallpaper