Archive for the ‘PUBLIC ART’ Category

• 2011/05/31 PHOTOGRAPHY | Heroes :: Fred Herzog ::: Billboards – Vancouver 2011 posted in ADVERTISING, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXHIBITIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART tagged "Foot of Main", "Lucy/Granville", "Sign of Good Taste Portland", Billboards, City of Vancouver, Cross-Canada Billboards, Equinox Gallery, Fred Herzog, Granville Street Bridge, John Goldsmith, John Mackie, Kathleen Bartels, Kodachrome, Moshe Safdie, Photography, Scotiabank, Scotiabank Contact, VAG, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Public Library
• 2011/03/17 THE EXPO FILES | LAC + »The Memorial Album of the first category universal and international Exhibition held in Montreal from the twenty-seventh of April to the twenty-ninth of October nineteen hundred and sixty-seven« posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, CORPORATE IDENTITY, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, MAPS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, PUBLIC ART, SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY, URBAN PLANNING tagged archives, archivists, Books, Coffee Table Books, Diapolyécran, digital images, Diplomats, expo 67, Gérard Caron, Jean-Louis de Lorimier, Josef Svoboda, La Création du Monde, Library and Archives Canada, Memorial Book, Pierre Dupuy, World Fairs
• 2011/02/04 ARCHITECTURE + FASHION | SPFW :: Ronaldo Fraga ::: Athos: Do Início ao Fim/Athos: From Start to Finish posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | SÃO PAULO, FASHION, GRAPHIC ARTS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, PUBLIC ART tagged "Athos From Start to Finish", Athos Bulcão, Brasília, Brazil, Fashion, Inverno 2011, logos, Modern Art, Ronaldo Fraga, São Paulo Fashion Week, Winter 2011
• 2011/01/27 SEEN | Michael Snow’s »Goddess of Space« (+ Toronto’s Aeroquay One) posted in AIRLINES + AIRPORTS, ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | TORONTO, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, PUBLIC ART, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, TRAVEL tagged Aéroport Charles de Gaulle, Aeroquay One, Air Canada/Trans-Canada Air Lines, Alan Parsons Project, »Component Public Seating Group Lollipop«, »Goddess of Space«, Canada, Chicago O'Hare, Eames Tandem Sling Seat, expo 67, Greater Toronto Airport Authority, Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA), I Robot, Lester B. Pearson, Macy DuBois, Michael Snow, mid-century Canadian art, Mirabel Airport, Montréal-Mirabel, Moshe Safdie, Nobel Peace Prize, Ontario pavilion expo 67, Paul Andreu, Pickering Airport, Pickering Airport II, PUBLIC ART, Robin Bush, The Aeroquay Resstaurant, Toronto, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Transport Canada, Vancouver Public Library
• 2010/11/10 CULTURE | The Best (and Worst) of Japan :: YouTube ::: »Crazy Japanese Street Dance« posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | OSAKA-KYŌTŌ-UJI, CORPORATE IDENTITY, FASHION, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, LOGOLANDIA, MUSIC + MUSICIANS, PUBLIC ART, RETAIL DESIGN, VIDEO tagged "Japanese Economic Miracle", Daimaru Shinsaibashi Kitakan, Decline of Consumerism, Extroversion, JAPAN, Japanese Recession, Japanese Youth Culture, Osaka, Performance Art, Shinsaibashi, Street Dancers, videos, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube
• 2010/11/03 ARCHITECTURE | Oscar Niemeyer’s Ibirapuera Park Complex, São Paulo, 1954 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASIL, EXHIBITIONS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged Ibirapuera Park Complex, mid-century modern, modernism, Oscar Niemeyer, Urban Parks
• 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
• 2010/08/27 BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS | THE REOPENING OF THE PALÁCIO DO PLANALTO :: 25 AUGUST 2010 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OSCAR NIEMEYER, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged Cláudio Soares Rocha, Greenpeace Brasil, Oscar Niemeyer, Palace of the Uplands, Palácio do Planalto
• 2010/08/23 SEEN | POP CULTURE :: THE VANCOUVER ZOMBIE WALK 2010 ::: ZOMBIE BRIDES posted in CITIES | VANCOUVER, FASHION, PUBLIC ART, SEEN IN …
• 2010/08/13 ARTISTS + HISTORY | EMILY CARR + GRAHAM WINTER :: THE WEST COAST RAINFOREST THEN + NOW posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, PUBLIC ART tagged »Edifice: Exploring Art Architecture and Archives«, B.C. Binning, B.C. Electric Building, BC Hydro Building, Emily Carr, Graham Winter, Paul Merrick, Stanley Park 1926, The Electra, totem poles
• 2010/08/01 ARTISTS | LIONEL THOMAS :: «ODE TO JOY» DRAWING + SCULPTURE posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, MID-CENTURY MODERN, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged "Ode to Joy", Beach Towers, Black Bros. Realty, Lionel Thomas, mid-century, scupture, West Vancouver Museum
• 2010/08/01 MUSEUMS | WEST COAST MODERN :: IN PRAISE OF WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM’S PROGRAMMING posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXHIBITIONS, GRAPHIC ARTS, LOGOLANDIA, MID-CENTURY MODERN, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART tagged B.C. Binning, Battersby Howat Inc, Beau Dick, Berwick & Pratt, Bonetti House, Darrin Morrison, Duncan McNab, Gardner House, Gordon Smith, Gordon Smtih, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jessie Binning, Kids Architecture, Kiriko Watanabe, Lionel Thomas, Lions Gate Bridge, Selwyn Pullan, Thompson, West Coast Modern, West Vancouver Museum
• 2010/07/04 VANCOUVERISM | «THE WOODWARD’S PROJECT» by BRIAN HUTCHINSON posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, PUBLIC ART, RETAIL DESIGN, URBAN PLANNING, VANCOUVERISM tagged "The Woodward's Project", "urban renewal", Brian Hutchinson, Downtown East Side (DTES) Vancouver, DTES, gentrification, Gregory Henriquez, Hastings Street, Henriquez Partners Architects, Ian Gillespie, National Post, new urbanism, skid row, social housing, urban planning, VANCOUVERISM, Woodward's
• 2010/06/29 BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS | The Buildings :: The Palace of the Dawn as Seen by Elizabeth Bishop in August 1958 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOKS, BRASÍLIA 50 ANOS, BRASIL, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, OSCAR NIEMEYER, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged Aldous Huxley, architecture, Brasilia Palace Hotel, Ceschiatti, Elizabeth Bishop, Juscelino Kubitschek, Laura Huxley, Lota de Macedo Soares, Modulo, Niemeyer pillars, Oscar Niemeyer, Palácio da Alvorada, Sarah Kubitschek, Space Age, superquadra, The Palace of the Dawn
• 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
• 2010/06/13 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK RESERVOIR PLAZA REDO by PERRY + ASSOCIATES posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, PUBLIC ART, SPACE RACE tagged “Knife Edge (Two Pieces)”, Bloedel Conservatory, Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Exploring Vancouver 2, Henriquez Partners, Henry Moor, observation towers, Perry + Associates, plazas, Prentice Bloedel, Queen Elizabeth Park, Queen Elizabeth Park Reservoir, reservoirs, Richard Henriquez
• 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 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 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 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