While working on a monumental fish sculpture for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Frank Gehry’s office developed its own software to manage the complexities of the project and gain greater control of the design and construction process. During the design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in the late 1990s, they refined this software into what became Digital Project. By 2002, Gehry Technologies (GT) was born. A spin-off from the design office, GT offered architects the software and expertise that came from realizing Gehry Partners’ complex buildings. On Tuesday, GT revealed it has spun off Digital Project into an
Rendering of Zaha Hadid's Crest pavilion at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The annual London Design Festival (September 13-21) is an epic platform for designers and manufacturers to showcase their new products at concurrent mini-trade fairs around town. This year’s lineup includes 100% Design, Designjunction, and Decorex International, among many others. Throughout the city, however, there will also be discussions, exhibitions, architectural installations—from a digitally-manufactured house to an enormous new Zaha Hadid sculpture—and many more diversions for the design fan. We’ve rounded up a handful of highlights below. WikiHouse 4.0, September 13–21 Pushing forward into the digital future of
A documentary attempts to respond to the question raised by Michael Heizer's 340-ton granite boulder installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "It's just a rock—how can it be art?" The boulder passes through La Mirada Park, California, on its way to LACMA. When artist Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass—a 340-ton granite boulder perched above a cavern of “negative space”—was installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012, the reaction of more than a few people was, “It’s just a rock. How can it be art?” Two years later, director Doug Pray presents a kind
According to the presentation given at the National Planning Commission Meeting on Thursday, Gehry's new design does not include the east and west tapestries. At its monthly meeting on September 4, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) heard an update on Frank Gehry’s embattled design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. Craig Webb of Gehry Partners presented a revised design with significant differences from the one the commission rejected, by a vote of 7 to 3, back in April. Two of the three metal tapestries that formed Gehry’s most distinctive architectural move are gone. There are now
When this magazine declared the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis “America’s leading museum of design” in 1990 [RECORD, March 1990, pages 45-47], it was paying tribute to Mildred Friedman, who died on September 3, at 85, in New York City. Photo courtesy Martin Friedman A portrait of the young Mildred Friedman. Beginning in 1969, Mildred—who went by Mickey—had been the museum’s go-to-person for anything and everything relating to design. She was best known for curating a series of prescient exhibitions on architecture and design while editing the Walker’s incisive and influential Design Quarterly. At the same time, she presided over
The Young Architect Program's inaugural project in Asia marks an exciting time for design and construction in Seoul. Moon Ji Bang's installation is made of 60 cloud-shaped balloons. In Seoul, the Shinseon Play pavilion is a walk in the clouds. Visitors meander along an elevated walkway among 60 cloud-shaped balloons, stopping for a game of baduk or a jump on a trampoline along the way. Cool mist machines provide both an ethereal cast to the area and very real relief from the summer heat. Eventually, the pavilion ascends to a grass-covered plaza with a view back to the picturesque Inwang
After years of anti-LEED lobbying, the American Chemistry Council says it wants to work to make LEED better. This story originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com. It looked more like a headline from BuildingGreen’s April Fool’s issue than one from an official press release: “USGBC and ACC to Work Together to Advance LEED.” Nonetheless, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) have confirmed the news is real—so what’s going on behind the scenes? Combining expertise“Obviously, we had some concerns with LEED v4 and the building materials credits,” Anne Kolton, ACC’s vice president of communications, told Environmental Building
The original hotel was completed in 1929. Jerusalem has strict standards for preservation of historic sites, and the Palace Hotel façade has been meticulously restored. The Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem is a study in contrasts. It is both the oldest and the newest luxury hotel in the city. It has a traditional Islamic façade, yet the most modern and green amenities and infrastructure. Situated in the heart of Jerusalem, the hotel is a five-minute walk from the historic Old City walls. Built as the Palace Hotel in 1929 by the Supreme Muslim Council headed by the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini,
It’s rare that an artist, or an architect, manages to group their affinities into a body of work so that each piece or design contains their combined fascinations.
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