December 24

Best wishes from yskira.com (and an holiday break)

Filed Under web | Leave a Comment

Holidays are coming, so yskira.com takes a couple of weeks off its daily-updating routine. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy 2009! We’ll be back on January 7th, but still check out the blog every now and then (and be sure to subscribe to our feed!) since we’ll be updating our bookmarks on our right sidebar.

Enjoy the holidays.

December 24

Decolonizing Architecture @ Bozar, Brussels

Filed Under architecture, books, events | Leave a Comment

If architecture is more about the ways it can connect a community than its trend-conditioned physical shapes and styles, in many occasions building becomes the second choice, after a conscious and context-savvy re-using.

In post-colonial areas, infrastructures can mean so much more than they look like, and they are often a decaying heritage of a burning, and still too near, past. An exhibition titled Decolonizing Architecture at the Bozar in Brussels presents several “tactical interventions” and perspectives for a post-colonial environment, where, instead of becoming abandoned buildings or polluting rubbish, colonial structures are converted into functional spaces. Read more

December 22

FMG Showroom by Cherubino Gambardella at Cersaie

Filed Under director's corner | Leave a Comment

At Cersaie, an international exhibition of ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings, FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti presented Nature 2.0, a new range of natural stones, born from the courageous union of nature, experimentation and aesthetics.
FMG chose two firms in contemporary architecture to present this project. In Bologna, the space usually dedicated to FMG and IRIS CERAMICA (PAD 26 Stand A188 B189) was interpreted by Francesco Librizzi, with a literally monumental work: the re-enactment of a laboratory orogeny, to make the contemporary covering materials’ ambitions to build a new architecture themselves visible.
But the real heart of FMG’s new look is located in Fiorano Modenese. Here Cherubino Gambardella re-designed the showroom, choosing the obelisk as the leading and marking element. The shape is repeated ad-libitum in the exhibition space, an exceptional setting to express and “explode” Nature 2.0 in all its power.

Read more

December 19

0300TV

Filed Under web | Leave a Comment

We’ve already run into this website before, but – considering we have a Web section – it’s worth spending some more words about 0300TV. Read more

December 18

The Cinematic Power of Architecture

Filed Under web | Leave a Comment

In case the aliens decide to wipe us off the planet, what’s to be kept? Or: why do we like our monuments destroyed in movies so much? Read more

December 17

Italianità

Filed Under books | Leave a Comment

Trademarks and “legendary” objects of the recent Italian history, that created the “visual conscience” of Italy: from the Vespa to the Bacio Perugina, from the Gazzetta dello Sport to the TG1 news theme, each object is presented through a short and light text by an author each time different and an illustration inspired to the object by Ale + Ale.
Not conceived as a “celebrative” publication, this book curated by Giulio Iacchetti looks at the quality objects that created Italy’s visual conscience from a graphic and emotional poit of view at the same time. Without the aim of systematicity or completeness in a virtually boundless landscape, this volume is a personal glance on these visual and cultural “ancestors” from the privileged designer’s point of view. Read more

December 16

MVRDV’s Gwanggyo City Centre

Filed Under architecture | 3 Comments

As already mentioned here and here, Rotterdam-based architecture studio MVRDV has won the competition to build a whole self-sustainable city south of Seoul, South Korea. There will be room for no less than 77,000 inhabitants and facilities that range from shopping to entertainment. Here’s the studio’s press release, the project’s credits and pictures from models and renderings.

Read more

December 15

NYC Times Square TKTS Booth

Filed Under architecture | Leave a Comment

TKTS Duffy Square Booth. Photo © Perkins Eastman

Broadway is a consistent part of New York’s magic, while getting cheap tickets might be your only chance to enjoy it for real. If you are up to it, TKTS booths are the places to go if you want to get up to a 50% discount. It was almost a decade the one in Duffy Square had to be re-designed, but both the building schedule and the costs stretched out considerably. Architects Perkins Eastman eventually made it, and it looks like mayor Micheal R. Bloomberg has no reason to regret having the city paying much of the structure’s bills. The booth was designed by Choi Ropiha and it’s made almost entirely in glass. Read more

December 12

Public Design Festival

Filed Under design, events | Leave a Comment

Milan’s world famous Design Week is still a few months away, but it’s already roll call time for Esterni’s Public Design Festival. Actually, it’s more a call for entries, among which Esterni will select 10 ideas to develop and present during the festival, taking place in Milan between April 18 and 26. Out of the ten projects, one and only one will win a 3,000€ award, so if you have an idea (or a maximum of three) that involves an original use of public spaces, you can register here (but read all the technical requirements before you send any files). Read more

December 11

Possible Fantasies

Filed Under events | Leave a Comment

From December 2 to December 16, 2008 a series of three architecture video programs will enliven the Rimini Cineteca.
L’immaginario possibile (Possible fantasies) is an event produced by the Ordine degli Architetti di Rimini as part of its lively program of architectural events and it’s realized in collaboration with iMage ARCHIVE.


During the three scheduled appointments (Tuesday December 2, The Eye of the Videomaker; Tuesday December 9, The Eye of Cinema; Tuesday December 16, The Eye of the Architect) the audience will be able to read architecture from different points of view and by means of different observation tools. It is an occasion for extending the discourse on contemporary architecture and on the forms of its communication which the city of Rimini has been dealing with in these last years. Read more

Next Page →

 

You need to log in to vote

The blog owner requires users to be logged in to be able to vote for this post.

Alternatively, if you do not have an account yet you can create one here.

Powered by Vote It Up