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Eavesdrop> Bjarke Ingels Joins Heavy Hitters Vying for Santa Monica Project

The Editors — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:05 +0000

One of the few regions that superstar Bjarke Ingels has yet to invade is Southern California, and he’s made it clear that he wants that to change. It just might, soon. Ingels, we hear from an unnamed source, has been added to one of the teams competing to design the city’s 4th and Arizona mixed use [...]

Photo of the Day: Janette Sadik-Khan Ready for the Citi Bike Launch

The Editors — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:24:59 +0000

It’s finally here! Well, in a few more excruciating days, New Yorkers will be able to hop on a bright blue City Bike and cruise through the city (or at least those 12,000 or so founding members, the rest of us will have to wait one more week). While some locals haven’t taken to the alien bike docking [...]

NYC DOT Blotto Campaign Raises Awareness About The Dangers Of Drunk Driving

Aaron Seward — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:56:56 +0000

New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn unveiled Blotto today, a temporary installation by Atlanta/New York City-based artist John Morse meant to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving. The artwork, which was inspired by ink-blot tests and depicts two cars crashing into a martini glass, has been placed in [...]

Letter to the Editor> Is Stoner Stoned?

The Editors — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:30:11 +0000

[ Editor's Note: The following is a reader-submitted letter to the editor that ran in print edition, AN 05_04.10.2013. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions or sentiments of the newspaper. AN welcomes reader letters, which could appear in our regional print editions. To share your opinion, please email editor@archpaper.com. ] It is hard [...]

Memory Cloud Taps Tradition At Texas A&M

Aaron Seward — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45:37 +0000

Re:site and Metalab’s site-specific installation for Texas A&M’s 12th Man Memorial Student Center uses 4,000 networked LEDs to create an animated display that speaks to tradition as well as to the future. The Corps of Cadets. Kyle Field. The 12th Man. Reveille. Texas A&M has more than a few strong traditions, most of which are [...]

Eavesdrop Midwest Goes to the Kentucky Derby

The Editors — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:42 +0000

Maybe You Lost My Number: Eavesdrop wants to know why we weren’t invited to your Kentucky Derby party, De Leon and Primmer. You guys are practically the only cool architecture firm in the River City! We were down in Louisville the weekend of the Derby and wandered (hungover, naturally) past your office on Sunday morning. That [...]

Flint Public Art Project’s Free City Fest Reclaims Razed Chevy Site

Chris Bentley — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:22:43 +0000

The ongoing efforts of artists and designers to reignite the spark of downtown development in aging industrial cities face no simple task. But as architects and developers begin to put pencil to paper, the best public art projects draw on the spiritual side of that renewal. Flint, Michigan’s inaugural Free City Festival, held May 3-5, [...]

One World Trade Center Plays Light Tricks

William Menking — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:42:49 +0000

The 1973 World Trade Center twin towers by Minora Yamasaki were not great buildings but in various light conditions or in the dark of the night they would take on a mute sculptural quality that New Yorkers now remember with fondness or nostalgic reverence. Now something quiet similar may be happening with the replacement to [...]

Oren Safdie’s New Play, “False Solution,” To Debut on June 16th

Vincenza Di Maggio — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:59:59 +0000

False Solution, the final play in Oren Safdie’s trilogy (Private Jokes, Public Spaces and The Bilbao Effect) on contemporary architecture is finally set to take the stage on June 13th in New York City. The play will be followed by an official press opening on June 16th at the off-Broadway experimental theatre, La MaMa ETC in Manhattan. [...]

Q+A> Design Week with Todd Bracher

Emily Hooper — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:45:09 +0000

For the final installment of AN‘s New York Design Week Q+A series, we talked with Todd Bracher about his Nest and forthcoming Asa collections, his design philosophy, and inspirations. And Kevin Stark stopped in to visit, as well. How did your collaboration with HBF come about? I reached out originally to Kevin Stark a few [...]