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Future Comeback
Busy, busy, busy. But I’ll be back shortly.
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Sticking Out in the Crowd
BEST Products may not ring a bell to the majority of people. Its efforts stifled by mismanagement, an antiquated sales system, and a growing threat from other big box retail start-ups, BEST crumbled into a painful bankruptcy in 1996. During the 1970’s and 80’s, however, with the help of James Wine’s SITE, Environmental Design, Best became one of the most innovative places around when it came to self-promotion and artistic practices.
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There isn’t much to say about this video from creative communications agency, Dentsu London, as the project is explained in the opening sequence, except that no tool is ever limited to its intended use.
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Projects Which Have Changed the Way I Design: 1
The Remota Hotel in Patagonia, Chile by German del Sol.
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Mechanical Organism
There is no limit to the point where sculpture can be pushed. It is a dynamic experience between human and object that can take any form whether it be static, natural, or in the case of Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, scientifically engineered. For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Beesley, an Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Waterloo, was chosen to create the Canada Pavilion.
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Happy Accident
What makes the experimental side of bespoke craftsmanship so interesting is the marriage between the well-practiced, knowledgeable manipulation of the material and the introduction of a process yet untried. The limitations of the material are known, but the end result can be wonderful and completely unexpected.
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The rapidity by which science fiction becomes science fact expands exponentially as time progresses. It is no wonder then, that the idea of a symbiotic city designed from and powered by nature becomes more plausible with each new and unorthodox project.
A recent graduate from London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, Richard Hardy, has developed just such a project. Titled ‘The Transcendent City,’ the animated piece is his entry to the challenge presented by Nic Clear’s Unit 15. Presented as an analysis based on David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest,’ the video addresses the creation of architecture in increasingly difficult times and the implications of society’s technologically addictive behavior. The result is an astounding array of sustainable technologies and complimentary relationships between structure and environment, a return to the organic, reminiscent of a Roland Topor piece.
