For all those who know me, you know that I’m an enormous Sigur Ros fan. I grew up in a musical family. My mother loved Motown and the Beatles, my father Classical Music and I loved anything Contemporary. As I grew older though I started to listen to music that spoke to my values and beliefs, the values and beliefs that led me to love contemporary architecture, design and contemporary art. I love to explore new ways of looking at the world, new ways of looking at how one lives and breaths and how I can continue to shape my own world. Sigur Ros is one of those avenues of exploration, one of those groups of artists that continues to expand the boundaries and limitations of music and art.
For the 10th anniversary of the release of their album ‘Agaetis Byrjun,’ they sent out an email to share with us a live performance from their record release party at the Icelandic Opera House on the night of June 10, 1999.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
A quick nod to the Architect’s Newspaper’s Blog for this story. Supposedly, the man behind the controversy in Iran is actually a trained architect! And he doesn’t seem to be half bad…..read more!
Here is something fun for a rainy day in NYC. The British publication The Architects’ Journal has rated the top 10 architectural designs from Star Wars. Maybe someone is going to want to build some of them! Now wouldn’t that be cool. Some have actually tried…Great read!
After having read this article I wanted to share it with you. What I appreciate about what she wrote is that I felt similar feelings when I visited the High Line for the first time a few days ago. For me, the High Line is one of my favorite projects in New York in years, maybe since we built the Nomadic Museum on Pier 54. What I appreciate about it is that it is, as she puts it, trans-formative. It challenges new ideas and philosophies about living in this city, ideas that we desperately need. It also challenges current ideas of building that demand that we destroy our history in order to build our future. London is a great example of that challenge. The British have a great knack for preserving the old, respecting it’s history while at the same time modernizing it for today’s needs. My hat goes off to all those involved in the High Line project. I look forward to its future.
Here is a great post by way of GetKempt.com and fashionlogie. Murakami and Louis Vuitton just released a new animated short to celebrate their 6 years together! Check out “Superflat First Love” above and then check thier prequel “Superflat Monogram”
Well the High Line is finally open to the public and its been raining in NYC so no visits yet but here is a great posting with some images of opening night via Curbed. Enjoy!
Well, we’ve read it before and we’ll read it again. When Mr. Ouroussoff is angry, hes angry.
After reading this article I am wondering whether I still think it made sense to take Gehry off the project. Ouroussoff makes a good point of saying that this follows a dangerous precendent of money stoping progress and I agree with him that the work replacing Gehry’s isn’t up to par. Yet we are also in tough economic times and sometimes too much is too much.
This is by far my favorite bit of news in a long time! Hergé, the creator of the Tintin cartoons, is getting his own museum in Louvain-la-Neuve near Brussels, Belgium. The idea for a museum (which was designed by Christian de Portzamparc) has been in the workings since 1979 while Hergé was still alive. In 1986, three years after he passed away, the Hergé Foundation was created and in 2001 they announced the building of the museum.
For more check out the posting and pictures via The Contemporist
Honestly, I don’t know how surprised I am that Frank Gehry was taken off the Barclays Center project. At some point what is too expensive is just too expensive and even though I appreciate Gehry’s work I understand why they had to take him off. Here is an interesting insight via ArchSource.
As I’ve said before, either Nicolai Ouroussoff loves a work or he really doesn’t. As I have been admiring the construction of this building for a long time I am happy to see that he agrees with me. My only sadness is what they had to tear down to accomplish it. Read on:
