Check out the newest coolest design from Yves Behar for the One Laptop per Child program via Core 77. It seems to consist of a tablet with a plastic screen that do everything from touch screen keyboards to games to taking pictures to reading books, all for $75. Draw back is that it won’t be available until 2012…
Iwan Baan; Gehry Partners
Even with all that has happened in the last year its nice to have a positive look back at some of the great architecture from 2009.
For the last 55 years I.D. Magazine has been the taste maker of design. It has been the go-to magazine to find everything you were searching for and find out everything you wanted to know about Design. Sadly, we must now find another source as I.D. is closing. Why did it close? The recession is obviously one reason and I’m sure the growing number of closing publications has had an effect on its industry. I’m certain there are a number of opinions and theories out there and here is one from Cliff Kuang at Fast Company. Who is going to be the next I.D.? I hope to find out soon…
Here is something fun via Josh Spear. To buy just go to fun…by design. Click here for more from Jellio.
From the pavillion web site
Here is a new kind of “intervention” by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for the Mies Van der Rohe pavilion in Barcelona. One thing that I think most directors of historic sites will tell you is that coming up with fresh programming is extremely challenging. That said, this looks pretty interesting.
For more: AD: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Transforms the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. You can also visit the Mies Van der Rohe Pavillion web site for more.
Here is a great video on Shigeru Ban and his work. It features his design of the Nomadic Museum, the new Pompidou Center in Metz and his furniture design. Gives a nice taste of some of his most beautiful works.
Yes its true, the illustrious architects are designing a parking garage down in Miami, and a really cool looking one at that! They join a long line of great architects including Frank Lloyd Wright and Paul Rudolph who all designed their own parking garage. For more: NYT: Come to Park; Stay for the Architecture
Saw this in the New Yorker and loved it. Obviously reminded me of Avedon’s Portraits of Power. Enjoy! NYR: Portraits of Power
Here is an unusual piece of news. Seems like the L.A. Opera is being bailed out by L.A. County. Fearing that it would cause a major chain reaction within the arts community in Los Angeles, the county voted 4 to 1 to loan the L.A. Opera $14 Million that they would have to repay in three years. For more: LAT: L.A. Opera gets $14-million emergency loan
From the LA Times
Looks like Michael Govan is continuing with his expansion of the museum and doing it with recent Pritzker winner Peter Zumthor. For more: LAT: Peter Zumthor, Michael Govan plot LACMA’s future Also check out the LA Curbed article: Architecture for Art: Zumthor: The Next Starchitect to Make Over LACMA? and Architect Newspaper’s: A Bolt of Zumthor
