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fantastic architecture + art structure. m.
Fugitive Structures in an architectural design competition commissioned by SCAF (Sherman Contemporary Arts Foundation) in Sydney, Australia. It is an invited competition, run annually over four years that seeks to showcase emerging architects from Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The brief was to explore the potential of digital pre-fabrication. In 2014, AR-MA were successful in securing the commission.
stunning design! job well done! m.
“Seen in the light of the budget available and the high quality demands, many experts had first deemed the facade ‘unbuildable’,” the architects said.
terrific figurative paintings. m.
These paintings by Andy Denzler are part of the series “Under My Skin”. The Swiss artist creates stunning artworks that really do get under the skin. Andy Denzler’s paintings portray dream sequences or different surreal scenes caused by our thoughts. The artist uses different effects such as distortion or interference to visualize this surreal imagery. Andy Denzler says he is “interested in people’s sensitivities and in their search for their own identity”. He creates paintings far away from today’s artificial, fleeting imagery and the perfectionism of high-gloss aesthetics. His paintings portray people in lonely and deserted places. The entire scene is like in a world between dream and reality.
crisp minimalist audiophile design. m.
featuring high-quality sound-producing capabilities, the ‘erdbeben’ amplifier by seoul design studio ahhaproject packs a big punch in a little package. the object is able to deliver an earthquake of sound to a wide range of speakers, which is visualized by two vertically-placed mysterious 300B tubes that pierce the surface.
a beauty — great article after the jump. m.
Long before the World Trade Center rose downtown, Irving T. Bush tried to create one just a few steps from Times Square.
His Bush Terminal International Exhibit Building — or Bush Tower — was a slender 30-story skyscraper that shot up like a great Gothic arrow at 130 West 42nd Street. Finished in 1918, it was meant to be an indispensable hub where buyers from stores everywhere could see the latest wares of hundreds of manufacturers, all under one roof.
By no coincidence whatsoever, many of those manufacturers were also tenants of the 200-acre Bush Terminal complex (now Industry City) in Sunset Park. Buyers with neither the time nor the inclination to shuttle among 140 buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront could come instead to a tower in the heart of Manhattan, where they would be cosseted in Jacobean splendor at the three-story Buyers’ Club before going upstairs to see the goods.
This grandiose arrangement did not last long. In 1938, only 20 years after opening the tower, the Bush Terminal Company lost it in a foreclosure proceeding. In the name of modernization, subsequent owners wrecked the three Gothic arches that had distinguished the lower facade and inserted a granite storefront that further ruined its proportions.
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