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I WISH THIS WAS
Candy Chang’s installation I Wish This Was offers residents of devastated New Orleans an opportunity to physically express their desires and demands for their community – through the language of the ever familiar and tactfully unthreatening HELLO, MY NAME IS sticker format. From a grid of sticker tags on the front of an abandoned buildings … Read more
Coathook Wars
“Hooked” “Somewhere to Hang Your Hat” “Off the Hook” “The Hook-up” “Hooked on You” “Captain Hooks” “Hook Line and Sinker” Ok, just kidding… these are my favourite design-sexy coathooks of the moment. molo’s cork peg, magnetized cork cylinders w/ magnetic mounting board. Points for versatility. Kirsty Whyte’s Limpet Hooks, handcrafted wood. Rob Southcott’s Paper … Read more
60 Richmond Win
One measure of an excellent building is whether it’s one you want to wander into. Those examples scattered across the city that have you cocking your neck, wondering what’s inside? That’s Teeple Architects. (see: U of T’s Early Learning Centre or East End Community Health Care if you don’t already know what I’m talking about.) … Read more
Flint City Polygons
This is an artic polygon. In cold winters of the artic tundra, the frozen soil shrinks and cracks form. In the spring, the uppermost layer of soil melts and water seeps into the cracks. Winter returns, the water freezes, expands, and the cracks expand. The cycle continues. This is a Flint city polygon, read Wes … Read more
Gossip, Gossip, Gossip!
Drawing on worldwide revolutionary fever, Parisians take to the streets (surprise, surprise) to protest the most oppressive regime of all: the new Gehry authored Louis Vuitton cultural centre’s (read: Bernard Arnaud’s personal art collection) takeover of a kids park. With angered Parisians hoping to raze it to the ground, local archi-god Jean Nouvel defends Gehry … Read more
The Real Adaptive Reuse
I love southern Lebanon. Where else do the kindly old men selling phoenician (or phoenician-like) trinkets invite you to see the byzantine castle behind their shop that at one point doubled as a fortress for the French? I love the southern Lebanese. And here’s why, sure it was a byzantine castle, and sure, the french … Read more
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Well, in less than 3 hours, I’ll be having a conversation with the great Vito Acconci for Bad Day Magazine. It’s pretty funny that one of my questions is about how our increasing reliance on computers is affecting design and I’ve decided to forgo my old school microphone and tape recorder in lieu of some … Read more
Amman
Highlights: Slingshot bridge: Driving across it kind of feels like being on swing. The concept of suspension translates, which i guess makes sense, that’s the function of a bridge. The lighting is completely weird, I didn’t get it at all. The detailing also lacked, but over all: success. Limestone: Reminded me of the pines – or anywhere … Read more
Taxidermy Isn’t Boring
Kelly McCallum’s post modern taxidermy attempts have mastered how things age and how their essence can be recaptured and their meaning altered. On a basic level, taxidermy is essentially an art of re-contextualizing animals — generally those which we have all come into contact with whilst they were moving, breathing and in possession of a … Read more
