May 2010
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The new RAI TV Logo
(via digitalnatives) There’s a new flame war in town and it revolves around RAI’s decision to change its logo (left to right: the RAI channels’ logo during the 90’s; the “butterfly” one launched in 2000; and the new one presented two weeks ago).
May 31st
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100 Most Creative People in Business
According to Fast Company the list goes a bit like this: #01 Lady Gaga #19 Jean Nouvel #64 Bjarke Ingels #88 Kazuyo Sejima Asking for more would be an overkill. Kudos.
May 28th
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Two Architects Have a Meeting of the Minds at a... →
Renzo Piano to unveil his Kimbell Museum addition. Yes that Kimbell Museum. Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Museum. Fingers crossed.
May 28th
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“[…]architectural golden ages are few and far between. The unique...”
– Ada Louise Huxtable, Palladio and his legacy: A Golden Age and Its Heirs, The Wall Street Journal
May 27th
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WatchWatch
Oldie but goodie. Bjarke Ingels on his BIG projects.
May 25th
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“The hard part is the last ten percent, sure, or even the last one percent, but...”
– Seth Godin, Hardly worth the effort
May 23rd
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AutoCAD Sledgehammer Beta 1, Mac Edition
(via macstories) AutoCAD. For Mac. ‘Nuff said.
May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 20th
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Architects at Play, Dangling Medals | NYT →
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, aka SANAA, receive the Pritzker Prize on Ellis Island.
May 20th
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May 20th
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WWZS(*)
Lighting installation at designboom mart ICFF 2010 by Steven Haulenbeek. *What Would Zongolopoulos Say?
May 20th
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May 19th
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“The French pronounce the name of Metz, I found, as ‘mess’. To my...”
– Edwin Heathcot, Shattered grace in a hard city, Financial Times
May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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Pompidou Metz opens for business
(Credit: AFP/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen) Though the “Bilbao Effect” sounds so much better than the “Metz Effect”.
May 11th
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Is Parametricism the new Modernism?
While I do enjoy reading Patrik Schumacher’s opinions about architecture (albeit them habitually being forced manifestos of Hadid’s work) I find myself bemused by his AJ article: Parametricism claims universal validity. It cannot be dismissed as eccentric signature work that only fits high-brow cultural icons. Parametricism is able to deliver all the components for a...
May 9th
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May 8th
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“…the problem is that, like so many expos of the past two decades,...”
– Jonathan Glancey, Shanghai architecture Expo: an empty experience 
May 6th
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'This town has been sold to Tesco' | Guardian →
“This town has been sold to Tesco. We are not at the moment a ‘Tesco Town’, but this will make us one. We’ve lost our individuality, our identity – the very things that make this place special.” Oh well, I guess we’re back in the 1800’s. (Crespi d’Adda workers’ village - 1877)
May 5th
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May 4th
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Hard Times for Star Architects | Bloomberg →
The global real estate implosion killed off scores of their designs, some of which are still hibernating and many of which will never be built.
May 1st
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