Roberto cantoral cultural center – Beautiful Musings. This concert hall makes me want to pay a visit to Mexico. Inspired by the movement of a conductor’s baton, Broissin Architects designed the beautifulRoberto Cantoral Cultural Center in Mexico. The design is composed of five concrete roofs moving up and down in harmony to give shape, space and light to the project. Each roof represents a musical staff´s line, always straight, constant and parallel. The project is sited in a forest area with huge and old trees. The lines composing the façade move up and down as branches move in the wind, letting the sunlight pass through, creating a fantastical parade of shadows. The building wraps you, its shape turns into the shape of music. It is not a whim or about fashion, it is just about the sound of music traveling around every space, every seat, every corner, giving shape to every dream, to every song.
Whole Foods is coming? Time to buy - Dream City. If you ask Whole Foods why it’s breaking ground on a store in Midtown Detroit this month, it’ll say it wants to be part of “an incredible community” and “make natural foods available to everyone.” And that may be. But it’s also true that the Austin, Texas-based retailer has made a science of putting down roots in urban locations at what often seems to be just the right moment. In Washington, D.C., near Logan Circle in 2000, Uptown New Orleans and the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh in 2002, Boston’s “Latin Quarter” in Jamaica Plain in 2011 — areas that other specialty grocers might have considered unworthy of goat cheese and ostrich eggs, but that were actually on the verge of a boom that, lo and behold, kicked into high gear as soon as Whole Foods moved in.
“Whole Foods will move into neighborhoods that, at first glance you think, why are they moving there?” Says Bill Reid, a principal at the Portland, Ore., land-use consultancy Johnson Reid. “But they’re confident in their numbers.” Metropol Parasol, Sevilla. Details Special facts Metropol Parasol is one of worlds largest timber engineering constructions with 3400 individual wooden elements. The measures of the elements are: length max. = 16,5 m, thicknesses betw. 68 and 311 mm, largest (trunk) element 16,5 x 3,5 x 0,14 m. The construction consists of 3000 connection nodes that are highly load-bearing. Architect's word „Metropol Parasol“ is the new icon project for Sevilla, - a place of identification and to articulate Sevilla's role as one of Spains most fascinating cultural destinations.
„Metropol Parasol“ explores the potential of the Plaza de la Encarnacion to become the new contemporary urban centre. Its role as a unique urban space within the dense fabric of the medieval inner city of Sevilla allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure and commerce. The parasols grow out of the archeological excavation site into a contemporary landmark. The Parasol construction will be finished and opened in spring 2011. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. On our last day in Israel we had a tour of the newly opened Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It was designed by architecture firm Preston Scott Cohen, and it is astonishing. All of the images above are © Amit Geron. I also wanted to include a photo I shot there, so here it is: We were given our tour while the gallery was closed (star treatment!)
Anyways, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is a must-see if you ever get the chance to go to Israel! Tamuseum.com. Wheeeeeee! Slides Made for Adults, in Dire Need of Fun [Video] Summer ends today, which means we must all go back to our humdrum all-work autumnal lives. But not until we cover one final bastion of warm-weather play: Slides! Slide@T3 claims to be the tallest in Singapore This week, the Slide@T3 opened in Singapore's Changi Airport, a pair of slides that twirl through its Terminal 3. For every $22 you spend at the airport, you get two tokens for the four-story slide; a shorter 1.5 story slide is free.
Hundreds of people have paused long enough on their mad rush to the gate to take a moment to sit back, relax, and let gravity take control as they reach speeds up to 14 mph. Throughout the airports, offices and malls of the world are large, open spaces perfect for slides, which can allow us to reach our destinations more quickly and deliver a brief moment of euphoria. Test Site is one of many public slides Höller has installed in galleries But I did find some great examples of slides in public spaces throughout the rest of the world. New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights | Art and design. 'I'm getting tearful," says Frank Gehry when I ask him how he feels about finally making his mark on the Manhattan skyline.
"My father grew up in Hell's Kitchen, 10th Avenue, on the city's West Side. " Irving Goldberg was one of nine children in a very poor immigrant family; his son changed his name in the early 1950s. "He started work at 11," says Gehry. "He had a hard life. I'd like to share 8 Spruce Street with him. Hey, Pa! I got to build a skyscraper right by the Woolworth Building. What Gehry, evergreen at 82, has been building up there on the site of a former parking lot on the border of New York's financial district, close by Brooklyn Bridge, is an $875m (£543.3m), 870ft, 76-storey residential tower, clad in heroic, sculpted folds of stainless steel.
Over the course of a day, 8 Spruce Street changes mood and colour with the sun and the sky. Gehry has worked hard to walk tall in Manhattan. 'I was thinking of Michelangelo' "What was I really thinking of? " Domus. Diller scofidio + renfro. Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also, major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Flash Player).
See Flash Player EOL announcements from Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. By providing more than three years’ advance notice, Adobe believes that there has been sufficient time for developers, designers, businesses, and other parties to migrate Flash content to new standards. The EOL timing was in coordination with some of the major browser vendors. Looking, Moving, Gathering: Functions of the High Line. New York's beloved High Line is a machine for generating three types of urban social activity: looking, moving, and gathering. The June 7 inauguration of the second section of the elevated park, designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has doubled the length of the park to one full mile (1.6 km).
Cutting an elevated, verdant path through West Chelsea, the High Line now offers doubly abundant opportunities for looking (at the city, at each other, at oneself), moving (aimlessly or purposefully), and gathering (with friends, with strangers, with one's thoughts). Separated by a chicken-wire fence until this week, the first and second sections of the elevated park now blur seamlessly.
Completed two years apart, they were designed as a whole. Hence the newly opened run between West 20th Street and West 30th Street is not a sequel, but the realization of the original vision. Aerial View of the High Line looking south from West 30th Street. Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds.