Father and Son" by julian john. How designers are making the public realm feel like a private space. I once survived for 18 months in a 107-square-foot garret in St.
Germain des Prés. My Parisian memories are not of a claustrophobic room, but rather of a private refuge made livable by a city with great street life and public design. From cafés to cathedrals, parks to piscines municipales, the spaces outside my room were as much a part of my life as the space within. Now, as Canadian cities are undergoing their own downsizing of residential space – think “micro lofts” of 226 square feet – forward-thinking designers are bringing the inside out in surprising new ways. As the public realm becomes increasingly important for those of us living in tiny condos, there is an intriguing extension of the residential aesthetic at play. As residential architecture takes on more commercial aspects – like curtain glazing and industrial strength doors – so does public architecture tap into a residential vibe. Consider Bing Thom’s 2011 Surrey library.
Pop Rocks is far from an isolated experiment. How Cinelli revolutionized the art and design of the bicycle. By Maria Popova A visual history of how Italian designer Cino Cinelli shaped the standards for modern cycling.
The history of the bicycle is peppered with curious and wide-spanning cultural resonance — from powering the emancipating (and subjugation) of women to reining in incredible design innovation to serving as a manifesto for the creative life, a a metaphor for computers, and an object of art. But hardly do the bike’s dignity and glory shine more brilliantly than in an exquisitely designed and engineered specimen, and few pioneers have done more to elevate bicycle design than Cino Cinelli. Nuova Manica Lunga. The Highlands at Langley Architect Ross Chapin on the philosophy of pocket neighborhoods. Incredibly Upsetting Pictures Of Penn Station Then & Now.
Why 'The Death of Architecture' May Not Be Such a Bad Thing. The last few years haven’t been kind to architects.
The once-booming construction sector has been brought to a near-standstill by the housing bubble’s burst and the economic downturn that followed. But if the last few years were tough, the past few months have been downright brutal, with a barrage of media coverage predicting the outright death of the profession. “New study shows architecture, arts degrees yield highest unemployment,” a Washington Post headline announced in January.
Based on 2009 and 2010 Census Bureau data, the Georgetown University study showed a nearly 14 percent unemployment rate among architecture school graduates. Skeptics questioned if the numbers were too high or too low, but the damage was done. Weeks later, in a Salon article titled “The Architecture Meltdown,” Scott Timberg effectively compared the storied profession to a delicate house of cards—uniquely vulnerable to economic and market forces. Drawing courtesy of Moh'd Bilbeisi. The loo with a view: 750ft above London, toilet on The Shard's 68th floor offers spectacular perspective of the capital and beyond. From this WC you can marvel at landmarks including the Tower of London and HMS BelfastIt is on the 68th floor of the £2billion development, 800ft up the 1,016ft high skyscraperNext month's opening day for the attraction, known as The View from the Shard, is sold out By David Wilkes Published: 00:00 GMT, 11 January 2013 | Updated: 15:39 GMT, 11 January 2013 It may be the 'smallest room', but paying a visit here you will be privy to the grandest view in London.
From this WC in The Shard you can marvel at landmarks including the Tower of London and HMS Belfast as you gaze across the River Thames. It is on the 68th floor of the £2billion development, 800ft up the 1,016ft high skyscraper, western Europe's tallest, which opens to visitors next month. Scroll down for video Room with a view: This toilet on the 68th floor of The Shard, Europe's tallest building, will be available for public use when The View visitor centre opens next month VIDEO What you can see from the loo with a view. The Best Design Books of 2012. By Maria Popova From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.
After the best science books and the best art books of 2012, the season’s best-of reading lists continue with 10 favorite design books published this year. (Catch up on last year’s reading list here.) Every once in a while, along comes a book-as-artifact that becomes an instant, inextricable necessity in the life of any graphic design aficionado. This season, it’s The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design — an impressive, exhaustive, rigorously researched, and beautifully produced compendium of 500 seminal designs spanning newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record covers, and moving graphics, examined through 3000 color and 300 black-and-white illustrations in their proper historical and sociocultural context.
The Man of Letters or Pierrot's Alphabet (1794) Paul Rand: IBM (1956-1991) Saul Bass: Vertigo (1958)