Ok, so this blog isn’t meant to celebrate “FAIL” in the sense of the popularized meme… But sometimes an entire 13-story building in Shanghai tips over and I can focus on nothing else. CHECK THIS OUT!!! (from Gizmodo) Further proof that buildings in China are made with newspapers and rotten apple cores.
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In case you missed it, Fumio has solved the cause of the massive CCTV fire that gutted the Mandarin Oriental… I still think it was the kerosene-impregnated gypsum board…
Sometimes, when you’re bored at work or that rendering just needs a little something extra, photoshop a panda into the picture.
The title of winsomest architectural firm in the world goes to UK office AOC, whose projects are as precious as little kittens.
We can design you a home, write you a book or build you a city.
Or design you a book, build you a home and write you a city.
For the record, AOC can also make you a bouncy castle or style you some furniture out of old phone booths.
AMID (formerly cero9) are a great example of a hip, young architectural firm who don’t care for convention, thank you very much. Though “firm” (aka “commercial enterprise”) may not be the right word to describe the collaboration between partners Cristina Diaz Moreno & Efran Garcia Grinda, they know how to sell a product. Check out their Magic Mountain proposal for jazzing up an old generator building in Ames, Iowa:
Maybe a building is tucked away in there somewhere, but I don’t really care. Let’s build a Magic Mountain City!
AMID gave what I heard was a rousing spectacle of a presentation during this year’s ACADIA conference. Most male/female architecture partnerships rarely delve into the specifics of their “private practice”, if you know what I mean… AMID left no doubts about the nature of their relationship after showing a little video of their [naked] pixelated avatars making love and architecture together. I’ve only seen a few still images from this video, but I’m hoping it’s nothing like the video for the Flying Lotus song “Parisian Goldfish”… NSFW, everyone.
