Category: Architecture
Fracture 2007 – The Sherman Residence
2007’s release Fracture, starring Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins didn’t receive many industry accolades. Surprising, given the stellar performances and the
stylish production. Reviewers complained that it should have been better than it was, or that the plot was unoriginal or predictable. No matter. To those with an interest in the built
environment, the casting of Peter Tolkin’s Sherman House made the film infinitely watchable. Restrained and elegant, the house provided the perfect crime scene, complicit in the murder of its
hostess.
This film pits the generations against each other. An upstart young lawyer (Gosling), against a methodical aeronautical engineer (Hopkins) charged with the
murder of his wife. For the most part, generation Y comes off inadequate and ill prepared, outplayed by the more experienced party.
Hopkins is pitch perfect in his role. Delivering with a steely conviction and calculating intellect, he brings
an authenticity to the material which could have been a bit cliched in someone else's hands.
The Sherman house also delivers. As an extension of Hopkins character, its precise lines and considered floor planning amplifies
the staged events its owner sets in motion. A clock installation added to the centre of the house by the production team reinforces the sense of chilling
premeditation.
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A wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to private developers
The new housing and planning bill is a raft of dangerous measures that will increase inequality and solely benefit the private sector
In any sane universe, something called the Housing and Planning Bill might safely be assumed to stimulate house building and improve planning. But the bill, which receives its third and final reading in the House of Commons today, does exactly the opposite of what it says on the tin. It will exacerbate the housing crisis and further enfeeble the planning system in ways we cannot yet comprehend.
The primary assault on social housing has been much discussed in these pages. The bill’s flagship measure – promoted at ownyourhome.gov.uk – will replace genuinely affordable homes with public subsidies for property investors. Rather than building homes for affordable rent, the legislation will force local authorities to build “Starter Homes” for first-time buyers. Capped at £450,000 in London and £250,000 in the rest of England, these homes will be unaffordable for people on average incomes in over half of the country, as Shelter has pointed out. Buyers will be free to sell their assets after five years at full market value, thereby minting a new generation of property speculators and removing any long-term benefit for future first-time buyers.
Related: How the Tories' 'planning shakeup' will suffocate London
Related: Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing
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SOURCE: Architecture and design blog | The Guardian - Read entire story here.
How architecture’s greatest photographers are putting people back in the picture – CNN
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How architecture's greatest photographers are putting people back in the picture
CNN The annual Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards champion artists who "translate the sophistication of architecture into a readable and understandable two dimensions, to explain and extol the character, detail and environment of the project". |
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3DS Culinary Gets New Offices with a Hyper-Modern Interior
Oyler Wu Collaborative were hired to design a creative laboratory for 3DS Culinary that merged technology and the culinary arts. The Hollywood, California company’s new innovative digs are dedicated to experimentation and collaboration between chefs, designers, and artists within its 1928 Neoclassical bank building.
The Oyler Wu Collaborative gutted the interior down to the basics and left only the concrete vault, masonry exterior walls, and the exposed steel roof trusses. The rawness of the original building remains, while the new interior sways hyper-modern, resulting in a creative and inspiring space.
A mezzanine lounge hovers with a jaw-dropping guardrail that’s composed of white linear steel elements and CNC milled wood panels that are intricately woven together.
A two-story glass food printing room peeks through the mezzanine level.
Below, the food printing room contains a dozen 3D food printers and a demonstration kitchen. There are also offices and a showroom area that’s used as a learning center and for demonstrations.
Photos by Scott Mayoral, Central Meridian Photography.
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Daniela Schwanke: Windows of the World: A Brief Interview With Photographer André Vicente Gonçalves
For Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves, windows are the eyes of the world-- they represent a country's architecture and style, as well as identify different historical periods.
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What America’s Strangest Parking Garage Means For The Future Of Detroit
An inventor's workshop. A movie palace. A rock club. A car park. A skate park. The backdrop for Eminem videos.
Now it's one of America's strangest ...
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Rem Koolhaas blows the ceiling off the Venice Architecture Biennale
An exploded false ceiling and a lineup of lavatories become the stars as Koolhaas delves into the overlooked innards of today's buildings and shows how architecture has become nothing more than cardboard
The best of the Biennale in pictures
Sandcastle towns in Israel to greenhouses shaped like snowflakes in Antarctica: the top 10 pavilions
A shiny tangle of pumps and pipes spills out above a suspended polystyrene ceiling in the central pavilion of the Venice Biennale, the metallic guts of air conditioning and sprinkler systems sliced open for all to see. Above this cross-section of a contemporary office ceiling, which hovers claustrophobically close to your head, soars a majestic dome, frescoed with heroic scenes of the evolution of art.
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SOURCE: Architecture and design blog | The Guardian - Read entire story here.
XC90 will be the first Volvo on new Scalable Product Architecture – Times of India
Cars UK |
XC90 will be the first Volvo on new Scalable Product Architecture
Times of India KOLKATA: Volvo's new XC90 to be launched in a fortnight in Stockholm will be the first car in its range to be built on the scalable product architecture (SPA) modular chassis technology developed in-house, Volvo Car Group senior vice-president Peter ... Volvo details Scalable Product Architecture for 2015 XC90 Volvo Discloses Scalable Product Architecture for 2015 XC90 Volvo to unveil first car built on new scalable architecture |
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Charles R. Wolfe: Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural habitat. This small drama was a play of few acts, but reflected a pattern of human conduct embedded in urban life.
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No home sweet home settlement for Blair House dispute in Waukesha
The historic Blair House has sparked controversy between the city of Waukesha and the Waukesha Masonic Lodge 37. The city wants to turn over the site to a Waukesha couple who wants to transform the property into a Bed & Breakfast.
SOURCE: Architectural Design News - Read entire story here.
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