Another World

Its' a slow hot Sunday

I've been browsing the Domus back issues again,

here's club L'Altro Mondo, designed by Derossi and Ceretti in Rimini, in Domus January 68

This months Pin-Up

Brand new issue of PIN-UP just arrived

with fab post memphis paranoia hotel Estela by Luis Venegas
Fabulous stacks by lovely Marcelo Krasilcic
perfect sunsets by Ann Woo
perfect Freudian slippery by Madelon Viesendorp
interviewed by Beatriz Colominaand my personal favorite, amazing furniture stacks by Florian Slotawa,
profiled by lovely Felix Burrichter of course

From the archives

On a hot tip from my new friend Felix, I went to Gallagher's on 12th street, in search of architectural treasures (in the form of overpriced vintage magazines).
Somehow managing not to hyperventilate, here's some of the things I saw
An Expo pavilion by Gunther Domenig, somewhere in Monaco
Princess Sham Pahlavi imperial wedding cake palace, somewhere that wasnt a good idea after all
Claude Parent supermarket at Tinqueux
and the one at Sens, where it looks like le shopping for groceries becomes le total existential drama
and last but certainly not least, a frog shaped bathtub

Friends of Kebyar

While researching the Terraform House and looking for (and not finding) stuff on Jacques Couëlle, I found Jacques Gillet and this group of people posing in front of his "Sculpture House".
The group is actually fellows of Friends of Kebyar, a journal on all things architecturally organic (and I might say inspired by Fredrik Kiesler but whatever)

Anyway, enjoy some of the weirdnessBart Prince is great

I feel like I've seen this house by Robert Bruno before,
there's also an extensive website for all you
organic rusted steel metal plate fans out there

Gunther Domenig is here too, though I wouldn't have put him in the same category as everybody else FOK has dedicated an issue to. I do remember seeing a lecture by Domenig in the very early 90s at SciARC, and he showed his house that he has been building forever, a little like Robert Bruno.

had never heard of Anton Alberts

nor Howard Fox, which looks like a wackier Bruce Goff

and is this built or a maquette?
And why isn't Paolo Portoghesi anywhere
to be found on these covers?
I've been meaning to post about PP for ever,
maybe its time

New PIN-UP

PIN-UP issue 3 is out, and it's as good as you expected, and even better
Thierry Mugler
Czech Scenography
Hong Kong cultural center
boys on chairs,
Ruins,
Robert Wilson,
Terry Riley & John Keenen,
David Whitney & Phillip Johnson
and lots more, so run to the newsstands

Las Promesas

This is a project for a Center for Applied Computer Research and Programming by the great Emilio Ambasz, in Las Promesas, just outside Mexico City. I have no idea if this was ever built, as I found it in a vintage issue of Domus that I payed hard earned yen in the super snob specialist bookshops where Angelo dragged me to in Harajuku. (very long sentence). Anyway the issue is from May 1975, and it describes the building as the ultra fabulous original idea that it is. The offices are floating in a little Emilio-made lagoon and are reconfigurable work areas. When you decide how and where you want them, you unfloat them and they sit still in the water. Later you can fill their floatation tanks with air again, and your office space will be free to move around in the lagoon, and also it somehow makes ecological sense though I didnt really read the whole text.The two surrounding walls are a solar energy panel and a computer message display wall. A machine condenses water and makes little fluffy clouds and a rainbow. Little metallic windmills make pretty, and I think energy too. But what totally sold me was the maquette out of tin foil and cotton clouds and thats why I had to pay so much for such an old magazine and I'm so happy to spread the love.

Heading into ShoeTown

A couple of months ago on my Velvet column,
I posted this longtime suppressed childhood obsession: The Shoe House
then browsing a recent copy of the New Yorker I saw this Shoe town cartoon;
And then today another issue, and another architecturally inspiring cartoon: Are we finally heading towards a cartoon architecture? Check out also Angelo's obssesive North Korean monuments

The Möbius strip of self promotion

This blog was always supposed to be the "News" page of my site, then it turned into something else entirely. Now a part of this blog has been included in the last issue of super cool L.A. based Textfield magazine, and I guess blogging about the publication of your blog is the absolute Möbius strip of self promotion, so much so that it's almost funny. Anyways, here's how it looks in print:On the subject of publications, here's also the brand new Ff magazine (no, not THAT type of FF) from Sweden with a sexy looking Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects on the cover. This first issue has tons of great stuff on the branding of Stockholm, Urban Sustainability, hot favourites R&sie, as well as me with Hotel Blue Wave, Cloud House and Polygon Housing with excerpts from an interview by Jan Aman which you can apparently read here (though I could not find it).
Polygon Housing seems to be popping up in different publications, like Dcasa di Republica, Mark and more.and this just in from Ligne8 the magazine of the Opera de Paris

Mark 4

It seems I'm only blogging about magazines or books or internet stuff, and I can definetly feel the urge to get the hell out of the office but it aint happenin just yet. I've posted about Mark before, but cant help posting some more because it just gets better and better with every issue. I wonder if they're going to keep redesigning the whole thing with every issue because it sure looks different every time. So apart from the totally cool content, Lesley Moore's design for Mark 4 totally rocks. Like totally.

Pin-Up Magazine for Architectural Entertainment

I'd been looking for this all over Amsterdam when my friend Jop told me about it, and finally I found it in Milans' Corso Como boutique. Super expensive fashion stores are good for something after all: Check out Issue 1 of the hot new architecture magazine, PIN-UP: the self procaimed magazine for architectural entertainment It doesnt say anywhere that it's a GAY ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE but the first issue is very homo friendly indeed, featuring the sexy and talented Mr Juergen Mayer H talking about his upcoming buildings as well as the New Bears of Berlin, the cute and very interesting artist Daniel Arsham and the utterly camp Anca Petrescu talking about her most famous achievement, the Palace of Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu. Oh and there's famous tall buildings made into dildos, the fabulous Rick Owens showing us around his house,texts by Beatriz Colomina and so much more. Run to the newstands.

Fiascorama

Angelo was in London, and amongst other thing he brought back the Fiascorama issue of USELESS Magazine , featuring the lovely Kai Kuhne, the even lovelier Annika Larsson and much much more. (because life is longer than you think)