BBPR

BBPR otherwise known as Torre Velesca is the fabulous 50s skyscraper that looks like a medieval castle or maybe even a Greek Monastery, right smack in the middle of Milan. I used to be totally obsessed by this building, and tonight I was walking around Milan, and I looked up and there it was, and then so I took some artistically spooky photos with da new phone.


they are totally working the under-the-overhang-lighting though, looks extra spooky with the constant fog in the city. And so that ppl dont say I'm superficial, here's also some information type of facts. and yes this last photo on the left is VERY pretentious and was totally accidental, and has no reason being here, just the phone is really slow on recording the damn thing.

Angelo House

For a while I've been working on another Neen Home, this time based on Angelo's works. I started off with melookingatyou.com and extracted a pattern, then some other ideas came along and somehow I ended up with a cagey-looking thing.

I never really show things in process, do you think this is the new me?
Should I put proper windows? Should it stay like this?

Best of the Best

Between 1970 and 1984 SITE designed a series of iconic showrooms for Best Products. Almost anything that can be said about plopping generic container buildings in suburbia, is said by this set of amazing buildings. Indeterminate Facade Showroom

Notch

Inside Outside Building

Peel

TiltRainforest

Clear Sky Black Cloud

A few years back Cai Guo-Qiang's work scared the shit out of me. We were living in Harlem and suddenly we heard loud explosions and of course we thought it was 9-11 the Sequel, but it was just art after all. This piece is called Clear Sky Black Cloud, and I love everything with black clouds. Here's the nice video too, but unfortunately in boring and hard to use quicktime
this via the really great VVORK

Thug For Life

Finally I managed to meet some really bad guys in Second Life. "Protected by the DPA Jd Moxing" (yes thats a name) is a Darth Vader-ish guy who drives around in a black Mustang (its a Nissan but don't tell) and leaves traces of black smoke as he walks around. We took a ride in his car and I think we "killed" a couple of sucker citizens. That was bad, but it was fun too. When JD stands still, kisses fly around him. (!?)

Random Access Memory: Military boats can be cute

I took these ages ago, on the Intrepid Museum, when I did an inflatable video booth for Vanessa. How cute are these rhomboid details? I guess they paint them white 'cos thats where they tie their ropes when they play WAR. Still all the color coding on the grey background is unexpectedly elegant.

The intrepid is a boat that has become a museum. Vanessa was doing her VB42 and she asked me to make a reconstruction of a small Navy-Seals museum in Florida, so I decided to make it out inflatable military boat material, so that it would be a mini museum made as a boat based on a museum of boats inside a boat that became a museum.
Later on I reconstructed this reconstruction of a museum as my video room for the Venice Architecture Biennial of 2000.

A House is Three in Second Life

So I was randomly flying over islands and putting "architecture" in the finder, to see what the map would come up with, which was not really much. I did bump into a stupid looking house which was flying up in the air for no apparent reason, and things without reason always attract my short attention. On closer inspection this was not one house but three, all "created" one next to the other like bad leftover copies. This happens sometimes in SL because you can prefabricate objects in the sandboxes and then just place them wherever from your inventory. Somebody must have clicked "place" three times for this stupid looking generic house. The copies were placed a little apart and somehow it created an early Eisenman effect of displaced grids blabla. Given how generic-wal-mart the interior is with the greige carpeting and the windows that look out to other windows it's almost interesting. Later on I found yet another copy of this house, this time with a faux 60's spacey thing on the roof. Seems like this poor house can never be normal.

New Model Army

I've always been a fan of Kostis Velonis' work and a few days ago we had a chance to visit his studio, and I could not stop taking photos of his works in progress as well as random objects that could one day become worksThe studio is a World, a complete environment with it's own republic, an army, new laws, totally psychedelic in it's own kryptopolitical way, new creatures and new perspectives. Have a look:more works here
and here

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