Random Venice Biennial

Here's some snaps from Venice Architecture Biennial,
though everything is already on every blog in every country
and everybody has already seen everything...

Always interesting NL Architects

Junya Ishigami rocked the Japanese pavilion with pencil drawings on the walls

and ikebana wonderland outside

elsewhere an interesting tree house

hot guy part of Philippe Rahm installation

cool Jon Utzon models in a parallel event

more Utzon

amazing R&Sie modelsnicely installed German pavilionfabulous wig model by Cloud9,
though the hair is really supposed to be waves

cut-up kids toys make intriguing furniture by Greg Lynn

cruising scene from the Swiss pavilion

with McDonald arches and ground made from white dantelle

after the party Belgium, silver walls and confetti

I think this was from Chile,
but i'm not sure how they meant it or what it is.
But I hope it is indeed a house inside a sea shell...

and another

a fat little weirdo from Russia

and finally the Koolhaas video that escaped from the last post..

Venice video rush

Its been a crazy week, so no time to blog Venice Architecture Biennale properly and I'm already on the second city this week. But here's some clips anyway


Amazing Madelon Vriesendorp rarely seen animated feature


a nice video from the interesting but badly installed Swiss pavilion


Showstopping lecture by the super influential Jeremy Rifkin

coming soon: the amazing movie from Koolhaas' Bordeaux villa, as described by the cleaning lady of the house (I forgot to upload from Athens and now I'm in Istanbul which is not so youtube friendly...)

Asimo at 6Km

via the always good TAGBANGER

Holiday Ruin

While in Naxos, we mostly hung out at a beach called Hawaii (no less)
which is right next to a never-completed hotel complex from the early 70's
The sun shines through assymetrical arches
and forests of double arches
and general concrete mayhem
happiness through to the sea
and for sure sexy at night
almost falling apart
rooms with perfect summer lighting
and cracks in the ceiling complete the perfection

In Burgaria this is a good salary

This past summer Google launched its Virtual Worlds portal Lively. It was supposed to be the big entrance to the 3D internet, though it was launched ever so discreetly. It looks like the Sims. Somehow they decided I should be a bored teenage girl, though I'm afraid its just too late for that. Then I was "feeling lucky" on the avatar tab, but I became a wigger
(as in Eminem, white nigger, not happening)

Finally I saw a place called "cave" and I thought, thats were I'm going. It ended up being as cliche as anything.
With Second Life having turned into the boondocks of the internet,
and Lively really not lively at all, is there hope for an online 3D experience?

Subterranean Vacation III: Underground worlds of Guizhou

While in Chine a couple of months ago,

I picked up a cute book on caves from a random flea marketI always thought caves should be multi-colored

underground lakes

apparently aphitheaters

All the photos have elaborate captions,
but this one is just "Guanghan Palace"

and Lingxiao Palace

attack of the shitty stalagmites?

Fine tuning Angelidakis.com

I wasn't entirely happy with the recent update on Angelidakis.com so we re-did it yet again, filling in some recent projects, though more are to come.

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

Naxos Observations

We missed all the caves in Naxos, but we saw a huge ancient door

that when you pass through,
you find yourself where you were

up on a mountain there were some runaway rocks
a building made of plastic and tires
a marble explosion
whose scale we only realized when we got closer
(look for the trucks)
some funny formations
Aristides' Pink and Silver tower
a Hellenistic Round tower
which was hollow insideand sometimes dangerous