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...1940s jewelry. The museum's first temporary exhibition, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, features a jacket made out of dog tags and a dress made out of rubber gloves. If it all sounds a little mad to you, at least check out the building, designed by Portland, Ore.-based architect Brad Cloepfil. 2 Columbus Circle, New York City...
...focuses on improving interconnectivity throughout Allston while increasing open space, hiding unsightly infrastructure, and even leaving room for an urban farm.The future campus’ “streets are very much designed for people—people on foot,” according to Michael Vergason, a landscape architect on Harvard’s master planning team who describes the campus as having “a fine texture or network of circulation that provides a variety of ways to get to the same place.”In terms of open space, the new master plan will also...
...Architect Porn. If you're in New York City this week or next and feel like looking at a really cool structure, head over to Central Park's Rumsey Playfield where starchitect Zaha Hadid has dreamed up Mobile Art. Inside the building is a project by Karl Lagerfeld - an exhibition of 20 variations on the classic Chanel handbag designed by artists including Yoko Ono. Well, at least the Pritzker Prize-winner Hadid's building is worth seeing. After its New York run, the entire exhibit will be taken down and reassembled in London, then Moscow and Paris. Admission is free...
...Heading the cast is Peter Mandelson, the co-architect of New Labour, recalled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the start of October from his post as E.U. Trade Commissioner, and installed in the House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch...
...developing world, ecological modernization—or Captain Planet Economics (CPE)—is mostly a low-scale endeavor. The results are even more striking. For years, the buildings of the late vernacular architect Laurie Baker have helped alleviate poverty in India and done nothing to worsen climate change. Baker’s adobe abodes, which constitute the majority of the edifices in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala are made mostly out of a resource requiring zero fuel: mud. The buildings often lack doors and have awkward gaps between the bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre...