SEE THE GRAND PALAIS SUBMERGED IN A VIRTUAL WATERFALL IN 3D PROJECTION MAPPING DESIGN BY JAPANESE ART COLLECTIVE TEAMLAB
(COURTESY TEAMLAB)
Recently, Paris’ Grand Palais was awash in the cascade of a virtual waterfall, transforming the beaux-arts palace into a captivating scene from the lost city of Atlantis. TeamLab, a Japanese collective of technologists and artists, used 3D projection mapping to create the holographic play of light and shadow, while maintaining a fidelity to the laws of physics.
EAVESDROP> HOLLYWOOD HITS THE BEACH: WHO WILL LIVE IN MICHAEL MALTZAN’S NEW TRIANGULAR HOUSE?
(COURTESY MICHAEL MALTZAN)
Rumor has it that Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA) is hard at work on a triangle-shaped Malibu home for one of Hollywood’s biggest names. The MMA crew is keeping mum on the client, but we’ve heard it’s not an actor. Geometric coastal living for a director or producer, perhaps?
NEW LAKERS HEADQUARTERS BY ROSSETTI AND PERKINS+WILL GIVES TEAM HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
A STATE OF THE ART FACILITY CATERS TO LAKERS PLAYERS AND FANS. (COURTESY ROSETTI)
As Los Angeles braces for the likelihood of one or more new football stadium projects, the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Lakers have unveiled plans for a sports facility of its own. Rossetti, a design firm specializing in the sports and entertainment industries, teamed up with the L.A. office of Perkins+Will on a 120,000-square-foot training center and administrative headquarters. READ MORE
BJARKE INGELS AND JAMES CORNER GIVE PHILADELPHIA’S 214-YEAR-OLD NAVY YARD A BOOST INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
ARCHITECTURE, DEVELOPMENT, EAST, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015
MELISSA GUERRERO.
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015
MELISSA GUERRERO.
(COURTESY BJARKE INGELS GROUP/BIG)
Bjarke Ingels is giving Philadelphia‘s antique Navy Yard a jolt into the 21st century. BIG teamed up with James Corner Field Operations to bring a $35 million office building, called 1200 Intrepid, featuring double curves designed to mirror the contours of Corner’s surrounding landscape.
AMERICAN STANDARD MAKES A SPLASH WITH 3D-PRINTED SCULPTURAL FAUCETS AS THE BRAND TURNS 150
(COURTESY AMERICAN STANDARD)
American Standard has debuted a series of high-end 3D-printed faucets evoking sculptural artwork. Formed by selective laser sintering, each design presents a creative play on the way water cascades from it. While faucets have long been prototyped using 3D deposition modeling, the plumbing and building product manufacturer claims that this series of luxury faucets is the first ready-for-market faucet wrought using powerful lasers.
FRENCH LAW MANDATES GREEN ROOFS OR SOLAR PANELS ON ALL NEW BUILDINGS IN COMMERCIAL ZONES
MONTMARTRE FUNICULAR RAILWAY (COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
It’s serious crunch time in France for environmental policymaking as regulations tighten in deference to the 2020 goal of reducing carbon emissions by 25 percent. Paris is also scrambling for brownie points as it prepares to host the UN Conference on Climate Change this November.
Lawmakers in France recently decreed that all rooftops of new commercial buildings must be covered in either plants or solar panels. Other major cities have gone to similarly stringent lengths, with the city of Toronto, Canada, mandating green roofs on all new buildings in 2009—whether residential, industrial or commercial.
STRIKING CONCRETE WORKERS STOP CONSTRUCTION AT 30 NEW YORK CITY DEVELOPMENT SITES
HUDSON YARDS AS SEEN FROM THE HIGH LINE. (FLICKR / GIGI_NYC)
On Wednesday, construction came to halt at 30 sites in New York City, including Hudson Yards, after cement workers went on strike. Crain’s reported, “At midnight this morning, a collective bargaining agreement ran out between the council of carpenters and a trade organization called the Cement League. The league is made up of contractors that erect the concrete skeletons for high-rise buildings and hire district council workers for part of that job under a collective contract.” As of Wednesday afternoon, the strike was ongoing.
BREAKING> NADER TEHRANI NAMED DEAN OF COOPER UNION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
NADER TEHRANI
New York City’s Cooper Union finally found a new leader. Nader Tehrani has been appointed dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. He joins the school this month, taking over where Anthony Vidler left off. Tehrani, formerly of Office dA, is now principal of NADAAA.
WEST 8 DELIVERS DYNAMIC QUEENS QUAY, A COMPLETE STREET IN TORONTO
QUEENS QUAY BEFORE. (COURTESY WATERFRONT TORONTO)
After more than a decade of planning and three years of construction, Queens Quay in Toronto has been turned into a veritable urbanist’s dreamscape on the waterfront. Four lanes of traffic have been reduced to two making room for a separated bike path, separated light rail, benches, thousands of new trees, and extra-wide pedestrian promenades with pavers set into maple leaf patterns.
BOSTON’S ICA LOOKING TO EXPAND OUT FROM ITS DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO HOME
ICA BOSTON. (FLICKR / ALUN K. WU)
Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is apparently getting a little too big for its Diller Scofidio + Renfro–designed home along the Boston Harbor.
SCANDALOUS NO MORE: THE WATERGATE HOTEL POST-$125 MILLION RENOVATION LOOKS MORE CLASSY AND ELEGANT THAN EVER
(COURTESY THE WATERGATE HOTEL)
As Washington, D.C.’s first “unapologetically luxurious” stomping ground for the rich and famous, The Watergate Hotel recently underwent a $125 million modernizing facelift. Inextricably connected with the Watergate scandal, the hotel has maintained its avant-garde design and curvaceous, classic elegance in a nod to its 1960s design by Italian architect Luigi Moretti.
3D PROJECTION TECHNOLOGY FLEETINGLY BRINGS BACK THE BAMIYAN BUDDHA THAT WAS DESTROYED BY THE TALIBAN
BEFORE AND AFTER (COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
The hollow in the sandstone cliffs of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, still harks back to the looming Bamiyan Buddha statues that once emerged from the cliff-face, before they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. A Chinese couple has created 3D projection technology to holographically recreate the destroyed statues which, standing at 180 feet and 120 feet respectively, lorded over the Bamiyan valley for 1500 years.
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