Wednesday
10 March 2010
New Junkie brings you a midweek bumper news round up, including the Japanese architect who says architecture is like sushi, the submitted designs for Architect’s Michael Jackson memorial competition and the latest from New York’s mayor on the Atlantic Yards project.
And, on a more serious note, how loopholes in the LEED certification process are failing the environment.
As the global recession has tightened its grip on the construction industry, many have been muttering about the end of iconic architecture. Now Rem Koolhaas has waded in with his own take.
The Architectural Record looks at the impact of the 88,000 industry job cuts in the first quarer of this year and Gehry quits a park project in Miami. Read the rest of this entry »
Playing Architecture Ignacio Gonzalez Galan's project
The Globe looks at a RMJM funded project at Harvard where by students would be asked to design homes in suburbia using the same concepts and materials that BMW is experimenting with in its revolutionary “cloth car,” which has an exterior made of flexible fabric instead of metal.
The result: Coastal houses that can move up and down above flood tides, rooms that fold up when not in use, and roofs that change shape to take advantage of sunlight.
Read more at the Boston Globe
This year’s Moma’s Young Architects Program competition has been won by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith for their installation entitled Afterparty – an temporary urban shelter and cooling station
The New York Times sees the result as a reaction against architectural excesses and a response to the economic climate with its use of cheap materials
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/arts/design/28moma.html?_r=1
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