A giant Kandinsky replica……..”People walk across a copy of Russian-born expressionist Vassily Kandinsky’s painting “Weilheim-Marienplatz” on the pavement of the market square in the southern Bavarian town of Weilheim, Germany, on July 28, 2008. About 500 pupils and Weilheim citizens painted the 2,100-square-meter area, with about 8,000 paving stones, to produce the world’s largest copy of a Kandinsky painting” source: activate. via julie.
The result of a RIBA competition in 2005: here is Charles Barclay Architects finished product. very beautiful, love the rotating turrets!
see more at dezeen
Well it has been a long time between drinks so to speak. However i have some exciting news for you all.
I have a new website for starters….www.langdonreiszahn.com which will complement rosslangdon.com with a few of my own projects.
The new site has come about through the formation of a new collaboration between myself, Ana Reis from Porto and Matthias Zahn from Hamburg. Together we have formed a collaborative studio focussing on architecture, design and research projects. Our first major collaboration has resulted in the joint first prize win in an open international ideas competition for a new cultural centre in Bodo, Norway.
The competition will take on two phases. The first was intended to clarify the location, massing and articulation of the built forms, composition and urban design of the adjacent site areas and public spaces.
In the second phase three of the winning teams from phase one (Langdon Reis Zahn-london, drdh ARCHITECTS-london and General Architecture-sweden), will compete against three other competitively selected participants to design and construct the new cultural buildings.
The new cultural centre is projected to be approximately 11,700 sq.m. (126,000 square feet) with a construction budget of NOK 630,000,000.
More information can be found at the following websites:
www.arkitektur.no
www.deathbyarchitecture.com
more images of the competition will be available soon!
just an old image i stumbled across. graffiti with a sense of humor….. i can imagine this in london….. but the netherlands?
I have been pondering the influence of climate change on borders, migration patterns and massive social change lately……. and having read a very interesting article in the guardian on saturday about the maverick scientist James Lovelock. Originator of the Gaia Theory, which is essentially the hypothesis that proposed living and non-living particles of the earth are part of a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism….I remembered this image (spotted at supercolossal) and thought it provocative and relevant as an approach towards climate change. It is also symbolic of the human desire to control nature; build a beach house that looks like a fortress with an observation tower in the most remote location possible, where it will obviously be subjected to the full force of the ocean. Occupants can lounge in the observation tower oblivious to the turmoil that surrounds them, and when nature allows they can venture beyond the fortress walls to dip manicured toes in the water….. It is the Sam Bell beach house in California, designed in 1965 by Dale Naegle.
Six international names have been selected to compete for the redevelopment London’s iconic Commonwealth Institute. Designed in 1960-62 by Johnston-Marshall and Partners the existing building is grade II listed, its complex roofscape is constructed from equilateral and ‘bastard’ hyperbolic paraboloids……… OMA, Rafael Viñoly, Make, Eric Parry, Rafael Moneo and Caruso St John have been selected by Chelsfield Partners’ deputy chairman Stuart Lipton and his architectural adviser Ricky Burdett. Read the full article at bdonline….
image: view images
I couldn’t help poaching this image of Cedric Price’s 1960-61 project for a funpalace in East London. Read some more in a great article on Price over at things magazine.
Geoff Manaugh, of BLDGBLOG fame, is speaking this week at the Bartlett, wednesday the 23rd of Jan in the Darwin Lecture Theatre at 6:30 pm . Geoff wil be broaching such topics as artificial reefs, tectonic warfare, urban soundscapes, climate change, sovereign trapdoors, dungeon instancing, the future of surveillance and offshore utopias… sounds like a lot to pack in, but well worth the ride i imagine.
exhibition currently on at the ICA is an exhibition on Peter Hujar: 70’s - 80’s photographer who captured new york in its grittier days…
Foreign Office Architects has recieved planning permission for is Trinity EC3 commercial project for developer Beetham. The £700 million Trinity EC3 project comprises of three crystal-shaped buildings ranging from 12 to 22 storeys on a 1.3ha site in Aldgate. The renders below show the revised scheme after it was remodelled to avoid spoiling strategic views of the Tower of London. The physical model shows the project in its original form.
