City beats

 

Aug 30 

S.E.M.F. web (german only)

Stuttgart Electronic Music festival starts @ 2PM at the Freilichtbühne in Killesberg Park. After the spinning, a party will take place into the Congresszentrum B of the old Fair building...

Tickets cost 24 euro.

Timetable:

14:00-14:30: Ralph Burkhardt
14:30-14:45: Dundu
14:40-15:10: Beats Unlimited
15:10-15:30: Modenschau" 2nd Chance"
15:30-16:00: Ralph Burkhardt
16:00-17:00: Pupkulies & Rebecca live
17:00-19:00: DJ Karotte
19:00-20:00: Booka Shade live
20:00-22:00: Turntablerocker

Aftershowparty from 22h:

Body Movin' - Gregor Tresher
Johnny D live - Round Table Knights
Eric Walker -     Daniel Schoengeist
kriZe - Steve Nash -
Salvatore Donnarumma
Joe Direct - Ralph Burkhardt

 

Someone stop Zaha Hadid!!

The futuristic, plastic shoes that star architect Zaha Hadid designed for Melissa will be presented on the 18th of September, during the fashion week of London.
Now, i am not surprised if a shoes company calls a star architect for the job, plus Melissa counts collaborations with designers like Vivienne Westwood and Karim Rashid.
I can't just stop being surprised with why a star architect can't just say "Sorry i can't do this" but decides to sit down and transport his/her brand (because that's what we're talking about, right?!) into plastic shoes or who knows what else..
Beautiful animation, produced by Neutral (one of my favorites british architectural video makers) for a very nice design and a fashionable outcome..unfortunately only in the animation..the real ones are ugly!

Produced in limited edition, your new plastic shoes will cost approx 200 pounds (for you ONLY 255,95 euros)!
If you're worried about not being enviroment friendly, London Times Online reassures that "all products are created from sustainable sources and that the shoes can be disassembled and recycled too, making them ideal for vegans, environmentalists - and architects". [ha-ha, ok we deserved the subtle joke]
Meanwhile, since we make shoes like we make buildings, a huge mock-up model has being moved across Sao Paulo and placed into Melissa's showroom for an exhibition. As for massive trusses due on construction sites, traffic has being diverted or slowed down because of the building Zaha Hadid has just designed for your feet.
Speaking of which, are those who get their hands dirty Melissa's interns or Zaha's interns?

If this was a happy ending movie, a superhero would show up to save our feet from sweating and suffering into the malefic architect's shoes.

It's bikes time

Chicago Bicycle Film Festival is currently taking place at the Columbia City College..
The past year i had a lot of fun..and shorts were great! I wish i could attend!

Enjoy your bikes time... today in Chicago, in other 11 cities across the globe within the end of the year


Bicycle Film Festival

macaframa productions

bootleg_sessions

That white, sexy thing

In 2005, Wien-based Delugan Meissl won the competition for the new Porsche Museum on Porscheplatz in Stuttgart.
Today "that white sexy thing" - as a non architect friend referred to - is taking shape in Zuffenhausen, Porsche's headquarters area.
Here is a quick check!

:) this reflection can't be an just a coincidence, right??

"With our concept we wanted to translate the dynamism of Porsche into architecture. Our objective is to create a place in which sensory experiences can be felt by everybody - those qualities typical of Porsche such as power and passion." Roman Delugan
The opening of the new Porsche Museum is scheduled for the end of 2008.

Architecture Zoo: Weissenhof Siedlung

Who, What, Where

 

  Oud

  

 Le Corb

  

 Le Corb

  

Le Corb

  

Scharoun

  

 Mies

  

Yes, that's me in the picture!

  

 Kate and disembodiment (exhibit at the Weissenhof museum)

Stuttgart, 1927. The Werkbund presents a huge exhibition curated by Mies.

63 dwellings for 21 buildings. 16 Designers. 

11 Germans: Mies van der Rohe, Peter Berhens, Richard Docker, Walter Gropius, Ludwig

Hilberseimer, Hans Poelzig, Adolf Rading, Hans Scharoun, Adolf G. Schneck, Bruno
Taut, Max Taut.

5 Foreigners: Le Corbusier (France-Switzerland), Mart Stam

(Netherlands), Josef Frank (Austria), Jacobus Johannes Oud (Netherlads), Victor Bourgeois
(Belgium).

Die Wohnung opens on July 23. In the first three months it counted more than half a million visitors.  

Today, all the building survived to WWII are private residences. Only Le Corb house can be visited twice a year.. (not on this trip unfortunately).. Next spring, another walk!

In case of weekly architectural/other stress: see Maeda's Law #1

which has nothing to do with Less is More btw!

New local trends

pics by ilenia

With a recent ordinance, the city of Florence forbids to its residents (and tourists) to dispose their cigarettes on the public ground.
Of course no public ashtray showed up
So directly from Ilenia's bag, the latest trend in town: the portable ashtray. Note the details!
Must be as fashionable, vintage and stilysh as every of your accessories! She assures it doens't smell!

What's up on TV?

via Ecosistema Urbano TV

Transparency Strength: 2 projects

2 projects i have been/am following in the past months.

Museion [Bolzano, Italy] - opened in May.
KSV Architects, Berlin
" The building’s cubic shape is charged with strong visual impact, and the architecture itself is a vehicle of dialog: the front and rear facades are largely transparent, and place the city’s historical center in dialog with some of its more recent areas, as well as with the meadows that flank the Talvera River. The new Museion building presents itself as an equally physical and symbolic links between the two parts of the city.
At night these facades become highly suggestive surfaces for the projection of newly commissioned artworks".






New Ars Electronica Center [Linz, Austria] - works in progress
Treusch Architects, Wien
"A new, multilevel wing is being erected immediately adjacent to the existing building. The two structures will be wrapped in a backlit glass shell that creates a unitary architectural ensemble. This cityscape highlight will function as a transparent light sculpture in its own right and the architectural counterpart of the Lentos across the Danube. The eastern end curves upward and features steps/tiered seating; the space directly below this will house the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Generously dimensioned exhibition spaces will be located beneath the plaza. The expanded Ars Electronica Center will feature approximately 6,500 m2 of space, almost 4,000 m2 more than the current facility. Completion is set for the end of 2008, just in time for the kickoff of the Capital of Culture year".

Ozeaneum: the sea in Germany

I cannot avoid to restart my blog with one of Behnisch's projects!
The Ozeaneum in Stralsund (Northern Germany) has opened on July 11.
Celebrations have been great in the office for the largest European marine museum.






"The new Marine Museum in Stralsund is an open structure flooded from all sides by people and light, similar to the way stones in the sea near the water‘s edge are flooded by the surrounding water.
From every approach the changing alignment of the different parts of the building create a dynamism and varied form of the museum".

How long is a century?

Born on Dec 15, 1907, Oscar Niemeyer turns today 100 years old: a legendary life through images.

Palácio Gustavo Capanema (1936)

Church of São Francisco de Assis in Pampulha Complex (1940)

United Nations headquaters (1947)

São Paulo's Ibirapuera Park (1951)

Copan apartment building (1953-66)

Casas das Canoas (1952-53)

MAM Caracas (1954-55)

Brasilia Cathedral

Brasilia, National Congress of Brazil

Brasilia, Palacio de Alvorada (1958)

Brasilia, Brazil's National Museum

French Communist Party (1966)

Sede Mondadori (1966)

Casino Funchal, Madeira

Memorial Juscelino Kubitschek (1980)

Liberty Pantheon (1985)



Latin America Memorial (1987)

Memorial for the Indigenous People (1989)

Catedral Militar, Igreja de N.S. da Paz (late '80)

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (1996)

Oscar Niemeyer Museum (2002)

Auditorium of the Ibirapuera Park (2005)

Teatro popular de Niteroi (2007)

Estacao, Cienca, Cultura y Arte

In 2005, his projects "ESTAÇÃO CIÊNCIA, CULTURA e ARTES" was approved to be built at Joao Pessoa, the easternmost point of the Americas, at 34º 47' 38" west longitude and 7º 9' 28" south latitude.