On January 18th, 2014, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER…
…building somehow took me by complete surprise this afternoon – as I was exiting the cool West Third Street shop Chay – appearing across the street as a vision in…
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On May 17th, 2013, A DANISH THATCHED ROOF…
…spotted on the drive from our Edible Estate garden site back to Aarhus is worth screeching to halt and turning back to inspect and get a few photos…
On June 16th, 2012, THE 2012 SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION…
…in London’s Kennsington Park designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei – where I made my way for a quick visit this morning before the 11am…
On April 30th, 2012, PIECING TOGETHER LOS ANGELES: AN ESTHER MCCOY READER…
…is the book by Susan Morgan that finally takes on the legacy of this influential woman – often overlooked in the supposedly manly era of testosterone fueled modern…
On April 22nd, 2012, THE MSU BROAD MUSEUM…
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening soon (but not as soon as they thought while battling some construction and eccentrically shaped glass fabrication issues) and cool to…
On January 23rd, 2012, THE EAMES LIVING ROOM…
…(so familiar to me from regular pilgrimages during my early years in LA, when I trotted every out-of-town-guest for a visitation to the Pacific Palisades home of Charles…
On January 22nd, 2012, A CEDAR SOAKING TUB…
…and outdoor shower which I had been scheming for years to place in this strange previously unoccupied corner of the house overlooking the garden – was finally just…
On January 20th, 2012, NEUTRA VDL RESEARCH HOUSE…
…the great mid-century modernist residential landmark on the Silver Lake Reservoir now managed by Cal Poly Pomona, hosted small reception tonight (by architect Francois Perrin for French artist Xavier…
On December 11th, 2011, ‘HOME WORK: HANDBUILT SHELTER’…
…the super charming 2004 survey of hand made homes (adobe, bark, barns, bottles, camps, canvas, floating, geodesics, green-roofs, mobile, mud, sandbags, straw, stone, tiles, timber, tiny, tipis, thatch, treetops, yurts…) from all over – including…
On December 6th, 2011, LEFTOVER PRINCETON BUILDING MATERIALS…
…from slate pavers to gothic finials and concrete culverts to steel beams – collected, organized, and saved for future use by a thoughtful facilities manager – cover a…
On October 27th, 2011, A MINNESOTA URBAN WOODLAND TEEPEE…
…is just what every little kid around here needs to escape to – out the back door during those cabin fever winter days – and today I helped…
On October 26th, 2011, BREUER AND POTTERY AT SAINT JOHN’S…
…today started with a visit to the studio of Richard Bresnahan, where we drank delicious green tea out of his earthy sumptuous cups and teapot (similar to the…
On October 22nd, 2011, ŁÓDŹ TOWER BLOCKS AND VEGETABLE MARKETS…
…oppressive and quaint, global and local, dominating and warm, standing side by side, on the same street, duking it out.
On October 20th, 2011, ‘AVIAN ARCHITECTURE’…
…is the awesome new book – I just borrowed from my brother for some inspiring travel reading – by Peter Goodfellow from Princeton University Press all about the…
On October 14th, 2011, THE ANNUAL SERPENTINE PAVILLION…
…the most elegant, austere, and simple yet in the series – designed this year by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf in London’s Kensington…
On October 12th, 2011, OPENING EVENT FOR ANIMAL ESTATES 8.0: LONDON…
…is tomorrow night! ANIMAL ESTATES LONDON HQ: URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES at ARUP Phase 2, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ, October 13th, 2011 – January 20th, 2012…
On October 6th, 2011, BUDAPEST’S ÓBUDA ESTATE…
…Soviet Housing blocks, where experimental and innovative residential designs for the masses were tested out during the 1960’s before being constructed across the country, was the destination of…
On October 5th, 2011, BUDAPEST’S WEKERLE TELEP…
…the delightful utopian Garden City-inspired suburban development with a rural village-like feel, featuring a diversity of housing types in a lively mix of regional Hungarian styles and motifs…
October 4th, 2011, DEN HAAG STUDENT WORKSHOPS…
…continued today with the students from the art academy in Den Haag completing their versions of Composted Constructions – transforming scavenged domestic cast-offs into creations that accommodate plants,…
On October 3rd, DEN HAAG PROJECT PLANTING…
…and student workshopping took over Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld project site today, where I groggily arrived from the airport for a day of planting installations and working with students…