Archinect - News 2013-05-25T05:07:43-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/52560265/jimenez-lai-s-three-little-worlds-now-open-at-the-architecture-foundation Jimenez Lai’s “Three Little Worlds” now open at the Architecture Foundation Alexander Walter 2012-06-27T21:47:00-04:00 >2012-06-29T13:44:39-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/8v/8vvl8717sbakhprg.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Remember Jimenez Lai's recent Kickstarter project, trying to turn his conceptual project Hefner/Beuys House into a reality at the Architecture Foundation in London? Well, it certainly worked out for him and his Chicago-based architecture practice Bureau Spectacular: the project got funded and the installation Three Little Worlds opened this week, just right on time for the London Festival of Architecture.</p></em><br /><br /><p> See more of the <em>Bureau Spectacular: Three Little Worlds</em> installation in this <a href="http://www.crane.tv/#video/v/211157094429-efe665be/Jimenez-Lai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a> on Crane.tv.</p> <p> Previously in the Archinect News: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/43739045/kickstart-hefner-beuys-house-by-jimenez-lai-by-jimenez-lai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstart: Hefner/Beuys House by Jimenez Lai</a> and <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/48466444/hefner-beuys-house-by-jimenez-lai-funded" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hefner/Beuys House by Jimenez Lai - FUNDED!</a></p> http://archinect.com/news/article/11410360/who-needs-walls-and-ceilings-when-you-live-in-a-phalanstery Who Needs Walls And Ceilings When You Live In A Phalanstery le bossman 2011-06-27T17:19:09-04:00 >2011-06-27T19:46:29-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/9v/9v28a0rm7pas2ukh.jpg" width="514" height="454" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Walls are so underutilized, just sitting there holding up the ceiling, while the floor does all the work of supporting everything that we do. Jiminez Lai of the Bureau Spectactular designed the Phalanstery Module, where all surfaces can be occupied. He designed it for a hypothetical zero gravity environment, but it appears to work on earth as well.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>