he recently opened a store "L.A.Eyeworks" havent had a chance to see the design much, but theres pics floating around online

he designed LA Eyeworks. he doesn't own it. just to clarify alfredocheese's post.

from the gallery

ahh there is the picture... "designed" i meant, as well.

(interior shot)

yuck...

yeah, and it looks more impressive in pictures...

gyroscopic horizons is a great book.
i have never seen renderings like his.
and then there is the physical models.
i would venture to say that denari tries
harder than any architect that has never
really built anything.
that interior shot is
crazy. it looks like
something out of
the jetsons.
-n0010

He has a project or two in Japan under construction, a bank storefront and the first level + grounds of an office building on one of the last open lots in Tokyo. Also, he's completing a office interior + facade for Endeavor (a talent agency in Beverly Hills). Also of note is the mobile performance space for some European visual arts collective. This information is from his recent lecture at UCLA.

He lectured here at Ohio State about a month and a half ago. Frankly, I was fairly unimpressed by the lecture and he couldn't really explain his own efforts very well. Most of the students and faculty I spoke to afterwards were left wanting a little more substance.

The office interior for Endeavor is finished and was featured in the last issue of ArchRecord.

Heres a link.

whatever you guys say, i have to admit that i quite like his built works. Though i admit that the detailing might turn out to be bad in the end, his works hold up the promises of his take on architecture.

And i like the website too - very clean and well designed

I saw the Endevor project through the LA Forum and loved it. Perhaps Neil's best exploration of "banal space". I wanted to grab one of the lingering executive assistants and shag her right there on the cold tile floor.

From what I hear he is doing pretty well at UCLA- perhaps healing from all of the wounds being the director of SCI-Arc dealt him.

haha. The Endeavor does look like a great project. What's his built total up to now? 4 interiors? I've always liked denari, just would like to see some 'ground up' from him.

The High LIne bldg. will be ground up.

I think Denari has always been a point of reference for students and also practitioners. Perhaps he doesn't have many projects completed under his belt but many other architects have taken his ideas of continuous surface and use it as "precedent".
Some examples:
Diller Scofidio...oh yes and Renfro


Thomas Leeser


Personally, ever since undergrad days back in '95 I loved Denari's work, and continue do so...but I have to admit his lectures aren't that great.

I always liked him when he was at SCI-Arc. He has the personality of a pet rock, but he used to come around the studios on lecture nights to drum up attendance.

I think if he finds the right developer/sugardaddy he'll probably build more (at least in LA). Afterall, if worked for Moss.

i believe several of the projects listed in the currents section of his website are pretty much in the bag at this point and will be built. i think the firm's relationship with the mitsubishi bank is also likely to yield a number of projects, although i don't know whether these will be more facades, or interiors, or what.

i would agree that neil's lectures can be somewhat opaque, but he is fairly compelling as a studio critic. i did enjoy his chafingly dry sense of humor as well.

I agree with TSCOMG. The dude is pretty fucking funney.

The Japanese love Neil. I think they understand completely what he is trying to do and appreciate it for what it is- vacumm space. Like Takahasi Murakami (SP i know) Neil understands this concept of "flatness" and "slickness" in contemporary culture. His work exudes a kind of "Pop" banality that Japanese culture has exploited with Kai KiKi and other anemae influenced art.