i personally have never heard of anyone who committs to such small projects.

would love to hear from those who know more

ok, i think architects are just confined to skycrapper, residential, school, museum projects.

seriously, no one heard of skateshop/ indie art galleries / indie fashion stores commissions?

soulkiet ... soulkiet ... soulkiet ...

it's a Sunday ... everyone's outside ... relax .. check up after 4-5 hours ... or maybe tommorow .. someone will respond ...

sporadic...lol
soul, i think that the main problem with these things is that they tend to run on a diy ethic that prevents them from outsourcing...the skate scene tends to be very creative, and i think they would probably have a go at designing it themselves.

thanx bigness for the insight.


wat about indie art galleries and fashion shops. same concept?

do u know wat opportunities are there for architects and skateboarders/indie pop artists to collaborate?

thnax

btw, did i chat with u online b4?

yeah, same applies with indie galleries i would imagine.
ideally you would need to be part of that scene to be involved in the project. the best thing is to find out where that particular group of people hang out and try to establish some kind of connection. i don't think they would be running competitions or advertising on ICON, if you know what i mean

not a skateshop, but a public skatepark. designed by an architect. as a skateboarder, i think it looks like it will be pretty spectacular.

Not a skatepark, but an installation in an art gallery.

Now you've seen it, don't bite their shit.

skate park design will soon be turning into the 'plaza' design. weeee

is it "soul" or "so u like it"?

actually this stuff does happen sometime. mostly small design/build offices get tapped for it..but generally these are totally the realm of the DIY. actually (and somewhat sad to say) the DIY thing is probably what makes some of these spaces fun and special...architects tend to get a bit too glossy with it..why is that? it's kinda like when an architect "designs" a restaurant or bar and suddenly it completely loses that great feeling of the "found" treasure....

Yo, architects designed Undefeated and Supreme and X-Large and Union in Los Angeles. Word.

cases in point.
no, just kidding. those are all awesome but totally are "gentrified" versions of more interesting DIY spaces. i was just thinking alot about all this today while walking around red hook and watching all the collapsing factories and ghost town streets that i used to love become occupied, bulldozed and commodified....for me it always comes down to this weird feeling at the heart of the modern concept of "development"...where everything you love...everything that is exciting...must be destroyed in order to "save it". i know that the people who started trying to develop red hook wanted to do so to allow others to experience it, but in opening up the experience the destroy the very heart of what it is that they're trying to save.
kinda like king kong, or something like that...i love that line from adrien brody at the end in describing jack black's character...
"i've never seen anyone so good at destroying what he loves"...or something like that.

anti-social skateshop in vancouver (I think) was featured in an arch mag when it was finished, and HUF in SF was done by a small firm that had a few skateshops in their portfolio if you want to look them up.

Iain Borden, head boy at the Bartlett wrote Skateboarding, Space and the City;:Architecture and the Body.

It might give you the right kind of verbal kickflips to sell out to NikeTownTM. Cool.

thanks mn psy. do u skate?

Slkt, I never really had the balls for skateboarding.

However I ride my [url=http://fixedgeargallery.com/2005/dec/MichaelMaclean.htm[fixed wheel bicycle[/url] like she was the star in a porn movie. A really hot, sweat, grease and sunshine, filthy one.

Or like this:

Slkt, I never really had the balls for skateboarding.

However I ride my fixed wheel bicycle like she was the star in a porn movie. A really hot, sweat, grease and sunshine, filthy one.

psy, do you have a camo messenger bag? i think i overtook you a coupla days ago.

I think soulikeit is a scottish sheri24...

I think Barbara Bestor in LA does a bit of this work, I think she did all the X-Large stores for the Beasties. I've heard of plenty of architects designing skateshops, art galleries, and indie fashion stores. I just don't remember their names....

is a landscape arch. that does skateparks... out of santa cruz.

sick darkslide.

joed- everyone knows that the only REAL skatepark in philly is (was) love park.