Collecting the most important news of the past week – that is, from the recording date's perspective of March 30th, the day before Zaha Hadid's sudden death – this episode brings stories on: the winning below-grade skyscraper (sinkscraper?) of eVolo's Skyscraper Competition; a long-lost Le Corbusier tapestry returning to the Sydney Opera House; another twist on co-habitation in the co-work startup, PodShare; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects taking "revenge" on Charles Moore's Hood Museum; and our future of eating sandwiches while robots do our work.
We'll discuss the late Dame Zaha Hadid's legacy on next week's podcast.
Listen to episode 58 of Archinect Sessions, "Last week’s architecture news. When it wasn’t so depressing.":
SHOWNOTES:
News pieces discussed:
The “Jerome” VIAmetris Mobile Mapping Technology Donna referenced: http://www.viametris.com/
Site plan of the Hood museum from Ken:
Our prior podcast interview with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: "Starts with me, ends with us": A conversation with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on Archinect Sessions Episode #22
Digging deeper into Jørn Utzon's Le Corbusier tapestry: "A Graphic Tyrist: Le Corbusier, Jorn Utzon and The Sydney Opera House 1957-1966" suggests it wasn't clear when Utzon commissioned the work whether it officially belonged to the Sydney Opera House. According to Blouin Art Info, "The tapestry was woven in France and delivered to Utzon’s home in Denmark in 1959. The architect hung it in his home with the intention of transferring it to the Opera House once the building was completed. But Utzon’s resignation from the Opera House project in 1966 ensured it never made it." Still hunting for how much (if anything) Utzon paid for it in 1959.
The myth underneath Manhattan: as it turns out, "the researchers found no correlation between the depth of bedrock and the likelihood of a skyscrapers construction (their study defined a skyscraper as a building at or above 18 stories, which was tall for the time when the city’s two business districts developed between 1890 and 1915.)" from Rutgers, corroborated by Observer.
Other news pieces mentioned:
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Relative to the Podshare discussion,as well as the ongoing discussion of unpaid internships coming after the academic experience of living dorms that are essentially luxury apartments, here is a nice article in which the students at University of Kentucky talk about traditional, communal dorms building a good sense of community - and guess what, trustees, they're also cheaper to build!
http://www.kykernel.com/features/students-speak-in-defense-of-older-dorms/article_a7c1cccc-0a7e-11e6-94c6-6bb4e34383dd.html
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