This week we release a relatively spontaneous, and completely silly, look at news and features recently published on Archinect. We also turn Ken's famous last 2 questions, "What are you reading and listening to" onto ourselves.
Discussed during the show:
The French Laundry gets a $10 million Michelin-starred revamp from Snøhetta
Snøhetta unveils “Svart”, the Arctic Circle's first energy-positive hotel
Snøhetta designs controversial black crystalline U.F.O for Norwegian artist + Discussion in Forum
Employees at Apple's new headquarters keep walking into its famed glass walls
Snøhetta's much-discussed underwater restaurant breaks ground
"Probably the most creative person in the world" — The New Yorker profiles Thomas Heatherwick
Architecture Billings Index kicks new year off strong with highest January score since 2007
70-story wooden skyscraper proposed for Tokyo could become world's tallest
Brand New Reviews Logos of the 10 Most-Followed Firm Profiles on Archinect
From the Ground Up & Fellow Fellows & Small Studio Snapshots
Donna is currently listening to Doughboys and reading Four Walls and a Roof.
Ken is currently listening to Shannon & the Clams and reading Four Walls and a Roof & October & Masque Lancaster/Hanover by John Hejduk.
Paul is currently listening to Django Django and Dead Obies, and just finished reading Canada and just started reading The Circle.
Listen to episode 117 of Archinect Sessions, “Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound”.
7 Comments
very enjoyable session. agreed with Donna (as usual) most of the time especially about apple and the heatherwick stairs (no saving graces IMNSHO) So many topics, discussed with intelligence and good spirit :) Tx, Rich
Aw, thanks Rich! It was such a rambling discussion but we all, including you, love to talk about architecture!
Another good one, cheers!
Thank you Samuel!
When I see the Heatherwick project I can't forget Tilted Arc, a project by Serra that lasted only 8 years before it was removed (read: destroyed) and replaced some years later. I have this image of people getting bored with Vessel, eventually removing it for the next folly. Oddly enough, I'm imagining that this will be in part because the surrounding buildings will be so difficult to whimsically alter the public sculpture(s) will bear all the pressure of architectural fashion.
Serra's Tilted Arc in NYC was removed because the public HATED it.
The Wiki page on it is a good read.
I realize that. ‘Reminded of” and “this is just like” are not the same thing.
My point is that time will tell...
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