Diller Scofidio Renfro's First U.S. building ICA Boston

Diller Scofidio Renfro's First U.S. building
The Blur pavilion in Switzerland was just too easy to model! Now hopefully we have a building design we can tackle in the modelling course... Also referred to here

SPACES; Museum Sparkles; Bayshore Looks Fake

SPACES; Museum Sparkles; Bayshore Looks Fake
In amongst this description of how a waterfront mall is 'Theme Park Retro' is a reference to the ' cool and contemporary Discovery World' building by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson. Potentially another modelling opportunity?

Peter Cook

Peter Cook
And I thought Peter Cook had switched firms and gone to work with the great architect in the sky! Certainly did not expect to find him writing 'I told you so' pieces for online magazines.
It's refreshing to hear someone who is suggesting that borrowing from the theories of other disciplines has limited use in one's own discipline (linguistics for Strauss/de Saussure ideas of a fundamental 'deep structure' to architectural language; Deleuze and company for some idea of - well what exactly - analogies about time / experience and the unfolding of space?; Derrida for an obscurely worded deconstruction of the 'text' - whatever text is in architecture, surely not just the writing about architecture? - where the understanding of the philosophy cannot be disentangled from the understanding of the philosopher;) However, it's hard to see this as other than an argument that the craft tradition of sitting at the feet of the 'prominent architect' in class, are employed by them and then eventually strike out on their own to become the next gen's 'prominent architect'.

I have always understood that the idea of a university education was to challenge, to advance, to analyse and to develop the status quo - not merely to perpetuate it. The institution provides the distance from practice to allow this to occur. Sitting at the feet of the 'prominent architect' is more likely to develop clones. Still: well worth the read.

Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver, Colorado | MCA

Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver, Colorado | MCA
According to the MCA the proposed design by British architect David Adjaye is "...at once bold and refined...". The image they are selling it on is not quite the Daniel Libeskind Denver Art Museum which "... looks as though a volcano has exploded with an immense pile of ship parts, jewel-faceted boulders, and giant titanium pterodactyl beaks." Denver is apparently advancing an image of cultural sophistication to belie the cowboy image of the past. Another building to find more out about for modelling?

Cultural District of Saadiyat Island - Abu Dhabi - Architecture - - New York Times

Cultural District of Saadiyat Island - Abu Dhabi - Architecture - - New York Times
All the usual suspects. In the words of the article: "... celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid." but a new locale: Abu Dhabi. Definitely worth exploring through 3D modelling.

The New, New Museum

The New, New Museum


Another museum building for New York. Designed by Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA of Japan. Looks like one that could be really interesting to model. Hard to tell from this web site, and their own web site is a useless place marker. However, the new book, may be a good source of modelling info.