On the Radar
BUILDing
The work coming out of the graypants studio just about knocked the drink out of our hands it is so refreshing, raw and well, just plain cool. These guys are thinking, drawing, making and promoting; they’re doing good architect work. Get your eyeballs on this stuff and go check out their site.
-thanks to Seth
If you’re half the design-geeks we are, you’ll love the orthogonal wood furniture at Marmol Radziner.
-thanks to Jeremy
PHOTOGRAPHing
The photo series of coffee cup lids hits home with us Seattleites. Nicely done.
This clever You Tube entry covers Every Painting in the MoMA on 10 April 2010.
-thanks to Angela
The photography work of Matthew Carbone is quietly beautiful and cleverly uses the cameras focus as an important compositional tool.
-thanks to Matthew
As much as we’d like to forget that the 70’s ever occurred, the Eurobad site provides some very good laughs. We’re the miscalculations of fashion and interior design really that bad?
-thanks to atomicindy
DIAGRAMing
If you know anything about the BUILDblog you know that we’re crazy about beautiful diagrams. Check out the Guardian for some striking graphic information about war.
-thanks to Angela
The New York Times Magazine ran a smashing series of photographs digitally modified to illustrate the Dow Jones, Lehman Brothers, Nasdaq and more.
The Scale of the Universe presented via scroll bar technology is quite cool.
-thanks to Jeremy
The Planes vs Volcanoes diagram is a simple, arresting visual that gives perspective to recent world events.
-thanks to Angela
ARCHITECTing
The work of Seattle based DeForest Architects impressed us with it’s northwest sensibility, design forward aesthetic and the fact that they give kudos to their clients on their website. Nicely done.
-thanks to Mike
There’s hope for Seattle yet as the new low-rise building code is allowing for real town-homes now; the Fourth and Roy building is an especially good example.
-thanks to Chris
With cities becoming more accepting of back yard cottages and the fact that nobody can afford to buy a new house anymore, competitions like the Design Challenge for Sustainable Backyard Cottages are getting some good attention. And while we’re only competitive when it comes to martinis and pomme frites, we will be keeping our eyes on this one.
-thanks to Mike
MAKing
Nikki Graziano is a student, a photographer, a mathematician, and among other things she has a website that we think is the bomb.
-thanks to Andrée-Anne
LEARNing
We’re all about architecture schools that get to the nitty-gritty, roll-up their sleeves and teach how to build buildings. The University of Austin at Texas School of Architecture has done something extraordinary with their Material Lab which allows anyone to search products based on all sorts of criteria and what you get is a list of products with the relevant material properties. Mad, crazy respect goes out to U of T.
-thanks to Brian
PAINTing
Recently we met up with Scott Taylor, a Seattle artist who’s painstakingly detailed work had us drooling all over ourselves. If you ever have team BUILD over for drinks and extremely hot art – make sure and supply bibs, will ya.
PROMOTing
The 0 Star Hotel in Switzerland has created a brilliant marketing campaign with their bare and beautifully boring images.
-thanks to Swissmiss
INVENTing
The recently released Pencil Printer has us architects curious, very, very curious.
-thanks to Lee
DYing
As we’re working through the design of an urn we’ve been looking to columbariums, mausoleums and crematoriums for inspiration as well as facts. The Woods Columbaria was recently introduced to us and we couldn’t be more excited to visit it as some point (while we’re still alive preferably)
-thanks to Stephanie
BLOGing
Hands down, our favorite blog lately has been Life of an Architect. It’s a solid discussion about the design industry from an author who’s well versed in the realities of architecture. It’s also got a dose of humor thrown in for good measure. While the blog is chalk-full of fantastic posts our fave so far is My Secret Life as a “Hooker-Architect”. Brilliant.
-thanks to Bob
TOURing
Schindlers Buck House near San Francisco is opening up for tour on April 25th through MOCA and Country Club Projects. Send us some photos if you attend.
-thanks to Erik
Happy Monday, now get out there and start DOing
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By Madison, April 26, 2010 @ 8:29 pm
I LOVE the “Every Painting in MOMA” clip. Just beautiful.
By Eastvold Furniture, April 26, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
Love the eurobad. I have been reading your blog for a long time now and finally felt like I should leave a comment and tell you all how much I appreciate your variety. Keep it up.
By Build LLC, April 26, 2010 @ 9:13 pm
Great designs Eastvold Furniture, we like what you’re up to. thanks for the kudos.
By Richter, April 26, 2010 @ 9:14 pm
Those recycled cardboard lamps from graypants are gorgeous. I wonder if the material gets hot with the use of an incandescent bulb?
By Junker, April 26, 2010 @ 10:01 pm
Wow thanks guys!! I read your blog daily and did a double-take when I saw this just now! Much appreciated.
Life of an Architect is beautiful.
Richter, thank you for the kind words. We’re fortunate the material breathes well enough to keep the heat down, and all of our cardboard is treated with a nontoxic fire retardant.
By Tristan, April 27, 2010 @ 6:51 am
I can only assume, in regards to your Urn work, that you’re familiar with Carlo Scarpa’s work? In particular the Brion-Vega Cemetery.
By Build LLC, April 27, 2010 @ 7:32 am
@ Tristan – our Scarpa books hold high rank in the BUILD library. Good call on the Brion.
By Samuel, April 27, 2010 @ 7:37 am
Thank you for once again keeping me current. I know that this is more of an Architecture resource, but it continues to strike me as the best cultural aggregator around. And those diagrams are brilliant.
By Keiser, April 27, 2010 @ 7:54 am
Thanks BUILDblog – another perfectly good Tuesday morning down the drain.
By Jared, April 27, 2010 @ 10:20 am
I’m going to piggy-back on my buddy Tristans comment and assume you’ve put your eyes on the Treptow crematorium in Berlin by Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank. Very very powerful space. Just kicks you in the chest on the way in…love it.
By Bob Borson, April 27, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
Thanks for including me in your list, I think that’s awesome. This is a great feature, when I re-purpose it on my site, I’ll give you credit…
By NYSee, April 27, 2010 @ 3:16 pm
Cool coffee lid composition. It reminds me of my ongoing frustration about how the coffee lids in Manhattan are poorly designed – they always dribble coffee all over my newly pressed shirts. Of all the places in the world, you’d think NYC could tackle the coffee cup lid.
By Build LLC, April 27, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
@ Jared – indeed the Treptow Cremetorium is a spectacular space. We first saw it in the Æon Flux film – which shows it off very nicely. Kudos.
By Build LLC, April 27, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
@NYSee – know friggin kidding. For as much as we love NYC, they need to figure out a better formula for coffee -from the beans to the lid. We may need to have an intervention with the big city on our next trip…
By mike, April 27, 2010 @ 5:12 pm
Will second Treptow Kematorium – phenomenal.
If you liked those coffee lids…
Check this amazing little (now defunct) coffeeshop by LTL architects:
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/interiors/archives/0409iniAni-1.asp
http://www.altproject.com/vector/ltl-ia.php
and is it just me, or does that marmol raziner table riff off don judd?
By Baucontainer-Bauer, April 30, 2010 @ 10:57 am
This design is so futuristic. I really love it. Great post!