Janelle Zara
In 2011, Foster + Partner’s Spaceport America opened in the New Mexican desert with some wild fanfar e: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson propelled down the side of the building, champagne in hand, rockets soaring in the air, to christen the $220-million launchpad of the world’s first civilian spaceflight. Four years down the line and nary…
There’s a popular fixation on waterfront architecture lately. A plus-shaped pool installed in the mi dst of New York’s East River, along with an artificial wave pool in Melbourne’s Victoria Harbour, and other amusement park projects like it have city-dwellers raving about the wonders of civic architecture like never before. Seaside construction, sadly, isn’t all about…
Do not adjust your screen. These are the true colors of Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann Desert House, the emblem of Palm Springs’s own exuberant brand of modernism, as they’re rarely captured — in the middle of the night. Embedded in the popular imagination through sun-bleached photography, the renowned midcentury homes of Palm Springs — being…
Breaking Presidents’ Day news: Government surveyors have determined that, as of this morning, the Washington Monument’s official height is now 554 feet, 7 and 11/32 inches — almost 10 inches shorter than the height recorded upon its completion in 1884, 555 feet, 5 and 1/8 inches, when it held the world record for tallest structure…
Today is President’s Day, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s annual posthumous joint birthday b ash. Anticipating an excess of free time on this grand federal holiday, Lego recently launched a timely, patriotic solution: Brick-lovers can celebrate by building a tiny plastic replica of the Lincoln Memorial, the latest monument to join the brand’s Landmark Architecture kit…
While art and architecture often find themselves at odds (see: MoMA v. Tod Williams Billie Tsien or Frank Lloyd Wright v. art), Ellsworth Kelly has always been an architect’s artist. “Architects are usually the first people who understand my work,” the abstract artist — and TWBT and Peter Zellner collaborator / well-known Frank Gehry pal…
A stay at the forthcoming Henn-na Hotel of Japan’s Huis Ten Bosch amusement park is going to feel li ke a stroll down the aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show. Charming, multi-lingual robots called Actroids (presumably a portmanteau of “actress” and “android” — not to be confused with an irritating medical condition) will check you in…
Billionaire’s row, a stretch of midtown Manhattan now dotted with exorbitantly priced, starchitect-d esigned residential highrises, has officially arrived with a sky-high record: a condo in Christian de Portzamparc’s One57 recently sold for $100 million, the highest sum in the city’s history. Indeed, international billionaires are currently pricing out the mere millionaires who formerly called the…
LG Chem, the chemical branch of the South-Korean tech conglomerate, has just made two major breakthr oughs in OLED technology: They’ve begun mass-producing the world’s largest super-slim OLED panel, .88 millimeters (.03 inches) thick with a surface of 320-by-320 millimeters (12.5-by-12.5 inches), and selling engineering samples of a new super-flexible plastic OLED panel, perhaps the bendiest…