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The past month or so has seen the publication of a series of startling, apocalyptic Op-Eds, causing quite a stir amongst architects and critics alike, and with President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening, we feel compelled to take stock of the debate in our domain. In mid-December, The New York Times kicked…
The frustrations of turning on a traditional ceiling fan may include (but are not limited to) the fo llowing scenario: Tug the light. The light comes on. Oh, you tugged the wrong string. Tug the other string. Nothing happens. Tug it again twice and the speed is too low. Tug it again once and the speed…
How do you become the world’s largest provider of real estate services? Not by merely brokering tran sactions, according to Georgia Collins. “At our best, we’re like city planners,” the CBRE senior managing director says of her work heading the western US division of CBRE’s Workplace Strategy practice. “Our focus is on helping clients make better…
The controversy surrounding the opening of the landmark Philharmonie concert hall in the French capi tal was typically Parisian in its nature, evoking polarized opinions aplenty. The epicenter was (and, to the extent that the building remains unfinished, is) a clash between state-owned and private organizations, with a hefty dose of public indignation from one of…
This week, the Wall Street Journalpicked up on an impressive report from the Council on Tall Buildin gs and Urban Habitat [PDF], distilling the record-breaking stats down to the finding that the completion of 97 skyscrapers (defined as buildings of 200m or taller) in 2014 far outpaced the previous year, in which 71 skyscrapers were completed.…
Africa’s tallest tower is not what you might expect. Ponte Tower in Johannesburg is a hulking concrete cylinder that is about as scary as a building can be. Its round courtyard is some 54 stories tall, and tops out at over 560 feet. This tube to the sky is something out of a science fiction…
Have you heard of "the alley behind the marketplace?" It is one of those neglected places tucked beh ind the mercantile mainstream, plagued with the odor of failure, struggles, nighttime dreads, with a pathway leading to the "palace". It is the field "behind Vista" in Blue Velvet, a small lane in Inland Empire and the garbage area behind Winkie's diner in Mulholland Drive.
Lazy, coddled, narcissistic. Over-sensitive. Smartphone-obsessed. Popular media has relished brandin g millennials (the generation born roughly between the ’80s and the early aughts) in such broad and scathing terms, a practice easily rejected as clickbait — that is, unless you attended the Consumer Electronics Show last week. That’s where I watched a Whirlpool representative call her…
Leave it to the Brits to come up with something so funny and true that it ends up being a little ter rifying. Austerity is an update of Monopoly, but instead of robber barons and railroads, there are global financiers and the Shard. It is a fitting parody of the classic Parker Bros board game that…