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…
America’s most famous architect of the late-20th century (extending as it has into the 21st) is Fran k Gehry; after all, stylistic eras rarely coincide exactly with the calendar’s measure of time. Now, one of his most audacious and long-awaited works, the fondation that opened to the public less than three months ago, finds itself in…
“They say nothing comes easy,” murmurs the protagonist in the opening sequence of the single most ri diculous promotional video for a building ever made, shooting to the top of the list of 11 other contenders. Indeed: Making a sensible advertisement for a luxury high-rise is almost impossible these days, it seems. British developer Redrow has…
20 Fenchurch Street — known by Londoners, not so affectionately, as the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ — has ruffle d more than a few feathers during its ungainly rise from the north bank of the Thames River. Its thuggish, lumbering form has been met with a tidal wave of derision from the U.K’s leading architecture critics, not to mention…
“How far apart should those ceiling shackles be? What dimensions did you want for that waterboard? A nd of course, I think it all looks best in black.” The relationship between architecture and ethics has always been a turbulent one, and debates over the moral responsibilities of our profession have reached fever pitch in recent times.…