Massive Attack’s new Splitting the Atom clip has some great CG eyecandy for the digital/imaginary/fictional/dystopian architecture buffs out there. Enjoy!
The fixed moment of the catastrophe. The instant the atom bursts on the beast, the world freezes into a vitrified chaos. And we go through the slick and glistening disaster of a humanity in distress. Man or beast? The responsibility of this chaos is still to be determined. — Edouard Salier on “Splitting the Atom”
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The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius is excited to launch the exhibition Building Memory that is responsible for commissioning new moving image works from four of Europe’s most renowned artists. Building Memory is based on four films about architecture, monuments, and community.
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The Latvian ghost town formerly known as Skrunda-1, a remnant of the Soviet’s secret cities was reported by AP to have been sold at an unusual auction to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million. The town, built in the 1980s around a Soviet-era radar station, housed about 5,000 people during the Cold War. It was abandoned over a decade ago after the Russian military withdrew from Latvia following the Soviet collapse. Take a look at some of the buildings left behind and a demolition vid after the jump. read more…
Si en alguna ocasión cuestionabamos el grado de responsabilidad medioambiental que debe asumir el arte en comparación con la arquitectura, he aquí un perfecto ejemplo en el que se intenta unir lo estético con lo ecológico, el arte y la sostenibilidad. El Land Art Generator Initiative ha anunciado los tres emplazamientos de las futuras “centrales estéticas”.
From a recently published post at BLDGBLOG we were driven to the Prix Pictet shortlisted artist [photographers] for the 2009 award. The Prix Pictet tries to answer the question Can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050?
The CCA [Canadian Centre for Architecture] presents the exhibition Take Note. A selection of pivotal moments in the ongoing relationship between writing and architecture. The exhibition explores the intellectual dimension of architecture, specifically the ways in which architects visualise their ideas and transcribe them in their notes, producing writings that contribute to cultural advancement and transform architecture by tying it to developments in various spheres.
From the author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Tale Moderne, comes a new architectural spin on another classic kids’ fable: The Three Little Pigs. Illustrator and former New York Times Op-Ed art director Steven Guarnaccia tells the story through the building techniques of Corbusier, Wright and Gehry, who demonstrate the structural properties of glass, stone, mortar and brick in fending off the Big Bad Wolf.
Our friends from mateoarquitectura just sent us their last project: Residence of the Spanish Embassy in Canberra, Australia. The site forms part of this system of lines and curves. They therefore envisioned the new official residence with a layout in the form of a countercurve that dialogues with the sequence of rings organizing the map of the city.
The makers of Citizen Architect, previously called Snakebit, about the life and work of Samuel Mockbee have just annouced its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Texas this March and its scheduled national broadcast on PBS (American public broadcasting) this summer. We can’t wait to see it!
Jordi Badia gana el Premio Ciutat de Barcelona de arquitectura con el Museo Can Framis
Barcelona, 4 de febrero de 2010. Hoy se ha hecho pública la concesión del Premio Ciutat de Barcelona de Diseño, Arquitectura y Urbanismo al estudio BAAS de Jordi Badia por el Museo Can Framis en el 22@. El jurado, integrado por Carme Pinós (presidenta), Zaida Muxí, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Oriol Pibernat y Mónica Gili, ha decidido, por unanimidad, conceder el Premio de Diseño, Arquitectura y Urbanismo al Museo Can Framis de la Fundació Vila Casas por “haber creado un espacio público íntimo en un contexto urbano desmembrado y en transformación, y por una acertada articulación entre lo viejo y lo nuevo, sin caer en tópicos restauracionistas”.
