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BURST*008 at MOMA
Imagine if your house came delivered to you in over a 1,000 precisely-cut jigsaw-like pieces. This is the idea that New York-based, Jeremey Edmiston of System Architects and Douglas Gauthier of Gauthier Architect had for NYC Museum of Modern Art’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition, when they created BURST*008. Combining architecture and technology, the home was computer-designed and its pieces milled to the exact dimensions to fit together like a 3-D puzzle. The pieces Read more [...]
Continue reading...Home Delivery Walkthrough: Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans
Monday, September 22, 2008
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_6cH6JXHU] Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Read more [...]
Continue reading...Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, now on view at MoMA
Monday, September 22, 2008
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApR17dyh50] Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier Read more [...]
Continue reading...NYLO Hotels Selects Studios Architecture To Design The Loft
Monday, September 15, 2008
STUDIOS Architecture has been selected to design The Loft - the heart and soul of each NYLO hotel - for its location in Interlocken Technology Park, Broomfield, Colorado. Known for their ability to thoughtfully choreograph the guest experience, while combining functionality with inspiration, STUDIOS will help make the NYLO Interlocken stay unique and memorable. "We're excited to have STUDIOS Architecture leading our design team in Broomfield," said Michael Mueller, president, NYLO Hotels. "This Read more [...]
Continue reading...OMA has designs on the Big Apple
Monday, September 15, 2008
Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City. The 107m-tall building, on 23 East 22nd Street in the Flatiron District just off Madison Square, will include 18 residences within 24 residential floors, along with a screening room for the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a main lobby, pool and gym, all of which have been designed by OMA. “Mirroring the traditional New York setback, the building’s form is at once familiar and distinctive,” Read more [...]
Continue reading...REX Marks Its First Year
Monday, September 15, 2008
In May 2006, Joshua Prince-Ramus, then the partner-in-charge of Rem Koolhaas’s OMA office in New York, announced that he would leave the firm to begin his own practice. With business partner and fellow OMA alumnus Erez Ella he founded REX: an acronym, with some rhetorical license, for Ramus Ella Architects. The new firm would take with it all of OMA’s projects—excluding only Paul Milstein Hall at Cornell University—along with the entire OMA staff. OMA has since built itself back to roughly Read more [...]
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Monday, October 6, 2008
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