April 7, 2013
Superb modern chair by Eileen Gray, featured in a Guardian list this this week. It’s the Transat Chair (1925-30).
“The Transat chair is from the late 1920s, when Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand were forging in tubular steel assertive icons of the machine age.
A small selection of architectural photographs by Vancouver photographer Krista Jahnke. Trained as an architect at Carleton University, Jahnke also has a BFA in photography from Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
March 17, 2013
George Norris, the artist who made what is arguably Vancouver’s most famous piece of public art—a giant steel crab in front of the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium—has died in Victoria.
The largest clear-span wooden building in the world was built as a U.S. military air station hangar in 1942 to house six blimps. It is now the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.
February 21, 2013
A screenshot from Я на народе!. Try for yourself; go to the site and run your cursor over the kaleidoscope.
Sorry, another post on politics, not design (but see About). And this is one that will annoy my more partisan friends, though perhaps not as much as partisanship is annoying me.
February 17, 2013
Via designboom. In a “day of anger,” unemployed construction workers hit by Italy’s recession stage brilliant protest outside Milan’s Stock Exchange. For more photos see link.
Everybody works but the vacant lot, Henry George as quoted by Fay Lewis
This is a parody artwork at Vancouver’s 221A Artist-Run Centre, parodying the “Micro Loft” building being erected next door to it in the current lightning-fast condo land rush taking place in Chinatown.
February 14, 2013
On Thursday, February 14, Business in Vancouver ran a story detailing how the editor of a high-profile blog was being paid by a real estate marketing company to write about living in Vancouver’s pricey Olympic Village, without disclosing the fact to readers.
February 13, 2013
Lyrebird imitating construction work, Adelaide Zoo. Sound of the city, played back.
