I really wanted to embed this video by Diana Wesser but it is disabled for embedding so you’ll just have to follow the link to youtube. Called Dancing Around Architect 1: inside the frame, it is part of a series with 2: office and 3: graffiti, but I think one is best.

Wesser is a media-performance-artist-choreographer working out of Leipzig. She has recently completed Movements of Lindenau / Ausschnitte a study of urban spaces through dance.

OK, so this one is doing the rounds at the moment, so pretty much old news, and it’s not really about architecture and design either - but just so funny, especially given that they are a ‘real’ party, who actually contested the recent Reykjavik City Council elections, and won 6 of the 15 seats. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve probably all seen this by now, but if you haven’t, it is that classic Simpson’s episode…

I can’t find a better online version, but here you go anyway (click on the image below to get to the video page…)

From the “How to architect” series.

The guy seems a little weird (well, quite a lot actually), but I thought this might be a nice bit of Friday afternoon edification…

…not to be taken too seriously of course… Read the rest of this entry »

3XN, UN Studio and Jan Gehl (advisors) waterfront development - “a new urban quarter” - no, not here in Wellington, unfortunately(?), but in Aarhus, Denmark…

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What do you think…?

Here’s a beaut music video - thanks to MD for unsubtly reminding of my slackness in the (so-called) video of the week!!  The embed function in You-tube has been disabled so you’ll need to follow the link yourselves …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6X9fLLp0Y

There’s a paucity of architectural Christmas videos on the web - surprise surprise … but here’s a little nostalgia, good-will, and the trauma of reality - yes watch until the very end …

Merry Christmas everyone …