Category: Comment

  • Urban conveniences: post-cellphone city spaces

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    I am one of those achronistic beings who doesn’t wear a watch, and doesn’t own a cell-phone. This perhaps means I have become particularly aware of the urban accessorizing, from which I often try to glean the time or a phone call from, which has undergone huge changes over the last 10-15 years in New…

  • Is architecture at odds with politics?

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    In a rare moment in April, I bought a copy of The Economist, but it was not the obvious architecturally related homeownership article which caught my eye – but rather it was pages 63 and 64, and an article titled: “There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician …”Well spotted – no architect in…

  • DCM and Cuisinaire

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    Following swiftly on from the post on Architecture and Lego, it seems that the connection between children’s toys and architectural design may be closer linked than is publicly acknowledged. Recent attendees at the NZIA Conference will have noticed a strong similarity between the design work of Denton Corker Marshall and the children’s cognitive learning tool:…

  • Archi-lego

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    Ah finally its here! The ultimate in no-need-for-your-own-imagination toys for kids (children are so much dumber today)… rather antithetical to the Lego tradition, but then when you can make Hogwarts, not to mention Sponge Bob why not the Guggenheim? Bring on Guggenheim Bilboa! I picked this up from overthenet blog, who are commenting on the…

  • Wistful windy thinking

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    Wet, windy, and wild weather.  Perhaps the only options are indoors, heat and comfort food.  But no  – there’s wacky architecture as well.  Yes we all know about the bizarre things architects do with wind turbines – but if not here’s a few …

  • Fetish or Fashion: architecture & shoes

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    Urban legend perpetrates the idea of an uncontrollable relationship between women and shoes.