We’ve given our Bureau V website a little facelift, re-organized it a bit, and added some new projects. It’s not quite done, there will be some subtle tweaks here and there, but its already much better.
Updates
I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to post any work on this site. We have four new comissions underway, a jazz and classical concert hall in Brooklyn (site above), an artists retreat in the Nevada desert, an installation in Times Square and a pop-up store for Fashion Week. We’ve also got an upcoming show of new drawings at Espeis. I’m going to try to stay a bit more on top of this site along the way…
Ecco Eco Los Angeles
We recently finished the schematic design for another Ecco Eco project in LA. Like Ecco Eco NY, the building is intended to produce brand identity through the production of architecture that is sustainable, memorable, and proactive.
Integrating sustainable design elements into an ornamental patterned volume, the signature element of the building is a facade comprised of custom wind turbines that harness energy from passing winds as well as from wind produced by the building’s air displacement.
SSWTR Spring 2010
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Spring 2010
Still Life installation and the art of arranging objects to tell a story
with artwork and still life contributions from Amy Yao, Andrew Kuo, Bureau V, Chris Caccamise, David Carson, Darren Kraft, Gloria Baume ( Fashion Director Teen Vogue ) Judy Linn, Mika Tajima, Mike Mills & Miranda July, Naomi Nevitt, No Age, Sam Wilson, Sonnet Stanfill ( Curator Victoria & Albert Museum ), Tavi , Vampire Weekend , Wendy Yao, Zoë Ghertner and other special guests …
Saatchi & Saatchi
375 Hudson St (between Houston and King) enter on King St
Opening Reception September 13 6pm to 8pm
Architect Arthur Q. Davis
My friend and mentor Arthur Davis, architect of the Superdome, witness in the JFK assassination trial, and New Orleans elder-statesman, speaks to the Times Picayune about contemporary architecture.
Pegasus
Searching for something in my email I came across this amazing drawing done by Noah Olmsted, my partner in XV. If I remember correctly, this was made back when we were in studio with Jeff Kipnis and Greg Lynn at Columbia.
Peter Zuspan in Interview Magazine
My business partner, Peter Zuspan, is featured in Interview discussing art, performance, and our upcoming projects.
Reza Aslan
Reza explained the universe to my friend Kevin and I at a dinner party and was pretty much spot on.
Rambling Jack Elliot
Felix Rodriguez
Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery
Summer Salon
Work by Felix Rodriguez, Juliana Beasley, Bradley Peters and Rebecca Sittler.
Thursday June 25th from 6 to 8pm
511 West 25th Street #506
New York, NY 10001
Site Design
New website layout in progress
I’ve been playing around with some new looks for this site, but I haven’t settled on anything yet. There are some new cool projects on the horizon, and they will be up there as soon as they are ready.
Design is Dead
Philippe Starck on the death of design... via German weekly DIE ZEIT:
ZEIT: Monsieur Starck, you have designed everything, from toothbrush to spaceship. What do humans really need?
Philippe Starck: The ability to love. Love is the most wonderful invention of mankind. And then, one needs intelligence. Mankind, as opposed to animals, has managed to create a civilization based on intelligence. For this reason, no human can afford to not work on their intelligence. And humour, humour is important.
ZEIT: And you can't think of something material?
P.S.: We don't need anything material. It is more important to develop one's own ethic, and to stick to these rules. There is nothing else one would have to worry about.
ZEIT: You can't be serious. Isn't there so much else one needs in order to survive?
Bureau V in Venice Bienniale
Multinatural (Blackout), a parade by Arto Lindsay, will take place on June 5 in Venice, Italy for the opening of the Venice Bienniale. The performance is based around a mobile audio installation and composition designed by Bureau V in collaboration with Lindsay.
YAS Hotel by Asymptote Architecture
The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, designed by my former employer, Asymptote Architecture, Opens October 2009
Asymptote Architecture, the award-winning, New York-based practice, nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years ago targeting an opening date of October 30, 2009 to coincide with the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Chris Cran in the Globe and Mail
What One Artist Just Felt Like Doing One Day
by: Gary Michael Dault
I ask painter Chris Cran - whose shimmering, graphically delicate but exacting paintings deal with a myriad of subtle optical issues - if he thinks of himself as a visual satirist? I figure all that allusiveness in his pictures - to optical art, to pop art, to photography, to portraiture - pegs him not only as a virtuoso manipulator of genres, but as their gleeful analyst and demystifier.
He doesn’t deny it exactly, but points out, with a certain Cran-ish wryness, on the phone from his studio in Calgary, that “there’s the pleasure of them too.” For a painter whose work seems so elaborately planned and carefully worked up, it’s disarming to hear him stress that part of his practice “is simply asking myself what I feel like doing today.”
Corian, Plywood, Skin
We are working on some new seating, partially shown here in a photo by our friend Isa Wipfli
New More Love Always
Noah Olmsted and I have started back up on our collaboration Love Always.
Libby Pratt
I just found out that my friend Libby Pratt is a photographer, and that she’s good too.
David Allan Coe, the Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy
If you are taking someone on a first date, I recommend David Allan Coe. Works every time.
Land Of Tomorrow
Here's a shot of two of our large scale drawings just prior to the opening of our exhibition at the Land of Tomorrow Gallery.