Ready for some plastic on plastic action? I happened to have my favorite Walmart edition plastic camera with me when I spotted this sweet collection of 80's and 90's 35mm plastic cameras. The shot was taken with discontinued Fuji Velvia 50, cross processed, and pushed two stops.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Original Music Workshop
After more than four years of work, and with a budget upwards of 15 million dollars, Original Music Workshop is Bureau V's most significant project to date. I won't go into details as it would require quite an essay, and likely a bit of psychoanalysis, but this project, probably more than any other, has made me re-evaluate everything I thought about making architecture, from process, to ambition, to execution. Mostly for the better (I think). I can say, with much excitement, that we are now roughly at mid-construction, with an opening set for the end of 2013.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Deliverables
Radiant Emblematic Structure » Paint, Reflective Tape, and Ink on Archival Paper | 30” x 60”
Radiant Emblematic Structure was exhibited at Land of Tomorrow in 2009 along with other works in the Deliverables series. These drawings, created through processes such as computer-generated graphics, hand drawing, applique, paint, and collage, make up an ongoing experiment that seeks to find new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction.
Radiant Emblematic Structure » Detail
Radiant Emblematic Structure » Detail
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Abacus
Here's another in the overly long list of projects that went unbuilt. This undulating landscape was commissioned by the Whitney Museum for its retrospective, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe. It was part of a collaborative performance piece we developed with playwright Lars Jan that recombined material and rhetorical tropes of Buckminster Fuller’s oeuvre. Our ambition was to combine the flourish of Fuller's writings with a wild interpretation of his strategies for assembly. Unfortunately, we lost funding for the project before we could begin construction.
Jose Parla Broken Language
Fresh off of the unveiling of his massive mural at Barclays Center and another recent mural for BAM, Jose has a new show opening at Haunch of Venison in London.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Drag Race New Jersey
In the summer of 2007, Isa Wipfli and I drove deep into New Jersey to take pictures of a drag race we had heard about. My photos from that day only scratch the surface of the wildness that ensued, but I'm drawn to them as the combination of the film stock, development process, and subject matter produced a mood that I had been after in both photography and architecture for quite a while. Somehow I still haven't seen Isa's images from that day. I can only imagine.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Strata Tower
The Strata Tower was my final project at Asymptote Architecture. I remember one night in Dubai just before we started, Hani Rashid and I smoked cigars at a floating nightclub (so Dubai) and talked endlessly about our ideas and ambitions for the building.
I spent a sleepless year on the design, working solid through Christmas and New Years without taking a day off. Still, it all felt worthwhile when construction started.
Unfortunately, and this tends to happen too frequently in architecture, it did not get much further than this.
PROJECT / IMAGE CREDIT »
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Curtis Kulig
I just came across this sweet Curtis Kulig piece...
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Drums of Death
Drums of Death was supposed to be a vector animation music video the the Chuck D and DJ Spooky collaboration B Side Wins Again. It was the first paid project Noah Olmsted and I took on after graduating from Columbia. Our ambitions were impossibly high, and our project management skills non-existent. In the end we came out with some pretty interesting work, but we could never quite finish the video in a way that lived up to our expectations. Eventually the project died, and not surprisingly, no one was happy with us.
First Floor Steelwork At OMW
Steelwork on the first level of the Original Music Workshop is nearing completion.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Jesus Saves From Sin
I took this photograph in Saluda, North Carolina in the summer of 2005 with my Nikon F100. It's part of a series of images taken throughout the South while travelling after I graduated from Columbia.
Wilding Cran Gallery
Wavelength of Speech, Hap Tivey (2007)
My brother-in-law, Anthony Cran, and his wife Naomi Wilding, have recently opened Wilding Cran, a Los Angeles based gallery representing international contemporary artists.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Topological Branching
I designed LGB in Hernan Diaz Alonso's studio at Columbia University in 2003. It is one of the earliest examples of the use of subdivision surface modeling in architecture and the first example of the single surface branching structure that has become an increasingly popular design technique.
Mogollon for OMW
Have a look at the new poster series for Original Music Workshop by our friends at Mogollon.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / Parabolic Solar Facade
Ecco Eco New York is one of the earliest buildings we designed at Bureau V. Combining branding and environmental performance, the signature element of the project is an intricate patterned facade comprised of custom parabolic solar panels and grassy landscape elements.
Highlights / 2003 > 2013 / LQ Louis XV
I came across this rendering of the LQ Chandelier while working on the new version of my website. This was the final model before we began fabricating components, but I don't think we ever built any in this configuration.
PROJECT / IMAGE CREDIT »
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Ten Years of Architecture and Design
2013 marks the tenth year of my website, and in honor of that milestone, I'll be re-posting some highlights over the coming days and weeks. As always, I look forward to keeping the site updated with my latest projects, work from my friends, and whatever else I find interesting. Thanks for visiting and stay tuned.
Bell & Anchor
Mark Firth – of Diner and Marlow & Sons fame – and his wife, Bettina Schwartz, recently opened Bell & Anchor, a fantastic new restaurant in Great Barrington, MA. With an all star team including former Marlow chef Steve Browning, and dessert chef Megan McDiarmid, they are producing world class farm to table cuisine in a rustic country setting.
PINC.US 2013 Beta
Here it is..
Learn To Breakdance
I've been wanting to make an animated gif and this is my first pass. The images were scanned from a Learn To Breakdance poster that I found in the sleeve of an old record in my collection. If it looks familiar it's because I used the same images years ago when learning flash (or because you have the same poster on your wall).