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City Syndromes
Via pruned.com
Jul 2012
We’ve all heard of Stockholm Syndrome, but what about Florence Syndrome, “wherein tourists become overwhelmed by art,” or Paris Syndrome, in which mainly Japanese tourists become overwhelmed by the city? Pruned is cataloguing such city-named disorders.
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Gehry in NOLA
Via archinect.com
Jul 2012
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, which builds sustainable homes for those in need, has completed its first Frank Gehry–designed home in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The LEED-certified house responds to vernacular architecture in the neighborhood.
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Revolutionary Font
Via designobserver.com
Jul 2012
The font used on a new Obama campaign signage is said to be inspired by Cuban propaganda posters—a “Communist typeface conspiracy theory in the making”! But Alexandra Lange sees less controversial influences, like hand-drawn fruit crate typography of the 1940s.
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Design by LEGO
Via design-milk.com
Jul 2012
With the help of a design firm and licensed LEGO artist Sean Kenney, one Chelsea family has incorporated 20,000 of the colorful building blocks into the structure of their apartment.
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Critical Architecture
Via we-make-money-not-art.com
Jul 2012
Vienna’s experimental architectural group Haus-Rucker Co. (1967-1992)—subject of a new show at WORK London—created projects from two-person space capsules to parasitic structures. It’s “critique of architecture and architecture as critique at its best.”
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A Boat for Batman
Via artinfo.com
Jul 2012
British art dealer Kenny Schacter has commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to build him a custom boat. Preliminary images for the black, 8-meter-long Z Boat reveal “a fragmented, angular vessel sprung from a Christopher Nolan movie.”
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Empty Nest
Via npr.org
Jul 2012
Four years after the Beijing Olympics, the Ai Weiwei–designed “Birds Nest” stadium is “looking tired and empty.” The $480 million facility requires $11 million per year in upkeep and hosts money-making experiments, from Segway tours to indoor skiing.
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Placard as Protest
Via greg.org
Jul 2012
An “All Hail Sauron” sign hoisted by James Bridle at the July 5 inauguration of the Shard, the Renzo Piano–designed building in London that’s Europe’s tallest, prompts an investigation by Greg Allen into placards as a platform for protest.
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Burrill in Brazil
Via wallpaper.com
Jul 2012
Anthony Burrill, whose koan-like letterpress posters are part of Graphic Design: Now In Production (on view now at Cooper-Hewitt), has a new show in London based on workshops he led in São Paulo. Title: How to say the most with least.