2012-05-01
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Buckminster Fuller’s design for a geodesic dome to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium, via Mathias Crawford (here quoting Progressive Architecture):
Those jaunty wearers of the World Series crown may also sport a geodesic dome when they play ball in Brooklyn. Research into design of a quarter-sphere dome 750 feet in diameter and high enough at center field to top a 30-story office building (as shown in schematic section, containing Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Lever House) has been started here by R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor and patent holder of Geodesic Structures, aided by a team of 25 graduate students in the Princeton School of Architecture.
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Architectural Signing and Graphics by John Follis and Dave Hammer, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.
2012-04-24
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iamdanw, via headlessness (from 2009):
London Sight-lines. These are the places where construction is restricted to protect the most interesting views of famous landmarks.
What’s interesting about looking at this now is that the Shard is clearly in the middle of several of the Protected Vistas, but perhaps it being behind rather than in front of St Paul’s helped it achieve planning permission.
2012-04-18
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Richard Rogers Screenprints by Simon Armstrong for the Design Museum.
2012-04-03
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Two prints by Buckminster Fuller and Chuck Byrne from the series Inventions: Twelve Around One, on display at SFMOMA as part of The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area (via the Bay Citizen’s review).
(I posted my own review of the exhibition at my blog on husk.org.)
2012-03-27
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While being absorbed into this virtual world, most rarely consider the physical ramifications of this data. All over the world, data centers are becoming integral components of our 21st century infrastructure. These facilities can range from small portable modules to massive warehouses full of servers, from sleek new constructions to reuse of existing infrastructures. What is the significance of this bridge between the virtual and the physical? How does this new typology affect the discourse of architecture and the shaping of our built environment? As cloud storage and global internet usage increase, it’s finally time to talk about the physical space of data.
This is the call for submissions, from December. I’m looking forward to the issue. (Maybe I should just subscribe?)
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Apple shop fronts and interiors, from CLOG: Apple (via).
(Regular readers will know I’m a sucker for grids and repetition.)
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“Diagrams by MacRumors readers expressing their opinions about the new Apple campus” in Clog: Apple, issue 2 of the magazine which “explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now”. This issue focuses on the proposed building.
Image via DesignBoom; URL via Buzz, who posted a nicer picture of the cover after seeing my photograph of an issue of the magazine (which I’m going to have to go back to SFMOMA today to actually buy).
