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A Space for Dialogue: Other Masters of India
by AKHILA KRISHNAN As you walk across the Seine from the Palais du Tokyo, you will find the Quai Branly Museum (or as they say in French, the Musée du Quai Branly) nestling under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in all of its terracotta red post-modern splendor. Officially opened in June of 2006, the ...
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Hara Villa Pre-Fab Houses
For some obscure reason, Pinakin Patel‘s new design for a pre-fabricated house is doing the rounds of the internet. Everywhere I look, a “plug-in living” concept that Patel calls Hara Villa — or Green House — is being feted as a new idea for India that will be the future delight of Mumbai’s filthy rich. ...
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King Kong Rises Like A Phoenix from the Ashes…
I’ve always been a bit iffy about 3-D movies; I mean the new generation of 3-D movies. 3-D in cinemas today seems to have an identity crisis between being a spectacle and telling a story. I’ve always felt that its use works best for the former. So along comes this mind-blowing clip of the new ...
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Jeanette Barnes: Drawing
Aqua Centre, Stadium and Stratford, 2010 Building the Wembley Arch, 2005 I came across Jeanette Barnes work in the latest Blueprint magazine and I was completely taken by her work. For more than a decade now she has been creating large-format drawings of construction sites across London. Most of her subjects are well-known, even iconic ...
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Koko
View from the balcony Shiny Disco Ball Red and Gold! I was recently at a Camden nightclub called Koko to see Canadian rock back Metric play the venue and I must say that it is The Coolest re-use of a Victorian building I have ever seen! It’s an old 19th-century theatre painted deep red from ...