Deal Park, NJ — Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater (Axcbt), the Jersey Shore’s professional ballet company, will present a one-night-only special event, “Architects of Dance,” featuring the Company in choreography by some of the greatest modern dancers of our time who will also perform on the program, on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 7:30 p.m., in the Atrium at Bell Works Studio in Holmdel, New Jersey. The evening will include a pre-performance reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by a private VIP tour of Bell Works led by Lead Designer and Creative Designer Paola Zamudio beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $25 general admission or $75 for the VIP experience, including the performance, tour and reception. Tickets are available at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center Box Office.
Inspired by the Bauhaus architectural movement, Axcbt Artistic Director Gabriel Chajnik conceived of “Architects of Dance” to illustrate how choreography and architecture can influence each other.
Inspired by the Bauhaus architectural movement, Axcbt Artistic Director Gabriel Chajnik conceived of “Architects of Dance” to illustrate how choreography and architecture can influence each other.
- 5/10/2023
- by Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with Apple TV+, for this edition we look at how production design, score, and direction came together to build the chillingly mysterious corporate world of “Severance.”
The ingenious premise of “Severance” — in which office workers agree to a procedure in which work experiences and memories are “severed” from those outside work, allowing personal and professional lives to remain completely separate — has proven irresistible to audiences tantalized by the issues and possibilities. The premise was equally irresistible, and challenging, for artisans who had to figure out how to bring Lumon Industries and its surroundings to life.
The show’s unique tone, and a genre that sits somewhere between sci-fi, satire, drama, and psychological horror, created intriguing opportunities and obstacles for the filmmakers tasked with getting the balance exactly right.
The ingenious premise of “Severance” — in which office workers agree to a procedure in which work experiences and memories are “severed” from those outside work, allowing personal and professional lives to remain completely separate — has proven irresistible to audiences tantalized by the issues and possibilities. The premise was equally irresistible, and challenging, for artisans who had to figure out how to bring Lumon Industries and its surroundings to life.
The show’s unique tone, and a genre that sits somewhere between sci-fi, satire, drama, and psychological horror, created intriguing opportunities and obstacles for the filmmakers tasked with getting the balance exactly right.
- 8/18/2022
- by Jim Hemphill and Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Many sci-fi series require building a world from scratch, but “Severance” had more than one. The show, created by Dan Erickson and guided to fruition by director Ben Stiller, revolves around office workers who undergo a surgical procedure that allows them to separate their personal and professional lives. During the day, Mark (Adam Scott) and his co-workers undergo a bland, cryptic grind at the mysterious Lumon Industries, while their outside selves endure more familiar routines after hours. This dichotomy demanded precise visual signifiers to situate viewers in the dueling settings.
For production designer Jeremy Hindle, it presented the unique challenge of building out environments even if they didn’t always show every detail.
“The show is taking advantage of the unique way you can design a space,” Hindle told IndieWire. “The camera only has to reveal bits and pieces of it at a time. You don’t need the whole...
For production designer Jeremy Hindle, it presented the unique challenge of building out environments even if they didn’t always show every detail.
“The show is taking advantage of the unique way you can design a space,” Hindle told IndieWire. “The camera only has to reveal bits and pieces of it at a time. You don’t need the whole...
- 6/17/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
There have been plenty of television shows set in workplaces, but there’s never been one that looks quite like “Severance.” The Apple TV Plus science fiction series is set in the headquarters of Lumon Industries, a mysterious, cult-like company that surgically alters the memories of select employees to split their consciousness in two: their work selves and their outside selves. These “severed” employees work on their own floor in the company building, and it’s a world in itself: a sprawling labyrinth of stark white halls that stretch into eternity, and massive, void-like office rooms with eye-catching green carpeting.
Production designer Jeremy Hindle drew from a wide array of sources when crafting the sets of the series, from the 1967 French film “Playtime” to the aesthetics of pharmaceutical companies. His guiding principle for how Lumon should look was taken from the John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, Ill. , designed by...
Production designer Jeremy Hindle drew from a wide array of sources when crafting the sets of the series, from the 1967 French film “Playtime” to the aesthetics of pharmaceutical companies. His guiding principle for how Lumon should look was taken from the John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, Ill. , designed by...
- 4/1/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Harbor Group International, a privately owned real estate investment and management firm, announced Monday it has entered an agreement with ViacomCBS to purchase the CBS Building in New York City for $760 million.
Commonly referred to as Black Rock for its gray granite architecture and dark tinted windows, the 38-story office tower is located at 51 West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan.
ViacomCBS will lease back its space on a short-term basis, and Hgi plans to implement a significant capital program to reposition the property in support of a long-term leasing plan.
“The agreement to acquire the CBS Building is further proof of Hgi’s ability to identify and successfully transact for unique investment opportunities in an increasingly competitive market,” said Richard Litton, president of Hgi. “With its prime location, Class A features and strong roster of tenants, Hgi is positioned to acquire one of New York City’s few iconic assets.
Commonly referred to as Black Rock for its gray granite architecture and dark tinted windows, the 38-story office tower is located at 51 West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan.
ViacomCBS will lease back its space on a short-term basis, and Hgi plans to implement a significant capital program to reposition the property in support of a long-term leasing plan.
“The agreement to acquire the CBS Building is further proof of Hgi’s ability to identify and successfully transact for unique investment opportunities in an increasingly competitive market,” said Richard Litton, president of Hgi. “With its prime location, Class A features and strong roster of tenants, Hgi is positioned to acquire one of New York City’s few iconic assets.
- 8/16/2021
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
ViacomCBS announced Monday plans to sell Black Rock, the famed midtown Manhattan headquarters building for CBS, to the privately owned real estate firm Harbor Group International for $760 million.
The network, which has occupied the 38-story, 491-foot-tall building since it opened in 1964, plans to lease back its space on a short-term basis. The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year.
The tower was the only skyscraper designed by the renowned architect Eero Saarinen, whose other works include Lincoln Center Theater and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Naveen Chopra, EVP and Chief Financial Officer for ViacomCBS, said the sale was prompted by a review non-core assets since the company completed its re-merger in December 2019. “The use of proceeds from this transaction will remain consistent with our previously discussed capital allocation strategy, allowing us further financial flexibility to invest in our strategic growth priorities, including streaming,” Chopra said in a statement.
The network, which has occupied the 38-story, 491-foot-tall building since it opened in 1964, plans to lease back its space on a short-term basis. The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year.
The tower was the only skyscraper designed by the renowned architect Eero Saarinen, whose other works include Lincoln Center Theater and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Naveen Chopra, EVP and Chief Financial Officer for ViacomCBS, said the sale was prompted by a review non-core assets since the company completed its re-merger in December 2019. “The use of proceeds from this transaction will remain consistent with our previously discussed capital allocation strategy, allowing us further financial flexibility to invest in our strategic growth priorities, including streaming,” Chopra said in a statement.
- 8/16/2021
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
ViacomCBS has clinched a sale of the CBS building known as Black Rock for $760 million to real estate investment and management firm Harbor Group International.
It’s the first sale of the landmark building at 51 West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan since it opened in 1964. The media giant put the building on the block in 2019 as it looked to shed noncore assets, but a sale was delayed when the pandemic hit last March.
As the former owner-occupier, ViacomCBS will lease back its space in the Eero Saarinen-designed modernist granite office tower on a short-term basis.
The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year. CBS had early on reportedly been seeking north of $1 billion.
“This agreement follows the previously announced strategic review of non-core assets that we completed shortly after our merger,” said ViacomCBS CFO Naveen Chopra. “The use of proceeds from this transaction will remain...
It’s the first sale of the landmark building at 51 West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan since it opened in 1964. The media giant put the building on the block in 2019 as it looked to shed noncore assets, but a sale was delayed when the pandemic hit last March.
As the former owner-occupier, ViacomCBS will lease back its space in the Eero Saarinen-designed modernist granite office tower on a short-term basis.
The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year. CBS had early on reportedly been seeking north of $1 billion.
“This agreement follows the previously announced strategic review of non-core assets that we completed shortly after our merger,” said ViacomCBS CFO Naveen Chopra. “The use of proceeds from this transaction will remain...
- 8/16/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The hit BBC drama “The Replacement” is set for a Finnish adaptation produced by Helsinki-filmi (“Tove”) for local streamer Elisa Viihde.
The Elisa Viihde original series has started filming in the metropolitan area of Helsinki under the helm of filmmaker Jyri Kähönen. It will launch on Elisa Viihde Viaplay streaming service in 2022, and is being represented in international markets by Sony Pictures Television.
Created by Joe Ahearne and Nicole Cauverien, “The Replacement” is an intense psychological thriller about the fear of losing one’s professional and personal life.
The Finnish adaptation is a three-part series penned by Mia Ylönen (“Tom of Finland”) and Tuuli Hostikka (“Tove”). The cast includes Maria Ylipää (“Arctic Circle”), Pamela Tola (“Ladies of Steel”) and Olavi Uusivirta (“The Sixth Time”). Sara Paavolainen and Eero Saarinen feature in other key roles.
The series will follow Ella, an architect who is about to get the greatest opportunity of her career,...
The Elisa Viihde original series has started filming in the metropolitan area of Helsinki under the helm of filmmaker Jyri Kähönen. It will launch on Elisa Viihde Viaplay streaming service in 2022, and is being represented in international markets by Sony Pictures Television.
Created by Joe Ahearne and Nicole Cauverien, “The Replacement” is an intense psychological thriller about the fear of losing one’s professional and personal life.
The Finnish adaptation is a three-part series penned by Mia Ylönen (“Tom of Finland”) and Tuuli Hostikka (“Tove”). The cast includes Maria Ylipää (“Arctic Circle”), Pamela Tola (“Ladies of Steel”) and Olavi Uusivirta (“The Sixth Time”). Sara Paavolainen and Eero Saarinen feature in other key roles.
The series will follow Ella, an architect who is about to get the greatest opportunity of her career,...
- 4/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Newly merged ViacomCBS is having a really bad day. The stock tanked, and is still down more than 17%, after disappointing quarterly earnings and a barrage of questions from Wall Street entertainment analysts – answers to which they clearly did not find reassuring.
The inquiries themselves were unusually anxious: “Looking at your guidance for 2020, I’m curious about how much conviction you have in these numbers,” was the first.
“Absolute conviction,” CEO Bob Bakish said.
“Are you confident you can accelerate advertising growth over time?” was the second. Wall Streeters also asked why cable affiliate fees were down 8% and why content costs were up steeply. One wondered if a beta test of the new streaming product temporarily dubbed House of Brands set for later this year is fast enough given the rapid surge of competition. Another asked if ViacomCBS really could afford to ink an expensive new deal with the NFL.
ViacomCBS...
The inquiries themselves were unusually anxious: “Looking at your guidance for 2020, I’m curious about how much conviction you have in these numbers,” was the first.
“Absolute conviction,” CEO Bob Bakish said.
“Are you confident you can accelerate advertising growth over time?” was the second. Wall Streeters also asked why cable affiliate fees were down 8% and why content costs were up steeply. One wondered if a beta test of the new streaming product temporarily dubbed House of Brands set for later this year is fast enough given the rapid surge of competition. Another asked if ViacomCBS really could afford to ink an expensive new deal with the NFL.
ViacomCBS...
- 2/20/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The architecture is the star in the feature debut of the Korean-American critic Kogonada – a passionate drama with visual echoes of Kubrick
The architecture is the star of this absorbing and intelligent debut feature from the Korean-American film critic and film-maker who works under the pseudonym Kogonada. In this quietly beguiling piece of work, he dares to do something beyond the reach or interest of many film-makers, and that’s simply to be different. Columbus is an engrossing and unexpectedly passionate film, although much of the passion is displaced outwards into a feeling for space, for mass, for building materials. It is a static passion, but not inert. I liked the film very much, although there are some self-consciously opaque contrivances about which I am unsure.
The setting is the midwestern Us town of Columbus, Indiana which happens to be a mecca for architecture fans and scholars because of a remarkable concentration of modernist work,...
The architecture is the star of this absorbing and intelligent debut feature from the Korean-American film critic and film-maker who works under the pseudonym Kogonada. In this quietly beguiling piece of work, he dares to do something beyond the reach or interest of many film-makers, and that’s simply to be different. Columbus is an engrossing and unexpectedly passionate film, although much of the passion is displaced outwards into a feeling for space, for mass, for building materials. It is a static passion, but not inert. I liked the film very much, although there are some self-consciously opaque contrivances about which I am unsure.
The setting is the midwestern Us town of Columbus, Indiana which happens to be a mecca for architecture fans and scholars because of a remarkable concentration of modernist work,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
(l-r) John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson on the steps of Columbus City Hall, in Columbus. Photo credit: Elisha Christian. Courtesy of Superlative Film and Depth of Field ©
Columbus is not a film about the Italian explorer but about an American city named for him. No, not Columbus, Ohio, but the lesser-known Columbus, Indiana. This small Midwestern city is home to a surprising number of buildings designed by big names in mid-century Modern architecture, such as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Deborah Burke, Harry Weese and others.
St. Louisans might recognize Eero Saarinen as the designer of the Gateway Arch but architecture buffs will know those names are some of the biggest of the Modern style of architecture. If you are a fan of mid-twentieth century architecture, or of Columbus, Indiana, then Columbus is the film for you. But even if not a fan of either, viewers might give this thoughtful,...
Columbus is not a film about the Italian explorer but about an American city named for him. No, not Columbus, Ohio, but the lesser-known Columbus, Indiana. This small Midwestern city is home to a surprising number of buildings designed by big names in mid-century Modern architecture, such as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Deborah Burke, Harry Weese and others.
St. Louisans might recognize Eero Saarinen as the designer of the Gateway Arch but architecture buffs will know those names are some of the biggest of the Modern style of architecture. If you are a fan of mid-twentieth century architecture, or of Columbus, Indiana, then Columbus is the film for you. But even if not a fan of either, viewers might give this thoughtful,...
- 9/22/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There was never any question that when lauded video essayist Kogonada finally turned his attention to a full-length feature, the finished product would be visually stunning and impeccably framed. The real surprise — and a satisfying one at that — is how the newly-minted filmmaker has used his debut effort “Columbus” to layer visual flair with deep emotional nuance, delivered care of two of the year’s best performances.
Set in the small city of Columbus, Indiana, an American mini-metropolis that’s home to a number of Modernist structures from such giants of architecture as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier, “Columbus” is a feast for the eyes, but its more lasting impression is on the heart.
Ostensibly a romantic drama in the vein of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy and Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” “Columbus” joins together a pair of seemingly different people — both with troubles to spare — and delights in them,...
Set in the small city of Columbus, Indiana, an American mini-metropolis that’s home to a number of Modernist structures from such giants of architecture as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier, “Columbus” is a feast for the eyes, but its more lasting impression is on the heart.
Ostensibly a romantic drama in the vein of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy and Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation,” “Columbus” joins together a pair of seemingly different people — both with troubles to spare — and delights in them,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
How do you make a ravishing romance about architecture? You'll find the answer with Kogonada, the video essayist and critic whose debut feature, Columbus, is a spellbinder. An immigrant from South Korea, the director sets his first film in Columbus, Indiana, a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town except for its exceptional modernist architecture, designed by such masters as Eero Saarinen and Harry Weese. Many townsfolk pass by these wonders without noticing. This mood-piece indie, however pays close attention, providing viewers with pristine images that brim with emotions ... the sort of agony...
- 8/3/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Team Experience is at the Tribeca Film Festival. Here's Jason on "A Kind of Murder" and "Always Shine"
I know it's blasphemy in these parts to speak ill of Mad Men (cue 90% of you automatically clicking away in disgust) but I could never really get into it because it felt too slavishly obsessed with 60s posturing - I love Mid-Century Design as much as the next Eero Saarinen disciple but I couldn't ever see the forest for the tulip chairs. That said, the new Patricia Highsmith adaptation A Kind of Murder (from the 1954 book The Blunderer, kind of a suburban copycat criss-cross of Strangers on a Train) makes Mad Men seem positively restrained in its period affectations - how you manage to turn a walking talking charm like Patrick Wilson into a walking talking turtleneck I'll never figure.
The turtlenecks! The martini glasses! The heavy salmon drapes and stone fireplaces!
I know it's blasphemy in these parts to speak ill of Mad Men (cue 90% of you automatically clicking away in disgust) but I could never really get into it because it felt too slavishly obsessed with 60s posturing - I love Mid-Century Design as much as the next Eero Saarinen disciple but I couldn't ever see the forest for the tulip chairs. That said, the new Patricia Highsmith adaptation A Kind of Murder (from the 1954 book The Blunderer, kind of a suburban copycat criss-cross of Strangers on a Train) makes Mad Men seem positively restrained in its period affectations - how you manage to turn a walking talking charm like Patrick Wilson into a walking talking turtleneck I'll never figure.
The turtlenecks! The martini glasses! The heavy salmon drapes and stone fireplaces!
- 4/22/2016
- by JA
- FilmExperience
We all love a shiny finished product, but as the old saying goes, there's "a means to an end." For instance, this week's World's Most Beautiful special issue couldn't have come together without a lot of long hours and not-so-glamorous work. The books our staff are reading this weekend offer an inside look at how everything from dog shows to rock stars are made. Share your thoughts on their choices - and let us know what you're reading. Gillian Telling, Staff Writer Her Pick: Show Dog by Josh Dean Full disclosure: The author of this non-fiction book is my husband,...
- 4/24/2014
- PEOPLE.com
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a monthly newspaper run by Steve DeBellis, a well know St. Louis historian, and it’s the largest one-man newspaper in the world. The concept of The Globe is that there is an old historic headline, then all the articles in that issue are written as though it’s the year that the headline is from. It’s an unusual concept but the paper is now in its 27th successful year! Steve and I collaborated in 2011 on an all-Vincent Price issue of The Globe and I have been writing a regular monthly movie-related column since. Our working alliance is simple: Steve tells me a year and I pick a movie from that year and write about it. Last month Steve threw me the year 1963. Since I was hosting a Ray Harryhausen tribute event at the St. Louis International Film Festival and was eager to...
- 12/19/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photograph by David Heerde
To build this school in Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré used local materials designed to withstand weather conditions ranging from blazing sun to torrential showers. His schools now serve 500 children. | Photograph by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
African-born architect Francis Kéré gets big results by mixing a little mud with a lot of heart.
Kéré’s schools in Gando are just one example of African architects returning to serve their homelands.
The Landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso is one of the poorest places on the planet. Whipped by the winds of the Sahara and cursed with poor soil, it has an annual per capita Gdp of just $1,200, earned mostly through subsistence farming. It doesn't have diamonds. It doesn't have oil. It doesn't have any of the rare earth minerals that developed countries fight over.
What it has is mud. And rarely, since God fashioned Adam, has that homely...
To build this school in Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré used local materials designed to withstand weather conditions ranging from blazing sun to torrential showers. His schools now serve 500 children. | Photograph by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
African-born architect Francis Kéré gets big results by mixing a little mud with a lot of heart.
Kéré’s schools in Gando are just one example of African architects returning to serve their homelands.
The Landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso is one of the poorest places on the planet. Whipped by the winds of the Sahara and cursed with poor soil, it has an annual per capita Gdp of just $1,200, earned mostly through subsistence farming. It doesn't have diamonds. It doesn't have oil. It doesn't have any of the rare earth minerals that developed countries fight over.
What it has is mud. And rarely, since God fashioned Adam, has that homely...
- 5/30/2011
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
Room With a View: Morrisson enjoys JetBlue's East Concourse lounge in JFK Airport's Terminal 5, which she helped create. It features Moroso-designed furniture and unparalleled views of takeoffs and landings. | Photograph by Nikolas Koenig
Second Nature: McCormick is Morrisson's in-house designer and sounding board. | Photograph by Nikolas Koenig
Fiona Morrisson helps JetBlue soar above the airline industry’s turbulence by merging branding and design.
We're giving people something whimsical," says Fiona Morrisson, JetBlue's director of brand and advertising. "Whimsy is a very important human need."
Whimsy hasn't been part of the air-travel conversation since the "Coffee, tea, or me?" days of the 1960s. Even then, it has rarely been associated with those sterile, uninviting, utterly forgettable way stations commonly known as airport terminals. As in, terminally dull. As in, your mood's prognosis is terminal when you're stuck in one.
Until you visit JetBlue's Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport,...
Second Nature: McCormick is Morrisson's in-house designer and sounding board. | Photograph by Nikolas Koenig
Fiona Morrisson helps JetBlue soar above the airline industry’s turbulence by merging branding and design.
We're giving people something whimsical," says Fiona Morrisson, JetBlue's director of brand and advertising. "Whimsy is a very important human need."
Whimsy hasn't been part of the air-travel conversation since the "Coffee, tea, or me?" days of the 1960s. Even then, it has rarely been associated with those sterile, uninviting, utterly forgettable way stations commonly known as airport terminals. As in, terminally dull. As in, your mood's prognosis is terminal when you're stuck in one.
Until you visit JetBlue's Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport,...
- 10/15/2010
- by Chuck Salter
- Fast Company
Eye-popping design puts mid-century architecture 'through the prism of 2010,' says show's executive producer.
By James Montgomery
The 2010 Vma stage
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theater itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
By James Montgomery
The 2010 Vma stage
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theater itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
- 9/12/2010
- MTV Music News
Eye-popping design puts mid-century architecture 'through the prism of 2010,' says show's executive producer.
By James Montgomery
The Vma stage during Usher's rehearsal
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theatre itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
By James Montgomery
The Vma stage during Usher's rehearsal
Photo: Ciel VanderVeen/MTV
Los Angeles — Sure, stars like Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and Justin Bieber are getting top billing at the Video Music Awards. But all of that might change the minute the show goes live on Sunday (September 12), because there's a much bigger star waiting to steal their thunder: the Vma set itself.
Custom-made in New York and Los Angeles, assembled over the course of two (very long) weeks inside the Nokia Theatre and drawing inspiration from the sleek mid-century designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, the set is a massive, all-encompassing thing, swooping and soaring (like, really high) and practically swallowing up the entirety of the theatre itself. It's so impressive, in fact, that you don't have to be an architecture enthusiast to appreciate it.
- 9/12/2010
- MTV Music News
Roger Sterling’s new office in the Time-Life building on 6th Avenue. Eero Saarinen ‘Tulip’ pedestal desk Artimede Nesso mushroom lamp Charles Eames executive chair (the “Time-Life Chair” designed specifically...
- 7/26/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
By contrast, they thought that a competing design, by Thom Mayne/Morphosis, was "touched by genius."
Yesterday, news broke that workaday Philadelphia architects KieranTimberlake had beat out a star-studded line-up to design the new U.S. Embassy in London. Just one wrinkle: The two British jurors who sat on the committee that selected the design reportedly hate it.
The two happen to be some of the biggest names in British art and design, architect Lord Richard Rogers and art-collector/architecture critic Lord Peter Palumbo. According to The Guardian:
Rogers and Palumbo are said to have thought the design was boring and "not good enough to represent one of the great nations in London", said sources familiar with the jury process. By contrast, they considered Mayne's design to be "touched by genius".
The Mayne proposal is above, and here's the winning one by KieranTimberlake:
It's hard not to concede the point...
Yesterday, news broke that workaday Philadelphia architects KieranTimberlake had beat out a star-studded line-up to design the new U.S. Embassy in London. Just one wrinkle: The two British jurors who sat on the committee that selected the design reportedly hate it.
The two happen to be some of the biggest names in British art and design, architect Lord Richard Rogers and art-collector/architecture critic Lord Peter Palumbo. According to The Guardian:
Rogers and Palumbo are said to have thought the design was boring and "not good enough to represent one of the great nations in London", said sources familiar with the jury process. By contrast, they considered Mayne's design to be "touched by genius".
The Mayne proposal is above, and here's the winning one by KieranTimberlake:
It's hard not to concede the point...
- 2/24/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
After almost 200 years at an Eero Saarinen-designed location in the posh Mayfair neighborhood of London, American diplomats will be moving across the Thames to a new headquarters in 2017. And today, Philadelphia-based firm KieranTimberlake took home a hefty commission as its design was selected for the new U.S. Embassy. If you think it looks like a castle, you're right: The $1 billion Efte-covered cube even has a moat, which the architects hope will deter any unexpected guests. But the airy fin-like skin and a footprint that appears to almost hover--not to mention the garden notched out of an upper corner--make it feel friendly, transparent and green.
The Los Angeles Times' Christopher Hawthorne approves, noting that it "aspires to a different and broader set of values, primarily having to do with ecological responsibility and neighborliness within a tight urban fabric." KieranTimberlake's win is even more amazing when you see the short-list:...
The Los Angeles Times' Christopher Hawthorne approves, noting that it "aspires to a different and broader set of values, primarily having to do with ecological responsibility and neighborliness within a tight urban fabric." KieranTimberlake's win is even more amazing when you see the short-list:...
- 2/24/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Calatrava At His Park Avenue Town House.. He owns three, actually: one serves as his office, another as his home, and the third houses two of his four children. | Portrait by Martien Mulder
One of three Calatrava bridges over the Hoofdvaart in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands (2004). Bridges are one of his obsessions. He has built some 40 of them. | Photograph by Alan Karchmer
Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure.
Construction began last fall on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas (seen here in a rendering). It will be followed by another Calatrava span, part of a $2.2 billion project to reclaim the Trinity River banks and revitalize West Dallas.
Two decades ago, Tom Fisher, now dean of the University of Minnesota College of Design, visited Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in Zurich, where he has a staff of 40 and a lakeside villa.
One of three Calatrava bridges over the Hoofdvaart in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands (2004). Bridges are one of his obsessions. He has built some 40 of them. | Photograph by Alan Karchmer
Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure.
Construction began last fall on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas (seen here in a rendering). It will be followed by another Calatrava span, part of a $2.2 billion project to reclaim the Trinity River banks and revitalize West Dallas.
Two decades ago, Tom Fisher, now dean of the University of Minnesota College of Design, visited Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in Zurich, where he has a staff of 40 and a lakeside villa.
- 1/21/2010
- by Linda Tischler
- Fast Company
Photograph by Jonny Valiant
Out Of Fashion: "It throws people off," says ousted CEO Ray Brunner of his white-stocking style. So did his controversial reign. Then-ceo Brunner said that Dwr Kitchen was ahead of plan. That "plan" must have been extraordinarily conservative. Only one person purchased a Dwr kitchen in 2009. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
Well-founded Fears "Dwr was a profitable, audacious business until the evil forces of mass-market retailing took over," says Dwr founder Rob Forbes. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
The Wigan Garden Spade is a thing of verdant beauty. Its hunter-green steel and sunny ash-wood handle evoke the pastoral fantasias of an aspiring gentleman farmer -- a dwarf maple in your yard, perhaps, around the base of which you can,...
Out Of Fashion: "It throws people off," says ousted CEO Ray Brunner of his white-stocking style. So did his controversial reign. Then-ceo Brunner said that Dwr Kitchen was ahead of plan. That "plan" must have been extraordinarily conservative. Only one person purchased a Dwr kitchen in 2009. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
Well-founded Fears "Dwr was a profitable, audacious business until the evil forces of mass-market retailing took over," says Dwr founder Rob Forbes. | Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride
The Wigan Garden Spade is a thing of verdant beauty. Its hunter-green steel and sunny ash-wood handle evoke the pastoral fantasias of an aspiring gentleman farmer -- a dwarf maple in your yard, perhaps, around the base of which you can,...
- 11/27/2009
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
Design has ramifications beyond the simple form and function--teacups are actors in rituals and environments are where we stage experiences. Turns out the design of my grade school building played a bigger role in my education than I thought.
I grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College, where I attended the Antioch School. Arthur Morgan started it in 1921, the same year in New York that Elizabeth Irwin founded the Little Red School House and seven years after City & Country School opened. It was very progressive when progressive was really experimental! While we played with blocks and made up plays, from nursery school through sixth grade, the student teachers actually did experiments with us! Some worked and others didn't work so well!
Concurrent with my high school reunion, the Antioch School had its own funky little reunion. As I chatted with some other much younger alumni, I was...
I grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College, where I attended the Antioch School. Arthur Morgan started it in 1921, the same year in New York that Elizabeth Irwin founded the Little Red School House and seven years after City & Country School opened. It was very progressive when progressive was really experimental! While we played with blocks and made up plays, from nursery school through sixth grade, the student teachers actually did experiments with us! Some worked and others didn't work so well!
Concurrent with my high school reunion, the Antioch School had its own funky little reunion. As I chatted with some other much younger alumni, I was...
- 11/12/2009
- by Tucker Viemeister
- Fast Company
Just a few months shy of his 99th birthday, the photographer Julius Shulman, known for his iconic photos of modern homes and a glamorous post-war Los Angeles, died at home last night in L.A., the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Shulman's respect for Modernist architecture, and his unique photographic compositions--as well as his spitfire personality--were legendary in the design community and celebrated around the world. Tapped at the young age of 26 to shoot for Richard Neutra, Shulman's images arguably launched the careers of the period's most famous architects: Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Raphael Soriano, who designed the house that Shulman had lived in for decades.
Shulman is also the subject of the recent film Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman which is currently circling the globe in screenings. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, the film portrays Shulman as the cultural...
- 7/16/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
The birthplace of the cell phone courts new life as a loft complex.
tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Imagine coming home to your loft in an aging suburban office park. You pull into a parking lot bigger than a football field beside an uninflected wall of mirrored glass. You step inside a seven-story atrium where 600 people once worked and ride the elevators to a loft overlooking that unmistakable office landscaping--tasteful clumps of trees and artfully positioned artificial ponds. A long lawn stretches to a water tower shaped like a transistor.
You could live in such a place if a developer succeeds in saving the endangered Bell Labs campus in Holmdel, New Jersey. Designed by the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen shortly before his death in 1961, it qualifies as a prime artifact of corporate modernism, and it was the site of pioneering work on transistors and cell phones. By 2006 it was owned by Lucent...
tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Imagine coming home to your loft in an aging suburban office park. You pull into a parking lot bigger than a football field beside an uninflected wall of mirrored glass. You step inside a seven-story atrium where 600 people once worked and ride the elevators to a loft overlooking that unmistakable office landscaping--tasteful clumps of trees and artfully positioned artificial ponds. A long lawn stretches to a water tower shaped like a transistor.
You could live in such a place if a developer succeeds in saving the endangered Bell Labs campus in Holmdel, New Jersey. Designed by the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen shortly before his death in 1961, it qualifies as a prime artifact of corporate modernism, and it was the site of pioneering work on transistors and cell phones. By 2006 it was owned by Lucent...
- 7/9/2009
- by Michael Cannell
- Fast Company
Long overshadowed by mid-century architecture, modernist landscapes are gaining recognition, with help from the downturn.
Over the past ten years the preservation of mid-century architecture has become a cultural fixation. If a house by R.M. Schindler went on the market today, a five-alarm rescue operation would follow. If anything, architects like Richard Neutra and Paul Rudolph carry more cache today than when they practiced.
Their contemporaries in landscape architecture? Not so much. How many of us have even heard of masters like Dan Kiley who designed the Miller Garden in Columbus, Indiana (photo above)?
Of the more than 80,000 properties on the National Register of Historic Places, fewer than 1,900 have an element of landscape. The irony is that mid-century architecture tended to emphasize the indoor-outdoor aspect, but preservationists largely ignore the outdoor portion of the sites.
Why do Americans value buildings, but not landscapes? For whatever reason, we tend to...
Over the past ten years the preservation of mid-century architecture has become a cultural fixation. If a house by R.M. Schindler went on the market today, a five-alarm rescue operation would follow. If anything, architects like Richard Neutra and Paul Rudolph carry more cache today than when they practiced.
Their contemporaries in landscape architecture? Not so much. How many of us have even heard of masters like Dan Kiley who designed the Miller Garden in Columbus, Indiana (photo above)?
Of the more than 80,000 properties on the National Register of Historic Places, fewer than 1,900 have an element of landscape. The irony is that mid-century architecture tended to emphasize the indoor-outdoor aspect, but preservationists largely ignore the outdoor portion of the sites.
Why do Americans value buildings, but not landscapes? For whatever reason, we tend to...
- 5/26/2009
- by Michael Cannell
- Fast Company
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