Built by the first congregation of Russian Jews in America, The Eldridge Street Synagogue opened its doors in 1887. Its Moorish architecture, 70 foot ceilings and massive circular stained glass windows are a stark contrast to the tenement buildings of the Lower East Side. Over the years, the congregation declined and the main chapel was [...]
Category Archives: Architecture
The City of The Future
September 21, 2010 – 9:43 am
Smartcar recently asked six magazines to visually answer the question: “What is your vision of the city of the future?” Dossier, Zink, Nylon, Theme and Pin-Up were all asked to participate. The results are displayed on Colossal Media billboards throughout the city and Brooklyn. Our collaboration with artist Josh Slater is up on Spring and [...]
Two Things About Josh Slater
August 25, 2010 – 12:55 pm
Our friend Josh Slater is an artist who has been doing some interesting projects recently. He designed a pyramid for the new MGMT video for Congratulations, and he also has been working on a project with us, designing a billboard for Smart Car which is going to be painted on Spring St. next week. Click [...]
Turning Sand Into a Solid
July 19, 2010 – 10:01 am
Our friend Magnus Larsson gave a talk about a project he’s been working on to use bacteria to turn sand into a solid mass. It’s a crazy and interesting concept, and I just love hearing peoples’ most out there ideas. You have to figure all big ideas sound really out there, until they’re realized. His [...]
Home at The Atlantic Yards
April 14, 2010 – 2:28 pm
After years of lawsuits, protests and fighting it looks like Bruce Ratner’s mega real-estate plan Atlantic Yards is actually going to happen. It will be the second largest construction project in NYC, after the World Trade Center. The courts ruled that eminent domain, which is typically used in cases of highways or airports, could be [...]
Designer Paul Fortune Insists on the Best
March 2, 2010 – 11:41 am
Photo by Ari Michelson The great interior designer Paul Fortune has helped shape David Fincher’s Los Feliz home, made a marvel of Mark Jacobs’s Paris apartment, and created a landmark with a glamorous renovation of the iconic Sunset Tower hotel. He put the first Cadillac through the roof of the Hard Rock, and moved a [...]
If You “Built” it, They Will Come
February 26, 2010 – 11:02 am
Our buddy John Sofio, head honcho of Built Inc., leaked us a couple of early peeks at The Trousdale, a new LA hot spot smack dab in the middle of the Sunset Strip across the street from Boa. More images after the jump.
The Flow and Tide of Commune Design
February 3, 2010 – 4:06 pm
Originally intended as a kind of pop-up-shop assemblage of graphic artists and architects, gathering together on a job to job basis, Commune has followed is own innate rhythms to become one of the hippest and most respected design firms working today. Their top-to-bottom build-out and decor of the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs was among [...]
Light on the High Line
November 16, 2009 – 8:09 am
Performa is throwing down. Friday night’s Text of Light was dynamic curation at its most inspiring. Curators Lana Wilson and Esa Nickle worked with Friends of the High Line to screen two “city symphony” films from the 1930s set to original music. The location was the High Line Park underneath where the Standard Hotel straddles [...]
Modernism After Postmodernism: Is there a future beyond capitalist realism?
October 30, 2009 – 9:29 am
Anyone in London lucky enough to have a free afternoon on Wednesday 11th of November should seriously consider heading to the Docklands for this event, which promises to be highly stimulating, and whose four speakers are responsible for some of the best writing on the blogosphere. Details after the jump…
