http://www.gravestmor.com/wp architectural ephemera Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:09:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The site for Super Colossal is now live. There are a few dead links in there, but it is mostly complete. So head on over and have a look around! Gravestmor will stay up for about a month and then I will likely redirect traffic over to SC. If you are ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/07/12/super-colossal-is-alive/ The Urban Islands studio is happening again SOON. Last year in the studio, run through Sydney University, students worked on projects that explored the industrial ruins of the site, the topography of the already tunnelled, chiselled and warped landscape, and constructed a stunning installation in the turbine hall. Guest tutors ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/07/11/urban-islands-2007/ After five years of working at BVN, I am moving into private practice and starting up a new office - Super Colossal. A studio that will be centred on architecture, landscape, infrastructure and most importantly, a reckless urban optimism. Gravestmor has been a lot of fun and for the time ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/06/03/super-colossal/ It is that time again. Again. Pecha Kucha Volume 04 will be held next Thursday the 31st of May at the Commercial Travellers Association. Get there early to get a good spot last time the place filled up rather quickly.... New to Pecha Kucha? Look here and here. See you there! http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/25/pecha-kucha-sydney-volume-04/ UME - one of the few Australian architecture journals of any real merit - has made its entire catalogue available for download as pdfs. "UME is not a journal of record and is not engaged in marketing the latest architectural trends. (...) UME is about the drawings architects make to ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/21/ume/ Video of the Museum Plaza project in Louisville by OMA REX. Reader, Dave Brown says it best: "I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was one of the coolest all time animation presentations ever... I mean, you're taken on an emotional roller coaster...at first your like...jeez, who do these guys ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/10/video-of-the-museum-plaza-project-in-louisville-by-oma-rex/ The Nagakin Capsule Building in Tokyo looks set to be demolished. Apparently Kurokawa submitted a proposal which was dismissed whereby the existing capsules would be removed and updated capsules - presumably sans reel-to-reel tape decks - reattached to the core. The proposal was dismissed in favour of knocking the ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/10/the-nagakin-capsule-building-in-tokyo-looks-set-to-be-demolished/ Former Prime Minister Paul Keating is speaking about the development at East Darling Harbour on 23 May 2007 at the next Design Quarter event at the Powerhouse Museum. "The Honourable Paul Keating was on the jury that selected the winning design for the redevelopment of East Darling Harbour. This lecture ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/08/former-prime-minister-paul-keating/ Goal Sculptures at Strange Harvest. Goal posts in deserted parks caught unawares while they play art. This one is rather nice. As is this. [Link] http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/06/goal-sculptures-at-strange-harvest/ The roundest sphere ever made. A ball of fused graphite forming a part of NASA's Gravity Probe B, so smooth "that were it blown up to the size of Earth, the tallest mountain would be only eight feet high." [Link] http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/06/the-roundest-sphere-ever-made/ Postopolis is BLDGBLOG, Subtopia, Inhabitat and City of Sound teaming up to hold a five day series of talks etc at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. On the final day the Storefront will turn into a kind of drop in centre for architecture bloggers. Sounds grand. ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/06/postopolis/ In the UAE, OMA have been getting busy in the desert: (Image Source) The project is for the RAK Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE and comprises of a large sphere, booleaned by other large spheres and a long linear bar. "What is left to be invented when ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/05/04/desert-deathstar-and-the-little-japanese-radio-that-could/ Firstly, darch has been invited by the Museum of Contemporary Art to participate in the conversation space at the Craigie Horsefield exhibition that is currently showing. Craigie Horsefield is an artist who focuses on exploring time and community through photography, with his photographs often developed and printed many years after they ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/04/27/a-couple-of-things-in-the-next-few-days/ This is a frame from the trailer to Oceans 13 and I am fairly certain that the building shown does not exist. Towards the end of the trailer the Brad Pitt character tells the All Pacino character "Let em tell you what you don't want. Your hotel in a twisted heap ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/04/11/hold-on-a-minute-does-this-building-exist/ Pecha Kucha Volume 03 took place last Thursday in the bowels of the Commercial Travellers Association. It was a great night, fantastic stuff on show and loads of people to check it all out. As always, the grabs that follow are a poor representation of the content that was on ... http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2007/04/09/pecha-kucha-volume-03-2/