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Design Dish: Moleskine launches a logo competition, Frank Gehry’s latest for Louis Vuitton

Blair Pfander — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:14:00 +0000

Frank Gehry's LVMH Sail Boat: After a few legal setbacks and delays, Frank Gehry's design for the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (a fancy name for the building that will house CEO Bernard Arnaut's giant personal art collection) is scheduled for completion next year. At 130,000 square feet, the structure is designed to look like a white sailing ship standing alone in a forest. To create the unique curvature of the massive white panels (or "sails"), Gehry and his team worked with Moulage Sous Vide technology, a new technique that allows the designer to create concrete molds from computer-generated 3D models...

Architects are pigs

Bradford Shellhammer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:36:20 +0000

My pal, the talented illustrator Steven Guarnaccia, has a new book out. The Three Little Pigs is an illustrated fable about, you guessed it, three little pigs. But, being Steven, these aren’t just any pigs. They’re Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, the three most famous modern architects. The architects, um, I mean, [...]

HIGH LINE STORIES: Realizing a dream…

Sundance Channel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:49 +0000

Joshua David (L) and Robert Hammond (R) with High Line supporter, Ethan Hawke Sundancechannel.com recently caught up with the very busy co-founders of Friends of the High Line, Robert Hammond and Joshua David, whose vision is captured in the Sundance Channel Original Series HIGH LINE STORIES. The beautiful High Line is now open (see New York Times Architecture Review) and in Part 3 of our conversation (click here if you missed Part 1 and Part 2) Robert and Josh detail the mission of the Friends of the High Line going forward.

Pre-Fab, Flat-Packing Architecture

Sundance Channel — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:00:00 +0000

TreeHugger’s affinity for flat-packable buildings — known also as prefab architecture, for its ability to be manufactured in one place and constructed in another — goes way beyond aesthetics, though we do thoroughly enjoy the modernity with which many of our favorites are designed. It’s also about supremely efficient use of materials, smarter way to [...]