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Comic Architecture

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You’ve got to love architecture-themed cartoons, especially when they’re pretty on-point. A co-worker of mine hit me with a link to the above comic from pintday.org [which I had completely forgotten existed, unfortunately], and then I saw the cartoon below in the copy room at work. Great stuff.

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[click the image for larger size]

So builders think we’re pimps? Thats ironic, since I think I’m straight ho-ing myself…

.:more architecture comics -> pintday.org

Posted: September 29th, 2008
at 11:56am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, my ninja, please

Comments: 3 comments


White House Redux : The Winners

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The winners of the White House Redux competition have been announced, and – along with all the other entries – are being published in a limited edition book. AMNP’s favorite [which we've voted for] was submission #1485: 12 Cautionary Tales for a New World Order, by David Iseri, Jefferson Frost, Justin Kruse and Laura Sperry. The team submitted a book with 12 different proposals / scenarios for a new White House – here is the description they submitted:

12 Cautionary Tales for a New World Order is an homage to the architecture firm Superstudio. Within the book are 12 different visions of what the White House could be, given a multitude of cultural / economic / environmental shifts. We feel the format is an appropriate response to the prompt, as a redesign of today must consider the possibilities of tomorrow. And in true Superstudio form, it is also a test. How many do you wish were true?

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Our favorite was awarded 2nd place by the jury – and 13th [as of the writing of this post] in the popular vote. Which do you think should win the people’s vote?
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Cast your vote here [browse the submissions and chose your favorite] – which will name another winner, and award him/her/them with a cash prize.

.:check out the rest of the submisions over at White House Redux->

Posted: September 25th, 2008
at 7:09am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, competitions, my ninja, please

Comments: 1 comment


Water Jet Printer

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A co-worker of mine was showing me this yesterday, and its way too cool not to post. Basically, it’s like an ink-jet printer, but with water – and awesomeness.

.: Space Printer, via ->

Posted: September 17th, 2008
at 12:47pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, my ninja, please, videos

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The Superstar

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The Superstar: appropriately named because it more than likely thinks too highly of itself, and it’ll get a lot of press without a ton of merit. Looks like the fortress of solitude designers read Bigness while staring at some Lebbeus Woods drawings…[would make a good ninja arithmetic, no?].

Featured as part of the ‘Uneternal City‘ exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Superstar was designed by Beijing-based MAD Architects and is meant to travel from city to city – serving as a contemporary, mobile Chinatown. A self-contained city, the Superstar will house 15,000 people, and contain sports facilities, resorts, drinking water lakes, and digital cemeteries [what's that?]. It will also produce all its own power and food, and recycle all of its waste. How, you ask? It powers itself by consuming raw materials from the surrounding city it is ‘visiting’ at any given time [not unlike these little guys], and then shoots all its waste into space via the central vertical ’spike’.

Well, that may be untrue – but it would be cooler if that was the way it worked…

From MAD:

Superstar: A Mobile China Town is MAD’s response to the redundant and increasingly out-of-date nature of the contemporary Chinatown. Rather than a sloppy patchwork of poor construction and nostalgia, the Superstar is a fully integrated, coherent, and above all modern upgrade of the 20th century Chinatown model. It’s a place to enjoy, to consume Chinese food, quality goods and cultural events; it’s a place to create and to produce, where citizens can use workshops to study, design and realize their ideas.

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.:found via Dezeen->

Posted: September 16th, 2008
at 9:04am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, green arch, my ninja, please, towering pagodas, urban/master planning

Comments: 4 comments


Sundance Channel: Architecture School

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All I have to say is: it’s about feckin’ time.

The Sundance Channel’s new reality series, Architecture School, premiered last Wednesday night. Unfortunately I slept, and didn’t realize that the series was finally starting up – but lucky for me, and any of you ninjas out there that missed it too, Sundance will air a rerun this Wednesday night before the new episode airs.

The clips look both interesting and hilarious – giving me high hopes for the show, thinking that it might actually capture some of the ridiculousness that is the architecture studio in a school. The show follows students from Tulane as they participate in a design-build studio – first choosing one of their designs for an afforable home for a family who lost their home to Katrina – then moving on to the actual building of the home, which the students will also be involved in. Really, it should be an interesting show – full of insights into the design process, and [I hope] the ignorance that happens late-night in the studio.

Architecture School airs Wednesday nights at 9:00 [with a rerun of the previous episode at 8:30] on Sundance [sorry Project Runway, but you're out].

Posted: August 25th, 2008
at 10:19am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, housing, my ninja, please, student, videos

Comments: 5 comments


The Voussoir Cloud

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Currently exhibited at SCI-Arc, the Voussoir Cloud is a collaborative installation by San Francisco based IwamotoScott Architecture, Buro Happold, and SCI-Arc students. The design is an exploration of “potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material”, which makes for a pretty siiick effect.

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And now, the technical explanation of why it’s cool:

Voussoirs, the wedge shaped masonry blocks that make up an arch, are redefined in Voussoir Cloud using a system of three-dimensional modules formed by folding paper thin wood laminate along curved seams. The curvature produces a form that relies on the internal surface tension to hold its shape and allows for a structural porosity within the constraints of sheet material. The resulting dimpled, concave modules pack together; naturally creating vaulted forms with a light porous surface. The form-finding exploration of the whole is thus dependent on the geometric performance of the individual units and their relation to the gallery walls.

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So, to all our Left-Coast ninjas: go check it out [now through Sept. 14th], and let us know if how it is in person – and hit us with some photos!

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.::Via Bustler Events –>

Posted: August 20th, 2008
at 1:57pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, events, installation, my ninja, please, tech

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Risky Engineering

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I saw this after following a link from Myninjaplease to Glennz and just couldn’t help posting it. What a great t-shirt – too bad I’m not 14…

::image via Glennz Tees::

Posted: August 13th, 2008
at 6:26pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, my ninja, please

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Jennifer Marsh: Gas Station Cozy

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“Tired of seeing the abandoned eyesore on a daily basis, artist Jennifer Marsh decided to cover this old gas station in 5,000 square feet of fabric.

With the help of professional and amateur artists from 15 countries and more than 2,500 grade-school students in 29 states, Marsh covered the 50-year-old former Citgo station — pumps, light stands, signs and all — with more than 3,000 fiber panels that are crocheted, knitted, quilted or stitched together.”

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::via Wooster Collective, via MAKE::

Posted: August 13th, 2008
at 11:30am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, featured ninjas, installation, my ninja, please

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Inflatable Church [on the beach!]

They even have confession!

Posted: August 13th, 2008
at 8:08am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, my ninja, please, videos

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Ninja On Wire

I don’t even really know what to say about this, except for my ninjas, please. This ninja here is obviously ridiculous, and awesome – and the film looks like it should definitely be peeped. Here’s a review, from the CS Monitor.

Posted: August 6th, 2008
at 7:57pm by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, film, my ninja, please, towering pagodas, videos

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