June 20, 2008
What happens to the creative process when it’s on hyperspeed? In places such as Dubai, UAE, or Shenzhen, China it means the equivalent of multiple Manhattans are emerging over the course of just one or two decades. New York Times Architecture Critic Nicolai Ouroussoff explored this creative clash in Read More
June 20, 2008
In news that lends new meaning to the term starchitect, “Brad Pitt will team up with Zabeel Properties and Los Angeles-based architecture firm GRAFT to help design a new-five star hotel in Dubai.” That’s according to celebri-site PopGrind.com. Pitt has long nurtured architectural ambitions, working with Frank Read More
June 20, 2008
Usually, when someone compares Los Angeles development with 1980s cyber-punk film Blade Runner, it’s a put-down. Director Ridley Scott cast Harrison Ford in a future Los Angeles that sprawls up and out – invasive corporations, airborne sigalerts, a street language part Chinese and part Spanish. So it’s disturbing Read More
June 20, 2008
Prada showcases its latest fashions in a new video directed by performance artist James Luna. Titled Trembled Blossoms, the YouTube-friendly short doesn’t feel like your typical product placement. More like Second Life fluttering into Pan’s Labyrinth. Annoying or artful? You decide.
June 20, 2008
Lofts in L.A.? It used to be The Brewery, a couple isolated buildings in downtown’s Industrial District, and that was about it. Now, real estate slide or not, many loft developments are among the city’s signature addresses. This includes The Broadway Hollywood, which, with its high celebrity quotient and classic Read More
June 20, 2008
As global warming intensifies, how long will it be until every product comes with its own carbon-footprint summary… like miles-per-gallon stickers on new cars? When that time arrives, could the entire city of Los Angeles get a relatively good grade? A new report from Brookings Institution credits L.A. with the Read More
June 20, 2008
Girl-fronted Brit-pop with a hard rawk edge, The Duke Spirit just toured the U.S. and is gathering global fans. Comparisons have been made between singer Liela Moss and (going way back now…) Nico from the Velvet Underground. But the resemblance is more in looks (blond bangs, sexy/scary stare) than in Read More
