Drum roll please. Here they are.
A.O. Scott - film critic
Scott’s criticisms remind me of the no-bullshit reviews of Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert. Their perspectives on the history of film anchor their viewpoints.
Example: JOKER
“To be worth arguing about, a movie must first of all be interesting,” A.O. Scott writes. “It must have, if not a coherent point of view, at least a worked-out, thought-provoking set of themes, some kind of imaginative contact with the world as we know it. ‘Joker,’ an empty, foggy exercise in secondhand style and second-rate philosophizing, has none of that. Besotted with the notion of its own audacity — as if willful unpleasantness were a form of artistic courage — the film turns out to be afraid of its own shadow, or at least of the faintest shadow of any actual relevance.”
Guesthouse Paraty - CRU Architects
Rammed earth, bamboo and creative connections. Check out more here.
Museum Romeins Holder - Reset Architecture
Slight modifications to the ext. of this building reveal the thoughtful modern moves on the interior. See more by about this project on Reset Architecture’s site here.
Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre (China) - Steven Chilton Architects
This theatre is located in Jiangsu Province, China, the concept was inspired by the Sea of Bamboo Park in Yixing, the largest bamboo forest in China. The 2000 seat theatre houses a permanent water fountain. See more here.
Black Mirror
This is one of those dark and sometimes funny, sometimes beautiful (Netflix) shows that hits its mark consistently - often highlighting some near technology gone awry.
Happiest of Winter Holidays!
Green Roof
I do like how the greening of buildings is becoming more common. See more here about this project.
Arctic Treehouse Hotel - Studio Puisto (Finland)
Happy winter holidays to all. See more here.
Plan B - DEOC Arquitectos (Guatamala)
Surprisingly thoughtful public restrooms. See more here.
Optical Illusion
Check out video.
Nedd House - Mary Arnold-Foster Architects
Burnt larch-wood home in the Scottish Highlands. See more here.
House Built around Ruin
This house in an old Chinese village nicely embraces it’s site that contains on old ruin. See more here.
Keith Haring - Artist, Activist (May 4, 1958 - Feb 16, 1990)
Haring developed his own recognizable iconography in his street art that he utilized in the mid 80’s to spread awareness of safe sex during the AIDS crisis.
UCCA DUNE Art Museum - Open Architecture
An impressive minimalist concrete structure that is mostly buried and looks like scattered seashells from above. See more here by Open Architecture.
Villa Cerro Corá House/ ArquitecTava + Grupo Culata Jovai
Unexpected moves on this narrow slot home in Paraguay. See more here.
1/2 A-Frame (Atelier l’Abri Architects)
I particularly like how these designers utilized the awkward end of the triangle for wood storage. See more here about this project.
Greta Thurnberg - Climate Activist
She is an impressive human.
a simple plan
Things I find helpful about this plan: people, color, rugs, plants and bikes - dimensions, therefore, are not as necessary.
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – Sept 3, 2001) Film Critic
Kael never held back, even if people disagreed with her sharp criticisms, they respected she was looking closely at everything. Eager to see this new documentary coming out about her.
