Through a series of nodes and connections, we created a language for a landscape for an urban neighborhood.
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architecting is a verb: FoTW: Firm of The Week
This week’s featured Firm of The Week is MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects consists of architects Bryan MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple and are based in Nova Scotia, Canada. MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has built an international reputation for…
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COTW (Chair Of The Week)
This weeks feature of COTW features Nendo’s “Thin Black Line” chair.
This small Japanese design firm has big ideas
“Giving people a small ” ! ” moment.
There are so many small ” ! ” moments hidden in our everyday.
But we don’t recognize them.
and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our
minds and forget what we’ve seen.
But we believe these small ” ! ” moments are what make our days so
interesting, so rich.
That’s why we want to reconstitute the everyday by collecting and
reshaping them into something that’s easy to understand.
We’d like the people who’ve encountered nendo’s designs to feel these
small ” ! ” moments intuitively.
That’s nendo’s job.”
‘Outlines were the theme of this collection. Slight black lines like the traces of sketches drawn in the air made transparent surfaces and volumes appear, which we assigned practical functions.”
Called Thin Black Lines, the series includes a chair and clothes rack intended to apear as sketches in the air or calligraphy symbols.
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"Well, we color a lot.
We provide visual stimulation, on 11x17 at a time.
We rotate virtual models for hours.
We draw with a mouse and a keyboard.
We photograph.
We design t-shirts, magazines and websites.
We learn how to talk so no one else can understand us.
We have created irrational bonds to our computer, and know its moods.
We are still trying to understand what tectonic means.
We provide the mood of a room.
We provide the mood of a city.
We go to museums, but not for the art (sometimes we go for the art).
We collect pens.
We spend hours talking about fonts.
We analyze. We over analyze. We over-analyze? We over analyze. We always make the same decision in the end.
We don’t have time.
We make deals with the local art supply stores.
We have grand schemes.
We have side projects.
We express our wildest dreams and desires through parti diagrams and building sections.
We construct temporary palaces made of cardboard and wood.
We don’t create rooms, we create spaces.
We haven’t left this building in 25 hours, and we’re not even thinking about leaving anytime soon.
We are never satisfied.
We think it should look more like this…
We are trying to figure this whole thing out.
We see invisible meaning.
We know that thirty years later, we will have just gotten started…
We understand the artistic potential of mass produced chairs.
We graffiti.
We know the difference between a portico and a vestibule.
We get into physical confrontations about wall thicknesses.
We wonder how everyone else does it.
We haven’t stopped thinking about designing since we started.
We’ve done more work than you have.
We think we have an ego problem…
We know about that obscure project in that small country in Eastern Europe by that firm with the strange name.
We’re all really just doing this so that when we build our own houses we can put a hot tub in our bedrooms.
We’re not impressed with their new stuff.
We still don’t know what we want to be when we grow up (but don’t tell anyone)
We have friends here, and they’re the only ones who really understand.
We are shaping the world through steel and concrete, brick and mortar, plastic, glass, and stone; through cities and neighborhoods, streets and sidewalks, gardens, parks and the occasional ambiguous art installation."
We provide visual stimulation, on 11x17 at a time.
We rotate virtual models for hours.
We draw with a mouse and a keyboard.
We photograph.
We design t-shirts, magazines and websites.
We learn how to talk so no one else can understand us.
We have created irrational bonds to our computer, and know its moods.
We are still trying to understand what tectonic means.
We provide the mood of a room.
We provide the mood of a city.
We go to museums, but not for the art (sometimes we go for the art).
We collect pens.
We spend hours talking about fonts.
We analyze. We over analyze. We over-analyze? We over analyze. We always make the same decision in the end.
We don’t have time.
We make deals with the local art supply stores.
We have grand schemes.
We have side projects.
We express our wildest dreams and desires through parti diagrams and building sections.
We construct temporary palaces made of cardboard and wood.
We don’t create rooms, we create spaces.
We haven’t left this building in 25 hours, and we’re not even thinking about leaving anytime soon.
We are never satisfied.
We think it should look more like this…
We are trying to figure this whole thing out.
We see invisible meaning.
We know that thirty years later, we will have just gotten started…
We understand the artistic potential of mass produced chairs.
We graffiti.
We know the difference between a portico and a vestibule.
We get into physical confrontations about wall thicknesses.
We wonder how everyone else does it.
We haven’t stopped thinking about designing since we started.
We’ve done more work than you have.
We think we have an ego problem…
We know about that obscure project in that small country in Eastern Europe by that firm with the strange name.
We’re all really just doing this so that when we build our own houses we can put a hot tub in our bedrooms.
We’re not impressed with their new stuff.
We still don’t know what we want to be when we grow up (but don’t tell anyone)
We have friends here, and they’re the only ones who really understand.
We are shaping the world through steel and concrete, brick and mortar, plastic, glass, and stone; through cities and neighborhoods, streets and sidewalks, gardens, parks and the occasional ambiguous art installation."
Jason Skibo (Wentworth Architecture)
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