Oops, your Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture are almost up

Er, we’re back. Getting a new computer is not unlike moving house. The boxes are all organized but in the wrong rooms, some crockery gets broken, any kind of normal day-to-day admin – including the odd blog post – seems like a luxury. But we’re here, surrounded by the online equivalent of popped bubble wrap, [...]

“Best Square Wins” Goes Public

Turnstone is delighted to report that one of our favorite grad school exercises is busting out of the classroom next week: “Best Square Wins”, an educational ‘graphics exercise crossed with Survivor’, will be played out to the general public on Tuesday next week, as part of “The Public School for Architecture”, a project for public [...]

October Roundup: Measuring progress by foot

Over the last week, Turnstone tiptoed to the green roof above the Open Planning Project’s new office, just up Lafayette St, reminiscent of the lovely SCI-Arc-designed one in Downtown LA on top of the ex-Holiday Inn (now called ‘The Flats’); on the latest carless trip to LA this month, walked to the Petersen Automobile Museum [...]

Work, not rain, stops play

Strange of us to pick a cricketing phrase for this week’s headline. Occasionally these vestigial Brit phrases burp up from nowhere. Anyway, we’re back. Excuse the silence, we had a spiffy interaction design project to work on at all hours, in collaboration with our London friends at Maoworks, and now we’re back.
Hiding from the rain, [...]

Highlights of upcoming SVA IxD public lecture series

This week, the inaugural class of the School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design (IxD) met for their first day of orientation. Congratulations to the program Chair, Liz Danzico, on making it to Day 1. The IxD space looks fantastic, reminiscent of the CRD/Design Interactions studio at the Royal College of Art from our [...]

The edges go cool first

The people and projects that Turnstone encounter take us, willingly and regularly, way out of toasted-on-both-sides midtown-Manhattan. As our name suggests, we’re intrigued by what lies beneath the obvious; interesting morsels at the edges often lead us there. Most recently, we’ve dug up the following in the outer boroughs
Next week, the Design Trust hosts its [...]

Poble Nou, Barcelona: Urban space + service environment

 
We’re back from Barcelona, where we went earlier this month to join Fuelfor at the Istituto Europeo di Design, to lend a hand and listen in a participatory design project they have underway with IED’s Design Management students. It was a terrific couple of days, not least to present New York-centric work to an international [...]

Remembering Seven Seven in steel

Four years after 3 tube trains and one double decker bus were blown-up in Central London, a memorial to those who died on 7/7/2005 has been unveiled in the south-east corner of Hyde Park, near Curzon Gate. It is an elegant, simple space for contemplation, designed and constructed by a design team including architects Carmody [...]

A Schulze-eye view of Manhattan

Some Londoners come to NYC to jam the sidewalks on Canal Street in pursuit of cheap tat. Then there’s Jack Schulze, who, known for taking up more room on the Y axis than most, couldn’t just make do with a five dollar Rolex on his recent visits. With his habitual bird’s eye perspective, and design [...]

What is Green Architecture? talk is tonight

Professor Werner Sobek, Mies van der Rohe Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is giving a talk at the Wyoming Building tonight at 7pm as part of the Goethe-Institut New York What Is Green Architecture? series. The discussion will be moderated by the series curator, Dr Andres Lepik from the Museum of Modern [...]