Zakim bridge,

I have always been fascinated with the Zakim Bridge and how architectural is it. How it has a strong appearance both during the day and at night. And how it has become a key icon to the city of boston. 

Balancing act:

I have always been fascinated with how this operate and how they efficiently get the user to where they want to go, while being a really cool thing. 

Let me see your peacock!

I have always had a fascination with peacock feathers: the blue, green, and purple just work perfectly together.

New Age Grilling...

I like to see every day objects, given more design thought and imagination, while still being highly functional.

Pin-wheel Effect.

Falling Water is one of my favorite pieces of architecture because Wright did behind what was expected for his client. He took a chance and create a form that is really connected with its environment and embraces its surroundings. The way the spaces cantilever out in a multitude of directions to act like tree branches. However, Wright was defiantly not an engineer.

I see you. You taste good.

I really just liked the use of sensory in these pieces advertised in the CB2 catalog

Dreamy

Boeing787
I have always been fascinated with airplane design and how they can be designed better to make passengers more comfortable and the flight more enjoyable with a high consideration to design. Just simple things like larger windows, quality of light and air can go a long way with passengers on those long flights.

What a perfect pair.

Nothing against complimentary colors, but I think Yellow and Green go perfectly together and make me smile.

Don't just cover it up.

I found what Mark Klopfer and his firm did on this site to be inspirational to "green ideas" and even thinking about the existing soil and how it can be kept on site and incorporated into the new design in a way the doesn't just cover up the bad or carry it away. 

Heaven. Nirvana. Bliss.

New York By Gehry

Calmer Gehry? Video.

I like Gehry's new residential tower in Lower Manhatten because it is a calmer Gehry form, with a shiny metal facade that attracts attention from all parts of NYC. I also like how this building brings life to an area that isn't typically residential. I also like how each apartment gets a unique view through the form Gehry has created.

Opposites attract

I like the complimenting contrasts here:

Green chair, brown chair

Brown pillow, green pillow

Red wine, white wine

Apple Art... how delicious!

Single Apples

Apples take on forms

I chose these "art forms" because they use apples for another purpose, express their colors, and makes apples into art.

Green Living 2020

Article.

 Creating self contained living environments for 0% emissions, growing produce, collecting water, and producing energy.

Taking the old, and making it new...

Frank Gehry's Tower Records Building, 360 Newbury Street
Hard to believe this building is by Gehry, but I appreciate his reuse of the space and how it has become an icon and almost a welcome sign to Newbury Street and Boston, as you enter the Masspike Tunnel.

Recycled Furniture

I have always been fascinated with the idea of taking old, every day objects that people use or no longer want, and making them into furniture pieces and given them a new life. Not everything has to go off to the dump.

Dutch China

What I like about this fountain piece at the Walt Disney Concert Hall is that is covered with fragments of this blue dutch Chinia, that from affair paint this simple shading blue mosaic essence. But up close shows a million different pieces, all with different messages or designs on them.

Disney Concert Hall

Aside from this being a sculptural, I thought it was quit clever how it this wood sculptures houses structure and HVAC. 

 The play of materials on the roof garden: between the metal panels of the building, the dutch china on the flower sculpted fountain, and the greenery.

Reflection

Oasis in the middle of downtown LA

Gehry's concert hall is one of my favorite pieces of architecture because the form to me is active and alive, like music. It creates a strong presence, in an area dominated by office blocks. Gehry incorporates the mechanics, structure, and lighting all into each structural form. He also created a roof top sanctuary in the heat of downtown LA. 

Starchitecture - High

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20110720/starchitecture-high

Working this summer on several public schools in Massachusetts I have discovered that most of them ending up being filled with "cookie cutter" classrooms and generic spaces. Reading this article about a public high school in LA, on the same street as one of my favorite pieces of architecture (Gehry's Disney Concert Hall), you can find an highschool that is far from a cookie-cutter designed. This school embraces the area it is in through the use of materials, approach, themes, colors, etc. I will post later my Disney Concert Hall photos.