“The infernal technology of outdoor advertising just gets better and better. Hand-painted billboards have yielded to pre-printed vinyl sheets that can be hung in a trice. Next will be pulsating digital LED boards with multiple commercial messages that can be changed in real time, like an ad on the Web.”
Chicago Tribune
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“So: plastic chaise-lounges win a wave of rear ends, while titanium arenas leave the court with a hobble and nary an ovation. What’s the takeaway for urban design? I say it’s an axiom: people want to be together.”
Urban Omnibus
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“There’s a grotesque disproportion between the 10 years it can take to execute a major architectural project and the 10 minutes it can take to read a review that demolishes it. But a more cautionary chronological measure is the veritable life sentence imposed upon the public by poorly designed civic architecture too conspicuous to ignore but too costly to replace, like New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, parts of which annoy me more and more as time goes by.”
Architectural Record
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“What is important now is the production of ideas: The poles have become lighter and more immaterial, having rid themselves of much of the baggage of material production. The geography of design has transformed; systems are now built around schools rather than industry.”
Seed Magazine
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“If you think about it, we live in boxes. So maybe it doesn't sound so farfetched to live in a cargo shipping container … At 7-feet-by-8-feet-wide, each floor gives you just enough space for your elbows and the functionality necessary for one or two people.”
BND
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