Senior Architects / Draftsmens Job Vacants

Look what I’ve found when I was browsing thru the Starjobs section in The Star papers. Yeah, vacant for mutants, people that has the X-factor. Still don’t believe me? Search for the article at Starjobs, not Star Classifield. friday, June 30, 2006.

I have to admit that I kind of like it, not many company dare [...]

Freedom Tower and Vietnam War Memorial

Eager to avoid creating a fortress that overshadows the World Trade Center memorial, the architects of the Freedom Tower unveiled a new approach today. They would clad its 187-foot-high, bomb-resistant concrete base in a screen of glass prisms rather than metal panels.

I still don’t see the point in erecting yet another tower. Assuming a hero [...]

Off the Mark

Found this comic at www.offthemark.com by Mark Parisi, not very funny. I still prefer the Close To Home comic by John McPherson. I remember there is this comic where the Big Guns from pentagon wanted to extend the pentagon, then they engage an architect to redesign the pentagon. The architect did what they wanted - [...]

Man pleads not guilty in minivan plunge

Found this article online via Google Search while searching for architecture related articles. An architect with a minivan? Architects are the poorest among all professional consultant, working for a project that might not even exist or worst still, won’t even get a single cent from the proposal.
STONY POINT, N.Y. (AP) — An architect accused of [...]

Jim Leggit’s Drawing Workshops

Check the Jim Leggit’s Drawing Workshops website, I didn’t knew such workshop exist - learning how to sketch. From what I read, it is for people that are weak in sketches and colouring, sounds like a great workshop, and like all great things. It is only available in America.
I never learn these kind of sketching [...]

Bill Gates Residential Complex

James Cutler Architects and the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ) are responsible for the designing of Bill Gates’ famous residential. The ironic part about the designing stage is that it is done in a Mac, yes, an Apple.
According to architect Robert on Macintosh and its advantages are:
” The MAC allowed an incremental adoption of [...]

Frank Llyod Wright - Building Wright

Another documentary on architect, this time its Frank Llyod Wright. Apple has a trailer of the documentary film title “Building Wright”. Its a short documentary film on how Thomas Heinz reverse-engineered Wright’s design with the existing Wright’s one-eighth-inch-scale pencil drawings included a floor plan, a section, and three elevations.
Watch the movie at Apple Pro - [...]

If One Meets an Architect, Slap Him

After finish reading the article on Slapping an Architect, I’ve come to realize that why I always have this dejavu feeling during presentation.
But, as Bob Geldof says in the new documentary, The Sketches of Frank Gehry, architects have a lot to answer for. No wonder architects all seem to be in long-term therapy. To paraphrase [...]