The Radavist

McBride Charles Ryan chose the parti diagram of a klein bottle for this house in Mornington Peninsula, Australia. Not sure how precisely it mimics the geometric formula, but the execution of materiality is pretty spot on!

Part of Rem Koolhaas‘ CCTV Olympic center, the TVCC building has literally been burnt to the ground. Read up on the incident over at the Times. This part kills me!

At the same time, people were still shooting off fireworks from the sides of the roads, adding to the seeming chaos in the city.

Pic by David Gray/Reuters

Those of you who are either Architects / designers and have been following this blog since 2006 may remember the following project. Casa Torcida was my primary project while I was at SPG Architects. I spent 2 years working on it and it took another 2 to complete, but a visit to their site this morning revealed the final product.

So beautiful!

Check out the older post I made here
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I’m surprised there aren’t more books about bikes and people. So far, my favorite is Fast Eddie‘s Bike Messenger’s Life. Peter Sutherland’s book that came with Pedal is also a good one. There was also one of the Seattle-based Fast Friday gang.

Julius from Orlando sent me information on Pedals Plus People, a book about a year’s worth of bike events and people who attended them.

Check it out!

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects‘ newest project recently opened in Stuttgart, Germany. When high-end architecture and high-end automobile manufacturers come together, you can expect things of great beauty and engineering. When the automobile maker is Porsche, you can expect nothing less than perfection.

I’ll let the images speak for themselves. Via WorldArchitectureNews.

You may have seen these 3RRR chainrings floating around on the blogosphere recently. After checking out their site, I saw a hand-sculpted, resin-cast toy they made. Pretty great detail on this little guy. Obviously a throwback homage to Rat Fink.

I just came across Chelsea Greene Lewyta‘s portfolio site and man, this work is incredible. So nice. I’m in love with every one of her pieces. Grotesque, yet elegant in an Art Nuovo way. Definitely influenced by Japanese culture as well.

Lucas just bought himself a new retro fish and a nice winter suit. The combination brought him out to Far Rockaways yesterday. Blake went along to take some pics and they came out beautifully.

Lucas, these pics make me wanna get out my 5mm and join you! Just need a different stick!

New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.

…and this video just shows it! NYC is like no other place on Earth. So beautiful! Seen over at Fixpatrix!

Andy over at Fyxomatosis finally got done playing around down under and uploaded the full General Lee gallery. Great shots man. You always get me in trouble with the lady!

The next time you want to stay in NYC and would like to avoid Times Square, check out the Ace Hotel. There’s everything from a simple 200sqft “Bunk” suite up to a 700sqft “Loft’ suite. Their branding and design is spot-on. Really trying to attract the younger tourists!

One slight correction; the Ace Hotel will be opening in March. They are taking reservations now however!

2008 New York Bicycle Film Festival – FULL from jmartinez on Vimeo.

Last night at Bike Shorts, Jose Martinez took 2nd place for his extended [and High-def] version of his previous BFF 2008 photostream animation.

Check it out here in HD!

A Minneapolis-based architecture firm City Desk Studio just put a Skyway up for sale on Craigslist. Via Curbed Via Greg.org.

Looking at this prefabricated beast reminds me a lot of my Thesis project completed back in 2004. It wasn’t based on the idea of a private get-away as much as it was geared for a solution to Hurricane and Disaster-relief; specifically Hurricane Isabel-damaged Cape Hatteras. Remember, this was before Katrina and prior to the prefabricated design movement we have today.

My premise was that as long as we are inhabiting barrier islands in a permanent way, there will always be billions in property damage due to shifting tides and erosion. Not to mention Hurricane damage. In order to properly inhabit an island, we need a domicile that shifts with the context.

The Shift House’s intent was to “lightly occupy” a coastal region based on a prefabricated infrastructural framework.

There’s more to it than that, but its basically the premise. Seeing massive, transportable architecture really blows me away!

Come out to Bike Shorts 8! The weather’s gonna be nice. This time it’s at Galapagos‘ new home in DUMBO.

IFC choice film about a one-night stand in SF featuring track bikes!

Info here and here.

I Love Dust did a series of bike-related illustrations showcasing white saddles, chains, untaped bars and crazy pursuit geometries. Really nice in my opinion. You can also acquire these pieces at Click for Art.

taken from Hypebeast via Fubiz. I swear, it’s almost everyday now that Hypebeast has a bike-related post. Pretty rad!

Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch mastermind behind Office For Metropolitan Architecture has influenced many architecture students and practicioners over the years. He’s the driving force behind internationally acclaimed masterpieces like the CCTV building, the Seattle Public Library and the Porto Concert Hall.

Now he’s inspired a typeface. FWIS used Koohaas’ Miesian typologies to create a typeface that’s more representative of his work, rather than a usable type.

“‘koolhand’ is a new type face which takes its form from the architectural works of rem koolhaas.
the typeface is designed by fwis and art directed by chris papasadero. he is aiming to design a font
a day for the month of january and is posting them on his website. while the letters in ‘koolhand’
aren’t really designed for legibility, papasadero envisions them for textural treatments. “

Andy, you’re going to get me in trouble with the misses if I post this and make a single comment about anything but the bike. So that being said, nice bike.

…it’s no CJ-7, but that’s one hell of a ride!

Edit: I almost forgot about this pic I took 2 years ago.