INTP: Architect’s lack follow-through and this can isolate their ideas from practical examination. Their notions become over-intellectualized and too abstract to be of practical benefit. do people really think this lowly of designers? ah well. i tested as ISTJ anyway. what are you?
best building review, evar: The design’s really not that bad. It’s just a little Jennifer Lopez-esque. Nice and slender on top and then a BIG ass tacked onto the back.
AIA Chicago announced their 2006 Design Awards today. Ammar got an interior nomination for his Me Miyake interior: It’s very interesting, Ammar’s work has always been minimal in the sense of how it reacts to program and having open plans. But this space is surprisingly hard edged and orthogonal, in contrast to the work that [...]
Kudos to chicago’s Landmarks panel for rejecting a plan wherein yet another building is stripped down to its historic terra cotta facade, and had something completely unrelated stuffed inside. I’ve had enough of projects that use a multistory garage as street frontage, and dress it up in a fake building with spandrel windows. Programatic honesty [...]
I swear to god, tv makes me tangibly stupid. For the past few nights, i’ve been working on a little CSS project,1 and it’s been going well. I had a little list of outstanding issues, and i set out to tick them off as i ate dinner tonight. Except that with “sweet home alabama” playing [...]
