Posts filed under Architecture

December 15, 2009

FOX Graphics is now Citizen Creative!

You may have noticed a few changes here at Design Citizens over the last few days. There’s a good reason for that!
Our studio, FOX Graphics, has been steadily evolving over the last couple of years. We’ve had awesome opportunities to work with great clients and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it! To acknowledge and celebrate [...]

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November 12, 2009

Aline and Eero Saarinen Papers

Via Design Observer - a great article about Aline and Eero Saarinen’s partnership, told through letters recently digitized by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. Their story has all the makings of a great movie - fabulous characters, art and scandal. I could spend days reading through their archive if I didn’t have [...]

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October 7, 2009

The Float House (A House that Floats)

Today on Design Observer, Bradford McKee profiles a floating house designed by Morphosis in Los Angeles. Designed to rise with flood waters rather than get buried under them, the house is made of pre-fabricated parts and will only cost around $150,000. It’s appropriately located in New Orlean’s Lower Ninth Ward and is equipped to go [...]

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August 26, 2009

2010 SEGD Conference + Expo coming to DC!

I am so excited that DC is finally getting some love from big design conferences! Next year, SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design) will host its 2010 conference right here in the nation’s capital at the new(ish) Gaylord National Hotel. (Which, if you haven’t seen it, is worth a trip just for the building. It’s [...]

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June 5, 2009

Bold architecture in NYC

I just found a reason to head back to NYC—the new academic building for Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art designed by Thom Mayne of the Los Angeles firm Morphosis. My initial reaction was WOW! I associate NYC with progressive fashion not architecture—at least in civic architecture. After seeing this building, I’m [...]

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April 29, 2009

Cool Haus - Ice Cream for Architects

Courtesy of Curbed LA, apparently a company called Cool Haus was selling architecture-themed ice cream sandwiches from a truck at Coachella a few weekends ago. The names make me smile, but if the actual product was shaped like the pictures on the menu they must have been really messy. Read more here.

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April 15, 2009

Design Team Chosen for NMAAHC

Last week I posted a few renderings of proposed designs for the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, possibly the last building that will be built on the mall. This week the design jury made its selection from the six submissions. Here is the new museum:

The winning architectural and design team is [...]

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April 8, 2009

Branding the New World Trade Center Building

The NY Times City Room blog posted an entry last week asking readers to submit logo ideas for the soon-to-be-built tallest skyscraper on the World Trade Center site (formerly known as the Freedom Tower.) Most of the submissions, which were posted today, are pretty awful. (I’m not even going to get into a discussion about [...]

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April 6, 2009

National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Smithsonian Institute recently unveiled conceptual designs for the planned National Museum of African American History and Culture. The new museum may be the last addition to the mall, so the design is especially important. Six architecture teams are competing to design the museum, including a team from Devrouax & Purnell and Pei Cobb Freed & [...]

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