Author: hugospeepbox
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Interview with Tim Geoghegan
Tim Geoghegan travels all around the world as a freelance Creative Director. He used to work for some of the most respected advertising agencies in the world, firms like Crispin Porter + Bogusky or Bartle Bogle Hegarty. In this interview he talks a bit about how intense his life is and what’s “home” for him. Another figure…
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Let us be kind. A lesson about Siza.
“I hereby schedule an interview/conversation with architect Siza Vieira, suggesting the date January 27th (Sunday) at noon”. On that day Oporto welcomed us with rain. We arrived early to the street where the offices of the two Portuguese Pritzker Prize winners are located. While we stood under the garage entrance, we saw him arrive in…
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4 Horas em Florença (guia para Dilmar)
Para os que já a visitaram, Florença será a “cidade média” mais bonita que alguma vez se poderá ver. É uma declaração bastante ousada, mas não estará longe da verdade. Ela é tão extraordinária que há mesmo um síndrome que toma o nome da cidade (uma perturbação psicossomática decorrente do excesso de exposição à arte…
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Fallingwater House & why “everybody” wants to be an architect
“When I was in younger I wanted to be an architect!”. This is for sure one of the most common things architects hear. And when we do, we feel proud with ourselves (even a bit vain) and we end up not knowing what to say. “That house made me want to be an architect” or…
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Visita a Fallingwater House e o porquê de “todos” quererem ser arquitectos
“Quando era mais novo também queria ir para arquitectura!”. Seguramente será uma das frases mais ouvidas por parte de arquitectos. Ao escutarmos estas palavras, ficamos orgulhosos (e um pouco vaidosos) e acabamos por não saber o que responder. Após a visita à Fallingwater House, “essa casa fez-me querer ter sido arquitecto/a” ou “tenho pena de não…
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Presentation to Rem Koolhaas – “Fundamentals” Exhibition (Venice Biennale)
Following the extensive research done for issue #37 of Volume magazine (Is This Not a Pipe?), C-Lab was invited to be part of this year’s Venice Biennale 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Rem Koolhaas’ Fundamentals show. Additional research is still being developed and regularly presented. Curator: Rem…
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A “tragédia” inevitável entre Woody e Lisboa
Boy, this is a really great city. I don’t care what anybody says. It’s a real knock-out, you know? Olhando para a rua consigo ver as ubíquas placas verdes claras na esquina da 1st Av. e a E 56th St. Lá fora estão -7º. Dentro do café a música que se ouve, juntamente com o…
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“Volume” Magazine #35: Is This Not a Pipe?
Publisher: Archis [Amsterdam, November 2013 | 160 pages (color)] Editor/Contributing Editors: Jeffrey Inaba (C-Lab), Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. Design: Irma Boom Guests: Mark Wigley, Bjarke Ingels, Christian Kerez, Andrès Jaque, MOS, Juan Herreros, Philippe Rahm, Kiel Moe, David Gissen, An Te Lui, Phil Bernstein, Filip Tejchman,…
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Next Stop: Pittsburgh
Eight hours after leaving the office in NYC, I had arrived to Pittsburgh around midnight. I was there visiting João, a friend of mine who is a Portuguese PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. In my first two months in New York, this was the first time I had left it. And although I had not…
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NYC – Water Towers
Before setting foot into this complex island, I would look at pictures of water towers on rooftops and think that they were some sort of extinct industrial structures on top of buildings way outside the city. The truth is that there are thousands of them here and they have been around for some time and…
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The Importance of People & Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
For those of you who have moved to a another city for the first time, you will understand this inescapable truth: at some point you will eventually get in a wrong bus, and you will notice that you have made a big mistake in choosing that particular route. And you have to get off before…
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“Adaptation Lab” Exhibition
The Architectural Foundation, London, 19-22 November 2013 Guests: Rick Robinson (IBM – Executive Architect for Smarter Cities), Lean Doody (ARUP – Program director for Smart Cities), Simon Allford (Architect of Google’s London HQ), Liam Young (Founder of Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today), Jürgen Mayer H. (Architect), Phillipe Rahm (Architect) Concept: C-Lab + The Architectural Foundation (London) Responsabilities: Concept, curatorship (content and guests), exhibition spacial organization,…
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Mies is in the detaiLs
Along with The Economist building in London, designed by Alice and Peter Smithson, The Seagram building in New York, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is one of the most interesting examples a 20th century office building that creates quality public space in the city center. Mies’ “less is more” is perfectly reflected in this…
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Above Us All
While Banksy is still clowning around in his “New York Tour”, I found this somewhat surreal vision (I believe on 6th Ave). How strange is it that this figure/entity is so ubiquitous that we don’t even notice its presence anymore?
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Delirious (about) New York
I closed the office door and noticed that people were standing in the corridor. They were looking through the windows, in front of the elevators, to this beautiful sunset. After they left, I stayed there for awhile. (This would influence what happened no more than 5 minutes after). Behind a door I could hear this…
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Nice to see you
In 2008, I had an interview with David Adjaye, in one of his visits to Lisbon. Back then, I remember him presenting an intriguing house, located in Brooklyn. Has he said, this house “captured the same mood” has Dirty House did, in London. Once you spend some time understanding the design of both houses, you can’t…
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Entrevista a Alain de Botton
É mais conhecido pelos seus livros e documentários onde aborda a importância da filosofia no nosso dia-a-dia. Alain de Botton é fundador de “Living Architecture”, uma empresa que aluga casas para férias, projectadas por gabinetes de arquitectura reconhecidos: MVRDV, NORD, Jarmund/Vignaes, David Kohn Architects e Peter Zumthor. Foi durante a escrita do livro “The Architecture…
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Interview with Alain de Botton
Better known for his books and television documentaries which address the importance of philosophy in our daily lives, Alain de Botton is founder of “Living Architecure”, a company which rents holiday homes designed by renowned architectural practices like: MVRDV, NORD, Jarmund/Vigsnaes, David Kohn Architects and Peter Zumthor. It was while writing the book “The Architecture…
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