http://fulcrummag.com Charting New Directions in Architecture, Design, and Practice Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:21:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en         Sorry we were a little late posting. Blame it on Mercury Retrograde. Full coverage of NeoCon might not happen until I'm back in New York, because I lost a day due to technical difficulties, and now have appointments to keep. But I will tell you this--NeoCon is jumping, despite tornadoes, ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/neocon-is-buzzing/ www.readymadeprojects.com   Fulcrum interviewed Stephen Burks by BlackBerry shortly after he returned from the Milan Furniture Fair. His comments about the furnishings he launched there and the other designs and people he saw give insight into the life and thoughts of a rising product designer.     At the Milan Furniture Fair this spring, Cappellini ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/end-note-2/ www.bnodesign.com www.mrarch.com www.oppenoffice.com www.shoparc.com www.work.ac     Office Space David Mann, MR Architecture and Design Changing space has always been important. In the beginning, it would be perfect, then we’d outgrow it. And when things got cramped, it was bad for interviewing—we looked like a sweatshop. As soon as I felt like we weren’t hiring the people we needed ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/growing-pains/ Don’t Just Write a Contract, Get it Signed! When a designer comes to C. Jaye Berger, a Manhattan attorney, to find out how to get a deadbeat client to pay up, she asks if there’s a contract. Often, the answer is: “There is one, but we never got around to signing ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/the-lowdown/ www.asymptote.net A sudden spate of major commissions around the world belies Asymptote’s long, circuitous route to ascendancy. A look at some of the milestones on the firm’s path from bytes to buildings. Arrival in the New World - 1967 The Rashid family emigrates from England to the “new world” of Canada. Upon arrival ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/the-story-of-our-success/ History repeats itself? Perhaps not literally, but certain places do seem to have a curious resonance. Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, located behind Carrère & Hastings’s celebrated New York Public Library is just such a one. Two hundred years ago the site was a Native American hunting ground. It then ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/new-age-architecture/ The fiber-reinforced plastic panels that serve as the skin of Zaha Hadid’s sensuous—and portable—Chanel Art Container (see “Nomad Architecture”). Photograph: Virgile Simon Bertrand. SB: There seems to be a trend toward more graphic work. Is it due to our desire to liken our surroundings to the graphic world of electronic media? ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/pattern-recognition/ “These days, people use the phrase ‘design hotel’ purely as a marketing vehicle,” says Marcel Wanders, who just completed his first such large-scale property, the Mondrian South Beach in Miami. “But you can’t just put a fancy sofa in the lobby and call it a day; a design hotel is ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/check-out-time/ Seminal hotels in the history of 20th-century destination design.   1893 Hôtel du Palais Biarritz www.hotel-du-palais.com   When Napoleon lll built the Villa Eugénie on the bay of Biscay for his consort royal in 1855, he helped transform the drowsy fishing village of Biarritz into a posh resort town. Other crowned heads soon followed for the breathtaking ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/case-file/ www.glavovicstudio.com How Margi Glavovic Nothard turned a wedding gazebo commission into an arts-themed park, sparking the renewal of Hollywood, Florida’s downtown.   Hollywood, Florida, may be only a half hour’s drive north of Miami, but it has always felt as if it were a world away. It lacks Miami’s cosmopolitan vibe. Its population ... http://fulcrummag.com/2008/06/strategy/