One of the fundamentals of interior design feng shui is the five elements. Light and dark are always in balance. You should try to keep things simple and avoid using a lot of decorative elements. You should also use mirrors…
How to Maintain Your HVAC System
If you want to maintain the high value of your home you simply need to be able to perform mundane tasks that will stay its best condition for the long run. Some repairs can cost hundreds or even thousands, but…
It’s Not About Schinkel, It’s About Schinken
Tongue very much in cheek, Calgary-born, now New York-based, painter Attila Richard Lukacs offered recent work, continuing his powerfully painted, affecting odyssey of gay life. The thirty-five-year-old Lukacs, who came to New York in 1996 after spending ten years in…
John Backus
Source- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/backus.html Người tiên phong trong ngôn ngữ lập trình máy tính, Phòng thí nghiệm IBM Watson tại Đại học Columbia, 1950-52 Ảnh trái: từ Jean Ford Brennan, “Phòng thí nghiệm IBM Watson tại Đại học Columbia: Lịch sử”, IBM, Armonk…
Make Cool Star Wars Paintings
On one of my shopping trips to Re-Use Hawai’i, I picked up reclaimed louvers and painted trim pieces to turn them into wall art. I created a template to aid me in making cool star wars paintings. It helped standardize…
Employing loom techniques to photographs
Employing loom techniques to photographs, Louise Noguchi, in four works from her 1995 series, Compilation Portraits, weaves tiny squares of complete photographs of either murderers or murder victims into those of auto-portraits. She therefore offers a persuasive disavowal of one…
The Return of the Real
Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, Cambridge, MA, London, UK: MIT Press, 1996, 300 pp., ill. b. & w. This collection of seven essays, none of which are reprints, charts the…
Lisa Gabrielle Mark looks into a surprise hit of Toronto’s winter season
Much theorizing has been done about the chicken-and-egg relationship between architecture and society, the degree to which one shapes and determines the other. Does a society make a city in its own image? Yes. Does a city’s structure produce a…
Reeling into the future
The image that appears on the cover of this issue is from a film sequence in Paulette Phillips’s recent play . In the film a woman quite literally bashes her head against a brick wall. It is the contradictions that…
Animation art Market
Whether it’s art “from the easels of animation legends such as Chuck Jones or works created by masters from other art disciplines such as cinematic artist John Alvin (see “Cinema on Canvas” in the November issue), sculptor Lawrence Noble or…
Factory Fifteen Launch
Redisign of the Hotel Rex in San Francisco
Interior decorator Candra Scott and furniture designer Ted Boerner successfully redesigned the Hotel Rex in San Francisco, CA. The theme celebrates the literary and artistic life of the city from the 1920s to the 1940s by hanging cheap wall art…
Readying the apartment for occupancy – Alexander C. Gorlin
Architect Alexander C. Gorlin was engaged to handle consolidation and renovation, recasting of function allocations, and generally readying the apartment for occupancy. In planning his conversion/renovation scheme, Gorlin set his sights on creating an open loft-like space projecting, without recourse…
Philip Monk’s “Substitute City”
There’s an intangible inner logic to Philip Monk’s “Substitute City” that gives the exhibition its coherence and clarity. He contends that the overt subject of the show is neither the city of Toronto nor its architecture and urban planning; instead…
There’s an uncanny resemblance between reaching the 9/11 memorial plaza
There’s an uncanny resemblance between reaching the 9/11 memorial plaza and boarding a plane. Both require a ticket ordered in advance, arriving early and passing through multiple security checkpoints and baggage screenings. Because the September iith events were key in…
Design of the Guggenheim Museum
For Hollein’s more recent design of the Guggenheim Museum in Salzburg, as yet unbuilt, Hollein was a reverse Michelangelo, designing spaces to be carved out of the center of a rocky mountain. In Frankfurt the city block was his rock;…
Berlin
Berlin’s museums, in disarray for decades, also have seen a rebirth. Prussian ruler Frederick William III envisioned the city as an artistic center and championed the creation of five museums on the river Spree, known as Museum Island. Situated in…
U.S. homebuilders: ignoring solar
Whether many forms of solar energy are practical for wide-spread use is still debatable. Solar collectors for industrial heat are restricted to favorable geographic locations. Photovoltaic cells that turn sunlight directly into electricity are competitive only for specialized applications, such…