I finally made it to the newly reopened Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades. My expectations were very high, having read a number of reviews praising the new entry buildings, cafe, grounds and amphitheater, and I have to admit, I left a little disappointed but also thoroughly entertained. The collections are amazing, after all, but that [...]
I don’t think I really understood the potential warmth of minimalism until I went to the Schindler House on King’s Road in Los Angeles. The notion that this house and studio will be 100 years old in just 13 years should give all of us a swift kick in the butt to try and come [...]
Greg and I visited the recently completed sculpture garden on the roof of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art today. We had a great afternoon, it was sunny and hot, and we had the best iced coffee ever at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe anchoring the space. I enjoyed it, and looked forward to [...]
Japan is a place that probably inspired me more than anything else I’ve ever experienced. The strangest thing is, is that most of the general landscapes and cityscapes that we passed through were nothing too exciting – a little worn down, wires and neon signs everywhere and lots of dingy concrete. However, that mediocrity was [...]
I still have yet to see it in person, but my dad took these images of the new Norsk Opera in Oslo for me. This part of Oslo is part wonderful, part dreary, part crazy condo explosion, and I think the Opera House has started to tip the scale back towards the wonderful. There is [...]
I think it probably violates a cardinal rule of blogdom, to blog about something seen on another blog, but I wont resist. I saw this house on Arch Daily and I did not want to ever forget its sweet little size and shape. Its amazing how it quietly disappears from the side, and from the [...]
David Chipperfield kept some amazing war damaged walls in his restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin. The gesture is an awesome sight (from what I can tell from the New York Times article) especially with the clean white stairs in intense contrast. Unfortunately a trip to Berlin may have to wait.
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