Bruce Goff: Sketches and Animated Renderings

Wallpaper magazine posted an article about the upcoming Bruce Goff retrospective at the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, on the campus of The University of Oklahoma. You can view the Wallpaper article and 3D renderings of Bruce Goff's unbuilt work by clicking here. There are also more images and a video at the exhibit website that you can access by clicking here.

Below is an excerpt from Wallpaper's article:

"Somewhat sidelined in his day, yet now cited as an influence by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, Bruce Goff is finally getting his moment - albeit posthumously. The expressionist devotee of the 'found' object and pioneer of the organic ornament, Goff was also director of the school of architecture at the University of Oklahoma (OU), which is about to stage a major exhibition of his work. This October its Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art is hosting a survey of the architect's never-built or subsequently destroyed projects, using images, models, and the latest 3D rendering technology to bring them to life."

Incredible Space Saving Furniture

While this doesn't directly relate to what we do on a daily basis, it is both fun and inspiring to see what the Italian company Clei can do with space saving furniture. The video below is a quick tour by Resource Furniture of their showroom in NYC. I found this post originally on Core77.

Rackspace Converts Vacant Shopping Mall Into LEED Gold Headquarters

IT company Rackspace recently renovated an abandoned mall into their new corporate headquarters - and earned a LEED Gold rating in the process. Below are some comments from Inhabitat. You can also see more pictures at their post here.

So far, Rackspace has redesigned over 230,000 square feet within the 1.2 million square foot mall, with more development to come. During demolition, Rackspace recycled over 1,900 tons of concrete, metal, wood and other materials. At the same time, the company sent over six trailer loads of recovered building materials including doors, windows and fixtures, to Habitat for Humanity.

The redesigned interior is ultra-green, too. Showers installed inside the building encourage employees to bike or walk to work, natural lighting pours in through skylights, lighting can be controlled at individual workstations, and the company’s irrigation system only uses recycled water collected through a cistern near the main entrance. It’s a brilliant reuse for an abandoned shopping mall — now we hope that Rackspace will green up its nine data centers accordingly.

Disposable Dishes

When it comes to entertaining and special occasions, eco-minded consumers can be torn by two apparently conflicting desires: the need to be green and the easy clean-up made possible by disposable dishes. Thanks to a new innovation from VerTerra, however, that conflict can finally be put to rest.

Google HQ in Zurich

Talk about shifting the paradigm in office interiors.

Take a look at a gallery of pics here.