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Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Kitsch fix

A sample of the many "Kitsch fix"s found at Jennifer Coté's blog, Coté writes. Enjoy!

[And her top ten personal favourites]

Kitsch fix 01 - Pink gorilla, Austin, TX (cotewrites.com)

Kitsch fix 03 - Hyde Park Bar & Grill, Austin, TX (cotewrites.com)

Kitsch fix 25 - Dinosaurs, Half Moon Bay, CA (cotewrites.com)

Kitsch fix 28 - Peter Pan mini golf, Austin, TX (cotewrites.com)

Kitsch fix 42 - Hand car wash, Studio City, CA (cotewrites.com)

Friday, 25 April 2014

SketchUp competition "Out of Place".

The open competition solicited renderers to submit their most outrageous decontextualized 3D models, generated with SketchUp and Maxwell Render.

Read on.

Friday, 12 April 2013

California Crazy

Heimann, Jim (2001) California Crazy & Beyond. Roadside vernacular architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Long live kitsh!

Some kitsch touristic destinations all around the world.

See full article at El País.

Bar Tiki Ti, Los Ángeles (California)
(elviajero.elpais.com)

Parque de las Grutas, Druskininkai, Lituania
(elviajero.elpais.com)

Rocky Balboa, Žitište, Serbia
(elviajero.elpais.com)

Parque de Grottenbahn (Austria)
(elviajero.elpais.com)

Sunday, 30 September 2012

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Palacio Dorado Hotel (O. Chuquiruna)

Octavio Chuquiruna, Peruvian builder (not a professional architect). A recent work northern Lima.

"I've always liked detail." he says, "to do a good façade, to make suggestions to the owner. Sometimes, because of economic reasons, the owner would say to me, 'no, do it just simple,' but I would say to him, 'What if we put just a little shape here?'. The owner, happily, would say to me, 'let's do it,' and he would be very pleased."

El Palacio Dorado. Av. Puente Piedra Sur, 1308.

Chuquiruna, O. (2002) "Diseñando la ciudad". In: Coloquio Lo cholo en el Perú. Migraciones y Mixtura. Lima: Biblioteca Nacional. p 166.

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Heavenly calling

"The recently restored St. Jan's Cathedral in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch (hortened to 'Den Bos'), boasts an unusual statue. Sculptor Ton Mooy spent 14 years carving some 40 new statues for the cathedral's exterior. While most of them are the standard fare adorning age-old churches, Mooy couldn't resist adding a modern version: an angel with a mobile phone. "The church leaders took some convincing, but in the end, they went for it." he says. A small replica of the statue can be purchased via ben-engel.nl."

Holland Herald, Vol 47, Nº 07, July 2012.
Media Partners Group. Amstelveen.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

McDonald's

Kitschy McDonald's at Chicago Navy Pier

Friday, 24 February 2012

Harold Washington Library (Hammond, Beeby & Babka)

The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is named for former Mayor Harold Washington. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 S. State Street in Chicago. [...] It is approximately 70,294 m2.

The building was designed by the architectural firm of Hammond, Beeby and Babka, now known as Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc., winners of a design competition held in 1987 to replace the old central library, which had been housed in the present Chicago Cultural Center.

More, even more