Results tagged “lecorbusier”

Do you love AutoCad, have a fondness for Architectural Record, drafting tables, and fun architectural renderings? If so, you could be The Bachelor on ABC's reality love show. But not all architects need apply, ABC has a specific idea in mind: "Basically we are searching for a 27-33 year old single, handsome, successful, charismatic guy who would like to be whisked away to an exotic, tropical location dating 25 beautiful girls." We assume that George Costanza and those sporting Le Corbusier-like glasses need not apply. Hmmm...at 27-33, aren't most architects still "paying their dues" in the field? It might be kind of hard to find a "successful" architect, no? Unless of course success is graduating from the ramen for dinner lifestyle.

As part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the United Nations, the international organization is giving free tours on Sundays this month. Gothamist went to the UN this past Sunday for a tour which lasted all of 30 minutes. During the tour, which seems to be English only (the regular tour costs $11.50 for adults and is in multiple languages), the guides point out several murals and gifts to the UN and visitors are shown the Security Council (pictured above), the Trusteeship Council, and the General Assembly.

It seems like every few months or so there’s a story in the news about how hard it is to produce a show on stage these days – hard to make it profitable, hard to get the audiences. From Broadway to off-off Broadway, it's the same story. Thankfully a few recent shows have done well enough that they’ve returned, or will be, for extended runs. The lucky recipients of this popular demand?

Gothamist received the latest Design Within Reach catalog, and we, as we always do, lusted over various Le Corbusier and Mies items we would love after we graduate from our current cobbled together decor. [And after we actually earmark the "better furniture savings fund," which somehow gets shortshrifted by the "useless tcotchkes slush fund."] So Gothamist was seriously amused by Design Without Reach, a resource for you to copy Design Within Reach designs. Got that? For example, the DWOR version of the $250 Nelson Ball Clock utilizes lollipops, a salt container, and clockworks. Brilliant. [Via kottke]

Swiss photographer René Burri has a show through June 5 at the Hermes Gallery. While his most famous photograph might be the iconic portrait of Che Guevara, the show, Utopia: Architecture and Architects, exhibits photographs of famous architects, like Le Corbusier and Luis Barrgan, and their buildings. Gothamist headed to the opening of the exhibit at the Hermes Gallery (at the Hermes store, 691 Madison Avenue) to take a look at the works and see Burri himself.

The George Eastman House archive has a wonderful series of 130 photos by Andreas Feininger, taken mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. For instance, Broadway, the Brooklyn Bridge, LES, Williamsburg Bridge, more LES, downtown, skyscrapers, Mulberry Street, and elevated trains. Feininger was an interesting guy; a European immigrant, he didn't come to New York until he was 33. Before turning to photography, he worked as an assistant to Le Corbusier. After he came to the States, he became one of Life Magazine's most famous photographers.