12.Dec.2011 An Old Friend Gains New Life!
The historic Poirier’s Diner (a 1947 Kullman, the second Diner in Rhode Island to be individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places) is on the move! For more than 50 years, and under many different names, such as “Armand’s, Krystal’s, the Top Hat, Arnold’s and most recently, the El Faro, the Diner [...]
28.Sep.2010 ABetter World by Design Party at the Box Office – Friday 10/1
The Box Office will be hosting the kickoff mixer for the annual “A Better World By Design 2010″ Conference this Friday, October 1st from 8:30 to 10:30. This fantastic social event will be teeming with designers, hipsters, and environmentally responsive movers and shakers. Please visit http://www.abetterworldbydesign.com/content/events/ to learn more about A Better World by Design [...]
03.Aug.2010 Weekly Fuel – Efficiency Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant From Studio Bellecour, a green office building in Toulouse, France Things being destroyed, very slowly. The sound effects are a bit much, but still, awesome. Flickr user theclosedloop, via the Industrial Designers’ Society of America, reminds us that “there is no away” Google has added real-time weather monitoring to [...]
20.Jul.2010 Weekly Fuel – Gyre Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant Art student Sam Starr built a small velodrome in a disused library at Pomona College. The project riffs off the idea of circulation — of bicycles, of books, of bloodflow in exercise — and simultaneously touches on the relationship between old and new media. Regardless, its a beautiful structure. [...]
03.Jun.2010 Weekly Fuel – Bottomless Pit Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant From Guatemala, news that a terrifyingly enormous sinkhole swallowed an entire factory, which was fortunately closed. The thing is reportedly 60 feet across and 300 feet deep — about as deep as the Statue of Liberty is tall. The sinkholes — which occur regularly in Central America and Florida, [...]
01.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel – 3D Printed Ark Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant There’s more below the fold….
28.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/28/10
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant At Stack, we’re all about construction, but every once in a while it’s nice to check out the other side of the coin: choreographed destruction, set to opera. (Virginia DOT) Another “best architecture of the decade” list, with intriguing choices like the Large Hadron Collider and the Svalbard Global Seed [...]
20.Jan.2010 Containers To Clinics Canopy
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant Check out these photos of the Containers to Clinics prototype canopy:
18.Jan.2010 C2C Featured in the Providence Journal
Peter Lord, the ProJo’s environmental reporter, featured Stack and Containers 2 Clinics in Sunday’s Environmental Journal. Environmental Journal – Container-Turned-Clinic Set for Haiti
14.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – Computer Generated Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Above: The Third & The Seventh, an astonishing, entirely computer-generated film by Alex Roman. The detail is incredible, and more so when you find out it was created by one person. Watch it fullscreen. From the beautiful-architectural-drawings file: Original [...]
