Monthly Archives: April 2008

Warehouses to offices

3 Apr ’08 – 10:43 pm

The 8522 National Boulevard Complex in Culver City, California is an early (1990) work by architect Eric Owen Moss. Five adjoining 1920s and 40s warehouses have been adapted into a single building united by a new entrance and a public corridor creating varied and light filled working spaces. Links: Eric Owen Moss

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Small workshop to apartments

3 Apr ’08 – 7:41 pm

This adaptively reused workshop in Milan was converted into a small block of eight apartments by the addition of an extra floor by LPzR Architetti. Links: LPzR Via: materialicious

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And the winner is…

3 Apr ’08 – 1:58 pm

No we aren’t talking about Jean Nouvel. The prize for Best Fossil Fools Day Prank goes to Inhabitat’s Frank Gehry McMansion with its “extremely advanced” “PVC-framed double glazed windows, gypsum plasterboard walls and an advanced timber framing system”. It sounds all too plausible, what with his line of McMuseums and all, and you can bet [...]

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Happy Fossil Fools Day!

1 Apr ’08 – 7:27 pm

It’s good to see an old meme meaningfully adaptively reused, but isn’t every day Fossil Fools Day? Well if you’re fool enough to think you’ll be saved from climate change by the Rapture or some other supernatural event like the US rejoining the planet any day soon then you could be in for a sad [...]

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