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The Architecture of Tron: Legacy

As Tron: Legacy gets ready to release this December, it's interesting to see how the look and feel of the sequel is influenced by the director's architectural background.  Joseph Kosinski's architectural degree along with his superb CGI experience has helped him to bring the Tron world to a whole new level of realism and digital fantasy.  Hit the link below for Arkinet's closer look at Kosinski's path to Tron's director's chair as well as a video interview with Kosinski.

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Rietveld Pavilion

In 1955, Gerrit Rietveld (1884-1964) designed a pavilion for the display of small sculptures at the Third International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnhem’s Sonsbeek Park. This ‘Sonsbeek Pavilion’ was intended as a temporary structure, and it was dismantled when the exhibition was over. However, many people had been greatly impressed by its simplicity, and ten years later, on the initiative of several Dutch architects, the building found a permanent home in the Kröller-Müller Museum’s sculpture garden, under a new name: the ‘Rietveld Pavilion’. On 8 May 1965 the pavilion was officially inaugurated with an exhibition of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth.

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casa en las lomas

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde readers at Apartment Therapy.

As you may know, our home got featured on apartment therapy last week and like clockwork, the comments came flowing the gates of heaven and hell. You can't please everybody! LOL!

This is a sneak preview of the comments by different readers:

The lovers:

• love your chair collection!

• So creative and unique!

• its a dream home!

• Those chairs give me a warm and fuzzy feeling

• Beautiful home.

• impressed by the clean lines and organization of the home

• Great place, I love your chair collection!

• the house looks great!

• If there is a design and MCM heaven, your home would be it.

• love the colors and the combination of textures and materials.

• Wonderful home!

• There is something unexpected at every turn.

• an impressive amount of cool things

• Love it, esp the closet and bathroom

• Beautiful place ... is it located in South Beach?

• Perfect! My taste to a "T!"

The not so lovers:

• do you really need that many chairs and clocks?

• Have a seat! I have 100 of them here.

• Hoarders with rich people.

• expensive things you own

• walking into the nearest DWR and saying "I'll take one of each."

• This is a "look at all the toys I have post."

• It just felt like a DWR showroom.

• It's just missing price tags.

• is this supposed to inspire me?

• Typical designoid fodder. Wheres the actual design?

• guy is attempting to show off that he has 2 ipads

• Must be nice to have money

• a terrible looking home

• One is even inclined to wonder about the character of the owner

• a "collector" who just doesn't get it.

• It's cold, it's artificial, it's contrived

It makes for a very interesting read. I really enjoy them! We are not decorating our house to win any contest but rather to feel comfortable and relaxed at home. So far we've succeed.

Enjoy!

-joel

long table made with a ladder

While walking around the design district, we came across this cool concept. A long table, made out of an industrial grade ladder with acrylic panels on top, light bellow and suspended with metal wires from the ceiling.

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