Paul Rudolph’s Kappa Sigma house on the Auburn University campus was built in 1961. Rudolph was actually a member of that fraternity when he went to Auburn and the fact that he ended up designing the new building (long after he’d left school), is pretty cool. There’s a renovation in the works/future, which is good, because it’s in pretty bad shape.
Never knew about this one.
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Isamu Noguchi’s Playground Equipment
“Noguchi’s playground equipment designs were criticized on the grounds they were too dangerous. These models were developed as part of a design for a playground to be constructed in Hawaii, but remained unrealized.” [via]
Here’s the playground they could have built on the High Line and not messed with the style…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqv6wboRE61qds6xzo1_500.png)
Isamu Noguchi’s Playground Equipment
“Noguchi’s playground equipment designs were criticized on the grounds they were too dangerous. These models were developed as part of a design for a playground to be constructed in Hawaii, but remained unrealized.” [via]
Here’s the playground they could have built on the High Line and not messed with the style…
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Bucky Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Story of a Friendship: Shoji Sadao, director of the Noguchi Museum, relates the dynamics of a friendship based on a shared fascination with technology and the possibility of a utopian world.
This entire piece, and its accompanying images, are well-worth a click-through to Domus for a read.
[Image: Isamu Noguchi, Akari light sculpture display in Japan, 1970. Photograph by Michio Noguchi, courtesy of Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller and Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, R. Buckminster Fuller Collection.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqv78bvCIx1qds6xzo1_500.jpg)
Bucky Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Story of a Friendship: Shoji Sadao, director of the Noguchi Museum, relates the dynamics of a friendship based on a shared fascination with technology and the possibility of a utopian world.
This entire piece, and its accompanying images, are well-worth a click-through to Domus for a read.
[Image: Isamu Noguchi, Akari light sculpture display in Japan, 1970. Photograph by Michio Noguchi, courtesy of Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller and Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, R. Buckminster Fuller Collection.]
I grew up in Durham, NC and my whole immediate family lives there today. I often recommend it to friends desperate to escape the high cost of ownership in the tri-state area. And yet, everything cool that has happened in Durham and environs has happened since I left.
There was no foodie culture, no downtown farmers market, just one renovated tobacco factory, no art house movie theater, no documentary film festival and so on. I took my best babysitting charge to Northgate Mall in my Sentra, let her ride the carousel and eat McDonald’s French fries, and everyone thought that was fine. (Except the horrified woman who once stopped to check that Ariel was not my child. We were both blonde and blue-eyed, but I was 16.)
The latest episode in the rise of the Triangle is the reopening of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh on Saturday, with what looks like a gorgeous addition by Thomas Phifer & Partners and new identity by my friend Yve Ludwig at Pentagram. We went often in my childhood, and always thought the original Edward Durell Stone building was dreary (brown on brown) but the collection could be inspiring. I remember a set of refrigerator magnets that now make me cringe: “Say Hey to Monet,” etc. I am sad I can’t find anyone to fly me home to write about it, but looking forward to it the next time I am there.
UPDATE: And the New York Times recognizes Durham as foodie heaven, with the farmer’s market given a starring role. Amy Tornquist, chef and owner at Watts Grocery, catered my wedding in 2003. It is great to see her talents recognized.
UPDATE 2: ArchNewsNow with an early report on the NCMA.
