Bulldozing a 12 million dollars house

I really don´t like this house, even it it´s worth 12 million dollars. But, if somebody tells me to demolish it completely, I´d think it twice, can we rescue something, anything?

But, when you get 100 million dollars for a divorce, you can do it without pain :)

¨There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife when she bought a $12 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a $12 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.¨

From Shane Bacon´s article:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/tiger-woods-ex-wife-bulldozes-12-million-home-232405259.html

Pictures courtesy of Pacific Coast News and With Leather

El Guggenheim de Frank Lloyd Wright con una muestra colgante en su espacio central

Caballo embalsamado (¿Muerto o vivo? Ud. decide!) colgando de la espiral del Guggenheim, New York. De la obra de Maurizio Cattelan. Foto de http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1436825-por-que-le-habran-puesto-caballos

¿Maurizio Cattelan abandona mientras está ganando o antes de quedar demasiado rezagado? La pregunta sobrevuela la muy anticipada retrospectiva de 21 años del Guggenheim donde, como es ampliamente sabido a estas alturas, todo el arte está suspendido en el aire. Esta muestra inusual ha sido descripta por Cattelan como "su canto de cisne". Aunque sólo tiene 51 años, lo que en años artísticos es poco, ha anunciado que se retira del trabajo de hacer arte. Quizá para celebrar, ha convertido su retrospectiva en un estallido, hecho de piezas anteriores -128, para ser precisos-, lo que exige una delicada ingeniería. Toda la producción de Cattelan, salvo dos obras cuyos dueños se negaron a prestarlas, cuelga en una masa gigante distendida de cables conectados a una viga de aluminio cerca del techo de la rotonda del museo. Titulado Todo , llena uno de los vacíos arquitectónicos más grandes del mundo con lo que sin duda figurará como uno de los móviles más complicados y visualmente fallidos de la historia del arte.(....)

Visto desde abajo especialmente, Todo es un catálogo completo razonado, en la forma de una piñata explotada. Al ascender la rampa, el caos continúa: todo parece venirse hacia uno a la vez. Desplegadas aquí y allá, por ejemplo, hay piezas conceptuales de sus primeros años de "estética relacional".

Fragmento de la nota de Roberta Smith (The New York Times). Traducción de Gabriel Zadunaisky.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1436825-por-que-le-habran-puesto-caballos

Las siguientes fotos son del New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/design/maurizio-cattelan-at-the-guggenheim-review.html

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATION. CALL FOR PAPERS

The editors of Preservation Research & Education invite paper proposals for the fifth (2011) edition of the journal. Papers and special reports on all topics related to preservation education, research, and scholarship are considered. In addition, we invite essay proposals for PER Forum, which address articles published in PER’s previous volumes.

The deadline for submission of papers is FEBRUARY 15, 2012. Papers will be blind reviewed and authors notified of publication status by April 2012.

Complete guidelines for paper submission can be accessed on NCPE website (http://www.ncpe.us) or are available through the co- editors, Anat Geva and Kevin Glowacki, Texas A&M University (PERjournal@gmail.com).

http://www.ncpe.us/

My last pictures from Chinatown, San Francisco

That´s me at the plaza

The oldest building

Cesar Pelli´s tower at the rear

Cathay´s restaurant at the left corner

San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attractions in San Francisco. Learn more about Chinatown:

http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/

My last pictures from Walt Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles, California

 Downtown L.A. from Walt Disney Concert Hall. By Frank Gehry

 An entrance from the plaza level.

  Downtown L.A. from Walt Disney Concert Hall. By Frank Gehry

 The rose sculpture at the Plaza Level.

 That´s my sister and me.

That´s my architect husband

Lotte, Korea's First Supertower

Lotte World Tower, once called Lotte Jamsil Super Tower, is the fifth-tallest building under way in the world, says the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Chaebols, other than Lotte, have built the world's tallest towers. Yet the tallest building in Korea is the 308-m North East Asia Trade Tower at the Songdo International Business District.

The Lotte tower is just coming out of the ground. If finished by October 2015 as currently scheduled, the 123-story tower would rank as the seventh tallest of the world's eight supertowers over 500 m. The tallest is the 828-m Burj Khalifa in the Arab emirate of Dubai.

Since 1989, Lotte's founder and general chairman, Shin Kyuk-Ho, weighed 10 designs by three other architects before selecting the current design by New York City-based Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. KPF's.

The construction of the mega columns

The temporary platform

REFERENCE:

http://enr.construction.com/buildings/building_types/2011/1212-65279Koreas-First-Supertower-Is-an-All-in-the-Family-Affair.asp?elq=2976529b3a554072bae1eed99

Kauffman Center designed by Moshe Safdie. Kansas

JE Dunn Construction's Kyle McQuiston takes us on a hardhat tour of the Moshe Safdie-designed Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Urban camouflage

Urban environments are crowded with all kinds of sights that are so common they often just seem to fade into the background. Signs, buildings, cars, the odd package waiting on a doorstep – they are all so ubiquitous that our minds somewhat block them out. Artist Ceyetano Ferrer takes the things that our minds gloss over and makes them almost disappear with clever urban camouflage.

Using photo stickers, Ferrer shows passers-by exactly what urban objects obscure. The sign on the street, the box in the corner, the billboard downtown: they all cover up another layer of the city. Ferrer’s clever method of peeling back the layers actually involves building up another layer that is ultimately akin to an invisibility cloak.

Reference:

http://weburbanist.com/2010/11/24/under-the-city-street-art-peels-back-urban-layers/