Aug 11th, 2008
The Montjuïc in Barcelona was completely redesigned in 1992 for the Olympic Games.
In this project entered the Montjuïc Communication Tower by Santiago Calatrava.
The tower is placed in a huge square with suggestive tubular lights, it seems to be in Mars.
Calatrava Communication Tower by nakire, Flickr
Aug 11th, 2008
To know that this building was designed about eighty years ago can be astonishing.
The pavilion of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was built for the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929.
Its marbles and pools make marvellous mirror games on contained objects and people.
Walls and roofs play with lights and shadows to create ambient symmetries.
It was a pleasure being inside of this architecture masterwork.
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe by malouette
Aug 9th, 2008
The Joan Miró Foundation presents a temporal exhibition of Olafur Eliasson.
photo by gustavo.toshiaki's
Aug 8th, 2008
Josep Puig i Cadafalch designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, among them the marvellous Palau del Baro de Quadres.
Casa Asia, which is a center for cultural information on Asia and the Pacific, has its headquarters in the palace.
Palau del Baro de Quadres, Wikipedia
Jul 30th, 2008
In the library, books are placed on shelves according to the classification system used. This order helps users in books discovering inside a physical space.
The beautiful example of Valérie gives added value by colors use. The main utility is to relate a gradient of a color to a class, in that way classes can be identified by colors. Besides books labels make volumes uniform. This means that books appear equal even if content is different.
A library is not a bookstore, books here are sored and classified, not sold; they are sought and they are found.
Valérie Madill, defining space through content
Jul 11th, 2008
Jun 17th, 2008
I’m involved in a knowledge management project for the Joint Research Centre, European Commission.
One aim of the project is to redesign the thesauri management system realized by FAO for a second edition of this open-source software.
At the moment the project is carried out by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission and British Geological Survey (BGS).
The FAO has published a news about the project that is partially available in the Assembla web site.
Jun 12th, 2008
The marvellous Italian pamphlet Eleanore Rigby published the last issue - Uomini Soli - that is entirely available on-line.
If you desire the paper version, please support Eleanore.
May 7th, 2008
Apr 28th, 2008
In the city of Florentia exist a beautiful medieval building, called Palazzo Strozzi.
Its cellars are managed by the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS) and at the moment they present the China China China !!! exhibition.
photo by We Make Money Not Art
