Tag: architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

Compliance

February 2, 2020

architecture as problem solving, architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

Beaches, ponds and zero-entry swimming pools are all bodies of water without inconvenient level differences at their edges. Zero-entry swimming pools are sometimes called “beach-entry” pools. When we arrive at a crowded beach, we begin to look for a spot long before we reach the water, especially if the beach is accessed by stairs or […]

MARKETING

Showboating

February 21, 2014

Graham McKay

architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

Luxury motor launches (aka. motor “yachts”) are a new, rich and utterly predictable field of architect endeavour. Once again, Philippe Starck was there first. Honestly, the guy’s a genius. Here’s his M/Y “A” (Motor Yacht “A”). M/Y “A” is a luxury motor yacht designed by Philippe Starck and Martin Francis,[6][7][8] and constructed by Blohm + Voss at the HDW shipyard in Kiel, Germany.[5][9] It was commissioned in […]

COMMENT

Architectural Myths #12: The Daring Cantilever

January 31, 2014

Graham McKay

architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

Cantilevers have little practical use apart from facilitating the construction of bridges. or allowing a bit more floor space past the last row of columns. As a general rule, it’s easier and less expensive to use columns to support a structure rather than cantilever it over nothing like, for example, this. With cantilevers, we notice […]

TYPOLOGIES

The Maximum Dwelling: RESPECT

September 25, 2013

Graham McKay

architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

The Maximum Dwelling showed some of the ways newly rich Victorian-era industrialists and entrepreneurs spent their new money on building supersized houses to announce their arrival in society. No surprise there. Architecture is often how rich people do this. The world’s moved on though. Today, big and expensive buildings are how newly-rich countries present themselves to […]

MARKETING

The Money Shot

September 1, 2012

Graham McKay

architecture as the articulation of money or property or power

“Originally, in general film-making usage, the “money shot” was simply the scene that cost the most money to produce. In general, a money shot is a provocative, sensational, or memorable sequence in a film, on which the film’s commercial performance is perceived to depend.” We arrive at a much the same truth if we substitute the […]