We like: Patti Smith's photographs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There probably isn't anything this woman can't do. In the <em>New York Times' </em>style magazine, <em>T, </em>A.O. Scott interviews Patti Smith, who has an exhibition opening of her photographs, all of them beautifully composed and acutely observed. The link to the article is </span><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/requiem-lass/?ref=womens-fashion-issue"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, and the photograph of Smith below is by Anton Corbijn from the <em>New York Times</em>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeUTNc38ZhnKqW19zEV3mL3WSHF8TY3WJIE4BMk_ACwo6sgzHJ-d5YAszTLdIfXMzabFJFK_75axiZmuGEwY-cIeX5xfQ2BBhZcDLezmbJtVp6lIwwrNMISuXpbVdpG6_sMB2V1xAAMW6/s1600/Patti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeUTNc38ZhnKqW19zEV3mL3WSHF8TY3WJIE4BMk_ACwo6sgzHJ-d5YAszTLdIfXMzabFJFK_75axiZmuGEwY-cIeX5xfQ2BBhZcDLezmbJtVp6lIwwrNMISuXpbVdpG6_sMB2V1xAAMW6/s400/Patti.jpg" width="396" /></a></div>

We like: Patti Smith's photographs

There probably isn't anything this woman can't do. In the New York Times' style magazine, T, A.O. Scott interviews Patti Smith, ...

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OMA's CCTV building reviewed in the New York Times

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Apart from being transfixed by the UK phone hacking scandal this week, we were also interested to see Nicolai Ouroussoff's <em>New York Times </em>review of architect Rem Koolhaas' CCTV building in Beijing, now that the structure has finally opened. Ouroussoff is widely acknowledged as a fan of Koolhaas' work, and his provocative review and the ensuing discussion on the comments thread on the <em>Times</em> site is well worth a read. Here's an image by Philippe Ruault from the <em>Times</em> of the building, showing the garden beneath it:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5J6xtlt3EEh02mJ_OKEUbYW-Kb8PyApbXKxVfZ_m8G4pY1ivD0OGEuyV3xaq7MErg9JM4qaQGawq23M1gkagwfZeSpcI8MsErv9oDoBKtV88elb5RZCatI5YZWnHtsz1oZ96lot8OqHSt/s1600/kool1-articleLarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" /></a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can read Ouroussoff's piece <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/arts/design/koolhaass-cctv-building-fits-beijing-as-city-of-the-future.html?scp=1&sq=oma&st=cse">here</a>. And you can see other photographs of the building from <em>HOME</em>'s Beijing visit in an earlier post <a href="http://homenewzealand.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-like-beijing-part-one.html">here</a>. </span></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sorry about the relative quiet on the blog this week - we're hurtling towards next week's deadline of sending the Home of the Year issue to print. </span></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Home of the Year issue will be on sale August 4. An exciting extra this year is that we are creating online short films of each of the 10 homes shortlisted for the award, which you'll be able to view here on the site from August 4 onwards. </span></div>

OMA's CCTV building reviewed in the New York Times

Apart from being transfixed by the UK phone hacking scandal this week, we were also interested to see Nicolai Ouroussoff's New York Time...

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Charles Renfro on The Nation

Our visiting guest star Charles Renfro of New York's Diller, Scofidio + Renfro was interviewed by TV3's The Nation when he was here recently (thanks again to First Windows & Doors, who made Charles' visit and his Auckland and Wellington lectures possible). The TV piece is at the link below.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Visiting-New-York-architect-Charles-Renfro/tabid/1348/articleID/154774/Default.aspx">Visiting New York architect Charles Renfro</a><br /><br />Also, DS+R's latest work at New York's Lincoln Center was reviewed in the New York Times this weekend by Nicolai Ouroussoff. This is the second stage of the redesign of the Center DS+R are leading, part of what will be a billion-dollar redesign. Ouroussoff seems less pleased with the firm's work on this stage than he was with their earlier redesign of the Center's Alice Tully Hall, though there is high praise for the new structure DS+R have inserted at the Center, with a sweeping grass roof from which to overlook the plaza, as you can see in this image by Beatrice de Gea for the New York Times.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="390" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/21/arts/21lincolnspan-1/21lincolnspan-1-articleLarge.jpg" width="600" /><br /><br />Here's the link to the New York Times slide show; you can also click through to the accompanying article.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/20/arts/design/20100521-lincoln-slideshow.html">http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/20/arts/design/20100521-lincoln-slideshow.html</a>

Charles Renfro on The Nation

Our visiting guest star Charles Renfro of New York's Diller, Scofidio + Renfro was interviewed by TV3's The Nation when he was here ...

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Venturi house

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaVEkszCVhcikHoqkkTR5mwbXMebqRRZZifycJs9RO4QD-k3jfzANb_xw59udJ7iqKf58IZ80HF42J1zHwfAHF4ADKiqomUlIAQOezpmHZlwYCAVXhVNHNUufdisuAgvuGIZIlDyR0vu1/s1600-h/Venturi+house.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328074309158033874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYaVEkszCVhcikHoqkkTR5mwbXMebqRRZZifycJs9RO4QD-k3jfzANb_xw59udJ7iqKf58IZ80HF42J1zHwfAHF4ADKiqomUlIAQOezpmHZlwYCAVXhVNHNUufdisuAgvuGIZIlDyR0vu1/s400/Venturi+house.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br /><div></div><div>Architectural preservation can take many forms, but this is a particularly heartwarming story about the relocation of a New York home by the architect Robert Venturi. It ran a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times, but the story and slideshow with it are well worth revisiting:</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14lieb.html?scp=1&sq=venturi&st=cse">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14lieb.html?scp=1&sq=venturi&st=cse</a></div><div> </div>

Venturi house

Architectural preservation can take many forms, but this is a particularly heartwarming story about the relocation of a New York home by the...

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