A wine glass reflection on black glass table top.
Kensington Market Crowd.
The regulars in Kensington Market greeting each other, across the street is a homeless man sitting alone in the sun.
I Deal Coffee - I
The entrance of the cafe with a poster on the wall.At i deal coffee our beans are carefully selected and roasted with the desire to return to the traditional, “old style” bakery or roasterie of the past, yet be able to still accommodate the demands of the 21st century consumers who want their Guatemalan Huehuetenango organic, bird friendly, co-operatively farmed coffee roasted to a dark french and poured in an eighteen second double shot espresso.
i deal coffee uses a system where we grade each of our coffee’s for its sustainability factor using four categories we feel contribute to an ideal world. These are; environmentally, socially, politically and economically.
http://www.idealcoffees.com/pages/about.html
Seniors Waiting In A Clinic On College Street
The black tower of the fire hall on the right, seniors waiting for their appointments.
AGO - Harpists Performance II
A couple on the first roll enjoying the stream of music from the 2 harpists.
AGO - Harpists Performance I
One black lacquered harp and one gold lacquered harp jamming in the rear court of AGO.
Star Bucks At Shuter & Church Street
St. Michael's Cathedral on Shuter Street.Situated in the heart of Toronto, it is the principal church of Canada's largest English-speaking Catholic archdiocese. A sanctuary of quiet prayer in the midst of the city's busy sidewalks and streets, this venerable edifice is a link to the early days of the metropolis and the scene and witness of many solemn ceremonies.
http://www.torstm.com/StMikes/
Oakville Boardwalk In Early Spring
The geese are coming back and the snow is slowly melted by the beaming sun.
Kai Chan - Family Moon 1997
An assortment of buttons grouped into cells of colour and textures formed a circular moon path- a galaxy of the stars.
Old Bank Teller Bar In Toast Restaurant
The nice iron work securing the teller station/bar in Toast Restaurant on Queen Street East.
I Love Sushi On Queen Street West
Indian Bollywood-styled tricycle in front of the sushi restaurant.
Contact 2011 - Chien-Chi Chang/Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang, Taiwan, Kaohsiung 1998. Lung-Fa Tang Temple. Mental patients.
AGO - Abstract Expressionist New York MOMA - 2
Mark Rothko No. 14, 1961.
Abstract Expressionism was an American painting movement that flourished in the 1940s and ‘50s. More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in The New Yorker in 1946, first used the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe the richly coloured canvases of Hans Hofmann. Over the years, the name has come to designate the paintings and sculpture of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith.
As you experience the artworks in the show, you will see there is no one style that they all share. The range goes from work that is incredibly gestural, aggressive and high- energy to work that is very silent and contemplative. Although the work of each Abstract Expressionist artist was highly individualistic and distinct, they all shared a common sense of purpose — to create a new beginning for art.
This was a generation of artists who had just come through the Great Depression of the 1930s, and who had witnessed the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Instead of falling into despair, they sought to invent a new language of art, which by extension would imply a new culture, a new civilization and a new beginning for humankind in general.
Abstract painting was not new, but large–scale abstraction was the breakthrough of this group — artmaking was no longer confined to the canvas on an easel. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler unrolled their canvases on the floor and used their entire bodies to paint. Painting became choreography. The scale of the works the Abstract Expressionists produced literally declared the artists’ belief that what they were doing was big. They used the canvas as “an arena in which to act” rather than as a place to produce an object. In his famous 1952 essay, “The American Action Painters,” art critic Harold Rosenberg wrote, “What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.”
Following the pioneering “drip” paintings of Jackson Pollock, artists like Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman developed their own distinct visual vocabularies. Where Pollock and de Kooning used agitated gestures in paint to convey the urgency of their vision, Rothko and Newman relied upon fields of colour to envelop sight and transport the viewer to new realms of emotion and perception.
Visitors to this exhibition will come face-to-face with exhilarating artworks that changed the course of modern art. The diverse works on view in Abstract Expressionist New York display the intense originality of a diverse group of artists, including painters Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Robert Motherwell; photographers Robert Frank and Harry Callahan; and sculptors Louise Bourgeois, David and Isamu Noguchi. This exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to experience firsthand the creative ingenuity that made New York the centre of the art world.
AGO - Abstract Expressionist New York MOMA - 1
Mark Rothko No.3 / No. 13, 1949.
For the first time ever, an unrivaled collection of Abstract Expressionist masterpieces is leaving New York City. This monumental show features the legendary artists who dripped, splattered, and painted in fields of incredible colour. As the political traumas of their time reverberated around them, they placed their massive canvasses on floors and walls, creating artwork that exploded into life with spectacular vision and changed the course of art history forever.
Drawn entirely from the Museum of Modern Art’s definitive collection, Abstract Expressionist New York features more than 100 key works from Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner and others. The exhibition celebrates the monumental achievements of a generation of artists who catapulted New York to the centre of the international art world in the 1950s and left as their legacy some of the 20th century’s greatest masterpieces. Read more
“It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own techniques.” – Jackson Pollock
http://www.ago.net/abstract-expressionist-new-york
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 26
Exterior view.
The ambitious project, the city of Hamburg has commissioned the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron is ongoing. Scheduled to open in 2012, the new Elbe Philharmonic audience has already lifted its top, which seems to float on an old warehouse building.
Elbphilharmonie is expected to be one of the best auditoriums in the world and remodeling project has inspired a wave of glass over 100 m high. The building, budgeted at 450 million euros, will be the focus of the refurbishment of the entire port area of Hamburg.
http://www.trendhomedesign.com/the-construction-of-elbe-philharmonic-herzog-de-meuron
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 22
The skyline about 1111 Lincoln Road, designed by Herzog and de Meuron incorporates 300 parking spaces.
It is a labour of love. “This was about a moment in time in my life,” says Wennett. “For 20 years, I did things that were all about being commercial. Now I wanted to do something about legacy. About what I would leave.”
The car park will, to quote the official blurb, “further Miami’s international prominence as a 21st-century destination for art, commerce and culture”.
http://cubeme.com/blog/2010/11/15/herzog-de-meurons-car-park-in-miamis-lincoln-road/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 21
Prada store by Herzog & De Meuron, Tokyo.
Architecturally, the most outstanding store is that in Aoyama, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron. This store marked a new concept in what a retail building could be, a concept that Prada itself had started with its first Epicenter in New York’s Soho, designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Design.
http://retaildesignblog.net/2011/07/29/prada-store-by-herzog-de-meuron-tokyo/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 20
Prada Aoyama Epicenter, 2001 - 2003, Tokyo.
For more interior photos, try...http://retaildesignblog.net/2011/07/29/prada-store-by-herzog-de-meuron-tokyo/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 16
Located in the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, in Germany, the building shares the site with works of famous architectural giants, such as the Zaha Hadid fire station, Tadao Ando conference pavilion, Frank Gehry Vitra Design museum and atelier, Alvaro Siza factory, Buckminster Fuller’s Dome.
With a strong concept behind it, the Vitra buiding makes a post modern interpretation of the traditional house archetype and is also an exercise of stacked volumes’ architecture. The concrete ‘tunnel house’ modules cantilever to all sides, fully glazed at the ends, allowing for panoramic views of the campus. Through the fluid curving of the module walls, an interesting dynamic is achieved on the inside and seating benches in wood veneer on the outside.
The inner spiral staircases uniting the levels make for fluid vertical inner spaces with intriguing perspectives, complemented by exquisite furniture and beautiful compositions of suspended light installations.
http://www.decoist.com/2011-02-25/vitra-house-architecture-gallery/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 15
This is about the Vitra House Architecture Gallery which is designed by the famous and talented Herzog & De Meuron Architects, the fantastic Vitra house is headquarters to a furniture and appliances company.
http://www.archithings.net/vitra-house-architecture-gallery-designed-by-herzog-de-meuron-architects
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 14
Vitrahaus, takes inspiration from the typology of the houses in the locality. The concept is to connect Vitrahaus house theme with 2 levels of 12 structures, 5 houses at the bottom, and there are 7 houses on the other rested. Structure of the house has a 15 meters high. When during the day, the house will display the contents of the room in it, and when it got dark, the interior is lit Vitrahaus, the room will open, and the physical structure of the house was gone. The maximum dimensions Vitrahaus house has about 57 meters long, 21.3 meters wide, and the design is not made in the horizontal, but vertical, which can provide a view of interest around the house.
http://www.architeria.com/house-design/contemporary-vitrahaus-by-herzog-and-de-meuron-architects
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 13
Herzog de Meuron Architects, Vitra Campus,Weilam Rhhein,Germany, 2010.
http://archidialog.com/2010/06/22/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 12
The following information is from the museum’s website:
‘The architects Herzog & de Meuron designed an unusual space for Schaulager. Their task was to design a warehouse for the open storage of contemporary art that had optimal climatic conditions and was available by appointment. The building was also intended to be a site for conservation, research and dissemination. Rather than an anonymous warehouse, the spacious building was to be conceived so as to produce a specific and unique place.http://www.archicentral.com/schaulager-basel-switzerland-herzog-de-meuron-5782/
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 10
Stacking slabs design proposal with Ai Weiwei for a new film school in northern part of China.
Now the new Tate Modern Tate 2 gets the same idea.
Applied in Tate Modern Tate 2: Herzog and de Meuron go gothic.
http://www.hughpearman.com/2006/25.html
Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 9
Interior view.
The sketches series was my second watercolour quick study while watching Jacques Herzog webcast at Yale, New College Theatre on 5 May 2011.
Project by project sketches are produced in single or multiple building collage in bold line sketches and coloured afterward.
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