DESIGNBELT: DESIGN AND IDEOLOGY

July 2, 2009 in Design Rag

“DESIGN AND IDEOLOGY     Forms and Iquiry     (2008)

Experimental Jetset interview with Magnus Ericson

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DESIGN RAG: THE FUTURE FLATS

June 29, 2008 in Design Rag

 
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DESIGN RAG: FRITZ HAEG LECTURE AT CIA – MONDAY, MARCH 31ST

March 30, 2008 in Design Rag

“Fritz Haeg
Monday, March 31
7pm, Aitken Auditorium
Gund Building
CIA, 11141 East Boulevard

Lecture is free and open to the public…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: SETTLER’S LANDING II

March 24, 2008 in Design Rag

“Settler’s Landing and Heritage Park, Cleveland Flats…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: POP-UP STOREFRONT CLEVELAND?

March 23, 2008 in Design Rag

“Throughout the year, the Storefront will pop up in cities around the world to host exhibits for a limited time only. As described on their website, they ‘will avoid the conventional gallery format by temporarily taking over unoccupied spaces in unexpected neighborhoods, to exhibit and discuss pressing topics in art and architecture…’

In April, Pop-up Storefront will make an appearance at the Milan Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, and in June at the London Festival of Architecture in London, England. Other locations are yet to be announced.

Why not Cleveland?…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE CITY OF CLEVELAND

March 16, 2008 in Design Rag

“While I can’t say I’ve noticed this Mission Statement posted in other locations around Cleveland (and I first noticed this one today after unknowingly walking past it daily for the last year), I find humor in the placement of this sign: at the entrance to a city-owned parking lot under the Veterans Memorial Bridge in the Flats – an inconspicuous location at one of the $1 lots in which there is no immediately adjacent housing, shopping, or industry. This location does, however, find itself a few steps away from the poorly maintained Heritage Park I (in which the Lorenzo Carter cabin can be found), where scrub foliage grows around the historic northern outlet of the Ohio-Erie Canal at the river’s edge, fencing around the Carter cabin has fallen into disrepair, and a hole in the boardwalk is patched over with a large street sign…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: TIME TO REVISIT AND REVISE PLANS FOR THE LAKEFRONT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

March 8, 2008 in Design Rag, Flats East Bank

“It is time for the City’s plans to be revisited at this portion of the lakefront so that one corporation’s move doesn’t negatively impact the viability and accessibility of future development and public amenities or set a precedent for similar narrowly conceived developments. The images below illustrate the significant (and sprawling) footprint that the Eaton campus has along the lakefront and its encroachment on existing plans…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: EVIL FLOWS THROUGH PUBLIC SQUARE

March 8, 2008 in Design Rag

“While many of us viewed the Public Square disaster this week from local news video taken from helicopters above, distant photos of the site in the Plain Dealer, or from a bus window safely behind caution tape marking off Public Square, I had suspicions that something much more ‘evil’ was behind all of this.

Why the sudden collapse of a street after total reconstruction just last year? Why did Mayor Jackson suggest that offices close early on Friday? Why hasn’t there been follow-up footage of the site? And why will it take several weeks to re-open the Square to traffic?

I took a digital camera with me to Ontario and Superior and was surprised by what I captured…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: COMING SOON, THE NEW CLEVELAND FLATS

March 6, 2008 in Design Rag, Flats East Bank

“After Friday’s Leap Night celebration, it looks like the remaining East Bank buildings will finally fall and the construction of streets and utilities will begin. The demolition request and master plan update will be a ‘Special Presentation’ item at March 7th’s Planning Commission meeting (9am in City Hall, Room 514)…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: NO CHOICE?

February 1, 2008 in Design Rag

“Another glorious piece by Mr. Kunstler commenting on the finer aspects of our wonderful culture (or lack there of). Here is a taste of what is in store for you:

‘What remains for now is a terrible grandiose inertia among people who really ought to know better: our culture leaders. The cutting edge has become a blunt instrument unsuited to fashioning the patterns of the future. Everything we do from now on will have to be finer in scale, quality, and character. Exercises in irony will no longer be appreciated because there will no longer be a premium paid for declaring ourselves to be ridiculous. The localism of the future will not be a matter of fashion. It will be in the food we eat and the air we breathe, and we’d better start paying attention…'” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

January 16, 2008 in Design Rag

“The picture included with this post, taken this morning (01.16.08), shows the new highway signage located at the intersection of E.4th and Euclid. Is there some off-ramp schedule to plow through the gateway district right onto E.4th? Why in the world would you need to locate a highway sign at the intersection of 4th and Euclid. Especially considering you are a mere few hundred feet from Ontario where there should be directional highway signage. Even more confusing is the fact that as you head east from Ontario to E.9th, there is not one street you would want to take as a shortcut to get to the highway…” (go to article)

DESIGN RAG: TEMPORARILY UNBELIEVABLE

January 16, 2008 in Design Rag, Flats East Bank

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“Recently, Pop Up Cleveland, an initiative founded by Terry Schwarz, has received funding from the Civic Innovation Lab, the Sears Swet-land Foundation, and additional support from Kent State University’s CUDC. Attempting to create ‘temporary events and installations that occupy vacant buildings and activate vacate land in ways that shine a spotlight on some of Cleveland’s spectacular but underutilized properties’, this initiative has a real opportunity to contribute to the establishment of a new culture of experimentation here in Cleveland. I love the fact that Terry has set out to reclaim this once vibrant space, even if only for a night, and create something so peculiarly fantastic that people will once again be forced, or should I said invited, to experience The Flats East Bank…” (go to article)