Today's signature eco-building, Apple's "spaceship" campus now under construction in Silicon Valley, designed by the British architect Norman Foster, is a good example of the shortcomings of the green dream.
Then again, he oversees the construction of spaceships and rockets so I'll count that one a draw.
I hoped the "nonsense" would be the result of experimentation through play with language in order to make up his own words such as "starcloud" and "fuelwarper," two terms engineered during the construction of spaceships, created during the weekend but tabled for the duration of his M-F, 8-3 job.
His urban landscapes combine down-to-Earth realism and sci-fi fantasy, toying with styles both alien and familiar, strange and intimate: spaceships parked next to construction cranes, Imperial Guards keeping watch on a parking lot, an X-Wing storming the sky of the suburban French business district of La Défense.
The construction of the spaceship is almost finished.
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module runs until April 6 at the New Museum, fifth floor.
As it lands on the fifth floor in D.I.Y. pieces, the latest exhibition Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module uses the Czech sci-fi film Ikarie XB-1 as a point of inspiration.
"The second spaceship is very advanced in its construction," George Whitesides said.
Virgin Galactic's own manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, already was well into construction of the successor ship when the accident occurred.
Rocco Yim, the Hong Kong architect who designed the museum, reported to cost 900 million renminbi, stood at its entrance and pointed past the construction site to the spaceship-like opera house designed by the London-based architect Zaha Hadid for an estimated 1.4 billion renminbi.
