ARMED with a stack of house-listing printouts from Craigslist.com, a popular website, Paul Rademacher was driving around Silicon Valley late last year looking for a place to live.
Part of that collection will now be displayed in the VitraHaus, which was conceived as what Jacques Herzog, co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron, describes as "a stack of houses".
A. It's a Herzog & de Meuron stack of houses, and it's sitting in an Anish Kapoor sculpture, which is the first public work that he's doing in New York.
The other new photos include a stack of houses wedged between two cliffs, so that if one were removed they would all topple, and a portrait of an architect drawing, in which he looks like part of an architectural rendering.
The Queen is alive, knees knocking against each other in the empty crusted-on stack of Sandringham House, and meanwhile her death fills the world.
This post originally appeared on VICE UK The Queen is alive, knees knocking against each other in the empty crusted-on stack of Sandringham House, and meanwhile her death fills the world.
Like the Mountain, it is not an exotic shape into which apartments have been jammed; it's quite legibly a stack of salable housing units.
He acknowledges it's harder to achieve in a large organisation where rules and regulations dictate, but "some of the ideas and feelings we are dealing with are transferable in how we are trying to look at the spaces and that art of care... [Our design for Guy's] only has five floors, built like a stack of individual houses.
Would they, without such a substratum be just a stack of qualities, a house of cards with nothing holding them together?
He also made us an exclusive mix with a stack of excellent old house tracks that existed a decade or so before he was born, as well as blending in some fresh New Zealand talent.
"Garden cities have the generosity of space between buildings and have features that make people feel comfortable and welcome, rather than just stacks and stacks of similar houses".
