Sinking Patio.

patio - by Faulders Studio

Great - a built optical illusion. [via today and tomorrow]

Billable Hours.

From Inside PR, a weekly Canadian podcast about public relations, by Terry Fallis and David Jones: 30 seconds about billable hours (a rough transcript from the podcast)

"I actually hate billable hours. Don’t get me wrong – I like working – I really like bringing in the money.. but I just don’t like tracking every minute of my time – especially when it comes to multi-tasking and working on more than one thing, or often a lot of things at once. I also think billable hours aren’t a good measure of the value people bring based on experience but may just take an hour to create. I know the reason why there are billable hours and why we need to track our time and profitability but I wish there was a better model.” (source: http://www.insidepr.ca/index.php/2009/11/11/inside-pr-187-wednesday-novemeber-11-2009/)"

How does your (architectural) workspace rely on billable hours?

Public Art.

Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, image by Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna presents its masterpieces in public. In Vienna, on about 29 busy locations – subway stations, railway stations, house walls – the museum is showing treasures from the collection: Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Raffael, Lucas Cranach and much more. The campaign should bring the museum back to the people’s mind.

Parmigianino, Amor,at Rüdigergasse, image by Christoph Wassmann

Lucas Cranach, Judith und Holofernes, at Hütteldorferstrasse, image by Christoph Wassmann

Needless to say, the paintings are copies.

Pie Plan.

Divided by amount of utilization - by Abi Huynh, graphic designer. Let's build it! [via It's Nice That]

Metro-Net. Capturing Globalization.

transportable subway entrance, 1997, Madulain, image from artpublicplaiv.ch

Metro-Net is about constructing a global metro network, composed of fake subway entrances, ventilation shafts, subway-sounds and generated air flow. The first station of Kippenberger’s Metro-Net was built at the Greek island Syros in 1993. Additional entrances were erected in Dawson City West (Canada), at the documenta X 1997 in Kassel and at the “Sculpture Project” in Münster. A “transportable subway entrances” (Transportabler U-Bahn-Eingang) is located in Madulain, Switzerland. Metro-Net is part of Kippenberger’s absurd building projects. For theoretical background read "Romantic Globalization: Martin Kippenberger's Metro-Net".

metro-net, Syros, Greek, image from CENTRE FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION

Recently, Kippenberger's painting “Paris Bar” ( a painting, ironically only commissioned by Kippenberger) was sold at Christie’s London for two million pound.

Brick-Wheel.

Alternative uses - via today and tomorrow.