#architects in panama

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Biomuseo, Panama City, Panama | Gehry Partners, 2014

Frank Gehry’s (b. 1929) first project in Latin America, the Biomuseo, is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute. The complex – which stands out for its bright, origami-like metal roof – was inspired by Panama’s biodiversity, comprising the main building, exhibition spaces and surrounding park.

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[voxina]

BDXY, the new menswear brand founded by Luke Evans, fashion stylist Christopher Brown & Luke’s architect/engineer partner Fran Tomas, shared via IG post/stories these pics of Louis wearing their ‘The Stunt’ tank top in Burgundy on stage in Panama City (2 May 2024).

📸 by Joshua Halling

[cloysterbell]

What’s your beef with Frank Gehry?

It's not so much my beef with him as it is my beef with what he represents: modernist/contemporary architecture.

So Gehry's most known works include things like the Lou Ruvo Center, the Disney Concert Hall, or the Biomuseo in Panama (which I have been to!). These buildings are all pretty wacky, using flat sheets of metal that curve in unusual ways or inward facing angles. And while I think it's interesting to be able to physically build something like that, all of the credit has to go to the engineers because as someone who studied architecture in college, I can promise you that no architect goes into a design actually thinking about how it'll physically be made.

But here's the thing: anyone can design a statement building. I can and have designed statement buildings. It's easy to think "what's the most wild thing I can do" and then throw uncommon angles and sheer faces at something until you have a building that twists and turns and becomes a spectacle. And sometimes it's cool. The Biomuseo is a flash of color that feels very almost bowling alley carpet with its accordion folds. I love the MoPOP's statement wall with that bright purple that catches the sun. But ANYONE can do this. It's not a challenge to design an eyesore like the Marqués de Riscal hotel. I could crumple a piece of paper into a ball and bam, there's my building design.

But you know what IS a challenge? Designing a building that blends in with the landscape. A building that isn't meant to stick out but is seamless and intentional. Buildings that use the color palettes of their surroundings, like Lake|Flato's Horizon House or Marmol Radziner's Scottsdale home. Incorporating native flora and materials and climate and setting into the actual design. Having the house face east so that it can temperature regulate more naturally or keeping everything single-story so it doesn't disrupt the horizon. It's taking inspiration from historical pueblo-style homes instead of doing more and more glass and metal which gets hot as hell in the direct sun.

I'm very much a Mies van der Rohe fan, I think the Farnsworth House and the Barcelona Pavilion are some of the sickest buildings ever made because there's something more impressive about doing more with less. FH and BP are both white boxes. They have flat roofs and open floorplans and all right angles, but there's something so much more impressive about doing something iconic within those limitations than there is doing whatever the hell Gehry and his contemporaries like Libeskind are doing. The ROM looks like what happened in S3 of Fringe when the building from the other side collided with its opposite on this side. It feels like it's trying to be edgy (literally) and different for the sake of being edgy and different. Which is fine, but it's not that impressive to me.

But it's so much more impressive when you don't just plonk some big crazy metal and glass building down in the middle of a city or when you're trying to design something specifically to one-up your other architect buddies. When you have to make something feel intentional from start to finish, that's so much more interesting. When you have limitations from the beginning like materials and weather and the sun, that's where only a real expert can design something that really shines.

[sunshineandlyrics]

❤️ The brand BDXY posted about Louis wearing their 'The Stunt' tank top at FITFWT Panama City on their IG (12 May 2024) x

Cofounded by Welsh actor Luke Evans, fashion stylist Christopher Brown and Luke’s architect/engineer partner Fran Tomas. The brand officially launched in Ibiza on Wednesday 8 May (Attitude Magazine)

[emilylawsons]

Of Artists and Architects

A Modern Tessjoel AU | Chapter 15

The walk across Detroit Metro to pick-up and baggage claim goes on forever. By the time Tess makes it to the other side of the airport, she wishes she’d worn shoes with a little more support. If she’d had the money, she would have booked the non-stop flight instead of the layover. Unfortunately, she’d had to opt for turning a 3-hour trip into a 6-hour trip for the sake of her bank account. Her rush through Orlando International to make her connecting flight had been hell. After barely making it to the gate and boarding, she’d found herself smushed in the same row with a couple of obnoxious Frat Chads leaving their party school for the holiday break. She’d never been subject to so much information she did not need to hear in her life. If she hadn’t forgotten her earbuds at home, she could have been spared the gripping tale of one of the boys banging some girl he was convinced was a model last spring break in Panama City. “Bro, she came like three times, and some assholes in the room next to us filed a noise complaint.” The same kid tried to hit on her but had the grace to back off after he struck out hard. Maybe if he hadn’t been so aggressive about it, she wouldn’t have been so harsh. But one can only take so many attempts to get her number and ask her if she likes beer and wings before it becomes old. After several blatant rejections to make it clear that she was not interested, she broke. “I’m at least ten years older than you, I have a professorship, and I’m fairly certain the girl from Panama City was faking it.”

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[eaglesnick]

THE BIG CON: VOTE REFORM, VOTE BIG BUSINESS

A vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is essentially a vote for big business and the super-rich.

Reform promises to lift 7 million people from paying tax at the lower end of the pay scale to  “save every worker almost £1500 per year.” Although I am sure this saving for low earners would be very welcome, it is the rich who benefit most from Reform’s income tax proposals.

 At the moment people earning over £50,000 pay a 40% tax rate on earnings above this figure. The Reform Party promise to raise the threshold to £70,000, a saving of £3,588 a year for the 15% richest people in the country.

Reform and the far-right favour business over individual workers.  It is therefore no surprise that Corporations are to receive the biggest tax breaks. Corporation tax will be reduced from 25% to 20% for the first 5 years, and then down to 15% after that.

For year ending 2022/23 corporation tax brought in £79.9billion. Under Reform, corporations would be in receipt of tax breaks worth £47.94billion. In November 2022, State of Tax Justice reported that

…”the world was losing over $483 billion a year in tax to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens to underpay tax. That’s equivalent to losing a nurse’s yearly salary to a tax haven every second.” 

The only reason Reform would want to legitimise corporate tax avoidance is because Reform is essentially a political party for the already wealthy. They might throw a few crumbs to the ordinary worker but the real rewards are to go to the rich and powerful.

Many large corporations are foreign owned so  tax breaks for big business are just as likely to go to overseas shareholders as they are to UK owners. Does the British taxpayer really want to be subsidising foreign share ownership by cutting tax revenues?

Richard Tice, leader of Reform until replaced by Nigel Farage a few days ago, is a multi-millionaire who made his money in property development.  Both he and Farage have their own TV shows on GB News, which is bankrolled by the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Marshal and the Dubai based investment company Legartum, founded by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler who made his fortune in Russian gas.

Reform's links to the super-rich goes further. Multi-millionaire Jeremy Hosking has given £2.578,000 to Reform coffers. Is it coincidence he is funding a party that campaigns to scrap UK emission targets when he is “the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas” ? (Open Democracy: 22/03/22). I think not.

Another major donor to Reform is the ex-Bullingdon Club member George Farmer. (Other members include David Cameron and George Osborne the architects of Tory Austerity and the liar Boris Johnson who brought us Party Gate). An “ardent supporter of Donald Trump”, Farmer was CEO of the far-right platform Parler, and is married to Candice Owens, a woman who “promotes far-right ideologies”, In 2023 he joined the board of GB News.

The biggest single donor to Reform according to Electoral Commission records is Chris Harborne, handing over £10 million to Brexit/Reform. Harborne owes his fortune to the sale of aviation fuel and technology investments. He gained notoriety when his name appeared multiple times in the Panama Papers. These documents revealed:

 “…off-shore holdings of world political leaders, links to global scandals, and details of  hidden financial dealings of fraudsters, drug traffickers, billionaires, celebrities, sports stars and more”. (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: 03/03/2016)

These wealthy backers of Reform are not spending millions of pounds in order to benefit ordinary workingmen and women. They see these millions as an investment, an investment on which they expect a return for their money.

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[davidstanleytravel]

Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry designed the deconstructivist Biomuseo (2014) at Panama City, Panama. The museum's eight galleries showcase biodiversity, geology, biology, and oceanography.

[subhashchandra]

Biku Treehouse in Bocas del Toro, Panama designed by Baca Architects