Frank O. Gehry "since 1997" Exhibition

Walt Disney Concert Hall, 1999 -2003 @ 1:50 scale

Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry is being honoured with his first exhibition entitled "since 1997" currently on display at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. The collection, co-curated by Gehry himself, brings together a selection of his iconic projects and attempts to explore how the buildings interact with its surrounding environment and human scale.

I don't know about you, but this scaled version of the Walt Disney Concert Hall would look great in my living room. Regardless, it's nice to see architecture make its way into art galleries.

More photos via DesignBoom.

For a glimpse inside Gehry's creative process, watch the Sydney Pollack directed documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry here.

The future of pedestrian navigation

An App brings the New York subway system to the palm of your hand. To make things even easier for your day trip to the city, there are additional Apps that now include amenities as well - changing the way we interact with our cities!

The world is ours. Well, New York at least.

Art:21: Place

Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse VI" (1999)

From the Art:21 website:

"Artists explore the idea of place by questioning commonly held assumptions about land, home and national identity."

Watch here.

Blueprint America: Road to the Future

Featuring Denver, Portland and New York

This episode of PBS' documentary series Blueprint America examines the United States' investment in its aging infrastructure and changes that are happening now by looking at several American cities and the systems they have created.

Watch here.

Top 5 Comic Book Cities

AJ Top Five: Comic Book Cities from The Architects' Journal on Vimeo.

Making Sense of Place

From the Lincoln Land Institute of Land Policy website:

Making Sense of Place is a documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The first film, Phoenix: The Urban Desert examined explosive, dispersed growth in the booming Southwest metropolis and the practical and environmental issues that have accompanied. The second film, Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City, traces urban decay, and efforts at revitalization, in what was once America's 5th largest city.

Recently, Portland: Quest for the Livable City was released exploring innovation and conflict about growth and land use regulation in the self-proclaimed "City that Works" Portland, Oregon.

Sheldon Levy on The Agenda

"... As we build the university, we have a responsibility to our neighbourhood."

Ryerson University President, Sheldon Levy shares his energetic plans and discusses the University's relationship to the City and its surrounding community.