Category 02 Economia

La mitopoiesi ai tempi di Google: The Google Super Bowl Ad.

via youtube.com Just like any good idea, the Google Super Bowl Ad is simple and clean. It’s a story told by an actor that is not an actor. It’s the Google search field which tells us what the guy who’s filling it is doing, and how his life is going. Like any other good thing, [...]

Less with less: The Yas Hotel / Asymptote.

via archdaily.com When I see building like this one, I’ve got just one simple thought: that architecture should be to do something valuable with less means (i.e.: less dollars). Abu Dabhi is going to be a memento for all the perspectives and good intentions that architecture has been loosing for too many years. Posted via [...]

Uneployment rate at its highest: Facebook’s New Office.

via youtube.com From which we can see that Facebook has 350 ml users, and nobody is running the thing. Posted via web from MF+TDC’s posterous

A house is not a sculpture.

Sarò breve e affatto ellittico: ci sono almeno 3 motivi per cui considero la casa prefabbricata di Libeskind (che, come noto, io adoro) una trovata pubblicitaria e niente più, e sappiamo che, per queste cose, Daniel non ha quasi eguali. 1. “The Libeskind Villa is such a piece of art, a walk-in sculpture with its [...]