So far foursquare has bombarded our blog! but that is a good thing :-)

EchoDA is happy to see foursquare move into their new HQ offices, SoHo in record time :-)

more images are attached on the link by the foursquare offices - but more to come...

http://www.observer.com/2012/01/exclusive-foursquare-celebrates-new-office-space-elbow-room/

Checking-in with Ajay Chopra, the Architect Behind foursquare’s New Headquarters; How Napkin-Based Sketch Became High-Profile Design for NYC Technology Company

Here is a little blurb about the new foursquare space

Echo Design + Architecture founder discusses gold crown of design projects, the alluring business of 21st century architecture & the power of thinking inside the box

NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2011 — Ajay Chopra, a Manhattan-based architect and founder of Echo Design+Architecture, also holds the title of Mayor — but you won’t find him at City Hall. Chopra holds the honorary title of Mayor of Architectural Design for social networking company foursquare. In October, the creators of the popular check-in platform appointed the architect to create a real-world work environment for its flagship offices. The company’s new headquarters will occupy office space at 568 Broadway.

Chopra’s focus for the past two months....

http://www.ereleases.com/pr/checkingin-ajay-chopra-architect-foursquares-headquarters-napkinbased-sketch-highprofile-design-nyc-technology-company-71536

See the napkin sketch!

Ajay

EchoDA - Lands Massive foursquare Office Build-out

EchoDA - lands massive foursquare office build-out in the heart of Soho - more to follow as we move along this super fast track process of design and building...

Check out link below for further information 

http://www.observer.com/2011/12/foursquare-begins-office-renovation/

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs will be missed R.I.P a true visionary, he has bought quality and made products / designed that have always been at a high standard no one comes close

Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile by Antonio Amado

One of my favourite all time architects - especially the Modulor thoughts!, not to be confused with Modular. The graphic image below shows a good analysis the kind of stuff Corbu. loves to do

This will be good book to get for those car lovers interested in the classics, an then an architect's, (CORB's!) take on it!

Here's the article:.... Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile is something different. A few pages in, I realized that I’d been gulled. Corb is in there, but only as a walk-on. Built around a few scrappy sketches from the thirties, Antonio Amado manages to lasso an entire era in which the automobile, not architecture, represented the ultimate design challenge. Think about it. While we take the suburban zeitgeist of SUVs, ATVs, minivans and Rovers for granted, in the 1930s it looked as though it would be the automobile that would transform cities. It would be the automobile that led material culture away from wood and rabbit glue, and it is the automobile that refined and popularized the formal language that today’s Young Turks aspire to apply to their buildings. The tale of Le Corbusier trying to duke it out with the auto industry is a bit like a varsity wrestler trying to make it in the Ultimate Fight Cage. He simply lacked the chops.

But he loved cars! Gatsby had nothing on Le Corbusier,.....

...to Read on Enjoy...http://bit.ly/ojeBHk