Our project was inspired by.... Bruce Lee!! And the movie "Enter the dragon".

Check out the project here!!!

We didn't win, but sure it was a lot of fun!

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/

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

Check out link below for further information 

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

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 

Each year 160,000 visitors travel to Pennsylvania’s scenic Laurel Highlands to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and to pay homage to America’s most celebrated architect.

Thanks to an impeccable restoration completed in 2002 by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy(which obtained Fallingwater from the owner Edgar Kaufmann Jr. in 1963), the house appears in near-perfect condition, and tours regale visitors with such entertaining details as which rooms Albert Einstein and artist Frida Khalo slept in during their visits to estate. As a testament to Fallingwater’s prominence in American history, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently nominated the site for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

For the rest of the details please check out link http://bit.ly/r209Gs

The esplanade features a dog park, greenery, and numerous seating options, including wood benches, chaise lounges, stadium-style steps, and elevated bar stools. “We didn’t just want to put in park benches,” said Landscape Architect Ken Smith, who is working with SHoP Architects on the East River Waterfront revitalization project. “We thought about how people sit around a room.”.. heres the rest of the link below http://bit.ly/otYs8E