@supercw put it best

“please nobody throw a grenade in the hau terrace at the halekulani. all of oahus most creative ppl in retail, art n design will b lost.”

Drawing an impressive list of local talent (see partial list below), jeffstaple treated the crowd to an insightful conversation about what he does and how he got where he is today. Along the way we got to see glimpses of collaborations with Oakley, Nike, New Balance, and many others that Jeff described as dream partners (and given the results, we suspect the feeling was mutual)

Thanks to everyone who came out, and a very special thanks to AIGA, Halekulani/Waikiki Parc, and all of our other partners for helping make this event possible.

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http://lightsleepers.wordpress.com/
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http://www.lairdchristianson.com/solutions.html
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• FIRST LOOK and chance to purchase the unique titles jeffstaple has chosen for the Reed Space HNL bookshop.  Almost all Reed Space HNL items are here in limited quantities and several titles debuting in Hawaii, exclusive to Reed Space HNL.
• COCKTAILS by Nobu's Dave Newman courtesy of Tuaca, and delicious pupus by our friends in the kitchen at Nobu Waikiki
• Help us give a warm WELCOME to jeffstaple to Honolulu
• When was the last time you were in WAIKIKI to explore a new bookstore with friends and creatives (...FREE VALET PARKING too!) ?
• SUPPORT Interisland Terminal - in addition to delicious pupus and cocktails, your $35 ticket helps to underwrite the costs of Interisland Terminals programs, while furthering our mission to cultivate the creative capital of our community.  For just over a year, we've been presenting unique programs in contemporary art, design and film.  We've been engaging with Honolulu's creative community, taking stock, promoting what others are doing in town, and continuously working to build a strong slate of international quality programming to share.  We do this as professionally as possible, while being a completely volunteer, non-profit organization. Shipping, venue rentals, website, printing, licenses, insurance, artists fees, etc. are all paid for with the cumulative contributions of donors, grants and sponsors.

Interisland Terminal is thrilled to announce the winners of its inaugural Competition for New Community Architecture as determined by our Jury – LUKE ALTENAU and KATIE COFFMAN. The Jury described Altenau and Coffman’s entry as “lovely poetry in the idea formulation – the abstraction of movement with imaginative use of materials.” The winners will take a cash prize of $1500, the opportunity to have their design built and used by Ballet Hawaii, and the honor of being the inaugural winners of this Competition, which Interisland Terminal plans to repeat biennially.

The Jury also selected a design by Andrew Tang as First Honorable Mention and one by Lorena Yamamoto as Second Honorable Mention.

Entries for the Competition came from all over the State, included students from the University of Hawaii School of Architecture, and featured a broad range of concepts and structures. Juror Amy Anderson praises this year’s competition entrants in describing the designs considered by the jury as “a terrific start and will lead to an exciting contribution to the design world of Hawai’i.”

The winning design will be refined, built by Altenau and Coffman, Ballet Hawaii’s Technical Director, and a crew of volunteers over the summer. It will premier and be put into use in August 2010 to coincide with the opening of Ballet Hawaii’s fall season.

View details of the winning design here.

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4505&Itemid=70

“I’ve always loved the idea of a trailer park”, says Jennifer Siegal roughly 3 minutes, 30 seconds into her interview with Noe Tanigawa on Hawaii Public Radio.

For Siegal, the concept of a “third space” for shared activities that fit between the things you do in the privacy of your home and those you do in public) is an important one in her work. And perhaps it should be an important one in our own home, where space is limited and the forces driving development don’t seem to be letting up.

In what was perhaps a reference to our own ongoing Architecture competition, Takigawa asks if Siegal is suggesting the framework of a “New Community Architecture”. No doubt she is.

But Siegal has some interesting things to say about Hawaii as well. 22 minutes in, she touches on the interesting history of the ownership of land and how it might cue us moving forward. A few minutes later she touches on the impact that more responsive, potentially bio-engineered materials, might enable ocean dwellings clad in sharkskin! (ok that’s stretching what she said a little…)

Towards the end she mentioned how creativity can often come out of a lack of resources. That’s something that Interisland Terminal couldn’t agree with more.

If you’re free at 6:00PM today, join us at the UH School of Architecture auditorium to hear Siegal’s lecture: Generation Mobile – The Death of Distance. If you’re not, listen to the long version of the interview between now and then, and it might convince you to make the time.

Taking a quick break from architecture…

Check out this elegant little solar system visualization at http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/.

I showed it to the wife who was not as impressed as I was, but to me it demonstrates everything I love about infographics. A really simple idea ends up helping one visualize everything from how gravity wells work, to why pluto goes in and out of fashion as a planet, to why a manned mission to mars would be tricky.

And — just to pack a little extra punch — the solar system gets an ethereal soundtrack in the process.

Interisland Terminal presents Competition for New Community Architecture

Emerging-career architects in Hawaii have relatively few prospects to see their own work complete the process of design-to-build.  The current economic downturn further exasperates this lack of opportunity, creating even more uncertainty around the question, “How will Hawaii’s next generation of architects shape our community’s built environment and contribute to creating a robust, local civic life?”

Today, 50 years since Statehood, Interisland Terminal endeavors to (re)build an architecture and design vernacular in Hawaii that is truly civic and that will draw renewed attention to emerging local talent working in architecture and design.  We will do so by launching an annual Competition for New Community Architecture to create new opportunities for the community to determine its own architectural landscape, and support the skilled, local architectural talent who will shape our built-environment through the next 50 years.

The Competition’s purpose is three-fold:

• Support and highlight the work of emerging-career architects in Hawaii
• Create challenging opportunities to design and build new work from start-to-finish
• Raise awareness of contemporary architecture and its potential to uplift our civic landscape and improve our day-to-day lives

The Competition will launch in January 2010 and be open to early- to mid-career architects (including students) practicing in Hawaii to submit designs according to the Competition Briefing, which addresses an organizational challenge faced by the Competition “Client,” Ballet Hawaii.  Registration for the Competition can be found here.  Specifically, the Competition challenges Hawaii architects to design and build a transportable merchandising and information kiosk that Ballet Hawaii can use at its various performance venues to help promote its unique programs and facilitate merchandise sales that support the organization.

A jury of local and national leaders in architecture will select a winner in April 2010:

• Amy Anderson, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii School of Architecture
• A. Kam Napier, Editor, Honolulu Magazine
• Marion Philpotts, Board Member, Ballet Hawaii, Senior Designer, Philpotts and Associates
• Jennifer Siegal, Founder and Principal, Office of Mobile Design (OMD) (Los Angeles)

Guest Juror Jennifer Siegal, will also be giving a talk at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture on April 8, 2010. Siegal is known for her work in creating the mobile home of the twentieth century. She is founder and principal of the Los Angeles’ based firm Office of Mobile Design, which is dedicated to the design and construction of modern, sustainable and precision-built structures.

The winning design will be refined, built and put into use in August 2010 to coincide with the opening of Ballet Hawaii’s fall season.

The expected short-term impacts of the Competition are:

• Renewed confidence and vigor from emerging-career local architects
• Growth in ticket sales and a diversified audience at Ballet Hawaii
• Heightened public awareness and participation in partner organizations

Sponsoring Organizations

• Atherton Family Foundation
• Colliers Monroe Friedlander
• Hawaii Architectural Foundation
• HonBlue
• Hotel Renew
• LEF Foundation
• Pacific Development Group
• University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture