Archive for May, 2011
Bandshell for Sale! (runs good)
The world-renowned Panhandle Bandshell is for sale!
The Panhandle Bandshell is a full-scale performance stage made from reclaimed and repurposed materials, including 65 automobile hoods, obsolete computer circuit boards, reclaimed wood and recycled structural steel. Equal parts monumental sculpture and functional performance venue, the Bandshell has hosted a diverse range of community-based programs in city and national parks in San Francisco.
Also a visually arresting sculpture, the Bandshell illustrates the creative potential of recycling, repurposing and reuse, and promotes collective awareness of human impact on the environment. The Bandshell is well-pedigreed: it has won several design awards and has been displayed at some of the most prestigious architecture exhibitions in the world.
In the summer of 2007, the Bandshell was installed in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park, where it was open all summer for both impromptu and scheduled performances of all varieties. In the summer of 2009, the Bandshell was transported and re-installed at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, the largest urban national park in the country, where it hosted community-based performance programs for more than a year.
Currently in storage, the Bandshell seeks an appropriate permanent home!
The piece is award-winning and world famous! Exhibition and awards include:
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, CA.
2009 National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA.
2009 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
AWARDS
2008 AIA Design Awards, Urban Design, Merit Award
2008 ASLA Professional Awards, N. Cal. Chapter, Merit Award
2009 ASLA Professional Awards, General Design, Honor Award
We are seeking proposal submissions from art galleries, city parks, community organizations, landowners and other interested parties.
For more information, please download the brochure [PDF].
The Submission deadline is Friday, June 17, 2011.
The Bandshell was designed and fabricated in San Francisco by The Finch Mob, Rebar, CMG Landscape Architecture and Scene 2 with the generous support of Black Rock Arts Foundation.
United Nations proposes “Resolution on Sustainable Urban Development through Access to Quality Urban Public Spaces”
The United Nations proposes a resolution calling for “resilient” public spaces and
Invites Governments and local authorities to facilitate the use of public spaces of cities such as streets, parks and markets to foster social, cultural, economic and environmental convergences so that all citizens have access to public spaces in a socially just landscape and within resilient environmental conditions
Via PPS.
UQAM Design International 2011
Rebar was invited by Professor Anne-Marie Broudehoux to spend the week in Montreal to take part in University of Quebec’s Design International 2011 event.
The event brought together designers, researchers and practitioners of international repute working in different fields to host a series of intensive workshops that allowed students to identify problems and explore themes shaping both conventional and alternative practices.
The week began on Saturday with presentations from conference guests Ginette Caron, Hans Vrijmoed , Juhani Pallasmaa , Paul Cox , Tim McDonald , Tomasz Walenta, and John Bela of Rebar.
During the following week, each guest worked with up to 25 students each in an intensive workshop, leading up to a final presentation at the UQAM design school.
Rebar’s workshop, led by John Bela and Masha Slavnova, was to construct a public space house party in 96 hours to be deployed at three sites in Montreal using bicycles. The goals of the workshop were to:
- Activate a set of underutilized public spaces in Montreal
- Explore boundaries of public and private in the public realm
- Explore social codes that govern behavior in public space
- Create an invitation for urban inhabitants to play and party with us
- Give ourselves and those around us permission to be playful, kind, and generous
- What are the essential elements of a house party?
- What materials and fabrication processes lend themselves to a temporary installation deployed by bicycle?
- What is the role of sound, light, graphics, surfaces, enclosures in creating and defining space?
After brainstorming together to develop design concepts, students broke into teams focused on structure, ground plane, social furniture, lighting and sound.
After a week of rain, on Friday morning the sky cleared and sun illuminated the city streets. We rapidly assembled the elements of our mobile installation and hit the streets.
We installed at three sites over the course of the day and evening, using the intervention to explore the social codes governing behavior in different neighborhoods of the city.
REBAR+UQAM_2011 from OLI on Vimeo.
Design International 2011 was a great experience and great success. We are thankful to Anne-Marie for the invitation to participate, to our passionate and energetic students, and to our colleagues in the workshop whom together created some novel and compelling work.
