Our good friends at Archipelagos stopped by a couple of days ago to finally pick up their funnel for pledging to help us build CHROMAtex.me. They sent us these great photos of them putting it together in their new studio. Thanks!

Tonight is the opening party for the New Practices Sao Paulo Exhibition at the Center for Architecture, an exchange with the New Practices NY. It is open to the public and more importantly there will be drinks! If you are around would be great to stop by and welcome a group of young talented architecture studios from Brazil!

Summer in NYC seems to be under way, a lot of cool shit going on. Our friend at WK and Attack are opening up a “SHOP” in the floor below them… interested to see what this is.

Good friend and drinking buddy, Julio Salcedo, will be launching his new book at Relative Space on June 15th, 2011 @ 5:30.

Our good friend Marc Fornes and THEVERYMANY is dropping it in France. This is a beautiful piece! Also check out the piece at the Pompidou…

I had Charles Colbert as my 4th year studio professor way back at LSU. It was an interesting studio experience. I was probably too young to deal with him and he was too old to deal with me. Regardless, I had one of my best projects in his studio and really started to figure out (or at least thought I did) what I wanted to do. Charles produced some great modernist architecture during his career and was actually the Dean of GSAPP in the 60s. He passed away a couple of years ago. One of his buildings in New Orleans is in pretty bad disrepair, but a great building. Its located in the Treme neighborhood and is slated for demolition. Please check out the above video and show your support if you can here.

Our studio mates EFGH are part of OPENHOUSE2011. A project by Droog led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. If you are around this Saturday April 27th there is a symposium at Studio-X.

Our friend Phil Chang over at WK and part of their black ops in house team, Attack, just wrote an interesting article for hypebeast about middlemen and the creative culture in the city. We are totally into transparency and getting rid of all of the romanticism surrounding design. We think we can do better things and do them faster without all of the bullshit. Its great to see someone not only laying it down like it is, but doing it!

Our friends Carrie “the boss” McKnelly and Brandt Graves just launched thefuturefuture.com. If you are into to jewelry and 3d printing you should check it out. The future will always be here… tomorrow!