ARCH DL IV: FXFOWLE vs. Konyk
Live coverage provided by Aaron Plewke



The Battlefield

Team Konyk . David and Sean

AAAARRRRRREEEEEEE.

YOUUUUUUUUUU.

REEEAAAAAADDDDDY?


[rock and roll part 2 starts here]

Team FXFowle . Paul and James

hahahahahahahahaha. it's like the mac vs pc commercials except in this case the pc is played by bob and doug mckenzie.

Great white north. And the other guys look like surfers.

Love that you are covering this, AP! I'll tune in between prepping for PechaKucha, which is due tomorrow yikes!!

Is there going to be a podcast by any chance?

Wish you were here

The brief: Alaskan Wildlife and research center

Hello you beautiful people! (And I mean the kind of beauty that is far more than skin-deep!)

Round one. Sketching / planning

What are the building materials tonight, do we know yet?

Round one. Sketching / planning

Intermission

Oh man, wish I was there...

Round two. Model building. Team Konyk

Round two. Model building. Team Konyk

Round two. Model building. Team FXFowle

Round two. Model building. Team FXFowle

Team FXFowle making progress

The mystery model building material is straws. That's right. Straws. Each team was also given Swedish fish, but neither seems to be using them. One spectator, Michael Kubo, points out that team konyk has already begun "plating."

according to the applause poll konyk is the crowd favorite.

what is this?

Team Konyk

Action from above. 15 minutes left.

Lumberjack and woodland critters

Team fxfowle

Team konyk

Done?

Not quite done.

Konyk presents

Fxfowle presents

Battery dead. Online voting soon.

Who's battery is dead? Our reporter's?

Anyone know if there are any parameters for the voting? Or is it just the "coolest" one wins?

For those of you in NYC and ready to party: ARCH DL After-Party at Hugs

Thanks for watching, and bigger thanks to Aaron Plewke with the mobile coverage. Stay tuned for some later coverage by other Archinectors in attendance: Susan Surface, Quilian Riano, and Jacob Reidel.

obviously this competition isn't for old people (like me). they're hardly given any light! how you s'posed to work in shadows, man?!

shit, i do my best work in the dark!

I know Sean, go Sean!

Based only on the info in this thread, I'd have to say I like fxfowle's better. It looks more graceful. But both are cool, and it looks like fun all around.

lb if this ever happens in indianastan, i hope that we are teammates. of course, we'll wear leather rather than flannel!

the fxfowle model is hot.

damn that looked good

beta I thought you were going to say you do your best work when the batteries are dead.

so who won?

Konyk won with applause at the event, but online voting will continue this week at LVHRD.ORG

a video by arch. record is at http://construction.com/video/

Konyk kicked ass

yes, my cameraphone battery died at the end of the night, just a few minutes after i sent that last image ("straw" poll).

LVHRD is trying something different with the voting this year - online voting in addition to the live poll.

Audience members were given cards upon arrival. After the teams presented, voters were to give their cards to the lumberjack if they wanted to vote for Team Konyk, or to the big brown bear if they wanted to vote for FXFowle.

Online voting will start this Thursday. From the LVHRD ARCH DL site:
...you’ll be able to watch VDO’s of our Architects presenting their models AS WELL AS vote for ARCH DL’s winner starting Thursday, January 31st, right here on lvhrd.org.

Each live audience member vote will count as 3 votes, while online votes count as a single vote. vote vote vote.

more info to come.

and thanks for following along last night! we had a great time!

^nice. i missed those last 2 comments...

OU812, thanks for the link. i was looking for that this morning but couldn't find it. i actually saw the archrecord video journalist (?) on the platform of the L train last night after the event, sitting on the ground with her laptop and camera, already editing the video. she (you?) said that she hoped to get the video up by this morning. it looks great, and really gives a good impression of the two teams.

Yeah i like the look of FXFowle but i think the idea behind Konynk's (as expressed in the Arch Video) is more interesting...
It responds to possibilities better.

And as one of the guys from FXFowle said in the video, they have more beuatiful objects (on the human scale), "if we could really make things do that".

AP, yes that was her (web editor for arch. record) and i on the L platform last night working. i'd like to take credit for it, but i just held the mic.

cool. nice to almost make your acquaintance, OU812.

yeah yeah - how was the drinks and the chicks

I was rooting for FXFOWLE until they jumped the shark into smiley face territory. See here.

and, great to run into all the archinecters.

now that's the kind of school that i should have went to...low lighting, odd-ball materials, qick-n-dirty models, and applause....lots & lots of applause

hey mimi! nice seeing you as well. thanks for posting your write up. i think you've pulled it apart quite well.

i actually didn't get to vote...we arrived a bit early to meet the teams etc. and evidently missed the vote-card handout at the door. ah well, guess i'll have to settle for a 1x online vote.

Mimi, it was nice to see you too. I like your comments on the media saturation.

Steven it was dark in there but the constant flashes of cameras provided plenty of light.

neither project was big enough, shiny enough, or had big enough holes in them. has oma's influence jumped the shark?

I thought da fox boys did it up right! Must be the influence of the
urban planners in the firm.

vado, it's Indianastan - we'd wear suits made of corn.

don't forget the soy bean lb.its indianastan's number 2 agronomic product! in fact, our outfits could look something like this...



i call gray suit!

online voting started today! you can watch a video of the design brief and the presentations @ ARCHDL.LVHRD.COM...

indecision '08! more images in the LVHRD Gallery...

Polls close next Thursday, February 7th.

voting ends tomorrow. so far konyk is winning 713 - 580...

here are some more pics from the event, linked from LVHRD's gallery:

voting is closed, and although they haven't officially announced it yet, it seems Konyk is the victor. congratulations David and Sean!

what's up with the bear? it's wintertime and they're supposed to be hibernating right now!!! those pictures have just cased my anxciety level to spike!