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  • A Rare Look Inside the Frey House II

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Not many people ever get to see inside the elusive Frey House II. Perched on the craggy mountainside overlooking Palm Springs, California, Albert Frey's home is a carefully protected masterpiece of Desert Modernism. If you want to see the ingenious space-saving design and the bedroom that's wrapped around an enormous boulder, well... you'll have to sign up for Modernism Week, held in Palm Springs February 12-21, 2010. Modernism Week is a sort of Mardi Gras of mid-century modernism, a grand architectural celebration with house tours, lectures, and festivities. Can't make it to Palm Springs?

  • Happy Birthday, John Ruskin

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Born on February 8, 1819, John Ruskin was a writer, critic, scientist, poet, artist, environmentalist, and philosopher. Rebelling against formal, classical styles, John Ruskin reawakened interest in heavy, elaborate Gothic architecture. He also disdained anything machine-made, and paved the way for the Arts & Crafts movement. Happy Birthday, John Ruskin originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 08:00:00.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Super Again

    6 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    This year marks the fifth time a Super Bowl game has been played at the enormous Sun Life Stadium. Home of the Miami Dolphins, you might know Sun Life Stadium as Dolphins Stadium or a lot of other names. But no matter what you call it, this place is huge and well-equipped with enormous hi-definition TV monitors throughout. Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida Photo courtesy of Dolphin Stadium / Miami Dolphins Super Again originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 10:00:03.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Black in the USA

    3 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Leaders like Barack Obama are household words, but few people know the names of the many Black architects and designers who helped build the United States. Only about 60 Blacks were listed as registered architects in 1930, and many of their buildings have since been lost or radically changed. Although conditions have improved, many feel that Black architects still lack the recognition they deserve. In honor of Black History Month, here's a roundup of important Black architects in America, including some names you may not know.Black in the USA originally appeared on About.com Architecture on…

  • Happy Birthday, Alvar Aalto

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    February 3 is the birthday of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Born at the cusp of Modernism in 1893, Aalto became famous for both his buildings and his furniture designs. Aalto's unique style grew out of a passion for painting and a fascination for the works of cubist artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Above: Otaniemi Technical University by Alvar Aalto. Photo (cc) JPK/Wikimedia Happy Birthday, Alvar Aalto originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 08:00:00.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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  • Planning in the UK forum: justify your existence

    Dan
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:39 pm
    In the two years the Planning in the UK fourm has been online, it has received very little posting activity. We were hoping the forum's presence would attract more users from the UK to Cyburbia. We don't know if more users from the US joined because of it, but whatever the case, few are using it. Best practice in message board administration is that it's better to have fewer busy forums than more less active forums. We may send out a mass email to Cyburbia users in the UK to see if it'll help generate more activity here. If this forum remains slow, the Planning in the UK forum will be…

  • Architecture vs urban [lanning

    hellyskiia1
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:45 pm
    I'm applying for graduate programs in architecture and in urban planning, I just can't make up my mind which is the right one for me (urban design isn't a great match, as I have an unrelated bachelor's degree in public relations). The path with the greatest amount of flexibility would work well for me. Does an architect have a greater chance of moving into urban planning than an urban planner switching to architecture... just incase my midlife crisis calls for a career change. Thanks for any input!

  • PHD vs second masters degree

    akowalski1502
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:33 pm
    I graduated recently with a 5 year undergraduate Bachelors of Landscape Architecture. I currently am pursuing a Urban Design Masters Degree. I have aspirations to work for a Think Tank and focus on the sociology of urban environments (specifically post industrial environments) as an area of research. I have been informed that many governmental and academic research institutions prefer Ph. D credentials. I am interested in either obtaining a Ph. D or another masters degree focusing on urban studies in some aspect. I eventually would like to teach at a university level which is another reason…

  • Transportation planning program in Colorado

    nuHIrail
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:08 pm
    So i've been lurking around the forum for a couple months now, reading what everyone has been posting. Keeping to myself. I'm in a place right now where I'm trying to figure out my next move, which is obtaining a Master's Degree. I am going to move out to Colorado, and at this point it's looking like the Denver area. I know DU has an Intermodal Transport Institute, but this is about all I have found in regards to Trans. Planing and Master's. Plus, unfortunately, I don't have any mid- to upper- management experience, much less 5 years. So, does anyone on this forum know of any directions I can…

  • Cyburbia outage: 8 February 2010

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    8 Feb 2010 | 11:28 am
    PHP 5.2.11 upgraded automatically last morning around 2:00 AM to 5.3.1, which resulted in various errors due to compatibility issues with vBDrupal and the site's .htaccess file. We rolled back PHP to the previous version, so everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
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  • Featured Jobs Today: in New York and Long Beach CA

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    KLINGMANN Architects & Brand Consultants seeking Architectural Designer in New York, NY Anonymous seeking Interior Designer in Long Beach, CA Joel Sanders Architect seeking Senior Architect & Architect in New York, NY View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job

  • Competition registration deadlines approaching...

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    February 08 Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge HK Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition Call for Entries: ReSource The City of Dreams Pavilion February 09 Fashion Museum in Omotesando Street - Tokyo February 10 18th Annual IIDA Will Ching Design Competition 37th Annual IIDA Interior Design Competition February 11 BSA Small Firms/Small Projects February 12 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - CONDITIONS #4: PRODUCTION OF ADDED VALUE Forgotten Spaces - Ideas Competition for London AIA San Francisco 2010 Design Awards February 15 Design of a Science Center to Promote scientific…

  • New Mag: Elephant

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:40 pm
    From the good people at Frame Magazine, who've given us the sparkling Mark Magazine before, now bringing us Elephant, "on art and visual culture. The magazine is divided into five parts: meetings, research, studio visits, economies and cities." I'm ecstatic.

  • Editor's Picks #144

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:32 am
    News In a town in Upper Bavaria they do it differently. There as Orhan points us to Even the minaret is admired as a valuable addition to the cityscape. Read and Related R.I.P. Eduardo Catalano 1917-2010 Philip Johnson's Glass House released tour tickets for the 2010 season. The L.A. Bike Working Group proposed a backbone bikeway network for Central Los Angeles. John W Chorley elementary school by Paul Rudolph may be demo'd. Discussion Threads Over on TC Holz.box shared some great images including this one; Some suggestions on how to trick out a slideshow presentation with multi-media.

  • Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:17 pm
    Since the 2006 publication of his best-selling first volume of Transmaterial, author Blaine Brownell has become the undisputed master of new materials, inspiring architects and designers looking to transform the structure, spaces, and surfaces of their projects with the latest high-tech and environmentally friendly products. The third volume in the critically acclaimed series presents over two hundred emergent materials, products, and systems that have significant potential to transform the constructed world. Transmaterial 3 provides a broad synopsis of the state of technological advances in…
 
 
 
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  • Famous Houses Around the World

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    31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) Our Exclusive Look at Homes from Across the Globe United by Architectural Merit and Noteworthy Inhabitants

  • Transparent Furniture

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    31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) AD editors present their favorite see-through furniture from designers Philippe Starck, Geoffrey Bradfield, Jennifer Post and more.

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    31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) Our Ongoing Section Featuring Words of Advice From Today’s Top Designers and Architects

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  • Accessorizing Low Tables

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    31 Dec 2009 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) A gallery of the various styles and objects—from books and decorative trays to sculpture and everything in between—used when accessorizing this living room staple.
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  • Monday, Monday

    John
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    My weekly page update:This week's dose features Concrete Studio in Austin, Texas by Mell Lawrence Architects:The featured past dose is Bar House in Aspen, Colorado by Peter L. Gluck & Partners, Architects:This week's book review is Urbanisms: Working with Doubt by Steven Holl:Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: ArchiExpo"The Virtual Architecture Exhibition" (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)NYC BigAppsGallery of the winners and other entries in the competition to develop "a software application...in keeping with New York City's drive to become more transparent,…

  • Today's archidose #392

    John
    6 Feb 2010 | 9:30 pm
    Here are some photos of Donnybrook Quarter in London, England by Peter Barber Architects, 2006. Photographs are by suburbanslice.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

  • Half Dose #74: Park Avenue South

    John
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am
    The following text and images are courtesy studio octopi for their extension to the Victorian end of a terrace house located in North London, UK. The project is shortlisted for a 2010 AJ Small Project Award.[photo by Lyndon Douglas Photography]The original builder was also the house’s first resident, and made the most of his triangular plot by allowing the side of the building to fan out to meet the line of the adjacent public footpath. On the ground floor this resulted in an additional fillet of space splitting the living and dining rooms. It was the divisional nature of this space (used…

  • Living in Containers

    John
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Last night my friend and old CCNY classmate Matt informed me about NYIT professor Michele Bertomen's house under construction in Williamsburg. The distinctive design at 351 Keap Street (address via Curbed) is certainly one to consider for my guidebook to NYC contemporary architecture, because it's a project actually built from stacked shipping containers, not just envisioned and unbuilt, as so many designers have tried to realize shipping container architecture in recent years.[351 Keap Street by Michele Bertomen | image source]Proposals for New York City have typically fallen into the…

  • Today's archidose #391

    John
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:45 pm
    Here are a couple Tadao Ando-designed buidlings, photographed by etogh33.[Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, 2004][Vitra Conference Center in Weil Am Rhein, Germany, 1993]To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose
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  • Architecture Against the System (2): The BAC TSR-2

    enrique
    24 Jan 2010 | 9:52 am
    British Aerospace Corporation TSR-2The study of a specific aircraft can be useful in disentangling the problematic relationship between systems thinking and design. Like the Electric Lightning, the design British Aerospace Corporation’s (BAC) Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance Aircraft, or TSR-2, demonstrates that a warplane can be considered as part of a larger technological system. And though the case of the TSR-2 demonstrates a very systemic conception of an aircraft, it too demonstrates the limits of systems thinking.A look at the TSR-2 shows how the 1957 Defence White Paper affected…

  • Architecture Against the System (1): Electric Lightning

    enrique
    24 Jan 2010 | 8:35 am
    Still/title card from "Streaked Lightning" (Central Office of Information Film, 1962)In “Streaked Lightning”, a 1962 film produced by Central Office of Information Film for Britain’s Air Ministry, a pristine English Electric Lightning carves graceful arcs against a clear, blue sky. Off screen, amidst an upbeat bop soundtrack, a narrator calmly, yet enthusiastically asks the viewer, “Want to fly a Lightning, want to occupy the single seat in the single fighter, all weather, night and day, highflying supersonic, supernormal Lightning?”[1] The star of this brief film was the Lightning…

  • Vertical Poché

    enrique
    16 Jan 2010 | 6:58 am
    Top: from The Searchers (dir. John Ford, 1956); Middle: from Kill Bill Vol. 2 (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2004); Bottom, from Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2009).More traditional forms of architectural representation use black and white to suggest differences in spatial articulations. On the one hand, Giambattista Nolli's figure-ground drawing of Rome features alternating fields of dark and white space to distinguish between architectural objects and their immediate urban context. Beaux-Arts drawing techniques, on the other hand, emphasized the use of blackened poché to…

  • Text, Geography, Murder

    enrique
    14 Jan 2010 | 11:56 am
    "L'orientation", from Albert Demangeon and André Meynier, Géographie Generale: Clase de 6éme (Paris: Hachette, 1937) (Source: Anthony Vidler, "Terres Inconnues: Cartographies of a Landscape to Be Invented" October No. 115 (Winter 2006), pp. 13-30.I'm going to mention a scene from towards the end of Guy Ritchie's breakneck Sherlock Holmes (2009). Don't worry, there are no reveals, no necessary "spolier alerts" to put the reader on edge. For those out there who have seen it, there is a scene where Holmes (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) figures out the exact location of a murder that will…

  • Cookie Controversy

    enrique
    7 Jan 2010 | 11:26 am
    Happy New Year! While I'm busy drafting some new posts, I ask a simple question: does the inconspicuous eating of a tasty cookie constitute the first significant act of architecture criticism for 2010?
 
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  • Furniture Arts, or: the Fine Art of Faux-Unique Furniture

    d0rn0b
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Sets & Series or in the Furniture category ] This set of strange furniture objects is designed to fit a peculiar purpose: each part is made to seem like a piece of art, or, more specifically, a one-off artwork with a functional side to it rather than a mass-produced furniture object made ready to order at little notice. From a wide-legged wooden bench with rubber-loop cushions to a curved-wood chair and fiberglass lounger, each work by Aaron Asedo does a remarkable job of looking as much like a singular sculpture as the start of a furniture line. Design is in the details:…

  • The Ice House: Crazy Crystal-Covered, Fully-Frozen Home

    d0rn0b
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    [ Filed under More or in the Installation Art category ] What happens when you take one of over 20,000 abandoned homes in Detroit and call attention to it in the middle of winter … by pouring gallon after gallon of water over the roof until it is covered from top to bottom – windows, walls, plants and all – with ice? For one thing, the resulting crystals are incredible – unique frozen snowflakes, but super-sized and surrounding every square inch of this installation art project. Moreover, making this structure melt-proof during the day is tougher than you might…

  • Happy Pills!? Sweet Happiness in Sugar-Pill Supplements

    d0rn0b
    7 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under More or in the Industrial Design category ] Feeling depressed? Try a sugar pill! No, not the placebo kind – the real deal street drug of choice for children and sweet-toothed adults alike. Forget natural vitamins or herbal remedies: head straight for the colorful ‘drug’ shelf at the local shop when you are feeling down, take two (or three or four) and skip calling the doctor in the morning. Yes, Happy Pills is now not only a popular song (with depressing lyrics), an addictive web game and a common phrasing for anti-depressant drugs, it is also now a…

  • Reclaimed Wood Furniture Cut Out of Old Bowling Lanes

    d0rn0b
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    [ Filed under Recycled or in the Furniture category ] Bowling lanes are built to last – but their creators probably never have this kind of creative reuse in mind. Demolition on the way, someone clever thought to recycle these rather stylish sport floors into home furniture objects that may be right up your alley. Beams and other wooden structural supports are also fair game. Created of a thick boards stacked vertically and packed closely, these area bit like classic car decking – made to hold up under serious weight, wear and tear over years of daily use. In short: do not worry…

  • DIY PVC: Colorful Modern Vases from Plastic Plumbing Pipe

    d0rn0b
    6 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    [ Filed under Furnishings or in the Decorative category ] Passing through the piping section of a hardware store it is hard not to notice the amazing array of PVC pipes that come in all shapes and sizes, black or white, and with branches, joints and intersections that inspire that do-it-yourself artist inside us all (Photos by Fred Dumur). Durable by design and naturally decorated (at least by modern minimalist standards) with rims, rings, curves and solid colors – and complete with openings in multiple places – a piece of pipe is a natural choice for use as a decorative home…
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  • Winsome Words: 18 Examples of Typography in Web Design

    Steph
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    [ By Steph in Architecture & Design, Gadgets & Geek Art. ] “Web design is 95% typography.” That quote has been repeated around the internet so many times it has practically become gospel – probably because it’s true. While images are important, most of what we process while browsing the web is text. Using the same old boring fonts doesn’t make for exciting design, so some graphic artists have turned typography on the web into a stunning art form unto itself. These 18 websites use typography to inform, but also as an (often interactive) design element that’s like a magnet…

  • Flip This Home! 10 Unbelievable Upside Down Houses

    Steve
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:26 am
    [ By Steve in Architecture & Design, Furniture & Interiors, Urban & Street Art. ] Upside down houses: they’re more common then you think… but why? Perhaps the artists and designers of these flipped out homes wanted to shake up the way we think of society’s most pressing need, shelter. Maybe they just wanted to stand out from the crowd. In that at least, they’ve succeeded. Sakasa Restaurant, Japan (image via: Nipponsoup) Real estate agencies just love the image of this upside down restaurant in Matsumoto city, Nagano prefecture, Japan – what better way…

  • Even Robots Get the Blues: Photos by Markku Lahdesmaki

    Steph
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    [ By Steph in Gadgets & Geek Art, Technology & Futurism, Urban Images. ] If you believe many of the fictional works depicting robots gaining sentience, someday these hunks of metal and wiring will begin to take over our world, eventually seeking to wipe out human civilization altogether. But could it be that they’ll just become an ordinary part of our world, going through the mundane motions of daily existence? Photographer Markku Lahdesmaki imagines rather retro-looking robots in sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholy situations partaking in human activities like talking on a…

  • Primates: Humans in Their Natural Form [NSFW]

    Delana
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    [ By Delana in Environment & Nature, Gadgets & Geek Art. ] Ruben Brulat hasn’t been a photographer long; the French artist picked up his first camera just two years ago. But since then, he’s been exploring what it means to be a human and how we interact with our environment. His series “Primates” places him – both as photographer and as subject – in inhospitable terrains to contrast the vulnerability of the human body with the stark roughness of nature. The photographs in the “Primate” series are all nudes, and they all feature the…

  • Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View

    Delana
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    [ By Delana in Gadgets & Geek Art, Urban & Street Art, Urban Images. ] Google’s Street View has made it easier for us to find our destinations, but has it influenced us in other ways as well? When Google sent out a fleet of automobiles armed with GPS units, laser rangefinders, and multi-eyed cameras, their goal was to make it easier to navigate places around the world. But the cameras caught much more than street signs, storefronts and city scenes. They recorded a never-before-seen side of humanity, urbanity and photography itself. Though these images were all captured by…
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  • Soft Ground. By Ai Weiwei.

    Christoph
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:35 pm
    threee instalations in one room: soft ground, rooted upon and a fairytaleSoft Ground is an artwork done by Ai Weiwei exclusively for his exhibition "So Sorry" at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. The 380m² large rug (size 10.61m x 35.61m) is a replication of the building's limestone flooring and was done from 969 rectangular tiles. Each stone tile was photographed, traced by hand, to be then reproduced using a coloured yarns. Production time: ninety days. A project, in terms of labour cost, only feasible to in China."The work is like a map pointing to events and people who have occupying the…

  • Tips For Better Ideas.

    Christoph
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:44 am
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  • Polymath Architect.

    Christoph
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:33 pm
    "A polymath (Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of subject areas." (source: wikipedia)Are architects polymaths? Knowing erverything and capable of doing great and original work in every area of the discipline of architecture? From urban design to detail drafting, from sociology to green building, from cost calculation to drawing? But - do architects really have advanced knowlegde in all these fields?"People with many interests do exist - and this is usually what we mean when we talk of a 'uiversal genius'.

  • Spatial Agency - an Agency of Change.

    Christoph
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:26 am
    Spatial Agency is an research project that aims to shift the of focus of architectural discourse from design and technology of buildings to one where architecture is understood as a situated and embedded praxis conscious of and working with its social, economic and political context.different strategy of building, legal illegal balcony camouflaged as an scaffolding, by Santiago Cirugeda"In the spirit of Cedric Price the project started with the belief that a building is not necessarily the best solution to an architectural problem. Architecture, and it is easy to forget this, is about a lot…

  • Beast of CCTV.

    Christoph
    24 Jan 2010 | 3:23 am
    Architecture under CCTV (image from the BMW Welt Munich).content by anArchitecture
 
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  • Featured Jobs Today: in New York and Long Beach CA

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    KLINGMANN Architects & Brand Consultants seeking Architectural Designer in New York, NY Anonymous seeking Interior Designer in Long Beach, CA Joel Sanders Architect seeking Senior Architect & Architect in New York, NY View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job

  • Competition registration deadlines approaching...

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    February 08 Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge HK Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition Call for Entries: ReSource The City of Dreams Pavilion February 09 Fashion Museum in Omotesando Street - Tokyo February 10 18th Annual IIDA Will Ching Design Competition 37th Annual IIDA Interior Design Competition February 11 BSA Small Firms/Small Projects February 12 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - CONDITIONS #4: PRODUCTION OF ADDED VALUE Forgotten Spaces - Ideas Competition for London AIA San Francisco 2010 Design Awards February 15 Design of a Science Center to Promote scientific…

  • New Mag: Elephant

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:40 pm
    From the good people at Frame Magazine, who've given us the sparkling Mark Magazine before, now bringing us Elephant, "on art and visual culture. The magazine is divided into five parts: meetings, research, studio visits, economies and cities." I'm ecstatic.

  • Editor's Picks #144

    7 Feb 2010 | 6:32 am
    News In a town in Upper Bavaria they do it differently. There as Orhan points us to Even the minaret is admired as a valuable addition to the cityscape. Read and Related R.I.P. Eduardo Catalano 1917-2010 Philip Johnson's Glass House released tour tickets for the 2010 season. The L.A. Bike Working Group proposed a backbone bikeway network for Central Los Angeles. John W Chorley elementary school by Paul Rudolph may be demo'd. Discussion Threads Over on TC Holz.box shared some great images including this one; Some suggestions on how to trick out a slideshow presentation with multi-media.

  • Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:17 pm
    Since the 2006 publication of his best-selling first volume of Transmaterial, author Blaine Brownell has become the undisputed master of new materials, inspiring architects and designers looking to transform the structure, spaces, and surfaces of their projects with the latest high-tech and environmentally friendly products. The third volume in the critically acclaimed series presents over two hundred emergent materials, products, and systems that have significant potential to transform the constructed world. Transmaterial 3 provides a broad synopsis of the state of technological advances in…
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  • Toward the city come hills

    Geoff Manaugh
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:37 am
    [Image: Mudslides strike Los Angeles; photo by Gary Friedman for the L.A. Times].In his short novel Man in the Holocene, author Max Frisch describes the psychological implications of living in the presence of possible Alpine landslides. The idea that the very earth beneath your feet might someday start to avalanche takes on existential overtones. "Nobody in the village," Frisch writes, for instance, "thinks that the day, or perhaps night, will come when the whole mountain could begin to slide, burying the village for all time." He then supplies us with the image of a "laborer who has been…

  • Format and Reinstall

    Geoff Manaugh
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:46 am
    [Image: The opening ceremony of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics; photographer unknown].A comment from Alexander Trevi on a recent post pointed our attention to the final paragraph of an article by the Associated Press: "According to the International Olympic Committee," we read there as part of an overall discussion of the forthcoming Vancouver Olympics and that city's unseasonal condition of snowlessness, "the 1964 Innsbruck Games also faced a lack of snow. The Austrian army rushed to the rescue," however, "carving out 20,000 blocks of ice from the mountainside and transporting it to the…

  • The Long River

    Geoff Manaugh
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am
    [Image: "Chongqing XI" by Nadav Kander, winner of the 2009 Prix Pictet; courtesy of the Prix Pictet].Speaking of the Prix Pictet, the winner of the 2009 prize was Nadav Kander for his project Yangtze, The Long River. It's an amazing group of images. From Kander's artist statement:The Yangtze River, which forms the premise to this body of work, is the main artery that flows 4100 miles (6500km) across china, traveling from its furthest westerly point in Qinghai Province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, even for those who live thousands of miles…

  • Igneous Hydrology: Landscapes on Demand

    Geoff Manaugh
    7 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am
    [Image: "Scene J3" from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch, courtesy of the Prix Prictet].I was reminded, via an old post on Pruned, of an amazing series of photographs by Jules Spinatsch called Snow Management; Snow Management was deservedly short-listed in 2008 for the Prix Prictet. With those images, Spinatsch documents the infrastructure of snow control—and outright terrain manufacture—at an Alpine resort, including the labyrinths of retaining fences and the individual pieces of equipment that make snow creation and large-scale, though ephemeral, landscape-sculpting possible.[Image:…

  • Empire

    Geoff Manaugh
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm
    [Image: From Empire by Andy Warhol, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art].Tomorrow at noon here in New York City, a musical event that I would love to attend kicks off: 8 solid hours of sound, providing a live accompaniment for Andy Warhol's Empire—a film notorious for its one, unchanging shot of the Empire State Building. Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, and, most exciting at least for me, Jan Jelinek—who, bizarrely, I once introduced myself to at WMF in Berlin—will be providing the music. The Museum of Modern Art describes Empire as follows:Empire consists of a single stationary shot…
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  • Ambient Climate and Energy Use

    Erik Ring
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:01 am
    Of Mice & Elephants: Envelope Load vs. Internal Load Dominated Buildings The use, massing and scale of a building greatly impact how much the ambient climate is a factor in that building's ultimate energy use. Envelope Load Dominated buildings are smaller, low-rise, narrow, and/or heavily fenestrated buildings. Internally Load Dominated buildings include larger, high-rise, deep floor plan buildings, with significant internal heat loads (occupants, electrical lighting, and equipment).   Think of Envelope Load Dominated buildings as mice --small with a fast metabolism and a lot of…

  • Sustainability Extends Beyond Environmental Factors

    Albert Lam
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:51 am
    By now, you've probably heard about the opening of the Burj Khalifa (a.k.a. the tower formerly known as the Burj Dubai; a.k.a. the new World's Tallest Building by a Landslide). At 2,717 feet tall, this titan is a grand and overwhelming testament to extremes and excess. Consider the following building facts, which border on the lavishly absurd: It is as tall as stacking both former World Trade Center towers on top of each other. Its spire can be seen from 50 miles away--which would be the country of Iran. Its foundations drive 150 feet into the ground. Full occupancy will allow…

  • Building a Brand for Public Education

    Rochelle Veturis
    28 Jan 2010 | 5:14 am
    By Guest Blogger Donald Pender, AIA, REFP We all know the importance businesses place on "branding." Disney is a classic example. They build their brand by making sure everything they do, say, sell and build reinforces the company's values and goals. By brand, I don't mean a trademark, a logo, or a particular style of design. A brand is a visible manifestation of a company's identity and values that is visible in everything they do. Even if you never set foot in a Disney theme park, which is unlikely because of the prevalence and strength of their brand, you'll still recognize their brand and…

  • Three for Three: Cities and Stimulus Money

    Rochelle Veturis
    22 Jan 2010 | 4:11 am
    By Guest Blogger Jeremy Hart, LEED AP According to the Department of Energy's website, more than $800 million has been awarded in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG). Were you one of the 700 cities that benefited from this funding? With more than $2.7 billion in formula grants available why not? Toward the end of last year, our Civic teams worked with three different cities to help them realize their funding capabilities through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. We celebrated, along with them, when all three were approved for their monies. For the City of…

  • BIM Equals Integration: Part 2

    Albert Lam
    14 Jan 2010 | 9:28 am
    Yesterday, we began our discussion about Building Information Modeling benefits and experiences. Lets continue right where we left off, with more about the mindset changes required in transitioning from a two dimensional drafting program like AutoCAD to a three dimensional "smart" modeling platform such as Revit. Revit Encourages Construction KnowledgeWhat makes BIM different from regular 3D modeling is the fact that in a program like Revit, a wall actually carries information relating to its composition, finish, and construction, whereas in a regular modeling program, a wall is just a…
 
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  • The definitive book to date…

    Ruairi
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:27 pm
    Here a book I’ve really been meaning to post about for a long time. Published by PA Press, Michael Fox and Miles Kemp have put together as they call it “a processes-oriented guide to creating dynamic spaces and objects capable of performing a range of pragmatic and humanistic functions. These complex physical interactions are made possible by the creative fusion of embedded computation (intelligence) with a physical, tangible counterpart (kinetics). A uniquely twenty-first century toolbox and skill set-virtual and physical modeling, sensor technology, CNC fabrication, prototyping, and…

  • Rachel Armstrong – Living Architecture

    Ruairi
    26 Jan 2010 | 7:05 am
    Rachel Armstrong teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she is advocating a new approach to architecture – one that sees buildings becoming living things. One of the best things about working at the Bartlett are some of the extraordinary people that you spend time with day to day and while I often get lost in the science when Rachel explains her goals for a Living Architecture, I adore the passion and vision of a truly interactive architecture capable of continual conversation with it built and natural environment. Key to Armstrong’s work are…

  • Kiefer Technic Showroom Facade

    Ruairi
    7 Jan 2010 | 9:56 am
    Created by architect Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH this amazing project is called “Dynamic Facade” better known as the Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria.

  • Olafur Eliasson @ MCA Sydney

    Ben
    30 Dec 2009 | 12:13 pm
    One for those lucky enough to enjoy the Australian summer whilst we’re freezing up here in London- Olafur Eliasson’s Take Your Time exhibition is now on at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). Not that we Londoners have anything to complain about really, as we got his Weather Project back in 2003, and judging by the number of people that chose to lie on the floor underneath it, we liked it. It looks like i’ll be in Sydney myself for a couple of days in March, and Take Your Time @ MCA is number 1 on my list of things to check out whilst i’m there. One-way colour…

  • Hear Here – an acoustic theatre – Ric Lipson

    Ruairi
    27 Dec 2009 | 3:15 pm
    Sound is an integral part of the way we understand the space surrounding us. Size, quality, timbre, texture and the atmosphere of a space can all be inferred by the way in which we experience sound. Based on ideas from the Suffolk island of Orford Ness, Ric Lipson’s acoustic theatre ‘Hear Here” has been developed over a preoccupation with the acoustic qualities of circular spaces and ambient sonic landscapes. His work features in ‘Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands‘. Ric Lipson’s Hear Here concerns itself with sound and the body aiming to…
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  • Children’s Hospital is a Sheltering Haven that Proves Design Heals

    Evelyn Lee
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:42 pm
    Storytelling design is the first step towards a healthier future for patients at the Evangelisches Konigin Elizabeth Krankenhaus children’s psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Designed as a collaborative effort between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Dan Pearlman Creative Agency, the center creates a fantastic narrative that guides patients on a journey to “Elise Island”, a safe place to play and rest hosted by Princess Elise. Read the rest of Children’s Hospital is a Sheltering Haven that Proves Design Heals Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: childrens…

  • The Gyre: A Floating Upside Down Eco Skyscraper

    Bridgette Meinhold
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Can you imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where the 360 degree views are of fishes and saltwater? Although just a concept now, this upside-down, underwater eco-skyscraper could be the future of building, especially if sea levels rise as predicted and we end up living in a water world. Designed by Victoria BC-based firm Zigloo, the Gyre is a floating eco-development meant to be both a research station as well as an off-shore resort with shops, restaurants, gardens and recreation. Powered completely by the sun, wind and ocean, the Gyre would offer a zero emissions stay for both…

  • NewActon Apartments Aim to Be the Greenest in Australia

    Jorge Chapa
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:48 pm
    NewActon Nishi is a new apartment complex in the middle of Canberra that is aiming to be Australia’s greenest residential development. But don’t go thinking that this will be a boring ‘green building’. NewActon Nishi will feature a sexy minimalist aesthetic in addition to some exciting eco-conscious features. Read the rest of NewActon Apartments Aim to Be the Greenest in Australia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", australia, canberra, Green Building, green development, green developments, hello@newactonnishi.com.au, nathers,…

  • Build Your Own Treehouse in 6 Easy Steps

    Beth Shea
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:47 am
    Building a treehouse for your kids is no longer a tall order with this flatpak DIY treehouse design from Dutch designers Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of Aandeboom. The Zelfbouwboomhut (Build-It-Yourself Treehouse) is comprised of water-resistant wood panels which fit together via a slot and tab system, and the completed structure is strapped, rather than nailed to the tree. Six easy steps are all it takes to fashion this outdoor abode for your nature loving kids!READ MORE AT INHABITOTS > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: diy kids crafts, diy treehouse, eco kids, green…

  • Top 5 Greener Gadgets to Look for in 2010

    Yuka Yoneda
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    As greener gadget geeks, we’re pretty enthralled with the assortment of energy and earth-conscious gizmos that emerged last year, and we’re even more excited about what this year holds in store. Check out our short list of the most promising new greener gadgets and don’t forget to vote for your favorite freshly unveiled designs from this year’s greener gadgets competition here!READ MORE AT LIFESCOOP > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco gadgets, green electronics, green gadgets, green innovations, green laptops, Greener Gadgets, kinetic energy,…
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  • Flux-us! Flux-you! Flux-me!

    Alexander Trevi
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:02 pm
    (Homeaway by Terreform 1. Photographer unknown. Source.)The fabulous Junk Jet has just released their third issue, and it sounds amazing. They asked for:Fluxing architectures, boogie, buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, and temporary eternities; for all kinds of practical concepts and conceptual practices, for stable happenings and unstable thoughts, for lifted cellars and dug in landmarks, for curtains, mobiles, house boats, bubbles, zeppelins, flying saucers.And they got:Fantastic forms of material, immaterial, physical and mental flux. Not only were…

  • Prunings LI

    Alexander Trevi
    31 Jan 2010 | 3:24 pm
    (“At that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after,” sings Patti Smith in Land. Image from Physique Sacrée, ou Histoire-Naturelle de la Bible.)1) This American Life on people bidding for the contents of abandoned self storage units in California. According to the Self Storage Association, there are 2.35 billion square feet in the United States. That's 7.4 square feet of self storage for every man, woman and child in the country, meaning all of us could stand inside self storage units at the same time. Plus: underwater Byzantine archaeology.2) Mammoth on the best architecture of the…

  • Links for 2010-01-18 [del.icio.us]

    Alexander Trevi
    River Thames Frost Fairs "River Thames frost fairs were held on the Tideway of the River Thames at London between the 15th and 19th centuries when the river froze over. During that time the British winter was more severe than now, and the river was wider and slower." [Wikipedia]

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    Alexander Trevi
    The Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China Quoting stuff willy-nilly: "Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), the Chinese Government Department responsible for water administration, was founded in October, 1949. On February 11, 1958, the 5th Session of the 1st National People’s Congress promulgated decisions to consolidate Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Electric Power Industry into Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power. On February 23, 1979, Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power was separated into two ministries. After the institutional…

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    Alexander Trevi
    306090 13: Sustain and Develop "The 13th volume of 306090 investigates the contradictory yet potentially productive tension between our drive to develop and our growing knowledge and emerging concern that such unregulated growth is eroding the natural ecology in which we live. We are continually confronted with the knowledge of our own destructive potential and the unknown unquantifiable revenge that nature will undoubtedly seek, while the wonders of modern life gleam on the horizon for a world population of whom for the first time over half live in cities."
 
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  • Drawing a Cupboard

    Marcus Trimble
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:11 pm
    Mouse movements while I spent about an hour documenting a kitchen pantry this afternoon:

  • Joe the Barbarian

    Marcus Trimble
    2 Feb 2010 | 11:25 pm
    I picked up the first issue of Joe the Barbarian, Grant Morrison’s latest series from Vertigo Comics this week. The story follows Joe, a diabetic teenager, who in the midst of a seizure has a hallucinatory adventure through his house. In the first establishing issue we follow Joe as he makes his way home from a school trip to a veteran’s memorial, catches a bus, gets home, moves through the house, climbs a set of stairs and climbs a ladder to his teenage wet-dream of an attic bedroom. Beautifully illustrated by Sean Murphy, it is a slice of life sequence right up until the…

  • Underground Masterplan

    Marcus Trimble
    1 Feb 2010 | 11:06 pm
    Regarding the new waterfront city of Tanjong Pagar in Singapore, The Economic Strategies Committee makes a case for a planning framework for underground space: “The committee said there is also a need for an underground master plan. It said the government should catalyse the development of underground space over the next decade. The committee also emphasized a need to develop subterranean land rights, a valuation framework and to establish a national geology office.” via Warren Ellis

  • Eiffel X-Rays

    Marcus Trimble
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:53 pm
    Strange Harvest uncovers a spate of Souvenir Eiffel Tower Trinket related injuries and their corresponding X-Rays. A 3 year old boy presented to our accident and emergency department with an obvious penetrating head injury. He had tripped and fallen onto a metal model of the Eiffel Tower which then became rigidly lodged into his skull.

  • Unhappy Hipsters

    Marcus Trimble
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:47 pm
    Unhappy Hipsters. Comprised of well groomed serious people in photoshoots from Dwell magazine, with a couple of witty captions. I guess style of photographing architecture is better than the empty, pristine, shells that we are used to, but a guy walking around knitting a scarf is really a bit too much. (thanks Adrian)
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  • Is Walkscore A Useful Planning Tool?

    Tim Halbur
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am
    The online walkability tool is sexy but not perfect. Real estate site are beginning to use it; could planners use it too? Bill Fulton gives his two cents. read more

  • DOT, HUD and EPA All Trumpet Smart Growth

    Tim Halbur
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Anthony Flint reports from the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, where the Feds all spoke about coordinating at the federal level to implement smart growth policies. read more

  • Tiki Preservation

    Tim Halbur
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm
    The Royal Hawaiian Estates, a tiki-themed apartment complex built in 1962, was designated an historic district by the City of Palm Springs. read more

  • The Mormon Church Backs Mixed-Use Project

    rbregoff
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    City Creek Center is a $1 billion mixed-use development project that some say is a godsend for downtown Salt Lake City, creating jobs during a tough economy. Others wonder how the church's influence will play out in the culture of the project. read more

  • Decay in Suburbia

    Tim Halbur
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Fast Company pulls together a handful of recent reports to paint a grim picture for the suburbs, as the number of people living in poverty rises, housing values decline, and infrastructure built in the 60s and 70s erodes. read more
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  • Sempé w103 by Inga Sempé for Wästberg

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:50 am
    Stockholm 2010: Swedish company Wästberg present an LED lamp derived from lighting usually attached to industrial machinery by French designer Inga Sempé at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, which opens today. (more…)

  • Kanebo Sensai Select Spa by Gwenael Nicolas

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:45 am
    Tokyo designer Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity has completed a spa in Interlaken, Switzerland, with silk panels hanging in layers from the ceiling. (more…)

  • Dezeenmail #44

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:27 am
    We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs.

  • Moebius House by Tony Owen Partners

    Chris Barnes
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:38 pm
    Australian architects Tony Owen Partners have created a house overlooking Sydney harbor where one wall loops over the roof and down the other side to become a first floor terrace. (more…)

  • Handlebar Candlesticks by Yen-Wen Tseng

    Chris Barnes
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:32 pm
    Taiwanese designer Yen-Wen Tseng, a student at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, has created a set of rubber candlesticks designed to feel like bicycle handlebars. (more…)
 
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  • Crowbot Jenny

    Regine
    7 Feb 2010 | 10:55 pm
    Crowbot Jenny is a manga character. She is a socially-awkward girl who prefers to spend time surrounded by technology and animals rather than with humans. She built the Crowbot. Perched on her shoulder, the crow-shaped robot can vocalize a variety of crow calls to control and converse with her bird army continue

  • The Gesundheit Radio

    Regine
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:45 pm
    Developed in 1972 to protect early microprocessors from dust, the Gesundheit Radio featured a sneeze mechanism that expelled dust from inside the casing every six month. A bellows system extracted dust from inside the unit, blowing waste from two outlets located on the front continue

  • East Side Stories. German Photography 1950s-1980s

    Regine
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:55 pm
    30 black and white pictures from photographers who portrayed life at the time of the GDR, mostly in a way that steered away from the official GDR iconography continue

  • The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

    Regine
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:31 am
    Michael Rakowitz explores the influence of science fiction genre imagery on the design of Iraqi monuments, military uniforms and weaponry under Saddam Hussein, while illuminating aspects of the US-Iraq conflict over the past few decades continue

  • Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

    Regine
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:03 pm
    An award and exhibition that celebrate contemporary portrait photography, whether it's editorial, reportage or fine art. Not very rock 'n' roll but consistently good continue
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  • Dead ends

    things
    2 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    The attraction of the technological failure, and how the internet serves as a dispensary of extended footnotes to otherwise forgotten history. Take the Sinclair C5, now firmly established in the canon of entrepreneurial also-rans, an idea not so much beyond its time, but out of time, the answer to a question that no-one was asking. But were it not for the internet, the C5 would languish in the very marginalia of cultural commentary, the nuts and bolts of its brief existence papered over by snide remarks, quips and references. Now every little dead end and half-baked idea is glorified and…

  • The age of cross-pollination

    things
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:11 pm
    The age of cross-pollination. Curation Culture, for want of a better term, thrives on cross-pollination. Everything is interesting, and what's more, we've developed the tools and the aesthetics with which to create the deep levels of analysis that would overwhelm a masters thesis from the 80s or 90s. Take this, the Samizdat Drafting Company's One Book, Many Readings loving, obsessive examination of the 'choose your own adventure' books of the 1980s, complete with a remarkable set of animations and the ability to 'play' a book.It's beautiful and fascinating. Yet content is practically…

  • No title

    things
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am
    A bit of everything today, with no obvious connections / short car-bound interviews at LlewTube / 'Ever wanted Joey Santiago or David Lovering to play on your song or album? The Everybody wants you' / London, Spite as Snow / dwbl.ldwb, a tumblr. Occasionally nsfw / photographs by Kirill Kuletski / The Wallpaper Tragedy / Flip Flop Flyin's iPhone drawings using Brushes.Making Maps at Cosmopolitan Scum / Sir John Soane - The Furniture of Death, a reprint of a 1978 Architectural Review piece on Soane's fascination with all things funerary, but also his playful spirit that never descended into…

  • Many splendoured things

    things
    18 Jan 2010 | 1:46 pm
    CEBRA_toons is a site by architect Mikkel Frost, a partner in CEBRA Architects, breaking down completed projects into a single watercolour image, creating a 'wordless manifesto': 'if you can't tell the story in an A4 sheet (21 x 29.7 cm) you are either doing too much or too complicated stuff'. The pictures have a hint of Aldo Rossi about them, a willingness to play with colour and form and caricature, the building used as a playful piece of symbolism rather than a stern immutable object. The La Brea Matrix, a project wherein six German photographers use Stephen Shore's classic Chevron gas…

  • Curation Culture emerges

    things
    17 Jan 2010 | 12:41 pm
    Simplistic Art brings together good reading and links / Good Type, Bad Type, a tumblr / the purest of treats, a weblog (occasionally nsfw) / pentimento / polarama, a weblog (usually nsfw) / we haven't scoured Strength Weekly for a while, but this post on Fairy Liquidity is an entertaining look at how the sprite disappeared from folklore and legend before rematerialising in the ad industry: 'It's odd that even today advertisements for all sorts of products are adorned with snappy, winsome little homunculi'.R-O-B, 'Flexible Production of Building Elements', a robotised bricklayer and a winner…
 
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  • Common aspects of good renderings

    Young
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:49 pm
    Good architectural visualisation is essential of conveying your intensions and ideas throught the design or marketing processes. In my opinion, the basic aspects of a rendering should consist:-1.A Strong MessageWhat is the intension of the image? What is the idea you are selling? Is it the surrounding context with integrated architectural solution?The form or detailing of your façade you want to illustrate?The atmosphere or activities of the design created?2. The DepthThe background with a sense of depth, the foreground with simple detailing and the million dollars building should be a basic…

  • Shanghai World Financial Center

    Young
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:19 pm
    "The recently completed Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) has bagged the award for Asia’s “Best Tall Building” of 2008.The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) gave the thumbs up to SWFC not only for its excellent architectural form and design but also for the integration and use of sustainable materials in the building’s construction.Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and developed by Mori Building Company, the 492m tall mixed use skyscraper, built at a cost of £640m, took 14 years to complete since the foundations were laid in 1997." to find out…

  • STADSKANTOOR, NETHERLANDS, ROTTERDAM, 2009

    Young
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:40 am
    Statement by Rem Koolhaas:-"What does Rotterdam really need? After an impressive sequence of abrupt architectural transitions – from the stark modernity of the reconstruction, via the “new humanism” of the cubes, the repressed postmodern of the 90s to the current apotheosis of Dutch modernity – launched by the fireworks of the 1940 bombardment, all these ideologies coexist and interact in harsh juxtaposition, each successive layer oblivious and in contradiction to the previous ones. What is now needed may be subtlety and ambiguity in the midst of an overdose of form. We propose a…

  • Waterfront Town of the 21st Century from Singapore

    Young
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:35 pm
    "In September 2007, HDB exhibited the plans for Remaking Our Heartland to realise, rejuvenate and regenerate housing estates in Singapore. Under this initiative, Punggol will be developed into a Waterfront Town of the 21st Century."With this development goal, Singapore had held competitions for it. The winning entry has been published at http://heartland.hdb.gov.sg/e-Exhibition-Nov-2009.htmlA very competitive process for the firms engaged. to find out more...Passage from http://heartland.hdb.gov.sg/e-Exhibition-Nov-2009.htmlImage from http://heartland.hdb.gov.sg/win_event_pdf/d3/s2_p10.pdf

  • World Expo:Past&Present

    Young
    16 Jan 2010 | 10:34 pm
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  • Private Clouds

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:47 am
    Below is from: http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2010/BIM_Cloud.html

  • AIA Interoperability Position Statement

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:22 am
    Interoperability Position Statement(approved by the AIA Board of Directors December 2009)"The AIA believes that all industry-supporting software must facilitate, not inhibit, project planning, design, construction, commissioning and lifecycle management. This software must support non-proprietary open standards for auditable information exchange and allow for confident information exchanges across applications and across time.This is best accomplished through professional, public- and private sector adoption of open standards. The AIA encourages its members and other industry organizations to…

  • Keeping Tabs on Emoko

    7 Feb 2010 | 5:59 pm
    I wrote a post titled A Proposed New Open Viewer Platform last October after looking at Sirikata's Berkelium & Realxtend's work on creating a new viewer. I also looked at Emoko, an indi browser with avatars developed by Graham Software of New York. It appears the project is based on the Torque Game Engine Advanced ("TGEA") and the Mozilla open-source software project, but I have not confirmed this. Mal Burns had run across a YouTube by Skylar Smythe reporting for The Metaverse Tribune on Emoko. I tried it and found it was interesting but offered no real usability improvements unless it…

  • SHADOWS - One of a few snapshots

    4 Feb 2010 | 3:11 pm
    Snapshot-shadows_003, originally uploaded by jeanricard.broek. Today I tested KirstenLee Cinquetti's newest S19 viewer. It now displays dynamic shadows with ATI Radion Cards (ATI 3870 and above). The location of the shot is the Pathfinders Sim, and Kirsten's blog and the viewer download can be found at: http://kirstenleecinquetti.blogspot.com/Bookmark this:

  • Snapshot-shadows_002 [Flickr]

    jeanricard.broek
    4 Feb 2010 | 2:31 pm
    jeanricard.broek posted a photo:
 
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  • US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to Bamboo Textiles

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:25 am
    Photo: Warren McLaren / Inov8 Last week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advised it had sent out letters to 78 US retailers advising them to stop labelling clothing as being made from 'bamboo.' Any company that fails to correct its advertising and labeling may find the FTC imposing penalties of up to $16,000 per violation, or as the FTC did last year suing four companies for falsely claiming that their clothing and other textile products were made of bamboo fibre. The Federal Trade Commission believe such claims are deceptive. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Ponoko Ships Ideas Instead of Objects Across the Atlantic

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:57 pm
    Ponoko CEO David Ten Have by Williams + Hirakawa, via Inc We have written so much about downloadable designs, about shipping ideas all over the world instead of stuff. It just keeps getting better, with more products and more options. That is why I love Ponoko so much; it is the first real demonstration of the concept. Now that they have added a hub in Europe, you can see the fir... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Who Got It Right With Olympic Architecture, Beijing or Vancouver?

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Susetta Bozzi/OnAsia.com. See slideshow The New York Times describes how the glorious stadia and facilities built for the 2008 Olympics are virtually empty, sort of a Field of Dreams where they built it, but nobody is coming. Alas, after the 2008 Olympics, the ticket buyers haven't come. Right now, the Bird's Nest serves as a winter amusement park known as the Happy Ice and Snow Season. In April, a promoter may stage a ce... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • 5 Shed Interiors at IDS2010 Range From Practical to Over-the-Top Glam

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am
    Urban Mode at Interior Design Show. All images via IDS We show a lot of garden sheds in TreeHugger; they are a great way to get some extra space without having to get building permits or renovate. But we rarely show their interiors; they are hard to photograph and often not as interesting inside as out. One of the fun features at the Interior Design Show in Toronto last month were the Five Small Rooms, where five designers outfitted the interiors of Summerwood garden sheds. I could no... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Space-Age Aerogel Insulation: It Is Already Here

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:19 am
    KMA Mike recently wrote Space-Age Tech Coming to a Building Near You: Aerogel as Insulation It is true that it hasn't been used much as conventional insulation in solid walls, but because it is translucent, it has been used a lot in applications where architects want natural light and a high level of insulation. Kalwall puts Cabot's nanogel aerogel between two layers of fiberglass panels and gets R-20 out of a translucent wall, which is certa... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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  • Efficient Simple Modern Home for $150k

    Preston Koerner
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:24 pm
    Since we last mentioned his efficient home built for under $70,000, Caleb Schafer's been quite busy.  He has a new website for Simple Modern Homes with a number of new home designs.  He's also doing new work with new clients, and one home in particular looks interesting.  Referred to as CL24, the design is for a 2,000 square-foot green home in Canyon Lake, Texas.  What's most interesting, perhaps, is the fact that CL24 will come in below $150,000, including land, utilities, and septic.  It's Texas -- where land isn't necessarily scarce or expensive -- but we definitely like this…

  • If It Doesn’t Perform, It’s Not Green!

    Preston Koerner
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:06 pm
    In a forthcoming keynote address to the Green Cities conference of the Green Building Council of Australia, green building guru Jerry Yudelson intends to tackle a important concern in the sustainable building world: performance.  His keynote, entitled “If it doesn’t perform, it’s not green,” is at the center of a hot button topic that seems to be taking on new fervor these days.  Yudelson, principal of green building consultancy Yudelson Associates, said in a press release, "The major focus of the green building movement has become the performance of green-rated and green-labeled…

  • Waste Not with a Combo Sink Toilet

    Preston Koerner
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am
    You’ve probably already seen this toilet and sink combination before.  It’s the W+W – short for washbasin and watercloset – from Roca.  The product, currently available overseas, reuses waste water from the sink in the discharge of the cistern, which helps it reduce water usage by up to 25% compared to a standard 6/3 liter dual-flush toilet. According to Plumbing Park, the system has two waste options. Once the basin is full of water, the user can either flush it down the main line or recycle it for use in the toilet. When the water is reused, it goes through a double filtration…

  • Fly Ash Concerns, Greener Ways, Living Incentives, + 10 Million Solar Roofs

    Preston Koerner
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:54 pm
    Perspectives on sustainability. About the new 10 million solar roofs bill. NY panel suggests 100 ways buildings can be greener. EPA and DOE form State Energy Efficiency Action Network. Economy forces a holistic view of corporate responsibility. Seattle bends the rules for up to 12 living buildings. Los Angeles might require rainwater capture. Fly ash designation could be problematic. Also, follow @jetsongreen on Twitter or fan Jetson Green on Facebook for more news, links, and commentary.

  • First LEED Platinum Home in Indiana

    Preston Koerner
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am
    A little over a month ago, this home received the first LEED Platinum certification for a home in the state of Indiana.  Located in Franklin, the 2,000 square-foot contemporary residence has three bedrooms and two bathrooms for a family of three and a dog.  Castalia Homes built the home, which has a number of green features.  Perhaps most importantly, the home is very energy efficient.  It was built with a tight envelope that tested at 3% air leakage.  This has been accomplished, at least in part, with foam insulation and carefully placed double-pane argon filled windows. The homeowners,…
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  • World Changing: Top Sustainability Trends of the Next Decade

    asladirt
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am
    World Changing created a list of the top sustainability trends they see occuring over the next decade: Bike usage will continue to rise across cities worldwide: “Copenhagen residents use bikes for 37 percent of all their transit. But bikes in Europe represent more than utility; riding a bicycle with the Velib’s bikeshare program in Paris now easily competes (42 million registered users) with taking a spring walk along the Seine. Bike-sharing abounds in dozens of European cities as well as in Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, Chile. Look for North American burgs to continue their…

  • Vancouver Olympic Village Features 3.5-acres of Green Roof

    asladirt
    4 Feb 2010 | 8:34 am
    Next month, 2,800 athletes will move into Vancouver’s Olympic Village, a $1 billion LEED Gold facility which also features more than 3.5-acres of green roofs, writes The Vancouver Sun. The roofs of more than half of the village’s 22 buildings are covered in sedum, a plant species commonly used on green roofs because of their ability to absorb heat and CO2  Peter Kreuk, International ASLA, principal at Durante-Kruek and lead landscape architect on the project, told The Vancouver Sun the sedums used for the green roofs were grown in long mats and then rolled-out like…

  • Luke Jerram’s Massive Aeolian Harp

    asladirt
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:41 pm
    Green Diary highlights artist Luke Jerram’s new project “Aeolus,” which seeks to capture the sound of wind passing through a landscape. According to Green Diary, Jerram received an £225K grant from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) to create and tour Aeolus, an exploration of acoustics, wind, and architecture, which was inspired by a tour of desert wells in Iran that one local well-digger said sung in the wind. The artist has created a range of sculptures, installations, and live art projects, including the Plant…

  • Jacob Javits Plaza Gets a Redesign with Recovery Funds

    asladirt
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:53 pm
    The federally-owned plaza in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan is about to get a new design. According to The Architect’s Newspaper, the composition created by landscape architect Martha Schwartz, ASLA, in the late 1990’s will be replaced by a new iteration from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, working under Wank Adams Slavin Associates (WASA). This will be the fourth design in 20 years, counting the temporary landscape that was installed after Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc” sculpture was removed. The U.S. General Services…

  • AIA San Francisco’s Vertical Gardens Exhibition

    asladirt
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) and the Center for Architecture + Design Gallery have organized Vertical Gardens, a new exhibition which be open February 18 – April 30, 2010. AIA San Francisco writes: “The past decade has seen a greater emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens created by artists, designers, architects and urban gardeners to combat the lack of flora in the city. Buildings around the world—from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco—have embraced green walls…
 
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    The Whispering Crane Institute

  • Super Bowl Thoughts

    Rick Anderson
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:01 pm
    Saints vs Colts No landscaping here. Well I must say it was a pretty entertaining game until the Manning interception, when the writing went onto the wall and the New Orleans Saints were to soon be the Champs of the NFL. Fun to watch, well-played and I enjoy the energy, passion and professionalism at such a high level of competition. Commercials On the other hand a big let down were the highly touted Super Bowl commercials. I am amazed that companies would spend so much money to promote their products in such a lackluster fashion. Some real yawners. The winner for me? The winner for me had to…

  • Snowed In???

    Rick Anderson
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:34 pm
    So we are supposed to get anywhere from 8″-14″ of snow by tomorrow. Will we? Up until about an hour ago I’d have said no way . . . it’s 3:00 EST, looking out the window at this moment we are getting blasted. Giant snowflakes coming almost straight down, looks like a major snow coming in. The wood box is full as possible and I just finished splitting a full container of kindling. Julie is home safe and sound from work, so let it snow. As we sit by the fire contemplating the beautiful snow fall and the hopeful arriving of Spring. Filed under: nature

  • Tidbit Time

    Rick Anderson
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:31 pm
    Some odd’s and ends A new link, on the WCI Links page: Joseph Hillenmeyer is writing a really fine blog about life, work, sites, plants, and observations about the profession we both share. The difference is his perspective is from the rolling hills of Louisville, KY. It’s nice work and worth a read. Cornell update from the Birding World Ithaca, NY—It’s time to register for the next session of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s new online bird behavior course, beginning February 17. Each course session lasts five weeks. The goal of “Investigating Behavior: Courtship and…

  • ANLA Management Clinic #3

    Rick Anderson
    2 Feb 2010 | 9:50 pm
    Pearl Fryar and myself at his home The highlight for the last day of the Clinic is the closing keynote speaker. This year it’s Mr. Fryar and I can tell you he is excited to talk to this group of attendees. ANLA crowd is ready He has told me many times today how excited he was about the level of excitement and energy in the crowd. By walking around to a few events and seminars Pearl’s come to the realization how much we love plants and our appreciation for his level of passion and commitment for what he has done. It’s already been a fun experience and very worthwhile already.

  • ANLA Mgmt Clinic Day 2

    Rick Anderson
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:08 pm
    Well for me; so far today, spending the afternoon with Pearl Fryar was the highlight. We had a chance to reconnect and talk about some of the long ago days of giving talks on the same program for events around the State of South Carolina, some fun stuff. We got a chance to watch the entire DVD of the Documentary, ‘A Man Named Pearl‘ and the crowd that came in had a great time. Dan Thurman . . . the man can juggle. More later another event to head off to that starts at 9:00 tonight! Filed under: Associations
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    CONTINUITY IN ARCHITECTURE

  • How will the new library wear the inevitable black shroud?

    Aventinus
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:11 pm
    As the vultures gather around the soon to be vacated carcass of E. Vincent Harris’s Central Library in Manchester, CiA student Michael Groves has discovered the above stygian description of the then new library’s 1934 context by an anonymous but poetic critic. (more...)

  • Kolumba

    Dominic Roberts
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:10 am
    Some architecture students I recently met had never heard of Peter Zumthor (!). I offer a photoset of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne as a reminder. Photoset (more...)

  • Emerging Face

    Aventinus
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:55 am
    Charalampos Politakis, a Doctoral student at the Manchester School of Architecture (supervisor Eamonn Canniffe) is currently researching the philosophy of anthropomorphic architecture. Here are some images and text from his Masters project which he completed at the University of Salford in... (more...)

  • Outstanding

    Dominic Roberts
    5 Jan 2010 | 9:14 am
    The Politics of the Piazza has been awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2009 by Choice the leading source for library-relevant book reviews in the United States. In his review David H. Sachs of Kansas State University describes The Politics of the Piazza in the following terms. The book features... (more...)

  • Sherlock Holmes in Manchester

    Crompton
    4 Jan 2010 | 10:12 am
    Manchester Town Hall appears uncredited in the new film, playing the Houses of Parliament. Under this very ceiling Holmes struggles with Moriarty. Continuity in Architecture will never mistake Waterhouse for Barry even if they can believe Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law are Holmes and Watson. (more...)
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  • Sick Day Kit

    Katelyn Thomas
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:24 pm
    I don’t care if it is a 50 year old man or a two year old girl, when someone gets a stomach virus, they just feel icky. When the weather is bad, or they start to feel sick at night, there’s nothing worse than finding out that you are out of everything that can make your two year old (or spouse that is now acting like a two year old!) feel better. After about the tenth time I went for a bottle of ginger ale, only to find the cupboard was bare, I instituted a sick day kit, which is only to be touched when someone comes down with a virus. My kit includes: Brand new trashcan from the dollar…

  • FDA Eyeing Serving Sizes

    Peggy Rowland
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:08 pm
    Do you consider how many serving sizes you’re consuming when you reach for foods like chips, cookies or cereal? Too often, a manufacturer’s idea of a serving size varies way too much when compared with what a consumer actually eats. If you think a serving of ice cream means you get to fill up your bowl, you’re probably scoops away from the truth. You should multiply that seemingly innocent fat and calorie count on the nutrition label. In an effort to help curb obesity, the FDA wants nutrition labels on the fronts of packages (graphic designers everywhere are making faces),…

  • Five Things to Do When You Are Snowed In

    Katelyn Thomas
    7 Feb 2010 | 2:40 pm
    Twenty four inches of snow on the ground, 24 inches of snow. The sun came out and they started to melt. Twenty three inches of snow… Umm, hi. I didn’t see you there. I wasn’t expecting company what with all this white stuff. Well, since you’re here, maybe you’ll be able to use my list of things to do when you are snowed in: Scrapbook last year’s snow photos (or any photos with a common theme) online with one of the many photo book  offers the different photo sites are advertising. A few weeks ago, I scrapbooked the 16 inches of snow we had earlier this year in a photo book.

  • Decoupage Bath Set

    Kathy Zengolewicz
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:54 pm
    Today we’re going to make a decoupage bath set. A jar to hold your favorite bath salts and a shaker box to hold some talcum powder for you to use after your bath. If you don’t use after bath powder, then use the shaker box for small trinket like earrings or hair pins. These are simple to make and look so pretty on your bathroom vanity. Here is what you will need to get started: A small glass jar with a cork lid A small shaker box Rubbing alcohol Cream colored acrylic paint or glass paints A paint brush or foam brush Paper napkins with a suitable design Mod Podge or other decoupage…

  • Yard Maintenance During Snow Storms

    Katelyn Thomas
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:27 pm
    As we continue to spend our weekend in the northeast part of the US staring out the window at the falling snow, newscasters are growing tired enough of standing in the snow and talking about how bad the storm is to move on to useful news. I was especially excited to have them start talking about yard maintenance. There are a lot of commonsense tips we should know, but might forget about as we try to dig out. Here are some of the most important things to keep in mind: Make sure any vents are completely clear. Furnace vents, dryer vents and bathroom vents that are covered can lead to all kinds…
 
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  • Terrorism and Urban Space

    Godofredo Pereira
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am
    Dear All, This Friday the roundtable will be hosting a conversation on Terrorism and Urban Space to be published in Detritos (www.revistadetritos.com) The topic of terrorism is extremely vast, so perhaps we could focus on 3 main directions: 1) A definition of terrorism: who has the right to define what is inside or outside the scope of terrorism, and the politics behind it, etc. 2) Terrorism and the politics of exception: allowing us to connect to contemporary policy-making, population control and internal security (war on terror; war on narcotrafic; war on illegal immigration; etc). read…

  • Peter Hallward: The Fourth Invasion: Securing Disaster in Haiti

    Paulo Tavares
    29 Jan 2010 | 5:04 am
    Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, it's now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island's recent history. It has adopted military priorities and strategies. It has sidelined Haiti's own leaders and government, and ignored the needs of the majority of its people. And it has proceeded in ways that reinforce the already harrowing gap between rich and poor. read more

  • RT3 Apparatuses and Things/2 Nov 26-27th

    Ayesha Hameed
    24 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    Dear All, Last seminar we had some productive discussions about potential ways of writing things and assemblies into the theses. In the coming seminar, Thursday-Friday 26-27th, we will follow up on the discussions we started around the texts by Latour and Heidegger. I am keen to return to Agamben's Dispositif as we had not too long to discuss it. So the first part of the day (starting 1030) will be a dedicated to the discussion of this text, in relation to Deleuze's conception of the dispositif. dispositifs: Agamben's is here: http://roundtable.kein.org/node/1137#attachments read more

  • Brian Larkin: Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema

    Charles Heller
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:17 am
    This is chapter three of Brian Larkin's "Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria", Duke University Press, 2008. In Signal and Noise, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. read more

  • Céline Nieuwenhuys and Antoine Pécoud : Human Trafficking, Information Campaigns, and Strategies of Migration Control

    Charles Heller
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:10 am
    Céline Nieuwenhuys and Antoine Pécoud, « Human Trafficking, Information Campaigns, and Strategies of Migration Control », in American Behavioral Scientist, 50, 2007. read more
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    The Antiplanner

  • The Antiplanner’s Library: The U.K. Has Suburbs Too

    The Antiplanner
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Americans moved to the suburbs because of interstate highways. Or they moved to the suburbs because of federal housing policies. Or they moved to the suburbs because of federal subsidies to sewer and water lines. Opponents of suburban lifestyles rely on the myth that outside forces caused Americans to move to the suburbs. This myth, in [...]

  • Strong Towns: If a Little Is Good, More Must Be Better

    The Antiplanner
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:19 am
    Guest post by Charles Marohn There is no question that the greatest force that shapes the form of American cities is transportation. And, since the National Defense and Highways Act of 1956, the federal government has dictated that the country’s transportation system would be based almost exclusively on the automobile. While we won’t overlook the improved standard [...]

  • Federal Highways and Urban Form

    The Antiplanner
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Note: This is the first of what may become a series of interblog debates between the Antiplanner and Charles Marohn of the Strong Towns Blog. Many opponents of low-density suburbs — areas they derisively call “sprawl” — argue that Americans would not have chosen to live in such areas unless they were subsidized or forced to [...]

  • Clearing Up a Mystery

    The Antiplanner
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    The 2001 National Household Transportation Survey (NHTS) found that the average motor vehicle contains about 1.6 people (see table 16). But a report from the Department of Energy observes that “intercity trips [have] higher-than-average vehicle occupancy rates” (see appendix C-3, page C-3.4). How much higher? The answer, curiously, comes from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, [...]

  • Back in the Air Again

    The Antiplanner
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    In a trip sponsored by the Kansas Chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the Antiplanner is speaking tonight at the Bank of America Center in Wichita, a city that is just discovering the wonders and costs of modern urban planning. I’ll be speaking to some groups there Friday as well. Flickr photo by Brent Danley. If you [...]
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    After Corbu

  • Cyber-rapture

    Quixote
    7 Feb 2010 | 2:17 am
    Mark Dery in Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century: The rhetoric of escape velocity crosses cyberpunk science fiction with the Pentacostal belief in an apocalyptic Rapture, in which history ends and the faithful are gathered up into the heavens. Visions of a cyber-Rapture are a fatal seduction, distracting us from the devastation of nature, the unraveling of the social fabric, and the widening chasm between the technocratic elite and the minimum-wage masses. Shorter Dery: Go fuck yourself Ray Kurzweil.

  • Inner City Pressure

    Quixote
    13 Oct 2009 | 1:53 am
    A song in honor of my troubles with random undeserved parking citations.  I don’t think people have this problem in the suburbs. Click here to view the embedded video.

  • Hacking No Child Left Behind

    Quixote
    13 Oct 2009 | 1:35 am
    It’s hard to describe how awesome it is to see that my former high school district is manipulating No Child Left Behind in such innovative ways.  I’m almost proud. Basically, NCLB school evaluation in Califnornia is based on the percent of 10th graders who pass the HS Exit Exam.  It doesn’t matter if the student passes the test in a later grade; the 10th grade rate is the key statistic.  The Kern High School District has therefore taken an ‘assume a can-opener’ approach to this challenge and eliminated sophomores.  Or at least the low-performing ones.

  • Thank you RISA

    Quixote
    16 Sep 2009 | 10:46 pm
    Because of you, when the boss catches us having rubber band fights we can always just say: ”I’m iterating for p-delta.” Similar to coders really. Update: It’s embarrassing when you misspell the punchline.

  • Counter-revolutionary design

    Quixote
    10 Sep 2009 | 7:55 pm
    What If New York City 3 by Studio Lindfors This is pretty awesome, but it would make it much harder to use the political & economic disruption of a precipitous rise in sea levels to stage a world revolution. [vis BLDGBLOG, so so long ago]
 
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    Architecture + Morality

  • What Americans Really Want in a President...and Televangelists

    relieveddebtor
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:04 pm
    As Sarah Palin reemerges in preparation for her run at the presidency in 2012, she has shown herself to be wonderfully transparent. Contrasted to the cool and calculating President Obama who rarely speaks sans script, Mrs. Palin is good at speaking off the cuff and in a folksy manner. Too folksy, for many. In separate interviews, I was reminded why she will almost certainly not be a viable candidate in 2012. She's folksy to the point of sounding crude or ignorant at worst or as having poor political instincts at best. I'm willing to ignore some of her less impressive moments during the…

  • "Imagine": Theme Song for the Morally Vague

    relieveddebtor
    12 Jan 2010 | 3:53 pm
    Part of the reason I have not been able to write in several months is because I have been in the process of moving to Houston. Getting settled involves getting acquainted with the city and all it has to offer. To those not from Houston, you may be surprised to learn that Houston has robust artistic offerings, ranging from early music, the symphony and opera, and scores of smaller music and dance companies that perform almost nightly all over the city. Perhaps I’ll write more on that in another post.The focus for this post is on a song I heard performed at the Houston Boychoir Christmas…

  • Size shouldn't matter...(except when it does)

    corbusier
    20 Dec 2009 | 8:00 am
    In what is possibly the most difficult of times for the architecture profession, firms are scurrying around the globe to land any securely funded project that has weathered the speculation-fueled real estate crisis. With the U.S. market in the tank for at least the next couple of years, firms large enough to have foreign offices are redoubling efforts in snatching projects in markets where money is concentrated by powerful ruling families, business partnerships with large cash reserves, government and entities with close ties to the government. Smaller developers that rely on bank credit no…

  • The Architecture of Faith: A Sermon

    relieveddebtor
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    The following is a sermon. I am not usually inclined to publish sermons on our blog, but because the jumping off point of the sermon was the architecture of the temple, I couldn't resist. Hopefully, it reads similarly to our essays. The text is Mark 13:1-8. Architecture has as much to do with religious buildings as any other sort of building. While we might think that architecture is the province of industry or residence, designing skyscrapers and houses, churches also see the need to consult with architects from time to time. They help provide insight on what kind of space engenders worship,…

  • A Park, not a Neighborhood: the problems and possibilities of the Dallas Arts District

    corbusier
    7 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    There has been an air of celebration among Dallas civic boosters, local media and even among many of its citizens these past few weeks. The opening of the $350 million AT&T performing arts center marks the culmination of an ambitious vision set forth by city leaders over 30 years ago in the establishment of the country's largest Arts District. Along a once vacant six-block stretch in downtown just north of the city's gleaming commercial skyscrapers, the Dallas Arts District features museums and performance halls designed by the world's most renowned architects, four of which are Pritzker…
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    the New American Village

  • The Old Folks at Home

    1 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm
    This week's newspaper column: With all our assorted human differences, there’s one thing we all have in common:Nobody is getting any younger. Barring some unfortunate fatal illness (or a much-too-casual relationship with heavy machinery), we will all at some point negotiate the world as senior citizens. A few generations ago, the elderly among us depended almost solely upon the good graces of extended family for support and care, often living in the home of a child or some not-too-distant relative.Absent those accommodations, senior citizens might have found themselves – if they were…

  • The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    18 Jan 2010 | 9:55 am
    Photo: I Have a Dream Speech - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Today's newspaper column. Read it in the Hattiesburg American. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream.Not a complaint - a living dream. The powerful and compelling vision he articulated was that someday, in America, people would not be “judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” We’ve come a long way since that late August in 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered those very words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.To the country and the world, the ideals those words embodied were a beacon of…

  • I Have A Dream...

    15 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am
    Inspirational words of wisdom by Martin Luther King, Jr. - born 81 years ago today:I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.An individual has not started living…

  • The Uh-Oh Decade

    4 Jan 2010 | 8:07 am
    This week's newspaper column - read it in the Hattiesburg AmericanOut with the old; in with the new!After stumbling through a decade that started with a millennial bang and ended with a whimper, the calendrical odometer benevolently flips over to give us – at least metaphorically – a new start. It may be telling that we never really knew what to call this unsettling era.Naming every decade in living memory has been obvious with references to the 50’s, the 60’s, and even the more recent 90’s rolling off the tongue with poetic ease.Give us a little more time, and the past ten years…

  • Green Holiday Card - 2009

    26 Dec 2009 | 11:22 am
    For several years now, I've been crafting three-dimensional "Peace Love Joy" cards for the holiday season. Assembled and hand-delivered, these little yearly pearls always seem to promote a warm feeling of, well - peace, love, and joy.As a personal note, I love designing, fabricating, and assembling each year's card because it's a genuine outlet of pure creative expression without the parameters of a client's wish list, limitations of the contractor, budget, or the chance of a phone call with someone screaming on the other end about a roof leak. (The latter of which has, knock on cedar shake…
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    Art Deco Buildings

  • Schine Theatre, Auburn

    David Thompson
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:22 pm
    The Schine Theatre (1938) in Auburn, NY was designed John Eberson, a specialist theater designer for the Schine Brothers as part of their extensive theatre chain.At Auburn, Eberson's design included comets and shooting stars and vivid colours which can still be seen in the doors and ticket box. The building ceased to be a cinema in 1979 and after various uses, finished up as a video store that closed in 1992.For several years it remained vacant and was purchased by the Cayuga County Arts Council in 1998. The Arts Council are working to restore the theatre and make it a viable arts and…

  • A House on the Gold Links Estate, Camberwell

    David Thompson
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:45 am
    This house is on a large corner block on the Golf Links Estate in Camberwell. The property is surrounded by a low wall with regularly spaced piers topped with a simple stepped geometric form.This house also demostrates an interesting feature of the Golf Links Estate with a narrow flowerbed between the wall and the footpath bringing the private garden outside the property to the public space. In some streets this etra garden space is well used while in others it is a bit hit and miss with some owners extending the width of the footpath to fill-in the flowerbed.The house itself is rendered and…

  • Bow House, London

    David Thompson
    6 Feb 2010 | 2:21 am
    In 2009 English Heritage listed Bow House, the former Poplar Town Hall, at Grade II level.At the time,the BBC website carried this story about the building and several others in Tower Hamlets that also received Grade II listing.The story quotes Ewart Culpin, who designed the building with his son, Clifford as saying the building was "the first town hall in this country to be erected in the modern style".Along the face of the canopy above the entrance there is a mosiac with four figures representing literacy and educational subjects such as art, reading and geography. The mosiac also includes…

  • Rogano, Glasgow

    David Thompson
    5 Feb 2010 | 3:15 am
    Rogano is Glasgow's old surviving restaurant.Even on a cold, wet Scottish evening, when I took this photo, the class of its 1935 Art Deco frontage shines through.See my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other giftware at www.zazzle.com/davidt66*.

  • Planters @ Art Gallery & Museum, Castlemaine

    David Thompson
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:18 pm
    This is the Castlemane Art Gallery & Museum (1931) by Percy Meldrum. I've written about it before, so today I want to highlight the two large, clunky, concrete planter boxes that sit on the raised area in front of the gallery.They feature Australian animals that I'm sure you'll recognise.KoalasParrotsKangarooKookaburrasSee my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other giftware at www.zazzle.com/davidt66*.
 
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    SEI Design Group Blog

  • 2010 Valentine Contest Announced

    SEI Design Group
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:19 am
    It’s about that time again, and this is a super easy contest!  Guess how many candy hearts in the jar. Submit your entry by February 10th by leaving a comment below. Entries will only count if you have a gravatar.  You may only enter 1 time.  In the case of a tie, the earliest entry will win, so don’t delay.  The winner will be awarded this gumball machine and some moolah to keep it stocked.  This contest is open to all including SEI staff, friends and family.

  • Congratulations Chatham CSD!

    SEI Design Group
    13 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm
    Congratulations to Chatham Central School District!  District voters approved two propositions for their Capital Project; the first addresses infrastructure, ADA, energy and educational program needs. The second proposition is the replacement of aging athletic poles and lights.

  • World’s Tallest Building to Open Today

    SEI Design Group
    4 Jan 2010 | 4:51 am

  • Unique Corporate Gift Idea

    SEI Design Group
    23 Dec 2009 | 5:32 am

  • 2009 Holiday Gift Ideas Part III

    SEI Design Group
    21 Dec 2009 | 2:45 am
    The Amazon Kindle is always a wanted gift.   Or for someone who already has a Kindle, get a case like the standard black one, or a funky red one. Sometimes great things come in small packages!  The Chill Pill RapCap is just such a delight.  This tiny microphone for your iPod comes in so many colors, it is hard to decide! Two SEIers were researching new digital cameras and came up with the same result without even discussing in advance!  Now everyone has to upgrade to this Panasonic Lumix camera.  You don’t have to get red, but Ted did! And if all else fails, an Amazon Gift Card…
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  • Media-TIC / Enric Ruiz Geli

    Nico Saieh
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am
    © Iwan Baan The 22@ is an experimental district in Barcelona, Spain, with a mayor energetic load (District Climate), where the new values of the companies are intangible: they are not based in having natural resources of water, soil, gas, they don’t have real-estate values, retransmission rights (media Pro), they have patents (Indra), they have intelligence, programming and interaction (like the Reactable of Sergi Jorda from the Pompeu), a district, the way Artur Serra from I2CAT and the people form the 22@ say, an urban Lab. Is here where Spanish architect Enric Ruiz Geli designed this…

  • Ordos Hotel / EXH Design

    Karen Cilento
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:07 am
    Our friends at EXH Design shared their design of a hotel in Ordos, which is scheduled to be completed within a few months, with us.  Taking inspiration from the yurt, the circular tent-like dwelling of Mongolian peoples,  the team transformed the traditional scheme to meet the demands of modern life.   The design “makes an accommodation experience in Ordos different from anywhere else and arouses a local cultural interest,” explained the architects. More about the hotel and more images after the break. Because the yurts were never stacked, the architects adapted the…

  • Bridge in Vienna / SOLID architecture

    Nico Saieh
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Architects: SOLID architecture Location: Vienna, Austria Project Team: Christine Horner, Christoph Hinterreitner Structural Engineering: RWTplus ZT GmbH Client: Österreichische Lotterien GmbH Competition Year: 2008 Completion Year: 2009 Photographs: Günter Kresser The bridge is enclosed on all sides and connects the two buildings Rennweg 44 and 46 at the fifth upper floor, 17 metres above the Kleistgasse (in the third Vienna district). The span length of the bridge is 22 metres. floor plan Outward Appearance of the Bridge In reference to its outward appearance, the bridge adds a third and…

  • AD Recommends: Best of the Weekend

    Sebastian J
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm
    At ArchDaily we know weekends are for you to rest, enjoy your time, and relax. However, we keep working and featuring the best projects we have, so we are afraid you may have missed some really great stuff. Fortunately for you, starting today, every Monday we’ll feature the very best of our weekends. Check the other two after the break. Charred Cedar House / naf architect & design The site is located in a district where many traditional sake breweries preserve good old Japanese street with plaster and charred cedar walls. In winter, during sake brewing season, a cloud of steam comes…

  • Software and Biotechnology Plants / Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

    Nico Saieh
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am
    © Aleix Bagué Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos – Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza Location: Derio, Spain Structure: Mintegia y Bilbao Mechanical & Electrical: Indotec Client: Parque Tecnológico S.A. Constructed area: 15,584.63 sqm Budget: 15,840,071.43 € Project year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Aleix Bagué The Technology Park is a center of high technology industries turns 25 in 2010. For guidelines last phase of industrial growth decided to build two new buildings for research and production, respectively, computing and biotechnology.
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  • Beautiful and Fresh 81 Sq Meter Apartment in Sweden

    Lavinia
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:07 am
    With vivid colors, a strong appearance and stretching over a relatively small area, this apartment really stands out A funky, open floor plan connects the  kitchen and the  living room. There are two bedrooms, one of which features a double bed, a bedside table, huge windows and a practical wardrobe wall with sliding doors and mirrors which scores high in matters of storage space. The slightly smaller bedroom is similar: it also accommodates a double bed,  a desk and a  built-in spacious shelving system.The living-room is cozy and airy, colorful, perfect for socializing. There are also…

  • Egg House, A Fantastic Circular Residence in Prague

    Lavinia
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:55 pm
    A69 is an architecture company from the Czech Republic. Contrary to a general belief, this house was not projected like this willingly. The site had many particular elements (a garden that needed to be preserved, an old building that was used as an adjacent support for the contemporary one) which made the development of the architecture plans rather tricky.  However, the final results are stunning: a circular home built around a garden, which is also a space for relaxation. A roof garden is a particular feature of this house, which comes to increase its aesthetic value. Large windows are…

  • The Inflatable Blow Sofa by Malafo

    Michael
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:15 am
    Showcased at [D3] Design Talents during imm cologne 2010, the “Blow Sofa” by Malafor is a simple yet functional unit that lets you carry and use your furniture anywhere, anytime with minimum fuss. The size of the sofa when fully inflated is 180 cm in width and 90cm in height. Made of 100% recycled dunnage paper bags blown up and connected to a metal frame with rubber bands, the Blow Sofa is certainly an innovative take on living room seating, but it is something you could live with? To be honest I don’t think that a lot of people will love this idea, but let’s see what do you…

  • Fujitsubo, an Unusual Architecture Design from Archvision

    Lavinia
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:42 am
    From Archivision, this unusual architecture project is called “Fujitsubo” and is located  in the area of Omote-Sando in Tokyo, one of the centers of  “trend setting” in matters of buildings and design.  The construction has three openings in the deck leading natural light into the interior, which is carried through open light shafts between floors to bring light to the lower inner levels. The external pyramids are the main external pillars that help guiding the light. The house also sends a message. In an urban world, filled with sky-scrapers and conventional energy…

  • Colorful and Flashy Furniture : QBig Sofa

    Lavinia
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am
    In case you are tired of black, white and gray, here’s something flashy. The QBig  sofa is made out of three individual armchairs that can be combined together to create a whole. Vivid colors and an overall heterogeneous graphic model are the main things that characterize this sofa. The product features low profile stainless steel legs and two small accent pillows, which come in the same colors. Even though this item is said to be one hundred percent European and contemporary, we can’t help but notice an Asian influence. The couch can be bought online here for the sum of $7,995,…
 
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  • More bathroom updates

    Ok, so here’s the tile selection so far: So, now the drama is the floor tiles. Grey? (to match the vanity?) or black? (too dark) – white – too bright! What? ideas? Help! The other issue is what’s available. Everything is these earthy (NON-50’s) tones that are NOT us. Frankly anything esle is really hard to [...]

  • The bathroom plan – so far

    Ok, so I may take flack, but yes, we’re taking down the pink plastic tiles in the bathroom, too many are missing or broken and so we’re replacing it all with square black tile. Here’s what we’re planning for a vanity (to the right). Then we’re going to inset some glass tiles in a stripe around [...]

  • Sal is gone. sniff

    Got this little tidbit from Project Rungay. Apparently Sal isn’t coming back. According to Matthew Weiner, “We don’t murder people on our show, but for there to be any stakes, there have to be consequences …  But I felt it was an expression of the times that he couldn’t work there anymore. It’s the ultimate case [...]

  • New Mexico Mid Century Motels?

    We’re in the throws of planning a trip to New Mexico over spring break – mainly to see the Trinity Site (which is only open 2x a year). So, we’ll be staying in Socorro and Santa Fe. I already have a cool Mid Century Motel booked in Alamogordo – anyone have suggestions for Socorro and/or [...]

  • Help save our pink bathroom

    Well it seems life has dealt us a card and we’re going to remodel our PINK bathroom in the next month. We know the tile has been falling off the shower wall for a while, but finally our plumber has determined that the plumbing for the whole shower has to go. So, it’s a rip [...]
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  • Sempé w103 by Inga Sempé for Wästberg

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:50 am
    Stockholm 2010: Swedish company Wästberg present an LED lamp derived from lighting usually attached to industrial machinery by French designer Inga Sempé at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, which opens today. (more…)

  • Kanebo Sensai Select Spa by Gwenael Nicolas

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:45 am
    Tokyo designer Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity has completed a spa in Interlaken, Switzerland, with silk panels hanging in layers from the ceiling. (more…)

  • Dezeenmail #44

    Rose Etherington
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:27 am
    We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs.

  • Moebius House by Tony Owen Partners

    Chris Barnes
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:38 pm
    Australian architects Tony Owen Partners have created a house overlooking Sydney harbor where one wall loops over the roof and down the other side to become a first floor terrace. (more…)

  • Handlebar Candlesticks by Yen-Wen Tseng

    Chris Barnes
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:32 pm
    Taiwanese designer Yen-Wen Tseng, a student at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, has created a set of rubber candlesticks designed to feel like bicycle handlebars. (more…)
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  • Toward the city come hills

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:37 am
    [Image: Mudslides strike Los Angeles; photo by Gary Friedman for the L.A. Times].In his short novel Man in the Holocene, author Max Frisch describes the psychological implications of living in the presence of possible Alpine landslides. The idea that the very earth beneath your feet might someday start to avalanche takes on existential overtones. "Nobody in the village," Frisch writes, for instance, "thinks that the day, or perhaps night, will come when the whole mountain could begin to slide, burying the village for all time." He then supplies us with the image of a "laborer who has been…

  • Format and Reinstall

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:46 am
    [Image: The opening ceremony of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics; photographer unknown].A comment from Alexander Trevi on a recent post pointed our attention to the final paragraph of an article by the Associated Press: "According to the International Olympic Committee," we read there as part of an overall discussion of the forthcoming Vancouver Olympics and that city's unseasonal condition of snowlessness, "the 1964 Innsbruck Games also faced a lack of snow. The Austrian army rushed to the rescue," however, "carving out 20,000 blocks of ice from the mountainside and transporting it to the…

  • The Long River

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am
    [Image: "Chongqing XI" by Nadav Kander, winner of the 2009 Prix Pictet; courtesy of the Prix Pictet].Speaking of the Prix Pictet, the winner of the 2009 prize was Nadav Kander for his project Yangtze, The Long River. It's an amazing group of images. From Kander's artist statement:The Yangtze River, which forms the premise to this body of work, is the main artery that flows 4100 miles (6500km) across china, traveling from its furthest westerly point in Qinghai Province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, even for those who live thousands of miles…

  • Igneous Hydrology: Landscapes on Demand

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am
    [Image: "Scene J3" from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch, courtesy of the Prix Prictet].I was reminded, via an old post on Pruned, of an amazing series of photographs by Jules Spinatsch called Snow Management; Snow Management was deservedly short-listed in 2008 for the Prix Prictet. With those images, Spinatsch documents the infrastructure of snow control—and outright terrain manufacture—at an Alpine resort, including the labyrinths of retaining fences and the individual pieces of equipment that make snow creation and large-scale, though ephemeral, landscape-sculpting possible.[Image:…

  • Empire

    5 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm
    [Image: From Empire by Andy Warhol, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art].Tomorrow at noon here in New York City, a musical event that I would love to attend kicks off: 8 solid hours of sound, providing a live accompaniment for Andy Warhol's Empire—a film notorious for its one, unchanging shot of the Empire State Building. Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, and, most exciting at least for me, Jan Jelinek—who, bizarrely, I once introduced myself to at WMF in Berlin—will be providing the music. The Museum of Modern Art describes Empire as follows:Empire consists of a single stationary shot…
 
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  • The Alhambra, Granada, Spain

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:11 am
    Photos from a recent visit to the Alhambra.  The Alhambra is so unbelievably full of tourists, even in the low season, that it could be mistaken for some type of theme park. Though its patchwork of highly ornate buildings and beautiful courtyards is something you can't miss when visiting Granada. [Upper Courtyard of Palacio de Carlos V in the Alhambra] [Mocárabe Vaulting]

  • Visit to Zollverein

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:15 am
    Renovation by OMA Design school by SANAA

  • Extension in Delft

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:06 am

  • Perth Cool

    4 Feb 2010 | 4:48 am
    An original photo of Geoffrey Summerhayes' Owston Street Residence in Mosman Park, Perth. It has been recently renovated by Prevost Weir Architects, and received a commendation from the AIA for their work. To see more click here.

  • Seidler Quote

    4 Feb 2010 | 4:42 am
    "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all" Harry Seidler
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  • Architecture and Conflict at the Union Terrace Gardens Aberdeen

    Linda
    29 Jan 2010 | 11:49 pm
    I am fascinated with the concept of a ‘city centre’ primarily because Sydney doesn’t have one! (unless we count George Street which is a big ass congested road) and also because of their public contribution to city. I have recently come across two conflicting proposals for the historic Scottish city of Aberdeen. Different plans have been developed to revive the area and attract more people to the city centre: Option one – Development and preservation: has been proposed by Peacock Visual Arts and includes a new contemporary art centre that sits against the existing…

  • The Ultimate Trottoir Roulant Guide

    Eva
    24 Jan 2010 | 4:33 pm
    What’s the difference between a ninja and a trottoir roulant? One we know; the other is a complicated moving walkway system first introduced in Paris in 1900. Don’t get mixed up, though – the trottoir roulant isn’t your typical airport walkway, designed to move groups of sluggish Americans (usually) from one domestic gate to the next. The trottoir roulant is, however and in fact, the ninja of moving walkways: avant garde, complex, multi-faceted, able to operate at multiple speeds and sometimes, even, in multiple directions. The trottoir never quite picked up as much speed as it could…

  • Trottoir Roulant – Exposition Universelle 1900

    Linda
    24 Jan 2010 | 4:05 pm
    “When Paris hosted the Exposition Universelle in 1900, it unveiled its vision for the future of transport. Below ground, the city’s stylish new Metro made its debut, while above ground was something more avant garde. The trottoir roulant was a moving walkway that circled the fair in a 3-kilometre loop, its articulated wooden segments “gliding around like a wooden serpent with its tail in its mouth”, according to one reporter. Nearly 7 million visitors hopped on. A few even brought folding chairs, which proved useful when one woman gave birth in transit. Her child was…

  • Burj Khalifa (Dubai) – The Truth Behind the Bling

    Linda
    17 Jan 2010 | 9:27 pm
    Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock – which is most un-ninja-like – then you’ve certainly heard about the Burj Khalifa (formally known as the Burj Dubai) tower designed by Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The Burj Khalifa is a building that breaks many records; not only has it claimed the title of tallest skyscraper in the world, but it is also the tallest structure ever built by man, soaring 828 meters or 2,717 ft to the top of its spire. It also boasts the world’s fastest elevators—they can travel up to 64 km/h or 40 mph—to…

  • NinjaFuel | Readings for the Urban Ninja (10/01/10)

    Linda
    10 Jan 2010 | 2:28 am
    “In the olden days, ninjas would develop their strength by wrestling with dogs, playing video games, and just plain hanging out. Fortunately, not much has changed.“ (excerpt from: Real Ultimate Power : The Official Ninja Book) NinjaFuel is a theme for posts that will keep you and your Ninja senses alert. NinjaFuel combines recent spottings in the vast online space, funny links, links to my fav tunes, and general Ninja related goodies. Interesting spottings: Exhibition: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum runs from February 12-April 28, 2010. Art trap was…
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  • Mikou Design Studio Wins Competition To Redesign Dunkerque Theater

    manuel
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:18 am
    Paris-based Mikou Design Studio has recently won the competition for the renovation of the Bateay Feu Theater in Dunkerque in the northernmost tip of France. The theater’s program foresees a big concert hall with seating for 500, a black box theater space, foyer, cafeteria, loges, practice hall, dressing rooms, backstage areas, storage space, café, bar, gift shop, and offices on a gross floor area of 4,500 square meters (48,440 square feet). How Mikou Design Studio explain their concept: “A theatre as an open, structuring urban venue.” ‘We conceived the new Bateau Feu theatre in…

  • Modern Desert Escape // Half Moon Bay // Saudi Arabia // R204DESIGN

    Harvey
    31 Jan 2010 | 2:59 pm
    On a prominent site fronting the scenic Half Moon Bay in Saudi Arabia, the Northstar Resort will offer a world-class waterfront hospitality experience. The site lies at the northern apex of the cove, giving rise to the concept of establishing the project as a wayfinding landmark for the region. Among its program elements are an indoor entertainment center, serviced apartments, a variety of restaurants and cafes, a health club, a mosque, and a 5-star hotel. A portion of the site will be devoted to private chalets with male and female clubhouses, all with grand views of the surrounding water.

  • Perkins+Will Awarded First Place At International Architecture Biennale

    manuel
    30 Jan 2010 | 10:09 am
    Perkins+Will’s masterplan for SANY Beijing was selected as the first place winner in the “Conceptual Design” category at the 8th International Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The judging committee based their award selection on four central themes of the exhibition: spatiality, connectivity, originality and sustainability. The Perkins+Will submission featured the SANY Beijing masterplan which consolidated existing plans into one. SANY, the largest heavy equipment manufacturer in China and one of the top 10 heavy equipment manufacturers in the world, wanted to achieve a higher…

  • Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects To Design Zero-Energy Office Building In Aarhus

    manuel
    25 Jan 2010 | 10:35 am
    Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have been announced as winners of the competition for a new zero-energy administration building of the Municipality of Aarhus, Denmark.  The competition, involving six firms, was won in collaboration with the contractor E. Pihl & Son, Engineers Grontmij / Carl Bro and GHB Landscape Architects. Danish practice SHL architects has taken the environmental ambitions of the municipality of Aarhus as a key driver for the project and created a zero-energy office building, the first of its kind in Denmark. The building has 1,100 m2 of solar cells for the…

  • Gehry Partners Has To Step Down From Museum Of Tolerance Jerusalem Project

    manuel
    20 Jan 2010 | 9:07 am
    For six years Frank O. Gehry has been set to stamp his illustrious mark on one of the most historic cities in the world with his design for the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem but following a wave of protest Gehry Partners has been dropped as architect for the scheme. Following a unanimous decision taken by its Board of Trustees at its November 5, 2009 meeting, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has announced “that it is redesigning its Museum of Tolerance project in Jerusalem to reflect today’s world economic realities, and will shortly name the new architect for the redesign.”…
 
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  • Revit Tech Support - This link is already loaded using a different workset configuration

    Gregory Arkin
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:28 pm
    Published date: 2010-Feb-08 ID: TS14510396 Applies to: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010 Revit® Architecture 2009 Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2010 Revit® MEP 2009 Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2010 Revit® Structure 2009 IssueWhen reloading latest or synchronizing with central you receive a The link is already loaded using a different workset configuration. From the Insert tab, select Manage Links to modify this link message. SolutionThis message occurs when another user makes changes to the workset configuration of a linked file, and synchronizes with central. When a second user reloads…

  • BIM for Contractors - A reason to drink

    Gregory Arkin
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:46 pm
    I was reminded tonight during a Superbowl beer commercial of a saying of mine by my wife.  She was flying to Jacksonville 2 weeks ago for a Hurricane Windstorm Insurance conference and was sitting next to the brother of another attorney who was attending.  He works for a large liquor wholesale company. My wife said to him that I always say that liquor companies are recession proof.  When things are good, everybody drinks.  When things are bad, everybody drinks even more.  He said absolutely.  He's never been busier.  He did say the only distinction is that…

  • Inside the Factory: Revit as a Database

    Gregory Arkin
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm
    Remember, the secret to BIM is the database of information. Source: http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/02/revit-as-a-database.html This post marks the beginning of an exploration into a little-known new feature of Revit: RDB Link. Well, not exactly a feature, but an add-in that was developed in-house, released on Autodesk Labs last year and "graduated" last month to a subscription bonus tool. Revit has been able to export to a number of database formats via ODBC for some time, but it has always been a one-way trip. RDB Link now allows you to edit that exported data and import…

  • Eco shocker: Turbine Light concept uses wind to light highways

    Gregory Arkin
    6 Feb 2010 | 4:05 pm
    My only question is what happens during rush hour. Otherwise, cool idea.Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/eco-shocker-turbine-light-concept-uses-wind-to-light-highways/Ingenious, eco-friendly concepts are all around us, there's no denying that. This one caught our eye because it's pretty innovative, seemingly well thought out, and good looking to boot. The Turbine Light concept (which is going to be a part of the upcoming Greener Gadgets conference in New York City at the end of this month) harnesses the power of the wind from cars rushing past to light up the ever-darkening…

  • FTC To Retailers: Bamboo And Rayon Are Not The Same Thing - The Consumerist

    Gregory Arkin
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:23 pm
    Wow. Finally a blog post from my favorite website that I can repost here. If you've never been there, consumerist.com is the most amazing source of how to fight wrongs from companies like Sprint, Comcast, DirecTV, BestBuy, Bank of America (who, under the advice of my attorney, I can't disclose what I want to tell you about their refinance department) and many others. As we see more and more "Green" labeling, there are those who are trying to trick you into thinking they are doing the right thing, but really aren't. I'll throw anyone not using BIM with tools like Ecotect or IES into the same…
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  • Light my Living Room: On a Mission for Style

    julia@lookiloos
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:28 am
    My living room. I've since moved lamp into corner. I’m on a mission.  I need more lighting in my living room. (Even this photo is dark!) The only lighting is lamps — and since we’re not going to do any budget-busting recessed cans, I’m looking for more lamps and end tables (or a slim sofa table) for them. I’m heading to Move It Elsewhere in San Jose today (a giant estate sales open only one weekend a month), hitting up the annual St. Christopher Antique Show, and checking out Emily Joubert home and garden in Woodside, which is donating its proceeds from…

  • I Dream of Montecito

    desiree
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am
    I could live here if you twisted my arm a little. I mean if I really, really had to move I guess this would be OK.  I love the views from the pool. The house seems very modern from the outside, but I found it to be very warm and inviting on the inside. The beams in the living room and the terracotta tile on the kitchen floor definitely add that warmth. You can check out the complete listing with more photos here.  And if your decide to buy–can you invite me for a weekend? Montecito’s prime gated oceanfront enclave, Fernald Point, offers the perfect location for this spectacular…

  • Just Listed: Cute Cambrian Home

    desiree
    3 Feb 2010 | 9:26 am
    This House reminds me of my grandmother’s. She lived in the Cambrian Neighborhood as well.  What I loved about this house was the huge wrap around counter in the kitchen. Perfect for a buffet! And,  I also loved the screened porch with fireplace.  I can imagine that would extend the California outdoor living season to pretty much year round. I can tell you I met one neighbor who flagged me down because there was something under my car. I pulled over and she climbed under to pull it out! So thumbs up to the neighborhood. Bedrooms: 3 Baths: 2 Square Footage: 1639 See the full tour…

  • Just Listed: Sunnyhaven Home

    desiree
    2 Feb 2010 | 3:47 pm
    This cute home is right on the border of Saratoga and San Jose.  The open floor plan makes it feel so spacious as you enter. The staging is great. I love those dining room chairs.  The wood floors add such a depth and warmth to the living, dining and kitchen areas. Bedrooms: 2 Baths: 2 Square Footage: about 1163 Take a peek at the virtual tour here.

  • Modern Living in a 1927 Spanish Colonial

    julia@lookiloos
    2 Feb 2010 | 2:40 pm
     When my contractor invited me to an open house to view his latest project–a renovation and addition to a 1927 Spanish Colonial home in Palm Haven –I jumped at the chance to legitimately snoop around one of the most historic, eclectic neighborhoods in San Jose. A neglected two-bedroom one bath in disrepair when acquired by John Ammirato of Ammirato Construction is now a four bedroom, two and half bath dream home. While it has all the modern creature comforts, including an impressive master suite, renewable resource cabinets, solar panels, and data networking throughout, painful…
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  • An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress

    admin
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:42 pm
    While the country staggers towards economic stability, the design professions are feeling their worst economic times since the Great Depression. Depending on the region of the country, the unemployment and underemployment rate for design professionals is anywhere from 20% to 50%. I feel this daily as President of the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and as an owner of a small architecture / planning firm.What I hope to convey to you in this note is not just the seriousness of our situation, but how you can help at the Federal level while achieving your stated goals…

  • Free Downtown transit

    admin
    22 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm
    Over on the Switchboard blog written by Kaid Benfield, he writes today about a free downtown circulator that Baltimore has recently put in place. (pasted below) This is a great heads-up to those cities that are cutting back on transit in tough times. I’ve thought for a while that we need an entirely new service model for transit in most American cities, and will write about this more in future posts. The reality is the current system in most cities is so completely unsupported by fares that we might as well have completely free zones in order to encourage denser, walkable development.

  • Let it Snow, Let it Snow

    admin
    14 Jan 2010 | 11:03 am
    This one is especially for my readers in the Kansas City region (but hopefully for others of you in northern climates).I love the snow, and what it does to life in cities. So much of our lives gets consumed by activity and noise, it’s refreshing when we’re forced to have much of that go away. Mainly, it’s wonderful just how quiet the city gets when vehicles can’t travel very well. We forget just how much of the noise of life is vehicular, except when a snowstorm comes and takes most of that away. It’s so… peaceful. Which of course makes you think.You may…

  • How walkable neighborhoods increase home values

    admin
    23 Dec 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Posted by: Kevin KlinkenbergIt’s often said that Americans love their cars above everything else, and many question the demand for walkable neighborhoods. And yet, as this and other studies have revealed, quality walkable places are highly valued. This shouldn’t be surprising – as human beings, we inherently like to interact with others, and we prefer to have options on how to experience life. Walking/biking, etc are all just examples of how to achieve what’s in our nature.  This is a blog post that I would like to share written by Kaid Benfield, who is the…

  • Path to Prosperity: for retail spaces, think small (and cheap)

    admin
    18 Dec 2009 | 4:12 pm
    We’re obsessed with big: big houses, big churches, big cars, big stores, big food portions. It’s in our nature I suppose to be impressed with size.When planning for our communities, though, it’s often best to think small. Not small as in small goals or dreams; but small as in the kinds of spaces that fill up our neighborhoods. This is especially true when it comes to spaces that sell things – shops, restaurants, etc.What are the benefits of small spaces? For one, they are cheap to rent – very important to mom & pop operations and start-ups. If you want to…
 
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  • January 2010 Gallery

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  • Mexican Modernisms

    There is more to modernist architecture in Mexico than just the work of Luis Barragán, its most renowned representative. The detailed plans and impressive enlarged photographs in this exhibition offer a broad overview of architectural production in post-war Mexico. In addition, a unique series of documentary films and contemporary documents helps to flesh out this [...] Related posts:Mexican pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai China Flying kites on a warm sunny day is a... Espacio C Mixcoac – ROW Studio Project: Espacio C Mixcoac Architects: ROW Studio Álvaro Hernández... House in…

  • Taller Rosa Skific – FPS Oficina de Arquitectura

    Project: Taller Rosa Skific Author: FPS Oficina de Arquitectura Francisco Fenili, Jorge Pérez, Julio Sepiurka Team: Carlos Covi, Cristina González López Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Contractor: Carlos Guayapero Built Area: 18.00 sq mt Open Area: 8.00 sq mt In an old area of bustling downtown Buenos Aires, tucked away among the neighbouring skyscrapers, a textile designer has carved out a bit of space [...] Related posts:Ms-Borbon House – 7XA Arquitectura Project: Ms-Borbon House Author: 7XA Arquitectura Angel López, Carlos... GDL1 HOUSE – bgp arquitectura Project: GDL1…

  • House on the Mountain – Alric Galindez Arquitectos

    Architects: Alric Galindez Arquitectos / Santiago Alric, Carlos Galindez, Federico Lloveras Location: Bariloche, Argentina Collaborators: Alfredo Quiroga, Sofía Peluffo, Joaquín Adot Interiors: Patricia Gurfinkel, Sofía Mendoza Structural Engineer: Jorge Zapata Contractor: Arrieta & Arrieta construcciones Interior Area: 591 sqm Exterior Area: 70 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Alric Galindez The house is a result of several stone boxes piled up on the side [...] Related posts:Santo Domingo House – A-Cero arquitectos Project: Santo Domingo House Author: A-Cero arquitectos…

  • Congress and Hotel Centre – SHL Architects

    Project: Hotel and Hotel Center Author: SHL Architects schmidt hammmer lassen architects Project Partner: Kim Holst Jensen, schmidt hammer lassen architects Project Architect: Kristian Lars Ahlmark, schmidt hammer lassen architects Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Client: Midroc Property Development (Sweden) Area: Hotel and congress 16,900 m2/ Housing and shops 17,100 m2 Competition year: 2009 Competition type: Property development competition Contractor: Midroc Property Development Landscape architect: schmidt hammer lassen [...] Related posts:Scandinavian Architects to Build Urban Complex in…
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  • An introduction to blogging: Making your mark on the blogosphere

    Gemma Went
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    I spoke at the Construction Marketing training event last week about blogging and how to introduce it into your business. The presentation is here. If you have any questions, pop the in the comments and I’ll respond there. Filed under: Blogs, Marketing, PR, Social Media Tagged: architecture blogging, blog strategy, blogging, construction blogs, Content Marketing [...]

  • Top 10 social media, pr and marketing links: January 2010

    Gemma Went
    4 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    This is the first post in a new series for 2010. I know, it’s exciting. Those that follow me on Twitter know that I share a lot of useful links on social media, pr, marketing and anything that sparks my interest.  I’ve had some great feedback about some of these links so I thought I’d [...]

  • Steve Rubel interviews Scott Monty on Ford’s Social Media Strategy

    Gemma Went
    1 Feb 2010 | 1:53 pm
    Scott Monty’s social media activity at Ford is often used as a good example of how businesses can use the tool. Steve Rubel ran into Scott at an event recently and shot this quick video where Scott talks about his day job, how social media is integrated into Ford’s communications activity and how he works [...]

  • Unlocking the value of Foursquare

    Gemma Went
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am
    For those of you not yet using Foursquare and other location based social networking apps, the presentation below from 22 Squared gives you a bit of background on what it’s all about. I’ve been trying out both Foursquare and Gowalla for a little while and can see great potential for brands using them in the future. [...]

  • Cube Conversation: We talk social media/digital engagement with Rich Baker

    Gemma Went
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am
    I haven’t done one of these for a while. For those not familiar with it, Cube Conversations is a series of ‘conversations’ I have with interesting people in the industry. That could be the design or architecture industry, or those that work in pr, marketing or social media. This time round I chat to Rich Baker [...]
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  • An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress

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    4 Feb 2010 | 1:42 pm
    While the country staggers towards economic stability, the design professions are feeling their worst economic times since the Great Depression. Depending on the region of the country, the unemployment and underemployment rate for design professionals is anywhere from 20% to 50%. I feel this daily as President of the Kansas City chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and as an owner of a small architecture / planning firm.What I hope to convey to you in this note is not just the seriousness of our situation, but how you can help at the Federal level while achieving your stated goals…

  • Free Downtown transit

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    22 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm
    Over on the Switchboard blog written by Kaid Benfield, he writes today about a free downtown circulator that Baltimore has recently put in place. (pasted below) This is a great heads-up to those cities that are cutting back on transit in tough times. I’ve thought for a while that we need an entirely new service model for transit in most American cities, and will write about this more in future posts. The reality is the current system in most cities is so completely unsupported by fares that we might as well have completely free zones in order to encourage denser, walkable development.

  • Let it Snow, Let it Snow

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    14 Jan 2010 | 11:03 am
    This one is especially for my readers in the Kansas City region (but hopefully for others of you in northern climates).I love the snow, and what it does to life in cities. So much of our lives gets consumed by activity and noise, it’s refreshing when we’re forced to have much of that go away. Mainly, it’s wonderful just how quiet the city gets when vehicles can’t travel very well. We forget just how much of the noise of life is vehicular, except when a snowstorm comes and takes most of that away. It’s so… peaceful. Which of course makes you think.You may…

  • How walkable neighborhoods increase home values

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    23 Dec 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Posted by: Kevin KlinkenbergIt’s often said that Americans love their cars above everything else, and many question the demand for walkable neighborhoods. And yet, as this and other studies have revealed, quality walkable places are highly valued. This shouldn’t be surprising – as human beings, we inherently like to interact with others, and we prefer to have options on how to experience life. Walking/biking, etc are all just examples of how to achieve what’s in our nature.  This is a blog post that I would like to share written by Kaid Benfield, who is the…

  • Path to Prosperity: for retail spaces, think small (and cheap)

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    18 Dec 2009 | 4:12 pm
    We’re obsessed with big: big houses, big churches, big cars, big stores, big food portions. It’s in our nature I suppose to be impressed with size.When planning for our communities, though, it’s often best to think small. Not small as in small goals or dreams; but small as in the kinds of spaces that fill up our neighborhoods. This is especially true when it comes to spaces that sell things – shops, restaurants, etc.What are the benefits of small spaces? For one, they are cheap to rent – very important to mom & pop operations and start-ups. If you want to…
 
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  • Slideshow: The Cologne Dom - Cologne, Germany

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    A monumental example of spectacular Gothic Architecture, the Cologne Dom dominates the city's skyline and is a truly spectacularly detailed edifice. Climbing the towers offers stunning views of the city and reveals that every inch of this building, from the foundation stones up to the highest peak of the towers is intricately carved with immaculate details. Definitely worth visiting and one of the best examples of gothic architecture that I have visited.

  • Bjarke Ingles: Interveiwed by Brijuni Arquitectos - Part I

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am
    The first of five short videos comprising an interview with Bjare Ingles the Danish Architect whose firm, BIG, has been winning many international design competitions recently. Bold forms and clear diagrams are the trademark of their work, while these interviews get a glimpse of his design philosophy and the thinking behind a few of their projects. (I will post the rest of the interview next week)

  • Design With A Spine by Marcus O’Reilly Architects

    3 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    I'd like to share a recent house design by an architect and friend running the firm, Marcus O'Reilly Architects, in Melbourne Australia. We met a couple of years ago as participants of the Glenn Murcutt International masters Class. It is always fantastic to see what my classmates have been doing since we parted ways. Below is the press release describing the design and some images of the completed project: This single story house is located on a leafy well established street in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. While appropriately scaled for the neighborhood it is a variation on the local…

  • Slideshow: The Royal Theater Opera - Copenhagen, Denmark

    1 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    An incredibly controversial building in Copenhagen, The Royal Theater Opera sits across the harbor from the historic city center. Unlike the local residents I actually kind of liked the architecture of the building, at least the main facade. However, it is an obvious rip off of Jean Nouvel's Luzern Culture and Congress Center. The building was actually a gift - completely privately funded - by Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and designed by Henning Larsen. However, the client was apparently very controlling of the project and even pressured the government to let him chose any site he wished within…

  • Joshua Prince-Ramus: Building a theater that remakes itself

    30 Jan 2010 | 6:00 am
    Joshua Prince-Ramus gives a thoughtful and inspiring talk about his recent completed project, the Wyly Theater in Dallas, Texas. The first few minutes are a must see as he takes a step back and discusses the current state of architecture, and the troubling stance architects are taking, giving up power in exchange for less liability - making Architects "for decorative purposes only." Stating that the profession is acting like cowards, he offers an inspiring approach to design and collaboration between architects and clients. Always, well spoken and a talented designer as well, it is…
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