Miscellaneous
The world's bookstore has become Jeff Bezos' playhouse. Amazon has pulled all the titles from MacMillan, one of the world's largest publishers, from its on-line store, for both print and electronic [...] Read »
TIEPOLO GOLD [Tiepolo] decided to copy, as much as he could, the elements used by Veronese in the most imposing version [of the Finding of Moses ], which at that time could be seen in the Palazzo [...] Read »
French architects Air have completed a raw yellow concrete extension to the Apprentice Formation Center in Saint Maur des Fossés, near Paris in France. The project comprises a new three-storey [...] Read »
Design a fortress to stop the third runway from Greenpeace UK Read »
Architectural Works
The ‘Concrete Geometries’ Research Cluster at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences [...] Read »
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From inside the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing We look on Gehry's bandshell and trellis as a mound. See? Come a little closer. From the landscape it springs with fecundity and mystery. [...] Read »
Stonehenge Pantheon Borromini Baroque Dome Garden trellis -> --=-- Fumihiko Maki - Nurturing Dreams: (Stonehenge) was a demonstration of community and a place of ceremony.... Standing in the [...] Read »
[Image: Pole Dance , P.S. 1 competition-winning design by SO-IL ]. I have to admit to being less than overwhelmed by the annual P.S. 1 competition—aka the Young Architects Program —as well [...] Read »
Someone recently told me that they asked a child, "what's black and white and read all over?" and they had no idea. I guess kids don't read the newspaper these days. For some reason, I thought [...] Read »
And the new show on " Mexican Modernisms " --curated by José Castillo and Wonne Ickx-- at Bozar in weird and wonderful Brussels hopes to prove just that. Read »
Right up there with The Ugliest Barcelona chair ever! we bring you The ugliest Brno Chair Ever and this baby can be yours .. Read »
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You'd don't have to look hard to find a community nowadays in which at least a few folks want it to be known that their town or county has a lot of modern houses and that therefore they "played [...] Read »
Might it look like this? From Fake is the New Real Read »
I have long been a fan of Richard Meier, but lately I seem to be inundated with information concerning Meier and his career, so I felt it was about time for a series of posts about one of the [...] Read »
The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold for another year. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, [...] Read »
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(“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 [...] Read »
Decades from now 2009 may be seen as the year that vertical farming started to take hold. Time magazine named vertical farming one of last year's 50 best inventions . Proposals seemed to arrive [...] Read »
I had to put Old Master drawings from my mother's estate into storage earlier today (Mom was an art historian and scholar). After talking to a number of storage places and researching them online, [...] Read »
Video
Ma Yansong Interview / MAD / Part 1 from 0300TV on Vimeo .Ma Yansong Interview / MAD / Part 2 from 0300TV on Vimeo .here MAD .. Read »
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