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A Daily Dose of Architecture
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last updated on 08 Sept 2008 at 01:42 am PST
- Monday, Monday
08 Sept 2008 at 12:00 am
My weekly page update:River Aquarium in Mora, Portugal by Promontorio Arquitecture.This week's book review is Crucial Words: Conditions for Contemporary Architecture, edited by Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn.Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:Preservi (...)
- Today's archidose #241
07 Sept 2008 at 10:24 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Brampton Soccer Center, originally uploaded by Scott Norsworthy. The Brampton Soccer (...)
- The Art of Unveiling
06 Sept 2008 at 6:20 pm
On the triangular site formed by Gansevoort, West 13th and Hudson Streets on the edge of Manhattan's Meatpacking District junya.ishigama + associates renovated a one-story brick building into a boutique for Yohji Yamamoto. The austere yet clever design s (...)
- Today's archidose #240
06 Sept 2008 at 4:41 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }A Coruña, a Casa do Home. Arata Isozaki, originally uploaded by z.z.Domus: La Casa de (...)
- Literary Dose #33
04 Sept 2008 at 10:31 pm
[Manahatta Project's view of Manahatta ca. 1609 overlaid with today's footprint of Manhattan | image source]"When Dr. Eric Sanderson leads a tour through [Central Park], he and his flock usually pass Jagiello without pausing, because they are lost in anot (...)
- Today's archidose #239
03 Sept 2008 at 10:21 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Bjerget, originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness]."The Mountain Dwellings" (VM Bjerg (...)
- Labor(-Free) Days
29 Aug 2008 at 08:00 am
I'm taking time off over the holiday weekend to spend time with friends and family. Posts will resume Wednesday. If you're celebrating, have a happy Labor Day!
- Today's archidose #238
28 Aug 2008 at 10:23 pm
Here's three buildings in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (the city of last week's dose), all photographed by z.z..SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) Central Office by Antón García Abril (Ensamble Studio).Musical Studies Centre at the Universi (...)
- Half Dose #52: Ewha Womans University Campus Center
28 Aug 2008 at 10:03 pm
Earlier this year saw the opening of the Campus Center for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. Designed by Dominique Perrault, the building is appropriately called "The Campus Valley."[aerial photomontage | image source (PDF link)]Comprising classroom (...)
- Today's archidose #237
26 Aug 2008 at 8:36 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Balastera 6, originally uploaded by Srgio2000. Football Stadium in Palencia, Spain by (...)
- Monday, Monday
25 Aug 2008 at 12:00 am
My weekly page update:Field Installation 14 in Houten, Netherlands by JSA Rotterdam.This week's book review is Shift: SANAA and the New Museum, edited by Joseph Grima & Karen Wong, and Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, by Philip Jodidio.Some (...)
- Today's archidose #236
24 Aug 2008 at 9:36 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }rammed 7, originally uploaded by Modified Enzyme.NK'MIP Desert Cultural Centre in Oso (...)
- AE8: Angled Bays
24 Aug 2008 at 2:06 pm
It seems like New York firms have a thing for bay windows, but not the usual symmetrical bays prevalent in residential architecture. I'm talking about angled bays that project from facades asymmetrically to orient views and jazz up building exteriors.The (...)
- Today's archidose #235
23 Aug 2008 at 11:47 am
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Vigo, Campus Universitário. Alfonso Penela, originally uploaded by z.z. Rector's Buil (...)
- Literary Dose #32
21 Aug 2008 at 11:00 pm
[Guantang Chuangye Sustainable Conceptual Master Plan, Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China by William McDonough + Partners | image source]"Nature, whose status as a norm of beauty or as an ideal form waned, has since retu (...)
- Architecture School
20 Aug 2008 at 11:07 pm
Tonight is the premiere on Sundance Channel of their six-part docu-reality show Architecture School. Fellow architects have always agreed that there aren't any TV shows about architects -- unlike, say, lawyers or doctors -- because it would be so boring. (...)
- Today's archidose #234
19 Aug 2008 at 9:51 pm
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Synth-Dune 2, originally uploaded by Sam's Notebook. Visitors' Center of the Marine W (...)
- Monday, Monday
18 Aug 2008 at 12:00 am
My weekly page update:City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain by Eisenman Architects.This week's book review is Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000 by Peter Eisenman.Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:Re:ConstructA fairly open-ended (...)
- IKEA 1, Breuer 1/2
17 Aug 2008 at 10:45 pm
Back in 2005 I posted about IKEA's bad behavior in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Their destruction of Civil War-era buildings to make way for a parking lot seemed like a new low for the Swedish perpetrator of inexpensive furniture. At that time the destruction of t (...)
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