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CONTEMPORIST
White Stained Oak Cabinets Paired With Cool White Marble Creates A Soft Aesthetic Inside This Home Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for...
over a year ago
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White Stained Oak Cabinets Paired With Cool White Marble Creates A Soft Aesthetic Inside This Home

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over a year ago
Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for their clients that wanted a minimalistic interior. Throughout the home, the interior was inspired by Japanese design, its simplicity, and maple wood tones. One area that stood out in...
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Contemporist...
A Sculptural Facade Hides One Of This City's Most Tranquil Stays Tucked within the historic streets of Bangkok’s old town, Double B Hostel by VMA Design Studio is...
a month ago
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A Sculptural Facade Hides One Of This City's Most Tranquil Stays

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a month ago
Tucked within the historic streets of Bangkok’s old town, Double B Hostel by VMA Design Studio is turning heads, not just for its sleek architecture, but for the way it honors the past while stepping boldly into the present. What was once a narrow plot in the dense Sao Chingcha...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
over a year ago
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A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home

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over a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
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Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners? In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
11 months ago
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Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners?

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11 months ago
In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
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Archinect - Features
After the Altadena Fire: An Ode to Our House Until last week, my wife Tomo and I had the great pleasure of being stewards of Whitney Smith's...
5 months ago
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After the Altadena Fire: An Ode to Our House

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5 months ago
Until last week, my wife Tomo and I had the great pleasure of being stewards of Whitney Smith's Holmes House. It was built by Jackson and Evelyn Holmes in 1941. In 2021, it became LA County Historic Landmark #8. What made this house so special was not that it was gigantic,...
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Old Structures...
Sideways One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault...
7 months ago
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Sideways

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7 months ago
One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault extends from the sidewalk (its roof) down two floors or about 25 feet, and was built around 1895. Since reinforced-concrete was still in its infancy then, it was not used for foundation...
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Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part IV: Construction of the World Trade Center This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
over a year ago
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Building Fast and Slow Part IV: Construction of the World Trade Center

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over a year ago
This is Part IV in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center, and Part III covers the
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Old Structures...
Amusing Until It’s Not This story turns ugly rather quickly. From the New York Public Library scrapbook, The Hippotheatron...
11 months ago
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Amusing Until It’s Not

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11 months ago
This story turns ugly rather quickly. From the New York Public Library scrapbook, The Hippotheatron and New York Cirque: That’s 14th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue, with an out-chapel of Grace Church next door. As the name suggests, that weird building was a theater...
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CONTEMPORIST
The New Addition On This Home Includes A Pass-Through Window To The Kitchen Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the...
over a year ago
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The New Addition On This Home Includes A Pass-Through Window To The Kitchen

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over a year ago
Building firm Demardi, together with design firm Mesh Design & Projects, have recently completed the renovation and new rear extension of a home in Thornbury, Australia, for a young family. The original facade of the home was restored, weatherboards were replaced, and new...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Rain Tree Became The Centerpiece Of This Home’s Design Guz Architects has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Singapore, that was conceived as...
a year ago
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A Rain Tree Became The Centerpiece Of This Home’s Design

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a year ago
Guz Architects has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Singapore, that was conceived as a multigenerational family house arranged around a large garden and an old rain tree which was protected and preserved. The architects included passive cooling measures, which were...
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The Modern House
Space to grow: life on a captivating family farm hidden in the Cheshire countryside
5 months ago
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Space to grow: life on a captivating family farm hidden in the Cheshire countryside

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Common Edge
It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown University campus planning should look outward to the surrounding city.
a year ago
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It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between Town and Gown

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a year ago
University campus planning should look outward to the surrounding city.
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Blog - Guerrilla...
How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
a year ago
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective

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a year ago
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Colossal Curved Glass Window Shows Off The Biggest LULULEMON Flagship Store In The World AIM ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of the LULULEMON Flagship Store they designed in Shanghai, China,...
a year ago
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A Colossal Curved Glass Window Shows Off The Biggest LULULEMON Flagship Store In The World

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a year ago
AIM ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of the LULULEMON Flagship Store they designed in Shanghai, China, that uses curved glass to create an eye-catching retail destination. The facade with its curved glass window, allows people on the street to witness the movement of activity...
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Old Structures...
Old Adventures In Photo-Bombing Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque...
a year ago
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Old Adventures In Photo-Bombing

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a year ago
Someone occasionally notices that most of Manhattan has little open space to create picturesque vistas. Or to put it another way, it’s difficult to get decent pictures of a lot of buildings here because there’s so much stuff in the way. There’s also stuff in the background, which...
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Contemporist...
This Small Apartment Has A Yoga Wall And A Coffee Bar LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong...
over a year ago
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This Small Apartment Has A Yoga Wall And A Coffee Bar

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over a year ago
LITTLEMORE INTERIOR DESIGN has shared photos of a small 380-square-foot (35 sqm) apartment in Hong Kong, that includes both a custom yoga wall and a coffee bar.
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Contemporist...
Dyed Cement Shingles Cover The Counter Inside This Bakery Grizzo Studio has shared photos of MALAU, a new bakery in Pilar Centro, Argentina, that includes...
9 months ago
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Dyed Cement Shingles Cover The Counter Inside This Bakery

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9 months ago
Grizzo Studio has shared photos of MALAU, a new bakery in Pilar Centro, Argentina, that includes handcrafted pieces of dyed cement in its design.
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99% Invisible
Hyperfixed: Dylan’s Supermarket Cold Case We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s...
6 months ago
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Hyperfixed: Dylan’s Supermarket Cold Case

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6 months ago
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s this little thing that quietly annoys you that you’ve learned to grudgingly put up with. But regardless of the size of your problem, it would be so great if someone would just fix it...
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There are two types...
MSG Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them...
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MSG

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Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them fat.” – Wikipedia “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god…. One scuttles in now like a rat” [under Madison … Continue reading → The post MSG appeared first on...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Green Exterior Helps This Cabin Blend Into The Forest Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological...
a year ago
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A Green Exterior Helps This Cabin Blend Into The Forest

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a year ago
Scalar Architecture has completed a modern cabin in Connecticut that has a minimal ecological footprint. Designed as a 1200-square-foot retreat for a family of writers and producers, the cabin is only accessible via foot or light utility vehicle. The cabin is located in a hilly...
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Benny Kuriakose
Designing Student Amenities That Encourage Creative Growth Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests,...
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Designing Student Amenities That Encourage Creative Growth

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over a year ago
Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests, hobbies, and talents is highly...
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Construction Physics
Reading List 05/10/2025 Amazon’s Vulcan robot, magnetohydrodynamic ship propulsion, Waymo’s manufacturing scale up, Boom...
2 months ago
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Reading List 05/10/2025

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2 months ago
Amazon’s Vulcan robot, magnetohydrodynamic ship propulsion, Waymo’s manufacturing scale up, Boom Supersonic’s new super alloy, and more.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting...
7 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper

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7 months ago
From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”: I’m a fan of Hopper, but this is his most famous work, so it’s not like it was all that difficult to place the reference. In his words, it’s a simplified version of reality...
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Archinect - Features
The Illusion of Space: Can Artificial Intelligence Understand the Third Dimension? Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what...
over a year ago
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The Illusion of Space: Can Artificial Intelligence Understand the Third Dimension?

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over a year ago
Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what some believe to be a new creative frontier in the architectural design process. However, they also encourage us to reflect on a series of relationships at the heart of design,...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Self-Published Books by BNIM and KPF Over at World-Architects I wrote about two self-published books recently published by BNIM and...
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Self-Published Books by BNIM and KPF

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over a year ago
Over at World-Architects I wrote about two self-published books recently published by BNIM and KPF: ALL - The Tom and Ruth Harkin Center by BNIM Design in Detail by Kohn Pedersen Fox The "Found" feature also includes responses to a few questions on why the firms opted to...
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SOCKS
Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
over a year ago
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Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints

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over a year ago
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round...
over a year ago
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A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk

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over a year ago
Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round design. The vast, sandy plot densely covered with a pine forest created a unique setting for the house, with the architect drawing inspiration from a tree trunk. The home has been...
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99% Invisible
The Big Dig [EPISODE] Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive...
a year ago
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The Big Dig [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors,...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968 Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920:...
9 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968

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9 months ago
Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920: And in 1967, with some scaffolding in place to begin its demolition:
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Old Structures...
The Main Attraction Hasn’t Changed From one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks, a view north from Park Avenue and 41st Street...
8 months ago
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The Main Attraction Hasn’t Changed

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8 months ago
From one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks, a view north from Park Avenue and 41st Street in 1920: The focal point of such a view is, of course, Grand Central Terminal. The big vacant lot, protected only by an easily-hopped fence, was the former site of the 1860s Grand...
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Contemporist...
This Elevated Cabin Looks Like A Birdhouse i29 architects together with NAMO Architecture has shared photos of a new elevated cabin they...
a year ago
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This Elevated Cabin Looks Like A Birdhouse

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a year ago
i29 architects together with NAMO Architecture has shared photos of a new elevated cabin they designed in De Hode Veluwe National Park in The Netherlands.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
a year ago
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A Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings

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a year ago
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
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Contemporist...
This Hidden Chapel In The Woods Is Captivating Architecture Lovers MOTIV Architects has shared photos of a small memorial chapel they completed in a Canadian forest.
2 months ago
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This Hidden Chapel In The Woods Is Captivating Architecture Lovers

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2 months ago
MOTIV Architects has shared photos of a small memorial chapel they completed in a Canadian forest.
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Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
a year ago
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Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time

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The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
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There are two types...
My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir in Common Edge A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We...
over a year ago
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My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir in Common Edge

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A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We included so many images of the pleasant but unremarkable building because that was where we wrote the book, in Robert A.M. … Continue reading → The post My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir...
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Contemporist...
See Inside This Home That Balances Soul, Sun, and Style Tucked high on a hill in the El Dorado Club, Los Cabos, Mexico, the El Dorado Residence offers a...
a month ago
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See Inside This Home That Balances Soul, Sun, and Style

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Tucked high on a hill in the El Dorado Club, Los Cabos, Mexico, the El Dorado Residence offers a soulful retreat for a Seattle-based family of eight. Designed by Susan Marinello Interiors, this vacation home is as much about cultural connection as it is about coastal relaxation....
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Archinect - Features
When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field...
over a year ago
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When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture

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over a year ago
In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field and beyond, many are pondering what changes may be on the horizon in the discipline, if any. For Stanislas Chaillou, AI’s dissemination in architecture may refocus the profession’s...
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Construction Physics
Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure. Aviation contributes an estimated 8% to...
a year ago
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Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport?

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Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure. Aviation contributes an estimated 8% to global GDP through direct and indirect effects (ie: the businesses and commerce that it enables), and an estimated 25% of companies’ sales rely on air transport. In 2022, civil...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Sunken Living Room Was Made Possible By A New Extension To This Home Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing...
a year ago
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A Sunken Living Room Was Made Possible By A New Extension To This Home

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a year ago
Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing the interior of a 1920s home in Greater London, England, that also included the addition of a rear extension. The brief was to refurbish and extend the upper floors of the house to...
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CONTEMPORIST
The Reinterpretation Of A Gabled Roof Is On Display At This New House Architecture firm Studio KUNZ has shared photos of a home they completed in a small town in the...
a year ago
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The Reinterpretation Of A Gabled Roof Is On Display At This New House

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a year ago
Architecture firm Studio KUNZ has shared photos of a home they completed in a small town in the south of Brazil. The home sits on a high plateau, surrounded by an idyllic landscape formed by araucaria trees, which was key for a young couple who have a close relationship with life...
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Old Structures...
What “Structure First” Means I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is...
a year ago
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What “Structure First” Means

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a year ago
I like “Why we need a ‘structure first’ approach to existing buildings” by Penny Gowler, which is perhaps not surprising since I’m a structural engineer. I’m going to argue here that Ms. Gowler’s article and my position are just slightly more nuanced than that. Architectural...
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Contemporist...
These Designs Turn Wood Walls Into Vertical Art Stile, a longstanding leader in high-quality wood flooring from Umbria, has introduced a new way to...
3 weeks ago
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These Designs Turn Wood Walls Into Vertical Art

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Stile, a longstanding leader in high-quality wood flooring from Umbria, has introduced a new way to experience wood surfaces: Stilart Wall – Vertical Wood Design. This concept brings together advanced laser engraving and traditional craftsmanship to create visually expressive...
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Contemporist...
Inside a serene Montauk home where nature shapes design Perched on a windswept bluff between Old Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean, this striking beach...
a month ago
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Inside a serene Montauk home where nature shapes design

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Perched on a windswept bluff between Old Montauk Highway and the Atlantic Ocean, this striking beach house in Montauk, New York State, seems to vanish into the landscape. Designed by South African firm SAOTA, the home embraces its rugged coastal setting with quiet confidence,...
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CONTEMPORIST
A House Extension With A Curved Window Makes Room For A New Kitchen At This Home In London Architecture and ideas studio CAN, has shared photos of a recently completed home extension they...
8 months ago
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A House Extension With A Curved Window Makes Room For A New Kitchen At This Home In London

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8 months ago
Architecture and ideas studio CAN, has shared photos of a recently completed home extension they completed for a terrace house in Stoke Newington, London. With an emphasis on natural materials and a unique approach to design, this renovation turns the once disconnected ground...
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Contemporist...
A Mid-Century Modern Home Renovation with Asian and Nordic Influences In Montreal’s lush Outremont district, a 1950s home by architects Morin & Cinq-Mars has undergone a...
a week ago
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A Mid-Century Modern Home Renovation with Asian and Nordic Influences

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a week ago
In Montreal’s lush Outremont district, a 1950s home by architects Morin & Cinq-Mars has undergone a transformative expansion. Atelier Chardonnat and Salem Architecture led the renovation, preserving its Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired heritage while introducing Japanese and...
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There are two types...
With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
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With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House

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WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
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devonzuegel.com
Vacuum tube nostalgia Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound...
over a year ago
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Vacuum tube nostalgia

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over a year ago
Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound quality that old vacuum tube amplifiers bring to the music played through them. And they'll pay top dollar for it! Once considered obsolete, vintage vacuum tube amps now sell at a...
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devonzuegel.com
Markets in everything at the Duomo You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I...
over a year ago
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Markets in everything at the Duomo

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over a year ago
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets. Luckily, we...
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99% Invisible
Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing,...
2 months ago
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Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users

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2 months ago
Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus — a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spinal column and right upper...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
a year ago
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Places in Time III

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a year ago
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey,...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable

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a year ago
Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey, Jersey City does not have much of a visual image. If you asked the average person in the New York metropolitan area to name a physical landmark there, it’s likely they would draw a...
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Old Structures...
Visible To The Naked Eye Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not...
10 months ago
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Visible To The Naked Eye

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10 months ago
Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not because its construction was particularly bad – it is not – but because the glazed brick veneer on this side wall does a nice job of catching the raking sunlight. The brick color...
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99% Invisible
The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE] The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian...
over a year ago
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The Chinatown Punk Wars [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian mall that is almost overwhelmingly colorful.  Brightly painted buildings are topped with sweeping pagoda style roofs, and then accented with fluorescent neon lacing. For decades...
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Old Structures...
Smooth Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high...
8 months ago
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Smooth

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8 months ago
Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high rise: In case that’s difficult to make out, it’s a glass slab roof supported on laminated glass beams. The hand belongs to Will Teron, who was standing on the same stair landing I...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
TRANSitar Lima THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t? Map of...
over a year ago
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TRANSitar Lima

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over a year ago
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t? Map of Lima, Peru About the project TRANSitar Lima is a project that seeks to create a visual record of transphobic violence, based on collective mapping sessions. Trans, transvestites, and...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of...
a year ago
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A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land

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a year ago
Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of a modern Orcas Island home she designed for herself and her family. This small home, which cantilevers at one end, sits on the top of a ridge and is anchored to the bedrock in six...
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99% Invisible
I’ve Got 1099 Problems… If you’re one of the millions of Americans struggling with your tax forms today, you’re not alone....
3 months ago
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I’ve Got 1099 Problems…

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3 months ago
If you’re one of the millions of Americans struggling with your tax forms today, you’re not alone. Even Albert Einstein allegedly found income taxes to be “the hardest thing in the world to understand.” But how did our tax system become so complicated? From Revolution to Revenue:...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
a year ago
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A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore

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a year ago
Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
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99% Invisible
The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter [EPISODE] This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
10 months ago
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The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter [EPISODE]

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10 months ago
This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from...
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Common Edge
Declaration of Independence From Sprawl Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
a year ago
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Declaration of Independence From Sprawl

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a year ago
Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
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McMansion Hell
this house may or may not be real on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5...
over a year ago
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this house may or may not be real

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over a year ago
on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
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99% Invisible
Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into...
a month ago
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Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein

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a month ago
In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into nearly 500 apartments, many of them affordable and close to public transit. But before they could even begin the formal approval process, they faced a preliminary review. This step...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Daybed Nook Is A Great Place To Read Inside This Cabin Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a secluded home they designed in Methow Valley,...
10 months ago
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A Daybed Nook Is A Great Place To Read Inside This Cabin

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10 months ago
Best Practice Architecture has shared photos of a secluded home they designed in Methow Valley, Washington. One of the key interior elements is a built-in day bed. The open nook has various functions. There’s the day bed for relaxing, with storage drawers built in underneath. The...
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99% Invisible
The Wilderness Tool [EPISODE] Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away...
over a year ago
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The Wilderness Tool [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
Imagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away at a tree, holding opposite ends of a huge, human-length saw. That is a vintage crosscut saw. Some avid crosscut seekers spend hours mining websites like eBay and Craigslist. But...
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Common Edge
The Missing Flower Power in Walkability and Neighborhood Vitality There’s a surprisingly simple alternative to our hard, urban spaces.
a year ago
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The Missing Flower Power in Walkability and Neighborhood Vitality

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a year ago
There’s a surprisingly simple alternative to our hard, urban spaces.
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CONTEMPORIST
Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
11 months ago
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Glamping Tents Designed By Architects

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11 months ago
Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they designed for the Costa del Sol Glamping Village in Spain. Each tent’s structure is made entirely of laminated pine wood, with a volume formed from three porticoes that support the...
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Would you live in a strawbale cabin? This off-grid desert home might change your mind Amid the Joshua Trees of California’s high desert, a small cabin has been built that's anything but...
2 months ago
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Would you live in a strawbale cabin? This off-grid desert home might change your mind

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2 months ago
Amid the Joshua Trees of California’s high desert, a small cabin has been built that's anything but simple. With curving walls made of barley straw and a roof like twin petals reaching for the sky, this off-grid structure is more than just a stunning example of eco-architecture,...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Tree House With Two Rooms Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both...
over a year ago
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A Modern Tree House With Two Rooms

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over a year ago
Architecture firm Studio MEMM has designed a tree house for their clients that could be used by both children and adults. Located in the middle of the Brazilian forest, the design of the treehouse was inspired by the geometries of the surrounding sycamore leaf structures...
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Common Edge
Warlords in Our Midst Why Elon Musk is worse than science fiction.
11 months ago
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Warlords in Our Midst

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11 months ago
Why Elon Musk is worse than science fiction.
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BLDGBLOG
Numbers Pool [Image: “Solomon’s Pools & ancient aqueducts…,” via Library of Congress.] There’s a beautiful...
over a year ago
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Numbers Pool

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over a year ago
[Image: “Solomon’s Pools & ancient aqueducts…,” via Library of Congress.] There’s a beautiful description over at New Scientist of a hypothetical new form of computing device, a “liquid crystal computer” in which calculations would move “like ripples through the liquid.”...
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Contemporist...
A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently...
a year ago
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A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home

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a year ago
Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently completed in San Francisco, California, that involved updating a historic Victorian-era home.
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99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE] All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
a year ago
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Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE]

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a year ago
All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
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Archinect - Features
Storytelling, Bias, and Exploitation in Digital Realms; A Conversation with Miriam Hillawi... For Miriam Hillawi Abraham, the digital realm is one fraught with both opportunities and dangers....
a year ago
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Storytelling, Bias, and Exploitation in Digital Realms; A Conversation with Miriam Hillawi Abraham

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a year ago
For Miriam Hillawi Abraham, the digital realm is one fraught with both opportunities and dangers. The Ethiopian designer and researcher sees digital media as an impactful, playful, and unrestrained way of shaping immersive stories that challenge Western narratives and power...
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Old Structures...
Shorter From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, two pictures of St. George’s Episcopal Church at the...
9 months ago
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Shorter

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9 months ago
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, two pictures of St. George’s Episcopal Church at the corner of 16th Street and Rutherford Place, on the west side of Stuyvesant Square: Something seems different…can’t quite put my finger on it… The spires were removed in 1889, 33...
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Common Edge
Lessons From Katrina for Citizen Planners in L.A., Asheville, and Florida Planning’s “me-centered” ethos needs to become a “we-centered” approach.
3 months ago
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Lessons From Katrina for Citizen Planners in L.A., Asheville, and Florida

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3 months ago
Planning’s “me-centered” ethos needs to become a “we-centered” approach.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: The Value Of Architecture When it comes to architecture, Brian Linder doesn't like to color inside the lines. Trained as an...
3 weeks ago
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Archinect Meets: The Value Of Architecture

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3 weeks ago
When it comes to architecture, Brian Linder doesn't like to color inside the lines. Trained as an architect at Carnegie Mellon and UCLA, he also worked in real estate, marketing, and management consulting before establishing himself as a licensed "Architecture Broker." Under the...
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Old Structures...
Overgrowth It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900:...
a year ago
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Overgrowth

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a year ago
It’s worth taking a look at two pictures of Newspaper Row/Printing House Square. First, around 1900: Second, 1936, from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project. We have the same line-up in both pictures, from left to right: The World Building, the Tribune Building, the New...
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Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House,...
a year ago
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Adelaide House, Part 2 – Structure

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a year ago
Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
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Common Edge
My Crystal Ball: An Architect Holds Humanity’s Future in the Palm of His Hand Speculative fiction about our next million years of existence.
a week ago
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My Crystal Ball: An Architect Holds Humanity’s Future in the Palm of His Hand

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a week ago
Speculative fiction about our next million years of existence.
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Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
a year ago
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How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years

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a year ago
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
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Contemporist...
Before and After - A Renovated 1950s Red-Brick Warehouse Turned It Into A Cafe Snow Peak Cafe, designed by KiKi ARCHi, is set inside a former red-brick warehouse in Suzhou, China....
a month ago
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Before and After - A Renovated 1950s Red-Brick Warehouse Turned It Into A Cafe

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a month ago
Snow Peak Cafe, designed by KiKi ARCHi, is set inside a former red-brick warehouse in Suzhou, China. Once part of a cluster of industrial buildings from the 1950s, the structure has been reworked into a modern space for coffee, retail, and quiet conversation. Guided by Snow...
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Dark Meets Light in This Moody, Skylit Toronto Home Nestled on a corner lot in Toronto’s leafy High Park neighborhood, Westminster Residence by...
a month ago
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Dark Meets Light in This Moody, Skylit Toronto Home

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a month ago
Nestled on a corner lot in Toronto’s leafy High Park neighborhood, Westminster Residence by Batay-Csorba Architects is a striking reinterpretation of the traditional Edwardian gable house.
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Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap part II (note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to...
over a year ago
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How did solar power get cheap part II

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over a year ago
(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to Part II of “How did Solar Power Get Cheap?” To recap Part I, the modern solar photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Early markets were almost entirely...
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Old Structures...
6:52 AM, November 27 Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign....
a year ago
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6:52 AM, November 27

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a year ago
Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign. The construction on the left is poart of the Battery Resliency program to prtocet lower Manahttan against sea level rise.
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Old Structures...
An IStructE Talk I’m giving an in-person and online talk on March 7 for the UK Institution of Structural Engineers on...
a year ago
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An IStructE Talk

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a year ago
I’m giving an in-person and online talk on March 7 for the UK Institution of Structural Engineers on the connections between the development of fire-resistant construction technology, New York social history, and the origins of skyscrapers. More information here: New York’s...
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Old Structures...
Delaying The Obvious Solution The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this...
a year ago
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Delaying The Obvious Solution

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a year ago
The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this case) is a good place to have a monumental space. The only problem was reality: the southwest corner of Central Park is the intersection of Central Park West (AKA Eight Avenue),...
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Archinect - Features
Architectural Visualization Was Rather Flat: Then We Invented Perspective Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant...
8 months ago
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Architectural Visualization Was Rather Flat: Then We Invented Perspective

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8 months ago
Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant challenges in visualizing and communicating architectural space. Without a systematic way to represent depth and spatial relationships, architectural drawings were often symbolic,...
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devonzuegel.com
Property values should be normalized by acre In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without...
a year ago
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Property values should be normalized by acre

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a year ago
In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car can drive without considering how much gas it uses to get there. Different properties...
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Old Structures...
Somehow, We’re Large-Small When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small...
a year ago
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Somehow, We’re Large-Small

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a year ago
When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small Business Recovery: Patterns of Growth in a Changing Economy”, a report from the city’s Economic Development Corporation. The showy headline is that “Total small businesses in NYC...
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Contemporist...
This Grass-Roofed Home With Stone Walls Feels Like It Grew From the Mountain Perched on the slopes of East Gros Ventre Butte, Ridge 52 Residence by Ward + Blake Architects is a...
a month ago
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This Grass-Roofed Home With Stone Walls Feels Like It Grew From the Mountain

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a month ago
Perched on the slopes of East Gros Ventre Butte, Ridge 52 Residence by Ward + Blake Architects is a modern mountain home that doesn’t just sit in its surroundings, it appears to grow out of them.
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A Weekly Dose of...
Changing Ideals in Architectural Criticism On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books...
over a year ago
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Changing Ideals in Architectural Criticism

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over a year ago
On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books and University of Texas at Austin, 2022 (Amazon / Bookshop) Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin with photographs by Lee Bey,...
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Old Structures...
Split Personality Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the...
8 months ago
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Split Personality

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8 months ago
Live, from Montreal, the Cathedrale Marie Reine du Monde et Saint Jacques: Putting aside the building’s architectural merit – and there is a great deal – I find this kind of church interesting structurally. We have at least three very different types of structure here. There’s...
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Common Edge
Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’” Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of...
a month ago
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Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’”

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a month ago
Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.
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devonzuegel.com
Field notes: Miami Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit...
over a year ago
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Field notes: Miami

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over a year ago
Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit different from previous cities I've explored, because unlike those, Miami is my home! So this post partially serves as a life update—I moved to Miami Beach from California a few months...
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Construction Physics
How much safer has construction gotten? When talking about (the lack of) construction productivity growth, or the fact that we used to build...
over a year ago
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How much safer has construction gotten?

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over a year ago
When talking about (the lack of) construction productivity growth, or the fact that we used to build things much faster than we do today, commentators frequently mention the safety of the construction workers. On this view, construction speed/efficiency and worker risk are a...
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CONTEMPORIST
Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
8 months ago
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Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel

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8 months ago
Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern L-Shaped Home Surrounded By A Pine Tree Forest Design build firm MAFCOhouse, has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Haliburton,...
a year ago
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A Modern L-Shaped Home Surrounded By A Pine Tree Forest

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a year ago
Design build firm MAFCOhouse, has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Haliburton, Ontario, for a family that wanted a place in cottage country with a cozy vibe. Working with the family, MAFCOhouse searched hard and found a four-acre lot with southern and...
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Contemporist...
This Artist’s Treehouse Is Changing How We See Tiny Homes In an episode from Tiny House Giant Journey, a YouTube channel dedicated to unique home tours, host...
a week ago
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This Artist’s Treehouse Is Changing How We See Tiny Homes

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a week ago
In an episode from Tiny House Giant Journey, a YouTube channel dedicated to unique home tours, host Jenna visits the Black Crane Treehouse, a striking, mid century-inspired retreat perched in the treetops above Mission Lake in Washington State. Designed as an artist residency,...
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Common Edge
Capturing America, One State Capitol at a Time A new book celebrates the lost grandeur and optimism of democracy.
a year ago
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Capturing America, One State Capitol at a Time

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a year ago
A new book celebrates the lost grandeur and optimism of democracy.
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Construction Physics
Reading List 05/03/25 Blackout in Spain and Portugal, Chinese robot adoption, energy maneuverability theory, the Florida...
2 months ago
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Reading List 05/03/25

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2 months ago
Blackout in Spain and Portugal, Chinese robot adoption, energy maneuverability theory, the Florida real estate market, battery manufacturing cancellations, and more.
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Common Edge
Confessions of a (Mostly) Analog Architect The fit between digital design and the hands-on world of construction.
11 months ago
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Confessions of a (Mostly) Analog Architect

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11 months ago
The fit between digital design and the hands-on world of construction.
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Contemporist...
This Australian Terrace House Was Modernized For Today's Living Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia,...
a year ago
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This Australian Terrace House Was Modernized For Today's Living

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a year ago
Chan Architecture has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Clifton Hill, Australia, that included transforming the interior of a terrace house into a modern home.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Dive Into Miami With Germane Barnes of Studio Barnes Traveling to Miami soon, but not sure what's really worth exploring? Today's Archinect City Guide is...
a month ago
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Archinect City Guide: Dive Into Miami With Germane Barnes of Studio Barnes

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a month ago
Traveling to Miami soon, but not sure what's really worth exploring? Today's Archinect City Guide is hosted by Germane Barnes, award-winning founder of research and design practice Studio Barnes. Besides receiving Harvard GSD's 2021 Wheelwright Prize, a 2021-22 Rome Prize, a 2022...
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99% Invisible
Ancient DMs Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
6 months ago
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Ancient DMs

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6 months ago
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
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The Beauty of...
How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads...
over a year ago
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How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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over a year ago
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. With his car (unbalanced atop due to the addition of a large road sign attached to...
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Contemporist...
This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in...
a year ago
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This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood

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a year ago
Architecture firm FLOWER, together with interior design studio Saltwolf, has completed a new home in Boulder, Colorado, whose design was inspired by the nearby historic houses in the neighborhood.
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Old Structures...
So It Begins LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer...
a year ago
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So It Begins

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a year ago
LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer helper. I approve of the reinforced seams in the flat-plane base: Building the stone-tile floor before we’ve completed the base. Very edgy. Clever foundation for the apse. LEGO...
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Archinect - Features
On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar...
3 months ago
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On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student

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3 months ago
Dear Student, I suspect you’ve already encountered most of the conventional advice—the familiar platitudes repeated endlessly in classrooms, critiques, and career talks. Work hard. Stay disciplined. Develop your craft. Each phrase is earnest, and each contains some truth, but...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Why the World Needs Beautiful Architecture Again Modern cities often feel soulless—a monotony of glass, steel, and concrete boxes. What happened to...
5 months ago
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Why the World Needs Beautiful Architecture Again

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5 months ago
Modern cities often feel soulless—a monotony of glass, steel, and concrete boxes. What happened to buildings that inspire awe? Architecture used to reflect identity, culture, and meaning. Today, it’s become a global uniform—a style that looks the same whether you’re in New York,...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a...
a year ago
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Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...
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Archinect - Features
Being Laid off in Architecture Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
10 months ago
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Being Laid off in Architecture Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be

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10 months ago
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
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Contemporist...
This Wood Watchtower Is Also A Home For Bats NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also...
9 months ago
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This Wood Watchtower Is Also A Home For Bats

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9 months ago
NEXT Architects has shared photos of Watchtower Einderheide, a lookout in The Netherlands, that also doubles as a shelter for bats.
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Contemporist...
From the street, it looks like a shed, inside, this home's a sanctuary You won’t find windows or fences here, just a bold idea for urban privacy. Designed by Specht Novak,...
a month ago
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From the street, it looks like a shed, inside, this home's a sanctuary

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a month ago
You won’t find windows or fences here, just a bold idea for urban privacy. Designed by Specht Novak, the Stealth House transforms a leftover lot into a hidden retreat of steel, silence, and sunlit courtyards. Every inch of its 1,100 square feet is a study in purpose,...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Boom One of the problems with electing Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin, as mayor of New York, is that he has a...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: Boom

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a year ago
One of the problems with electing Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin, as mayor of New York, is that he has a lot of enemies who will try to kill him by, say, blowing him up in his sleep. This is a preservation problem because the mayor’s residence is Gracie Mansion, a 1799 wood-frame...
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devonzuegel.com
Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
over a year ago
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Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at

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over a year ago
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
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Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
a year ago
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What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It?

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a year ago
The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
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Construction Physics
Reading List 04/26/25 Enhanced rock weathering, driverless trucks, Home Depot’s garden experiments, hydrogen airplanes,...
2 months ago
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Reading List 04/26/25

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2 months ago
Enhanced rock weathering, driverless trucks, Home Depot’s garden experiments, hydrogen airplanes, and more.
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Old Structures...
Different Views From 1910, stereoscopic views from an upper floor of the Singer Building looking south and north The...
8 months ago
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Different Views

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8 months ago
From 1910, stereoscopic views from an upper floor of the Singer Building looking south and north The view south is showing the largest concentration of tall buildings in the world at that time and, given that many of those buildings exceeded the height limit in Chicago, the...
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Construction Physics
Reading List 04/19/25 Astro Mechanica’s fundraising, BYD’s semiconductor division, drone deliveries in Texas, Starlink in...
3 months ago
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Reading List 04/19/25

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3 months ago
Astro Mechanica’s fundraising, BYD’s semiconductor division, drone deliveries in Texas, Starlink in Nigeria, an Alaskan volcano that might erupt, and more.
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CONTEMPORIST
An Urban Tree House In New York City NO ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of a home they completed inside a residential tower at the edge of...
a year ago
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An Urban Tree House In New York City

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a year ago
NO ARCHITECTURE has shared photos of a home they completed inside a residential tower at the edge of Manhattan’s West Village, that has the appearance of an urban tree house. The open-plan social areas of the interior are housed in a double-height space with 22-ft tall glass...
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Common Edge
The Time-Defying Nature of Living Architectural Traditions Mere repetition is lifeless, a focus on design exploration creates nothing lasting, but living...
a year ago
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The Time-Defying Nature of Living Architectural Traditions

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a year ago
Mere repetition is lifeless, a focus on design exploration creates nothing lasting, but living tradition balances both.
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Construction Physics
Reading List 03/08/2025 China’s industrial diplomacy, streetlights and crime, deorbiting Starlink satellites, a proposed...
4 months ago
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Reading List 03/08/2025

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4 months ago
China’s industrial diplomacy, streetlights and crime, deorbiting Starlink satellites, a proposed canal across Thailand, a looming gas turbine shortage, and more.
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Contemporist...
This apartment's moving walls hide a secret bedroom Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four...
2 weeks ago
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This apartment's moving walls hide a secret bedroom

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2 weeks ago
Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four in downtown Toronto chose to do the opposite. With help from Picnic Design Inc., they turned their modest 850-square-foot condo into a forever home using a pair of ingenious movable...
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Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to...
a year ago
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The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II

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a year ago
Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the...
10 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection

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10 months ago
Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with the Chrysler Building on the left and the Socony-Mobil Building on the right. Also, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission:
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99% Invisible
Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of...
a month ago
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Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green

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a month ago
After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a...
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Benny Kuriakose
A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the...
over a year ago
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A Guide to Interior Photography of Historic Buildings - Part III

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over a year ago
Interior views add valuable information to the documentation of a historic building. To capture the true essence of the building, the...
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CONTEMPORIST
Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
7 months ago
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Chairs For Sitting On Stairs

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7 months ago
ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
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CONTEMPORIST
Curved Green Roofs Cover This Creekside Cabin MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England,...
over a year ago
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Curved Green Roofs Cover This Creekside Cabin

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over a year ago
MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England, that’s located adjacent to the creek and reedbeds within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The ‘Creek Cabin’, with early...
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99% Invisible
The Lost Subways of North America [EPISODE] If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like...
a year ago
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The Lost Subways of North America [EPISODE]

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a year ago
If you’ve spent any amount of time driving through any major American city, you know what it’s like to be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. But if you’re from Los Angeles – the land of freeways, traffic and smog –  you know this struggle especially well.   But Jake Berman, the...
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99% Invisible
The Containment Plan [EPISODE] It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50...
a year ago
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The Containment Plan [EPISODE]

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a year ago
It’s hard to overstate the vastness of the Skid Row neighborhood in Los Angeles. It spans roughly 50 blocks, occupying a significant portion of the downtown Los Angeles area. In some ways, it looks a lot like other neighborhoods with its corner stores and street vendors, old...
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Old Structures...
Sic Transit This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye...
a year ago
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Sic Transit

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a year ago
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye view of a building in New York City.” It’s the old Metropolitan Opera House at 40th Street and Broadway, the one that the Met left in 1966 to move to Lincoln Center. The Met had...
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Old Structures...
A Survivor From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
9 months ago
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A Survivor

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9 months ago
From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
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There are two types...
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on...
6 months ago
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The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed

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6 months ago
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
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Old Structures...
For The Encouragement Of Thrift When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to...
a year ago
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For The Encouragement Of Thrift

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a year ago
When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to stand out. In this case, I was on Sutphin Boulevard in Queens, on its northernmost leg. That’s the part of Sutphin that most people who have heard of it know: between its northern...
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99% Invisible
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons [EPISODE] Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly...
a year ago
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The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons [EPISODE]

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Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since the 1970s, sapeurs (from: le sape, short for “Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes”) have been known for donning technicolored...
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CONTEMPORIST
Patterned Brickwork Is Featured On The Exterior Of The Ace Hotel In Toronto Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in...
over a year ago
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Patterned Brickwork Is Featured On The Exterior Of The Ace Hotel In Toronto

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over a year ago
Photography by Scott Norseworthy Shim-Sutcliffe Architects has sent us photos of the Ace Hotel in Toronto, Canada, which has a red brick facade that draws guests in with a wood-lined opening. Working closely with the creative agency Atelier Ace, the architects of the hotel...
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99% Invisible
The Ripple Effect [EPISODE] In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city...
10 months ago
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The Ripple Effect [EPISODE]

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10 months ago
In disasters where a lot of people lose their homes, the impacts are not confined to a single city or town. They ripple outward, cascading into the surrounding area, as the survivors are forced to go looking for new places to live. This is the story of what happened after the...
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99% Invisible
The Brutalists From Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men to Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, from Charles Bronson in Death...
4 months ago
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The Brutalists

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4 months ago
From Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men to Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, from Charles Bronson in Death Wish to Luke Wilson in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, there have been countless architect characters onscreen. It’s not that watching someone design a building is particularly cinematic....
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CONTEMPORIST
This Japanese Restaurant Uses Washi-Inspired Acrylic Panels To Create A Cozy Atmosphere odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China,...
10 months ago
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This Japanese Restaurant Uses Washi-Inspired Acrylic Panels To Create A Cozy Atmosphere

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10 months ago
odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China, that uses textural materials to create a quiet, relaxing, and cozy atmosphere. The open entrance consists of a light box and two sets of low-wall partitions, allowing the space to be...
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The Modern House
The Secret Life of Reggie Yates | A House Tour with the Writer and Director
7 months ago
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The Secret Life of Reggie Yates | A House Tour with the Writer and Director

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7 months ago
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SOCKS
Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (1913-1915) American architect Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was also an artist, writer and stage designer....
over a year ago
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Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (1913-1915)

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over a year ago
American architect Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was also an artist, writer and stage designer. He was based in Rochester, NY where he built his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station in 1909. His design work and philosophy were influenced mainly by theosophy, a...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Calming Interior Was Designed For This Home In Spain Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a...
over a year ago
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A Calming Interior Was Designed For This Home In Spain

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over a year ago
Susanna Cots Interior Design has shared a project they recently completed in Spain, that includes a calm material palette. Large windows were integrated into the homes’ design so that the surrounding nature and the gardens could be seen from within the home. In the garden,...
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Old Structures...
Exposed During Demolition I had not seen a close-up of the demolition of the Wanamaker Store at Broadway and 9th Street until...
a year ago
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Exposed During Demolition

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a year ago
I had not seen a close-up of the demolition of the Wanamaker Store at Broadway and 9th Street until I stumbled across this one, taken in September 1956 by Angelo Rizutto. This shows the partially-intact second floor, marked on the facade by a water-table, and the last remnants of...
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Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Studio Ma Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established...
4 months ago
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How to Get a Job at Studio Ma

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4 months ago
Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established itself as an award-winning creative powerhouse within its native Arizona, as well as beyond state borders. Under the guidance of Principals Christiana Moss, Christopher Alt, and...
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There are two types...
Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
over a year ago
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Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings

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over a year ago
A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading → The post Car...
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Common Edge
Countdown to 2030: The Transformation of the Built Environment Can’t Be Derailed The AEC industry continues to confront our environmental challenges—never mind what the headlines...
5 months ago
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Countdown to 2030: The Transformation of the Built Environment Can’t Be Derailed

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5 months ago
The AEC industry continues to confront our environmental challenges—never mind what the headlines might suggest.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that...
over a year ago
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A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage

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over a year ago
Bijl Architecture has shared photos of the Stealth House, a renovation project they completed that included a modern addition to an inter-war cottage located in Hunters Hill, Australia. From the street, the original facade and front garden of the home hide the barely visible rear...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Cat Cafe In New York Was Designed With Whimsy And Playfulness Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York...
11 months ago
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This Cat Cafe In New York Was Designed With Whimsy And Playfulness

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11 months ago
Architect Sonya Lee has shared photos of the new location of Meow Parlour, a cat cafe in New York that had outgrown its previous space. The storefront has a 10’ wall of white oak shelves that spell out M E O W, which also function as signage, a playspace for the cats to snuggle...
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Common Edge
What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism? We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
over a year ago
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism?

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over a year ago
We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
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Construction Physics
Reading List 03/01/25 Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use...
4 months ago
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Reading List 03/01/25

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4 months ago
Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
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devonzuegel.com
Buenos Aires recommendations I wrote a Buenos Aires guide with recommendations and tips for a group of friends I was traveling...
over a year ago
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Buenos Aires recommendations

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over a year ago
I wrote a Buenos Aires guide with recommendations and tips for a group of friends I was traveling with in December 2021, and I figured it might be useful to other people too. I adore Buenos Aires and spend about a month each year there, so I'm always thrilled to hear when friends...
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Common Edge
Letter From Los Angeles: The Unsettling Silence of Construction Sites What happens when the people who will rebuild burned-out L.A. are afraid to come to work?
a month ago
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Letter From Los Angeles: The Unsettling Silence of Construction Sites

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a month ago
What happens when the people who will rebuild burned-out L.A. are afraid to come to work?
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Archinect - Features
Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in Architecture How should the architectural profession consider and respond to futures made possible by advances in...
over a year ago
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Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in Architecture

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over a year ago
How should the architectural profession consider and respond to futures made possible by advances in artificial intelligence? Can we propose a willful, designed route that acknowledges the inevitability of intelligent machines intersecting with every dimension of design and...
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Old Structures...
Dry-Goods Palace This is a newspaper ad circa 1883, advertising that the store Wechsler & Abraham had moved about two...
10 months ago
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Dry-Goods Palace

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10 months ago
This is a newspaper ad circa 1883, advertising that the store Wechsler & Abraham had moved about two blocks down Fulton Street to a new building that was something like five times the size of its old home. That name doesn’t mean much today, but in 1893, a change in ownership...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st...
10 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Fancy Digs

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10 months ago
Hawkeye chases some bad guys in New York: Looking north up Central Park West from a bit below 71st Street: The relatively-low brown building two blocks up is the Dakota Apartments, but the drawing in the comic isn’t accurate enough to recognize it. The building at the first...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Round Fireplace Is A Unique Feature In The Living Room Of This Remodeled Home Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos...
over a year ago
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A Round Fireplace Is A Unique Feature In The Living Room Of This Remodeled Home

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over a year ago
Aaron Kohler and Marc Straumann of architecture and design firm KOHLERSTRAUMANN, have shared photos of their latest project, a renovated family home in Lausen, Switzerland. The architects completely transformed the space by changing the floors, renovating all bathrooms and the...
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Common Edge
The Clever Trick for Living in 350 Square Feet The solution, surprisingly, lies beyond the walls of our home.
11 months ago
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The Clever Trick for Living in 350 Square Feet

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11 months ago
The solution, surprisingly, lies beyond the walls of our home.
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99% Invisible
Food Deserts Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small...
a week ago
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Food Deserts

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a week ago
Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New England chains like Star Market and Almacs. Over the years, however, the city’s...
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Common Edge
Hope and Squalor: Venezuelan Refugees at Chicago Police Stations Nearly 3000 people are living in tents and inside police facilities.
a year ago
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Hope and Squalor: Venezuelan Refugees at Chicago Police Stations

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a year ago
Nearly 3000 people are living in tents and inside police facilities.
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Coffee with an...
Design explained using venn diagrams Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately,...
a year ago
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Design explained using venn diagrams

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a year ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
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Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
a year ago
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool

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a year ago
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
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BLDGBLOG
Cleared For Approach [Image: “Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst.] When I first saw this painting—“Forest and Sun”...
over a year ago
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Cleared For Approach

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over a year ago
[Image: “Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst.] When I first saw this painting—“Forest and Sun” (1926) by Max Ernst, a composition and theme he continually revisited and changed over the course of his career—I mistook the tiny white squiggles in the lower right for a procession of...
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The Wandering...
Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 2 Now that we know our way around the pattern (go back to Part 1), it should be fairly straightforward...
over a year ago
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Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 2

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over a year ago
Now that we know our way around the pattern (go back to Part 1), it should be fairly straightforward to construct with a compass and straightedge. But be aware: any pattern that requires you to construct a pentagon is an advanced challenge. They are trickier to make than squares...
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Old Structures...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has...
a year ago
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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a year ago
A few comments about today’s holiday. First, if you’re so inclined, the city Parks Department has opportunities for public service: here. Otherwise, memorials and celebrations: here. Some of the permanent memorials to King in New York: here. Some of his relationship to New York...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Large Sliding Window Offers A Look Inside This Nature-Inspired Store Design Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for...
over a year ago
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A Large Sliding Window Offers A Look Inside This Nature-Inspired Store Design

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over a year ago
Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for Attitude, a company that specializes in plastic-free beauty products. The design of the space reflects their commitment to sustainability and a connection to nature, which is visible...
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Old Structures...
Gotcha! There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for...
a year ago
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Gotcha!

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a year ago
There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for research. They have to deal with thousands (or tens of thousands, or more) resources – usually individual files in multiple formats – on hundreds or thousands of topics. And if they make...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in...
a year ago
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A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen

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a year ago
Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in England that received a new stepped brick extension with views of the garden. When the front door is open, you can see all the way through to the rear garden. A stepped form took shape...
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A Weekly Dose of...
American Modern Home American Modern Home: Jacobsen Architecture + Interiors by Simon Jacobsen Rizzoli, October...
over a year ago
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American Modern Home

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over a year ago
American Modern Home: Jacobsen Architecture + Interiors by Simon Jacobsen Rizzoli, October 2022 Hardcover | 11 x 11 inches | 224 pages | English | ISBN: 9780847872053 | $75 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Hugh Newell Jacobsen, the legendary architect and late co-founder with his son,...
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Common Edge
Why Time Is a Problem for Architects For many, it’s a lurch between copying the past or pretending that time doesn’t exist.
a year ago
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Why Time Is a Problem for Architects

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a year ago
For many, it’s a lurch between copying the past or pretending that time doesn’t exist.
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Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel - Part I One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
over a year ago
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The Rise of Steel - Part I

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over a year ago
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture... The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
7 months ago
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture Movement

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7 months ago
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
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Construction Physics
The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the...
over a year ago
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The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry

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over a year ago
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%)...
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99% Invisible
Autism Pleasantville [EPISODE] A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about...
a year ago
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Autism Pleasantville [EPISODE]

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a year ago
A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about her experience called The Loudest Girl in the World. And she found herself imagining a fantasy world where everything is tailored to Lauren’s very specific autistic needs. And she...
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Old Structures...
A Few Changes That map is from 1879 and it feels not quite right, like an alternate-history version of New York....
a year ago
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A Few Changes

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a year ago
That map is from 1879 and it feels not quite right, like an alternate-history version of New York. The Upper West Side is referred to as the West End, Twelfth Avenue is shown along with Riverside Drive, and Columbia’s Campus at Broadway and 116th Street is shown as a park with a...
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Old Structures...
The Aftertaste of Technological Change I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was...
8 months ago
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The Aftertaste of Technological Change

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8 months ago
I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was occurring – I thought it was yesterday, not the Sunday a week ago – and I generally sleep late on the weekends anyway, so I got an extra hour of sleep without realizing, until...
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Common Edge
Technology’s Siren Song How to lure an architect onto the rocks.
9 months ago
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Technology’s Siren Song

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9 months ago
How to lure an architect onto the rocks.
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Contemporist...
One pendant light in five different rooms and it just works every time One simple pendant light, five completely different spaces. From cozy bedrooms to sleek kitchens,...
a month ago
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One pendant light in five different rooms and it just works every time

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a month ago
One simple pendant light, five completely different spaces. From cozy bedrooms to sleek kitchens, this versatile design proves that great lighting doesn’t just fit in, it transforms the room. Designed by Bellucci Mazzoni for Italian lighting brand KARMAN, the Asso lamp brings a...
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SOCKS
Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in...
3 months ago
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Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia

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3 months ago
The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in southern Tunisia and certain areas of Libya and associated with Berber populations. In more recent times, they have also been used as dwellings. They consist of barrel-vaulted rooms...
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Archinect - Features
'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based... For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and...
a year ago
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'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based Linden, Brown Architecture

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a year ago
For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
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Construction Physics
Reading List 06/28/25 Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage blacklist, the air traffic controller shortage, the largest landowners...
2 weeks ago
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Reading List 06/28/25

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2 weeks ago
Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage blacklist, the air traffic controller shortage, the largest landowners in the US, a blended wing airliner, and more.
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The Solarchitecture...
7 key principles of solar passive design - Part 2. Balance it all with local climate and a holistic energy calculation.
over a year ago
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7 key principles of solar passive design - Part 2.

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over a year ago
Balance it all with local climate and a holistic energy calculation.
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Construction Physics
Building the Bell System If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T...
a year ago
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Building the Bell System

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a year ago
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique:...
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SOCKS
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale... Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
a year ago
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The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale Italiana” at Milan Triennale (1936)

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a year ago
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
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Common Edge
Why Gardening Should Be Our Metaphor for Local Development If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s...
7 months ago
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Why Gardening Should Be Our Metaphor for Local Development

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7 months ago
If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s profit.
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Contemporist...
This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
a year ago
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It

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a year ago
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built into the earth.
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Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
a year ago
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How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco?

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a year ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Contemporary Gable Roof Runs The Length Of This Home Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in...
a year ago
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A Contemporary Gable Roof Runs The Length Of This Home

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a year ago
Architecture firm JURY!, has shared photos of a renovation project they completed for a home in Maasland, The Netherlands, that enhanced an existing dike house with a modern barn-inspired design. The original dike house includes a basement partially built into the dike, which is...
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devonzuegel.com
Making is Show Business now – alexdanco.com Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may...
over a year ago
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Making is Show Business now – alexdanco.com

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over a year ago
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and responsibilities; the rise of GitHub as a...
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Old Structures...
Infrastructure Density From 1954, “Sunnyside Yards” probably requires some explanation for people unfamiliar with western...
11 months ago
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Infrastructure Density

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11 months ago
From 1954, “Sunnyside Yards” probably requires some explanation for people unfamiliar with western Queens. The yard (foreground) was built with Penn Station in the aughts because there was simply not enough room near the station, in Manhattan, for a proper yard. So, except for a...
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The Solarchitecture...
Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house A passive house for cold climates.
over a year ago
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Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house

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over a year ago
A passive house for cold climates.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they...
a year ago
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A Coffee Shop Inspired By The Spectral Allure Of The Aurora Borealis

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a year ago
Design firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Uncloud Coffee, a new coffee shop they completed in Chonburi, Thailand, with a sculptural and eye-catching facade. Inspired by the spectral allure of the Aurora Borealis, the design abstractly interprets these atmospheric...
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Archinect - Features
When California Tried to Abolish Architectural Licensure Throughout the 20th century, every state and territory across the U.S. passed laws establishing a...
11 months ago
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When California Tried to Abolish Architectural Licensure

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11 months ago
Throughout the 20th century, every state and territory across the U.S. passed laws establishing a requirement to license architects. Since then, no jurisdiction has successfully repealed such a requirement. In the late 1970s, however, California almost became a notable...
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CONTEMPORIST
Overhanging Plants Surround The Exterior Of This Home Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy has sent us photos of a home they completed in the neighborhood of...
over a year ago
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Overhanging Plants Surround The Exterior Of This Home

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over a year ago
Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy has sent us photos of a home they completed in the neighborhood of Pune, India that has abundant greenery. To complement the surrounding neighborhood, they designed the house to have planters that line the exterior. The planters help the home merge...
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Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail...
a year ago
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The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I

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a year ago
California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail project. When voters first approved the $10 billion dollar bond issue for the project in 2008, it was projected to be completed by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. Instead, its costs have
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Construction Physics
Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
10 months ago
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

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10 months ago
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
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Common Edge
Encounters With Damian: Columbia University’s Homeless Neighbor Near and around campus, the juxtaposition between privilege and poverty is glaring.
over a year ago
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Encounters With Damian: Columbia University’s Homeless Neighbor

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over a year ago
Near and around campus, the juxtaposition between privilege and poverty is glaring.
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CONTEMPORIST
This 1950s California Ranch Home Was Updated With A Black And White Palette ANACAPA Architecture has sent us photos of a home renovation they completed for a young family of...
a year ago
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This 1950s California Ranch Home Was Updated With A Black And White Palette

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a year ago
ANACAPA Architecture has sent us photos of a home renovation they completed for a young family of four who sought to update their 1952 California Ranch home nestled in the San Roque neighborhood of Santa Barbara. The original home had an awkward layout that chopped up the...
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The Solarchitecture...
Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I. Structural, aesthetic, natural.
4 months ago
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Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I.

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4 months ago
Structural, aesthetic, natural.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Home Renovation Where Adding A Yellow Accent Wall Was A Bright Idea gon architects have recently completed a small apartment renovation inside a home in Madrid, Spain,...
a year ago
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A Home Renovation Where Adding A Yellow Accent Wall Was A Bright Idea

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a year ago
gon architects have recently completed a small apartment renovation inside a home in Madrid, Spain, that includes a bright yellow accent wall. The original apartment, which measures just over 500 square feet (47m2), included a wood ceiling and beams, as well as a separate bedroom...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
White Elephants in the State of Vermont This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
over a year ago
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont

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over a year ago
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
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Cartogrammar
Seasonal relief Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a...
over a year ago
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Seasonal relief

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over a year ago
Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a bit of time catching up with the great Daniel Huffman’s excellent tutorial on creating shaded relief maps with Blender. Do try it out if you haven’t; he’s written it up thoroughly...
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Old Structures...
Bucolia First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and...
a year ago
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Bucolia

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a year ago
First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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SOCKS
The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527) The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor....
over a year ago
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The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527)

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over a year ago
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a notable example of Islamic architecture.  The structure is built in stone and is...
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SOCKS
The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable...
a year ago
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The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams

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a year ago
The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable resource filled with detailed three-dimensional territorial maps employing various representational techniques. Thanks to the work of artist, designer, and developer Jill Hubleys...
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Common Edge
Developers Are Dangerously in Control of New York City Urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz’s remarks on receiving the Preservation Leadership Award.
a year ago
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Developers Are Dangerously in Control of New York City

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a year ago
Urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz’s remarks on receiving the Preservation Leadership Award.
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Archinect - Features
‘Our Work Grows Out of an Appreciation for the Land and the Neighborhoods We Build In’: A... Archinect's latest Studio Snapshot features Portland, Maine-based design-build practice Woodhull....
2 months ago
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‘Our Work Grows Out of an Appreciation for the Land and the Neighborhoods We Build In’: A Conversation With Woodhull's Caleb Johnson

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2 months ago
Archinect's latest Studio Snapshot features Portland, Maine-based design-build practice Woodhull. Founded in 2003 by Caleb Johnson, the firm has grown into a New England powerhouse with a reputation for combining locally-inspired design with impeccable craftsmanship and natural...
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Archinect - Features
How Marcus Prize Winner Tiantian Xu Brought 'Architectural Acupuncture' to Students at... Throughout the Spring of 2025, award-winning Chinese architect Tiantian Xu delivered a studio at the...
a month ago
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How Marcus Prize Winner Tiantian Xu Brought 'Architectural Acupuncture' to Students at UW-Milwaukee

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a month ago
Throughout the Spring of 2025, award-winning Chinese architect Tiantian Xu delivered a studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in her capacity as the tenth recipient of the biennial Marcus Prize. As the semester progressed, Archinect spoke with both Tiantian Xu and the...
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Common Edge
Architecture and the God Problem Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
over a year ago
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Architecture and the God Problem

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over a year ago
Defining divinity and higher powers, in the context of design, is often fraught.
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Archinect - Features
10 Tips for Overcoming and Preventing Burnout in Architecture If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023,...
11 months ago
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10 Tips for Overcoming and Preventing Burnout in Architecture

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11 months ago
If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023, Archinect’s Mental Health Survey found burnout to be a common theme among those who told us they were experiencing stress at work. Our community has also raised the issue among themselves,...
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Common Edge
Architecture Always Reflects the Values of Its Current Culture What we build is who we are.
a year ago
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Architecture Always Reflects the Values of Its Current Culture

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a year ago
What we build is who we are.
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Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
over a year ago
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The dream of deregulation - the grid part III

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over a year ago
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
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Benny Kuriakose
Activity Spaces and Play Areas in a School Activity spaces in schools can encourage students to learn from the outdoor environment. Sports...
over a year ago
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Activity Spaces and Play Areas in a School

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over a year ago
Activity spaces in schools can encourage students to learn from the outdoor environment. Sports activities such as athletics, volleyball,...
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Old Structures...
The Same But Different This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway...
a year ago
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The Same But Different

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a year ago
This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway runs straight from here until the bend at 10th Street where Grace Church is, and the church is just barely visible at the end of the street. Unlike most photos of Manhattan from the...
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McMansion Hell
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington In which I am in my castle era.
a year ago
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Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington

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a year ago
In which I am in my castle era.
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CONTEMPORIST
LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in...
over a year ago
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow

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over a year ago
Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that combines warm woods and soft lighting. Designed for a couple with two children, the apartment’s interior is influenced by traditional Nordic aesthetics and...
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Contemporist...
A' Design Awards & Competition - Early Call for Entries A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
over a year ago
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A' Design Awards & Competition - Early Call for Entries

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over a year ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 1844 winners in 139 different design disciplines.
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Common Edge
“AI Is Just a Tool”—and Other Fictions AI usurps the freedom to experience the pain, growth, and satisfaction of true artistic and design...
5 months ago
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“AI Is Just a Tool”—and Other Fictions

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5 months ago
AI usurps the freedom to experience the pain, growth, and satisfaction of true artistic and design growth.
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Common Edge
New York City Is Losing Affordable Housing at an Alarming Rate The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable...
4 months ago
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New York City Is Losing Affordable Housing at an Alarming Rate

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4 months ago
The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable units be replaced.
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Old Structures...
The Personal Connection Times Three It’s hard to overstate the importance of personal links in discussing how people feel about the...
a year ago
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The Personal Connection Times Three

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a year ago
It’s hard to overstate the importance of personal links in discussing how people feel about the built environment. This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto looks east past St. Paul’s Chapel to the St. Paul and Park Row buildings: I’ve worked on St. Paul’s and the Park Row building. As a...
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Old Structures...
The Story Can Be Oversimplified The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective...
a year ago
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The Story Can Be Oversimplified

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a year ago
The title of this blog post is true of a lot of narrative history. Simple stories are more effective on an emotional level, and are easier to tell. So we often tell them. For example, Wikipedia (my go-to source for oversimplified explanations) states that the 1916 New York zoning...
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Common Edge
Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study A talk with urban planner Jeff Speck and his new business partner, Chris Dempsey.
a year ago
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Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study

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a year ago
A talk with urban planner Jeff Speck and his new business partner, Chris Dempsey.
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CONTEMPORIST
Steel, Wood, And Stone Are On Display Inside This Hillside Home Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles,...
a year ago
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Steel, Wood, And Stone Are On Display Inside This Hillside Home

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a year ago
Bjella Architecture has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Los Angeles, California, that’s nestled on a hillside overlooking the sprawling city. Due to the home being in an area prone to earthquakes, the structural elements are bigger and bolder. There are...
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Archinect - Features
3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Habitats: A Conversation with ICON’s Melodie... As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and...
a year ago
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3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Habitats: A Conversation with ICON’s Melodie Yashar

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a year ago
As a ‘Space Architect’ working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and Mars, Melodie Yashar is aware that, even in space, 3D printing does not exist in a vacuum. Like any construction methodology, it requires a confluence of design intent, delivery...
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Old Structures...
Previous Work A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a...
a year ago
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Previous Work

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a year ago
A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a 1920s steel-frame building. The black-painted iron is the top landing, at the roof level, of a fire-escape; there used to be (and will be again, soon) a parapet on either side of it,...
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Old Structures...
A Variety Pack I haven’t done one of these for a while and it’s too hot to think, so here goes: the view east on...
a year ago
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A Variety Pack

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a year ago
I haven’t done one of these for a while and it’s too hot to think, so here goes: the view east on Bridge Street from Whitehall Street gives a nice selection of lower Manhattan building types. A: One Whitehall Street. 1962, 23-story office building with a glass and metal-panel...
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Archinect - Features
Delivering Projects on Time Is a Challenge. Here’s How Architects Do It U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “plans are nothing; planning is everything.” This...
9 months ago
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Delivering Projects on Time Is a Challenge. Here’s How Architects Do It

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9 months ago
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “plans are nothing; planning is everything.” This sentiment rings true in architecture, where architects are required to establish project timelines potentially spanning several years for schemes potentially costing millions of...
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Common Edge
The Sphere in Las Vegas: A Placeless Object in a Placeless City The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
a year ago
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The Sphere in Las Vegas: A Placeless Object in a Placeless City

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a year ago
The latest Sin City spectacle is just that—spectacle. Pure, crystalline spectacle.
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Common Edge
Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and...
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Kelp Farming May Help Clean New York’s Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change

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over a year ago
The seaweed found in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay, and the East River could suck up carbon and pollutants, bolstering marine ecosystems.
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Archinect - Features
10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term....
a year ago
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10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school

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a year ago
School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term. Whether you're a fresh undergraduate student embarking on your first year of architecture school or you're a returning student about to continue another rigorous year of learning,...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Bed That Can Slide To Be Outside Okno Modhomes has shared photos of a small and modern cabin they completed that was designed as a...
a year ago
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A Bed That Can Slide To Be Outside

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a year ago
Okno Modhomes has shared photos of a small and modern cabin they completed that was designed as a space where humans and nature coexist in perfect harmony. Nestled within a lush canopy of existing and newly planted trees in India, the cabin features a mirrored glass exterior that...
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SOCKS
90-Degree Axonometric’s by Auguste Merle (Late 19th – Early 20th C.) Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries....
a year ago
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90-Degree Axonometric’s by Auguste Merle (Late 19th – Early 20th C.)

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a year ago
Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper. The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree axonometric projections,...
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Old Structures...
Training I spent most of Tuesday in an online course run by the California Office of Emergency Services, for...
8 months ago
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Training

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8 months ago
I spent most of Tuesday in an online course run by the California Office of Emergency Services, for their Safety Assessment Program. This is training for “second responders”: the architects, engineers, and other building professionals who assess the safety of structures after an...
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Construction Physics
Construction Productivity - Structural Steel This week we’re continuing our investigation of productivity trends in US construction. We...
over a year ago
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Construction Productivity - Structural Steel

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over a year ago
This week we’re continuing our investigation of productivity trends in US construction. We previously looked at single family home construction, and noted that the number of hours required to construct 100 square feet of single family home has slightly increased over the past 50...
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Common Edge
Does Spirituality Have a Role in Educating Architects? What might appear to some as an “off-limits” realm might actually be at its heart.
over a year ago
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Does Spirituality Have a Role in Educating Architects?

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over a year ago
What might appear to some as an “off-limits” realm might actually be at its heart.
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Construction Physics
Weekend roundup - Icon, Diamond Age, Cuby, Gropyus Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post...
over a year ago
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Weekend roundup - Icon, Diamond Age, Cuby, Gropyus

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over a year ago
Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post (especially if I’m spending posts writing about things that happened 800 years ago), I’m experimenting with occasionally sending out a brief roundup of interesting links related to...
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99% Invisible
Broken Plexus (3 of 3): Threading Sensational Paradoxes of Peripheral Nerve Damage Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme...
2 months ago
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Broken Plexus (3 of 3): Threading Sensational Paradoxes of Peripheral Nerve Damage

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2 months ago
Peripheral neuropathy feels paradoxical at times, as sensory nerve damage can lead both to extreme hypersensitivity on the one hand, as well as sections of complete numbness on … well, that very same injured hand. The impacts of such damage can be felt most persistently in the...
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CONTEMPORIST
Ombré Wallpaper Was A Creative Design Choice For This Bedroom Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she...
a year ago
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Ombré Wallpaper Was A Creative Design Choice For This Bedroom

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a year ago
Svetlana Tryaskina of ESTEE DESIGN has shared photos of a contemporary home renovation that she completed for a busy family of five. One of the design elements that caught our attention, was the room that includes colorful accent walls in the form of ombre wallpaper. The ombre...
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Contemporist...
Modern Living Meets Montreal’s History in a Striking Loft Transformation In the heart of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal, La Firme has redefined what it means to live within...
a week ago
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Modern Living Meets Montreal’s History in a Striking Loft Transformation

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a week ago
In the heart of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal, La Firme has redefined what it means to live within history. Their latest project, Elmire, transforms a 19th-century industrial building into a refined contemporary home. Formerly a textile mill and Campbell’s soup factory, the...
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Contemporist...
This Renovated Home Opens Up to Light and a Terraced Garden Designed by architecture firm DROO, The Cascade is a contemporary renovation of a Victorian home...
a month ago
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This Renovated Home Opens Up to Light and a Terraced Garden

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a month ago
Designed by architecture firm DROO, The Cascade is a contemporary renovation of a Victorian home that rethinks how everyday spaces are used. Through a series of stepped platforms, the house connects cooking, dining, entertaining, and outdoor living into one flowing sequence. The...
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Old Structures...
Silly. But… After a site visit in Sunset Park yesterday, I was on the ferry back to Manhattan and I happened to...
a year ago
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Silly. But…

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a year ago
After a site visit in Sunset Park yesterday, I was on the ferry back to Manhattan and I happened to look out the window. Maybe it’s only obvious to me. That’s our office, as seen looking up Broad Street from its foot at the East River.
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Old Structures...
A Sense Of The Past The thing about spending a week discussing the caissons of the Brooklyn Bridge is that it all feels...
a year ago
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A Sense Of The Past

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a year ago
The thing about spending a week discussing the caissons of the Brooklyn Bridge is that it all feels almost like fiction. The caissons have been buried in the sand at the bottom of the East River for more than 150 years. I know they are there because I know how to read historical...
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Old Structures...
A Bit Alien From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of...
9 months ago
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A Bit Alien

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9 months ago
From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of the island: It’s the mid-length air shaft for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and, constructed circa 1950, it’s a relative newcomer to the island’s landscape. The diagram below,...
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Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
6 months ago
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A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction

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6 months ago
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
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CONTEMPORIST
Painted Drop Shadows Around The Windows Create An Interesting Effect On This Building Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old,...
over a year ago
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Painted Drop Shadows Around The Windows Create An Interesting Effect On This Building

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over a year ago
Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has unveiled its own new office that’s located within a century-old, three-storey brick building in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighborhood. A unique design feature not often seen on the exterior of a building, are the painted drop shadows surrounding...
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devonzuegel.com
Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters? A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than...
over a year ago
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Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters?

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over a year ago
A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand legibility Homeownership is...
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CONTEMPORIST
Exterior Lighting Shows Off The Post And Beam Structure Of This Home Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming,...
a year ago
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Exterior Lighting Shows Off The Post And Beam Structure Of This Home

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a year ago
Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming, that’s been placed on a hillside, just above a farmable portion of the site to preserve the ongoing agricultural use of the property. The home has generous roof overhangs that...
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Contemporist...
A Serene Costa Rican Retreat That Touches the Treetops Tucked into a wild and untouched corner of Costa Rica, the Rio Perdido West Bungalows offer an...
a month ago
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A Serene Costa Rican Retreat That Touches the Treetops

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a month ago
Tucked into a wild and untouched corner of Costa Rica, the Rio Perdido West Bungalows offer an unforgettable stay, floating above lush forest floors and facing dramatic canyon views. This is where design meets nature, and where guests sleep just steps from the treetops, suspended...
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THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be...
3 months ago
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America?

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3 months ago
Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is...
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Old Structures...
Credit Where Due I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s...
a year ago
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Credit Where Due

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a year ago
I was in the meatpacking district last week and noticed this building at 837 Washington Street. It’s been around for a while, but I guess I never looked up: the facades of the first two floors are an old building, while the upper floors (and, I assume, the interiors) are new....
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Contemporist...
A beachside boardwalk reimagined as the spine of a modern home Perched on a sloping coastal site in Australia, this striking single-storey residence by FIGR....
a month ago
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A beachside boardwalk reimagined as the spine of a modern home

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a month ago
Perched on a sloping coastal site in Australia, this striking single-storey residence by FIGR. Architecture & Design transforms the spirit of traditional beachside living into a contemporary architectural experience.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Slide Connects The Main Floor With The Kids Bedrooms On The Lower Floor Of This Home Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and...
over a year ago
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A Slide Connects The Main Floor With The Kids Bedrooms On The Lower Floor Of This Home

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over a year ago
Reflect Architecture has remodeled a duplex that had an additional two small basement units, and turned it into one unit on the second floor for income purposes, as well as combined the ground floor and lower-level into a single dwelling for a young family of five. One unexpected...
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SOCKS
Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL),... We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the...
over a year ago
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Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL), Lausanne, starting September 27th 2021

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over a year ago
We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the Archizoom Gallery (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface...
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McMansion Hell
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! If you ever wanted to read a book about...
a year ago
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Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!

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a year ago
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! If you ever wanted to read a book about McMansions, 5-over-1s, the ignoble toil of architects, ridiculous baubles for rich people, hostile architecture, private equity, shopping (rip), offices (rip), loud restaurants, and...
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Construction Physics
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft "There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure...
a year ago
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A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft

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a year ago
"There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure risked by an American airframe company" – George Ball, managing director at Lehman Brothers, 1982 "You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit" – Jean Pierson, former CEO of...
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A Weekly Dose of...
The Architecture of Suspense The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of...
over a year ago
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The Architecture of Suspense

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over a year ago
The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of Virginia Press, September 2022 Paperback (also available in hardcover and ebook) | 6-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches | 274 pages | 66 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780813947679 | $29.50 PUBLISHER'S...
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BLDGBLOG
Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The...
a year ago
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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis

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a year ago
Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fictional design project we originally set in the vast limestone province of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. [Image: A rock-acid...
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Old Structures...
A Different Definition of Speed I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem...
8 months ago
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A Different Definition of Speed

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8 months ago
I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem River, meant to provide a place for people with horses and horse carriages – i.e., the upper middle class and the wealthy – to have fun. There was nothing inherently terrible about...
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CONTEMPORIST
A White Material Palette Creates A Peaceful Coastal Living Feeling For This Home Habitat Studio Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Queensland,...
a year ago
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A White Material Palette Creates A Peaceful Coastal Living Feeling For This Home

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a year ago
Habitat Studio Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Queensland, Australia, that’s located right on Currumbin Beach. Inspired by coastal living, the home features an exterior of stone, white weatherboards that reflect the sun, and white battens that...
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Old Structures...
Three Boxes, One Optional I’m going to talk briefly about theater design, but I don’t mean the topics that people think of...
a year ago
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Three Boxes, One Optional

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a year ago
I’m going to talk briefly about theater design, but I don’t mean the topics that people think of when you say that. I’m not going to talk about acoustics, or sight-lines, or architectural design of the auditorium. I want to talk about the physical requirements for a modern...
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Common Edge
‘My Photographs Are a Celebration of the Making of Things’ A talk with Christopher Payne about his recent book, Made in America.
a year ago
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‘My Photographs Are a Celebration of the Making of Things’

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a year ago
A talk with Christopher Payne about his recent book, Made in America.
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Common Edge
L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
5 months ago
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L.A.’s Cultural Crescent and the Land That Draws People to It

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5 months ago
The City of Angels is that rare metropolis where landscape shapes ways of being.
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Cartogrammar
Beyond the sea In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse....
over a year ago
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Beyond the sea

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over a year ago
In the northern reaches of Newfoundland, near the town of St. Anthony, is the Fox Point Lighthouse. I’ve never been there, but I know it has one of the most impressive ocean views in the world. If you face perpendicular to the right bit of rocky coastline there and gaze straight...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Rusty Exterior For A Home In A Rustic Setting CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in...
a year ago
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A Rusty Exterior For A Home In A Rustic Setting

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a year ago
CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in Jackson, Wyoming, that has a weathered steel exterior. Located in a dappled Aspen grove, the home incorporates slow-weathering materials such as oxidized steel and cedar, allowing it to...
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Common Edge
Learning How to Talk About Architecture on Social Media A few tips from the host of the popular YouTube channel "Stewart Hicks Takes on Buildings."
2 months ago
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Learning How to Talk About Architecture on Social Media

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2 months ago
A few tips from the host of the popular YouTube channel "Stewart Hicks Takes on Buildings."
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99% Invisible
Cooking with Gas [EPISODE] Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named...
a year ago
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Cooking with Gas [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named Richard Trumka Jr. He works with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates stuff like furniture and electronics and household appliances. Basically, the agency is supposed...
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McMansion Hell
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually. Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial...
over a year ago
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In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.

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over a year ago
Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.
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Contemporist...
An Art Deco-Inspired Renovation with a Dual-Ended Kitchen Island Elwood House is a reimagining of a 1920s beachside residence that speaks to both history and the...
a month ago
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An Art Deco-Inspired Renovation with a Dual-Ended Kitchen Island

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a month ago
Elwood House is a reimagining of a 1920s beachside residence that speaks to both history and the rhythm of modern life. Set just moments from the bay, this luxurious renovation by Bryant Alsop blends the graceful lines of Art Deco architecture with a thoughtful approach to...
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CONTEMPORIST
Top 20 A’ Design Award Winners From Past Years This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
a year ago
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Top 20 A’ Design Award Winners From Past Years

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a year ago
This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing winners from 114 countries in 139 different design disciplines. More than...
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99% Invisible
Broken Plexus (1 of 3): Designing a Recovery Workbook to Work Out Optimal Routines Severe brachial plexus injuries (BPI) are relatively rare, which can make it difficult for sufferers...
2 months ago
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Broken Plexus (1 of 3): Designing a Recovery Workbook to Work Out Optimal Routines

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2 months ago
Severe brachial plexus injuries (BPI) are relatively rare, which can make it difficult for sufferers to find useful resources. Broken Plexus is a three-part micro-series on assistive design, centered on (but not limited to) people with serious BPIs facing long-haul recoveries....
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Construction Physics
How Fast Can a City Grow? In the last post, we noted Los Angeles was the fastest-growing city in the US at the end of the 19th...
a year ago
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How Fast Can a City Grow?

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a year ago
In the last post, we noted Los Angeles was the fastest-growing city in the US at the end of the 19th century, growing nearly 10% yearly between 1880 and 1930. This made me wonder what the landscape of city growth rates looks like. How fast were other US cities growing at the same...
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The Beauty of...
The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK) Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1...
a year ago
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The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK)

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a year ago
Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged....
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Old Structures...
The Downside of Going Topless The picture above shows two photos of the same building in Chelsea, where we finished a repair...
8 months ago
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The Downside of Going Topless

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8 months ago
The picture above shows two photos of the same building in Chelsea, where we finished a repair project about a year ago. The left side is a tax photo from the 1940s; the right photo was taken after we were done with our work. The viaduct in the back is the Highline. This 1902...
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, & electric automobiles Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities...
over a year ago
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OWD #4: Supersonic planes, levitating trains, & electric automobiles

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over a year ago
Mobility is central to living in every city. In this episode, we discussed how different communities tackle the question of transportation, and how culture shapes how different transport technologies get adopted. RSS · Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Overcast Mobility is central to...
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BLDGBLOG
Every Room A Battlefield [Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National...
over a year ago
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Every Room A Battlefield

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over a year ago
[Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National Training Center; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] I had an opportunity to revisit the Fort Irwin National Training Center this weekend as part of a series of field trips I’ve put together for the...
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McMansion Hell
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion...
3 months ago
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Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise

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3 months ago
The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell
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CONTEMPORIST
A Small Elevated Cabin Inspired By A Bird’s Nest Architect Jan Tyrpekl, has shared photos of a small elevated cabin that was designed in Hainburg an...
a year ago
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A Small Elevated Cabin Inspired By A Bird’s Nest

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a year ago
Architect Jan Tyrpekl, has shared photos of a small elevated cabin that was designed in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria, for a client who owned a farm and wanted somewhere to relax. Located on the border of a young orchard and mature trees. It has an archetypal house shape, but it...
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The Solarchitecture...
Regenerative Architecture Shifting our time horizon.
4 months ago
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Regenerative Architecture

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4 months ago
Shifting our time horizon.
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Common Edge
Design for Global Survival: The 2030 Palette Strategies for architects, planners, and policymakers as we adapt to a changing world.
8 months ago
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Design for Global Survival: The 2030 Palette

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8 months ago
Strategies for architects, planners, and policymakers as we adapt to a changing world.
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Old Structures...
Cartesian I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the...
10 months ago
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Cartesian

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10 months ago
I’ve written before about the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River – not to be confused with the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River about a mile away – with good reason. There’s an argument to be made that this small (for NYC) bridge is the most beautiful in the...
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Construction Physics
How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
11 months ago
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How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press

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11 months ago
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a revolution took place in American military aircraft design.
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99% Invisible
Unbuilding the Terrace [EPISODE] All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of...
10 months ago
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Unbuilding the Terrace [EPISODE]

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10 months ago
All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of these places will only get more flood-prone as the climate continues to change. Residents who live in these danger zones are often trapped in a demoralizing loop—flooding,...
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Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
a year ago
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A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners

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a year ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in over 114 countries.
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Cartogrammar
Beyond the Sea, flowing and exploding edition Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from...
over a year ago
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Beyond the Sea, flowing and exploding edition

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over a year ago
Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from coastlines around the world. Since then, an interactive version of that has been a back-burner idea. Well, finally, here we go. To recap, these arcs represent straight-line paths out...
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Archinect - Features
Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture... In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had...
a year ago
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Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego

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a year ago
In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to New Mexico. During our...
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Contemporist...
Tucked Behind This Minimalist Home Is a Backyard Oasis Bold House is a Mediterranean home designed by Manuel García Asociados with a focus on harmony,...
a month ago
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Tucked Behind This Minimalist Home Is a Backyard Oasis

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a month ago
Bold House is a Mediterranean home designed by Manuel García Asociados with a focus on harmony, craftsmanship, and spatial flow. Curved forms are used throughout to soften transitions and create a continuous connection between architecture and interior design. The result is a...
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CONTEMPORIST
One Thousand Plants Cover The Exterior Of The ‘Landmark by Lexus’ Pavilion Koichi Takada Architects has sent us photos of ‘Landmark by Lexus’, a showroom/pavilion that was...
a year ago
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One Thousand Plants Cover The Exterior Of The ‘Landmark by Lexus’ Pavilion

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a year ago
Koichi Takada Architects has sent us photos of ‘Landmark by Lexus’, a showroom/pavilion that was presented to guests during the Melbourne Cup Carnival at the Flemington Racecourse in Australia. Drawing inspiration from the Australian landscape, Koichi Takada Architects designed a...
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Archinect - Features
The Longevity & Legacy of the 'Vanilla Architect': How a Monoculture Yields Cycles of... This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system...
11 months ago
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The Longevity & Legacy of the 'Vanilla Architect': How a Monoculture Yields Cycles of Unconscious Bias, Tokenism, and System Justification

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11 months ago
This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system justification reinforce a status quo that marginalizes women and people of color. These complex and long-lived dynamics are unpacked through personal anecdotes, historical analysis,...
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Outlived Its Welcome But Not The Need I’ve been trawling in the HABS index and came across a survey from 1974 of the Bronx portion of the...
a year ago
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Outlived Its Welcome But Not The Need

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a year ago
I’ve been trawling in the HABS index and came across a survey from 1974 of the Bronx portion of the Third Avenue elevated. After the rest of the line (in Manhattan and the very southernmost bit of the Bronx) was closed and demolished in the early 1950s, the portion from 149th...
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Skyscraperiness As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of...
a year ago
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Skyscraperiness

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a year ago
As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of “skyscraper.” That said, nearly everyone’s subjective definition contains a version of the idea that a skyscraper is tall for its context. Here’s an Irving Underhill photo centered on the...
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Old Structures...
Happy Presidents’ Day The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika...
a year ago
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Happy Presidents’ Day

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a year ago
The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. That’s a portrati of the Columbia on the right, apparently about to run down a sailboat. Columbia had a weird history, having served as a liner between Germany and the US,...
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Old Structures...
No, Not The Movie From the mid-1800s, the Casino in Central Park. And in case you’re about to say “the what?” let me...
a year ago
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No, Not The Movie

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a year ago
From the mid-1800s, the Casino in Central Park. And in case you’re about to say “the what?” let me point out that the Sheep Meadow used to have actual sheep, so we know things have changed. It was planned as part of the original park design and built as a women-only restaurant,...
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devonzuegel.com
The unconference toolbox by Jason Benn & Devon Zuegel So, you’ve been invited to an unconference! Maybe you’re not entirely...
over a year ago
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The unconference toolbox

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over a year ago
by Jason Benn & Devon Zuegel So, you’ve been invited to an unconference! Maybe you’re not entirely sure what that means (did the organizers misspell "conference"?), or maybe you’ve been to dozens of these before and you’re looking for some ideas for how to run an awesome...
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Archinect - Features
The US Just Defined a Zero Emissions Building: Is It Enough? For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While...
a year ago
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The US Just Defined a Zero Emissions Building: Is It Enough?

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a year ago
For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While the effort to define a 'zero emission building' is both timely and commendable given the proliferation of unverified titles such as 'net zero' and 'carbon positive' in the AEC...
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There are two types...
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on...
8 months ago
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The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed

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8 months ago
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the... July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of...
over a year ago
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Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the Future of Canadian Architecture

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over a year ago
July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of what were once three separate colonies — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada (contemporary Ontario and Quebec). Canada isn't just one of the largest countries in the world, but...
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Archinect - Features
10 Views on Architectural Licensure From Archinect Readers As we continue our ongoing Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, we highlight perspectives from...
11 months ago
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10 Views on Architectural Licensure From Archinect Readers

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11 months ago
As we continue our ongoing Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, we highlight perspectives from individuals with extensive research backgrounds on the topic, as well as those in positions to lead, guide, and evolve the licensure pathway. Additionally, we launched a survey among...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Unique Window Shape Helps Frame The View From Inside This Cabin Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that...
a year ago
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A Unique Window Shape Helps Frame The View From Inside This Cabin

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a year ago
Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that includes a uniquely shaped window to perfectly frame the view of the sunset. Located in Nordmarka, Norway, the cabin contains the most necessary features, but not much more, making it...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Bonus Geekiness For the end-of-summer holiday weekend, an extra. Daredevil makes a new friend: That’s one of the...
10 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Bonus Geekiness

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10 months ago
For the end-of-summer holiday weekend, an extra. Daredevil makes a new friend: That’s one of the eagle hood-ornament sculptures at the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building. They’ve been fascinating people since Chrysler was first built. There’s a very big but not famous building...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Aerial The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with...
11 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Aerial

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11 months ago
The Red Skull – boo, hiss – contemplates life from a high tower in Manhattan. Specifically, one with a view of the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. If that tiny bit of the bridge tower isn’t recognizable, Murry Bergtraum High School and the adjacent Verizon Office Building surely...
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