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devonzuegel.com
Digital vs analog error correction The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure...
over a year ago
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Digital vs analog error correction

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over a year ago
The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure I understood it. I figured others might find it interesting, too. ~ ~ ~ Digital signal processing corrects for errors better than its analog counterpart. This is one of the...
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Archinect - Features
Five Big Factors Behind the Architecture Industry’s Economic Slowdown Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which...
8 months ago
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Five Big Factors Behind the Architecture Industry’s Economic Slowdown

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8 months ago
Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which invited you to share how you were feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector. Our analysis found that across the United States, architects have seen business...
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Old Structures...
Mannahatta Before it was Manhattan, it was Mannahatta – a Lenape word meaning “hilly island” – when it still...
4 months ago
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Mannahatta

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4 months ago
Before it was Manhattan, it was Mannahatta – a Lenape word meaning “hilly island” – when it still had a lot of hills. A few links to help explain:
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CONTEMPORIST
The Post And Beam Structure Is On Display Inside This New Home Studio VARA has shared photos of a new home they’ve completed for a couple and their three children,...
10 months ago
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The Post And Beam Structure Is On Display Inside This New Home

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10 months ago
Studio VARA has shared photos of a new home they’ve completed for a couple and their three children, who wanted a highly energy-efficient house that is also fire-resistant. Tucked away, down a windy road outside of Healdsburg, California, the home is positioned to take advantage...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was...
a year ago
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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change

from A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." A recent...
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Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a...
a year ago
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Archinect's 2023 Summer Reading List

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a year ago
Summer is here, and whether you're on vacation or preparing for one or looking to lay low at home, a summer must is a good book. The Archinect team has curated a list of reading essentials to explore.  Below is a collection of books organized into five categories – New Releases,...
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Archinect - Features
Many Architecture Firms Don’t Know How To Pursue International Work; We Spoke With Some That... Over the past year, the number of U.S. architecture firms working on international projects has...
6 months ago
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Many Architecture Firms Don’t Know How To Pursue International Work; We Spoke With Some That Do

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6 months ago
Over the past year, the number of U.S. architecture firms working on international projects has gently increased. However, a recent AIA survey found that many firms do not know how to pursue international work. In search of insights and advice on the topic, we spoke with three...
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Old Structures...
Similar But Not I was in Rockaway last week, and getting there is one of the weirder subway rides you can take. The...
2 months ago
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Similar But Not

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2 months ago
I was in Rockaway last week, and getting there is one of the weirder subway rides you can take. The A train is going along normally underground, then it becomes an el, and then you’re on a causeway over Jamaica Bay headed to the Rockaway peninsula. In any case, here’s what the...
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Construction Physics
The Katerra Team Rides Again: ONX Homes Regular readers of Construction Physics know that I formerly worked for the construction startup...
10 months ago
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The Katerra Team Rides Again: ONX Homes

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10 months ago
Regular readers of Construction Physics know that I formerly worked for the construction startup Katerra, which raised several billion dollars in venture capital in the hopes of revolutionizing the construction industry, and then went bankrupt. In fact, it was my experiences at...
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Old Structures...
Shrinkage I took this photo last summer while eating dinner in a brew-pub in Utica, New York. I’m looking up...
a year ago
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Shrinkage

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a year ago
I took this photo last summer while eating dinner in a brew-pub in Utica, New York. I’m looking up at the second-floor framing from below, in an old industrial building near the train tracks (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad). The building structure consists...
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CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a...
a year ago
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Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home

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a year ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a 1970s home on Seattle’s Mercer Island that was originally designed by William Rutledge. The house met the functional needs of its new owners but did not quite suit their...
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Old Structures...
Some Peculiarities This map was sponsored by the “Committee of ‘92” and created by Rand McNally as a guide to the city...
10 months ago
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Some Peculiarities

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10 months ago
This map was sponsored by the “Committee of ‘92” and created by Rand McNally as a guide to the city for attendees of the Eleventh International Christian Endeavor Convention in 1892. About 40 percent of the index on the right is transportation related – railroads and ship lines –...
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Contemporist...
A Kitchen And Bathroom Renovation Updates This Home With New Ideas Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed...
a year ago
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A Kitchen And Bathroom Renovation Updates This Home With New Ideas

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Australian-based Studio Minosa has shared photos of a kitchen and bathroom renovation they completed for a Sydney suburban home owned by a design-conscious couple.
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Common Edge
Making the Economic Case for Biophilic Design Green building pioneer Bill Browning on why designing with nature is good business.
a year ago
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Making the Economic Case for Biophilic Design

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a year ago
Green building pioneer Bill Browning on why designing with nature is good business.
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Coffee with an...
Design explained with Bar Charts Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple bar charts. Right. This isn’t...
a year ago
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Design explained with Bar Charts

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a year ago
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple bar charts. Right. This isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE
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Construction Physics
On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy...
a year ago
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On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes

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a year ago
A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy for getting more manufactured homes built. Broadly, Yglesias proposes ending HUD code requirements that manufactured homes have a steel chassis, making it easier and less...
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Old Structures...
Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from...
10 months ago
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Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges

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10 months ago
Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
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devonzuegel.com
Cities reading list Many people have reached out asking what books have been most impactful in shaping my views on...
over a year ago
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Cities reading list

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over a year ago
Many people have reached out asking what books have been most impactful in shaping my views on cities. I've written and rewritten answers enough times that I figured it's most efficient if I just write it up one time here and share the link. 🙂 ~ Order Without Design by Alain...
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CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Beams Create A Rustic Yet Modern Aesthetic For This Accessory Dwelling Unit Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling...
a year ago
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Exposed Wood Beams Create A Rustic Yet Modern Aesthetic For This Accessory Dwelling Unit

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a year ago
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling unit) in Carpenteria, California, whose design curves around a circular patio. The semicircular cutout that envelops the dwelling, invites an abundance of natural light into every...
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99% Invisible
The Frankfurt Kitchen [EPISODE] After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of...
a year ago
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The Frankfurt Kitchen [EPISODE]

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a year ago
After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of residents were in dire straits, and in the second half of the 1920s, the city built over 10,000 public housing units. It was some of the earliest modern architecture — simple,...
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Old Structures...
Probably Not What The Artist Intended 75 Broad Street, diagonally across the street from our office, was built in 1928 and almost...
6 months ago
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Probably Not What The Artist Intended

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6 months ago
75 Broad Street, diagonally across the street from our office, was built in 1928 and almost immediately bought by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation for use as the company headquarters. Like a lot of New York Telephone buildings of that era, the interior was a...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Fireplace Divides This Long Living Room Creating A Separate Home Office Area Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they...
a year ago
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A Fireplace Divides This Long Living Room Creating A Separate Home Office Area

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a year ago
Toronto-based interior design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a living room that they transformed to include a dedicated area for a home office. The long and narrow design of the living room enabled them to divide the space into two separate defined areas, the living room,...
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Contemporist...
The client asked for "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they... Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who...
9 months ago
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The client asked for "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they were on vacation every day"

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9 months ago
Studio Kloek has shared images of a bedroom and bathroom suite they designed for their client who desired "a hotel-like bedroom and bathroom in their home, so they could feel as if they were on vacation every day."
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99% Invisible
Raccoon Resistance After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals...
3 months ago
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Raccoon Resistance

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3 months ago
After Toronto unveiled its “raccoon-resistant” compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city’s ongoing “war on raccoons.” Toronto’s new...
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Old Structures...
Variations On A Theme It turns out that I didn’t exhaust the topic of The Tombs yesterday. Possibly because of its social...
3 months ago
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Variations On A Theme

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3 months ago
It turns out that I didn’t exhaust the topic of The Tombs yesterday. Possibly because of its social meaning in the mid-1800s, possibly because of its bizarre appearance, drawings and photos of it seem to have turned up a lot in various publications. Here’s a photo in 1898, near...
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Common Edge
Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council...
a year ago
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Zoning, Preservation, Climate Change: Connecting the Dots

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a year ago
What can the law teach architecture, and vice-versa? Sara Bronin, head of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, knows.
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Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 1 With both the Mets and Yankees playing league championship games yesterday, this seems like a good...
4 months ago
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Baseball in New York 1

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4 months ago
With both the Mets and Yankees playing league championship games yesterday, this seems like a good time to discuss some of the oddities of New York’s relationship to the game of baseball. And the best place to start is just how many professional teams there have been here. Most...
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Common Edge
A Cease and Desist Letter From the European Office of Classical Architecture Affairs Re: America’s Unauthorized Use of Classical European Architectural Intellectual Property
a month ago
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A Cease and Desist Letter From the European Office of Classical Architecture Affairs

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a month ago
Re: America’s Unauthorized Use of Classical European Architectural Intellectual Property
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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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The Wandering...
The Mathematics of the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling (This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the...
11 months ago
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The Mathematics of the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling

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11 months ago
(This is the math geek part about the Sala de la Barca ceiling. For instructions on constructing the pattern with compass and straightedge, go over to Part 1.) In the process of figuring out how to draw this pattern, I ran into a lot of questions, and had to do more than a little...
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Common Edge
Sharon Egretta Sutton on the Democratic Power of “Place-Based Activism” A talk with the self-proclaimed activist scholar.
a year ago
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Sharon Egretta Sutton on the Democratic Power of “Place-Based Activism”

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a year ago
A talk with the self-proclaimed activist scholar.
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Old Structures...
Being Stalked From The Past Once again, one of Angel Rizzuto’s photos, this one from 1954, gets very close to us. This is the...
10 months ago
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Being Stalked From The Past

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10 months ago
Once again, one of Angel Rizzuto’s photos, this one from 1954, gets very close to us. This is the intersection of Whitehall and Stone Street looking east. (For once, the logic of the street grid and the actual cardinal points align exactly.) Almost every building in this view has...
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99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE] Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
a year ago
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De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the...
over a year ago
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle

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over a year ago
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the hardest part of the Atlas in a Day experience. The first night, we developed a number of interesting concepts but nothing felt quite right. Were data available? What interesting story...
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Old Structures...
He Is, After All, A Boy From Queens
4 months ago
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He Is, After All, A Boy From Queens

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4 months ago
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Benny Kuriakose
Importance of Landscape in School Design Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
a year ago
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Importance of Landscape in School Design

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a year ago
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
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Common Edge
Aesthetics Alone Do Not Give Sacred Space Its Meaning The key to finding a new relevance for “the holy” lies in architectural humility.
5 months ago
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Aesthetics Alone Do Not Give Sacred Space Its Meaning

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5 months ago
The key to finding a new relevance for “the holy” lies in architectural humility.
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A Weekly Dose of...
On Hiatus Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related...
a year ago
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On Hiatus

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a year ago
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a family emergency.
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McMansion Hell
bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA Read the bonus post on Patreon!
over a year ago
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bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA

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over a year ago
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
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Contemporist...
A Round Design And Open Arches Give This Concrete Home A Unique Look Architecture firm Estudio Carroll has shared photos of a new concrete home they completed in Puerto...
8 months ago
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A Round Design And Open Arches Give This Concrete Home A Unique Look

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8 months ago
Architecture firm Estudio Carroll has shared photos of a new concrete home they completed in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, that has a unique shape.
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Common Edge
Letter From Los Angeles: Aftermath Musings Fear and loathing in the burned-out communities of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena.
4 weeks ago
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Letter From Los Angeles: Aftermath Musings

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4 weeks ago
Fear and loathing in the burned-out communities of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena.
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99% Invisible
Don’t Forget to Remember [EPISODE] We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and...
a year ago
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Don’t Forget to Remember [EPISODE]

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a year ago
We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and what does it do? And how does one memorialize such a vast and distributed tragedy like COVID-19,  which was devastating physically but also divisive politically? Memorials tend to...
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devonzuegel.com
Georgist land taxes balance community benefit & the efficiency of markets One thing I like about Georgist land taxes is they reflect a deep-seated intuition many people have...
8 months ago
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Georgist land taxes balance community benefit & the efficiency of markets

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8 months ago
One thing I like about Georgist land taxes is they reflect a deep-seated intuition many people have that land should be owned by the community, while still employing markets to ensure efficient use of this limited resource. People feel that land is special and should serve the...
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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...
10 months ago
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This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood

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10 months 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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Contemporist...
A Curved Corner Softens The Space Inside This Home Extension Australian architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a home remodel they completed for a...
a year ago
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A Curved Corner Softens The Space Inside This Home Extension

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a year ago
Australian architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a home remodel they completed for a run-down home in Victoria, that includes a new contemporary addition with a curved wall.
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Common Edge
Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia Social and cultural values may be as important as hard (and expensive) infrastructure.
a year ago
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Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia

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a year ago
Social and cultural values may be as important as hard (and expensive) infrastructure.
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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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Old Structures...
A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 2 Continuing my stroll the 1893 Baedeker description of New York, pages 12 and 13 are a list of “chief...
3 months ago
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A Sometimes Disagreeable Foreign Land, Part 2

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3 months ago
Continuing my stroll the 1893 Baedeker description of New York, pages 12 and 13 are a list of “chief lines” of streetcars in Manhattan. There’s a parenthetical note that there are three streetcar lines that cross the Harlem River in “The ‘Annexed District’”. That’s the west...
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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...
2 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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2 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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CONTEMPORIST
A Sculptural Limestone Facade Was Designed For This Boutique Retail Store Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique...
8 months ago
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A Sculptural Limestone Facade Was Designed For This Boutique Retail Store

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8 months ago
Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique they completed that’s owned and operated by Royal de Versailles Jewellers in Toronto, Canada, and features a sculptural stone facade. Photography by doublespace photography...
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Common Edge
Architecture With Empathy In An Age of Division and Discord Buildings can be designed to antagonize communities, or serve as welcoming presences.
3 months ago
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Architecture With Empathy In An Age of Division and Discord

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3 months ago
Buildings can be designed to antagonize communities, or serve as welcoming presences.
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Construction Physics
Roman vs Modern Concrete There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per...
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Roman vs Modern Concrete

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over a year ago
There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per usual, it’s triggered a round of enthusiastic discussion of Roman concrete, and how its ability to last for millennia puts modern concrete (which often fails after a few decades)...
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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...
Winding This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows...
10 months ago
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Winding

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10 months ago
This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Bdwy winding all thru T-Sq.” and it definitely shows Broadway and Times Square, although I have some quibbles about “winding.” This view is looking north and a little bit west, probably taken from a window on a high floor of 1450...
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Contemporist...
19-Foot-High Wooden Bookshelves And A DJ Booth For A New Streetwear Store Design studio El Departamento, has shared photos of 'Nude Library', Nude Project's new flagship...
a month ago
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19-Foot-High Wooden Bookshelves And A DJ Booth For A New Streetwear Store

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a month ago
Design studio El Departamento, has shared photos of 'Nude Library', Nude Project's new flagship store at La Roca Village in Barcelona, Spain.
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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...
9 months ago
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Somehow, We’re Large-Small

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9 months 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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Old Structures...
Travelog: Far From Home Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects...
12 months ago
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Travelog: Far From Home

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12 months ago
Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than the one you’re used to. London is, for a New Yorker, the worst place in the UK to get that feeling because of the many similarities between the two...
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Old Structures...
That Looks Old I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson...
a year ago
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That Looks Old

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a year ago
I was on my way to a site in Greenwich Village and came across this group at 12th Street and Hudson Street: This is in the Greenwich Village Historic District, so I knew I could find a capsule history of the buildings with minimal effort, but I took a look at the usual fire maps....
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Old Structures...
Me And My Shadow One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively...
a year ago
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Me And My Shadow

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a year ago
One nice thing about fire escapes: they let you get photos from a position that is effectively floating in midair a few feet away from the building.
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Old Structures...
Reflections That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in...
9 months ago
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Reflections

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9 months ago
That’s 21 (left) and 20 West Street, with 17 Battery Place off to the right. This was taken early in the morning and the facades facing me are the west facades of the buildings. Across West Street, to my right, is a modern apartment house with a mostly-glass facade. It doesn’t...
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Coffee with an...
Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024 It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
3 months ago
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024

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3 months ago
It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Modern House Was Made From Locally Sourced Stone Architecture firm ARGDL has shared photos of a home they completed in Tapalpa, Mexico, that’s built...
a year ago
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This Modern House Was Made From Locally Sourced Stone

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a year ago
Architecture firm ARGDL has shared photos of a home they completed in Tapalpa, Mexico, that’s built using stone, wood, and glass. Local stone was used to generate the main volumes of the home, while the regional pine can be seen in the roof structure as well as the window and...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed...
9 months ago
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A Waterfront A-frame House Renovated With Contemporary Finishes

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9 months ago
Joe Herrin, Principal at Heliotrope Architects, has shared photos of an A-Frame cabin he completed as an idyllic little home on Orcas Island, set within the San Juan Island Archipelago of Washington state. The cabin structure is a modest late-60’s era kit A-frame, built by the...
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The Solarchitecture...
Circadian rhythm and solar home design If our body is not tuned to our circadian rhythm, we can hardly be in flow with Life.
over a year ago
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Circadian rhythm and solar home design

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over a year ago
If our body is not tuned to our circadian rhythm, we can hardly be in flow with Life.
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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...
a year ago
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow

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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
Before & After – An Extension Adds New Living Space For This Home In London Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a...
over a year ago
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Before & After – An Extension Adds New Living Space For This Home In London

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over a year ago
Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a Grade II listed terrace home in the London borough of Islington. The original house, which is spread over three floors, was in poor condition and had lost its charm and original...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Barn-Inspired Home Hides A Playroom With Climbing Wall Under Its Gable Roof Tomas Beranek and Arthur Nuss of Global Architects collaborated with client and builder Bram van de...
a year ago
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This Barn-Inspired Home Hides A Playroom With Climbing Wall Under Its Gable Roof

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a year ago
Tomas Beranek and Arthur Nuss of Global Architects collaborated with client and builder Bram van de Wal to design and complete a barn-inspired modern home in The Netherlands. The barn house has a natural look and the modern simplicity of timber frame construction. The exterior...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Round Window Is Nestled Into A Stone Wall On The Front Of This Home OON ARCHITECTURE has designed a modern home in Benavidez, Argentina, that features a stone, wood,...
a year ago
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A Round Window Is Nestled Into A Stone Wall On The Front Of This Home

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a year ago
OON ARCHITECTURE has designed a modern home in Benavidez, Argentina, that features a stone, wood, and concrete facade, that also includes a round window. The round window is recessed into the stone wall and is an eye-catching design element that can be seen as one walks along the...
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The Modern House
A frame for living: inside the lively family home that doubles as a private gallery space
a month ago
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A frame for living: inside the lively family home that doubles as a private gallery space

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a month ago
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Old Structures...
Finding Something Nice To Say Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should...
3 months ago
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Finding Something Nice To Say

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3 months ago
Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should be stockier than tension members because, while the gross stresses are the same (force divided by cross-sectional area), compression members may buckle and tension members will not....
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Old Structures...
An Advanced Method Of Doing Something Simple This detail takes some explanation. This is from a late-1800s factory building. It’s a bearing-wall...
10 months ago
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An Advanced Method Of Doing Something Simple

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10 months ago
This detail takes some explanation. This is from a late-1800s factory building. It’s a bearing-wall building with heavy-timber floors, and it appears to have been constructed to code for that type and era. There were a number of almost-modern code requirements that end up being...
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Old Structures...
A Change of Pace I’ve done a lot of research over the years, most of it historical, rather than engineering. In other...
9 months ago
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A Change of Pace

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9 months ago
I’ve done a lot of research over the years, most of it historical, rather than engineering. In other words, I’ve generally been researching the history of structural engineering, construction, and the built environment, rather than performing analysis on the structures I’ve...
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Archinect - Features
Freelancing and Architecture: A Complicated Relationship For many salaried workers, freelancing and contracting may once have been a scary proposition,...
9 months ago
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Freelancing and Architecture: A Complicated Relationship

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9 months ago
For many salaried workers, freelancing and contracting may once have been a scary proposition, little more than placeholder labels as one moved between secure, salaried positions. However, the past decade has seen a notable increase in skilled workers and professionals becoming...
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The Architectural...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
a year ago
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences

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a year ago
Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
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Common Edge
Architecture Students on AI What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
a month ago
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Architecture Students on AI

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a month ago
What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
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Benny Kuriakose
The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for...
a year ago
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The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience

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a year ago
Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for its mouth-watering cuisine but also...
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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 New Home That Includes A ‘Dutch Barn’ In Partial Shell Form YARD Architects has shared photos of a contemporary barn-inspired home in England, that’s located in...
3 weeks ago
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A New Home That Includes A ‘Dutch Barn’ In Partial Shell Form

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3 weeks ago
YARD Architects has shared photos of a contemporary barn-inspired home in England, that’s located in the Suffolk countryside. The home owners had purchased a new build ‘Dutch Barn’ in partial shell form, which required a full internal fit out to create a family home for them and...
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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...
3 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper

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3 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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CONTEMPORIST
This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
8 months ago
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This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park

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8 months ago
Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that has a split roof held together by a skylight. The split design allowed half of the building to have a regular roof, while the other, is dedicated to outdoor space and a garden....
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CONTEMPORIST
A Large Pergola Helps This Home Seamlessly Blends Indoor And Outdoor Spaces Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared...
10 months ago
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A Large Pergola Helps This Home Seamlessly Blends Indoor And Outdoor Spaces

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10 months ago
Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor living. This home embodies sustainable living, generating its energy from the sun while...
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The Modern House
Green Series #4: how to make your home breathable and thermal-bridge free For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of...
3 months ago
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Green Series #4: how to make your home breathable and thermal-bridge free

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3 months ago
For the final instalment in our mini-series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs has asked our panel of experts how to make our homes breathable – and to explain thermal bridging … Because the Passivhaus ideal is all about incredible insulation and airtight construction,...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Curving Bridge Leads To The Entertainment Areas Of This Modern Home Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two...
a year ago
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A Curving Bridge Leads To The Entertainment Areas Of This Modern Home

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a year ago
Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two homes for multi-generational living, with a curving bridge walkway that connects to outdoor entertaining areas. The bridge, which includes hidden lighting, travels above water...
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Common Edge
Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture? It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
a year ago
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Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture?

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a year ago
It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2024 Mental Health Survey Results: 11 Key Takeaways On October 10th, we marked World Mental Health Day by launching Archinect's 2024 Mental Health...
3 months ago
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Archinect's 2024 Mental Health Survey Results: 11 Key Takeaways

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3 months ago
On October 10th, we marked World Mental Health Day by launching Archinect's 2024 Mental Health Survey. Over 120 people participated, sharing their experiences of the past year, where mental health issues are arising from, and what steps they are taking to improve their own mental...
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Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
2 months ago
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Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates

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2 months ago
Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for experienced candidates and are open to...
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Construction Physics
“No inventions; no innovations” A History of US Steel Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The...
a year ago
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“No inventions; no innovations” A History of US Steel

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a year ago
Last week US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel. The milestone gives an opportunity to look back at what once was the largest and most important company in the US (and arguably the world), and how it slowly declined. Prior to the...
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Old Structures...
Partial Success I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the...
6 months ago
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Partial Success

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6 months ago
I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the NYPL website is “Grand base ball match for the championship, between the Exclusive and Atlantic Clubs, of Brooklyn…” and the date is given as 1900-1945. (It’s also listed as a...
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Old Structures...
An Avatar Of Steel Another short trip: I was in Philadelphia last week, and I walked the not-quite two miles from my...
2 months ago
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An Avatar Of Steel

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2 months ago
Another short trip: I was in Philadelphia last week, and I walked the not-quite two miles from my meeting to the train station on my way home. I took the two unimpressive pictures below on the way: That’s the rear, Arch Street side, of the Reading Terminal Market, which is, as...
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Old Structures...
Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
7 months ago
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Complicated History, Nice Backdrop

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7 months ago
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Ando and Le Corbusier Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern...
over a year ago
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Ando and Le Corbusier

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over a year ago
Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern architecture – Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando – connect human experience to the basic givens of existence: interactions among human beings and personal encounters with nature, including...
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CONTEMPORIST
Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in...
11 months ago
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Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance

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11 months ago
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in weathering steel and has a uniquely shaped design. The shape of the home showcases various areas that branch out in different directions, some of which are cantilevered away from the...
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Old Structures...
Three Dimentionality I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the...
a year ago
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Three Dimentionality

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a year ago
I was in Minneapolis a few months ago and took some pictures of the Lumber Exchange, one of the first tall buildings constructed there. Here’s an overall view of the original wing (the building is L shaped, with the wings constructed at different times): It’s not deserted – the...
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99% Invisible
The Wide Open When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act...
a month ago
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The Wide Open

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a month ago
When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act established protections for plants and animals on the endangered and threatened species lists, and across the aisle, everyone seemed to agree that it would be bad for a bunch of...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple...
9 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match

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9 months ago
Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple facade of the New York Stock Exchange, with the Wilks Building immediately to its right and Federal Hall, with George Washington standing out front, on the far right. I don’t know...
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Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
a year ago
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Old-Fashioned Spelling

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a year ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
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The Modern House
The Green Series #3: how to make your home airtight   Passivhaus buildings are designed to be almost completely airtight, with no unsealed gaps in the...
3 months ago
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The Green Series #3: how to make your home airtight  

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3 months ago
Passivhaus buildings are designed to be almost completely airtight, with no unsealed gaps in the exterior of the building. While a typical home might struggle to achieve that, there are ways to reduce unwanted draughts and heat loss. Continuing our series of Passivhaus hacks,...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Backyard Office Also Has A Rock Climbing Gym WILLIAM TOZER Associates has designed a small backyard office in London, England, that also includes...
a year ago
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This Backyard Office Also Has A Rock Climbing Gym

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a year ago
WILLIAM TOZER Associates has designed a small backyard office in London, England, that also includes a rock climbing gym. Full-height glazed doors slide open to connect the interior office space with the landscaped yard. Inside, desks and storage are integrated into the solid...
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Archinect - Features
2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students Looking for an engaging way to introduce your child to architecture this summer? Or are you a high...
3 weeks ago
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2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Kids and High School Students

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3 weeks ago
Looking for an engaging way to introduce your child to architecture this summer? Or are you a high school student eager to explore design and gain pre-college experience? Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs offers a curated selection of courses, workshops,...
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99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE] The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
a year ago
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Player Piano [EPISODE]

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a year ago
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
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Contemporist...
A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a...
2 months ago
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A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating

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2 months ago
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
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Old Structures...
Gain Some, Lose Some This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough...
10 months ago
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Gain Some, Lose Some

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10 months ago
This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough facade but really nothing special. A lot of people are familiar with the building because of its inside: The office space is a rectangle donut around the atrium, connected by...
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Old Structures...
Coincidence I couldn’t remember if I’ve written about Manhattanhenge before – we’re up over 3000 blog posts, so...
9 months ago
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Coincidence

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9 months ago
I couldn’t remember if I’ve written about Manhattanhenge before – we’re up over 3000 blog posts, so who knows what I’ve written about at this point – but it turns out I did, twice, five years ago and six years ago. Everything I said then is still true: I find people lining up to...
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Cartogrammar
Ohio is still a piano In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
over a year ago
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Ohio is still a piano

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over a year ago
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Vermont's Great Retreat To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles....
over a year ago
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Vermont's Great Retreat

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over a year ago
To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles. Talked to historians and librarians. And read maps. Lots of maps. As I did, I wondered if there was something in the landscape, the communities, the culture that made Vermont...
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The Architectural...
Study Reveals: 84% Favor Traditional Architecture A British study reveals what people really want in their cities to look like. The authors themselves...
a year ago
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Study Reveals: 84% Favor Traditional Architecture

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a year ago
A British study reveals what people really want in their cities to look like. The authors themselves state that the result is remarkably clear. People want to see classic streets and neighborhoods with buildings in a traditional style. The British research institute Create...
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Construction Physics
Airport Reading List The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed...
a year ago
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Airport Reading List

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a year ago
The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed below. As usual, these are listed roughly in order of how useful I found them. And because “useful” isn’t the same as “actually interesting to read” I’ve marked the books that are...
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devonzuegel.com
Part 6: Is the proposed new city in California climate resilient? A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
11 months ago
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Part 6: Is the proposed new city in California climate resilient?

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11 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. One of the biggest questions I had when I first learned about this...
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CONTEMPORIST
This House Was Built Around A 100-Year-Old Oak Tree Architecture Studio AtelierM has shared photos of a home they completed in Martinez, Argentina, that...
9 months ago
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This House Was Built Around A 100-Year-Old Oak Tree

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9 months ago
Architecture Studio AtelierM has shared photos of a home they completed in Martinez, Argentina, that wraps around an imposing hundred-year-old oak tree. The homeowners wanted to maximize privacy, protect the old tree that was central to the lot, and take advantage of natural...
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Old Structures...
Different Conceptions of Structure I somehow missed this 1937 photo when I was working my way through Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New...
a year ago
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Different Conceptions of Structure

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a year ago
I somehow missed this 1937 photo when I was working my way through Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project last year. It shows the short and isolated stretch of Twelfth Avenue below the Riverside Drive viaduct, between 125th Street and 135th Street. (Because the west end of...
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CONTEMPORIST
Before And After – A Respectful Remodel For A Mid-Century Modern Home Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert...
a year ago
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Before And After – A Respectful Remodel For A Mid-Century Modern Home

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a year ago
Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert (formerly Clarkbuilt), has transformed a dated 1954 mid-century modern home in Portland, Oregon. Before – The ExteriorThe original home has a brown exterior with original windows and...
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Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 2 Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point,...
a year ago
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We Become Accustomed – Part 2

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a year ago
Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point, a curtain wall has to be put on that frame or you have a jungle gym rather than a building. Two photos taken two weeks apart (September 2, 1925 above, September 16, 1925 below)...
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Common Edge
In Marseille’s Cours Julien, Street Art Creates Dynamic Context Submitting to this area’s urban rhythm reveals the power of public art to define a place.
3 months ago
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In Marseille’s Cours Julien, Street Art Creates Dynamic Context

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3 months ago
Submitting to this area’s urban rhythm reveals the power of public art to define a place.
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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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CONTEMPORIST
This Tall Black House Appears To Be Made From A Series Of Stacked Boxes Studio for Architecture & Collaboration (StudioAC) has designed a modern single-family home with a...
a year ago
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This Tall Black House Appears To Be Made From A Series Of Stacked Boxes

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a year ago
Studio for Architecture & Collaboration (StudioAC) has designed a modern single-family home with a black exterior in Toronto, Canada. The home has a gable roof and appears as a series of stacked boxes, with different levels defining the various areas of the home. The rear of the...
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CONTEMPORIST
Elevated Elegance: A Unique Home In The Forest With A Trio Of Tile-Clad Gables Exterio Architectural Studio, together with interior design firm Hola Design, has shared photos of a...
11 months ago
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Elevated Elegance: A Unique Home In The Forest With A Trio Of Tile-Clad Gables

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11 months ago
Exterio Architectural Studio, together with interior design firm Hola Design, has shared photos of a contemporary home they have completed near Warsaw, Poland, that’s surrounded by a pine forest. The home is designed to bring a large family together, with the form taking shape...
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Old Structures...
Masonry Against The Sky Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West...
a year ago
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Masonry Against The Sky

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a year ago
Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West Street, with the turn-of-the-century (and somewhat scarred) brick and terra cotta of 17 Battery Place in the background, and with some cumulus clouds (I think…the naming system always...
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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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Old Structures...
Fake History For Real People Most people don’t properly understand the built environment of their childhood until they grow up,...
6 months ago
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Fake History For Real People

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6 months ago
Most people don’t properly understand the built environment of their childhood until they grow up, and even then maybe not until they’ve lived somewhere else and come home. Growing up in Queens, I didn’t question some of the styles around me that are not unique to the borough but...
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CONTEMPORIST
Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with...
11 months ago
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Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home

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11 months ago
Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
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Old Structures...
If You’re Interested Sometimes a topic is so obvious that it’s easily missed. The conference I am currently at is the...
8 months ago
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If You’re Interested

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8 months ago
Sometimes a topic is so obvious that it’s easily missed. The conference I am currently at is the triennial International Construction History Congress. It’s a good place to learn about topics in how the built environment got built from many different nations, different times, and...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition For An 1830s Brick Farm House Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former...
a year ago
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A Modern Addition For An 1830s Brick Farm House

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a year ago
Hollaway Studio has shared photos of a modern home addition they have completed for a former farmhouse in Kent, England, that dates back to the 1830s. The original home comprises of formal brick walls, a slate roof, white sash windows with views across the landscape, an original...
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Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel Part II Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization...
over a year ago
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The Rise of Steel Part II

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over a year ago
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: An Alternate Past

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a year ago
Comic books are essentially a fantasy medium, which makes it easy for the writers to create alternate pasts and futures. Above, a panel from “Gotham By Gaslight” in which a nineteenth-century version of Batman searches for Jack the Ripper. Note the building in the center...
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Common Edge
To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
a year ago
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To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization

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a year ago
Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
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Old Structures...
Evolved To Fit The Conditions If you’ve always known something, it can be difficult to see how weird it is. New Yorkers walk...
10 months ago
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Evolved To Fit The Conditions

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10 months ago
If you’ve always known something, it can be difficult to see how weird it is. New Yorkers walk through construction sites all the time, intentionally so on the part of the builders and with the blessing of the Department of Buildings. It looks something like this: Like so many of...
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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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99% Invisible
Trail Mix: Track Two [EPISODE] Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object:...
a year ago
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Trail Mix: Track Two [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Welcome to our second episode of short stories all about what may be the original designed object: the trail. If you haven’t heard the first episode yet you should totally go back and listen. It’s a lot of fun. Trail Mix We’re going to kick this second episode once again starting...
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Common Edge
The Art and Angst of Architecture in Southern California An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.
3 months ago
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The Art and Angst of Architecture in Southern California

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3 months ago
An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.
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The Modern House
The Green Series #2: how to control heat and draught-proof your home Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a...
3 months ago
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The Green Series #2: how to control heat and draught-proof your home

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3 months ago
Triple glazing and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems come as standard in a Passivhaus home, sealing the interior against the elements and radically reducing your reliance on conventional heating. For the second in our series of Passivhaus hacks, Kate Jacobs...
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Archinect - Features
Archinect's Tips for Recent Graduates Navigating Architectural Employment In 2023, navigating the job market for recent graduates can be daunting. Discussions surrounding...
a year ago
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Archinect's Tips for Recent Graduates Navigating Architectural Employment

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a year ago
In 2023, navigating the job market for recent graduates can be daunting. Discussions surrounding portfolio advice, crafting an effective resume, and if one should follow their "dream job or a dream school" have been ongoing topics on Archinect and our forum. Within the last few...
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99% Invisible
Long Strange Tape [EPISODE] The Cassette tape was great in so many ways, but let’s be honest, they never really sounded great....
a year ago
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Long Strange Tape [EPISODE]

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a year ago
The Cassette tape was great in so many ways, but let’s be honest, they never really sounded great.  But because the cassette was so much cheaper and easier to use and portable, a lot of people didn’t care so much about the audio quality. They just wanted to be able to use...
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Cartogrammar
Hachures and sketchy relief maps I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in...
over a year ago
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Hachures and sketchy relief maps

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over a year ago
I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in some DIY technique for relief mapping, not using typical GIS tools or rendering software. Tom Patterson’s old (but still applicable) Photoshop tutorials were my introduction to the...
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Old Structures...
Familiar Yet Not I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the...
7 months ago
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Familiar Yet Not

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7 months ago
I’ve been playing around with 1940s.nyc. That site is a really nice front-end interface for the 1940s tax photos of every building in the city that can be found with a much less nice interface at the city archive website. My way of testing a site like this is to look at locations...
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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...
3 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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3 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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99% Invisible
Office Space [EPISODE] Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a...
a year ago
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Office Space [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Right now, in Manhattan, 18% of office space is vacant. At the same time, the city of New York has a major housing problem, with more than 100,000 people using the municipal shelter system. So Eric Adams and city officials are talking a lot about taking those empty offices, and...
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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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Old Structures...
More Bragging But Usefully So In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk in Philadelphia for the Delaware Valley Association of...
3 months ago
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More Bragging But Usefully So

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3 months ago
In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk in Philadelphia for the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers, which is the eastern-Pennsylvania chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Pennsylvania. The topic is “Engineers’ Guidelines for Historic Buildings” and I’m...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Yellow Interior Sets The Tone For This Cafe SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they...
a week ago
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A Yellow Interior Sets The Tone For This Cafe

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a week ago
SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they completed in the historic downtown of Hanseatic city in Poland. The goal was to create a bold, experimental space that would establish a strong new brand. The designers’ inspiration came...
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Old Structures...
Doodling In A Hotel A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht...
11 months ago
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Doodling In A Hotel

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11 months ago
A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht (fourteenth-century, 368 feet high): St Mark’s Campanile in Venice (ninth century, rebuilt in the early twentieth century after it collapsed, 323 feet high): and Gilbert’s own...
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Old Structures...
Not What’s Expected I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London...
6 months ago
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Not What’s Expected

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6 months ago
I’ve met a lot of people who have not been to New York who think that Central Park is like a London square, a block-sized oasis surrounded by buildings. The “surrounded by buildings” part is correct, but the size is a bit off. It’s 1.3 square miles (3.4 square kilometers for...
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Contemporist...
An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in...
7 months ago
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An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace

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7 months ago
Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that was originally designed and built in 1933 by Norwegian boat captain Ole E. Nelson.
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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...
6 months ago
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Amusing Until It’s Not

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6 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
These A-Frame Cabins Were Built To Create An Eco-Hotel In Italy Atelier LAVIT has sent us images of their latest project LILELO / Little Leisure Lodge, which is an...
over a year ago
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These A-Frame Cabins Were Built To Create An Eco-Hotel In Italy

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over a year ago
Atelier LAVIT has sent us images of their latest project LILELO / Little Leisure Lodge, which is an eco-hotel made up of four independent cabins. Three of the cabins are dedicated to housing suites, with the fourth cabin acting as a common area with a generous outdoor space and a...
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The Architectural...
The bigotry of Modernism We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
10 months ago
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The bigotry of Modernism

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10 months ago
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
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Old Structures...
The Personal Connection A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame,...
11 months ago
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The Personal Connection

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11 months ago
A 1958 or 59 view of 200 East 42nd Street under construction: It’s a fairly boring steel-frame, glass-facade office building, remarkable to me for the simple reason that I had my first more-or-less real engineering job there. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, later known as TAMS...
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Archinect - Features
A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural... It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of...
11 months ago
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A Conversation with Bjarke Ingels on AI, 3D Printing, and the Future of the Architectural Profession

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11 months ago
It has been almost ten years since Archinect last spoke with Bjarke Ingels. Back then, the topic of conversation was BIG's 'Hot to Cold' exhibition at the National Building Museum. Today, after a decade that has included award-winning Manhattan skyscrapers, floating cities, a...
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CONTEMPORIST
Green Roofs With Native Plants Enhance This Home Built Into A Rocky Hillside Photography by Ana Santl Athens-based architecture studio Block722, has shared photos of a modern...
a year ago
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Green Roofs With Native Plants Enhance This Home Built Into A Rocky Hillside

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a year ago
Photography by Ana Santl Athens-based architecture studio Block722, has shared photos of a modern home they have completed that’s perched on the rocky slopes above the Mediterranean Sea on the Cycladic Island of Syros. Photography by George Pappas The client’s brief outlined a...
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Construction Physics
What makes housing so expensive? Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage...
11 months ago
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What makes housing so expensive?

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11 months ago
Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage will be our largest monthly expense. In the post-pandemic home-buying boom, the median sale price of a new home peaked at almost $500,000 dollars, just under
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CONTEMPORIST
This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset,...
11 months ago
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This Lakehouse Hovers Above The Natural Sloped Terrain

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11 months ago
Building Arts Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they recently completed in Dorset, Ontario, that hovers above the natural sloped terrain close to the water’s edge of Kawagama Lake. The building, which sits lightly on the rugged site, invites expansive sky and...
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Archinect - Features
Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting...
2 months ago
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Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss

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2 months ago
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting undergraduate and graduate applications through January and February 2025 (and some even beyond that).  If you’re planning to start your architecture journey in Fall '25, check...
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Construction Physics
Fusion Power Reading List The challenge with reading about a topic like fusion is balancing the tradeoff between technical...
8 months ago
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Fusion Power Reading List

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8 months ago
The challenge with reading about a topic like fusion is balancing the tradeoff between technical detail and readability. A book or article should give enough detail to provide some understanding of what’s actually going on, what progress has been made, what the challenges are,...
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Old Structures...
Specialization From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety...
9 months ago
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Specialization

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9 months ago
From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety of buildings on the east side of midtown south. I think most people will agree that this is a very New Yorky view of New York. The discussion at the “Office To Residential Summit”...
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Old Structures...
Like Looking Down A Well Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo...
9 months ago
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Like Looking Down A Well

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9 months ago
Trinity Church and its yard are surrounded on all four sides by tall buildings. In 1952, when Angelo Rizzuto took this picture looking down from the roof of one of them, they were all of about 1900-1920 vintage. It’s a striking shot, but I’d guess not to everyone’s taste.
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CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An Extensive Remodel & Addition For This Mid-Century Modern Home S^A | Schwartz and Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and addition they completed for a...
3 weeks ago
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Before + After – An Extensive Remodel & Addition For This Mid-Century Modern Home

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3 weeks ago
S^A | Schwartz and Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and addition they completed for a mid-century modern home that was originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s protégé, Aaron Green and built by Echler Homes in 1966. The architects challenge was to protect the...
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Old Structures...
Even A Joke Takes Effort From 1911, Cass Gilbert’s sketches of his father (top) and himself (bottom): From the Woolworth...
10 months ago
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Even A Joke Takes Effort

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10 months ago
From 1911, Cass Gilbert’s sketches of his father (top) and himself (bottom): From the Woolworth Building lobby as completed in late 1912, the grotesque* of Gilbert holding a model of his building: Given that the grotesque is wearing glasses bit not a laurel wreath, a sketch much...
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CONTEMPORIST
Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition... Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as...
4 months ago
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Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition Space

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4 months ago
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as part of the Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, China. Aligned with Element’s sustainable branding philosophy, this project embraces bamboo to explore a spatial...
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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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Old Structures...
So It Begins LEGO Notre Dame de Paris, 4383 pieces. Fortunately, I have a 13-year-old assistant mason brick-layer...
8 months ago
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So It Begins

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8 months 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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99% Invisible
WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other... WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause...
a year ago
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WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm [EPISODE]

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a year ago
WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm, including Benzene, a chemical used in urinal cleaners and Toluene, a chemical used in common household cleaning products. For...
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Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
a year ago
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Examples Illustrated

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a year ago
I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
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CONTEMPORIST
Clerestory Windows Add Natural Light Inside This New Addition To An Australian Home Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a...
11 months ago
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Clerestory Windows Add Natural Light Inside This New Addition To An Australian Home

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11 months ago
Architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a contemporary renovation and extension of a typical free-standing timber period home in Australia. The view from the front door shows off the hallway that connects the original home with the new extension. The hallway...
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Cartogrammar
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
over a year ago
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Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents

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over a year ago
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
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Coffee with an...
A simple description The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
10 months ago
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A simple description

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10 months ago
The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
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devonzuegel.com
Traveling neighborhoods: a different kind of group trip I've discovered a group trip format that I really love, and I wanted to share it with others because...
11 months ago
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Traveling neighborhoods: a different kind of group trip

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11 months ago
I've discovered a group trip format that I really love, and I wanted to share it with others because (a) you might find it fun to host or join something like this in the future and (b) selfishly, I would like more people to organize trips like this so that I can join them! The...
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McMansion Hell
ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
11 months ago
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ode to a faux grecian urn

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11 months ago
Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
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99% Invisible
The Power Broker #07: Sec. Pete Buttigieg [EPISODE] This is the seventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
7 months ago
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The Power Broker #07: Sec. Pete Buttigieg [EPISODE]

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7 months ago
This is the seventh 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 sit down with Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation. One of his major...
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99% Invisible
The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars This episode is from our friends at The Flop House, a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent...
3 months ago
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The Flop House: Megalopolis, with Roman Mars

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3 months ago
This episode is from our friends at The Flop House, a comedy podcast devoted to the worst in recent film. Roman joins Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Power Broker co-host Elliott Kalan, to discuss Megalopolis, the recent bankrupting disaster from Francis Ford Coppola. Subscribe...
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The Beauty of...
My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK) A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is...
over a year ago
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My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)

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over a year ago
A very particular kind of hush descends as the 1253 to Worcester Shrub Hill departs. That hush is the hush of the parkway station between train services, and the station it has just departed from is Worcestershire Parkway. Though one of the best designed parkway stations, and a...
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The Beauty of...
Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland) The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous...
a year ago
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland)

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a year ago
The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous public transport system is that the regard in which its phenomenal operational expertise is held can overshadow the architectural successes it also demonstrates. Even when transport...
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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.
11 months ago
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What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It?

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11 months ago
The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
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CONTEMPORIST
This Kindergarten Design Features Vibrant Colored Glass Inside And Out SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features...
a year ago
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This Kindergarten Design Features Vibrant Colored Glass Inside And Out

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a year ago
SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features a white exterior with a kaleidoscope of colors. The kindergarten, built in a small provincial town, features white exterior walls with windows in the shape of local yao-tung...
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CONTEMPORIST
The Surrounding Desert Was Blended Into This Modern Home Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared...
a year ago
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The Surrounding Desert Was Blended Into This Modern Home

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a year ago
Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared photos of a modern home they completed on the edge of the Las Vegas Valley that has views of Red Rock Canyon. Photography by Stetson Ybarra Commissioned for a family embracing an...
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Benny Kuriakose
Paliam Nalukettu: A Glimpse into a Matrilineal Society In the small town of Chendamangalam in Paravur, Kerala, is the Paliam Nalukettu, which is located...
a year ago
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Paliam Nalukettu: A Glimpse into a Matrilineal Society

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a year ago
In the small town of Chendamangalam in Paravur, Kerala, is the Paliam Nalukettu, which is located within the Paliam complex. Benny...
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Common Edge
On Winning—and Not Winning—Design Competitions It’s the Competition Conundrum: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.
a year ago
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On Winning—and Not Winning—Design Competitions

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a year ago
It’s the Competition Conundrum: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.
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Archinect - Features
How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects...
2 months ago
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How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders

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2 months ago
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects that faithfully convey the design and atmosphere of the project ultimately constructed. As modern rendering engines offer architects unprecedented capabilities to create dynamic...
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99% Invisible
The Art of the Olympics [EPISODE] The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99%...
7 months ago
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The Art of the Olympics [EPISODE]

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7 months ago
The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics. Mexico 68 The 1968 Olympics took place in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first Games ever hosted in a Latin American country. And...
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Common Edge
MoMA’s Woefully Incomplete Look at Architecture’s Environmental Arc A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
a year ago
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MoMA’s Woefully Incomplete Look at Architecture’s Environmental Arc

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a year ago
A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
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McMansion Hell
namesake mcmansion Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long...
7 months ago
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namesake mcmansion

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7 months ago
Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
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Contemporist...
A New Bunkhouse Provides Additional Accommodation For A Family's Cabin On An Island SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington...
a year ago
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A New Bunkhouse Provides Additional Accommodation For A Family's Cabin On An Island

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a year ago
SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington State, that provides additional sleeping accommodations for a family's cabin.
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Benny Kuriakose
General Points on Photographing Historic Buildings - Part IV The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim...
a year ago
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General Points on Photographing Historic Buildings - Part IV

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a year ago
The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim to convey information about it. It...
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Coffee with an...
If movies were about Architecture “Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him...
10 months ago
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If movies were about Architecture

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10 months ago
“Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him and value-engineer the project, in the jungle, during a war. “It’s a wonderful life”: An architect mishandles his finances. Jumps off a bridge. Is saved by his guardian angel /...
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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...
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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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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99% Invisible
Unbuilding the Terrace [EPISODE] All across the country thousands of people are living in locations that regularly flood, and many of...
6 months ago
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Unbuilding the Terrace [EPISODE]

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6 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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Archinect - Features
How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably...
7 months ago
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How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent

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7 months ago
As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses...
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99% Invisible
Uptown Squirrel [EPISODE] This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building...
9 months ago
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Uptown Squirrel [EPISODE]

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9 months ago
This past fall, hundreds of people gathered at The Explorer’s Club in New York City. The building was once a clubhouse for famed naturalists and explorers. Now it’s an archive of ephemera and rarities from pioneering expeditions including treks to the North Pole, the moon, and...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar – They’re Just Messing With Us Daredevil – Matt Murdock- is blind. He’s got radar, but that doesn’t allow him to read what’s...
3 months ago
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It Looked Familiar – They’re Just Messing With Us

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3 months ago
Daredevil – Matt Murdock- is blind. He’s got radar, but that doesn’t allow him to read what’s printed on a flat surface. So why would he have a poster of the NYC subway map in his kitchen?
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Common Edge
The ‘Social Landscapes’ of Lee Friedlander For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single...
10 months ago
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The ‘Social Landscapes’ of Lee Friedlander

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10 months ago
For six decades, the photographer’s ability to offer a complex narrative about America in a single image was always unique.
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A Weekly Dose of...
G. E. Kidder Smith Builds G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography AR+D Publishing, August...
over a year ago
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G. E. Kidder Smith Builds

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over a year ago
G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography AR+D Publishing, August 2022 Hardcover | 8 x 11 inches | 272 pages | English | ISBN: 9781954081536 | $60.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) was a multidimensional figure within...
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Archinect - Features
2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, focusing on...
2 weeks ago
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2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates

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2 weeks ago
Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, focusing on opportunities for high school graduates, college students, and adults of all experience levels. Whether you're exploring architecture for the first time or seeking to deepen your knowledge...
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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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99% Invisible
Trail Mix [EPISODE] A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed...
a year ago
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Trail Mix [EPISODE]

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a year ago
A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed and maintained to meet specific standards. These standards relate to the recreational experience the trail is intended to provide. But trails are something many of us take for...
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Old Structures...
The Skull Beneath The Feathers I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a...
3 months ago
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The Skull Beneath The Feathers

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3 months ago
I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a structural engineer who likes birds.
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99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
over a year ago
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Orange Alternative [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
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Cartogrammar
Cartographic Summit 2016 In the official Cartographic Summit photo above, I’m the robot on the right edge who doesn’t know...
over a year ago
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Cartographic Summit 2016

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over a year ago
In the official Cartographic Summit photo above, I’m the robot on the right edge who doesn’t know how to stand like a normal human. I’ve just returned from this unusual event, which was part traditional conference and part unconference, with people in attendance only by...
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Common Edge
Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
a year ago
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Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times

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a year ago
Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
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99% Invisible
The Infernal Machine [EPISODE] For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in...
5 months ago
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The Infernal Machine [EPISODE]

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5 months ago
For most of history there was only one way to blow things up. You could pack a bunch of gunpowder in one place and set it on fire. But then in the 1800s one scientist named Alfred Nobel dedicated himself to taming the incredibly volatile substance that was nitroglycerine.  After...
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Old Structures...
Elsewhere in the Archipelago After more than 30 years, it will soon be possible for the public to again visit Hart Island, at...
a year ago
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Elsewhere in the Archipelago

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a year ago
After more than 30 years, it will soon be possible for the public to again visit Hart Island, at least on some days and as part of guided tours. Given the nature of the island – it’s been the potter’s field for New York City for over 150 years – it’s a slightly weird place to go,...
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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:...
5 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968

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5 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...
Genteel That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in...
2 months ago
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Genteel

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2 months ago
That’s the Hotel Marlborough at 36th Street and Broadway, shortly after 1900. The hotel opened in 1888 when the entertainment district on Broadway was further south; by the time it was demolished in 1922, that district had moved to Times Square, a few blocks to the north. It’s a...
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Old Structures...
Adaptability The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily...
5 months ago
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Adaptability

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5 months ago
The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily adaptable. Rowhouses have been turned into apartment houses, churches, schools, museums, and offices; tenements have been upgraded to better apartments again and again and again. If...
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Old Structures...
A Generational Change A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is...
11 months ago
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A Generational Change

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11 months ago
A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with St. Bart’s in front of it; the ornate tower that seemingly ends the avenue is the New York Central Building, not yet sold by the railroad and...
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Construction Physics
Could ChatGPT become an architect? OpenAI recently released an updated version of their GPT large language model, GPT-4, and have...
a year ago
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Could ChatGPT become an architect?

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a year ago
OpenAI recently released an updated version of their GPT large language model, GPT-4, and have incorporated it into their ChatGPT chatbot. In case you've been living under a rock, ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses large language models, which use artificial neural networks
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Old Structures...
The Big Day and We’re Two-Faced Our new website is up and, as with all such changes, things are not going as smoothly as I might...
a year ago
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The Big Day and We’re Two-Faced

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a year ago
Our new website is up and, as with all such changes, things are not going as smoothly as I might have hoped. There’s a minor glitch with the menu on the new website, which I expect will be fixed shortly. More importantly, we wanted to change to the new back-end in such a way that...
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Old Structures...
 A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 2 The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York...
a year ago
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 A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 2

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a year ago
The illustration above, from the May 1883 issue of Harper’s Magazine, courtesy of the New York Public Library, gives a better sense of the Brooklyn Bridge caissons than yesterday’s working drawing (repeated below) even if it’s got less technical information. Note that May 1883...
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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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99% Invisible
As Slow As Possible [EPISODE] In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed...
8 months ago
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As Slow As Possible [EPISODE]

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8 months ago
In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed up 23 years late. This is also concert from which everyone walks out early. The performance is of a piece called ORGAN2/ASLSP. ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible,” which is how...
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CONTEMPORIST
This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design...
a year ago
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This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design

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a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design a ‘Cyclist’, a modern cafe at the Hotel Andaz am Belvedere Vienna. Archisphere drew inspiration from the movement, freedom, and enjoyment associated with cycling. In addition to...
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99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE] For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the...
8 months ago
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Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE]

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8 months ago
For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,”...
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Old Structures...
Travelog: Listed When I’m traveling and therefore don’t know anything about most of the structures around, I simply...
a year ago
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Travelog: Listed

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a year ago
When I’m traveling and therefore don’t know anything about most of the structures around, I simply take pictures and hope that I’ll be able to identify them later. Sometimes it’s quite easy. I came across this little Victorian masterpiece last week and it turns out it’s listed,...
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Common Edge
I’m A New Yorker, Not a NIMBY Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down...
5 months ago
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I’m A New Yorker, Not a NIMBY

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5 months ago
Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down and hidden from public scrutiny.
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devonzuegel.com
Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its...
over a year ago
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Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor

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over a year ago
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its users never print out most of their documents. Of course it does make sense for "Print layout" to be an option. Many people do print docs, and students make up a huge portion of...
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Old Structures...
Looking Closely The picture above shows the top end of a ten-story column, where it’s embedded just below a parapet....
a year ago
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Looking Closely

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a year ago
The picture above shows the top end of a ten-story column, where it’s embedded just below a parapet. My first thought, when seeing something like this, is that I sometimes have trouble getting people to understand the nature of steel embedment in masonry between 1900 and 1940....
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Benny Kuriakose
Conservation and Adaptive Reuse of a Rundown Building to Museum Adaptive reuse of dilapidated structures is a smart way to conserve the space, it gives a new...
a year ago
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Conservation and Adaptive Reuse of a Rundown Building to Museum

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a year ago
Adaptive reuse of dilapidated structures is a smart way to conserve the space, it gives a new meaning and purpose to the building....
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Sunken Cities Foundation Contributing an original map to GC’s newest Shelter: An Atlas was very appealing to me...
over a year ago
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Sunken Cities

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over a year ago
Foundation Contributing an original map to GC’s newest Shelter: An Atlas was very appealing to me for a couple of reasons: One, as an independent map illustrator, it would give my work wide exposure. Two, it would put me in good company with other talented mapmakers. Suggestions...
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99% Invisible
The Price is Wrong [EPISODE] Insurance companies are not climate activists, but they know more about climate risk than just about...
6 months ago
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The Price is Wrong [EPISODE]

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6 months ago
Insurance companies are not climate activists, but they know more about climate risk than just about anyone. And as storms get more extreme and unpredictable a lot of insurers are running the numbers on Florida and realizing that the math just isn’t working anymore. For decades,...
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Construction Physics
Contribute to the US Megaprojects Database! The US Megaprojects Database Very large construction or technology development projects are...
a year ago
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Contribute to the US Megaprojects Database!

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a year ago
The US Megaprojects Database Very large construction or technology development projects are sometimes called “megaprojects." By directing thousands of workers and billions of dollars towards the achievement of a single goal, great things can be achieved. The output of...
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The Beauty of...
Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued)) One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and...
3 months ago
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Never(?) Decreasing Circles (Railtrack/Network Rail major station logos, UK (continued))

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3 months ago
One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack’s major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These ones… Firstly – have I really been...
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Old Structures...
A Striking Row I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye....
a year ago
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A Striking Row

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a year ago
I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye. That’s 690 to 700 Madison Avenue, just north of 62nd Street. While there’s an obvious alteration – the facade of the first two floors of each house was replaced at some point […]
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Old Structures...
Small Trusses For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student...
3 months ago
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Small Trusses

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3 months ago
For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student competition run by the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee. This year, In Montreal, was no exception. This year, I had no role in the competition, which frees me to say...
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CONTEMPORIST
Overhanging Plants Wrap Around The Second Floor Of This Home Strang Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Miami, Florida, that’s designed...
a year ago
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Overhanging Plants Wrap Around The Second Floor Of This Home

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a year ago
Strang Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Miami, Florida, that’s designed to wrap around a swimming pool. The home has been organized into an “H-shape,” allowing the interiors to be flooded with natural light and to showcase views of the natural...
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Blog - Guerrilla...
Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder...
over a year ago
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Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo

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over a year ago
When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder what other visualizations and cartographical explorations could be possible. I have a deep interest in censuses because I have been working specifically in a peripheral communities’...
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McMansion Hell
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” It’s always funny to me when new wealth tries to imitate old wealth, but in a very specific way: by...
3 months ago
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new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”

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3 months ago
It’s always funny to me when new wealth tries to imitate old wealth, but in a very specific way: by trying to reproduce old ways of building that are no longer viable via mass produced building materials and contractors who are better than average but still not quite in the...
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Common Edge
Declaration of Independence From Sprawl Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
9 months ago
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Declaration of Independence From Sprawl

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9 months ago
Toward the New Urban Place and away from the Industrial Development Complex.
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Common Edge
Delays Undermine Promises of Affordable Housing in Brooklyn How New York’s rising Area Median Income dashed hopes for the Atlantic Yards megaproject.
4 months ago
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Delays Undermine Promises of Affordable Housing in Brooklyn

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4 months ago
How New York’s rising Area Median Income dashed hopes for the Atlantic Yards megaproject.
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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...
7 months ago
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A Contemporary Gable Roof Runs The Length Of This Home

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7 months 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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Old Structures...
Born In The Bronx The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete...
9 months ago
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Born In The Bronx

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9 months ago
The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete state given that the Civil War had begun the previous month, but that was a coincidence. The replacement of the original wooden dome had been planned for some time. The old dome was...
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devonzuegel.com
Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will...
over a year ago
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Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent

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over a year ago
Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will finally be able to compete with the US to attract talent. This is the once-in-a-generation opportunity for small, stable countries to grow, diversify, and up-skill their...
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CONTEMPORIST
Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England,...
a year ago
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Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension

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a year ago
Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
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Construction Physics
Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper? We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story...
a year ago
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Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?

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a year ago
We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story emerges: construction never gets cheaper. Construction costs tend to rise at or above the level of overall inflation. A square foot of building costs as much or more to build today...
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Construction Physics
The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy Today, the electrical grid has over 500,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5 million...
a year ago
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The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy

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a year ago
Today, the electrical grid has over 500,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5 million miles of lower voltage distribution lines, which supply power from nearly 6,000 large power plants. Together, this system supplies more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity...
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A Weekly Dose of...
Reading About Drawings Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I...
a year ago
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Reading About Drawings

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a year ago
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I'm particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City. Drawing on...
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99% Invisible
Cue the Sun! [EPISODE] Back in 2003, Emily Nussbaum developed a covert guilty pleasure: she started watching the streaming...
5 months ago
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Cue the Sun! [EPISODE]

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5 months ago
Back in 2003, Emily Nussbaum developed a covert guilty pleasure: she started watching the streaming 24-hour feeds of the first season of Big Brother in the U.S. Big Brother is a reality television show that debuted in the US in the year 2000. If you’ve never seen it, the show is...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for...
7 months ago
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A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow

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7 months ago
Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for owners who were looking for a little extra room in their traditional home, that was open to the outdoors, and allowed for a private primary bedroom and studio apart from the main...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Wood-Lined Office That Used To Be A Parking Lot Ujigawa Ohzono Architects has shared photos of a small wood-lined office they designed in Kyoto,...
9 months ago
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A Wood-Lined Office That Used To Be A Parking Lot

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9 months ago
Ujigawa Ohzono Architects has shared photos of a small wood-lined office they designed in Kyoto, Japan, that was once a parking lot. The owner of the land, who had been running a construction company in the local area for a long time, decided to create a place where dialogue can...
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Archinect - Features
Six Views on the Future of Architectural Licensure Throughout the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, our explorations into U.S. architectural...
6 months ago
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Six Views on the Future of Architectural Licensure

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6 months ago
Throughout the Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series, our explorations into U.S. architectural licensure have included a variety of views beyond our editorial team, including ten views on licensure from Archinect readers shared at the midpoint of our series.  Beyond reader...
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Old Structures...
The Inspiration The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called...
9 months ago
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The Inspiration

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9 months ago
The 14th Street station on the Eighth Avenue subway has an art installation by Tom Otterness called “Life Underground” It consists of a series of brass figures, both human and animal, engaged in various pursuits. Everyone always focuses on the alligator climbing out of a sewer to...
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The Beauty of...
Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark) Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
over a year ago
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Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)

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over a year ago
Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
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Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Mental Health Survey Results To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect...
a year ago
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Archinect's 2023 Mental Health Survey Results

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a year ago
To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect recently conducted our latest Mental Health survey to better understand how our community has navigated the stressors inherent to the architecture industry. On this October 10th,...
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99% Invisible
One Year: The Day the Music Stopped [EPISODE] On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new...
over a year ago
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One Year: The Day the Music Stopped [EPISODE]

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over a year ago
On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share. Evan Chung explores one of the most consequential labor actions of the 20th...
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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...
5 months ago
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Dyed Cement Shingles Cover The Counter Inside This Bakery

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5 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
The Double Kick [EPISODE] Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the...
a year ago
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The Double Kick [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Watch a skate video today, and you’ll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is...
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Construction Physics
How California Turned Against Growth Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs,...
7 months ago
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How California Turned Against Growth

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7 months ago
Even before it became a state, people migrated to California in search of a better life: for jobs, the chance to become rich and famous, or simply the comfortable climate and beautiful landscape.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe...
a month ago
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A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site

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a month ago
Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, whose design draws inspiration from the shape of flowers that naturally grow on the site. The delicate white dining cafe emerges within an industrial...
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Coffee with an...
Design Paths 2 Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
a year ago
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Design Paths 2

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a year ago
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were another handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This still isn’t that: More Design Paths HERE
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99% Invisible
Shade Redux [EPISODE] This past May, the city of Los Angeles rolled out a brand new, state-of-the art feature for bus...
a year ago
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Shade Redux [EPISODE]

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a year ago
This past May, the city of Los Angeles rolled out a brand new, state-of-the art feature for bus shelters. It’s called La Sombrita. La Sombrita is a metal screen that’s intended to provide shade for the thousands of people who ride the bus every day. The shade screen is about two...
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99% Invisible
The Memory Palace…Book! Back in 2008, Nate DiMeo started a podcast called The Memory Palace. Each episode of the show...
4 months ago
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The Memory Palace…Book!

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4 months ago
Back in 2008, Nate DiMeo started a podcast called The Memory Palace. Each episode of the show wrapped a little known piece of history inside one of Nate’s poetic essays. His stories have a remarkable way of combining facts with insight to call to mind forgotten moments from the...
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Old Structures...
It Is Sorely Missed Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun...
a year ago
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It Is Sorely Missed

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a year ago
Conceptions of leisure activities have changed over the years. The fact that people now sun themselves lying on towels in Central Park while wearing quite brief bathing suits would seem as weird to people in the 1870s, when the park was new, as the presence of sheep in the Sheep...
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Old Structures...
New York Without Height Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity...
a year ago
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New York Without Height

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a year ago
Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity Church. I can’t readily tell you what the second-tallest building was, as people weren’t really thinking about tall buildings that way yet. It was probably another church spire....
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The Wandering...
Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920,...
over a year ago
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Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus

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over a year ago
The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...
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Contemporist...
An Old Stone Ruin Was Given New Life As A Contemporary Off-Grid Home Architect Dario Castellino has transformed an abandoned stone ruin that was once overgrown with...
12 months ago
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An Old Stone Ruin Was Given New Life As A Contemporary Off-Grid Home

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12 months ago
Architect Dario Castellino has transformed an abandoned stone ruin that was once overgrown with brambles, into a small off-grid home.
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A Weekly Dose of...
Architectural Exhibitions and Their Books Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to...
over a year ago
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Architectural Exhibitions and Their Books

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over a year ago
Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person....
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devonzuegel.com
Part 4: Success is tied to benefiting existing Solano residents A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
a year ago
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Part 4: Success is tied to benefiting existing Solano residents

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a year ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. California Forever’s proposal includes 10 Voter Guarantees that go far...
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devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply...
a year ago
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Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through US-colored glasses

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a year ago
It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
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Old Structures...
The Grenfell Report The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel:...
6 months ago
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The Grenfell Report

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6 months ago
The “phase 2” report on the Grenfell has recently been published by the official inquiry panel: here. The New Civil Engineer has a good short summary here: “Grenfell disaster: ‘culmination of decades of failure by government and construction industry’” In one sense there are few...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium...
a year ago
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A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House

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a year ago
BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium space that encourages activity and connectivity for a young family in British Columbia, Canada. The home sits on an irregular site located at the end of a cul-de-sac, and is designed...
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Archinect - Features
'Architect' is a Protected Title. What About 'Architectural?' Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances...
7 months ago
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'Architect' is a Protected Title. What About 'Architectural?'

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7 months ago
Our Archinect In-Depth: Licensure series continues with an examination of exceptions and nuances related to the protection of the title 'architect' in the United States. In particular, we ask how architect-adjacent titles such as 'architectural designer,' 'architectural intern,'...
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Archinect - Features
From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2023 In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching,...
a year ago
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From the Editors: What We're Thankful for in 2023

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a year ago
In a year marked with highs and lows, the Archinect editorial team has spent another year watching, listening, and reporting on the events of 2023. With the holidays drawing near and the year coming to a close, we pause to extend our gratitude to our dedicated readership and...
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Old Structures...
Reality Is Better Looking Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in...
a year ago
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Reality Is Better Looking

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a year ago
Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in 1871, with that incredible cast-iron facade constructed by Daniel Badger. It’s still there, over 150 years later, now apartments. The engraving on the card really doesn’t do the...
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The Solarchitecture...
The Solar Manifesto - Part 2. ...or how hard it is to name the foundations of a healthy home?
over a year ago
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The Solar Manifesto - Part 2.

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over a year ago
...or how hard it is to name the foundations of a healthy home?
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Contemporist...
Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large...
a year ago
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Large Folding Glass Walls Open This Home To A Courtyard

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a year ago
Narch Arquitectes has shared photos of a home they designed in Barcelona, Spain, that has large folding windows that connect the interior to the inner courtyard and garden.
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99% Invisible
The 15 Minute City In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their...
3 months ago
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The 15 Minute City

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3 months ago
In February 2023, over two thousand people took to the streets in Oxford, England to protest their local government. They were wearing yellow vests and chanting slogans about the municipality’s new traffic policies. But most notably, many of them were vocally angry about a new...
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Old Structures...
The Slab Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and...
7 months ago
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The Slab

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7 months ago
Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and economics of real estate there. Some of the causes are rational, like the size of rowhouses being related to the wealth of a neighborhood; some are not, like the high stoops used in New...
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The Architectural...
How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed,...
a month ago
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt

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a month ago
Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed, leaving only ruins behind. But its story didn’t end there—this is a tale of how Dresden came back to life, and rose from the ashes like a phoenix. Before the war, Dresden was known...
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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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CONTEMPORIST
Undulating Balconies And A Mint Green Tiled Exterior Give This New Building A Unique Look Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an...
6 months ago
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Undulating Balconies And A Mint Green Tiled Exterior Give This New Building A Unique Look

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6 months ago
Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an eye-catching residential building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with undulating balconies. The building, which houses apartments, is situated at the edge of a triangularly shaped site and is...
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Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
10 months ago
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How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

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10 months ago
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
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Construction Physics
Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way...
7 months ago
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Why Levittown Didn't Revolutionize Homebuilding

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7 months ago
For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars. While no one has succeeded, arguably the man that came closest to becoming “the Henry Ford of homebuilding” was William Levitt, with his company Levitt and Sons....
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Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate...
a year ago
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How did solar power get cheap? Part I

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a year ago
Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
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Old Structures...
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves...
6 months ago
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It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

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6 months ago
Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves because their covers and/or page edges contain poisonous dyes, as described in “That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes” by Jennifer Ouellette. The...
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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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Old Structures...
Getting Repetative The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it...
8 months ago
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Getting Repetative

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8 months ago
The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it didn’t seem like that to me. As bad as it is, even people without a/c can cool off in various public places. The most amusing is the subway, which, when I was commuting to school […]
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Archinect - Features
Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and... At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an...
5 months ago
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Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Director Kate Wingert-Playdon

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5 months ago
At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
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Old Structures...
The Shapes Arise Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project,...
8 months ago
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The Shapes Arise

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8 months ago
Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, part of protecting lower Manhattan from the kind of flooding that occurred during Hurricane Sandy. Much of it is relatively straightforward: there’s a big berm being added to the...
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Contemporist...
The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in...
a year ago
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The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House

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a year ago
Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in Catalunya, Spain, that showcases a unique dining area.
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Old Structures...
Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
a year ago
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Imagine Standing There

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a year ago
Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
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Old Structures...
Mystery Work From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is...
4 months ago
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Mystery Work

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4 months ago
From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is accurate – “Four hundred ft. above the street – iron worker on the Singer Tower, New York, U.S.A.” but it doesn’t tell us what we’re actually looking at. For example, the steel we’re...
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CONTEMPORIST
The Woody Palette Of The Exterior Is Brought Through To The Inside Of This Home In New Zealand First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills...
a year ago
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The Woody Palette Of The Exterior Is Brought Through To The Inside Of This Home In New Zealand

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a year ago
First Light Studio has shared photos of a new home they designed that’s nestled into the Port Hills in Governors Bay, New Zealand. The design brief for the house was to create a small home that was well crafted out of nice materials, which resulted in a gable form with a wood...
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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...
We Become Accustomed – Part 3 Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office...
a year ago
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We Become Accustomed – Part 3

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a year ago
Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office building, I want to take a look at the end of the work. The picture above shows the building, just about on completion: a middle-of-the-road, mid-sized office building, with its...
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Old Structures...
Best Commute Ever The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel...
8 months ago
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Best Commute Ever

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8 months ago
The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel is not far away in a two-dimensional sense. I picked it some months ago by looking at a map and thinking that it was a short walk from campus. It’s a short flight to campus if...
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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...
a year ago
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A Modern Two-Storey Rear Addition For An Old Australian Cottage

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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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Common Edge
The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of...
5 months ago
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The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis

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5 months ago
A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history.
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Old Structures...
Iconic The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right...
7 months ago
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Iconic

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7 months ago
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right reads East 24th Street.) My guess is that the photographer was standing at the north end of the northbound platform of the 23rd Street station. Off in the distance, we’ve got the...
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A Weekly Dose of...
From the Mouths of Architects I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts...
over a year ago
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From the Mouths of Architects

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over a year ago
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein of theory — to gravitating to them. Now I find myself opting to read interviews, be they online or in printed matter, over other...
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Old Structures...
The Name Lost Meaning From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress,...
6 months ago
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The Name Lost Meaning

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6 months ago
From the great archive of her photographs that Carol Highsmith donated to the Library of Congress, “View of a Manhattan street from New York City’s High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail.” Except that you can’t see the High Line because she was...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
5 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Under

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5 months ago
One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
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Archinect - Features
'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has...
a year ago
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'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis

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a year ago
Ever since her childhood summers sewing patterns at the family dining table, Felecia Davis has understood the power of textiles to be a vehicle for communication, connection, and understanding. As her career in architecture unfolded in parallel with wider advances in...
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Archinect - Features
'The Notion of AI as a Form of Augmentation or Enhancement Is Fascinating to Me'; A... Behnaz Farahi stands at an eclectic intersection between culture and technology. Trained as an...
a year ago
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'The Notion of AI as a Form of Augmentation or Enhancement Is Fascinating to Me'; A Conversation with Behnaz Farahi

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a year ago
Behnaz Farahi stands at an eclectic intersection between culture and technology. Trained as an architect, with specializations in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing, and digital fabrication, Farahi asks how emerging technologies can allow us to...
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CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1960s House Transformed Into A Modern Home For A Growing Family Floisand Studio Architects has designed the remodel of a 1960s home in Seattle, Washington, and...
a year ago
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Before & After – A 1960s House Transformed Into A Modern Home For A Growing Family

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a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has designed the remodel of a 1960s home in Seattle, Washington, and transformed it into a modern house for a growing family. This remodel sits on the same basement and foundation as its predecessor, but that’s where the similarities end. Here’s what...
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devonzuegel.com
OWD #2: Vanished in Guadalajara Alain and Marie-Agnes raised three children while living their nomadic lifestyle. So in this...
over a year ago
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OWD #2: Vanished in Guadalajara

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over a year ago
Alain and Marie-Agnes raised three children while living their nomadic lifestyle. So in this episode, we dug into how their role as parents shaped how they experience cities. Join us as we roam Bangkok, Guadalajara, Sana'a, Paris, Port-au-Prince, NYC and beyond! RSS · Apple...
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99% Invisible
Ancient DMs Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
a month ago
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Ancient DMs

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a month 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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Common Edge
O.J. and L.A. What the iconic car chase revealed about Southern California’s landscape.
10 months ago
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O.J. and L.A.

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10 months ago
What the iconic car chase revealed about Southern California’s landscape.
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Common Edge
What Would Jane Jacobs Do? Toward a New Model for Houses of Worship Cities need to prepare for a wave of declining churches.
a year ago
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What Would Jane Jacobs Do? Toward a New Model for Houses of Worship

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a year ago
Cities need to prepare for a wave of declining churches.
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Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
8 months ago
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Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere

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8 months ago
That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
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Old Structures...
Perspective Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about...
2 months ago
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Perspective

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2 months ago
Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about something just because it seems cool. Or looks cool. In this case, “cool” is two photos from Carol Highsmith, a professional photographer who was generous enough to donate her archive to...
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Archinect - Features
Architect: Whose Title Is It Anyway? When is an architect not an ‘architect?’ In the fourth part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we...
8 months ago
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Architect: Whose Title Is It Anyway?

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8 months ago
When is an architect not an ‘architect?’ In the fourth part of Archinect In-Depth: Licensure, we explore the proliferation of the title 'architect' in cases beyond the built environment, most notably in the technology sector through terms such as 'software architect' or 'IT...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Thatched Roof And Charred Wood Siding Were Used To Create This Modern Home PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to...
a year ago
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A Thatched Roof And Charred Wood Siding Were Used To Create This Modern Home

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a year ago
PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to the local architecture and history of the town it’s located in. The materials chosen for the home were inspired by the houses built in Skagen’s Black Period, when charred wood from...
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The Modern House
A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not...
3 months ago
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A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes

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3 months ago
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not designed with that in mind. But in this country, with its architectural tapestry of period buildings and premium on space, we have become adept at repackaging […]
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Common Edge
Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture? Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
a year ago
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture?

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a year ago
Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
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