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Blog - Guerrilla...
We are Survivors. We are Stardust. STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
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STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that the...
The Architectural...
Join the Architectural Competition to Reimagine Gran Vía’s Iconic Façade We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a...
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We invite all readers to contribute to an architectural competition to reimagine the façade of a significant building on Madrid’s famous Gran Vía. This competition focuses on number 19, the Court of Contentious-Administrative No. 10 headquarters, originally built in 1921 and...
Contemporist...
Wood Houses Appear Through The Tops Of The Trees At This Nature-Focused Resort Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is...
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Stilt Studios has shared photos of a newly completed project called the Treehouse Villa, which is located in Grün Resort Uluwatu, a family-run nature-focused luxury boutique resort in Bali.
The Modern House
A fossil-shaped eco home on the border of Devon and Somerset
a year ago
The Architectural...
VR Study Shows People Prefer Traditional Architecture Over Modernist Designs Traditional architecture has been found to contribute more to people’s well-being than modernist...
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Traditional architecture has been found to contribute more to people’s well-being than modernist glass and steel buildings, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo. Using virtual reality (VR) technology, the team...
Old Structures...
Double Part of the Construction History Congress last week was a day of tours, and I went on the iron- and...
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Part of the Construction History Congress last week was a day of tours, and I went on the iron- and steel-truss bridge tour. I’m going to show my pictures every two or three days, spread over the next couple of weeks. First up: the rail bridge at Eglisau: Built 1895-1897 by the...
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...
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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...
The Modern House
Bright Futures: six projects packed with potential The best spaces are seldom served to you on a silver platter, instead requiring a bit of hard graft...
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The best spaces are seldom served to you on a silver platter, instead requiring a bit of hard graft to bring out the glimmer. From an incredible volume at the foot of a Barbican tower to ambitious Oxford expansion, we present six doer-uppers ideal for […]
Construction Physics
The Rise and Fall of the Mail-Order Home In the early 20th century, a new business model appeared: the mail-order home. Companies would mail...
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In the early 20th century, a new business model appeared: the mail-order home. Companies would mail out catalogs containing several dozen different home options, buyers would send in their orders, and the company would send the necessary materials – pre-cut lumber, roofing,...
The Modern House
Akram Khan: the poignant story of a man who found his voice through dance Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having...
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Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having danced since he was very small, Akram, who was born in London to Bangladeshi parents, is one of the most acclaimed names in contemporary dance working today, known for his […]
CONTEMPORIST
This Builders-Grade Kitchen Transformed Using Rift-Sawn White Oak Cabinets LTB Architecture together with interior design firm State., has shared photos of an interior...
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LTB Architecture together with interior design firm State., has shared photos of an interior transformation they completed for an early 2000s home in Golden, Colorado. The renovation focused on the kitchen and dining room, as well as the living room. The original kitchen was a...
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this September September might spell the end of summer but, as this edition of The TMH Edit proves, there are...
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September might spell the end of summer but, as this edition of The TMH Edit proves, there are plenty of happenings to keep spirits high – even if the days are slowly getting shorter. Read on for our top tips for the month ahead, including […]
Old Structures...
Regular, Fast, Very Fast Are you really an engineer if you don’t laugh out loud at this xkcd strip?
4 months ago
Common Edge
“Boston Is A Red City” Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and...
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Construction rooted in local materials is what has provided cities with distinctive identities—and colors.
devonzuegel.com
IVF egg retrieval notes I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I...
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I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I thought I’d share my notes for others who might have similar questions. Things I would’ve loved to know beforehand Overall the process was way easier and less intense than I...
Common Edge
Explaining NYC’s Arcane, and Possibly Unconstitutional, Planning and Approval Process It’s the “City of Yes”—even if you say “NO”!
6 months ago
The Modern House
Kitchen tips and kimchi pancakes with Jesse Jenkins, founder of Another Day in Paradise
a year ago
Archinect - Features
The Illusion of Space: Can Artificial Intelligence Understand the Third Dimension? Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what...
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Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what some believe to be a new creative frontier in the architectural design process. However, they also encourage us to reflect on a series of relationships at the heart of design,...
The Modern House
The trials and triumphs of a tropical-inspired new-build in Bristol
a year ago
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...
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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’...
CONTEMPORIST
A Cantilever At One End Allows This Home To Project Over The Land Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of...
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Leah Martin, partner and founder of Allied8 Architects in Seattle, Washington, has shared photos of a modern Orcas Island home she designed for herself and her family. This small home, which cantilevers at one end, sits on the top of a ridge and is anchored to the bedrock in six...
Archinect - Features
Architects, How Is Work Feeling These Days? We want to hear from our community: How are you feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and...
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We want to hear from our community: How are you feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector? How easy or difficult are you finding it to secure projects? What is your employment outlook? What are you hearing from clients? Fill out our anonymous survey below.
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...
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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 […]
Archinect - Features
'AI Could Be Seen as a Culture of Death in Its Darkest Sense'; A Conversation with Genevieve... Genevieve Goffman does not create art about artificial intelligence; at least, not yet. The New...
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Genevieve Goffman does not create art about artificial intelligence; at least, not yet. The New York-based artist has instead grounded her acclaimed work in fantasy and narrative world-building, often through the medium of evocative and ornate 3D printed sculptures derived from...
CONTEMPORIST
Tree-like Columns Show The Craftsmanship Inside This Riverside Pavilion Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South...
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Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, which they recently completed that aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture. Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by...
CONTEMPORIST
A Rock Inspired Exterior Was Designed For This Skincare Boutique Architecture firm LMTLS has shared photos of SKIN1004, a new skincare boutique in Seoul, South...
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Architecture firm LMTLS has shared photos of SKIN1004, a new skincare boutique in Seoul, South Korea, that has a rock-inspired facade. As the first offline flagship store in Myeongdong, the location embraces the concept of “untouched nature”, with rich brown and beige tones...
Blog - Guerrilla...
What a GIS & Map Librarian does all day The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are:...
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The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are: I didn’t know that was a job?! and I love maps! These are both fair reactions. It’s not a very common job. And maps are very cool. Just like a typical librarian’s work does not...
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...
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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...
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...
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Common Edge
NYC Finally Has Congestion Pricing—Now, the Free Parking Must Go Giving away public space for automobiles makes little sense.
3 days ago
SOCKS
Constructing Knowledge through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in Ars Magna, 1305 Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the...
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Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the human mind. In his seminal opus, the Ars Magna, Llull conceived a series of figures that could replicate the mental ability to connect information in order to acquire knowledge. Thanks...
A Weekly Dose of...
The Architecture of Suspense The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of...
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The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock University of Virginia Press, September 2022 Paperback (also available in hardcover and ebook) | 6-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches | 274 pages | 66 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780813947679 | $29.50 PUBLISHER'S...
Archinect - Features
A Guide to Salary Transparency Laws Across the United States At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect...
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At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect frequently reports on, several states and cities across the United States have enacted their own requirements for employers seeking to hire or promote within their...
CONTEMPORIST
272 Wood Slats Were Used To Create A Sculptural Element Inside This New Coffee Bar Design firm jones | haydu has shared photos of The Caffé by Mr. Espresso, a new coffee bar in...
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Design firm jones | haydu has shared photos of The Caffé by Mr. Espresso, a new coffee bar in Oakland, California, that features curved birch slats. The design of the cafe is heavily inspired by Italian culture, using minimalism and contrast, with the designers explaining, “The...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical...
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This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical Society – University of the Philippines Diliman (JPGS-UPD), the Save San Roque Alliance, Kadamay – San Roque, and most especially the urban poor residents of San Roque. The...
Old Structures...
A Thomas Nast Holiday – 3 of 3 In my opinion, this is genius.
a year ago
Coffee with an...
Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
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It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not really. We’re working on a deadline right now. But, we promise, as soon as we’re finished with these details, our thoughts will totally turn to love. In the meantime, here are a...
99% Invisible
As Slow As Possible [EPISODE] In February, everyone who went to a concert in the old medieval town of Halberstadt, Germany, showed...
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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...
Old Structures...
Complaining For The Sake Of Complaining I’ve been getting ready for the upcoming construction history congress (more on that to follow in a...
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I’ve been getting ready for the upcoming construction history congress (more on that to follow in a few days) and part of that is searching for good images to use for presentation of my paper (ditto). One of the people I’m speaking about is Ole Singstad, who had a fantastic...
Old Structures...
Partial Success I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the...
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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...
Old Structures...
A For Effort I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken...
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I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken yesterday at the Peekskill station on the MTA Hudson Line – AKA, a local station on the former main line of the New York Central – shows a modern version. I’m not sure when this...
99% Invisible
Between the Blocks [EPISODE] Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock...
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Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock park” green spaces between big apartment structures are a defining characteristic of the city. They’re not so much “parks” in the formal sense, with fences and gates, just open...
Old Structures...
Also From The Train, Again I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I...
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I was going through some old photos and found this, and was gong to use it for a blog post until I looked and realized that I already had. So here it is again: That’s the West Shore railroad, as seen from the Hudson line (AKA the New York Central main line), and from across […]
Common Edge
Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly With owners and developers warming up to plyscrapers, wood-based projects are on an upward...
9 months ago
Common Edge
Our Cities Aren’t Dead Yet! Forget the “doom loops,” there are plenty of indicators that urban centers are recovering.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Dramatic Foreshadowing From 1875, the “New Tribune Building”: In my opinion, this was not the first skyscraper, pretty much...
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From 1875, the “New Tribune Building”: In my opinion, this was not the first skyscraper, pretty much because I don’t believe there was a “first skyscraper.” The deveopment of skyscrapers was an evolutionary process and this was one of the early steps. In any case, the main roof...
The Modern House
Interior designer Sam Buckley on life in full colour at his apartment in Edinburgh
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Construction Physics
Why Did Supersonic Airliners Fail? Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’...
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Progress in aviation has traditionally been associated with speed. Following the Wright Brothers’ flight in 1903, aircraft speeds steadily increased each decade, and increasing aircraft speeds was one of the primary goals of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA’s...
Archinect - Features
Get To Know Tulane School of Architecture’s Newest Faculty Cohort With the new 2024/25 academic year in full swing, we are taking a moment to introduce fifteen newly...
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With the new 2024/25 academic year in full swing, we are taking a moment to introduce fifteen newly appointed permanent faculty members at the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA), one of Archinect’s School Partners. The new tenure and tenure-track faculty bring expertise...
The Modern House
Curator Priya Khanchandani on postmodernism and palette at her home in Archway, north London
a year ago
99% Invisible
Chick Tracts [EPISODE] Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There...
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Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie,” “Kidnapped!,” “Mean Momma,” “The Sissy?,” and “Satan Comes To Salem.” Many of these are...
SOCKS
Architectural Narrative: “New York City: The Edge of Enigma” by Francisco Javier Rencoret (1991) In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell...
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In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, published New York City: The Edge of Enigma, (Princeton Architectural Press), a visual essay that retraces the myth of the foundation and development of New York City....
Common Edge
Architecture With Empathy In An Age of Division and Discord Buildings can be designed to antagonize communities, or serve as welcoming presences.
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The Wandering...
QGIS 3 and Vector map tiles If you’ve ever tried printing a map from the Open Street Map tile service (available in QGIS through...
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If you’ve ever tried printing a map from the Open Street Map tile service (available in QGIS through QuickMapServices plugin) you’ve experienced the annoyance of having all your labels come out tiny. In other words, you see this on the screen… But then you get this out of your...
A Weekly Dose of...
On Case Studies "What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although...
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"What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that...
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...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
Planter Boxes Were Designed To Help This House To Blend Into Its Tropical Setting Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were...
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Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed a new home for their clients from Canada, who were looking to get away from the winter season and enjoy the tropical weather of Costa Rica. The home is surrounded by a tropical landscape, with the seasonal creek and wildlife of the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
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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...
The Modern House
Four flawless apartments provide surprising sanctuary in Peckham Rye
7 months ago
Construction Physics
Semiconductor fab reading list Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is...
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Like with most types of construction, there's no one source that explains how a semiconductor fab is built and operates. But there's an enormous amount written about semiconductors and the technology used to manufacture them, much of it excellent and informative, which makes it...
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...
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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...
Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
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John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
Archinect - Features
How to Understand Architecture Business Conditions Using the AIA's Architecture Billings... Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in...
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Since 1995, the American Institute of Architects has conducted a monthly index detailing trends in billings by architecture firms in the United States. Over time, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has become a valuable metric for charting the economic health of the...
A Weekly Dose of...
On Awards When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and...
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When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
CONTEMPORIST
A Monochrome Interior Design For This Home In Singapore Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore,...
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Studio Metanoia has shared photos of a modern home interior they recently completed in Singapore, that has a very strong monochromatic aesthetic. The interior strikes a balance of light and dark, which is evident throughout, like in the living room, where a white couch with a...
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...
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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...
Archinect - Features
'You Need to Use AI Much More Than You Think to Get Unique Results From It'; A Conversation... Studying Alexis Christodoulou’s work, including his highly popular Instagram portfolio, one would...
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Studying Alexis Christodoulou’s work, including his highly popular Instagram portfolio, one would expect his images to be the product of decades of education, training, and practice at the top of the field. The fact that Christodoulou is a self-taught artist of ten years,...
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...
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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...
Archinect - Features
When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field...
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In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field and beyond, many are pondering what changes may be on the horizon in the discipline, if any. For Stanislas Chaillou, AI’s dissemination in architecture may refocus the profession’s...
Construction Physics
Which city builds skyscrapers the fastest? Last week we looked at trends in skyscraper construction speed for New York and Chicago, finding...
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Last week we looked at trends in skyscraper construction speed for New York and Chicago, finding that New York has gotten significantly slower at building skyscrapers over time. Chicago, on the other hand, has declined in speed less steadily, and currently builds skyscrapers much...
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%...
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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...
The Modern House
Heading out? Here’s how to do it with people and the planet in mind
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Dark Wood Exterior Complements The Forest Surrounding This Modern Home Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed...
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Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated, has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Calgary, Alberta, that was artfully designed around its relationship with the mature urban forest across the street Stepping inside, we see a minimalist foyer with a bench and...
Old Structures...
Somehow, We’re Large-Small When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small...
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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...
Contemporist...
Top 20 A' Design Award Winners From Past Years A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
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A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing winners from 114 countries in 151 different design disciplines.More than 70,000 project submissions are carefully evaluated by an internationally and...
CONTEMPORIST
This Renovated 1970s Home Now Has Concrete Floors That Flow Between The Interior And Exterior Spaces ANACAPA Architecture has shared photos of a 1970’s-era residence and combination guesthouse/home...
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ANACAPA Architecture has shared photos of a 1970’s-era residence and combination guesthouse/home office they updated in the hills of Montecito, California. Collaborating with the client, the designers reworked the home to bring it up to date. They did this by maintaining the...
SOCKS
Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
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Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
Construction Physics
Mass Timber is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues...
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A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues that “mass timber can help solve the housing shortage.” It was posted as part of the Housing Ideas Challenge, a collaboration between FAS, Matt Yglesias and a few other...
Coffee with an...
Buildings are important People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them...
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People are born in themGrow up in them Fall in love in them Get married in them Raise kids in them Grow old in them Die in them Buildings are important. People decide big things here Decide on small things too Draw conclusions inside Make plans Change plans Change our minds Make...
The Modern House
Good Start: the best breakfasts in London
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Empathy for the Devil I. Loan application Before serving time for mortgage fraud, Toby Groves seemed like the last person...
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I. Loan application Before serving time for mortgage fraud, Toby Groves seemed like the last person who would get into that kind of trouble. His older brother had been sentenced for the same crime twenty years earlier, and Toby had seen how it destroyed his family. He swore he’d...
Old Structures...
An Incredibly Bad Idea I could have sworn that I wrote about this before, but I’m not finding it in the blog archive. Maybe...
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I could have sworn that I wrote about this before, but I’m not finding it in the blog archive. Maybe I’m just remembering the bad aftertaste this whole idea gives me. Hey, why not destroy New York’s harbor – the reason that a city was built here in the first place – to create...
Construction Physics
How did solar power get cheap part II (note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to...
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(note: all quotes are from Nemet’s How Solar Energy Became Cheap unless otherwise noted.) Welcome to Part II of “How did Solar Power Get Cheap?” To recap Part I, the modern solar photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Early markets were almost entirely...
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Inflation propagates unevenly Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say...
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Inflation hits some parts of the economy harder and faster than others. It's obvious once you say it, and yet the way pundits and academics talk about inflation glosses over this reality. As a result, most people who haven't had direct experience with high inflation have a flawed...
The Modern House
How to be more mindful when working from home
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The Solarchitecture...
The effectiveness of solar passive principles Improving health, freedom one house at a time.
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This Alley Between Buildings Was Transformed With A Series Of Arches Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has...
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Photography by Robin Hill Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has transformed a nondescript alley in Miami, Florida, with a series of concrete arches. Photography by Heywood Chan This alley was originally surrounded by trash rooms, dumpsters, mechanical...
CONTEMPORIST
A House That Blends Into The Color Palette Of The Surrounding Desert Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a...
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Design and development office Industry of All Nations has recently completed ‘The Landing House’, a new modern home that’s integrated into the rugged natural landscape of the Mojave Desert, With a backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree National Park, the home has been designed as a...
Old Structures...
The Big Time We’re working on the Gothic Bridge in Central Park, seen above. Tim went to the night-before prep...
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We’re working on the Gothic Bridge in Central Park, seen above. Tim went to the night-before prep for the Thanksgiving parade and found this float: And then he watched the parade on TV and found it again, second from the end:
The Modern House
Opportunity Knocks: seven homes with earning potential We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all...
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We know not everyone coming to our site is in search of a new place to live – or at least not all the time. And catering to your desires – always with good design at the front of our minds – is what we’re […]
99% Invisible
The Panopticon Effect [EPISODE] In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like...
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In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like many Dutch towns, it has cozy narrow streets, canals and plenty of bicycles. But there’s one historic building – right in the middle of town that really stands out from the rest....
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...
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Architecture firm Estudio Carroll has shared photos of a new concrete home they completed in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, that has a unique shape.
The Modern House
How this International Style-inspired house in Surrey makes a bigger splash
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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...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
A Complete Renovation Was Given To This 1980s Plaster Clad House Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand,...
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Michael Cooper Architects has shared photos of a 1980s plaster-clad home in Auckland, New Zealand, that they renovated to bring it up to today’s standards. The house needed a re-design inside and out, with the clients requesting a contemporary design. The clients also wanted a...
Archinect - Features
AI Bias and Digital Colonialism; A Conversation with Morehshin Allahyari Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of...
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Whether through her art, writings, or lectures, Morehshin Allahyari's work evokes a range of emotions among its audience. There is wonder and intrigue at her reinterpretation of centuries-old Middle Eastern stories, images, and artifacts. There is introspection on our...
A Weekly Dose of...
42 Years of Critical Regionalism (Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of...
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(Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, "Wait, isn't critical regionalism just 40 years old?," then everything you think know about critical regionalism is partial, in both senses...
Old Structures...
Travelog: Damage and Weirdness Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty...
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Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty thorough job of strapping the corners of this small building in Bath, as well as installing some kind of pinning at the middle of the side wall. It’s not clear which way the floor spans...
CONTEMPORIST
Dramatic Wood Ceilings Are Found Throughout This House Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal,...
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Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal, that uses wood and copper throughout its design. The home’s exterior has a copper-clad roof and matching copper siding, while the exposed timber structure connects with the rest...
There are two types...
What’s good for General Motors is good for America On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system...
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On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system based on individuals in private cars driving everywhere for everything, climate change would be a very different—and smaller—problem than it is.” I posted the … Continue reading → The...
Old Structures...
Future Site An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the...
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An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the narrow triangular block that would, a dozen years later, be the site of the construction of the Flatiron Buidling. My first thought was “would you really want a dentist who...
A Weekly Dose of...
Rereading the Nineties Some of the references consulted during the research phase of my 2021 book Buildings in Print: 100...
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Some of the references consulted during the research phase of my 2021 book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books, but not mentioned in the book's "selected bibliography," were old catalogs from the Prairie Avenue Bookshop, the beloved and...
Archinect - Features
The Brutalist Is a Cinematic Reflection of Brutalism Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects...
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Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects ornamentation and architectural devices designed to make its inhabitants feel comfortable, instead creating a visceral, primal experience. Brutalism is a feeling—a bold statement that...
Old Structures...
Odd One Out Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an...
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Two views of the Queensboro Bridge… First, a HAER photo I’ve used before: Second, a view from an early 1900s edition of King’s Views of New York, showing a rendering of the bridge before it was completed (on top), paired with a photo of the just-completed Williamsburg Bridge...
Common Edge
Worshiping the Old Isn’t Historic Preservation To keep buildings alive and relevant, some flexibility is required.
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A Large Sliding Window Offers A Look Inside This Nature-Inspired Store Design Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for...
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Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for Attitude, a company that specializes in plastic-free beauty products. The design of the space reflects their commitment to sustainability and a connection to nature, which is visible...
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #35 Revisited Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago,...
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Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs,"  something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. But, sensing I would not be able to...
The Modern House
Curators Gonzalo Herrero Delicado and Mathilde Friis on life in their brutalist flat in Bethnal...
a year ago
Archinect - Features
How To Create an Elevator Pitch for Your Architecture Portfolio When Job Searching Your architecture portfolio is one of your most powerful tools when searching for a new career...
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Your architecture portfolio is one of your most powerful tools when searching for a new career opportunity. Whether describing your work at a networking event or presenting your previous projects in an interview setting, the ability to clearly and succinctly pitch your portfolio...
Archinect - Features
10 Ghost Towns With Unique Architecture Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city...
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Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city purpose, identity, and movement. When a city is abandoned, its soul departs, leaving behind only the silent architecture, a skeletal remnant of what once was.  While such environments...
Old Structures...
Masonry Against The Sky Specifically the art-deco brickwork of 21 (striped and shorter) and 20 (solid and taller) West...
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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...
Common Edge
Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture? There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
a year ago
McMansion Hell
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey...
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new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Wha? From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge,...
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From a 25-years-old Avengers story: a man sees some news on televsion: The Verrazano Narrows Bridge, huh? It sure looks like something else…
McMansion Hell
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
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Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
Old Structures...
6:52 AM, November 27 Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign....
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Half an hour after dawn, and the setting full moon is just to the right and below the ONE WAY sign. The construction on the left is poart of the Battery Resliency program to prtocet lower Manahttan against sea level rise.
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Hidden Lighting Creates A Warm Glow Throughout This Apartment Interior Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico,...
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Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico, that uses hidden lighting to create a warm atmosphere. Working together with Grupo Cuarit, the designers infused the space with bespoke wood carpentry and thoughtful illumination. In...
Old Structures...
Snobbishness From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a caption writer with an attitude: Here’s the original...
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From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a caption writer with an attitude: Here’s the original photo: I agree that City Hall is a fine building. It’s unexpectedly small for the city, but its size made sense when it was completed in 1812. The city government would not today...
The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on light With January out the way, we’re moving on from our theme of ‘space’ to one of ’light’. As such, for...
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With January out the way, we’re moving on from our theme of ‘space’ to one of ’light’. As such, for the whole of February, you can expect our usual offering of inspiring stories, only now they’ll be unified in their exploration of the importance of […]
The Modern House
Luke Edward Hall: the artist and designer pulls back the curtain to reveal his colourful life story A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has...
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A boundless creative with a uniquely romantic, rainbow-hued aesthetic, Luke Edward Hall has reinvigorated our appetite for English Country House Style – and embroidered velvet slippers. For this week’s episode of Homing In, Matt Gibberd gets the invitation we’ve all been waiting...
Common Edge
Is Mass Timber the Key Element in a Low Carbon Future? A new book highlights the promise—and lingering challenges—of this important material.
9 months ago
Old Structures...
The More Things Stay The Same Above, an article from the Real Estate Record and Guide of October 15, 1910. It speaks for itself to...
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Above, an article from the Real Estate Record and Guide of October 15, 1910. It speaks for itself to some degree, and, based on the general topic, could have been written pretty much any decade from the 1880s to today. The good news (paragraph three): the case was apparently...
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A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley,...
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Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has sent us photos of a new home they completed in Paradise Valley, Arizona, that breaks down the barriers between indoor and outdoor living. As you approach the house, the first thing that captures the eye is the striking interplay of metal fins...
The Modern House
How to better the design of your bathroom for a brighter future
a year ago
Old Structures...
Imitation There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad...
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There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad infinitium”. A work of art – a drawing, a painting, a movie – is base don reality and augments, making it look better than it does in real life, and then people change what they’re doing to...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Yup Sometimes, this game is not much of a challenge. Above, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in...
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Sometimes, this game is not much of a challenge. Above, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in Daredevil. Below, the Midtown North precinct house, as seen in Apple Look Around.
99% Invisible
The Memory Palace…Book! Back in 2008, Nate DiMeo started a podcast called The Memory Palace. Each episode of the show...
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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...
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...
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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.
The Modern House
Dancing down the decades at Domus – a monument to mid-century modernism
4 months ago
Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
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The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
The Modern House
New Wave: seven coastal homes for sale in Kent and Sussex In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to...
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In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to take ‘the sea cure’. Dutifully, they would go to the coast – particularly in the south – bathe in the waters and draw in lungfuls of salty air. Smart promenades, […]
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OWD #5: The evolution of urban utopias (guest episode from Caos Planejado) Alain was interviewed by our friend Anthony for a Brazilian urbanism blog called Caos Planejado, and...
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Alain was interviewed by our friend Anthony for a Brazilian urbanism blog called Caos Planejado, and we thought it would be fun to cross-post it here. They discussed Brazilian cities, municipal financing, what it was like to live in NYC in the time of Jane Jacobs and Robert...
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A Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
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This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
Old Structures...
Training I spent most of Tuesday in an online course run by the California Office of Emergency Services, for...
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I spent most of Tuesday in an online course run by the California Office of Emergency Services, for their Safety Assessment Program. This is training for “second responders”: the architects, engineers, and other building professionals who assess the safety of structures after an...
McMansion Hell
texas gothic revival Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
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Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages but surely will soon be something else. (Please hyperfixation gods, make it financial literacy.) Anyway, I meandered around the nation (online) in search of another opportunity to...
Common Edge
The Time-Defying Nature of Living Architectural Traditions Mere repetition is lifeless, a focus on design exploration creates nothing lasting, but living...
9 months ago
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...
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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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Before & After - The Complete Renovation Of A Small Loft Apartment New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a...
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New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a renovation project they completed of a small 500-square-foot (46 sqm) loft apartment.
The Modern House
Shifted into a different place: landscape designer Darren Hawkes describes the transformative...
6 months ago
Cartogrammar
Hachures and sketchy relief maps I’ve never been a terrain representation expert, but occasionally I get briefly super interested in...
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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...
Common Edge
The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood...
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How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
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Creative Patterned Designs Cover The Facade Of This Brick House Manoj Patel Design Studio has shared photos of a home they’ve completed in Vadodara, India, that...
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Manoj Patel Design Studio has shared photos of a home they’ve completed in Vadodara, India, that includes unique brick designs on its facade. Located in the middle of an urban area, the eye-catching facade showcases a brick accent section that has a variety of artistic patterns....
The Solarchitecture...
Case study #1: The Solar Saltbox house A passive house for cold climates.
over a year ago
Cartogrammar
A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel...
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Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel confident saying that despite some good eggs and battle-tested walkers such as New Yorkers, most Americans are obliviously selfish, inconsiderate users of sidewalk space. It’s true even...
Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’ A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
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Common Edge
What I Learned From Six Recessions in Architecture Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
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Archinect - Features
Archinect's Guide to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: Part I — The National... With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much...
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With the opening week of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale now passed, there has been much discussion and media coverage of the anticipated international exhibition. It's safe to imply that the high-profile event aims to highlight, unveil, celebrate, and at times, provoke new...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hot Dogs In A Temple Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below,...
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Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below, the stair connecting the train shed at the old Penn Station with the concourse: And zoomed in: And another angle:
devonzuegel.com
My questions about Próspera, answered I recently visited Próspera, a Honduran startup city. I had a ton of questions and figured others...
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I recently visited Próspera, a Honduran startup city. I had a ton of questions and figured others might too, so I wrote an FAQ to share what I learned: Próspera FAQ This FAQ is intended as a reference, covering the basic facts and current status of the project. My hope is that...
Contemporist...
A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Previous Work A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a...
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A minor point, but it never hurts to look at the details. The photo above shows repair work on a 1920s steel-frame building. The black-painted iron is the top landing, at the roof level, of a fire-escape; there used to be (and will be again, soon) a parapet on either side of it,...
Old Structures...
The Slab Every sizable city has one or more locally-specific building types, based on the culture and...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
A Rusty Exterior For A Home In A Rustic Setting CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in...
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CLB Architects has shared photos of the ‘Paintbrush Residence’, a modern home they designed in Jackson, Wyoming, that has a weathered steel exterior. Located in a dappled Aspen grove, the home incorporates slow-weathering materials such as oxidized steel and cedar, allowing it to...
CONTEMPORIST
A Black Interior Gives This Apartment A Dark And Dramatic Appearance Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed...
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Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed in Mexico that features a monochromatic interior. The 861 square foot (80m2) apartment heavily features black and grey throughout its interior, with the walls showcasing a mixture...
Old Structures...
Not So Picturesque From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other...
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From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other words, looking into the heart of the downtown commercial district from its northern edge. My first thought in looking at this picture was that in 1849, before industrial technology...
Archinect - Features
Sound and Place: Archinect's Summer Music Playlist to Keep You Moving “The interference patterns of visual, sonic, and kinetic waveform transmissions that flooded the...
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“The interference patterns of visual, sonic, and kinetic waveform transmissions that flooded the dance floor and enveloped me were deeply transformative. Along the perimeter, bass-bins sent out shock waves that rattled your ribcage and tweeter horns above them fired a percussive...
The Beauty of...
Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK) Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status...
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Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status thrust upon them. Such is the explanation for an arrival at Port Talbot Parkway being such a strange experience. As passengers step out of their trains they find themselves...
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...
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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...
Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
7 months ago
The Modern House
Daniel Baer and Jassim Ahmad on minimal living at their courtyard house in East Dulwich
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Storytelling, Bias, and Exploitation in Digital Realms; A Conversation with Miriam Hillawi... For Miriam Hillawi Abraham, the digital realm is one fraught with both opportunities and dangers....
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For Miriam Hillawi Abraham, the digital realm is one fraught with both opportunities and dangers. The Ethiopian designer and researcher sees digital media as an impactful, playful, and unrestrained way of shaping immersive stories that challenge Western narratives and power...
Construction Physics
How Washington DC Got Its Metro There have been two main periods of subway (or “metro”) building in the US. The first was during the...
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There have been two main periods of subway (or “metro”) building in the US. The first was during the late 19th century and early 20th century, when Boston, New York, and Philadelphia all built subway systems
Contemporist...
A New Building In Shanghai Inspired By A Forest Of Trees Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an...
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Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that's described as an 'architectural forest' of 32 trees.
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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...
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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...
Construction Physics
We Need More Research on how CO2 Affects Cognition A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor...
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A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality. Indoor spaces are often poorly ventilated and expose occupants to high levels of contaminants, such as pathogens, particulates, and other pollutants. Because people...
devonzuegel.com
Field notes: Miami Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit...
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Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit different from previous cities I've explored, because unlike those, Miami is my home! So this post partially serves as a life update—I moved to Miami Beach from California a few months...
Common Edge
The Next New Thing In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before.
6 months ago
The Modern House
Bright Sparks: five light-filled homes for sale The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our...
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The magic of natural light is not to be underestimated: it can lift our spirits, improve our circadian rhythms, inspire us to learn and make our plants happy. But that’s not all: when it comes to our homes, it can transform a space entirely, elevating […]
Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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Archinect - Features
How Computing Transformed Architectural Visualization Over the past seven decades, the invention and evolution of computing technology have had a profound...
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Over the past seven decades, the invention and evolution of computing technology have had a profound and transformative impact on the field of architectural visualization. From early computer-aided design (CAD) software to today's photorealistic 3D rendering, virtual reality, and...
Construction Physics
Construction Productivity - Structural Steel This week we’re continuing our investigation of productivity trends in US construction. We...
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This week we’re continuing our investigation of productivity trends in US construction. We previously looked at single family home construction, and noted that the number of hours required to construct 100 square feet of single family home has slightly increased over the past 50...
Old Structures...
A Different Definition of Speed I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem...
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I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem River, meant to provide a place for people with horses and horse carriages – i.e., the upper middle class and the wealthy – to have fun. There was nothing inherently terrible about...
99% Invisible
De Fiets is Niets [EPISODE] Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more...
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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...
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of AI and the idea that it is coming... No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of...
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No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of AI and the idea that it is coming for architects’ jobs.
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
Construction Physics
Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant? It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly...
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It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years. Unlike normal volcanoes, which tend to produce large...
The Modern House
It’s all love at Matthew Scott and Charlie Carr’s new restaurant, Papi
a year ago
Common Edge
Making the Case for Sustainable Housing: It’s Time for a New Argument How to undo the tension between affordability and sustainability.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Architectural Visualization Was Rather Flat: Then We Invented Perspective Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant...
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Before the invention of architectural perspective, architects and artists faced significant challenges in visualizing and communicating architectural space. Without a systematic way to represent depth and spatial relationships, architectural drawings were often symbolic,...
Archinect - Features
'What Is Truly Good About AI, Nobody Has Probably Thought of Yet'; A Conversation with... To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman...
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To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman organized the first TED conference in 1984, the organization's library has expanded to over 4,300 publicly available videos from some of the world's greatest minds about some of...
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On the Future of Cities The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of...
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The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies by Jonathan Barnett, published by Routledge, June 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) Renewing the Dream: The...
CONTEMPORIST
The Design Of This Modern White Patisserie Stands Out From Its Neighbors LUKSTUDIO has shared photos of Aimé Pâtisserie, which is located in Shanghai, China, and is flanked...
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LUKSTUDIO has shared photos of Aimé Pâtisserie, which is located in Shanghai, China, and is flanked by familiar coffee and donut franchises. The designers explained, ‘that the challenge of the store is to stand out from its immediate chaos and appeal to the clientele from the...
Common Edge
Architects Must Resist the AI “Revolution” No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.
a year ago
The Beauty of...
The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK) Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1...
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Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged....
The Modern House
Our Guide to Dulwich: from modernist architecture to master paintings
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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...
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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...
99% Invisible
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark [EPISODE] Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as...
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Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US postage stamp. It was put to a popular vote: should the stamp feature an image of...
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...
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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...
The Modern House
Textile designer Pauline Caulfield’s art-filled home and studio in Primrose Hill
a year ago
Old Structures...
Not Gone – Not Yet There From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one...
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From a 1924 aerial survey of New York City, a funny-looking blob: Looking down on a building is one of the most difficult ways to recognize it. Fortunately, the late-afternoon shadow helps: That’s the Woolworth Building’s silhouette. Our office building was constructed in 1932,...
Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 3 – Facades Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House...
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Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House was either small for a skyscraper or forty years behind the times, and yesterday I said that the steel was pretty familiar for an old skyscraper but maybe a little old-fashioned....
Old Structures...
Gotcha! There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for...
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There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for research. They have to deal with thousands (or tens of thousands, or more) resources – usually individual files in multiple formats – on hundreds or thousands of topics. And if they make...
The Modern House
The Modern House: a potted history Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as...
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Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
Old Structures...
New And Improved Graphics! Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
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Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that it’s an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
CONTEMPORIST
A Desk Designed To Hide Inside The Wall Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they...
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Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they renovated in Queens, New York, that includes an interesting design detail. As working from home has become much more popular, especially over the last few years, the designers...
The Modern House
Peak Performance: what does a walk up a mountain sound like?
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CONTEMPORIST
This Hotel Includes A Series Of Treehouse Inspired Elevated Cabins Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa...
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Studio Saxe has shared photos of the Suitree Experience Hotel they completed in Sardinal, Costa Rica, that offers a distinct canopy-based guest experience. Inspired by childhood treehouses, the designers created tree-inspired pods floating over the landscape, together with a...
Contemporist...
A New Home Inspired By The Long, Horizontal Lines Of The Classic California Bungalow Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated has shared photos of a new home they completed in...
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Design and build company Alloy Homes Incorporated has shared photos of a new home they completed in one of Calgary’s original upscale mid-century neighborhoods.
Contemporist...
A Small Laneway House Designed For A Narrow Property In Toronto Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide...
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Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.
Old Structures...
Travelog: Minimal Observation How much can you determine about a building in a minute or two? The short answer is “not much” but...
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How much can you determine about a building in a minute or two? The short answer is “not much” but sometimes you can get useful information about the structure from the street. It’s certainly easier if you know the history of the area – I am far more efficient at building...
Archinect - Features
Let’s Talk About Architectural Visualization Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the...
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Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Visualization. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the process of visualizing architectural work and what challenges and opportunities the field presents for the architectural design process. Our journey will include not only tips and...
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...
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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...
Old Structures...
Gain Some, Lose Some This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
One Thousand Plants Cover The Exterior Of The ‘Landmark by Lexus’ Pavilion Koichi Takada Architects has sent us photos of ‘Landmark by Lexus’, a showroom/pavilion that was...
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Koichi Takada Architects has sent us photos of ‘Landmark by Lexus’, a showroom/pavilion that was presented to guests during the Melbourne Cup Carnival at the Flemington Racecourse in Australia. Drawing inspiration from the Australian landscape, Koichi Takada Architects designed a...
Common Edge
Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
7 months ago
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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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)...
CONTEMPORIST
Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
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Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
Old Structures...
Even A Joke Takes Effort From 1911, Cass Gilbert’s sketches of his father (top) and himself (bottom): From the Woolworth...
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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...
CONTEMPORIST
An Extended Sloped Roof Runs The Length Of This Modern Home RHAW architecture’s Rolf Reichardt, in partnership with the villa’s residents Marieke Jansen and...
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RHAW architecture’s Rolf Reichardt, in partnership with the villa’s residents Marieke Jansen and Jaap Maashas, has designed a home in Sint-Oedenrode, The Netherlands, that has a sloped roof, and is made of timber, glass, and concrete. The home is a country house with a...
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...
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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...
Old Structures...
That Certain Something About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve...
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About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve as, among other things, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations. Looking at the building I felt sure that it was constructed before 1900 and that it was industrial...
The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on space Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share...
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Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share the same timeless principles: space, light, materials, nature and decoration. These five tenets are not only the subject of our co-founder Matt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to...
Common Edge
To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
a year ago
Construction Physics
Could We Boost Housing Construction by Permitting ADUs Under the HUD Code? To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the...
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To boost housing construction, some jurisdictions have adopted a new strategy: allowing the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs. ADUs, sometimes called “granny flats,” are small, secondary housing units built on the lots of existing single family homes – things like...
Archinect - Features
What To Do If You Hate Your Architecture Job Every architecture worker will, at some point, endure a period of stress or anxiety in the...
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Every architecture worker will, at some point, endure a period of stress or anxiety in the workplace. Sometimes, these feelings can be fleeting, caused by an exceptionally short project deadline, a difficult client, or even a legal dispute. If you find yourself actively hating...
Common Edge
How to Be a Better Architect Than Me My recent talk to high school seniors.
a year ago
The Modern House
Mark Lebon, the man inside the house that makes people smile
9 months ago
Benny Kuriakose
The Kerala Mosques That Have Been Restored To Their Past Glory The remaining structures are a testament to the rich cultural and historical heritage of a society....
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The remaining structures are a testament to the rich cultural and historical heritage of a society. They include architectural styles,...
devonzuegel.com
On [there being more than] liberty Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your...
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Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your website I came across these words: Individual liberty is the single most important value that society should uphold. I’m more utilitarian and communitarian now. I still believe we...
Benny Kuriakose
Designing Student Amenities That Encourage Creative Growth Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests,...
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Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests, hobbies, and talents is highly...
Archinect - Features
How To Reduce the Stress of an Architecture Job Search At some point in their careers, most, if not all, individuals in the architecture profession find...
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At some point in their careers, most, if not all, individuals in the architecture profession find themselves looking for new employment. This can include graduates looking for their first job out of architecture school, experienced designers and architects moving from one firm to...
Cartogrammar
Cartographic Summit 2016 In the official Cartographic Summit photo above, I’m the robot on the right edge who doesn’t know...
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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...
Old Structures...
Not Quite Added I could have sworn I’d written about this building before, but I can’t find it, so here goes: when...
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I could have sworn I’d written about this building before, but I can’t find it, so here goes: when is adding a floor not adding a floor? This is 935 Broadway/159 Fifth Avenue. The trapezoidal site is south across 22nd Street from the wide end of the Flatiron building (on the...
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.
10 months ago
McMansion Hell
this house may or may not be real on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5...
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on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
Old Structures...
All In A Name I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too...
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I mentioned yesterday that New York’s City Hall, because it is over 200 years old, is very much too small to house a modern government. The first solution dreamed up in the late 1800s was to replace City Hall with a much larger building. For various reasons – including expense, a...
Old Structures...
A Last Remnant I’ve mentioned before the way that the numbered street grid was literally cut though the once-hilly...
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I’ve mentioned before the way that the numbered street grid was literally cut though the once-hilly topography of Manhattan Island. It’s hard to find visible evidence of that process today. The Dyckman Farmhouse, near the north end of the island and dating to 1784, is on a hill...
Common Edge
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa Life-long lessons from the father of Tropical Modernism.
a year ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call...
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During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call for maps that represented “Community,” to be completed in 24 hours. Along with the call for maps, GC offered and organized free online talks, which included various and interesting...
Old Structures...
Personal History Revisited A few years ago I pointed out all the differences 170 years had made in Flushing, where I grew up. I...
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A few years ago I pointed out all the differences 170 years had made in Flushing, where I grew up. I recently came a cross a more recent map, titled “Map of the village of Flushing, Queens County, New York”, from 1894. This was four years before the western half of Queens County...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
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Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
Old Structures...
How Far Is Far? I was up on a rooftop in the mid-Bronx (Belmont, to be somewhat more exact) last week and saw a...
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I was up on a rooftop in the mid-Bronx (Belmont, to be somewhat more exact) last week and saw a familiar profile: That’s Billionaire’s Row, on the order of eight and a half miles away. It’s no surpise that you can see a big building from a distance – that’s the essence of all...
The Modern House
Designer and creative director Walé Adeyemi MBE on the London locations that have shaped his life,...
2 months ago
Old Structures...
Unhidden From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton...
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From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir. The photo is labelled at the NYPL as “The Croton Reservoir ruins, looking north,” which means the photographer was on or near 40th Street and Fifth Avenue...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Iconic There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV,...
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There are all sorts of tricks – visual shorthand – for saying “you’re in New York” in movies, TV, and photos. One of them is to include some roof-top water tanks. Comics, too: The purpose of the tanks is very simple. They store water pumped up form the municipal main, and water...
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...
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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...
A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2022 For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book...
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For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the ones I reviewed on World-Architects. From those books I gathered just over a dozen favorites, grouping them into some common themes that happened to come...
The Modern House
A beloved mid-century home built for a lifetime of colour and creation by two architects
8 months ago
There are two types...
Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
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A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading → The post Car...
Construction Physics
How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated...
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A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated by hot gases, other than steam, will eventually come to the front as prime movers. — A Scientific Investigation Into the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines,
The Modern House
Retro a go go: six homes that epitomise the day-to-day dynamism of mid-century design Over half a century later, our admiration for mid-century design shows no sign of slumping. As we...
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Over half a century later, our admiration for mid-century design shows no sign of slumping. As we crave a closer connection to our surroundings and distinct, mood-matching spaces throughout our homes – time and again, mid-century modern seems to satisfy our exacting demands....
The Modern House
Mark Bonskek and Sabba Khan’s playful Maryland home is a masterclass in materiality
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Pier Foundation Allowed This Home To Be Built On A Steeply Sloped Property LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New...
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LTD Architectural Design Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Auckland, New Zealand, that’s located on a steep site. This very steep site provided a challenge for the architects in terms of creating a suitable living platform. They wanted to minimize piling...
99% Invisible
Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House [EPISODE] The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it...
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The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it took a relative newcomer and architectural outsider to dream up. The making of this future world heritage landmark is a tale for the ages — a cautionary tale, for which we turn to Tim...
The Modern House
Quiet yet quirky – the family home of architect Will Burges serves as both inspiration and sanctuary
5 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Misreading Milei: The American press can only see Argentina through a US lens It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press...
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It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. The American press seems to deeply misunderstand what's going on. It seems the US reporters can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
CONTEMPORIST
Wood Lines The Length Of The Gable Vaulted Ceiling In This Home Architecture firm The Ranch Mine, has designed a new home in Flagstaff, Arizona, that’s inspired by...
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Architecture firm The Ranch Mine, has designed a new home in Flagstaff, Arizona, that’s inspired by the landscape of the surrounding San Francisco Volcanic Field. The surrounding landscape is reflected in the decision to choose a black exterior for the home, while the interiors...
99% Invisible
Chambre de Bonne [EPISODE] For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of...
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For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Posts & Beams Add A Warm Rustic Touch To This Small Cabin Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, where the Rosseau River flows into the lake. The 800-square-foot (74-sqm) cabin has a wood exterior with black accents. Its wood deck, with steps down to the...
devonzuegel.com
On bounties Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and I took the opportunity to write up some thoughts that had been swirling in my head for a while. You can find the (lightly edited) response I sent to him below. ~ Bounties are...
CONTEMPORIST
Glazed Pink Tiles Cover This New Home Addition Office S&M Architects has shared photos of a home addition they designed for a Victorian house in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Office S&M Architects has shared photos of a home addition they designed for a Victorian house in North London, that includes glazed pink pillow-shaped tiles. The handmade glazed tiles in a pink shade complement the home’s warm brick tones and draw upon the clients’ love of...
The Modern House
Nick Knight on being a skinhead, why he’s hopeful about AI and how well-designed spaces make life... In our new podcast, Homing In, our co-founder Matt Gibberd invites guests to discuss their childhood...
a year ago
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a year ago
In our new podcast, Homing In, our co-founder Matt Gibberd invites guests to discuss their childhood home, where they live now and their thoughts on future living. (If you missed episode one, with Ruth Rogers, be sure to listen here.) Our guest on this episode […]
The Modern House
The masterful resculpting of an urban cottage in Cambridge
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Another Tool Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an abandoned building with my arm, up to the shoulder, inside a hole in the wall, trying to get the sense of a beam-to-column connection by touch – but sometimes long-distance tools...
Common Edge
Randy Fertel on the Power and Peril of Creative Improvisation A lively talk with the author about his new book, Winging It.
8 months ago
Old Structures...
A Specific Location “Pretty” is almost certainly the wrong word for this 1902 postcard view of lower Manhattan. It...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
“Pretty” is almost certainly the wrong word for this 1902 postcard view of lower Manhattan. It shows, accurately, a jumbled mess with smoke everywhere. But is it real? Is this a photograph that was hand-painted to create the color, or is it a rendering by a very active artist? I...
99% Invisible
How the World Ran Out of Everything There’s an image that’s stuck with many of us from the early pandemic: dozens of cargo ships...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There’s an image that’s stuck with many of us from the early pandemic: dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of US ports, stacked high with hundreds of thousands of containers filled with goods, just sitting there in a traffic jam. At the same time, grocery store shelves...
Archinect - Features
Being Laid off Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
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...
7 months ago
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7 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."
99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE] All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
a year ago
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a year ago
All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
devonzuegel.com
Travel photos are underrated I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new or interesting while exploring a city. I was with my friend Tyler, who conspicuously does not take photos while exploring a new place. I asked him why, and his answer was, "It's a...
McMansion Hell
the motel room, or: on datedness I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced by the strange conviction that once I stop looking at these things, I will never see them again, that I am living in the last moment of looking. This is sense is strongest for me in...
Archinect - Features
10 helpful tips for architecture students going back to school School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term....
a year ago
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a year ago
School is officially back in session as new and returning students begin another academic term. Whether you're a fresh undergraduate student embarking on your first year of architecture school or you're a returning student about to continue another rigorous year of learning,...
Old Structures...
Quite Far I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the office; by subway about 18 miles and a little over an hour. (It would have been less, but the lift bridge on the train causeway was open for a boat to pass.) Apple Maps […]
CONTEMPORIST
A Playroom Inside This Hotel Was Designed With A Desert Theme Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio has shared photos of a modern playroom they designed for a boutique...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio has shared photos of a modern playroom they designed for a boutique hotel in Israel. Inspired by the unique topography of the desert landscape, the ‘Grow with Six Senses’ playroom emulates the natural features of the surrounding scenery, transforming...
Archinect - Features
Design, Computation, and Humans: Exploring the Intersection with Onur Yüce Gün For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to...
a year ago
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a year ago
For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to anchor humans at the center of AI and computational design brought Gün on an educational journey from Middle East Technical University in his native Turkey to the MIT Design and...
Old Structures...
Building, Blocks I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
I looked up a bit more than usual today on a street that I’m on three or four times per week, and got this nice rear view of 75 Broad Street. The upper setbacks and tower are aligned with the overall cityscape; the lower base is aligned with ther curve of South William Street....
CONTEMPORIST
A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
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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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...
CONTEMPORIST
Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
a month ago
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a month ago
ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
Construction Physics
How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials? Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked at a collection of 40 different construction tasks, on average materials made up 62% of the cost of the task. And for an average new house, materials make up roughly 50% of direct...
Construction Physics
The Shape of Nuclear Policy Book review: Nuclear Politics: Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France
7 months ago
Old Structures...
Visible Success, Invisibly A before and after photo of a recently completed facade stabilization and renovation project in the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A before and after photo of a recently completed facade stabilization and renovation project in the West Village. The rowhouse was constructed in 1846, is now in a landmarked district, and has an operating restaurant on the first floor and in the basement. If you look closely at...
Old Structures...
Helping The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence in Historic Preservation Award” – from the Preservation League of NYS: here. It’s an interesting award in that the Foundation, which ordinarily funds projects and provides...
The Modern House
Designer Sue Minter’s colourful country house in the Cotswolds
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – An Apartment Transformed With A New Interior FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
FCstudio has shared photos of an apartment renovation they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that transformed the space into a contemporary and open interior. The design plan included removing walls and creating integrated spaces, like in the living room, which was once a smaller...
The Modern House
MRTN Architects’ garden studios in Melbourne are a place to work – or to not work
9 months ago
Construction Physics
Airport Reading List The major sources I found helpful for learning about airports and their construction are listed...
10 months ago
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10 months 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...
The Modern House
Discover the Secret Garden House | A Modern Eco Home Hidden Behind a 300-Year-Old Wall
2 months ago
devonzuegel.com
Field notes: Panamá, SEZs, & biotech I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just spent a week in Panamá City, and figured I'd share my observations in case they're useful to anyone else interested in similar questions. The purpose of the trip was to research locations for a gene therapy/stem cell clinic that my friend is planning to start. I also...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Archetypical From a graphic novel about art called Naked City: how do you capture the spirit of New York? A...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
From a graphic novel about art called Naked City: how do you capture the spirit of New York? A relentless grid and Old-Law tenements.
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...
10 months ago
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10 months 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...
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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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...
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...
9 months ago
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9 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...
Old Structures...
A Year Late… …but who cares? Today is a de facto holiday for a lot of people, and that seems like a good time for...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
…but who cares? Today is a de facto holiday for a lot of people, and that seems like a good time for a blog post I should have written last summer. Some of our projects are very big, involving hundreds of thousands of square feet of building. Some are not. The smallest structure...
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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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)
The Modern House
Sent from Coventry: a graphic lament to the modernist architecture of 'the city of the future' The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks. His current exhibition ‘Sent from Coventry’ is a collection of prints that highlight and record the groundbreaking post-war buildings in Coventry – Paul’s hometown – which, at the...
Common Edge
Harvard Design Magazine #50: ChatGPT to the Rescue An alumnus of the GSD takes a treacherous trek through the dense and glossy 50th anniversary issue.
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Three Monographs Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question...
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Book notes: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are some notes and quotes that particularly stood out to me from each chapter of Against the Grain. This isn't a summary of the book. It's mostly for my future self to refer back to (and thus probably missing a lot for someone who hasn't read it), but the tidbits are so...
Common Edge
Living in the Face of Fear: The Heterotopic Hope of the Maggie’s Centers The UK cancer centers are an incredible legacy for its co-founder, Maggie Keswick Jencks.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Boarding Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different catches me by suprise. I was in the far west Village a few days ago and this building caught my eye. It’s a nice 1890s semi-industrial building turned into apartments There’s a sign...
devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
99% Invisible
Roman, Elliott, and Robert Caro: Live in Conversation For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former...
a month ago
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a month ago
For 50 years, The Power Broker has remained a landmark biography, transforming how people see former New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. If you’ve been listening to 99% Invisible’sPower Broker Breakdown, you’re familiar with the story.  The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The...
99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE] A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
The Modern House
A Piers Gough apartment with a secluded balcony and spectacular views of the Thames
a year ago
Archinect - Features
'Everything in Design Is Extremely Collaborative': A Conversation with Emerging Architecture... Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless...
a year ago
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a year ago
Starting your own practice comes with a mixture of excitement, collaboration, stressors, and endless problem-solving. As a new firm, architects Neda Kakhsaz and Zabie Mustafa are developing their approach to architectural design and how they would like to make their mark within...
CONTEMPORIST
This Coastal-Inspired Interior Is Soft And Calming Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Melling Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a duplex in Vancouver, turning it into a warm and effortlessly coastal home for a young, active family. The home was completed in January 2023 and truly embodies the considered yet breezy essence of Kitsilano...
The Modern House
Our guide to Camden Town and Primrose Hill: from panoramic views to a community ceramics space
a year ago