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Contemporist...
A Home Inspired By The Idea Of A Chapel Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and...
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Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and his family. Together with his wife, art historian and writer Jolanta Trojak, they long dreamed of a place where one could connect with the landscape or retreat inward.
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
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Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
Coffee with an...
Design explained with pie charts Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts. Unfortunately, this...
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Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE
Old Structures...
Boarding Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different...
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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...
Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 2 Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point,...
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Yesterday I talked about the process of erecting a steel frame at the Astor Building. At some point, a curtain wall has to be put on that frame or you have a jungle gym rather than a building. Two photos taken two weeks apart (September 2, 1925 above, September 16, 1925 below)...
Old Structures...
Multiple Generations That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4...
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That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4 train. (A side note: when I was at Rensselaer, some courses could be taken “self paced,” meaning that you studied on your own and took a test for each week’s less to show your...
Contemporist...
Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...
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Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
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...
Benny Kuriakose
Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
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The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
SOCKS
Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of...
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Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views....
99% Invisible
Left to Write (3 of 3): Setting Up a Free One-Handed Touch-Typing System on Your PC Introducing the KURTY Single-Handed Half-Board Keymap (or KURTY for short!), a free plug-and-play...
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Introducing the KURTY Single-Handed Half-Board Keymap (or KURTY for short!), a free plug-and-play system enabling one-handed touch-typing on two-handed QWERTY keyboards. After a debilitating injury to my right arm and hand, I researched and tested adaptive keyboards, which had...
Old Structures...
Different Views From 1910, stereoscopic views from an upper floor of the Singer Building looking south and north The...
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From 1910, stereoscopic views from an upper floor of the Singer Building looking south and north The view south is showing the largest concentration of tall buildings in the world at that time and, given that many of those buildings exceeded the height limit in Chicago, the...
SOCKS
The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527) The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor....
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The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a notable example of Islamic architecture.  The structure is built in stone and is...
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...
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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...
Old Structures...
Regular, Fast, Very Fast Are you really an engineer if you don’t laugh out loud at this xkcd strip?
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Contemporist...
This café is a beautiful place to do nothing In the heart of Valencia’s El Carmen neighbourhood, OFF LINE Café is a quiet revelation—a space...
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In the heart of Valencia’s El Carmen neighbourhood, OFF LINE Café is a quiet revelation—a space where the ritual of coffee takes center stage, thoughtfully designed by Ramón Esteve Estudio. At a time when every corner café chases spectacle, OFF LINE does the opposite. It invites...
Contemporist...
These Apartments Are Like Sculptures You Can Live In In the heart of Brighton, Melbourne, Wood Marsh has delivered a fresh take on coastal living with...
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In the heart of Brighton, Melbourne, Wood Marsh has delivered a fresh take on coastal living with Esplanade Brighton, a medium-density housing project that’s bold in form but deeply respectful of its surroundings. Set across a former brownfield site, the development includes 24...
99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE] The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
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The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
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This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
CONTEMPORIST
A House That Rises From The Ground Forming A Three-Level Garden Architecture firm AtelierM, has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Pilar, Buenos...
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Architecture firm AtelierM, has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Pilar, Buenos Aires, whose design is inspired by the terrain and surrounding area. The house is conceived as a living element in the landscape, with gentle curves and fluid lines that adapt to the...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: @ninosbuildings Archinect is very excited to reintroduce Archinect Meets, our popular series of conversations with...
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Archinect is very excited to reintroduce Archinect Meets, our popular series of conversations with social media's leading architecture-focused tastemakers, curators, creatives, and influencers. — What inspires them? How do they choose their topics? Is social media shaping their...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Office Was Hidden Behind A Wall That Folds Open BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in...
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BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in Hawthorn, Australia. One design detail that caught our attention is the home office hidden in plain sight in the dining room behind a wood accent wall. The floor-to-ceiling wood...
Coffee with an...
A simple description The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating...
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The structural exploration reflects the dichotomy of the diametrically opposed forces creating intrinsic tension within the interstitial forms which have been bifurcated and articulated throughout the design exploration phases resulting from the pedological rigor employed...
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...
Old Structures...
Someone Else’s Entertainment Not everything you find on a rooftop is of much interest.
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Common Edge
Who Is Using Who? The Architect-Patron Fame Game The co-mingling of famous client and famous designer has a long history.
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A Weekly Dose of...
From Web to Print Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by...
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Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." I don't remember her name or even the subject, as the...
CONTEMPORIST
3D Printed Sculptural Walls Surround The Interior Of This New Retail Store Barcelona-based architecture firm External Reference, led by Italian architect Carmelo Zappulla, has...
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Barcelona-based architecture firm External Reference, led by Italian architect Carmelo Zappulla, has shared photos of a retail store design they completed for fashion brand PINKO, which includes an interior lined with 3D printed design elements. Based on the history of the...
Contemporist...
Inside the Forest Home That’s All About Light, Space, and Simplicity Tucked into the misty woods of North Bend, Washington, Forest Pavilion blurs the boundary between...
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Tucked into the misty woods of North Bend, Washington, Forest Pavilion blurs the boundary between shelter and site. Designed by Signal Architecture + Research for a pair of professional landscapers, this home doesn’t impose on its environment, it folds into it. A structure of...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for...
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Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for owners who were looking for a little extra room in their traditional home, that was open to the outdoors, and allowed for a private primary bedroom and studio apart from the main...
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...
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Could This Be the Most Instagrammable Hotel in the Paris? In the heart of Paris, Villa M is a new approach to city buildings. Designed by Triptyque...
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In the heart of Paris, Villa M is a new approach to city buildings. Designed by Triptyque Architecture with spaces curated by Philippe Starck, this mixed-use complex blends hospitality, healthcare, and sustainability into a lush urban destination.
Archinect - Features
'The Pavilion Is More Than Structure — It Is Spirit': Archinect Talks With the U.S. Pavilion... The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale is officially open to the public. Curated by Carlo Ratti, who...
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The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale is officially open to the public. Curated by Carlo Ratti, who recently spoke with Archinect about the event, the Biennale features over 750 participants responding to themes of intelligence forms, adaptation, inclusivity, and...
CONTEMPORIST
An Apartment Designed With Cats In Mind AODA Interior Design Co. has shared photos of an apartment interior in Taiwan they recently...
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AODA Interior Design Co. has shared photos of an apartment interior in Taiwan they recently completed, that includes a variety of design elements specifically for the home owners cats. The clients are a couple with four cats and two medium-to-large dogs. Previously, they lived in...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates Canada Day by Highlighting 15 Architecture Firms That Are Defining the... July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of...
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July 1, also known as Canada Day, is a time when Canadians come together to commemorate the union of what were once three separate colonies — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada (contemporary Ontario and Quebec). Canada isn't just one of the largest countries in the world, but...
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This Renovated Home Opens Up to Light and a Terraced Garden Designed by architecture firm DROO, The Cascade is a contemporary renovation of a Victorian home...
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Designed by architecture firm DROO, The Cascade is a contemporary renovation of a Victorian home that rethinks how everyday spaces are used. Through a series of stepped platforms, the house connects cooking, dining, entertaining, and outdoor living into one flowing sequence. The...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Designed As One Long Curve FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing...
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FRARI – architecture network has designed a new house in Vagos, Portugal, that has a single arcing curved design. Through its shape and arrangement, the curved home protects itself from the busy road, while also opening up the interior to the outdoor spaces, like the yard and...
Archinect - Features
Organizing and Reforming Architectural Education: A Conversation With Tessa Forde In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse,...
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In recent years, the word 'organizing' has taken on a heightened power in architectural discourse, most notably through grassroots efforts by architectural workers across the United States to organize for better workplace conditions. For Tessa Forde, organizing centers on a vast...
Old Structures...
The User Interface A piece of technology that many people comment on after a trip to Japan is the combination...
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A piece of technology that many people comment on after a trip to Japan is the combination toilet/bidet, and I guess I’m no different. The photo above shows the control panel at my hotel: the silver button the right is the flush valve and all the other buttons refer to the bidet...
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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...
Contemporist...
A Muted Palette Unifies The Interior Of This Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San...
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Gast Architects has sent us photos of a remodel they completed for an Eichler home in the San Francisco Bay Area, that hadn’t been updated since it was built in 1955.
Common Edge
Andrés Duany and Others on the Legacy of Léon Krier With tributes from Witold Rybczynski, Gerhard W. Mayer, James Howard Kuntsler, and Jeff Speck.
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Old Structures...
For The Encouragement Of Thrift When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to...
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When you spend as much time looking at buildings as I do, it takes something out of the ordinary to stand out. In this case, I was on Sutphin Boulevard in Queens, on its northernmost leg. That’s the part of Sutphin that most people who have heard of it know: between its northern...
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...
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...
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed,...
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Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed, leaving only ruins behind. But its story didn’t end there—this is a tale of how Dresden came back to life, and rose from the ashes like a phoenix. Before the war, Dresden was known...
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Every Room A Battlefield [Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National...
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[Image: Looking out over the center of “Razish,” a simulated city at the Fort Irwin National Training Center; photo by Geoff Manaugh.] I had an opportunity to revisit the Fort Irwin National Training Center this weekend as part of a series of field trips I’ve put together for the...
There are two types...
With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
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WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
CONTEMPORIST
A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently...
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Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently completed that has an eye-catching tiled facade and interior. The V-Spot Café, located in Chandigarh, India, has a common design aesthetic throughout, from the facade to the interior....
Old Structures...
The Right Angle I’m not working on any of the buildings in this photo, but if I were… Raking sunlight is a fantastic...
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I’m not working on any of the buildings in this photo, but if I were… Raking sunlight is a fantastic way to get information about a facade. Any out-of-plane geometry is immediately visible as a shadow. You can see the natural irregularity of a brick wall: and a bulge that might...