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Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely...
4th Dec 2023
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Places in Time III

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

4th Dec 2023
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time;...
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MSG Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them...
22nd May 2021
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MSG

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22nd May 2021
Two MSG quotes: “In animal studies, injecting high doses of MSG into the brains of rats made them fat.” – Wikipedia “Through Pennsylvania Station one entered the city like a god…. One scuttles in now like a rat” [under Madison … Continue reading → The post MSG appeared first on...
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texas gothic revival Sometimes I just want to get on my hobbyhorse, which for about a year now has been the middle ages...
1st Jun 2024
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texas gothic revival

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1st Jun 2024
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...
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The Solar Manifesto - Part 2. ...or how hard it is to name the foundations of a healthy home?
9th Jan 2022
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The Solar Manifesto - Part 2.

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Jan 2022
...or how hard it is to name the foundations of a healthy home?
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The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for...
1st Oct 2023
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The Making of Unique Athangudi Tiles : An Unforgettable Experience

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Oct 2023
Chettinad, the land of wealthy Chettiars in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, is famous not only for its mouth-watering cuisine but also...
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When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
2nd May 2024
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When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy?

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2nd May 2024
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
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Want To Bring Your Neighborhood Back to Life? This South Bend Developer Shows How. This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to...
1st Oct 2025
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Want To Bring Your Neighborhood Back to Life? This South Bend Developer Shows How.

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1st Oct 2025
This homegrown developer is bringing practical, thoughtful, and community-focused housing to disinvested neighborhoods in South Bend, Indiana.
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Seven European projects selected as 2026 EU Mies van der Rohe Award finalists ... The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the seven finalists for...
6th Feb 2026
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Seven European projects selected as 2026 EU Mies van der Rohe Award finalists

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6th Feb 2026
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the seven finalists for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award. A total of five projects were selected as finalists in the Architecture category, with another...
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Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84 Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of...
17th Jan 2024
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Transforming French WW1 Lambert Coordinates to WGS84

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17th Jan 2024
Nord de Guerre Here’s a survey plat made in 1919 by a US Army unit in France. In the aftermath of WW1, teams of American military surveyors produced these as they went around France mapping the grave sites of fallen soldiers. On this plat we can see a number of bearings and...
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A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small...
8th Mar 2023
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A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use

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8th Mar 2023
Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small cabin-like room that expands when needed.
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What's Going On In Budapest? A Return to Beauty
6th Jan 2026
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What's Going On In Budapest?

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6th Jan 2026
A Return to Beauty
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Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and...
11th Feb 2021
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Mapping Gottfried Merzbacher

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th Feb 2021
I’m wrapping up my work on Gottfried Merzbacher—a sort of back-burner project that’s been active and then dormant, on and off, for about seven years. It’s been a pleasure to learn about places like the Bayumkol valley, the relationship between the Saryzhaz and Kum-erik Rivers,...
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Vermont's Great Retreat To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles....
10th Nov 2021
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Vermont's Great Retreat

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Nov 2021
To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles. Talked to historians and librarians. And read maps. Lots of maps. As I did, I wondered if there was something in the landscape, the communities, the culture that made Vermont...
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Breaking Down The Power Broker [EPISODE] In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that...
5th Dec 2023
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Breaking Down The Power Broker [EPISODE]

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5th Dec 2023
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that 99pi host Roman Mars was born. And number two, The Power Broker by Robert Caro was published. Roman learned about the power broker when he first started to cover cities and...
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Building the Bell System If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T...
3rd Jul 2024
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Building the Bell System

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

3rd Jul 2024
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top. It’s large, but not notably so: it came in 32nd in the 2024 Fortune 500 ranking, just above Comcast and below Verizon. Its offerings are not unique:...
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Antler Flagship Store on Regent Street by Checkland Kindleysides Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In...
1st Jun 2026
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Antler Flagship Store on Regent Street by Checkland Kindleysides

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1st Jun 2026
Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In collaboration with...
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
26th Mar 2024
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How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

26th Mar 2024
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
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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...
12th Jun 2022
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Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot

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12th Jun 2022
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....
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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...
16th Dec 2022
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this house may or may not be real

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16th Dec 2022
on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...
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Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920,...
3rd Jun 2021
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Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus

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3rd Jun 2021
The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in...
1st Jun 2023
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LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow

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1st Jun 2023
Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that combines warm woods and soft lighting. Designed for a couple with two children, the apartment’s interior is influenced by traditional Nordic aesthetics and...
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This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included...
15th Oct 2023
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This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden

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15th Oct 2023
BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included the design of a rear extension that answers the statement, "Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion".
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Transportation After the Age of Expansion The era of transportation expansion was a success. That’s exactly why it needs to end.
5th Jan 2026
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Transportation After the Age of Expansion

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5th Jan 2026
The era of transportation expansion was a success. That’s exactly why it needs to end.
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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:...
7th Sep 2022
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What a GIS & Map Librarian does all day

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Sep 2022
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...
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
5th Jul 2026
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jul 2026
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more times, sometimes even more. With so many colleges, this will be the case with most of the firms. Many aspirants are keen on joining the...
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How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated...
17th Nov 2023
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How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry

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17th Nov 2023
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,
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Beyond the Sea, flowing and exploding edition Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from...
1st Jun 2017
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Beyond the Sea, flowing and exploding edition

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1st Jun 2017
Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from coastlines around the world. Since then, an interactive version of that has been a back-burner idea. Well, finally, here we go. To recap, these arcs represent straight-line paths out...
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The Early Stages From Lewis Hine, “Plumbing up a column” at the Empire State Building: First, as with nearly all of...
30th Oct 2025
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The Early Stages

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

30th Oct 2025
From Lewis Hine, “Plumbing up a column” at the Empire State Building: First, as with nearly all of Hine’s photos, what a work of art. Second, I’m not sure if that’s a beret as a particularly stylish way to not have a hard hat, or if it’s a flat cap worn backwards. Nothing that...
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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,...
1st Feb 2024
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A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home

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1st Feb 2024
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...
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Planning and Designing of Service Blocks in a School Service rooms are an absolute necessity in any building. When designing and planning such rooms, it...
1st Jun 2023
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Planning and Designing of Service Blocks in a School

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jun 2023
Service rooms are an absolute necessity in any building. When designing and planning such rooms, it is important to understand the type...
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New and Old #280 Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
2 weeks ago
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New and Old #280

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2 weeks ago
Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
30th Dec 2021
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes

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30th Dec 2021
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...
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Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
3rd Dec 2024
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Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places

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3rd Dec 2024
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
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Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they...
2nd Jul 2023
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Custom Bunk Beds Were Designed For This Jungle-Themed Kid’s Bedroom

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2nd Jul 2023
Interior design firm Britt White Studio has shared photos of a jungle-themed kid’s bedroom they designed as part of an overall penthouse project. The room was designed for two brothers, aged 7 and 9, who worked directly with the designers for the creation of their shared room,...
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An Interstate Highway Program — but for Sidewalks? What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
2 weeks ago
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An Interstate Highway Program — but for Sidewalks?

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2 weeks ago
What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
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Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering...
18th Nov 2024
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Pools and Populations in the SF Bay Area

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

18th Nov 2024
For many people, swimming in a pool on a hot July day with kids splashing and lifeguards hollering is the quintessential summer experience. Not only do pools provide a place for people to recreate and cool off in the summer heat, but access to pools is essential to making basic...
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Marcus Aurelius for Architects and Designers Written more than 1,000 years ago, the Roman emperor’s words of wisdom offer guidance and comfort to...
1st May 2025
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Marcus Aurelius for Architects and Designers

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1st May 2025
Written more than 1,000 years ago, the Roman emperor’s words of wisdom offer guidance and comfort to the profession in the 21st century.
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A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk Hello friends. It has become apparent that you are all terrible at being pedestrians. I feel...
1st Feb 2016
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A guide to not being a sidewalk jerk

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Feb 2016
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...
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Why Minnesota’s Northstar Service Was Doomed From the Start The state could've used commuter rail, but Northstar didn't deliver.
2nd Feb 2026
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Why Minnesota’s Northstar Service Was Doomed From the Start

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2nd Feb 2026
The state could've used commuter rail, but Northstar didn't deliver.
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Light, Ventilation, and Design Features in School Design An institutional space requires maximum optimization of light and ventilation. Schools require open,...
1st Jul 2023
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Light, Ventilation, and Design Features in School Design

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1st Jul 2023
An institutional space requires maximum optimization of light and ventilation. Schools require open, bright places and the best design...
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The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess City council is expected to vote on the controversial proposal soon.
1st Nov 2024
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The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess

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1st Nov 2024
City council is expected to vote on the controversial proposal soon.
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
16th Jun 2025
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I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland

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

16th Jun 2025
Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
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Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in...
30th Mar 2025
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Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia

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30th Mar 2025
The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in southern Tunisia and certain areas of Libya and associated with Berber populations. In more recent times, they have also been used as dwellings. They consist of barrel-vaulted rooms...
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism? We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
5th Jul 2023
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What’s the Point of Lower-Density Urbanism?

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5th Jul 2023
We need new models for fixing existing sprawl and growing small towns.
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Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees? In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make...
1st May 2021
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Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees?

from The Wandering Cartographer [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st May 2021
In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make shaded relief from DEMs, more or less as detailed in this post. There wasn’t time to explain the process of re-projection, so I rather boldly asserted that you don’t need to re-project...
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The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE] In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get...
5th Nov 2023
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The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE]

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5th Nov 2023
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries.  The city became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to...
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
9th Sep 2023
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences

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9th Sep 2023
Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
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Places in Time I Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is...
4th Sep 2023
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Places in Time I

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

4th Sep 2023
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I've written a few of them...
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Athangudi Palace : The Chettinad Architecture Marvel The Nattukottai Chettiars were traders since the time of the Chola Empire in the 12th century and...
1st Dec 2023
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Athangudi Palace : The Chettinad Architecture Marvel

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Dec 2023
The Nattukottai Chettiars were traders since the time of the Chola Empire in the 12th century and were the trading and banking group in...
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ode to a faux grecian urn Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago...
2nd Apr 2024
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ode to a faux grecian urn

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2nd Apr 2024
Howdy everyone, Today’s house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia...
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Reading About Drawings Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I...
8th Jan 2024
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Reading About Drawings

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

8th Jan 2024
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I'm particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City. Drawing on...
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It’s Not Blue That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the...
1st Nov 2023
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It’s Not Blue

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Nov 2023
That’s a drawing from 1837 of the new Customs House – now Federal Hall – being constructed at the northeast corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. John Frazee is listed as the architect and superintendent, which is not quite accurate: he was working from an architectural design by...
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Chicago Slashes Parking Mandates In a Big Win for Small Developers A new ordinance removes costly parking requirements across most of Chicago, clearing the way for...
1st Aug 2025
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Chicago Slashes Parking Mandates In a Big Win for Small Developers

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1st Aug 2025
A new ordinance removes costly parking requirements across most of Chicago, clearing the way for more affordable housing and business development.
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Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
1st Mar 2024
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Imagine Standing There

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
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Close To Home From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all...
1st May 2024
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Close To Home

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st May 2024
From Angelo Rizzuto in 1950, “Broad Street.” It doesn’t instantly look familiar because we’re all used to seeing the north end of Broad Street, where the Stock Exchange and Federal Hall are, or views looking up the street to the north. This is the sound end of Broad, as it runs...
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Three Lessons from Three Monographs Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not...
6th Feb 2023
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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

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

6th Feb 2023
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph...
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Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to...
10th Sep 2022
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Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Sep 2022
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires. These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish), and they are a crucial part of...
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OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know:...
30th Apr 2020
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OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design

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30th Apr 2020
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud. This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
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Weeding is Fundamental On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A’s were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series,...
5th Aug 2025
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Weeding is Fundamental

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Aug 2025
On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A’s were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, but just as the game was kicking off—the television broadcast cut out. When the signal came back, it was no longer the baseball game. These were the early minutes of the Loma Prieta...
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A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round...
1st Mar 2023
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A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2023
Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round design. The vast, sandy plot densely covered with a pine forest created a unique setting for the house, with the architect drawing inspiration from a tree trunk. The home has been...
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be...
11th Apr 2025
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America?

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

11th Apr 2025
Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is...
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If I Were A NIMBY What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
1st Apr 2026
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If I Were A NIMBY

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1st Apr 2026
What the devil on my shoulder whispers to me
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This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton,...
9th Jan 2024
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This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath

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

9th Jan 2024
Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton, New York, that has its living spaces elevated above the ground.
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Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
1st Jul 2024
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Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture

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1st Jul 2024
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown today?
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On [there being more than] liberty Recently, Ayaz Matin sent me an email asking the following question: When I was looking at your...
9th Sep 2019
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On [there being more than] liberty

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Sep 2019
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...
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland) The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous...
9th Aug 2023
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Aug 2023
The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous public transport system is that the regard in which its phenomenal operational expertise is held can overshadow the architectural successes it also demonstrates. Even when transport...
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
18th Dec 2023
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It

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

18th Dec 2023
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built into the earth.
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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...
6th Feb 2024
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How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?

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

6th Feb 2024
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...
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The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in...
2nd Aug 2023
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The Dining Table Becomes Part Of The Stairs Inside This Eclectic House

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

2nd Aug 2023
Mag Arquitectes together with Clara Lleal INTERIORISTA has shared photos of a home they designed in Catalunya, Spain, that showcases a unique dining area.
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022) It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job...
14th Dec 2022
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In Search of Perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow (Rail Symbol 2, Nick Job for Network Rail, 2022)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Dec 2022
It takes some strange mixture of bravery, confidence, and the thickest of skins to take on the job of redesigning a national icon. Once again, the rail industry’s “double arrow”, the symbol that has come completely to mean “railway” in Britain, has been given a facelift. Previous...
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Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing... Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m...
13th Mar 2023
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Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly…

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

13th Mar 2023
Liberating Our Homes From the Real Estate–Industrial Complex Howdy everyone! Some exciting news: I’m doing a stint at The Nation this month writing biweekly design columns. In this first one, I’ve done my best to expand on an earlier McMansion Hell post in order to answer the...
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In Madison, Safer Streets Started With a Simple Test By testing small, temporary changes, Madison, WI, is building safer streets and a culture of...
1st Apr 2026
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In Madison, Safer Streets Started With a Simple Test

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1st Apr 2026
By testing small, temporary changes, Madison, WI, is building safer streets and a culture of continuous improvement.
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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...
29th May 2024
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The Inbetweeners (Ebbsfleet International and Stratford International, UK)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

29th May 2024
Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged....
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In The Background The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress...
1st Apr 2024
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In The Background

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Apr 2024
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress dates it as “between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.” I think we can do better: that’s the Municpal Building in the background under construction. The building took longer than usual to...
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6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead,...
5th Oct 2023
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6 Reasons Why Today’s Architecture Is Unsustainable

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5th Oct 2023
The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
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Reading List 07/05/2025 A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map...
5th Jul 2025
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Reading List 07/05/2025

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

5th Jul 2025
A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.
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Multimodal From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees;...
1st Apr 2026
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Multimodal

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Apr 2026
From 1911, a much-worn postcard showing Park Row: City Hall is off to the left, amongst the trees; the big stone building on the right is the old New York Times headquarters, although the Times had moved uptown to Longacre Square, renamed after them, seven years earlier. The...
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From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the...
6th Apr 2022
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From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Apr 2022
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the environment, geopolitical issues, water, animal and human rights, I look for how I might highlight particular issues, and then draw a word picture to go with the visual message of the...
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Design Paths Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
1st Mar 2024
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Design Paths

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were a handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This isn’t that:
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A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
6th Jan 2025
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A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Jan 2025
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
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The Astor Building 2 Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
2 weeks ago
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The Astor Building 2

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2 weeks ago
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor Building”… Unlike my previous dive into the construction photos of the Equitable Trust Building on Broad Street, the main sequence photos here (which are numbered and dated) begin...
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pre-recession, post-taste Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s...
30th Oct 2023
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pre-recession, post-taste

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

30th Oct 2023
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s why I’ve gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to...
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From Slow House to Blue Dream Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her...
2nd Oct 2023
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From Slow House to Blue Dream

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

2nd Oct 2023
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, located in East Hampton, on the South Fork of Long Island, was completed in 2017, nearly 30 years after the architects were commissioned...
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Love Letter Back Home Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer...
27th Jan 2021
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Love Letter Back Home

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

27th Jan 2021
Mapped October 5th, written December 2019: As I noted in my last Guerrilla Cartography Cartographer Spotlight (May 2019), my career has been a diverse mix of my two professional passions, cartography and participatory mapping. Cartography is about the place; it’s top-down, it’s...
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To rent or to sell, that is the question As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or...
10th Sep 2023
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To rent or to sell, that is the question

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Sep 2023
As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or sell the buildings you've built. Income from rentals flows in steadily over years, while income from sales hits all at once. This essential difference is simple but has many...
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Soane, Mackintosh, Jencks: Three Architects, Three Exceptional Houses A residential designer visits a few buildings that are important to his own perspective.
13th Oct 2025
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Soane, Mackintosh, Jencks: Three Architects, Three Exceptional Houses

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13th Oct 2025
A residential designer visits a few buildings that are important to his own perspective.
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How many breaths does it take to grow a home in the forrest? An essay on the interconnectedness of Everything.
17th Aug 2025
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How many breaths does it take to grow a home in the forrest?

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Aug 2025
An essay on the interconnectedness of Everything.
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Chairs For Sitting On Stairs ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more...
6th Dec 2024
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Chairs For Sitting On Stairs

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Dec 2024
ARTA Architects has designed the Tai Kwun Chairs for The Hong Kong Jockey Club, allowing a more comfortable and modular seating solution for these stairs. The chairs complement the distinctive design languages of the Tai Kwun arts and cultural centre’s ancient and contemporary...
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Seasonal relief Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a...
16th Feb 2018
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Seasonal relief

from Cartogrammar [alt+shift+b] in architecture

16th Feb 2018
Just a map for fun, made without writing any code, which is a nice change of pace. I finally spent a bit of time catching up with the great Daniel Huffman’s excellent tutorial on creating shaded relief maps with Blender. Do try it out if you haven’t; he’s written it up thoroughly...
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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...
2nd Apr 2024
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Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Apr 2024
Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
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Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest...
17th May 2024
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Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture

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

17th May 2024
After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, want to see more new traditional architecture. This has led architects and officials to call for a crisis meeting. During the 1960s and 1970s, Gothenburg...
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Travel photos are underrated I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new...
9th Jun 2019
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Travel photos are underrated

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Jun 2019
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...
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mojo dojo casa house Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in...
13th Aug 2023
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mojo dojo casa house

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

13th Aug 2023
Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I’m back in Chicago which means this blog has returned to the Chicago suburbs. I’m sure you’ve all seen Barbie at this point so this 2019 not-so-dream house will come as a pleasant (?)...
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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion...
1st Sep 2024
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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Sep 2024
Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks! Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this...
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On bounties Michael Kaminsky recently emailed me an interesting post he wrote about bounties in open source, and...
12th Oct 2020
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On bounties

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12th Oct 2020
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...
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
14th Jul 2020
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White Elephants in the State of Vermont

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Jul 2020
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
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Importance of Landscape in School Design Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
29th Aug 2023
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Importance of Landscape in School Design

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

29th Aug 2023
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
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bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA Read the bonus post on Patreon!
27th Oct 2022
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bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA

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27th Oct 2022
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The...
8th Jul 2024
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Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8th Jul 2024
Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio. The “Institute for Controlled Speleogenesis” (2014) was a fictional design project we originally set in the vast limestone province of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. [Image: A rock-acid...
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Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
1st Aug 2024
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Complicated History, Nice Backdrop

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Aug 2024
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
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Why do we need infrastructure policy? My title at IFP is "Senior Infrastructure Fellow," which means that in addition to publishing this...
1st Sep 2023
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Why do we need infrastructure policy?

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

1st Sep 2023
My title at IFP is "Senior Infrastructure Fellow," which means that in addition to publishing this newsletter, I do work related to infrastructure policy. At a high level, that work is figuring out which things we should be building, and how we can make building those things...
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If movies were about Architecture “Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him...
6th May 2024
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If movies were about Architecture

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th May 2024
“Apocalypse Now”: an architect goes grossly over budget. Another architect is sent out to find him and value-engineer the project, in the jungle, during a war. “It’s a wonderful life”: An architect mishandles his finances. Jumps off a bridge. Is saved by his guardian angel /...
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The Reaction Area “Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills,...
20th Dec 2023
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The Reaction Area

from BLDGBLOG [alt+shift+b] in architecture

20th Dec 2023
“Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out underground inside two Los Angeles-area landfills, according to the L.A. Times. These “highly unusual reactions at Los Angeles County’s two largest landfills have raised serious questions about the region’s long-standing approach to...
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My 7 (hidden) roles as an architect A contemplative piece about all the roles in my practice that I do not talk about but I assume them,...
14th Jul 2025
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My 7 (hidden) roles as an architect

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

14th Jul 2025
A contemplative piece about all the roles in my practice that I do not talk about but I assume them, all the time.
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024 It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
12th Dec 2024
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12th Dec 2024
It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
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Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its...
12th May 2019
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Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

12th May 2019
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its users never print out most of their documents. Of course it does make sense for "Print layout" to be an option. Many people do print docs, and students make up a huge portion of...
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Regenerative Architecture Shifting our time horizon.
27th Feb 2025
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Regenerative Architecture

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

27th Feb 2025
Shifting our time horizon.
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Oyler Wu Collaborative Wins International Competition for Taiwan's National Comic Museum Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has...
1st Jun 2026
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Oyler Wu Collaborative Wins International Competition for Taiwan's National Comic Museum

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1st Jun 2026
Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has won the international competition to design The National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung. As a centerpiece of a long-awaited national vision initiated in 2017, the new museum is...
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Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to...
1st Sep 2025
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Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy

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1st Sep 2025
Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to build and manage our A.I. future.
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Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines This counter-map was the product of a collaboration between the Junior Philippine Geographical...
28th Jun 2022
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Counter-mapping: Sitio San Roque, Philippines

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28th Jun 2022
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...
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How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads...
3rd Nov 2021
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How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets

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3rd Nov 2021
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. With his car (unbalanced atop due to the addition of a large road sign attached to...
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On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy...
5th Jan 2024
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On Yglesias on Manufactured Homes

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5th Jan 2024
A few weeks ago, Matt Yglesias wrote “How to Unleash a Trailer Home Boom," which outlines a strategy for getting more manufactured homes built. Broadly, Yglesias proposes ending HUD code requirements that manufactured homes have a steel chassis, making it easier and less...
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Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture? There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
1st Jun 2023
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Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture?

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1st Jun 2023
There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
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Field notes: Miami Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit...
21st Apr 2021
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Field notes: Miami

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21st Apr 2021
Update 5-Dec-2021: Read the updated version of these notes here. These field notes are a bit different from previous cities I've explored, because unlike those, Miami is my home! So this post partially serves as a life update—I moved to Miami Beach from California a few months...
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Hiring Experienced Office Manager at Benny Kuriakose and Associates We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide...
22nd Dec 2024
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Hiring Experienced Office Manager at Benny Kuriakose and Associates

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22nd Dec 2024
We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide office services with proactivity,...
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The Modern House guide to Christmas gifts that give back The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking...
5th Dec 2024
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The Modern House guide to Christmas gifts that give back

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5th Dec 2024
The festive sprint comes with ample occasions for gift giving, from Secret Santa to stocking fillers. Where to start? This year, we’ve decided to focus on gifting with an altruistic inclination and present an edit of design-led festive finds that support the work of charities […]
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What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
4th Apr 2024
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What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It?

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4th Apr 2024
The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
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Stop Banking on Subsidies and Start Building What Works As Norwalk navigates a housing crisis, one thing is clear: the path forward isn’t scale for scale’s...
1st Jul 2025
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Stop Banking on Subsidies and Start Building What Works

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1st Jul 2025
As Norwalk navigates a housing crisis, one thing is clear: the path forward isn’t scale for scale’s sake—it’s building smarter, more affordably, and with the community in mind.
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in...
21st Sep 2023
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The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior

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21st Sep 2023
Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior.
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks,...
15th Jan 2024
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The road to hell is paved with asphalt

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15th Jan 2024
Most roads are paved with asphalt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with asphalt. Bricks, cobblestones, and pavers are often much better options, because: 1. Asphalt degrades fast, so once you account for maintenance, it's more expensive it first appears Asphalt...
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How did solar power get cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate...
12th Apr 2023
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How did solar power get cheap? Part I

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12th Apr 2023
Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
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A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018) Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made...
7th Nov 2022
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A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018)

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7th Nov 2022
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself in mutating environments. In December 2018, after the first demonstration by the...
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Ohio is still a piano In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
8th Mar 2016
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Ohio is still a piano

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8th Mar 2016
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
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Equitable on Broad Street 8 This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable...
1st May 2026
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Equitable on Broad Street 8

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1st May 2026
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable building, but I feel like it’s not often we get to see such thorough documentation of the construction technology of a moment in time. I’m going to switch gears today from the...
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Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
7th Jul 2025
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Uncontrolled Remains

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7th Jul 2025
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
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Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
3rd Jan 2024
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Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality

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3rd Jan 2024
A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
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What are startup cities for? While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project...
2nd Jul 2021
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What are startup cities for?

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2nd Jul 2021
While the startup cities industry is still small, it is already quite heterogeneous. Each project has its own distinct set of goals, motivations, and scope. However, this diversity isn’t fully captured by the vocabulary we use right now. To help myself create a mental map of the...
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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...
30th Nov 2024
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“

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30th Nov 2024
new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
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Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a...
6th Nov 2023
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Before & After – A 1970s Home Received A Contemporary Renovation

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6th Nov 2023
Floisand Studio Architects has shared photos of a contemporary renovation project they did for a home in Seattle, Washington. The original 1970s Seattle rambler had a typical boxy layout, while the exterior featured brick with blue and red accents. The new exterior includes new...
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namesake mcmansion Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long...
31st Jul 2024
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namesake mcmansion

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31st Jul 2024
Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
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Summer in the City From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July,...
31st Jul 2023
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Summer in the City

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31st Jul 2023
From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July, when a funeral mass was held for my dad, my life was split almost evenly between my home in New York City and my parent's home in Central Florida. The emergency in March was an...
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Reading List 05/03/25 Blackout in Spain and Portugal, Chinese robot adoption, energy maneuverability theory, the Florida...
3rd May 2025
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Reading List 05/03/25

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3rd May 2025
Blackout in Spain and Portugal, Chinese robot adoption, energy maneuverability theory, the Florida real estate market, battery manufacturing cancellations, and more.
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“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930) A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification...
24th Mar 2024
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“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930)

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24th Mar 2024
A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists. The 1930’s International...
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Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
14th Feb 2024
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Architect Valentines 2024

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14th Feb 2024
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...
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Hidden In Plain Sight I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The...
1st Dec 2025
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Hidden In Plain Sight

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1st Dec 2025
I was on Roosevelt Island a few weeks ago and got some nice pictures of the Queensboro Bridge. The Queensboro is an outlier among New York City’s bridges in several ways: it’s a cantilever truss, it’s asymmetrical, and it doesn’t clear-span the river it crosses. The Queensboro...
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A Modern Home That Makes Space For An Art Gallery Alterstudio Architecture has shared photos of a new home they completed in Dallas, Texas, with a...
4th Feb 2025
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A Modern Home That Makes Space For An Art Gallery

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4th Feb 2025
Alterstudio Architecture has shared photos of a new home they completed in Dallas, Texas, with a three-level design that creates a unique environment for family and art. A low berm of rocks planted with native grasses, cacti, and shrubs separates the residence from the street. A...
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Photographing the Exterior of a Historic Building: Part II In the 1870s, architectural photographer Albert Levy began capturing old buildings, thus giving rise...
21st Mar 2023
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Photographing the Exterior of a Historic Building: Part II

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21st Mar 2023
In the 1870s, architectural photographer Albert Levy began capturing old buildings, thus giving rise to a new kind of photography called...
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Notes on being an Architect
15th May 2023
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Notes on being an Architect

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15th May 2023
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America's hidden urban laboratory: the South America hasn't built many walkable places in the last few decades, but there are a few exceptions....
14th Jun 2023
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America's hidden urban laboratory: the South

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14th Jun 2023
America hasn't built many walkable places in the last few decades, but there are a few exceptions. While collecting a list of these special places, I was shocked to discover that most are in the Southeast. My mental image of contemporary southern development did not include an...
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Supreme Court allows Trump's White House ballroom construction to continue This just in: The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed construction of Trump's $400 million White House...
2 weeks ago
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Supreme Court allows Trump's White House ballroom construction to continue

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2 weeks ago
This just in: The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed construction of Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project to proceed indefinitely while legal challenges continue. In a 5–4 decision, the court blocked lower-court rulings that would have paused the aboveground portion of...
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Invisible Masterpieces – the Big Four’s Stations 1923-47 (and a book all about them) Have you ever had a project you’ve started on without any idea of the scale of work you’ve just...
4th Jan 2026
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Invisible Masterpieces – the Big Four’s Stations 1923-47 (and a book all about them)

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4th Jan 2026
Have you ever had a project you’ve started on without any idea of the scale of work you’ve just committed to? Well, if you want to know one of the reasons that I haven’t been writing here as much as I might have done otherwise, I’m happy to announce one of the projects that has...
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The Penn Station Announcement: What Did We Actually Learn? The new Trump-backed proposal produces more questions than it answers.
1st Jun 2026
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The Penn Station Announcement: What Did We Actually Learn?

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1st Jun 2026
The new Trump-backed proposal produces more questions than it answers.
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Case study home #3 - Vernacular vibes near Budapest Local vernacular passive house among the vines
10th Jun 2025
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Case study home #3 - Vernacular vibes near Budapest

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10th Jun 2025
Local vernacular passive house among the vines
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Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated… A friend and colleague turned me onto AI obituaries. Think of them as interesting and amusing rather...
22nd Apr 2025
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Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated…

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22nd Apr 2025
A friend and colleague turned me onto AI obituaries. Think of them as interesting and amusing rather than morbid or morose. This one is from AI Copilot. John Massengale AIA CNU Celebrating a Visionary Mind in Urban Design and Architecture … Continue reading → The post Reports of...
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Interculturality as Shelter Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants...
25th Jul 2023
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Interculturality as Shelter

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25th Jul 2023
Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants experience interculturality in the neighborhood where their school is located. It shows their ways of feeling, walking, and making the city. A neighborhood where nobody...
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Pableaux Johnson: Be Where Your Feet Are A New Orleanian pays a Mardi Gras tribute to the Cajun Dalai Lama.
3rd Mar 2025
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Pableaux Johnson: Be Where Your Feet Are

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3rd Mar 2025
A New Orleanian pays a Mardi Gras tribute to the Cajun Dalai Lama.
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Independence for whom? I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community...
23rd Mar 2019
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Independence for whom?

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23rd Mar 2019
I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community with a distinctive architectural style: simple timber-frame structures clad in wooden siding, and gardens all planted with native flora. The Sea Ranch Design Committee enforces...
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The Wide Open When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act...
4th Feb 2025
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The Wide Open

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4th Feb 2025
When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act established protections for plants and animals on the endangered and threatened species lists, and across the aisle, everyone seemed to agree that it would be bad for a bunch of...
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Reading List 03/01/25 Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use...
1st Mar 2025
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Reading List 03/01/25

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1st Mar 2025
Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK) Thanet Parkway station opened on 31 July 2023, and promptly broke quite a few people’s brains. I can...
13th Aug 2025
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Thanet Parkway (Thanet Parkway, Kent, UK)

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13th Aug 2025
Thanet Parkway station opened on 31 July 2023, and promptly broke quite a few people’s brains. I can remember my Twitter feed (as was) being awash with commentators deriding its appearance. Even now, a simple web search will quickly turn up adjectives like “ugly”, “hideous”,...
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Mini-Stories: Volume 20 Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
7th Jan 2025
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Mini-Stories: Volume 20

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7th Jan 2025
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
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Star Forts, Mines, and Other Maastricht Subterranea I was in Maastricht, Netherlands, for a couple nights last week, mostly as a way to break-up my trip...
18th Sep 2025
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Star Forts, Mines, and Other Maastricht Subterranea

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18th Sep 2025
I was in Maastricht, Netherlands, for a couple nights last week, mostly as a way to break-up my trip across the Atlantic and thus help get over jet-lag before attending an archaeology conference (where I currently type this). I went specifically to Maastricht, however, because...
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Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge? Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
1st Apr 2026
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Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge?

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1st Apr 2026
Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
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MAD completes 'cloud-like' Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we...
1st Jul 2026
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MAD completes 'cloud-like' Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen

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1st Jul 2026
MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we previously reported, the 775,000-square-foot "cloud" building comprises five blocks, seeking to rethink the conventional corporate campus with more public offerings. Image credit:...
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Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
3rd Jun 2024
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Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum

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3rd Jun 2024
A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
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Answering the Call: How This Church Is Turning Faith Into Affordable Housing Charlotte, North Carolina, is in the middle of a housing crisis. Churches are stepping up to help.
17th Jun 2025
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Answering the Call: How This Church Is Turning Faith Into Affordable Housing

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17th Jun 2025
Charlotte, North Carolina, is in the middle of a housing crisis. Churches are stepping up to help.
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Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
17th May 2021
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Can You Stay?

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17th May 2021
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...
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GENERAL NOTES: *feel free to add these to your construction documents
11th Apr 2023
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GENERAL NOTES:

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11th Apr 2023
*feel free to add these to your construction documents
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Duck And Height What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
3 weeks ago
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Duck And Height

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3 weeks ago
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
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A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK) You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage...
5th Jan 2022
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A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)

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5th Jan 2022
You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage stamp, possibly with room left over, and that what knowledge I do possess is thanks to my other half’s family being Portsmouth FC supporters; an emotional rollercoaster, it has to be...
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Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper? We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story...
7th Dec 2023
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Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?

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

7th Dec 2023
We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story emerges: construction never gets cheaper. Construction costs tend to rise at or above the level of overall inflation. A square foot of building costs as much or more to build today...
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The Migration of the Word Honey This map was a first for me. It was my first collaborative map, it was my first map I worked on...
23rd Jan 2020
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The Migration of the Word Honey

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

23rd Jan 2020
This map was a first for me. It was my first collaborative map, it was my first map I worked on using LinkedIn’s chat as much as Photoshop, and it was my first exposure to Guerrilla Cartography. Karen reached out to me to work on the Atlas in a Day project, but immediately we had...
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view...
1st Aug 2026
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Aug 2026
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view of the Regency Spire, which houses the World Parliament: From Carol Highsmith, a view of the south facade of the Empire State Building:
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IVF egg retrieval notes I’ve now done two egg retrieval cycles. Given that I had a zillion questions before I started, I...
2nd Apr 2024
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IVF egg retrieval notes

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Apr 2024
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...
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Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
1st Jul 2025
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Open Borders

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jul 2025
A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
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Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
8th May 2023
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Book Review: Healthy Buildings

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

8th May 2023
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new...
6th Apr 2024
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New academic dissertation questions architects’ taste

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

6th Apr 2024
Many architects look down upon residential areas built with the small town as a model, with new houses made in a traditional style. But this is exactly what the average person appreciates. “Why do many architects dislike the very thing that residents often enjoy?” asks architect...
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Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I. Structural, aesthetic, natural.
2nd Mar 2025
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Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I.

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Mar 2025
Structural, aesthetic, natural.
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Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
6th Mar 2022
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Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921)

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6th Mar 2022
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
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A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings,...
1st Aug 2024
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A Cluster Of Shingle-Clad Buildings Create An Island Cottage Experience For These Owners

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1st Aug 2024
Akb Architects has shared photos of a cottage they designed that comprises a cluster of buildings, each scaled proportionately to the island’s one-acre size. Located three hours north of Toronto, Canada, the cottage includes four pitch-roofed structures, harmoniously clad in...
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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...
6th Nov 2023
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On the Future of Cities

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

6th Nov 2023
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...
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Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder...
17th Jan 2022
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Homeless and Shelters in São Paulo

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th Jan 2022
When I was looking at the homeless census maps, my curiosity was sparked and I started to wonder what other visualizations and cartographical explorations could be possible. I have a deep interest in censuses because I have been working specifically in a peripheral communities’...
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture... The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
17th Dec 2024
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The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture Movement

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17th Dec 2024
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
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Myopia: Observing Communities in Chiang Mai, Thailand The genesis for “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai (ชุมขนคู่ขนานที่เชียงใหม่)” likely began on a...
8th Oct 2020
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Myopia: Observing Communities in Chiang Mai, Thailand

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8th Oct 2020
The genesis for “My Parallel Communities of Chiang Mai (ชุมขนคู่ขนานที่เชียงใหม่)” likely began on a calm, wet-season night after the rains had subsided at One Nimman, my group of friends — portrait artists from Chiang Mai University — shooting the breeze and hustling what money...
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Meet Me at Riis There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years,...
5th Nov 2024
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Meet Me at Riis

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Nov 2024
There’s a particular slice of beach along the New York City shoreline, that, for the past 80 years, has been a pivotal site for queer liberation. It’s called the People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park, also known, simply, as Riis. This history is deeply connected to an abandoned,...
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A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
9th Jul 2024
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A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees

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

9th Jul 2024
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
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Book Briefs #35 Revisited Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago,...
5th Jun 2023
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Book Briefs #35 Revisited

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

5th Jun 2023
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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Does Brooklyn’s New Brooding Monolith Deserve Kudos? Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak...
2nd Oct 2023
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Does Brooklyn’s New Brooding Monolith Deserve Kudos?

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2nd Oct 2023
Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak middle finger on the skyline.
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Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps During the early period of my self-isolation in Arizona, USA, Guerrilla Cartography put out a call...
2nd Dec 2020
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Maps Without Words; Words Without Maps

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Dec 2020
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...
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Sustainability in School Design Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the ...
29th Sep 2023
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Sustainability in School Design

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

29th Sep 2023
Sustainability is a practice that seeks to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by efficient and moderate use of...
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The Solar Manifesto - Part 1. for even after the deepest night, the sun always rises.
26th Dec 2021
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The Solar Manifesto - Part 1.

from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

26th Dec 2021
for even after the deepest night, the sun always rises.
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Brick Is The Material Of Choice For This New Home Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in...
15th Sep 2024
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Brick Is The Material Of Choice For This New Home

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

15th Sep 2024
Architecture and interiors firm Enter Projects Asia, has shared photos of a home they completed in Phuket, Thailand, that blends design and traditional artisanal craftsmanship.
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
5th Mar 2024
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool

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

5th Mar 2024
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
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Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
11th May 2023
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Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th May 2023
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
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Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
26th Aug 2021
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Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

26th Aug 2021
I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
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This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town,...
2nd Nov 2023
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This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion

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

2nd Nov 2023
Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town, South Africa, that included the updating of the interior and the addition of a new garden pavilion.
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the...
30th Apr 2020
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Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

30th Apr 2020
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?  Deciding what to map was the hardest part of the Atlas in a Day experience. The first night, we developed a number of interesting concepts but nothing felt quite right. Were data available? What interesting story...
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Local Economies, Fiscal Imagination and Economic Justice in New York City History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and...
3rd Aug 2026
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Local Economies, Fiscal Imagination and Economic Justice in New York City

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3rd Aug 2026
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from the bottom up.
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The Landscape Architecture of Auroras on Demand I’ve mentioned the following story to so many people, I thought I might as well put up a quick post...
18th Mar 2026
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The Landscape Architecture of Auroras on Demand

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18th Mar 2026
I’ve mentioned the following story to so many people, I thought I might as well put up a quick post about it. There are strong Kristian Birkeland vibes with this—and, of course, anything involving an entire mountain transformed into a kind of passive-cosmic megamachine is bound...
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The silence is deafening Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling,...
2nd Jul 2020
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The silence is deafening

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd Jul 2020
Imagine you're at a dinner party, and you're getting into a heated argument. As you start yelling, the other people quickly hush their voices and start glaring at you. None of the onlookers have to take further action—it's clear from their facial expressions that you're being a...
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Vacuum tube nostalgia Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound...
21st Oct 2019
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Vacuum tube nostalgia

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Oct 2019
Music enthusiasts will tell you there's nothing quite like "tube sound", the warm, rich sound quality that old vacuum tube amplifiers bring to the music played through them. And they'll pay top dollar for it! Once considered obsolete, vintage vacuum tube amps now sell at a...
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Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors...
4th Dec 2023
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Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Dec 2023
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors of a home in Quebec, Canada, that was originally built in 1959. The house had not been renovated for several decades and featured typical enclosed rooms and small, narrow, dark...
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
16th May 2024
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024

from Benny Kuriakose [alt+shift+b] in architecture

16th May 2024
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more...
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10 living room designs we enjoyed this week In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten...
1st Aug 2026
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10 living room designs we enjoyed this week

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1st Aug 2026
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Living Spaces. ↑ Cummings...
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It’s 2026: Time for a Comprehensive Plan for New York City Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to finally provide a planning vision that supports residents and...
5th Jan 2026
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It’s 2026: Time for a Comprehensive Plan for New York City

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jan 2026
Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to finally provide a planning vision that supports residents and social value instead of the real estate industry.
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A Yellow Interior Sets The Tone For This Cafe SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they...
3rd Mar 2025
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A Yellow Interior Sets The Tone For This Cafe

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Mar 2025
SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they completed in the historic downtown of Hanseatic city in Poland. The goal was to create a bold, experimental space that would establish a strong new brand. The designers’ inspiration came...
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Policy Debt: The Missing Massive Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not...
3rd Aug 2026
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Policy Debt: The Missing Massive

from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Aug 2026
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not a victory.
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture? Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
4th Jan 2024
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Why Would You Want to Teach Architecture?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Jan 2024
Opening minds and defining a way of working is the ultimate payoff.
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Where It Comes From I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say...
1st Mar 2026
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Where It Comes From

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2026
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this new (to me) picture: The buildings were a little isolated from the main downtown skyscraper cluster by being so far southwest, but it’s a five-minute walk to...
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Reading List 04/5/2025 China’s sulfur emissions, Japan’s new semiconductor effort, declining sunbelt housing construction,...
5th Apr 2025
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Reading List 04/5/2025

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

5th Apr 2025
China’s sulfur emissions, Japan’s new semiconductor effort, declining sunbelt housing construction, water competition in Texas, and more.
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