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CONTEMPORIST
A Unique Window Shape Helps Frame The View From Inside This Cabin Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that...
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Architecture firm Rever & Drage has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they designed that includes a uniquely shaped window to perfectly frame the view of the sunset. Located in Nordmarka, Norway, the cabin contains the most necessary features, but not much more, making it...
McMansion Hell
dome sweet dome As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to...
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As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to learn the world’s most widely spoken and useful language: Slovenian. At this point, my Slovenian is about as coherent as, well, a McMansion. In order to feel better about myself, I...
Old Structures...
Shorter From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, two pictures of St. George’s Episcopal Church at the...
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From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, two pictures of St. George’s Episcopal Church at the corner of 16th Street and Rutherford Place, on the west side of Stuyvesant Square: Something seems different…can’t quite put my finger on it… The spires were removed in 1889, 33...
CONTEMPORIST
Lofty Timber Vaulted Ceilings And Sandstone Details For This Sydney Building Photography by Brett Boardman Multidisciplinary architectural practice fjcstudio, has completed a...
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Photography by Brett Boardman Multidisciplinary architectural practice fjcstudio, has completed a building in Sydney, Australia, that includes colonial stone masonry, lofty geometric forms, and a layered tapestry of handcrafted materials. Photography by Brett Boardman Photography...
Common Edge
Gentle Density: A Housing Approach to Thwart NIMBY Resistance In the wake of the L.A. fires, a different strategy is required.
5 months ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Architectural Exhibitions and Their Books Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to...
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Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person....
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Famous and Less So On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at...
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On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at the foot of the bridge. The S-curved pickets in the handrail above a stone base look very much like the walkway along the Hudson River in Battery Park City, on the other side of...
CONTEMPORIST
Cork Was Used As The Exterior Siding On This Home Extension Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England,...
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Mitchell + Corti Architects has designed a new rear ground floor extension for a home in England, that’s clad in cork. The architect mentions, “We chose to clad the extension in something a little different a dark patterned cork, in order to use a sustainable material and test...
Old Structures...
Three Boxes, One Optional I’m going to talk briefly about theater design, but I don’t mean the topics that people think of...
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I’m going to talk briefly about theater design, but I don’t mean the topics that people think of when you say that. I’m not going to talk about acoustics, or sight-lines, or architectural design of the auditorium. I want to talk about the physical requirements for a modern...
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How Guerrilla Cartography’s Atlases Promote Diverse Perspectives Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that...
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Guerrilla Cartography aims to promote the understanding that there are many views of the world, that how we understand space and place can vary, and that we should think critically about the maps and the graphics we make and consume. Our organization has designed processes for...
Common Edge
The Clever Trick for Living in 350 Square Feet The solution, surprisingly, lies beyond the walls of our home.
a year ago
Benny Kuriakose
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...
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Service rooms are an absolute necessity in any building. When designing and planning such rooms, it is important to understand the type...
CONTEMPORIST
A Slightly Different Angled Ridge Line Was Given To Each Home In This Passive House Development RODE, a Boston-based team of architects, designers, and urban planners, together with Passive House...
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RODE, a Boston-based team of architects, designers, and urban planners, together with Passive House Construction LLC, has shared photos of Brucewood Homes, a collection of internationally certified Passive House single-family homes. The Brucewood Homes project is a series of...
Archinect - Features
How Architecture Can Tell the Stories We’ve Tried to Forget Archinect's Fellow Fellows series showcases individuals who are currently in, or have recently...
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Archinect's Fellow Fellows series showcases individuals who are currently in, or have recently finished, an architecture fellowship. During our conversations, we discuss their architectural journey, areas of research, and their overall experience as academic fellows. For our...
Old Structures...
Colorful and Accurate The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on...
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The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on the right (to the north) to New York City on the left. The new aqueduct runs on a much straighter line than the old, which required more tunneling, and therefore reflects the more...
Old Structures...
Happy Presidents’ Day The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika...
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The cover of the dinner menu for Washington’s Birthday from the SS Columbia of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. That’s a portrati of the Columbia on the right, apparently about to run down a sailboat. Columbia had a weird history, having served as a liner between Germany and the US,...
Common Edge
Leslie Lokko’s 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale: New Stories to Tell Although the event is lacking in actual architecture, it does introduce urgent and important new...
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CONTEMPORIST
A New Home Inspired By The Verticality Of Neighboring Victorian Houses NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada,...
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NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada, whose design was inspired by the verticality of neighboring Victorian homes. The extruded gable form is a tribute to the architectural motifs of the past while blending it with...
Benny Kuriakose
Courtyard – The Beauty and Functionality Courtyards are an ancient building technique used throughout the ages in Indian houses of all eras....
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Courtyards are an ancient building technique used throughout the ages in Indian houses of all eras. With the rise in modernity, the use...
Old Structures...
Land Engineering This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th...
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This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th Street (on the left, where the blocks are shown as featureless white rectangles) to the northern tip of the island (on the right). I mentioned two days ago that the street layout...
CONTEMPORIST
This Small Shingle Clad Cabin Has An Organic Shape Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped...
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Photography by Peter Markos Markos Design Workshop has shared photos of a small organically shaped cabin clad in wood shingles they designed, that began as a project during the pandemic, however, they didn’t have any money or land for the project. Peter Markos explains, “My...
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Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There are better ways to spend $10 billion than rebuilding the BQE New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change...
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New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading → The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
CONTEMPORIST
Curved Green Roofs Cover This Creekside Cabin MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England,...
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MAP Architecture has shared photos of a contemporary cabin they completed in Suffolk, England, that’s located adjacent to the creek and reedbeds within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The ‘Creek Cabin’, with early...
There are two types...
What’s good for General Motors is good for America On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system...
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On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system based on individuals in private cars driving everywhere for everything, climate change would be a very different—and smaller—problem than it is.” I posted the … Continue reading → The...
Old Structures...
Sic Transit This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye...
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This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye view of a building in New York City.” It’s the old Metropolitan Opera House at 40th Street and Broadway, the one that the Met left in 1966 to move to Lincoln Center. The Met had...
Construction Physics
Could ChatGPT become an architect? OpenAI recently released an updated version of their GPT large language model, GPT-4, and have...
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OpenAI recently released an updated version of their GPT large language model, GPT-4, and have incorporated it into their ChatGPT chatbot. In case you've been living under a rock, ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses large language models, which use artificial neural networks
Common Edge
Going for Zero: “Building Reuse Is Climate Action” Carl Elefante makes the case for the importance of rehabilitating buildings instead of erecting new...
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CONTEMPORIST
Red-Pigmented Concrete Screens Surround This New Home In Cape Town Architecture firm SAOTA, together with interior design firm ARRCC, has recently completed a modern...
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Architecture firm SAOTA, together with interior design firm ARRCC, has recently completed a modern house in Cape Town, South Africa. The home was designed by Philip Olmesdahl, principal of SAOTA, for himself and his family, with him sharing, “When architects design their own...
Archinect - Features
Interest Rates Were Cut, but Growth Takes Time: Archinect’s State of AEC October 2024 Welcome to the fifth installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month,...
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Welcome to the fifth installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. Throughout the last month,...
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
8 months ago
The Modern House
Inside a Danish Architect's Mid-Century House | Timeless Nordic Design on a London Terrace
7 months ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Summer in the City From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July,...
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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...
Contemporist...
A Curved Corner Softens The Space Inside This Home Extension Australian architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a home remodel they completed for a...
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Australian architecture firm Bryant Alsop has shared photos of a home remodel they completed for a run-down home in Victoria, that includes a new contemporary addition with a curved wall.
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The 5 Ceramics of Italy 2025 Tile Trends That Are Shaping Interiors Fresh from the floors of Coverings 2025 in Orlando, Ceramics of Italy has just unveiled its...
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Fresh from the floors of Coverings 2025 in Orlando, Ceramics of Italy has just unveiled its Spring-Summer 2025 Tile Trend Report, and it’s brimming with energy, craftsmanship, and soulful design. This year, Italian ceramic and porcelain tile is rewriting the rules of surfaces....
Old Structures...
Escheresque I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going...
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I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going to have a movie-style trailer consisting of a single photo: That’s roof framing at the Hopewell Furnace, an early-1800s ironworks in Pennsylvania. (Note that this is a...
Archinect - Features
How To Reduce the Stress of an Architecture Job Search At some point in their careers, most, if not all, individuals in the architecture profession find...
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At some point in their careers, most, if not all, individuals in the architecture profession find themselves looking for new employment. This can include graduates looking for their first job out of architecture school, experienced designers and architects moving from one firm to...
Old Structures...
The Skull Beneath The Feathers I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a...
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I like birds to begin with; this hummingbird sculpture in Montreal seems designed specifically for a structural engineer who likes birds.
Archinect - Features
The US Just Defined a Zero Emissions Building: Is It Enough? For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While...
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For the first time, the US government has issued a definition of a 'zero emission building.' While the effort to define a 'zero emission building' is both timely and commendable given the proliferation of unverified titles such as 'net zero' and 'carbon positive' in the AEC...
Construction Physics
The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel - in the US, we make roughly 575 pounds of steel per...
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The modern world uses shocking amounts of steel - in the US, we make roughly 575 pounds of steel per person per year. At the peak of US steelmaking in the late 1960s, it was closer to 1500 pounds per person, which is roughly how much China makes now.
Construction Physics
Contribute to the US Megaprojects Database! The US Megaprojects Database Very large construction or technology development projects are...
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The US Megaprojects Database Very large construction or technology development projects are sometimes called “megaprojects." By directing thousands of workers and billions of dollars towards the achievement of a single goal, great things can be achieved. The output of...
Old Structures...
Prefiguring The Future I want to return to the 1834 map I showed a piece of yesterday. New York in 1834 was missing much of...
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I want to return to the 1834 map I showed a piece of yesterday. New York in 1834 was missing much of the built environment that we associate with it today – no skyscrapers, no subways, no els, no tunnels, no bridges except at the Harlem River, not much in the way of water supply...
Contemporist...
The Stunning Cliffside Home That Makes You Feel Like You’re Living in the Trees Tucked into the northern shore of Lake Tremblant, Canada, La Flèche is a contemporary residence by...
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Tucked into the northern shore of Lake Tremblant, Canada, La Flèche is a contemporary residence by MU Architecture that reinterprets the traditional chalet through bold geometry and material sensitivity. Designed as a multigenerational retreat, it offers a lasting connection to...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home With A Curved Roof Inspired By The Land Around It Architecture and interiors firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a villa they completed in...
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Architecture and interiors firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a villa they completed in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, that has an umbrella-like roof that echoes the land’s undulations. The design process commenced with the creation of a robust curved silhouette, with pavilion-like...
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Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with...
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Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, an early photographic technique), and with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, (the inventor of the cyanotype, a technique that...
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This café is a beautiful place to do nothing In the heart of Valencia’s El Carmen neighbourhood, OFF LINE Café is a quiet revelation—a space...
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In the heart of Valencia’s El Carmen neighbourhood, OFF LINE Café is a quiet revelation—a space where the ritual of coffee takes center stage, thoughtfully designed by Ramón Esteve Estudio. At a time when every corner café chases spectacle, OFF LINE does the opposite. It invites...
Common Edge
The Creative Power Produced by Embracing Paradox There is a keen sense of insight that comes from being in the in-between spaces of a largely binary...
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Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
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In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
The Beauty of...
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...
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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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OWD #5: The evolution of urban utopias (guest episode from Caos Planejado) Alain was interviewed by our friend Anthony for a Brazilian urbanism blog called Caos Planejado, and...
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Alain was interviewed by our friend Anthony for a Brazilian urbanism blog called Caos Planejado, and we thought it would be fun to cross-post it here. They discussed Brazilian cities, municipal financing, what it was like to live in NYC in the time of Jane Jacobs and Robert...
Archinect - Features
How the Architectural Model Maker Behind the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale... MAD’s exhibition in Rotterdam, to the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to KPF’s renovated...
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MAD’s exhibition in Rotterdam, to the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to KPF’s renovated Manhattan studio, and to the groundbreaking ceremony for Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore, QZY Models has made frequent appearances in these remarkable architectural projects....