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Coffee with an...
Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
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Architect Valentines 2024

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

a year ago
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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99% Invisible
The White Castle System of Eating Houses [EPISODE] White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with...
a year ago
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The White Castle System of Eating Houses [EPISODE]

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

a year ago
White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with five holes in each patty. And they’re small, too –- two-and-a-half inch sliders. Just big enough to fit into the palm of your hand. And since they’re steamed on a bed of onions,...
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Archinect - Features
'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based... For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and...
a year ago
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'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based Linden, Brown Architecture

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
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Contemporist...
A Glass Wall Separates A Bedroom From The Living Spaces In This Apartment MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living...
a year ago
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A Glass Wall Separates A Bedroom From The Living Spaces In This Apartment

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

a year ago
MIKOLAJSKAstudio has shared photos of an apartment in Krakow, Poland, that includes a main living level with a bedroom enclosed behind a glass wall.
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Old Structures...
108 Years First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with...
a year ago
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108 Years

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a year ago
First up, “A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797, with the adjacent buildings thereto” as engraved in 1850. This is looking north up Broad Street, with the old Federal Hall at the intersection of Broad and Wall streets. Next, “Broad...
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Old Structures...
A Story With A Happy Ending There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering,...
a year ago
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A Story With A Happy Ending

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a year ago
There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering, architecture, construction, or NYC history – that has something to do with engineering, architecture, and construction, and maybe NYC history as well. I like mechanical keyboards, with a...
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Old Structures...
Old-Fashioned Spelling From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us...
a year ago
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Old-Fashioned Spelling

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a year ago
From 1907, an article called “New Sky-scrapers for New York” in the Metropolitan magazine gives us “The Willams [sic] Street Cañon”. The drawing seems pretty accurate. Here’s a similar view in a photo from 1928: I am a little suspicious of an article that misspells a street name...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: War and Art First, a view of an army building from “Miss Fury” an exceedingly weird comic involving World War II...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: War and Art

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a year ago
First, a view of an army building from “Miss Fury” an exceedingly weird comic involving World War II and time travel. Second, a view of the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue. The 69th was in a lot of famous battles in the Civil War and some notable ones in World War I....
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Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
a year ago
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Examples Illustrated

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a year ago
I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
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Old Structures...
Now The Good Side A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building...
a year ago
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Now The Good Side

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

a year ago
A few years ago, I wrote a fairly snarky and negative piece on the Park Avenue Hotel. The building is physically of interest to me because it was a rare example of a residential building with cast-iron facades and a good example of the common approach (in the mid-nineteenth...
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Contemporist...
Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a...
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Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home

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a year ago
Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a new home they designed in Gorssel, The Netherlands.
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Contemporist...
A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
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A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries

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

a year ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
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Old Structures...
Up, Down, and Up, Like Its Surroundings I took these pictures on Mercer Street yesterday, of an oddly formal little building. Whatever...
a year ago
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Up, Down, and Up, Like Its Surroundings

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

a year ago
I took these pictures on Mercer Street yesterday, of an oddly formal little building. Whatever “Firemen’s Hall” meant, I had never heard of it. The name and original use are linked and sort of obvious: when the building was constructed in 1855, New York’s fire-fighting needs were...
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Contemporist...
Dark Vertical Wood Siding Was Chosen As The Primary Exterior Cladding To “Camouflage” This Cabin Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a house they designed in...
a year ago
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Dark Vertical Wood Siding Was Chosen As The Primary Exterior Cladding To “Camouflage” This Cabin

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

a year ago
Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a house they designed in Wawona, California, for a couple with grown children and their families.
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99% Invisible
Between the Blocks [EPISODE] Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock...
a year ago
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Between the Blocks [EPISODE]

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a year ago
Seen from above, Sofia, Bulgaria, looks less like a city and more like a forest. Large “interblock park” green spaces between big apartment structures are a defining characteristic of the city. They’re not so much “parks” in the formal sense, with fences and gates, just open...
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Old Structures...
An IStructE Talk I’m giving an in-person and online talk on March 7 for the UK Institution of Structural Engineers on...
a year ago
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An IStructE Talk

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a year ago
I’m giving an in-person and online talk on March 7 for the UK Institution of Structural Engineers on the connections between the development of fire-resistant construction technology, New York social history, and the origins of skyscrapers. More information here: New York’s...
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Construction Physics
How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials? Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked...
a year ago
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How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?

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a year ago
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked at a collection of 40 different construction tasks, on average materials made up 62% of the cost of the task. And for an average new house, materials make up roughly 50% of direct...
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Common Edge
Awesome and Affordable: Making the Case for Great Housing A new project in Los Angeles highlights the challenges—and the opportunities.
a year ago
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Awesome and Affordable: Making the Case for Great Housing

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a year ago
A new project in Los Angeles highlights the challenges—and the opportunities.
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Old Structures...
New York Without Height Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity...
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New York Without Height

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a year ago
Today’s pictures all date from 1860, when the tallest building in New York was the spire of Trinity Church. I can’t readily tell you what the second-tallest building was, as people weren’t really thinking about tall buildings that way yet. It was probably another church spire....
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CONTEMPORIST
This Renovated 90s Home Includes A New Exterior Made Of Alaskan Yellow Cedar Siding Architecture firm Blue Truck Studio, together with interior design firm Mary Valaika Design, has...
a year ago
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This Renovated 90s Home Includes A New Exterior Made Of Alaskan Yellow Cedar Siding

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a year ago
Architecture firm Blue Truck Studio, together with interior design firm Mary Valaika Design, has sent us photos of a home they renovated in California, that showcases vertical wood siding. The original 90s house had wild geometry, such as octagon-shaped rooms and triangular...
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Old Structures...
An APT Webinar I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis...
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An APT Webinar

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a year ago
I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis of a somewhat weird building with concrete and masonry structure, and the implications for investigation and analysis of buildings with old concrete structure. More information...
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Common Edge
What Is Sacred Architecture in an Increasingly Secular Time? Is it space or the people who animate it?
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What Is Sacred Architecture in an Increasingly Secular Time?

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a year ago
Is it space or the people who animate it?
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Old Structures...
Sequencing In Detailing That’s an illustration from a 1913 article called “Engineering Design Of The Woolworth Building”...
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Sequencing In Detailing

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a year ago
That’s an illustration from a 1913 article called “Engineering Design Of The Woolworth Building” from The American Architect. That’s the design of the most heavily-loaded columns in the building, below the tower. To put it in perspective, that built-up column, composed of plates...
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SOCKS
Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
a year ago
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Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment

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a year ago
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
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Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
a year ago
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More Blatant Fakery

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a year ago
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
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Old Structures...
Bucolia First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and...
a year ago
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Bucolia

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a year ago
First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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Old Structures...
Multiple Generations That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4...
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Multiple Generations

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a year ago
That picture of a cold, gray day in the Bronx was taken from the Burnside Avenue Station on the 4 train. (A side note: when I was at Rensselaer, some courses could be taken “self paced,” meaning that you studied on your own and took a test for each week’s less to show your...
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McMansion Hell
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
a year ago
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we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

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a year ago
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
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CONTEMPORIST
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,...
a year ago
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A Circular Sunken Firepit Is Nestled Into The Desert Landscape Of This Home

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a year ago
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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Old Structures...
Keep The Scale In Mind Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been...
a year ago
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Keep The Scale In Mind

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a year ago
Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
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Construction Physics
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft "There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure...
a year ago
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A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft

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a year ago
"There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure risked by an American airframe company" – George Ball, managing director at Lehman Brothers, 1982 "You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit" – Jean Pierson, former CEO of...
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Construction Physics
Boeing Reading List Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts:...
a year ago
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Boeing Reading List

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a year ago
Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts: lots and lots of people are interested in following various aspects of the commercial aircraft world for fun (example: not only are there extremely accurate flight simulators, but...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently...
a year ago
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A Green And White Tiled Design Was Created For This Vegan Cafe

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a year ago
Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has shared photos of a vegan cafe they have recently completed that has an eye-catching tiled facade and interior. The V-Spot Café, located in Chandigarh, India, has a common design aesthetic throughout, from the facade to the interior....
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Old Structures...
Randomness When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature...
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Randomness

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a year ago
When you study history, one of the things that takes a while to really accept is the random nature of events. People think they are in control and shape, at least to some degree, the future. When some truly random event occurs, we often attribute it to someone else’s will, unable...
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99% Invisible
Don’t Forget to Remember [EPISODE] We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and...
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Don’t Forget to Remember [EPISODE]

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a year ago
We memorialize the losses most important to us, as a civilization. But what even is a memorial, and what does it do? And how does one memorialize such a vast and distributed tragedy like COVID-19,  which was devastating physically but also divisive politically? Memorials tend to...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Rock Inspired Exterior Was Designed For This Skincare Boutique Architecture firm LMTLS has shared photos of SKIN1004, a new skincare boutique in Seoul, South...
a year ago
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A Rock Inspired Exterior Was Designed For This Skincare Boutique

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a year ago
Architecture firm LMTLS has shared photos of SKIN1004, a new skincare boutique in Seoul, South Korea, that has a rock-inspired facade. As the first offline flagship store in Myeongdong, the location embraces the concept of “untouched nature”, with rich brown and beige tones...
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Common Edge
Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study A talk with urban planner Jeff Speck and his new business partner, Chris Dempsey.
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Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study

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a year ago
A talk with urban planner Jeff Speck and his new business partner, Chris Dempsey.
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Old Structures...
Unhidden From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton...
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Unhidden

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From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir. The photo is labelled at the NYPL as “The Croton Reservoir ruins, looking north,” which means the photographer was on or near 40th Street and Fifth Avenue...
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Benny Kuriakose
Kanadukathan - A journey Through This Hidden Gem On a splendid morning, I got down from the bus, greeted by the enchanting allure of Nemathanpetti...
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Kanadukathan - A journey Through This Hidden Gem

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a year ago
On a splendid morning, I got down from the bus, greeted by the enchanting allure of Nemathanpetti near Karaikudi. Gopichettan was waiting...
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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...
a year ago
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A Unique Window Shape Helps Frame The View From Inside This Cabin

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a year ago
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...
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Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
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How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco?

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a year ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
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Old Structures...
The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th...
a year ago
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The Queen Anne Style Is Rare In New York

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a year ago
I was on the Upper East Side and saw two houses that don’t quite fit in on Park Avenue north of 69th Street. Those two rowhouses are listed in the records of the Upper East Side Historic District as having been built between 1882 and 1885 as part of a larger row, with the other...
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Old Structures...
Photographic Tricks That’s a 1911 panorama, taken from the east side of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, looking south (on...
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Photographic Tricks

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That’s a 1911 panorama, taken from the east side of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street, looking south (on the left), west (in the middle) and not-quite-north (on the right). I’m not sure how the photographer, Burton Welles, managed this, but it’s an impressive shot. On the left, we have...
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: My Past Haunts Me Marvel Comics gives us a very blocky, stylized view of a skyscraper: It’s still recognizable as the...
a year ago
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It Looked Familiar: My Past Haunts Me

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Marvel Comics gives us a very blocky, stylized view of a skyscraper: It’s still recognizable as the Irving Trust Building at One Wall Street, seen here in one of Irving (no relation) Underhill’s more artistic photos. In 1988, I was helping on facade repairs triggered by the...
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99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE] A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
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Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE]

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A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
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Some Same, Some Different In the same vein as yesterday’s post, here’s an 1865 photo of Leonard Street: We’ve got a bunch of...
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Some Same, Some Different

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In the same vein as yesterday’s post, here’s an 1865 photo of Leonard Street: We’ve got a bunch of loft buildings with the employees of Van Volkenburgh Brothers and Ladewig & Haydter (the nearer building), Wright & Ketchum and S. E. Halle (the middle building), and two firms...
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An Exterior Of Vertical Wood Siding Helps This House Blend Into The Surrounding Forest 77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate...
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An Exterior Of Vertical Wood Siding Helps This House Blend Into The Surrounding Forest

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77 Architecture Studio has shared photos of a home they designed on the edge of a housing estate near the forest in central Poland, near Warsaw. The house with its vertical wood facade, gives way to the natural beauty of its surroundings, discreetly immersing its architecture...
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The Same But Different This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway...
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The Same But Different

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This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway runs straight from here until the bend at 10th Street where Grace Church is, and the church is just barely visible at the end of the street. Unlike most photos of Manhattan from the...
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A Slide Is A Fun Alternative To The Stairs Inside This Home Indee Design has recently completed a renovation in Montreal, Canada, that transformed a duplex into...
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A Slide Is A Fun Alternative To The Stairs Inside This Home

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Indee Design has recently completed a renovation in Montreal, Canada, that transformed a duplex into a single-family home, and included in the interior, is a slide that travels between floors. Stepping inside the home, there’s a glass-front area with floor-to-ceiling windows that...
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Well Duh Another photo from Berniece Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, this one from 1936 and titled...
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Well Duh

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Another photo from Berniece Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, this one from 1936 and titled “Park Avenue and 39th Street.” As usual, Abbott was contrasting the big buildings in the background with the much older and smaller buildings in the foreground. Four of those big...
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