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HATEBEAK
via brianturner
zaha hadid w/ terry gross on (her)self (her)architecture and (her)clothes: issey miyake and yoji yamamoto
Traveling to Hale County, Ala., to see the Rural Studio's modest yet magical works of architecture in their home settings would be the ideal choice. A trip to the National Building Museum is the next best thing.
Opening today, the exhibition titled "Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture" takes visitors on a quick if gratifying tour through interesting, and in some ways amazing, terrain.
TPB thursdays at 9 BBCamerica
"The original premise of the show was about how AVERAGE people on an AVERAGE budget could afford home ownership by buying a "fixer-upper" and doing much of the renovation work THEMSELVES. The show in recent years has jumped seriously as it became more and more about million dollar homes in Maui, factory tours, and Yuppie owners who do no more than agonize over which shade of solid marble countertop to install! I learned a lot about how to actually do home renovations MYSELF from the early episodes, and the knowledge has saved me considerable money! I learn nothing now from the show except crap like how doors, casement windows, and ceramic tile are manufactured! Real handy if I want to go into the building products manufacturing business!"
notes on "camp"
11 most endangered historic places 2004
including 2 columbus circle
"At the end of LOT-EK's presentation at Ryerson, a gentleman in the audience stood up to object to the very idea that anybody would really want a mobile dwelling unit lifestyle. I felt a twinge of sympathy for the irate speaker's position. It all seems so terribly unsettled -- this life of endless travel, temporary clusterings in "harbours," dispersal again and again. I would not believe it to be a life worth living, had I not met sensible, sober people who have embraced exile (or pilgrimage) as their personal destiny.
These are not "virtual travellers," surfing the Internet in rec-room comfort. They are real, uprooted men and women abroad in a globalized, mobilized world, and as much in need of snug homes as anyone else. The MDU was conceived and created for them."
"If the accident is determined to have been caused by a structural failure, the terminal's strikingly unconventional design is likely to stir debate about how far architects can push new materials and construction theories in the pursuit of beauty without endangering lives."
monster house
"But that is what tended to happen to concert hall sound during much of the 20th century, and that, too, reflected a changing aesthetic. The music of Modernism demanded a kind of sonic ruthlessness, a crispness and unforgiving clarity. Often, it took a polemical stance toward the mainstream audience as well. How could this not affect the sonic character of halls?"
glidehouse via livemodern
a dome of your own
wallace neff's shell house
sopranos week 11 clue me
mit's building 20
survey
replaced rewired
mclean -vs- breckman
Tuesday, May 18 and Wednesday, May 19 WNYC provides live coverage of the 9/11 Commission's eleventh public Hearing on "Emergency Response" at the New School University here in New York. The two-day hearing will examine the performance of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11th. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is scheduled to testify on Wednesday.
Coverage will be hosted by Andrea Bernstein and Bob Hennelly.WNYC will return to regular programming during the Commission's lunch breakWNYC provides live coverage of the 9/11 Commission's eleventh public Hearing on "Emergency Response" at the New School University here in New York. The two-day hearing will examine the performance of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11th. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is scheduled to testify on Wednesday.
Eucalyptus
Botanical: Eucalyptus globulus (LABILLE.)
Family: N.O. Myrtaceae
shoes hanging from powerlines
sage smudge sticks
icon icon
7 wtc silverstein: "pull it"
city reshaping building codes to u.s. model
the twin towers were never required to subscribe to nyc building and fire codes since they were port authority projects. likewise the (so-called) freedom tower.
"If you wanted to build a new library downtown somewhere, Rem Koolhaas is probably the last architect you would think to hire. For years, Koolhaas has been ranting about how traditional cities don’t matte anymore, and how the rise of new technologies has made public space obsolete, and how when people leave their houses the only thing the want to do is shop. His firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is based in Rotterdam, wasn’t on the original list of architects being considered for a new library in Seattle, but one day in 1999 Koolhaas’ partner, Joshua Ramus, who comes from Seattle, got a phone call from his mother saying she had read in the local newspaper that any architect who wanted to be considered should show up the next day for a briefing. Ramus rushed to the airport, flew to Seattle, an eventually the firm got the job."
oh great, someone is bidding against me for these four drinking images.
the nyt magazine 2004 architecture issue.
(lets play it safe and focus on landscape architecture)
Insanely great, or just good enough?
Apple are pursuing perfection, but should they be?
via core77
the day after tomorrow
"When Gehry pulled the covering off the [World Cup of Hockey championship] trophy, it was like someone had tugged the burlap bag off the Elephant Man."
"When the trophy was unveiled, the reaction was dead silence."
designboom
model homes from the modernist movement
Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Scharoun and Le Corbusier are just a few of the architects who designed parts of a model housing settlement for a 1927 exhibition called "The Dwelling," which aimed to be a platform for the nascent New Construction movement.
godsell on hotseat
celebrities at their worst
nyc-rv
kenny g via cheater slicks
ab-pre-fab time