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Today New Any | Log Site

Any | Log Magazine have amasses all their content from Any Magazine 0-27 to their full library of ANY books and their newest project Log, as well as the Cynthia Davidson edited series the Writing Architecture Series into a new seamless web presence that joins the past with the present. enjoy! ... (more)

Today Featured Jobs Today: in New York & San Francisco

1100 Architect seeking Architect - Revit in New York, NY1100 Architect is seeking architects with a minimum of 2 years experience using REVIT for various projects ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 Sq. Ft. Candidates must have a strong background in architecture from design to construction administration and possess advanced communication skills and strong teamwork abilities... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP seeking Mandarin-Speaking Project Manager in San Francisco, CA Leeser Architecture seekin... (more)

Today Sauri Journal - Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress

In the past five years, life in this bushy little patch of western Kenya has improved dramatically. Agricultural yields have doubled; child mortality has dropped by 30 percent; school attendance has shot up and so have test scores, putting one local school second in the area, when it used to be ranked 17th; and cellphone ownership (a telltale sign of prosperity in rural Africa) has increased fourfold. NYT ... (more)

Today Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture?

Some of the photos displayed below show exquisite furniture, created by the famous minimalist sculptor Donald Judd. These masterpieces of design are meant for furnishing apartments that also contain famous abstract paintings. The rest of the photos show ordinary cheap furniture. What's your score? ... (more)

Today RIP bruce graham

The Chicago architect Bruce Graham died. From the 1960s to 1980s, he was the 'top man' at SOM and is best known for the Sears (uhhhh Willis) Tower and Hancock Tower. chicago tribune ... (more)

Today VitraHaus by Herzog & De Meuron

Yesterday I visited the VitraHaus which was designed by Herzog & De Meuron in Weil am Rhein in Germany, next to Basel. The design features stacked logs that are shaped like long houses. You can find some 200+ images here. ... (more)

Today In Ostrovany Roma vs. non-Roma

A Slovak village has built a wall to keep Roma Gypsies out. BBC News ... (more)

Today Philippe Rahm: Part 1

Philippe Rahm, born in 1967 studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993 and currently works in Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2002, he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and is one of the 20 manifesto--s architects of the Aaron Betsky--s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He has par... (more)

Abitare

Today The China Interviews

From Abitare 500, March 2010. Markus Miessen, Architect, Studio Miessen, Berlin, Germany. Book Hans Ulrich Obrist, The China Interviews, Ram Publications, Santa Monica 2009. www.rampub.com Curatorial pioneer Hans Ulrich Obrist has been an early and frequent observer of the Chinese avant-garde. Beginning with his groundbreaking 1996 exhibition Cities on the Move (co-curated with Hou Hanru), Obrist has engaged China's leading artists, architects, filmmakers, and musicians in an ongoing dialogue ab... (more)

Today Garagedesign

Garagedesign is a workshop, a virtual showroom and a web shop for hot design objects, to be produced in limited quantities. Here avant-garde designers can encounter anyone who is looking to buy something unique and out of the ordinary. Garagedesign selects only the best design projects, which haven't yet had access to the industrial world, to turn them into products.How? Through the www.garagedesign.it site, which not only shows product prototypes (with prices and minimum production quantities) ... (more)

Today COSTRUIRE SECONDO NATURA

On Thursday 11th March, FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti and Iris Ceramica's SpazioFMG per l'Architettura opens its packed calendar of events for 2010 with the COSTRUIRE SECONDO NATURA (CONSTRUCTION AS NATURE INTENDED) exhibition. The FMG Gallery, which has been hosting contemporary architecture exhibitions curated by Luca Molinari since 2007, reopens its doors to the public with a fresh look, in terms of both appearance -- with a completely new images, designed to display all the potential of the n... (more)

Today w-eye

Collection of home glasses in curved wood by italian designer Matteo Ragni manufactured by MA-wood. W-eye is made of seven sheets of curved plywood and two sheets of aluminum.The combination of materials allows for a frame that is lightweight (10gr) in material yet durable in strength. It conforms to the face of users by keeping a memory of facial shapes. http://www.w-eye.it ... (more)

Today K2S Helsinki

This column should be about Spanish architecture. But why not take advantage of Pilar Pinchart’s travels? Here an interview from Helsinki. PP: Is K2S a big studio? K2S: Mid size, we are 15 people, and the biggest one here is around 40 persons. For us to be that big would mean a new kind of challenge PP: So are you still participating to competitions? K2S: We won two competitions last year -- Espoo hospital and Aviapolis office tower. It iss not something that affect us too much, we were mo... (more)

Today STUDIO JOB + PIEKE BERGMANS

Yesterday we announced Wonderlamp exhibition: Studio Job and Pieke Bergamans together for the fist time at Salone 2010. Today Dilmos sent us a lot of funny images from the working progress. Here them are! Click on the gallery! ... (more)

Today City Effect

For the Reader enclosed to Abitare 498 we already drew on the thorough book "Fashion at the Time of Fascism” -- the first visual essay on fashion and modernism during Fascism -- now for some pages of our site, thanks to the authors’ generosity, we will plunder again some texts and images from this miracle book. This first incursion brings us among the pages that, next to fashion, deal with architectures and spaces of those years. Texts by Riccardo Dirindin e Alessandra Vaccari. ... (more)

Today Clavilux 2000

The setting of this installation consists of three parts: A digital piano with 88 keys and midi output, a computer running a vvvv patch and a vertical projection above the keyboard. The visual concept of Clavilux 2000 is quite simple. For every note played on the keyboard a new visual element appears in form of a stripe, which follows in its dimensions, position and colour the way the particular key was stroke: The length and vertical position show the velocity, the stripe's width reflects the l... (more)

The London Architecture Diary

The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka

Tue 13th October 2009 - Mon 5th April 2010. Location: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG Organised by: Tate Modern. Polish artist Miroslaw Balka will undertake the tenth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958, Balka lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. Including installation, sculpture and video, his works explore themes of personal history and...... (more)

Strawberry Hill Conference

Tue 9th March 2010, 9:00am. Location: V&A Museum and Strawberry Hill, SW7 2RL Organised by: World Monuments Fund Britain. Strawberry Hill House is the masterpiece of Horace Walpole. Here in Twickenham, he created a manifesto for the celebration of British genius in Gothick domestic architecture. His little castle was deliberately contrived to seem to have evolved over long centuries, and inspired the artful...... (more)

The New US Embassy in London

Fri 26th February 2010 - Sat 20th March 2010, 9:30am. Location: NLA Space, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT Organised by: New London Architecture (NLA). In January 2009 the competition was launched to find an architect to design the new London Embassy for the United States of America for its new site in Nine Elms, Vauxhall. The competition was organised by the US Department of State and involved a jury of distinguished American and British leaders...... (more)

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards

Wed 17th February 2010 - Sun 6th June 2010, 10:00am. Location: Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD Organised by: Design Museum. Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, "the Oscars of the design world," showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Last year's winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can...... (more)

Bronze Casting Course (10 Fridays over 3 months) - February 2010

Fri 19th February 2010 - Fri 21st May 2010, 10:00am. Location: Ramsgate, CT11 0QZ Organised by: Meltdowns Ltd. Following a last minute cancellation theres a couple of places still available on this foundry education programme thats now in its third year. Delivered over ten full day sessions, this is a unique opportunity for you to learn the bronze casting process and in turn produce a bronze sculpture...... (more)

Don't Move, Improve!

Tue 8th December 2009 - Sat 20th March 2010, 10:00am. Location: NLA Space, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT Organised by: New London Architecture (NLA). NLA launched a competition this Autumn, in association with The Building Centre, Time Out, RIBA London and Elle Decoration, to find London's best and most innovative home extensions. This exhibition displays the 32 shortlisted and winning schemes, which will provide inspiration for homeowners...... (more)

Gargoyles and Shadows: Gothic Architecture and 19th Century Photography

Thu 7th January 2010 - Sun 16th May 2010, 10:00am. Location: Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL Organised by: V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership. Drawing on the V&A's rich holdings of 19th-century photographs, this display will examine the relationship that developed between photography and architectural practice in the 19th century and explore how photography facilitated the re-discovery of an idealised past. The display will also address...... (more)

Less and More - The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Wed 18th November 2009 - Tue 9th March 2010, 10:00am. Location: Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD Organised by: Design Museum. As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century by defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language for its products. The exhibition will showcase Rams landmark...... (more)

Super Colossal

Twins

Orhan Ayyüce writing on Twin Buildings for Archinect: As you can see from the diagram above, a developer can build two buildings with twin concept. He can save a lot of cash from the architectural billing and contract time, from the material purchases and double discounts, and, from the ease of proven installation and erection, all of which translate into large sums of monetary gain whose importance in American urbanism is paramount. Next time you drive by a twin concept building, tak... (more)

Open Agenda

Open Agenda: A new competition run by UTS for recent architecture graduates. Open Agenda will award seed funding to three exceptional design research proposals that explore new positions in architecture for critical consideration. We are looking for text and graphic based proposals that seek to develop research through architectural design. Proposals will be evaluated on the strength of their research topic, their innovative approach to design as research, design quality and their pot... (more)

US Embassy in London

The Guardian reports on the new American Embassy in London, which the US state department says has been designed to “reflect the values of the American people”. Those values it seems are reflected by a 12-storey cube clad in a blastproof glass and plastic façade with a moat running halfway around the building, which the architects freely admit was modelled on a medieval fortress. ... (more)

Rolex Learning Centre

A film on the recently completed Rolex Learning Centre by sanaa. More images of the building at Space Invading.... (more)

Watsons Bay House

Watsons Bay House is complete. More information and images at the project page. Photography by Murray Fredericks.... (more)

Architecture Insights

Architecture Insights. A handsome new website from the NSW Architects Registration Board collecting local (predominately NSW) architecture content and news. Of particular interest to me is the event calendar which will hopefully fill a gap locally by providing a collated event resource. ... (more)

Super Critical

Millenium People on ‘Super Critical’, the first in a new series from the Architectural Association, AA Words: "I wouldn't want you to cry for having had to come here tonight for this conversation, because nobody dragged you here." - Peter Eisenman to Rem Koolhaas. So ends Supercritical, a little volume that documents the rare meeting of two architect friends/enemies/rivals/(whatever) -- Rem Koolhaas & Peter Eisenman. It accurately transcribes the two's complete inabili... (more)

Global Pecha Kucha for Haiti

Pecha Kucha Sydney is participating in a global 24hr continuous Pecha Kucha Night to raise funds for rebuilding efforts in Haiti on Saturday the 20th February at the MCA. There will be a continuous 24hr Pecha Kucha Night taking place in cities around the world and we are excited to be taking the slot of GMT+11. 100% of the proceeds raised on the night will go directly to Architecture for Humanity, a group currently involved in rebuilding works in Haiti. It is short notice, I know, bu... (more)

Tropolism

Tropolism Books: The Green Workplace

Title: The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line Author: Leigh Stringer Publication Date: August 4, 2009 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 978-0230614284 Available at Amazon. Have you ever presented a recycling plan to...... (more)

Charles Gwathmey, Dead at 71

We don't do obituaries at Tropolism, but this death is worth mentioning. Charles Gwathmey died August 3rd in Manhattan. Mr. Gwathmey was the target of derision in my very first published article, so I like to think of him as...... (more)

Poster Designers, Get Ready

CUP, Tropolism's favorite NYC urban activist group, is at it again. As you may know, they publish a smart poster every few months announcing their initiatives; the poster is called Making Policy Public, or MPP. This time around, they are...... (more)

Tropolism: Moving Up To 7

Tropolism made it into the top 10 of the MoPo 2009 list of most popular architecture weblogs (written in English by primarily one person, and vetted by this or that metric) again this year, except moving up to slot...... (more)

Amazon Wishes

Just so you know, we have a wishlist at Amazon.com. And, our 4 year anniversary is fast approaching. Click the button to send us stuff: ......... (more)

Tropolism Exhibitions: The Pictures Generation 1974-1984

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been an embarrassment of riches this summer. Roxy Paine's rooftop installation is an artwork so right for its summer vista (in a way the Madison Square Park installation was not), and so right...... (more)

Atlantic Yards: The First Post

Atlantic Yards by Frank O. Gehry: we never liked it. It might be too big. It was a stadium for basketball, a sport we just don't care about and whose only reference point for us is "Madison" "Square" We Knocked...... (more)

Tropolism Books: Le Corbusier And The Maisons Jaoul

Title: Le Corbusier And The Maisons Jaoul Author: Caroline Maniaque Benton Publication Date: April 2, 2009 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568988009 Available at Amazon. The Maisons Jaoul, two weekend houses designed by Le Corbusier representing a period of...... (more)

Google Sightseeing

Yesterday The Street View Best Streets Awards

Forget the Oscars – these are the awards that count at Google Sightseeing! The guys at Google are planning to expand their Street View coverage of the UK in the near future, and to get us in the mood they asked the public to vote for their favourite British streets in three categories: the most picturesque, the best for fashion and the best for food. Now more than 11,000 votes have been counted, and the three Best Streets in Britain have been named. Not all the winners are yet visible on ... (more)

Dog Suicide Bridge

In 1859 a wealthy man bought a piece of land overlooking the River Clyde, on which he built a mansion. When the mansion was expanded in 1892, an access road over the Overtoun Burn was required, and so the Overtoun Bridge was built. 50 years later a bizarre series of suicides began to take place on the bridge, whereby dogs would regularly throw themselves to their deaths from the parapets. Since the suicides began, it is claimed that at least 50 dogs have killed themselves here; all at virtua... (more)

Street Circuits -- Part 1

Once a year, streets all over the world transform into professional racing circuits to play host to some the greatest drivers and cars in the world. Parking lots are turned into paddocks, parks are remodelled with grandstands, and intersections on the road become high-speed overtaking points in battles for world championships. Local governments often use these events to promote tourism on the worldwide stage and races can often inject millions of dollars in revenue into the surrounding communiti... (more)

Don Justo's Cathedral

In the Spanish town of Mejorada Del Campo, former monk Justo Gallego Martínez has devoted the past 50 years of his life to constructing a cathedral, all by himself. After contracting tuberculosis as as a young man, Don Justo promised to build a cathedral dedicated to “Our Lady of the Pillar” if he recovered from his illness. A man of his word, Don Justo hasn’t let his lack of architectural knowledge impede this mission -- there are no architectural plans for the cathedral... (more)

Top 3 Scariest Airports in the Caribbean

What do you get when you mix fast heavy planes with small island airports? A hair-raising final approach! Let’s take a look at three scariest airports to fly into in the Caribbean. Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten (SXM) Passengers arriving into Princess Juliana often fly just a few metres over the head of sunbathers below on Maho Beach. The combination of screaming jet aircraft and beautiful tropical scenery in such close proximity make this airport a mecca for the wor... (more)

The Hollywood Sign

The world famous Hollywood Sign is an internationally recognised symbol of American heritage and culture. While best known for its many television and movie cameos, the sign itself has a long history, and has undergone a few nips and tucks during its 87 years. Google Sightseeing first visited the Hollywood sign nearly 5 years ago, and since then Google’s imagery hasn’t changed drastically – it’s still only just legible from above. However, Google’s Street View ca... (more)

A few of Britain's Notable Pubs

Britain is renowned for historic pubs serving fine ales and mouthwatering food. While the reality may be that dozens of pubs are closing every week, or being taken over by large corporate chains, there are still plenty of inns that retain their character and popularity. Let’s begin by looking at several of the claimants to the title of Oldest Pub in Britain. The Guinness Book of Records officially recognises Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans. Originally named the Round House, the cu... (more)

Trick of the Eye (Trompe l'oeil)