Editor Picks #55: Holding Pattern?- Architecture of Dance.
Architectural Theory?
Inspiring, Maybe a few?
Ubiquity?
A Summer Show.
Too Small or Not decentralized enough?
The Roof? Not really..
Dog's Love America Too.
And a quote about Magic and Architecture
"Black magic is a forever abundant fabrication.
Many "technologies of the past" are still in use today, especially in architecture."... (more)
- Sky Lark
- There comes a time in family life when the kids need their own rooms. One solution is to add on. Rarely, though, does your average middle-income household hire one of the worldÂs leading architects to do the job. NYT... (more)
- 17/5001 Â The Honecker Bunker
- The bunker, built between 1978-1983 to save elite East German leaders from a nuclear attack, will briefly drop its veil of secrecy this August for three months, after that, it will be permanently sealed. CSM | bunker 5001.com... (more)
- Featured Jobs Today: in DC
- CORE architecture + design seeking Marketing Manager in Washington, DC - Georgetown
View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job... (more)
- Workspace Group Urbantine Project 2008 Has a Lucky Winner
- Open Tables Ecology by Working Architecture Group is the winner of the Workspace Group Urbantine Project in 2008. This application - a study in contemporary interaction theory, or Ubiquitous Computing - impressed judges in its detail, imagination and its engagement with the digital component of the brief. More on Bustler... (more)
- Monumenta 2008 / Richard Serra
- Next time you think your building is sculptural or define it as a sculpture, think again. Monumenta 2008:Promanade, a site dedicated to Serra's work in Grand Palais is full of great documantation of sculptor's work, an interview by Yve-Alain Bois, his views on space and body, architecture & sculpture, gravity,mass & balance, creating-manufacturing, metal and much more. Arguably the richest web site set on the artist's work to date. Monumenta | prev. 2 | 1... (more)
- WeWork|4Her
- Shajay Bhooshan, completed his Masters Degree in Architecture and Urbanism from DRL, AA School of Architecture, London.
He has worked in various technical capacities related to Architectural computing at the AADRL , University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Experimental Architecture Innsbruck, and units within the AA School of Architecture.
Currently, works as researcher in the Computation and Design (co|de) group at Zaha Hadid Architects, London.
Shajay documents his work on the... (more)
- Winners Announced for 3rd Living Steel Competition
- Living Steel today announced winners for its 3rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing. The program called for energy efficient, affordable, single-family, detached housing that minimizes emissions and can withstand temperature extremes. More... (more)
- Featured Jobs Today: in NY
- NK Architects seeking Project Architect in New York, NYNK Architects is firm with a 35 year history of providing innovative design for educational, healthcare and institutional clients. This is a unique opportunity to join our small but growing NYC office...
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP seeking Intermediate Architect in New York, NY
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP seeking Senior Architect in New York, NY
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- Jean Nouvel - the architect as artist
- 'Architects take emotions from the streets, the art galleries; they steal,' says the controversial Frenchman. TimesOnline... (more)
- 3 days Independence Day 2008
- If you’ve been wondering why half of the Internet had gone quiet, then (like us) you might not have realised that today is the 4th of July, and that means it's America's Independence Day.
The holiday marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 - which is today held at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C..
Buy what does the National archive store in those white boxes on the roof?
All over America people are celebrating Independen... (more)
- Three Sisters, Pittsburgh
- No, you’re not seeing triple - these are Pittsburgh’s Three Sisters, a trio of nearly identical suspension bridges erected side by side over the Allegheny River.
Rachel Carson (Ninth Street Bridge)
All three were built between 1924 and 1928 by the aptly-named American Bridge Company, and they are the only trio of nearly identical bridges, as well as the first self-anchored suspension span bridges in the United States.
Andy Warhol (Seventh Street Bridge)
The 9th and 7th street... (more)
- Tour de Street View
- The first Street View images outside America are now available - Street View has come to France!
Added in celebration of the upcoming Tour de France, the street view images are mostly restricted to the race route (rather than allowing you to explore whole cities).
However, there is lots to see, including the most classic of sights: The Eiffel tower1.
Street View cars have been spotted all over Europe, so other countries are no doubt on the way.
In the meantime, let us know what you find in... (more)
- I'm A FOOL 4U. GINA I ♥ U
- Somebody must have had a major crush on Gina to go to the effort of creating this massive, brightly-coloured graffiti on a disused highway overpass here in Seattle, that reads “I’m A FOOL 4U. GINA I ♥ U“
Usually when someone goes to the effort of creating a personal message this large and detailed it’s to ask for their sweetheart's hand in marriage, as we've seen several times before. In this case however we have a simple dedication of love1 executed on an impressiv... (more)
- Blue Trees
- It’s commonly quoted as fact that in nature, no food or vegetable is naturally blue.
This information was again disputed recently by the re-introduction of blue Smarties1, this time using 100% natural seaweed extract to create the blue colour.
Additional support for the “blue-in-nature” brigade comes in the form of blue trees spotted on Google Earth. Firstly, in Australia’s Mount Annan Botanic Garden there’s a strikingly-blue tree.
The Garden’s website ex... (more)
- The Happy Couple
- As the summer wedding season gets into full swing, even Google is muscling in on the action, and has managed to capture a rather charming shot of the newlyweds - probably much to the disappointment of the photographer who wanted the exclusive!
In my opinion, a spectacular photo opportunity, as this is Columbus Circle in New York City, a famous landmark which is surrounded by amazing skyscrapers - not least the Trump International Hotel and Tower behind the party.
Along with the 44 story lu... (more)
- The (Current) Largest Restaurant in the World
- Syria’s Damascus Gate restaurant has recently been certified by Guinness as the “World’s largest restaurant”, stealing the crown from Thailand’s (previously featured) Mang Gorn Luang.
Seating up to 6014 diners at one time, it easily tops the previous holder’s 5000 capacity.
Damascus Gate employs 1800 members of staff to cover the 54000 m2 outside seating area, which is decorated with waterfalls, ponds, and replica archaeological monuments.
However, what s... (more)
- Landform
- The skeptics amongst you might initially think that this bizarre twisted lake isn’t natural real, but rather that the Google engineers have just discovered Photoshop’s Twirl feature. However I assure you that it is real, as it’s only a few minutes down the road from where I work!
This is actually a sculpture, “Landform” by Charles Jencks - an immaculately sculpted earth, grass and water monument in the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinb... (more)
- Three Sisters, Australia
- Here in New South Wales, one of the most popular sights are the famous Three Sisters - three spectacular rock pinnacles which tower over the Jamison Valley in the Blue Mountains.
The rock spires are named Meehni (922 m), Wimlah (918 m), and Gunnedoo (906 m) and the view of them from the nearby observation platform at Echo Point is pretty dramatic. Apparently there’s a metal staircase here that leads down to the valley which is made up of 1,000 individual steps.1
The Blue Mountains ar... (more)
- The Top Gear Test Track
- Last night in the UK saw the start of the eleventh series of popular BBC2 car show Top Gear - so it’s time to finally visit the Top Gear studio and track!
Based at Dunsfold Park in Surrey, the two mile track was built on an old RAF airfield by Lotus engineers.
As seen from the opening credits, the large hanger by the track is the studio, although the large Top Gear logo isn’t there any more (or perhaps this picture was taken before filming). Just next to the studio, you can see ... (more)
- New York's Central Park has turned into a battleground, New York Magazine tells us — joggers vs. bikers vs. dog walkers vs. drivers. "It's about the politics of public space. Who gets that space? And how is it apportioned?"
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- New Kiribati
- Earlier this month, the president of Kiribati warned the nations of the world that his country will be gone by century's end. Submerged under rising sea level, a casualty of climate change.And even if, by some ridiculously well-timed miracle, everyone reduces their carbon footprint to near zero, the 92,000 island inhabitants "may be at the point of no return" where reversing the effects of the emissions already in the atmosphere will not come before their atolls get flooded. The president thus a... (more)
- Polar Inertia visits some abandoned swimming pools.
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- NL 2028
- (The Olympic Hyper-Dome. Image by Lukas Narutis.)This sounds like a very interesting exhibition:What would it mean to the Netherlands if we were to organize the Olympic Games in 2028? How do you ensure that the stadiums used for the Games can still have a proper function afterwards? How do you organize the infrastructure and mobility for the Games? Do you combine all the functions in a single building, or do you spread the Games throughout the country?MVRDV (in collaboration with the Academy of ... (more)
- A 26-ton miniature earth core filled with boiling metal will spin at about 90 miles per hour in a laboratory to generate "the world's first artificial, spherical and self-sustaining magnetic field." It will help scientists better understand our planet's magnetic climate, which "acts like a protective shield, blocking harmful particles from the sun, which fry the electronics on board orbiting satellites and mess with the electrical grids powering homes and offices." It will also birth a new indus... (more)
- Charles Holland, of Fantastic Journal, writes:In his book Looking at the Overlooked Norman Bryson describes the strange impossibility of the scenes depicted in Dutch still life painting. Vases teeming with exotic flowers would be painted in lavish detail despite the fact that the flowers themselves could never have existed together in that state. Coming from different continents and time zones they would flower at different times of the year and their representation together in full bloom is a p... (more)
- Naumachia in the Courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti held on 11 May 1589 and Other Adventures in Froth
- (Mannerist mayhem in the bowels of Renaissance clarity. Image by Orazio Scarabelli.)Pruned turned 3 yesterday. To mark the start of Year 4, we return briefly to our first post, specifically to the referenced book edited by Joy Kenseth, The Age of the Marvelous, because, should it need to be disclosed, the Marvelous has been the overall theme of this blog from its inception and Kenseth's volume our editorial guide. We dredge, in other words, the interweb ether for "anything that lay outside the o... (more)
- The People's Liberation Army against hydrology — watch it.
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- Watch David Barrie explain how to spatialize an edible landscape in Middlesbrough, England — one that can actually have an impact on the physical grid and economic infrastructure of a city. But if you prefer to read text, The Guardian has a report on the project.
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- Watch the films of Rudolph Valentino and Cecil B. DeMille besides their remains at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Necropolises as occupiable urban open spaces.
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- Pop-Up Park, In Action!
- Tropolism Exclusive: Pop-Up Park Updates
- Milliken Definitely Being Demolished
- The Milliken Building, the 1958 box by Carson + Lundin Architect, appears to be in the process of full-on demolition. Our inside correspondant is Dam Trader, who sends along two photographs from last Friday's progress. Hopefully the Springs Building isn't...... (more)
- Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
- Tipped off by a reader to the VM Mountain in Copenhagen, we began to explore the website of Bjarke Ingels Group Architects (BIG for short). While the VM Mountain is impressive, we were drawn to the Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingor,...... (more)
- Tropolism Exhibitions: Vanishing America
- We are midwesterners, so we understand how fragile most of these structures are. They are remote. They are owned by people who use them for a purpose, not fawn over them for their aesthetic value. They have no publicity machine...... (more)
- Milliken Building Going Down For Hotel?
- We like to post news, not ask questions, but here is one people have asked us about recently: is the work happening at the Milliken Building (pictured here in 2004) a full-on demolition, or a renovation? One person who wrote...... (more)
- Tropolism Is MoPo's #9
- We were happy and surprised to learn that Tropolism is #9 in the 2008 MoPo, the list of Most Popular architecture blogs in the world. Ah, the power of a great publicist. Kidding! Eikongraphia uses a bunch of internety measures...... (more)
- Tropolism Exclusive: The Waterfalls Get A Park
- Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls have created a rush of art tourism. The number of ways to see the waterfall, created specifically for the waterfalls, is growing fast. One approach is the generically luxury boat cruise for only $50,000. Another is potentially...... (more)
- Tropolism Books: Minka: My Farmhouse In Japan
- Title: Minka: My Farmhouse In Japan Author: John Roderick Publication Date: November 1, 2007 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 978-1-56898-731-6 John Roderick leaves his metier of journalism (he was an Associated Press correspondent in Asia for almost forty years) and...... (more)
- Furniture Friday: Platform's Occasional Tables
- Platform Furniture and Fabrication's Occasional Tables: Shaker-simple design, with all the zen freshness that that reference implies....... (more)
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