Most Significant

Today Vanity Fair posted the results of their World Architecture Survey. The magazine

"asked the world’s leading architects, critics, and deans of architecture schools two questions: what are the five most important buildings, bridges, or monuments constructed since 1980, and what is the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century."

The results of the first question -- compiled in a slideshow -- are not surprising, with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao easily topping the list. The rest are recognizable buildings by household names like Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Tadao Ando, and so on.

But I'm more intrigued by the second question, if certain buildings stand out from the rest in a decade that really didn't have its own "Bilbao." Well, there was a clear-cut winner and a surprising runner-up:


[L: Most Significant: Beijing National Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron | R: Second Most Significant: Saint-Pierre, Firminy by Le Corbusier]

First place is probably the most media-saturated building of the last ten years, thanks to the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing: the Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest) by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Second place is a church designed by Le Corbusier and completed in 2006, 41 years after his death; construction began in 1971 (six years after he died) but was inactive from 1973-2003. So first place is a building in the spotlight and second place is one only architects know about. Here is the list of buildings that received more than one vote (# votes):

Bird's Nest by Herzog & de Meuron (7)
Saint-Pierre Firminy by Le Corbusier (4)
Seattle Public Library by OMA (3)
CCTV Building by OMA (2)
Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry (2)
Large Hadron Collider - CERN (2)
MAXXI Museum by Zaha Hadid (2)
Scottish Parliament by EMBT (2)

And the EGO Awards go to these architects who chose their own buildings as the "most significant work of architecture created so far in the 21st century":

Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au for the BMW Welt
Hans Hollein for the Architecture Pill
James Stewart Polshek for the Rose Center for Earth and Space
Bernard Tschumi for the Acropolis Museum

Any other takes on the list? There's plenty to nitpick in the buildings picked by the "52 experts."

Book of the Moment

L.A. Under the Influence by Roger Sherman is

A series of case studies in Los Angeles [in which] Sherman applies game theory to scrutinize the behavior of ... intersecting private and public interests, revealing an alternative logic of architectural composition. Making extensive use of diagrams, photographs, and a range of negotiation models employed within game theory, including pecking order, negotiated access, multilateral exchange, and tit for tat, he identifies the characteristic features and behaviors of this new spatial logic. Sherman contends that it is ... negotiations [between ... stakeholders over the use of property], rather than more commonly accepted factors like history, symbolism, and planning, that not only shape a city but also influence the development of its smallest common increment: the individual parcel. [University of Minnesota Press]

Here are some of the case studies presented in Sherman's book.


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An oil rig and single-family house buffeted by a pocket park (easement).


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Multi-family housing, a palm reader, and a billboard living in harmony with each other.


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A high-wire tower straddling two properties.


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Billboards "as shading device and privacy protector for second-floor apartment roof deck."


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A "no-man's land protruding into the street."


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Oil rigs, a bank, and Curly's Cafe coexisting harmoniously.


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An oil derrick in Beverly Hills camouflaged in a floral pattern.


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Why yes, that is a regulation wiffle ball court.

Ando Online?

Tadao Ando has been one of the few architects -- superstars, mainly -- in my running tally of those without a web page*. But in my search for information on an Ando project I came across a real estate listing for an apartment in one of his buildings, a listing that features a link to what looks to be the architect's official web page. The Japanese/English site includes the footer "COPYRIGHT TadaoAndo Architect & Associates 2009, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED," so I'm somewhat confident the page is Ando's own, not a fan page, even though the design and content leave a lot to be desired.

One aspect of the Japanese page that I do like is the map feature, missing in the English portion.



It is simply a graphically pixelated map of a portion of Japan with red squares for projects standing out from the green ones. A click on a red box opens a pop-up window with a small photo, text in Japanese and driving directions, also in Japanese. These pop-ups remind me of the special issue of Casa Brutus from 2002, the Grand Tour with Tadao Ando.



Certainly the map and rest of the site leave one yearning for more, but it makes me wonder what form the web page of other hold-outs* should take. Ando's site seems to be a place holder for hopefully something better, and with Flash waning and sites built in WordPress, Drupal and other open-source formats on the rise, I don't foresee Ando being joined by other architects on my list any time soon. One site that might be a good model for Ando and other hold-outs is Morphopedia, because the site acts less as a marketing tool and more as an archive, a digital repository of Thom Mayne's output over the years. For architects with Pritzker Prizes under their belts, flexible sites ideal for archiving and browsing may be better than animated ones with graphic control but little to nil flexibility.

*Architects without web pages include Frank Gehry (this doesn't count), Herzog & de Meuron, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, SANAA (as F M's comment indicates, this surely doesn't pass for a web page ), Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor.

Monday, Monday

My weekly page update:

This week's dose features Prayer Pavilion of Light in Phoenix, Arizona by DeBartolo Architects:


The featured past dose is Phoenix First Assembly Childrens Pavilion in Phoenix, Arizona by DeBartolo Architects:


This week's book review is The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher:


Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

USA Character Approved
The architecture blog by Chad "Tropolism" Smith. (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

The Evolving Critic
"A Metro Boston Blog for Art, Architectural, Urban Planning and Community Explorations." (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

Living Architecture
"Holidays in modern architecture," an idea generated by Alain de Botton.

Atlas Obscura
"A collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist." (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)

Sidebar Shuffling

'Twas time to take another look at the links on my sidebar, to see if the sites are live, if the blogs have posted in the last six months, etc. Below are some links moved from my sidebar to my sidebar graveyard.

:: adaptivereuse.net
:: ArchitEXploitation
:: bookendless
:: Critical Spatial Practice
:: Danda
:: Defpoints
:: Design Rag
:: Die Gläserne Kette
:: Eating Bark
:: Looking Around
:: The Loss of Silence
:: Miss Representation
:: NY Architecture Examiner
:: The Pocket Square
:: ROADS LESS...TRAVELED
:: rory hyde dot com blog
:: Social Practice
:: Stories of Houses
:: Thoughts on Architecture
:: Triple Mint
:: Under the Skyscraper

As well I checked the graveyard to see if any blogs have started up again or if they've disappeared entirely. The latter have just been deleted, but the former includes the following sites that have been moved back to my sidebar from the graveyard.

:: Architectural Prozac
:: Arquitectearte
:: Bird to the North
:: Future Feeder
:: twobo arquitectura

And I've added to my sidebar the category architectural links::architect profiles, featuring sites that feature profiles of architecture offices. These sorts of sites didn't really fit neatly into other categories, though there is some overlap as some are subsets of larger sites, be they profiles or other content linked in other categories.

:: AD 100
:: american-architects
:: architecture-page
:: Architizer
:: Architonic
:: australian-architects
:: austria-architects
:: california-architects
:: chinese-architects
:: DesignGuide.com
:: For Architects
:: german-architects
:: italian-architects
:: japan-architects
:: newyork-architects
:: Remodelista Directory
:: swiss-architects
:: world-architects
:: yourchitect

Today's archidose #427

PS1, originally uploaded by a tanz.

"Pole Dance" installation at MoMA P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens by SO-IL, 2010. See more shots of the installation in Alan R. Tansey's flickr set and at Domus Magazine.

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Literary Dose #43

"Huge, drab buildings suddenly started to pop up like mushrooms all over the place. It was if nobody had created them, as if they multiplied by themselves. Sometimes, when we visit other cities and countries, we ask ourselves where the beauty of the olden days has gone. In some places we get the impression that all buildings have been designed by structural glass manufacturers; all the roads by asphalt companies; and all the parks by lawn mower firms. It seems as though the architects sign on the dotted line but are excluded from the decision-making process. We ask ourselves why everything has to be planned in one go and built at top speed right up to the last minute. In our opinion, things only work if they are allowed to evolve -- and that requires time. Perhaps it would be practical to oblige all architects and clients to live for a time in the buildings they construct. If you don't like a painting, you can take it off the wall, or put it away, or even burn it -- but architecture stays standing for at least fifty years and it is impossible to ignore its presence. We should and must do it better."

- "A World Without a Manual" by Jan Körbes (REFUNC.NL) in Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture, by Alejandro Bahamón and Maria Camila Sanjinés (W. W. Norton, 2010, p. 183)

See Places: Design Observer for a slideshow of REFUNC.NL's "Return of the Fridges" and other projects in the book.

Polshek Partnership >> Ennead Architects

Come again?

Simplicty, Simplicity, Simplicity

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Glenn Murcutt:

From a Distance

I couldn't make it to this afternoon's press preview of SO-IL's competition-winning "Pole Dance" at MoMA P.S.1 (its first official "warm up" to the public is on July 3), but I did snap this shot of the installation from the #7 train on the way home. Can you see it?

Today's archidose #426

Lonnekerspoorlaan, originally uploaded by Marc ZZZ.

Lonnekerspoorlaan by various architects in Roombeek, Enschede, the Netherlands. The above composite of 25 pictures can be seen in a much LARGER VERSION (definitely recommended).

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Icons under Construction

One of the paradoxes of progress is the ongoing building construction that cramps the style of cities, making them -- well -- construction sites, but also hindering movement as safety zones impede upon sidewalks and streets. But an upside of the boom-time presence of construction sites (something hard to imagine now as many sites in New York City lay dormant) is how views of the construction progress reveal the structure, the innards of the final building. In the case of today's iconic architecture, it is especially rewarding to get a glimpse of a Frank Gehry or some other starchitect's creation before it receives its skin, its polish.

In this sense Stanley Greenberg's latest book Architecture under Construction is definitely a treat. He captures a number of buildings by name architects during that stage of construction where the structure is giving the building shape, but where the materials that hang off of it are distant. It's a time when many qualities -- form, light, a certain vagueness of what the building will become -- can be found that disappear once the "final product" becomes a reality. The photos enable the reader to visit places at particular times that would otherwise be unfeasible; it's one thing to see Manhattan's iconic buildings take shape, but to also see ones on the west coast and overseas is close to impossible...unless you're Greenberg.

Below are some photos from Greenberg's book. Can you tell what the buildings are without their facades? For me the photos actually reveal who designed the building, yet without the exteriors that ultimately create the images disseminated in print and online -- the images that echo the renderings presented long before ground broke for construction -- the exact building isn't so clear. Answers are at the link at the bottom of this post.









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Monday, Monday

My weekly page update:

This week's dose features Square with four circles in New Haven, Connecticut by Felice Varini:


The featured past dose is Tending, (Blue) in Dallas, Texas by James Turrell and Interloop A/D:


This week's book review is Open City: Designing Coexistence edited by Tim Rieniets, Jennifer Sigler, Kees Christiaanse:


Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

Shifting Paradigms
Archinect will be broadcasting this NYC event live on Tuesday, June 22 at 6:30pm EST.

Soundscrapers
Blog of "Nick Sowers [who] is practicing the construction of space with sound and 2x4s in the SF Bay area." (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

Conditions Magazine #5/6
A Call for Submissions: "The next issue of CONDITIONS will be a double issue, exploring the politics of quality management in architecture. The Scandinavian countries are all developing national strategies for their architecture politics, and quality in architecture is the buzzword, as something to be strived for at all levels of planning. The debate on what constitutes quality in architecture is as old as architecture itself. In architecture the notion of quality can be approached on several levels. Building-technical quality standards are becoming more and more dominant, aiming mostly at avoiding mistakes. When it comes to the quality of the architecture per se, there is less agreement than ever before. How can such a contested notion become the main goal in national architecture politics? In theories of quality management, there are three components of equal importance: quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement. Quality management deals not only with defining quality, but also with the means to achieve it. Who shall define quality in architecture, and how can governments control and implement quality in the building sector?

We are looking for speculative, provocative texts as well as projects exploring the politics of architectural quality.Send your abstracts to submission@conditionsmagazine.com by the 21st of June. Deadline for final submissions is the 2nd of August."

Book Review: Above the Pavement - the Farm!

Above the Pavement - the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at P.F.1 edited by Amale Andraos & Dan Wood
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
Paperback, 192 pages



It's been two years since WORKac's winning design in MoMA P.S.1's Young Architects Program (YAP) was constructed at the Long Island City contemporary arts center, but its influence extends beyond its brief tenure in the courtyard. The ninth installation in the ongoing YAP program received lots of press in print and online, and this second installment in the Inventory Books series promises to open the project's blend of architecture and agriculture to an even wider audience. This potential comes about not only from the project's content -- going beyond the usual folly of fun for revelers -- and form -- striking in appearance and construction -- but also the easy-to-digest content (pardon the pun) of the book and the way it is designed.

Public Farm 1, or P.F.1, as WORKac called the project in a spin on the institution's name, was a canted overhead plane built of cardboard tubes filled with lightweight soil and various edible plants and herbs. Raised on a number of columns also of cardboard, the installation engaged the courtyard in one spot with a small pool. This area, and an additional periscope, gave visitors a view of the agricultural products of the summer-long installation; underneath only labels of what occurred above were visible. WORKac's design is notable for using the YAP as an opportunity to explore themes and ideas on a much larger scale than the physical walls of the site and the institution. Many of the previous and subsequent winners focused on form and construction, and while both can be said to be exploratory here (esp. the cardboard tubes), they take a backseat to the focus on small-scale urban farming.

How WORKac and its collaborators went from an invitation to participate in the competition to P.F.1's construction and dismantling is the subject of this pocket-sized book. The voyage is presented as a conversation with the various players, edited from different interviews. One hears the voices of architects and their collaborators in the beginning, who then fade into the background as the builders move to fore, until the architects come back again when the pieces are moved from the shop to the site, crunch time. It can be read easily in one afternoon, thanks to the laid back, conversational tone of the interviews, the small size of the book, and a large font. The main quibble with the layout of the book is how numerous illustrations are tucked "into the fold," making them unintelligible. Otherwise the book is very successful at conveying the ideas of the project, one that probably could not have existed without a book, as its importance is so much greater than one summer in Long Island City.

US: CA: UK:

Note: On Wednesday, June 23 at 6pm is a book launch and panel discussion on Above the Pavement and Fritz Haeg's Edible Estates at the Horticultural Society of New York, 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor.

and

On Saturday, July 3 this year's MoMA PS1 Warm Up by SO-IL kicks off.

Today's archidose #425

New Art Exchange, originally uploaded by Wojtek Gurak.

New Art Exchange in Nottingham, England by Hawkins\Brown, 2009.

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Museum of the Moving Image Progress

Cracking open the AIA Guide to New York City's Fifth Edition that arrived in the mail today, I immediately flipped to my 'hood -- Astoria, Queens -- to see what's new and different with the guide. My own guidebook will feature three or four buildings in the area, but only one is featured in the AIA Guide and one other is briefly mentioned under another building. The latter is Leeser Architecture's expansion of the Museum of the Moving Image, something the authors describe "might appear around 2020." Having seen the early stages of construction last year I didn't think another ten years would be needed to finish the addition, yet reading this typo or wisecrack spurred me to stroll over and see how construction is progressing.



Most of the facade panels have been installed, except for a band above the new Education Center portal (above) and a bay on the northwest corner (below). The expansion is sited at the rear of the existing building, away from 35th Avenue, most likely due to a National Register of Historic Places designation for the museum's home.



In the top image a corrugated metal building in the right foreground is visible, a production facility for the museum's neighbor, the Kaufman Astoria Studios. Designed by JTDA, the building is missing from Leeser's renderings, making the courtyard appear larger than it will actually be.



JTDA's design relates to the Leeser addition in scale and color, but it is a whole different type of architecture: functional, uninspired and the result of interior considerations. It is not a good neighbor for Leeser's triangulated facade. Considering the main entry to the museum will take place in this courtyard, more money should have been spent on this elevation of the studio. [Correction: the main entry will be located on 35th Avenue...yet this does not reduce the importance of this outdoor space.] Landscaping may temper this difference, but if Leeser's renderings are any indication it will be minimal.



The success of Leeser's design, at least on the exterior, depends on how the light-blue triangular panels will hold up over time. They have a unique quality that is reflective yet muted, changing depending on the angle of perception and time of day. Without reflections (above) the addition appears surreal, so much like the rendering that it is intangible. The reflections make it more ethereal, sometimes disappearing into the blue sky.



Up close, the facade's construction is exemplary. The deep reveals -- narrow and wide for the small and large grids, respectively -- are aligned almost perfectly, enabling the facade to be read like an abstraction, a supremely flat surface reinforced by the design of the deep reveals. I'm looking forward to the inverse of the facade (to be used for projections of art and such in the lobby spaces) when the building is complete ... I'm guessing nine or ten year's ahead of AIA's schedule!

Today's archidose #424

Ecole Leutschenbach, originally uploaded by kriss69.

Schulanlage Leutschenbach in Zurich, Switzerland by Christian Kerez, 2009.

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Monday, Monday

My weekly page update:

This week's dose features Main Street Garden in Dallas, Texas by Thomas Balsley Associates:


The featured past dose is MFO Park in Zurich, Switzerland by Burckhardt + Partner and Raderschall:


This week's book review is Architecture Crossword Puzzles: Volume 1:


Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

Architects Directory
Just like the title says. (added to sidebar under blogs::aggregate)

Architektourist
"A non-commercial, purely private online project by Alexandra Goebel and Michael Busch. ... [where] we collect outstanding architectural, interior design, landscape and urban planning projects in order to share with interested people." (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)

Coffee with an Architect
A blog by Jody Brown, "an Architect running INFILL, pllc. in Durham, NC. He's drinking coffee with someone at a coffee shop near you. He's that geeky guy over in the corner yammering on about Le Corbusier." (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

Chris Jordan
One of the keynote speakers at the AIA Convention last week, photographer Chris Jordan creatively depicts quantity at a time when many things can seem unfathomable. Be sure to check out the zoom feature on the Running the Numbers series.

World Blogs
"A database created to gather architectural blogs from all countries under worldarchitecture.org."

Papa Drawings

As an addendum to this week's dose, Papa by Hal Ingberg, the artist/architect sent some drawings to further explain the installation. The drawings illustrate how the piece's form is influenced and generated by a number of site factors.


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[click image for map with location of Maman by Louise Bourgeois]

Miami through the Windshield

Before today's wrap of the AIA Convention in Miami Beach, I had only one chance for a little architectural tourism, a 30-minute drive before dinner on Friday. Below are the three buildings I drove by, photos snapped through the windshield quite haphazardly. A few more photos can be found in this Flickr set. These buildings will be posted to The Archi-Tourist soon with more information; for now just a few comments.

New World Symphony by Frank Gehry, scheduled to open later this year:

This elevation facing the Fillmore and the Convention Center to the north gives only a hint at the "Gehry" going on here. Around the corner is a long wall -- half blank white (for projecting images) and half glass -- facing a future 2-acre park. The glazed area is where the action is, with sculptural objects, visible behind the glass, apparently breaking through the roof above as well as the curtain wall at the entrance. It's an interesting parti that veils Gehry's expression behind sometimes transparent glass. The facade pictured above resembles a billowing curtain, a fairly obvious metaphor for the musical performance spaces within.

Publix Supermarket by Carlos Zapata, 1998:

Tucked into a corner of Miami Beach west of the Convention Center is this store for the grocery chain Publix. Like many urban supermarkets a multi-story footprint is required. Zapata's design uses a ramp-escalator, an element that is exposed behind a larger expanse of glazing and becomes the primary expression, as the wall curves and cantilevers, following the movement of the shoppers.

11 11 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron, 2010:

Most of the brouhaha in Miami architecture now is focused on Herzog & de Meuron's parking garage, part of the 11 11 Lincoln Road development. (The project is more often written as "1111 Lincoln Road" but also with a space between the four ones; I'm not sure which is proper, but I'm using what is used on the official web page, assuming the project is meant to be voiced as "eleven eleven.") The development also includes residences, renovated office space and retail.



The garage at Lincoln and Alton Roads (the above photos are looking down and up Alton) marks the entry to the Lincoln Road mall, a product of 11 11 developer Robert Wennett. It's obvious from the variety in the garage's floor plates -- something usually uniform because all cars are basically the same -- that more is going on than the temporary storage of cars. A boutique sits about halfway up the building, with an event space near the top and a future penthouse for the developer still being constructed.



My thoughts on the building are gestating, but my long-held point-of-view on parking garages is that even the best-designed parking garages don't deserve high praise, they are not a type worthy of appreciation. (Only from the brain of somebody who's never owned a car.) But the creative programming that informs the unique stacking and structure of the garage makes the building a hybrid of sorts, not a strict parking garage. Nevertheless I'm not convinced if it's good architecture, if it's deserving of the attention it's getting because of the Pritzker Prize-winning names behind it.

In Miami

I'm in Miami at the AIA Convention, so posts will resume over the weekend.

AAA: Architecture Advertising Automobiles

Last year I posted about some advertising in Architectural Digest that used architects and architecture to sell cars. Well the other day I was flipping through a travel magazine and was surprised to see an ad for Buick Lacrosse using the America's Cup Building in Valencia, Spain by David Chipperfield Architects. In my previous post I focused on how Lexus used the architect's name (Richard Meier) more than his architecture for their purposes; in effect the architect was promoting the car. But for Buick it is the image of the building that matters; the architect in name or personality is nowhere to be found outside the architecture.


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Remembering other advertisements with cars using architecture as a backdrop (I blogged five years ago about VW and OMA's Seattle Public Library), I think the America's Cup Building works similarly here: it does a better job of distinguishing a car from its peers than the car does itself. Given that cars increasingly look like each other and buildings do the opposite and veer greatly in form and image from their contemporaries, this makes sense. In Buick's case, the stacked horizontality of the building and the photo's strong perspective enable the car and its rounded lines to stand out and be seen as something unique. (I'm assuming it's a photograph because the building is complete, but the high level of polish of the images makes me wonder if it's a rendering). It's like a zig-zag with the building "going" one way (to the left) and the car the other way.

But beyond a two-dimensional graphic composition on the page or screen, I'm having a hard time seeing how architecture and automobiles relate in this and other ads. I think, like anything, architecture is seen as just another commodity and buildings are appreciated for its imagery more than its other traits (function, relationship to place, social role, etc.). Chipperfield's building is not a totally uninspired choice, but it does veer from the curvilinear and dynamic shapes of Gehry, OMA, and Morphosis, whose buildings are more in line with the formal characteristic of today's cars.

Monday, Monday

My weekly page update:

This week's dose features Papa in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada by Hal Ingberg:


The featured past dose is Coloured Reflections in Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada by Hal Ingberg:


This week's book review is Bridges: The science and art of the world's most inspiring structures by David Blockley:


Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:

Made in Midtown
" New York City is planning for the future of the Garment District, the heart of American fashion. This could transform the fashion industry and Midtown Manhattan. Made in Midtown studies the relationship between the industry and the neighborhood, and asks: Should creative industries matter to New York?"

Elastic City
"Heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city" via artist-created walks around the city. (added to sidebar under architectural links::new york city)

Yale Environment 360
"Opinion, analysis, reporting & debate, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies." (added to sidebar under architectural links::sustainability)

Archibuild
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)

Today's archidose #423

Here are some photos of Andy Warhol's "Silver Clouds" installed in the Illinois Institute of Technology's S.R. Crown Hall (Mies van der Rohe, 1956) in Chicago, Illinois, 2010. Photographs and video are by brandon pass.

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