A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Here are some photos of Highway A-16 Tunnel Section 4-5-6 (1998) in St. Ursanne, Switzerland by Renato Salvi and Flora Ruchat-Roncati , photographed by Trevor Patt . Update 07.31: Photos of the Glovelier entrance, also photographed by Trevor Patt: To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

Here are some of my photos of The Living 's Hy-Fi installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

St. Mark's Bookshop , a staple near Cooper Union since the late 70s, was in the news a few years ago when the school – its landlord – raised rent for the sizable space to over $20,000/month. The store successfully got a rent reduction, but it started looking for a new, smaller location shortly thereafter, according to DNAinfo . That new location is 136 East Third Street in the East Village, in a just-opened space designed by Clouds Architecture Office . [Images courtesy of Clouds Architecture Office] I haven't ventured to see the store in person, but the photos of the space make me want to head over there right away. White bookcases peel away and undulate in plan to contain a bathroom and office space on one side of the store (see plan at bottom) and free up space in the middle for events. I especially like the section of the bookcases, which are angled at the bottom to allow for easier browsing by standing patrons. I've updated my NYC Bookstores post to r...

Yesterday I found myself in SoHo so I stopped by Brazilian shoemaker Melissa's store on Greene Street to check out a colorful installation by SOFTlab . Called We Are Flowers , to coincide with a collection from Melissa of the same name, the installation consists of over 20,000 translucent flowers attached to a suspended frame (a mylar net) that billows from the front to the back of the store. The translucent pieces overlap to blur any distinct blue, red, orange, green or yellow pieces, bringing the installation close to what SOFTlab describes as "the enchantment of a vibrant hanging garden." In the middle of the store the arches stay above shoppers' heads, but at the back of the store it descends into the basement level. Here it is like a vortex of color... as if the (underused, I feel) elliptical yellow space is drawing all of the petals to the light at the bottom. While the effect of being underneath a canopy of colorful flowers is nice... ...

Here are some photos of the Handelsbanken in Tjuvholmen , Oslo, Norway, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, photographed by Wojtek Gurak . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

Notations: Diagrams and Sequences by Bernard Tschumi, published by  Artifice Books on Architecture , 2014. Hardcover, 304 pages. ( Amazon ) Tschumi Parc de la Villette by Bernard Tschumi, published by  Artifice Books on Architecture , 2014. Paperback, 240 pages. ( Amazon ) This summer appears to be a busy time for 70-year-old architect Bernard Tschumi , at least in terms of exhibitions and publications. He has a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ( closing July 28 ), an exhibition at the FRAC Centre ( until October 8 ), and no less than three books are being released, one of them from the Pompidou on the retrospective and two of them from the publisher Artifice Books on Architecture; the latter books are discussed here. [Page from Notations on The Manhattan Transcripts] In the preface to Notations , a collection of Tschumi's drawings on over 40 projects, the architect clearly states he never uses the word "sketch," only "notation....