A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

leafs by TwOsE The Scottish Parliament by EMBT Arquitectes . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Regular readers might notice something different on this page (if not, refresh), an extra column to the right of the posts and links. Yep, there you'll find some advertising and links to Amazon for books that will (hopefully) funnel a few cents my way. While I've held out for a while without advertising of any sort, this decision is of course spurred by my current situation as a student. Hopefully readers will understand, and realize that both the sponsors and books are for sites and things I recommend, getting the archidose stamp of approval. *aka the Daily Dose "widescreen edition"

StoryCorps is "a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound." This is accomplished via permanent and traveling StoryBooths, soundproof recording studios where people can record 40-minute interviews, take home a cd of the interview, and become a part of the StoryCorps archive in the Library of Congress. One of these StoryBooths is located in the Path Station at the World Trade Center site. It is situated at the far end of the semi-underground space, calling attention to itself via orange lighting and refractions of that light from the glass walls. Designed by MESH Architectures and MASdesign , the booth's " structural steel tube frame holds Panelite IGU tempered 1/4” diameter tubecore panels on three sides, the rear wall and ceiling are skinned with corrugated zinc. " Given that StoryCorps allows people share their personal stories with the greater public, the decision to use the tubecore panels is appropriate. ...

A couple new competitions that landed in my inbox: Scion Floorplan "A competition, open to the design community, where you are asked to design Scion 's new dealership showroom. The competition is an opportunity for designers to work with real world design constraints, get noticed by judges working in the design industry, be creative, and possibly win $5,000." The World Mammoth Museum A two-stage competition for the International Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Yakusak, Russia as "part of an ambitious program of creation of a park dedicated to individual and family excursions according to the environmental, ethnography and history themes [and which] lays a great emphasis on the findings of woolly mammoths, frozen more than 10,000 years ago."

Here's a site I learned of in studio yesterday. It's called Project New Orleans . It aims to be a complete archive of all the (student?) projects being done for the reconstruction of New Orleans, from Single Family Housing and Urban Design to Flood and Transportation Infrastructure. Big and small, they have it all...or do they? It appears that many gaps exist on the page as of today (expect some "Not Found" errors on certain links), though this points to the need for people involved to fill in those gaps. So if you've worked on a job for reconstruction in New Orleans, be it listed on the PNO web page or not, contact the site administrators to help them with their ongoing research...whenever they get the contact information up there. If you just want to browse the projects that are posted, here's some of interest: :: ecoMOD2:preHAB by students at the University of Virginia :: URBANbuild by students at Tulane University :: High Density Housing by students at...

Neurosciences Wedges by ken mccown The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California by Tod Williams and Bille Tsien . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

IMG_1080.JPG by Evan Burr Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose