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Today's CBS Sunday Morning featured a piece on " The Return Of The Silhouette ," those portraits fashioned from paper and scissors. While many of the new artworks presented resembled the old Victorian versions that immediately come to mind, the works of Béatrice Coron stood our for the scale involved as well as the subject matter, the city. The above piece, titled Inner City , presents the city as a flattened skyline composed of windows open to the gaze of the viewer. Coron says, "I started the cityscape when I arrived [in New York]. It becomes a kind of medium to say stories. Because usually you have windows to look out on things. And I'm doing windows for looking in ." The above detail of Inner City starts to illustrate the scale and level of detail of the piece (52" x 162"), where each window contains a life captured in some sort of stasis. The image below -- though from a different piece called Mule Train -- gets at this detail within ...

Aveiro, João Paulo Loureiro , originally uploaded by z.z . Smart Residence in Aveiro, Portugal by João Paulo Loureiro. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

A head's up for those who can make it to Europe next month. Intelligent Coast* is a center of research on coast and tourism. It aims to develop new qualified coast systems with the help of thinkers and experts coming from different fields. Intelligent Coast* leads a Master Program, a series of Debates and an International Symposium "Tourism XXL. The European Megalopolis." TOURISM XXL. THE EUROPEAN MEGALOPOLIS at CCCB - Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 19 - 20 - 21 of July 2007 Manuel Delanda * Manuel Gausa * Michel Houellebecq * Scott Lash * Rem Koolhaas * Jeremy Rifkin * George Ritzer * Edward W. Soja * José Miguel Iribas * Carlos Ferrater * Raimon Martínez Fraile * Faustino G. Marquéz * Juan Lopez de Uralde * Arnaldo Muñóz * Oriol Nel.lo * Juan Palop * Miguel Ruano * Salvador Rueda * Juan Antonio Sánchez * Federico Soriano * Andreu Ulied * Eugenio Yunis

, originally uploaded by Steve'o . The just-opened, Daniel Libeskind -designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. More images in Steve'o's ROM set . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

After roaming around parts of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District yesterday, I've posted six new buildings on The Archi-Tourist . :: High Line 519 by Roy Design (pictured) :: Gallery Building by Smith and Thompson Architects :: Morimoto NYC by Tadao Ando :: DVF Studio Headquarters by Work Architecture Company :: Carlos Miele Flagship Store by Asymptote :: Town House by Matthew Baird

One of the exhibits currently on view at AIA New York's Center for Architecture is Powerhouse, the New Housing New York Legacy Project won last year by Dattner Architects and Grimshaw Architects . This winning project, located in the South Bronx and comprised of affordable housing with a co-op and medical center, will be built under Mayor Bloomberg's 10-year New Housing Marketplace initiative. The project was part of a conference this morning called Fit City 2 : Promoting Physical Activity Through Design. As can be seen from the rendering above, the project is emblematic of attempts at incorporating physical activity via a series of stepped roof gardens and a central courtyard. The project also features a fitness center (as part of the medical component) to give residents the opportunities they might not otherwise have in affordable housing. While the merits of the projects are clear, and it is deserving of first place in the competition, it seems very familiar to me. That...

On the heels of Postopolis! comes a survey over at Architect Online that asks which blogs/websites do you read on a regular basis and what do you think of blogs? Yours truly is one of the blogs listed, alongside a few other wonderful blogs and Archinect (which always gets lumped in with other blogs, somehow). So even if you think this and other pages are a waste of time, head on over and click, click, click. Results can be viewed here . From an Architect Online e-mail: "Do you blog? Online punditry has emerged as a new force in the world of architectural media. Which bloggers do you love to read—or love to hate? Let us know by responding to our latest reader survey . The results will appear in an upcoming issue of ARCHITECT."