A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Here are day and night photos of The Shard in London, England by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (2012). Photographs are by ffotografica . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

At approximately 12:12 p.m. in Christian Marclay's "The Clock" -- showing at the David Rubinstein Atrium as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2012 -- comes a clip from the 1948 film Hamlet , in which the title character holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! [quote snipped from Wikipedia ]" Before setting foot within the black box space erected within the privately owned public space spanning between Broadway and Columbus, I had a number of preconceptions about Marclay's 24-hour visual artwork. One was a parallel with the video in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (which is supposedly named for the Hamlet quote), the one that people can't stop watching because the film taps into a part of the brain that provides it pleasure, an unending pleas...

In March I informed readers about the New York CityVision Competition, run by CityVision Magazine (here's my review of issue 5 ). Yesterday the winners were announced , and below are images of the first, second and "farm" prizes. Be sure to click the links for more information on the winning designs. FIRST PRIZE : Eirini Giannakopoulou and Stefano Carera from Vigone, Italy with Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi from Brooklyn, New York : SECOND PRIZE : Enrico Pieraccioli from Prato, Italy and Claudio Granato from Noci, Italy : FARM PRIZE : Miles Fujiki from New York, NY (judged by Andrea Bartoli of Farm Cultural Park):

Inspired by an issue of New Geographies I received recently that focuses on color, here are some photos of bright and colorful projects. Vertical Village in Seoul, South Korea Taipei, Taiwan by MVRDV (2012 - photographs by picturenarrative ): Blue Winged House in Hamden, Connecticut by Ben Ledbetter, Architect (photograph by Ledbetter, Architect ): Dienst Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling (Department of Social Development) in Utrecht, The Netherlands by AGS Architekten (2010 - photograph by Ken Lee ): Novancia Business School in Paris, France by AS Architecture Studio (2011 - photograph by Ken Lee ): Monumenta 2012 at the Grand Palais in Paris, France by Daniel Buren (2012 - photographs by Ken Lee ): To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Thomas Heatherwick: Making by Thomas Heatherwick with Maisie Rowe, published by  The Monacelli Press , 2012. Hardcover, 600 pages. ( Amazon ) If the size of a monograph is an expression of a designer's ego, Thomas Heatherwick has plenty to share. Clocking in at 600 pages and over two inches thick, this first retrospective publication on the British designer collects what must be everything Heatherwick has ever produced (and not had realized) since his school days in the early 1990s. The monograph coincides with the first solo exhibition on Heatherwick Studio, what the V&A calls "one of the most inventive and experimental British design studios practicing today." While one could debate if the beefy monograph and solo show are warranted, what is most rewarding about the book is its insight into the namesake designer's thinking. Process is key, and it comes across both in the illustrations and the conversational descriptions that accompany the ...

Wendy in Long Island City, New York by HWKN, 2012 Wendy is the name Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner ( HWKN ) gave their competition-winning entry for the 13th Young Architects Program (YAP) at MoMA PS1, which was recently unveiled and is on display until mid-September. The YAP "is committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects." Some basic and minimal criteria -- providing shade, seating, and water -- and a generous courtyard allow for varied experimentation, some successful, some not. Wendy is more the former than the latter, an iconic form that is dynamic, explosive even, yet actually quite rational. HWKN explains that Wendy "is composed of nylon fabric treated with a ground breaking titania nanoparticle spray to neutralize airborne pollutants." This is the same nanoparticle that was used in Richard Meier's design for the Jubilee Church in Rome, though there it was part of...

Here are some shots of Dadong Art Center in Kaoshiung, Taiwan by de Architekten Cie (2012). Photographs are by picturenarrative . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose