A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Here are some photos of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill (2008) at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, by Tadao Ando. (Photos: Hassan Bagheri ) To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos  #archidose

Last month I caught Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf  at IFC Center, when director Thomas Piper and his subject, planting designer Piet Oudolf, were in attendance. Just today I wrote about the film for World-Architects. Head on over to World-Architects to read "Five Facts from Five Seasons ."

Although I've lived in Astoria, Queens, for twelve years and worked in nearby Long Island City for a few years, I'd never been to Brooklyn Grange until earlier this month. Although the name points to that hipper borough to the south, the Grange's first rooftop farm is located in Queens, specifically on Northern Boulevard, a car-oriented thoroughfare that leads to and from the Queensboro Bridge. I work on Northern Boulevard and frequent the coffee shop in the base of the building where the Grange has its one-acre farm. Faced with a cold- or allergy-related sore throat that wouldn't go away, I headed to the Grange on one of its open Saturdays in June to buy some honey – what turned out to be the most delicious honey I've ever eaten. [Photos from my visit to the Brooklyn Grange] I'm bringing up Brooklyn Grange here, in the context of AB's Food issue, because it is a trailblazer of sorts, at least in regards to urban farming in New York City. Created eight...

Dream the Combine's 2018 YAP-winning Hide & Seek opened today at MoMA PS1 . I work a few blocks away, so I went there at lunch to see what it's like and take some photos. Here's a slideshow from my Flickr album : And here's a video, necessary given the way the mirrored planes move and create some awesome effects:

Here is a photo of Frank Gehry's LUMA Arles under construction in Arles, France. (Photo: Jacqueline Poggi ) See also Today's archidose #915 from August 2016. An aerial rendering (screenshots via luma-arles.org) of what the completed project, which also consists of five industrial buildings being restored by Selldorf Architects, will look like: To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos  #archidose

I'm still catching up on things after the AIA Conference on Architecture last week and a walking tour over the weekend. The latter, of Brooklyn Bridge Park, led me to take the East River Ferry home. On the ride I noticed the second phase of Hunters Point South Park was open, so I hopped off the ferry and took a few photos of the park designed by ARUP, Thomas Balsley, and Weiss/Manfredi. A post shared by John Hill (@therealarchidose) on Jun 24, 2018 at 11:18am PDT

I'm still swamped with the AIA Conference on Architecture being in town this week, so here's something to tide people over until I'm able to post about it or something else. Here are some photos from the opening of Architecture Books – Yet to be Written at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Exhibition design is by Abruzzo Bodziak Architects and Pentagram. A post shared by John Hill (@therealarchidose) on Jun 19, 2018 at 3:31pm PDT Although the shelves – some of them attached to the Storefront's iconic pivoting panels – are empty, they should fill up a bit between now and the installation's closing in late August.