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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-06-18 14:00:00
Head over to World-Architects to read my write-up of the MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes in the current eMagazine.


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-06-18 13:30:00
In addition to the Le Corbusier retrospective at MoMA, the upcoming Renzo Piano show at Gagosian Gallery, and a must-see James Turrell show at the Guggenheim, here are a couple smaller exhibitions in New York City worth checking out this summer. The Vienna Model Austrian Cultural Forum New York April 17 - September 2 FitNation Center for Architecture June 13 - September 7


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-06-02 01:30:00
Koolhaas Houselife by Ila Bęka and Louise Lemoine BękaPartners, 2013 Book: Hardcover, 140 pages DVD: All-Region PAL, 58 minutes A quick glance at the cover of this DVD-book (above) reveals that the viewer-reader will be treated to an atypical presentation of OMA/Rem Koolhaas's Maison ŕ Bordeaux. Instead of shots highlighting the house's recognizable architectural qualities (akin to architectural photography, like the below photo), the …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-06-01 01:30:00
Here are some photos of the "Amazing Flow" installation by Toyo Ito and Akihisa Hirata, as part of Lexus Design Amazing 2013 in Milan, photographed by SomniaArchitectura. A video from Lexus on "Amazing Flow": To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-31 02:30:00
Below are a couple photos I snapped three years apart of the Lower Manhattan skyline. The top one is from a showroom near Madison Square Park and the bottom one is from the roof above Resolution: 4 Architecture on West 28th Street near Sixth Avenue. The foregrounds may be different, but the buildings on the skyline have similar positions, making the …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-30 14:00:00
Here are some photos of the Landscape Laboratory (2012) in Guimarăes, Portugal, by Cannatŕ & Fernandes Arquitectos, photographed by José Carlos Melo Dias. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-29 18:30:00
This morning I attended the Municipal Art Society's Design Challenge for Penn Station presentation at the TimesCenter, in which four architects proposed future scenarios for Madison Square Garden and Penn Station. With their Alliance for a New Penn Station, MAS and RPA are pushing for a major overhaul of the sports and transportation facilities, and this design exercise is one way …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-28 17:00:00
If you've ever visited the contact page for architectural photographer Timothy Hursley, you've probably wondered about that warped structure that is represented in four photos at different angles. [Screenshot of timothyhursley.com] Some insight comes in the form of "The Beauty of a Broken Silo," a seven-minute film from Oxford American that is definitely worth watching: (Thanks to Keith Z. for the heads up via …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-28 02:00:00
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features the Tunnel Monitoring Complex in Hausmannstaetten, Austria, by Dietger Wissounig Architekten: The featured past dose is the "Free Play" Kindergarten in Guntramsdorf, Austria, by g.o.y.a.: This week's book review is From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara edited by Manuel Herz (L): (R): The featured past book review is MetroBasel Comic …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-27 17:00:00
Here is a photo of the Triumph Pavilion 2013: AZC Peace Pavilion (on display May 16 - June 16, 2013) at Museum Gardens in London by Atelier Zündel Cristea, photographed by James Attree/JZA Photography. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-25 14:00:00
About five days a week I walk on John Street past the Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) at 33 Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan, never venturing inside. The "two-level open-air covered pedestrian space," as Jerold Kayden calls it, is frankly an oddity, a fairly large space that is always dark and empty. Further, its dramatic barrel vault does not extend to John …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-23 17:00:00
Here are some construction photos of the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (opening June 8 until October 20) in London by Sou Fujimoto Architects, photographed by Laurence Mackman. See more photos at Mackman's London Architecture Blog. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-23 16:30:00
Earlier today I happened to be near the east edge of the World Trade Center site, and I noticed the first bits of steel rising above-grade for the Oculus of the Santiago Calatrava-designed WTC Transportation Hub. Unfortunately the only camera on me was the one on my "dumbphone," so pardon the quality: [Top: Photo by John Hill | Bottom: Screenshot from EarthCam (click …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-23 14:30:00
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Damiani, 2012 Hardcover, 311 pages On May 10, I attended a panel discussion at the Center for Architecture that followed the publication of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's account of the design and realization of Lincoln Center's transformation. This post is both a recap of that event and a review …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-05-22 13:00:00
Here are some photos of the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing (opening June 4, 2013) in Berlin, Germany, by SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov; photographed by bcmng. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-04-12 16:00:00
All the Buildings in New York: That I've Drawn So Far by James Gulliver Hancock Universe, 2013 Hardcover, 64 pages New York City is a great subject for just about any type of book: architecture, art, children's books, and guidebooks, to name a few. Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock manages to meld at least these four subjects in the first published collection of the …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-04-07 15:30:00
Here are some photos of the Market Hall and Central Squares (2012) in Ghent, Belgium, by Robbrecht & Daem, photographed by Klaas Vermaas. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-04-05 16:00:00
I'm glad to have just learned that a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kew Garden Hills Library in Queens is finally taking place on April 19 at 1pm. The project is designed by WORKac. [Kew Garden Hills Library Expansion by WORKac | image source] Here's what I wrote about the project in a 2009 post on projects in Queens: Another Queens Library project is the …


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-04-04 17:00:00
On Saturday, April 6 at 11am, I'll be giving a walking tour of the Bowery, focusing on new buildings on and near the famous street. More information and a link for tickets can be found at 92Y Tribeca. [Sperone Westwater Gallery and New Museum facing the Bowery | Photo (c) Amy Barkow, from my Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture]


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Daily Dose of Architecture 2013-04-03 19:00:00
Last night Wang Shu spoke in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union, in a lecture sponsored by the school and the Architectural League of New York. His talk was titled "The Meaning of Time: An Alive Construction," and it focused on a few built projects ("Times Garden" and "Times Theatre," Ningbo History Museum, and Xiangshan Campus) and a couple in-progress …


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