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Tropolism 2009-02-23 16:19:56
Title: Andrea Cochran: Landscapes Author: Mary Myers Publication Date: April 13, 2009 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568988122 Available at Amazon. The work of Andrea Cochran can be seen, to those of us who have admired landscape design abroad,...


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Tropolism 2009-02-17 19:49:19
We're rather proud of this one: "Much like Martha Stewart's attack on the Travertine House, this house also lost its roof to a hurricane."...


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Tropolism 2009-02-13 14:51:10
Plataforma Arquitectura has a great survey on utopian architectural visions past and present. Mostly past, showing us old favorites like Archigram and Superstudio, but introducing us to some we hadn't seen before, like Yona Friedma (pictured, prefiguring today's shipping...


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Tropolism 2009-02-13 13:00:34
Behold the built in greatness of the Kerk Apartment by Dutch firm Stijn Bisscheroux. We do love it when furniture gets all architectural on us. Via Materialicious....


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Tropolism 2009-02-12 13:00:08
1. Ocho al Cubo House, Toyo Ito, via Arch Daily. 2. The existing conditions concrete shell for Vakko Headquarters and Power Media Center, REX Architects, via Arch Daily. 3. Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture, Steven Holl Architects....


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Tropolism 2009-02-11 21:29:07
Archinect has a great piece on MONU Magazine's issue #10, titles "Holy Urbanism". The issue focuses on how building by religious organizations, and religious experiences in general, affect cities. It's a brilliant topic rarely discussed ever by anybody, so...


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Tropolism 2009-02-10 18:32:44
Tropolism Newsletters are still going strong! Be sure to sign up for the newsletter in the upper right hand field on this page so you get in on the action....


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Tropolism 2009-02-09 20:34:54
Someone at New York Magazine is reading us, because we were picked up on their Approval Matrix. You'll find us over halfway to brilliant, over halfway to lowbrow, right where we belong....


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Tropolism 2009-02-09 20:15:39
Gentrification, suburban sprawl, homogenization----we all have our takes on it. Inflated rents, overpriced restaurants, and multiple Starbucks are the clear symptoms. At the Municipal Arts Society talk at the Urban Center on Wednesday night, Francis Morrone takes us back in...


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Tropolism 2009-02-09 19:42:09
Sad news: fire destroyed the bent-tower hotel in the CCTV complex designed by OMA. The New York Times has video, too. More at ArchDaily....


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Tropolism 2009-02-05 17:32:07
Tropolism means being completists. The Mies Gas Station is getting a new life: The local council in Verdun, where the station is located recently unveiled a project called the "Maison des générations", "House of Generations" which will give a new...


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Tropolism 2009-02-05 16:14:13
Oscar Niemeyer experienced the first setback of his career a couple of weeks ago. He is 101 years old. His Plaza of Sovereignty idea, rendered by his office in what looks like Autocad version 1.5, would have added a...


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Tropolism 2009-02-05 15:19:02
The Chicago Spire, Santiago Calatrava's tower design that would have been the tallest building in the United States, had it been built, has been able to be referred to in the past tense for a little while now. What...


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Tropolism 2009-02-04 13:00:28
So much of St. Louis's architectural heritage is being destroyed that blogging it is a full-time project. Tropolism favorites B.E.L.T. and Vanishing STL have enough content to post frequently, and with terrifying stories of destruction of great works by...


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Tropolism 2009-02-03 17:55:39
We stumbled on L.E.FT's work while writing for Curbed this week. There's a lot of great work there, but innocuously filed under "Interiors" is project #137, the 20 Peacocks shop on 20 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side....


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Tropolism 2009-02-02 19:56:05
New York fans of Keith Haring tend to get bored easily: his stuff is everywhere, still. His work is an icon for New York Nineteen Eighties. It's subway, tshirt, storefront graffiti, and if you live in New York it...


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Tropolism 2009-01-30 21:22:44
Greg Allen wants to get his hands on the Mies gas station. I suppose there are few remaining options. Turn it into a community center, blah. Turn it into a Starbucks, maybe. Knock it down, not so interesting. Move it...


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Tropolism 2009-01-30 13:00:37
In Tropolism's world, we get excited about furniture when it bleeds into the realms of sculpture and architecture. Added to this group is Alex Hellum, a designer in London whose pieces are whimsical and a little like creatures walking around...


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Tropolism 2009-01-28 19:09:52
That Mies Van Der Rohe gas station in Montreal? No longer in business. It's currently covered in plywood (pictured), and the town is trying to figure out what to do with it. Apparently they don't have Starbucks up there because...


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Tropolism 2009-01-28 18:52:47
The Brione House, by Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron Architects , is for stone lovers. In particular, it's for those who can't get enough of large blocks of orthogonal volumes that give a house just a touch of monasticism. From...


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