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Infrastructural Domesticity
Because “it takes too long to come down to ground level each day to make it worthwhile,” a crane operator on the Burj Dubai – the world’s tallest building – is rumored to have “been up there for over a...
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Offworld Colonies of the Canadian North
[Image: Fermont’s weather-controlling residential super-wall, courtesy Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University]. An earlier version of this post was published on New...
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Window/Shade
[Image: Student hostel by Sanjay Puri Architects; photo by Dinesh Mehta]. I really like the windows of this student hostel in India, designed by Sanjay Puri Architects, specifically the shadows and...
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Conversion Moment
[Image: Proposal for a converted residential water tower in Utrecht, by Zecc Architects; rendering by 3D Studio Prins, based on a photo by Stijnstijl Fotografie]. While we’re looking at work by Zecc...
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Social Architecture
[Image: Photo by Haylie Chan & Zelig Fok, via Dezeen]. Students at the Yale School of Architecture have realized a really impressive residential project, noteworthy both for its refined appearance...
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For a piece published by The New Yorker back in October, writer Joshua Yaffa looked back at the history of his Moscow apartment complex, “a vast building across the river from the Kremlin, known as the...
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Architecture of the In-Between
“The city owns some of the narrowest, most unusual lots in New York,” we read, but these odd lots might soon host affordable housing. A new competition called Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC is looking...
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The theme of the next Venice Architecture Biennale has been announced by its curator, Hashim Sarkis. “We need a new spatial contract,” Sarkis writes. We need to “call on architects to imagine spaces in...
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Structural Audio
[Image: Photographer unknown; spotted via Medium.] A design constraint I would sometimes use while teaching was to throw in an unexpected change to the project brief: this cluster of buildings you’re...
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Luminous Dreamlight
I spent part of the weekend down in Orange County, looking at birds, then the better part of an hour scrolling around on Google Maps, trying to figure out where we’d been all day. [Image: Courtesy...
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