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The Future is Accessible by Automobile
[Image: "Fantasy House 10" by Charley Harper]. These aren't the best-quality scans in the world, but I just rediscovered these on my computer and thought I'd post them. These are so-called "fantasy...
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Today's archidose #796
Here are some photos of the ARoS Art Museum (2004) in Aarhus, Denmark, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, capped by Olafur Eliasson's Your rainbow panorama (2011), and photographed by Sindre...
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Amongst the Machines: A Visit to the Tesla Factory
[Image: Outside the Tesla factory; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. The coolest thing about a tour of the Tesla factory out in Fremont, California, is the huge metal-stamping machine—a behemoth piece of...
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Neues Palais, Potsdam
Under heavy renovation and possibly finished by 2016, The Neues Palais (or new palace) in Potsdam is one of the more impressive structures in the area. Parts of Potsdam are basically a suburb of...
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Goldberg Robotics
[Image: From Science Daily/University of Oslo]. Robots emitting robots emitting robots: this is one way that machines will learn to navigate extreme spatial environments. "In the future," we read in a...
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Preservation, Infrastructure, and the Museology of Crime
[Image: David Gissen, "Cross-Bronx Expressway," with Victor Hadjikyriacou; from Landscape Futures]. In case you're reading this near Ithaca, New York, I thought I'd mention that I'll be speaking at a...
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"We don't have an algorithm for this"
[Image: Comet 67P, via ESA]. In the story of how European Space Agency researchers are scrambling to locate—and possibly move—the Philae probe, which they successfully landed on Comet 67P two days ago,...
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Book Review: Nordic Light
Nordic Light: Modern Scandinavian Architecture by Henry PlummerThames & Hudson, 2014Paperback, 256 pagesLast year I included Henry Plummer's Cosmos of Light, a record of three religious buildings...
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Today's archidose #797
Here are some photos of the Departments Of Law And Central Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business (2014) in Vienna, Austria, by Crab Studio (Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau),...
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Spatial Basics
[Image: Red Bull New York offices by INABA; photo by Greg Irikura]. I got a handful of preview shots from the new Red Bull New York offices the other night, with interiors designed by INABA, and I...
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Tales of the Crash: An Interview with Nick Arvin
Screenshot from a sample 3D car crash animation created by Kineticorp; visit their website for the video.(Note: An earlier version of this interview previously appeared on Venue). Ellis Barstow, the...
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Architecture + Urbanism recommends '50 Shades of Green: The benefitsand...
Professoriate Lecture from Prof. C. Philip WheaterDean and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Science and Engineering 50 Shades of Green: The benefits and challenges of managing urban greenspaceMost urban...
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decorative lamp shades
Lampshades don't always have to be white (or my much preferred black with gold foil interior). These sconce shades in a house decorated by talented Katie Ridder are a reminder of that fact and add...
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Etch a Sketch
[Image: Laser-etched wood panel, design by Kris Davidson, etching by Clear Cut Creation]. This laser-etched wood panel designed by tattoo artist Kris Davidson is pretty awesome. While the grain of the...
View ArticleInteractive Tour: Bushwick Inlet Park
New York City has seen many physical changes in the last couple decades, but none as dramatic as what is taking place along its once industrial waterfronts. Abandoned piers and waterfront land has...
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Art Arm
[Image: "Untitled #13," from "Scripted Movement Drawing Series 1" (2014) by Andrew Kudless]. San Francisco-based designer and architect Andrew Kudless is always up to something interesting, and one of...
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Just-in-Case Informatics
[Image: A screen grab from the homepage of Orbital Insight]. Proving that some market somewhere will find a value for anything, a company called Orbital Insight is now tracking "the shadows cast by...
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Today's archidose #798
Here are some photos of the Roman Temple of Diana Environments (2011) in Merida, Spain, by José María Sánchez García Architects, photographed by Gonzalo Mauleón.To contribute your Flickr images for...
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2014 Holiday Gift Books, 1 of 4
This year I'm presenting a selection of 40 holiday gift books from the same number of publishers, presented alphabetically in chunks of 10. Some none-too-serious recommendations of who might like the...
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2014 Holiday Gift Books, 2 of 4
This year I'm presenting a selection of 40 holiday gift books from the same number of publishers, presented alphabetically in chunks of 10. Some none-too-serious recommendations of who might like the...
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2014 Holiday Gift Books, 3 of 4
This year I'm presenting a selection of 40 holiday gift books from the same number of publishers, presented alphabetically in chunks of 10. Some none-too-serious recommendations of who might like the...
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Shopping in DC: GoodWood
In anticipation of 'Black Friday' later this week I thought I would share with you some of my shopping from this past weekend. I stopped in one of my usual haunts on DC's U Street NW, Goodwood.GoodWood...
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2014 Holiday Gift Books, 4 of 4
This year I'm presenting a selection of 40 holiday gift books from the same number of publishers, presented alphabetically in chunks of 10. Some none-too-serious recommendations of who might like the...
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Magazine covers
Do you think a magazine cover such as these would sell well today? No 'celebrity' Kardashians or overly air-brushed photographs of interiors; rather a well rendered image by an artist on a topic...
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Quality is in the details: Bunny Mellon
Now that the sale of the century (thus far) has ended, Mrs. Paul Mellon at Sothebys, we can all sit back from the hysteria and try to learn from this extraordinary taste-maker. I read from both camps,...
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