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Quilian Riano
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07/28/07 14:38
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To continue the project started by Orhan, we will use this space to compile the weekly Editor's Picks.
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Quilian Riano
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07/28/07 14:50
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Editors' Picks #2: editing Wiki / Green Thread Central / A beautiful gift
June 30,07
Another week of Archinect's engaging discussions;
[url=http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=60226_0_42_0_Cediting Wikipedia[/url]
Archinect editor Quilian Riano launches a Wiki project.
Join the effort and discussion about improving the existing Wikipedia page on 'Architecture.'
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Green Thread Central
Say, you want to start from a 'green' slate... Everything you want to learn and discuss, all the information and wisdom you want to share. This thread is a BLOG by itself, without the commercials.
Brought to you by WonderK, our friend, who is moving to Los Angeles. Ohio's loss, California's gain.
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School Blogger Danny Wills of Kent University design-builts his brother's wedding presents; A pair of laser cut acrylic boxes for wedding rings. They are like tomorrow's flat pack house. Closer inspection will reveal the bride and groom's name on the art. He also offers his pictures of Eames House in his Flickr site. Thanks Danny and congratulations to newlyweds.
By: Orhan Ayyüce
Original Location:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=60340_0_24_0_C
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Orhan Ayyüce
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07/28/07 14:54
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oops...sorry. didn't see it coming.
i like the long version.
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Quilian Riano
Total Entries: 564
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07/28/07 14:57
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Editors' Picks #3: '0' relevance / "George Costanza" / Analyze This!
Jul 07, 07
Have you ever wondered what happens to threads with '0' comments? Well, they eventually go to the end pages of Archinect's 13650+ threads. Note that some 0's have +,- 500 views and still no comments. I have some '0' interest gems of my own, do you? You can look at them as rites of passage...
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Speaking of getting stuck in the elevator with a New York Fiver architect, read this real life story, down six posts from the top by LIG. It is one in thousands of great posts in that mega Guinness Book candidate-ish, Thread Central.
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And, a fairly recent favorite of many; Analyze This!
By: Orhan Ayyüce
Original Location:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=60642_0_24_0_C
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AP
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08/20/07 6:17
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Editor's Picks: A Week in Archinect #9
August 10, 2007: The Jobs team presents a great set of Hints & Suggestions from Employers, the first installment in a new series of features intended to help architecture employers connect with architecture talent. Discuss.
August 15, 2007: Archinect member Barrett directs our attention to Icon Magazine's cover story, 50 Manifestos. Check 'em out, and be sure not to miss #46, by team member extraordinaire Geoff Manaugh. Discuss.
August 16, 2006: A year ago this week Archinect member metamechanic offered readers $100 for the Best 100 word Manifesto. Thanks for the reminder, Steven.
August 16, 2007: A question posed by mfrech spawns some reminiscing, and in the process a pair of early v2.0 threads ( 1 & 2) are bumped back into presence.
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postscript:
t-shirts & floating houses | |
J B Mollitt
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09/15/07 22:15
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Editor's Picks: A Week in Archinect #13
September 12, 2007: Columbia student Mark Bearak is really primed about Ed Keller and his Drift Cinema workshop. Check it out and you’ll understand why. It seems man crushes are on the rise this fall.
September 11, 2007: A friend I’ve known since elementary school lost her husband on 9/11. When AP posted his news item, the most I could do was scan it. There’s a palpable fatigue that results from media saturation, intractable conflict and continual loss of human life. But there is an antidote, at least for me. First, there’s the realization that some of us are bound together by ties that don’t recognize borders, flags or politics. Second, perhaps paradoxically, there’s an election on the way. I know this doesn’t seem like much, but it’s clearly how my hope is defined.
September 10, 2007: Some remarkable advice, admissions and personal histories emerge when a so-called HighSGirl88 wanders in and posts a sincere request for an …Honest Opinion about Architecture. I couldn’t help but wonder if she’d read mdler’s earlier lament about the possible futility of architecture school.
September 09, 2007: barry lehrman attempts to disambiguate “livable communities” and rightly questions whether CNU is cut out for green urbanism. The debate that ensues touches on the dirty realism of urban life, the rise of virtual culture and its implications for emerging social constructs and more. This thread can definitely go places. If you get the urge to add a comment have a look first at Bryan Finoki’s recent post in the news.
N.B.
The dynamics of architect / client relations are well presented here. No Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Thread.
Next week: Since joining archinect I’ve twice suffered from IPR (inadvertent projectile regurgitation) while reading forum threads. They say comedy is tragedy plus time. I say archinect humour is that and more. | |
J B Mollitt
Total Entries: 86
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09/23/07 4:25
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Editor’s Picks: A Week in Archinect #14
September 21, 2007: The New Cities Grow thread, initiated by lletdownl, provokes as many questions as it asks. Can hyper-accelerated growth produce a city worth living in? Devoid, for the moment, of the accretion of human agency conferred only by time, can Dubai’s apotheosis be bought? I doubt this is the last we’ve seen of this thread.
September 17, 2007: BHL suggests Sarkozy is a man with “no inner core”; memory-greedy, opportunistic and cynical. Gopnik is similarly skeptical about Sarko’s brand of audacity. What then are we to make of Orhan’s news item? Perhaps this podcast featuring Dominique Perrault will provide a few insights.
September 16, 2007: Corporate malfeasance on parade in the media is a waning spectacle but our market economy will invariably provoke smaller ethical challenges that strain our patience and resolve. Notions of loyalty and integrity, as well as the rudiments of professional conduct and intern satisfaction are explored in quizzical’s forum thread. This “employer” perspective was compelling enough to draw the attention of a former lurker who initiated his own thread in response – putting forth the “employee” perspective. The two should be fused for the archive.
N.B.
Archinect humour, to my mind, evokes Rabelais: Scatological, irreverent, salacious, inane, caustic, sarcastic, impudent, arcane! Love it or loathe it, you’d be hard pressed to find as inscrutable an architectural forum as this one anywhere else on the web. Long live its unfettered and ineffable “ deep play.” | |
J B Mollitt
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09/30/07 2:20
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Editor's Picks: A Week in Archinect #15
September 27, 2007: Ludwig Abache adds Belo Horizonte, Brasil to Google Map Tour Guide Central. Actually, the very day the Guide was promoted to a feature Ludwig also added Tokyo. If you’re thinking of creating your own map have a look here for info.
September 26, 2007: When holz.box posted his small projects thread, it was instantly added to the shortlist for this week’s picks. There’s an immediacy to the appeal of “big thoughts in small packages”, as liberty bell calls them. Orhan Ayyüce’s Topanga Canyon hideaway was quite a surprise. As was discovering holz's entry in the Phaidon Atlas while I was searching for projects to post! This thread is just getting started but there’s already a great deal to discover for those interested in elemental expression. AP’s excerpt of a Trakl poem, offered to support a definition, seems particularly apt.
September 24, 2007: Bryan Finoki posted a dense cluster of unsettling surveillance articles on Monday. You’ll not find an unequivocal endorsement of big brother’s acumen here. If surveillance inc. were a publicly listed multinational, its market performance and stock price would likely be a running joke. Nevertheless, I’m glad someone’s keeping tabs on the watchers.
NB.
Both RAArch and new member phased benefit from a great deal of advice from achinect veterans: dare i say....thesis? & Glenn Murcutt. Given the charged atmosphere in the forum this week the above is especially noteworthy. The Rowhouse thread is worth a look as well – I'm sold on that "wet" room.
Next Week: A proper rundown of archinect’s school blog activity. | |
vado retro
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09/30/07 6:05
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who's gargantua and who is pantagruel?
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J B Mollitt
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09/30/07 9:39
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I was wondering when this would come up. I'll leave the answer to the fertile imaginations squatting here.
It was more the Rabelais wit and fearless, messy humanity that inspired the association, rather than any direct character comparison. Besides, I've yet to see a giant turd posted in the forum. Maybe if I scanned the archives I might be able to answer your question. ;)
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LeDeuzzy, Q.
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09/30/07 10:39
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So you missed the giant turd posted within the forum circa September 2005?
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J B Mollitt
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10/03/07 20:09
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Errata: I mistakenly equated archinect member holz.box with Austrian firm Holz Box Tirol when referring to an entry in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. My apologies for the oversight. They don’t call them pseudonyms for nothing. I’ve since reconsidered bestowing similar laurels on FrankLloydMike and aldorossi.
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J B Mollitt
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10/03/07 20:11
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Care to share that link UaA? Just to settle vado's question of course.
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LeDeuzzy, Q.
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10/04/07 4:56
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I'll find the link eventually (somehow I remember a haiku thread, maybe), but I don't think the image is still available online. Someone was giving me shit within one of the threads, so I in turn posted an image of my recent enormous defecation (although the image link was resized to something like 15x15 pixels, so to actually view the full image one would have had to find the image url and then post it seperately). My posting the image was an obscure reference to Piranesi's engraving of a turd shaped island (see Duboy's Ledoux: an Architectural Enigma) published in response to someone that was giving him shit. By the way, G. B. Piranesi was born 4 October 1720. I'm going to the bathroom now.
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J B Mollitt
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10/07/07 5:13
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Editor's Picks: A Week in Archinect #16
October 05, 2007: Reading namhenderson’s news item about Slow Cities is bound to make one question its feasibility for North America. Especially when considering that our prevailing ethos is geared for accelerated growth and the incessant stimulation of consumer appetites. However, there are examples of the movement’s appeal and there is certainly no shortage of heated debate on what constitutes a livable community. Perhaps we should give it time.
October 04, 2007: For the kind of money spent on the Large Hadron Collider, over $3 billion Euro and counting, I half expected it to show up in Halo 3 as a plot device. While the hunt for a “ God particle” has made something of an impression in the noosphere, you’d be lucky to find three friends (present company excepted) willing to offer a decent working explanation of its merit. So for those whose eyes roll at the mere mention of a Theory of Everything, offer them subtect’s link to a virtual tour of the LHC. As for those who fear an Ice-9 Type Transition thanks to CERN’s new tech, why not add your speculations to Apurimac’s provocative thread, Apocalyptic Urbanism.
October 02, 2007: is your instructor qualified to teach? This seemingly innocuous question put forth by taboho provoked a great deal of discussion in the forum this week. Teachers, students and licensed architects all weighed in with their personal experiences relating to instructor suitability, workforce preparedness, fiscal constraints and the disdain for practice engendered in academia.
NB.
Archinect School Blogs
Quilian Riano documents his research trip to Spain.
bryan boyer pens an Open Letter to the ICA Boston.
Arjun Bhat offers a stimulating defense of his hybrid urban form thesis.
To all Canadian ‘necters(ors/eurs) wherever you may be, Happy Thanksgiving! | |
liberty bell
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10/14/07 18:19
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JB, I really enjoy your wrap-ups.
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puddles
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10/15/07 5:34
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actually, i'm beginning to think that architectural digest is the gold standard. the october issue includes articles on very modern, unbuilt work of paul rudolph and philip johnson amongst other goodies.
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Orhan Ayyüce
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10/21/07 12:10
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This week we've invited our well respected member Steven Ward to pick the content that got his attention in archinect sections. Needless to say, he has done a great job on the short notice. Click to read his picks;
in the news,
in the images,
in the links,
in the forums
Thank you Steven.
Editors' Picks #18 | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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10/28/07 10:18
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another gorgeous week of pickings put together by our own blood sister; liberty bell, of course.
we say, thank you donna.
Hey 19 | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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11/04/07 8:39
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EP continues to grow with much talented namhenderson. he is our new diggs. wait! did i spell that right?.;.)
EP # 20
thank you nam.
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Shock Me, I'm Bourgeois
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11/04/07 9:10
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looks like what's worst is getting more informative
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Orhan Ayyüce
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11/10/07 23:17
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Editors' Picks # 21, the Emergency Edition
J B Mollitt called me 25 minutes ago and said there are more important things in life than picking cotton in Archinect. He asked me if I could cover up for Canada.
No problem. I love the maple leaf. Ich bin ein Kanadisch.
Seriously, get well soon J.B., let's see what I can do.
Another Canadian Leonard Cohen once said "there is a crack in everything and that's where the light comes in."
Okay fine, but Leo, you're just a poet.
Among us architects it is more like, "there is a crack in this building and that's where the lawsuit comes in."
Speaking of cracks... It's no joke.
But the buildings themselves are not the only liabilities when it comes to architecture.
Elsewhere at the breakfast club;
C'mon Prix here is your Istanbul briefing. Enjoy your breakfast in dense urban programs containing shopping malls. Also, we thank Michael for the great update from the bowels.;.)
Read this;
Mike Davis' take on, 'Who Really Set the California Fires?'
A problem and suggested remedies by alexander walter. I'll call for my order as soon as I pay my telephone bill.
I welcome this and revive this! You know Meta... Payz...
Now, the Obituaries;
Norman Mailer
Hank Thompson
And,
Boxed architecture doesn't look so good these days.
Okay my 15 minutes are up! Have a nice day!
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Steven Ward
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11/11/07 5:54
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the first 30 seconds of 'sunday morning' can just make your day. thanks, orhan. you're one of those few destined for more than a mere 15, i'm thinking.
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vado retro
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11/11/07 6:33
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perhaps this is a better lyric for liability than leonard's...
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
I'm filling the cracks that ran though the door
and kept my mind from wandering
where it will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right where I belong
I'm right where I belong
See the people standing there
who disagree and never win
and wonder why they don't get in my door
I'm painting my room in a colorful way,
and when my mind is wandering
there I will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right where I belong
I'm right where I belong
Silly people run around
they worry me and never ask me
why they don't get past my door
I'm taking my time for a number of things
that weren't important yesterday
and I still go
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
where it will go
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
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Orhan Ayyüce
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11/18/07 17:47
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as was participated, the sun has risen from where it always does. the east.
one of my favorite architect have prepared these golden picks from japan.
thanks a lot jump. | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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11/25/07 13:23
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t. killer EP #23 is coming from Minneapolis. Our special editor Barry Lehrman prepared this very archinect edition picks for you because he knows what is going on! pick up the turkey drumstick.
thanks for the giving, barry | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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12/02/07 9:39
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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
That is right.
Archinect's first 'Sunday Brunch' is served!!!
Enjoy and watch the bloody Mary count...
Thank you.
Hint; Do you wonder who Emily Kemper is?
Ladies and Gentelmen,
EP # 24. YUM. | |
Emily Kemper
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12/02/07 10:30
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Thanks, Orhan! Gosh, I'm way behind everyone in my post count. I need to catch up ;o)
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Orhan Ayyüce
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12/09/07 10:02
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EP # 25 Happy Hanukkah indeed!
it will be one long month with all three abrahams merging...
remember 3 mustaphas 3?
now, where are my latkes?
thank you ms emily kemper, that is, for two great weekends of EP. now get some sleep...
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Orhan Ayyüce
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12/16/07 10:39
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we asked our well 'coordinated' architecture gourmet holz.box to make the list marking the 26 th. edition of editor's picks, that is .5 year old now. long time for an idea that started while picking on architecture...
thanks to all of the participants so far, and watch for many more to come.
and don't forget, your turn will arrive!
holz.box. yeah!
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Orhan Ayyüce
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12/30/07 13:56
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to bring some noteworthy instances of 2007 to our attention, i asked seasoned writer, archinect "team member," my occasional pen-pal and the founder of much followed BLDG BLOG, geoff manaugh to do the selection.
geoff's poetic view on things that concerns built, unbuilt, forgotten, remembered, imaginary and to be discovered existing world and beyond, make up this special edition of editor's picks;
Guest Editor #28: Year in Review...
i thank geoff for doing this indeed special piece for us on top of his busy schedule and other critical obligations.
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Orhan Ayyüce
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01/07/08 11:34
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i know we are all celebrities but some of us are more celebrities than the others.
yeah! heather ring. supreme senior editor, sse... enjoy her picks.
#29
sorry for being tardy with the ceremonies! | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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01/13/08 17:28
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first i thought of not polluting his view with picks and ticks that we deal here on a day to day basis, but then i realized that it would be nice to get some island air and since this is his extended living room anyway. click on the picture to see EP #30.
thanks a lot techno. see you anytime now;.)
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architechnophilia
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01/16/08 11:51
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I'll keep the door open (no need to lock doors on this island) for you Orhan
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Orhan Ayyüce
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01/22/08 11:07
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#31
i have already said it elsewhere, but i'll say it again.
They are maniacs!
But they are our maniacs...
mdlerweed=thankyouthankyou | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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01/28/08 7:25
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#32
thank you fred for a great edition.
you know archinect is an exceptional web site, when its members are exceptional bloggers. visit sevensixfive.net
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Orhan Ayyüce
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02/03/08 11:45
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#33
really super! thanks to [beta]v.4 once or twice... ooo hell, million times.
may the singers grant many touch downs to his favorite team.
PS; i know there is more to it but remember the reaction from the family establishment?
in this country;
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Orhan Ayyüce
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02/10/08 12:06
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#34
her politics come with a touch of 'rationalism.' i will not say no more...
thank you erin, for exposing the political side of all this fun and name calling!
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Orhan Ayyüce
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02/17/08 10:37
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#35
it's just me, go back to sleep...
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Orhan Ayyüce
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03/02/08 9:07
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aml's #37
it is out today, and you can only purchase it at archinect! | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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03/16/08 14:50
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oh my god! it is almost three pm and i just woke up from my third installment of sleep.
living in gin, thank you for great picks and maneuvers to go around them.
#39 folks! | |
Orhan Ayyüce
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06/23/08 11:30
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Thank you for your participation.
EP is now 1 year old. With the addition of Nam Henderson as Editor in Chief of Editor's Picks, it will continue to reflect upon Archinect's great discussions, add some humor to our lives whenever possible and tap into the talents and insights of Archinect community without biasing, race, color, gender and political beliefs... Because that is what we are. A group of people with ideas sometimes as colorful as black and white... And beyond...
Thanks again and welcome Nam, in addition to great backgrounds editors such as Quilian, AP, J.B. Mollitt, architechnophilia and everyone else listed below, who has generously contributed so far...
Editors' Picks #1 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #2 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #3 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #4 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #5 Quilian Riano
Editors' Picks #6 Quilian Riano
Editors' Picks #7 Quilian Riano
Editors' Picks #8 Quilian Riano
Editors' Picks #9 AP
Editors' Picks #10 AP
Editors' Picks #11 AP
Editors' Picks #12 AP
Editors' Picks #13 J B Mollitt
Editors' Picks #14 J B Mollitt
Editors' Picks #15 J B Mollitt
Editors' Picks #16 J B Mollitt
Editors' Picks #17 J B Mollitt
Editors' Picks #18 Steven Ward
Editors' Picks #19 liberty bell
Editors' Picks #20 namhenderson
Editors' Picks #21 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #22 jump
Editors' Picks #23 barry lehrman
Editors' Picks #24 Emily Kemper
Editors' Picks #25 Emily Kemper
Editors' Picks #26 holz.box
Editors' Picks #27 vado retro
Editors' Picks #28 Geoff Manaugh
Editors' Picks #29 Heather Ring
Editors' Picks #30 architechnophilia
Editors' Picks #31 mdler & tumbleweed
Editors' Picks #32 sevensixfive
Editors' Picks #33 [beta]
Editors' Picks #34 Erin Williams
Editors' Picks #35 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #36 evilplatypus
Editors' Picks #37 aml
Editors' Picks #38 tunamelt
Editors' Picks #39 Living in Gin
Editors' Picks #40 abracadabra
Editors' Picks #41 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #42 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #43 el jeffe
Editors' Picks #44 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #45 architechnophilia
Editors' Picks #46 namhenderson
Editors' Picks #47 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #48 dread are the controller
Editors' Picks #49 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #50 Orhan Ayyüce
Editors' Picks #51 architechnophilia
Editors' Picks #52 namhenderson
Editors' Picks #53 namhenderson | |
namhenderson
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08/10/08 11:18
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Guest Editor's Picks #58: On the One side and the Other
Thanks to member LB for the great picks this week.
East facade: As a beginning: Sarah Hamilton gets some excellent in-depth advice regarding the seriousness of a first freelance design project on which she is embarking. All interns considering a jump start to to your professional career: a freelance gig is definitely a time-tested way to do it, just be aware that it's not easy.
West facade: Another time-tested tradition? Mentorship: and all you successful architects out there, remember you were once just starting out too, and please give generously (and seriously) of your advice however you can. Our profession only stands to benefit from the sharing of information and the avoidance of mistakes by our peers.
North facade: School is starting soon. Let's talk a bit about the school blogs, or by official name, the Archinect School Blog Project, Bryan Boyer presents the whole of his thesis project: blog, mini-blog (this would be a "duh" moment for most people, but for me it was a sudden realization of how the internet is taking the place of a sketchbook), and presentation. Great job, Bryan! In so many ways the school blog project has been an enormous success. The amazing Michael Speaks, when presenting to a group of students, logged the Power Point presentation onto the school blog project, telling these eager future architects that this was the sine qua non place to find information on what architecture school would be like. The blogs also allow professionals to keep an eye on what is happening in academia, not only via lectures, but from in-the-trenches reporting. And what practitioner doesn't love being reminded of those crazy studio nights and awful crits?
South facade: A possible counterpoint to the school blog success story? Some people are graduating, and readers want new ones! To help fulfill that need, keep in mind the unofficial version(s) of school blogs. Any new ones being allowed for this year, Archinect?
The foundation: And this week, how can I ignore the elephant in the room: of course I'm talking about the Olympic Games and the attendant spike in architectural experimentation that has gone along with these games in particular. It feels to me as if we in the architecture community have been talking about them for far longer than anyone else. This is a reminder that architecture takes time; that the projects we begin master planning with starry eyes one day can take years of painful committee meetings, budget cuts, and construction snafus to realize. But in the end, good architects make it look easy.
The roof: Small works, big impact. The simple idea well-realized can change the world, and only has to start with someone being bold, and then following through. Don't forget: you've gotta nail the dismount. | |
architechnophilia
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08/11/08 13:15
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so with the return of the editor's pick in fine force does it mean we'll see less of the Ed-Op? I hope not...I was just really getting into it. Or will see them popping up the same week? A schedule? So many possibilities who has the answer?
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namhenderson
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08/17/08 15:00
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Guest Editor Picks # 59: A Late August Archinect Mixtape
side a
track 1: stellar vernacular:
whenever something exceptional appears, it's always tempting to wonder from where it came. scott burnham thinks about this, apparently, and his nice little piece about potential vernacular sources for h&dm's bird's nest is pretty good piece of speculation. even if it's not true that the forms were borrowed in a conscious way, it’s fun to imagine that there was something in the air (besides smog) that jacques, pierre, and ali may have absorbed: who's zoomin who?
track 2: looks like....
snohetta's proposal for the rak gateway in the uae makes me think that they've decided that blobbiness is a middle eastern vernacular they must mimic. is the need to ‘fit in’ no longer just a euphemism for borrowing historic forms? why else would they betray their strength in making rigorous, clean, angular, and cool forms and glom onto the dubai'tgeist? it's not like they weren't getting attention before. (see the cover of this month's arch record.)
track 3: hormel sweet home:
foggo associates tries to simultaneously put themselves on the map while taking some misguided clues about context from foster's gherkin. if only it were taller we could say it looks like the box the gherkin came in, but in this short stubby iteration....i got nothin.
track 4: defending the jackass:
i have to say that i love archinect because i can join in on conversations like this one. it's fun, harmless, but also allows us to feel out territory, to figure out how we feel about things, and allow our own personal values to evolve via discussion.
track 5: interlude:
if i have any criticism of the projects above, it's that they're so visually noisy, flashy, and in need of attention. i stand by my manifesto submitted to metamechanic's competition back in ‘06: shhhhhh.
Toward a quiet architecture.
Modern architecture has often privileged the programmatic object-figure over considerations for continuity of the environment-field. The field remains unconsidered, underdeveloped, or ancillary to the disengaged and attention-grabbing object-figure.
In contrast, pre-modern urban forms evolved with a normative environment-field as the primary condition of urban engagement and cohesiveness which, once established, could then accommodate complementary incidental figures.
Architects’ desire for recognition has prompted us to take every opportunity to draw attention to our projects, thereby continually adding to the visual clamor and chaos that defines the contemporary cityscape.
Why can’t we just be quiet for a change?
side b
track 6: homonymous:
ok, ok, despite that, there is a good argument for recognizable buildings: somebody should have noticed this.
track 7: does he do windows?:
to make your art, sometimes you gotta make something, sometimes you gotta wash it away.
track 8: book’em:
i’m very excited about the release of this monster. whether or not you think yale sux ( < would have linked it, but it’s gone), perspecta is always a treat.
track 9: big box medley:
if i didn't know better, i'd think that someone was trying to dress up big boxes to make them more sexy. i mean, walmart puts on a shiny hat and ikea's working on building its street cred by insinuating itself into the red hook community of brooklyn. of course, some retailers have been targeting designers for quite a while already. what's next: adjaye-designed leed platinum garden sheds by kmart?
track 10: diversions:
_urb_ lets us know what’s up in china, including some sporting event or something. oobject finds fun things that you might not know exist. visual complexity = eye candy. and, since i’m the son of a surveyor and a closet (not-really-)historian, i’ve become a strange maps junkie.
bonus tracks: flickr streams i've been loving lately:
arndalarm, bochum
sevensixfive, baltimore
crowbert, chicago
lavardera, merchantville
kenmccown, l.a.
ubiquity_zh, zurich
o d b, beijing
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holz.box
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08/17/08 15:11
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namh,
would you say that the RAK proposal is blobby?
i think there is a strong connection to the local topography...
another good flickr feed is evan.chakroff | |
Steven Ward
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08/17/08 18:19
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it was me that said it was blobby, holz. and, yeah, you know, there are some variations on the normal exoskeleton theme but it's still the slick shell of homogenous material that i associate with blobbiness.
i get the desert metaphor, but they might have put the same building in the arctic and claimed an ice metaphor or surrounded by water and claimed a water metaphor.
what bugs me is more that it's snohetta, a firm who i've enjoyed so much, doing something that just seems to have a first impression of derivative-ness.
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liberty bell
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08/17/08 18:24
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Steven: excellent as always, you set the bar just a bit higher than everyone else...such a great wrap-up! I had missed a lot of it, and love the flickr links!
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Steven Ward
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08/18/08 4:05
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thanks, lb, but i just sorta treated it REALLY like making mix, so the format seemed obvious.
nam had said i could do an editorial, but i didn't have it in me. since i don't really hold back my thoughts during the week, there's really not much i haven't already said by the time sunday rolls around.
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namhenderson
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09/22/08 5:10
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Guest Editor's Picks #72
This week’s recap of the activity in the discussions: thanks to LIG:
The annual M.Arch. admissions rat race is beginning to heat up. Dr. Architecture has posted a thread with the dates of upcoming graduate open houses, and the 2009 M.Arch. Comisery thread continues to chug along.
Who has it worse: architecture students, or engineering, medical, or law students? Omkar Deshmukh and others weigh in.
Other topics of discussion range from life-changing books to Kraftwerk to H&deM’s proposed tower in Tribeca to whether Columbia University’s GSAPP is still cutting-edge or not.
In other news, baseball is back, and we’re wondering if Chicago just might be in store for a subway series this year. Don’t hold your breath.
With presidential elections underway and Wall Street in a full meltdown, political threads are inevitable. Brut encourages us to vote Obama, while others wonder WTF is up with Sarah Palin???
Throughout it all, the Thread Central crowd, now on page 240, discusses walkable suburbs, weekend plans, Oktoberfest, and ice cream. | |
namhenderson
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02/02/09 8:52
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Editor's Pick's # 85
News
Is this further proof of the death of the Icon?
The desire to preserve Modernism vs Modernism as an ongoing project Read
A precursor to a Pritzker win?
Think they still have the full $1.2 billion to complete the rest of the project?
So no Pro Bono? A somewhat differing opinion?
Discussions
Yes, but only if the the emergence of transparency equals death?
It was ravaged here but at least it is now physically safe.
How did I miss this recent but classic thread?
School Blogs
A reaction to the informal settlements of Manila.
An abandoned building and graffiti in Richmond Indiana.
And a conceptual
proposal for a new elevated green parkway in Shangai that also functions as water treatment infrastrcture.
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namhenderson
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02/23/09 19:05
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Guest Editor's Pick's # 88: Mightylittle™ Redux
Number one on my list of things happening in your world is this: Hammer Pants are Back. Not because i want to bust out my old Z.Cavaricci's, but because the link EP put up there takes you to a great video from 60 minutes with Wyclef Jean. Now that's worth checking out even if drop-crotch silk drawers aren't your thing.
Layoffs...Layoffs, and still more...Where will it end? This thread is 5 months old and has nearly a thousand posts. Trying times indeed, and what of them? These trying times that is? Confidence is still high for the new prez, but there's clearly quite a bit of doubt over how well, and how fast, this new stimulus package will work. I'm not seeing the benefits add up all that much just yet, but I will say that a few clients who lost funding 4 months ago are back in Benjamins as we speak. Must be a good sign.
Another good sign: Even after shooting himself in the foot, Hasselhoff got a jay-oh-bee.
What else is going on in our world: Here's a splashy opening, Armani in NYC, by Fuksas. (h/t to PP)
Here's the latest from SpaceInvading:
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Treehugger on what is a zero carbon home.
Small House Movement gaining some traction.
Maybe instead of small houses, or even houses at all, what we need these days are more play structures.
from Designer Pages
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And then: Spray Painted Chocolate Boxes? How about Basil Cube? Sure, why not. Enfant terrible, Laurent Gras, from L2.0 in Chicagoland.
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I'm going to give some personal shout-outs to San Francisco City Supervisor Tom Ammiano for this one. It's about time people got pragmatic about cognitive liberty, even if at the end of the day it's still about the greenbacks. Since I personally know some people who have been getting paid with California State Issued I.O.U.'s, we'll take all the state income and revenue we can get.
Amsterdam meets the pacific? Bring it on!
Have a good week, people...
Mightylittle | |
namhenderson
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03/23/09 21:22
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Guest Editor's Picks # 100
First, we are now a centenarian!
Also, a shout-out to toasteroven for this week's picks.
News
Robert Stern’s enlightened view of women in architecture.
On paradox.
Legos appear once and then twice.
Continued after jump....
School Blogs
Critical Activism!!!
I have been thinking about monks?
A not so sneak peek, here.
Discussions
What is the point in modeling?
Images
Info here
Two styles of loft..
here
and here
From outside Archinect
All things Detroit (the eternal posterchild for whatever ills the USA)
A breath of Hope.
Best buyer’s market in the country.
Assorted...
Ever wanted to do chalk drawings in the middle of the street?
Next hipster fashion statement cop pants.
Something to watch...
Prof. Robert Sapolsky on the Neurobiology of Primate Sexuality
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namhenderson
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04/06/09 16:15
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Guest Editor's Picks # 101
Big events and stuff...
News
Some cheerful news of the future.
Not even in THE CITY?
While some release their second edition, other's go into the digital.
Jelly!
Will it effect the pockets of developers?
Discussions
Did we all make out OK?
Continued after jump....
School Blogs
Welcome to our second PhD blogger!
Emily was a Postopolis panel member!!
A feast at an izakaya!!!
Elsewhere
Some say, " Right now we need a Cambrian explosion, not controlled evolution".
Other give us a tour of stars...
Events
Some interesting bits from Postopolis and The GSD Ecological Urbanism-conference(s) coverage with help from Archinect school-bloggers et al.
Quilian informs us that Homi Bhaba is interested in "informal intelligence" and that Koolhaas wants to rewire Europe.
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Postopolis tweets that an installation by Christian Moeller sounds like "a cathedral made entirely of bell towers sinking slowly into quicksand. At night." Read full tweet stream
While at GSD Ecological Urbanism, Dan Handel relates that, " Andrea Branzi was challenged by Matthias Schuler, an environmentalist himself, whether humanity should not prioritize, at this stage, survival over aesthetics. Branzi's simple "no" contrasted the progressive positive world view, characterizing much of sustainable thinking, with utter negation of both technology and rationality as means of improving human condition..."
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Images
Capilla para el Tio - interior
Also
and Collaboration, N-Natures | |
namhenderson
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04/13/09 15:52
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Editor's Picks: # 102
News
First, the elephant in the room. Pretty pics here
Symmetry between Orhan and I.
Don't be a render " monkey"?
Continued after jump...
Discussions
As 765 said, is this really news?
Yeah, Organic!
Never seen it.
Also I discovered "The Concept of Ma", while reading Recombinant Urbanism.
Late to the game I guess?
School Blogs
What does Susan like?
Some simple truths.
Taking it to people | |
namhenderson
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04/27/09 21:23
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Editor's Picks: # 104
Welcome to the Apocalypse, H1N1?
Javier coins the term, " spatial bikeology".
One of our own makes it to Washington and blogs about the team's project.
Kirk announces the return of the Cult of MANIFESTO, along with booze.
A Defense of the oppressed??
Local crack.
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namhenderson
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05/04/09 20:06
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Editor's Picks #105
Something wrong with the ordinary and mundane?
Vancouver sounds nice, eh?
A ghostly metaphor here and here.
Processing sound.
Kurt asks what colour would Denise Scott Brown be?
Archinect discusses Green machines and rebuilt bikes. What do you use? | |
namhenderson
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05/18/09 20:26
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Editor's Picks #107
Now, that is a waiting room!!
Transportation is political.
AMO does OMA and examines the afterlife of production. A readers reaction. Public/Private the reality.
Three alliterative record stores so far. Any more? | |
namhenderson
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05/25/09 20:40
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Editor's Picks #108
Something different coming soon.
Better than nothing? I am not so sure.
What is this thread lacking?
Robots are now posting to the school blogs.
Now he is also a Prince.
Image after the jump...
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namhenderson
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06/01/09 20:49
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Guest Editor's Picks #109
In my fair city, it is the best of times and the worst of times. while in fact, the whole world might be hurting a little bit on the heels of a GM bankruptcy. If all else fails, we here in the Motor City, at least may be able to fall back on our agrarian roots.
But in such chaotic times, it's often the simple things that we take comfort in. In my own architectural bubble, I debate whether a new building system can shave a few dollars off my budget, but when it comes down to it, I know the client will only want to make sure his ceilings are high enough.
In Louisville, such design contradictions are what make makes life sweet and gives our lives as designers a glimmer of hope for a better outcome.
And if all else fails, we can take solace in the church whether we are good Christian soldiers or just lovers of good design.
Thanks to jafidler
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namhenderson
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06/23/09 6:02
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Editor's Picks #110
The newly re-opened High Line was covered extensively this last week. Including here, here, and here.
The economy continues to effect the profession even amongst the greats. While some get smaller others get the boot.
End of the day it is still a prison.
Archinect's view from the ground in Iran along with a discussion re: implications of recent political events.
We get an update on the status of episode 12 of Archinect Travels.
In his first post Joe from Clemson University's discusses the frozen quality of glue.
Evan travels to Art Basel and finds a Stryfoam Virgin Mary?
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