January 2012
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TEDx: Why does everyone hate modern architecture?... →
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December 2011
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NY TIMES EDITORIAL: The Grand Game of Getting to...
Eight-thirty in the morning and the subway is full. Straphangers — strapless for years now — brace themselves against stainless steel poles and overhead rails and almost half the heads on the train are bent, pewlike, over small electronic devices. You can tell who is reading and who is not by the use they make of their thumbs. (This is a grand era for thumbs.) The ones who are thumbing might be...
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November 2011
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WatchRethinking the Desk (via Apartment Therapy Unplggd)
September 2011
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Where I Was on 9/11 →
my comment on the ny times interactive 9/11 map.
July 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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A Conflict's Acoustic Shadows - NYTimes.com →
Observations by Ken Burns, the documentarian, on the 150th Anniversary to the start of the American Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Final Frame: When the Past Seemed Startlingly... →
via unplggd: A 1961 series of illustrations done by artist, Charles Shridde, commissioned for the Big M’s ad campaign, “Fresh from Motorola…new leader in the lively art of electronics”.
June 2010
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‘Brooklyn Bridge Song’ - Opinionator Blog -... →
January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Waterfall House / Andres Remy Arquitectos
Architects: Andres Remy Arquitectos Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Project Team: Andres Remy, Flavia Bellani, Marcos Pozzo, Paula Mancini, Laura Rodriguez Segat, Leandra Rodriguez Llebana Construction Management: Andres Remy & Laura Rodriguez Segat Structural Engineering: Carlos Dolhare Project Area: 340 sqm Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Andres Remy Arquitectos
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Photographer: Kevin Miyazaki →
solid photographer. photo folios of portraits, travel, food, and personal.
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October 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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SkyCottage / archimania / ArchDaily →
As an architect I have a deep appreciation when a fellow architect designs and builds a building that is throughly unique but is respectfull and integrated with the surrounding context. More importantly the spaces with in the home respond to their surroundings and no doubt will impact the owners daily lives. There are some buildings that re-awaken the spirit to create, design and build, for me...
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Hive Modular →
Cool PreFab modular homes.
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via ckck: “I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” by...
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June 2009
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via rachell)
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A Walk on the High (and Grassy) Side - the High... →
Architecture Review - NYTimes.com By Nicolai Ourousoff
“the care and patience with which this project was developed, both on the part of the architects and the High Line’s founders, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, is a rarity anywhere. They have given New Yorkers an invaluable and transformative gift.”
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'One door, one window, one rooflight, one bed, one...
Read Nest, by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, in the Netherlands, is a prefabricated wood clad cabin. ‘The exterior of the structure is clad in slender slats of naturally oiled wood. A pitched roof rises up to a large concealed rooflight, while a square picture window frames a view back across the garden. Hinged along its top edge, the glass can be opened outwards to form a protective canopy...
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“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein (via lickystickypicky “and this is why I like the guy so much”)
May 2009
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