Finally! The Scooby-doo Mansion of Your Dreams

ooh. This is almost too good to be true. For all of you who love Clue, or who just have always wanted their own batcave or S&M dungeon, Creative Home Engineering is the company for you. This registered contracting company will give you the secret passage of your dreams for as little as $1500, [...]

What, You Don’t See it?

At left, Frank’s sketch for the Ruzo Alzhemier Institute in Las Vegas. At right, the more um…embellished portion of the building. For something a little different, here’s a list of words used to describe the recently unveiled design:

topsy-turvy
playfully stacked
tumble
“the mouse that roared”

and then there’s this:

cradling
comforting
You get the idea, right?
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Show Us "Your Hidden City"

Tropolism is launching a photo competition today, and I have to pleasure - nay, duty - nay… pleasure - to serve as one of the jurors. We look forward to your photos, your captions, and the kickass Flickr archive that’s sure to develop from your entires. Take it away, Tropolism…
After a week of very [...]

OMA Will Eat Itself

Yesterday, the public got its first look at America’s newest signature high-rise, The Museum Plaza (pictured left), in Louisville Kentucky, complements of OMA. The structure - which will obligatorily alter the Louisville skyline in dramatic fashion - has been described as “hyper-rational” by the Koolhaas-groomed, Josh Prince-Ramus, and is essentially composed of four [...]

Archigram Archi-ived

The collected drawings, models, and audio tapes (audio tapes?) of Archigram, the seminal 1960’s architecture collective, will soon be digitzed and made available online. Perhaps BD summed it up best:
Cataloguing the treasure trove of drawings, models and tapes is also expected to unearth long-forgotten sketches and interviews from the group’s hazy 1960s past.”
Oh, those crazy [...]

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