Archive for June, 2006
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Freedom Tower Take 1 2 3 4
29 Jun 2006It’s summer again, and you know what that means; iced tea on the balcony, broken air conditioners, post-collegiate backpacking, and…
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Have Your House and Eat it Too
26 Jun 2006Cleaning out the TiVO this weekend, I found a few forgotten recordings, including Food Network Challenge: Incredible Edible Mansions. Most…
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Nouveau Nouvel
23 Jun 2006…or should it be “neuf?” Regardless, with buildings opening on both sides of the Atlantic this week, Dr. Evil is…
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New Dwellings
23 Jun 2006Go check out Dwell’s new and improved home on the web. Besides a great looking and more user-friendly new page,…
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ooh…Pout for me Jacques!
21 Jun 2006I like a lot of their work – especially the <a href=”http://jamestamp.com/2005/07/san-francisco-retreat.html“>new DeYoung – but geez…Herzog & deMeuron sure seem…
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ARTIFACTS + ELEMENTS
21 Jun 2006March and April brought with them a mini life-overhaul and a hiatus in blogging, and I’ve been recently trying to…
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Local Find: South Beach Harbor Building
20 Jun 2006Out on the Bay, in the shadow of AT&T Park, sits the South Beach Harbor Services Building.Part of a Harbor…
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Lit Without Buildings
20 Jun 2006I came across this passage in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, and thought it an especially optimistic and eloquent outlook on the…
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Federal Building Update
19 Jun 2006An update on the construction of Mayne’s San Francisco Federal Building.It reminds me of student work…in a good way. Like…
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Le Corbusier Has a Posse
17 Jun 2006Saw this truck on my walk to work yesterday morning. LIMN is a San Francisco and Sacramento based, “multi-leveled resource…
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Happy Bloomsday!
16 Jun 2006In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. The…
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Life Without Submission
16 Jun 2006A call for entries… Architecture and Ideas: “Spatial Material” Both poetry and architecture hold the capacity to emotionally and surprisingly…
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Mies-on-an-auction block
15 Jun 2006In other library-related news, Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams wants to sell lease for 99-years the Martin Luther King Memorial…
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The Other Seattle Library
15 Jun 2006Seattle’s The Stranger reviews the Douglas-Truth library expansion, in an a praise-singing article, most noteworthy perhaps, for its erudition and…
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Can Good Design Heal?
14 Jun 2006In a photo essay for Slate, Witold Rybczynski asks this very question. The article focuses on Maggie’s Centres, a series…
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Designing the Future of New Orleans
14 Jun 2006Over at the online home of Architectural Record, they’ve posted the winning entries to the twp competitions they sponsored along…
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Realizing a Wright
12 Jun 2006After purchasing an 11 acre island in New York, Joe and Barbara Massaro were pleasantly surprised to discover that their…
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Ando: Osaka-it to me
09 Jun 2006Tadao Ando, elegant architect of concrete and light, has his praises sung in this week’s installation of “Amazing Kansai!!” [Please…
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Stealing Magnolias
07 Jun 2006The looting continues in New Orleans, only this time thieves aren’t after sneakers and flatscreen tv’s. Their new prize? Cornices,…
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reNew Orleans
07 Jun 2006Ok, I’m sick and I seem to have misplaced my camera, but I assure you, by hook or by crook…