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Nov 5
Aqueous : [Image: From Amphibious Architecture by The Living; photo by Chris Woebken].New York architects The Living, mentioned in an earlier post, have completed another recent project called Amphibi...
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Nov 5
Cliff House : I randomly came across this image, below, of Adolph Sutro's now-lost Cliff House, perched on the rocks outside San Francisco....
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Nov 5
Words in Space : I'll be speaking tonight in Brooklyn, at the Pratt Institute of Architecture, in case anyone is around and up for an architecture talk. It starts at 6pm, and is free and open to the public....
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Nov 2
A Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik : [Image: Yucca Mountain, Nevada; courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy].Abraham Van Luik is a geoscientist with the U.S....
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Nov 2
Sky Totem : [Image: From Living Light by The Living].Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin of New York's The Living have completed an interesting—and extremely beautiful—public project in Seoul, Korea....
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Nov 2
Ghostly : I spent Halloween afternoon over in New York's West Village, being given a tour of a gut-renovated townhouse by one of the home's owners....
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Oct 31
New Local Worlds in Section : [Image: "Moravian Mount" from New Local Zlín by Margaret Bursa].In a recent post I included an image from Margaret Bursa's project New Local NY, which she produced while a student at the...
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Oct 31
Mine / Stack / Vertigo : [Image: Michael Light, Bingham Pit photograph mounted and on display].A beautiful new book of photographs by Guggenheim Fellow Michael Light has been released....
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Oct 29
Who would want to be an architect? : "Who would want to be an architect?" the Times asks....
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Oct 27
Isolation or Quarantine: An Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin : [Image: An emergency hospital ward in Kansas during the 1918 flu].Dr....
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Oct 27
Robotism, or: The Golden Arm of Architecture : For the past four weeks, an orange robotic arm has been constructing a brick wall in south Manhattan.[Image: Pike Loop by Gramazio & Kohler].Neither a new Berlin Wall nor part of a delayed real...
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Oct 27
100 : Even knowing how much it annoys certain people whenever I mention The BLDGBLOG Book on this website, I'm ridiculously excited—and admittedly quite stunned—to see that the book is #92 on Amazon....
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Oct 27
The Sphere and the Labyrinth : [Image: The cooling towers of the Ferrybridge power station; photographer unknown].The above photo has really stuck with me since seeing it last week over at Millennium People—not only its juxt...
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Oct 27
Fossil Reactors : There are as many as sixteen two-billion-year old nuclear reactors locked in the rocks beneath Gabon. Unsurprisingly, at that age, they are also completely natural....
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Oct 27
Subeconomic Space : [Image: Photo by Richard Mosse, from Time magazine].Photographer Richard Mosse, who BLDGBLOG has interviewed in the past and who is one of many participants in this autumn's "Landscapes of Quar...
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Oct 27
Extraordinary Engineering Controls: An Interview with Jonathan Richmond : [Image: A mobile biosafety containment apparatus in a simulated medivac exercise].Jonathan Richmond is director of Jonathan Richmond and Associates, Inc., a private biosafety consulting firm based in...
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Oct 27
Cities of the CDC : [Image: A mobile, military field hospital and medical instant city].If you happen to be in Montreal this week, I will be giving a lecture tomorrow night at the Canadian Centre for Architecture....
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Oct 27
On the Other Side of Arrival: An Interview with David Barnes : [Image: A ruined dock at the Philadelphia Lazaretto; photo by David Barnes].David Barnes is associate professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focu...
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Oct 27
The Emperor's Castle : [Image: Image 1, "Eternal Punishment," from The Emperor's Castle by Thomas Hillier].For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive n...
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Oct 27
The Archaeology of Seclusion : [Image: Photo by Vienna-based photographer Wolfgang Thaler].Journalist Christoph Hinterreiter recently teamed up with photographer Wolfgang Thaler to document a nuclear bunker called D-0 in what is no...
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Oct 27
Safari 7 : [Image: The Safari 7 Reading Room open now at Studio-X].Earlier this year, while driving down Highway 5, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, my wife and I passed through huge and endless clouds of butt...
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Oct 27
Chemical Archive : As the world's glaciers melt, they've begun to release an archive of banned industrial substances back into the environment, chemicals that have been locked, frozen, inside the glacial ice for up to t...
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Oct 27
Soft Robots : I'm fascinated by the so-called "chemical robots" program run by DARPA....
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