This “city” for people with dementia is the future of memory care
“It’s going back to how we did it before we institutionalized our way of treating elderly,” says one of the architects.
https://fastcompany.com/90220683/th…
A+ Session: Design to Achieve Zero Waste Goals
Andrew Blum, journalist and independent curator of "Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City" speaks to leaders in zero waste to discuss NYC’s ambitious goal to send zero waste to landfills by 2030.
https://architectmagazine.com/video…
The rise and fall of Sheffield’s brutalist post-war utopia
Bill Stephenson’s photographs of Hyde Park are on display in Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future at S1 Artspace until 15 September.
https://huckmag.com/art-and-culture…
Robert Burle Marx and Brazil’s Modern Landscapes
Two books that tribute the brilliant designer and his ideas.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Editorial: The Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy
More info on the Genoa bridge.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/moran…
Salesforce Transit Center by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Opens in San Francisco
Salesforce Transit Center elevates an oft-mundane building type—a mass transit station—with a 5.4-acre public park, one of the largest accessible green roofs in the country.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Oscar Niemeyer Defined Modern Brazil. Now, an Artist Is Rethinking One of His Houses
Set against the dramatic hills of Rio de Janeiro, Adriana Varejão’s recently renovated home brings the architect’s vision to startling new life.
https://nytimes.com/2018/08/17/t-ma…
Living on an NYU Superblock
Living in University Village in NY.
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/15/176…
The Commonwealth Club’s San Francisco headquarters honors its union history
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMS)-designed headquarters.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/commo…
UCLA – The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Architectural Resources Group.
https://educationsnapshots.com/proj…
How Le Corbusier Became Big in Japan
His legacy seems to be one building in Tokyo. But most of the country’s Modernism can be traced back to him — and the struggle to place his ideas into Japanese identity.
https://nytimes.com/2018/08/08/t-ma…
Can’t Be Bothered: The Chic Indifference of Post-Digital Drawing
The "post-digital" valorizes the ordinary and renders it to look like the past.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
“Venturi Scott Brown’s MCASD addition should be saved because it is by Venturi Scott Brown”
Mimi Zeiger weighs in on Venturi's addition to Gill's Scripps house and more.
https://dezeen.com/2018/08/02/opini…
Pfau Long and Kuth Ranieri Architects Renovate Randall Museum
A modest modern!
https://dexigner.com/news/31159
New Talent 2018: Joe Lawton’s Growing Studio Is a Hybrid of Graphic Design and Architecture
Pal Joe Lawton gets some coverage!
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Partly Modern and Partly “Other”: Architecture of the 1990s
ARG Principal Katie Horak pens a piece for DOCOMOMO.
https://docomomo-us.org/news/partly…
The Barbican Complex: Exploring London’s Radiant City
A favorite Brutalist project of mine!
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
The Designer Who Can’t Stop Drawing
Doug Wittnebel!
https://gensler.com/research-insigh…
Toward Zero Parking: Challenging Conventional Wisdom for Multifamily
David Baker and Brad Leibin on designing for a future not dominated by privately owned cars.
https://urbanland.uli.org/economy-m…
ULX: Ten Affordable Housing Projects
Williams Terrace Senior Housing designed by David Baker Architects.
https://urbanland.uli.org/industry-…
A Showcase Workplace
Kimball Showroom New York.
http://digitaladmin.bnpmedia.com/pu…
The Cement Mixer as Muse
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980.
https://nytimes.com/2018/07/19/arts…
Treehouse by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
Rustic Canyon, California.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Is Instagram changing the way we design the world?
Whole neighborhoods are being styled to look good on social media. But by viewing the world through a screen, do we miss the bigger picture?
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl…
Marcel Breuer and the Invention of Heavy Lightness
"The weightless"
https://placesjournal.org/article/m…
The Women Who Built Socialist Yugoslavia
The contributions of these female architects, designers, and planners are told in an excerpt from the Museum of Modern Art's Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
