Architects Come Together to Assess Losses, Aid Communities After California Fires
Our pal Lydia Lee covers the fire for Architectural Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Eavesdropping on the design icons who made Washington’s Metro
Harry Weese and the Brutalist Metro System.
https://curbed.com/2017/10/24/16507…
Symbol of a New San Francisco: Soaring Salesforce Tower reflects a changing city
John King on Salesforce and its power.
http://projects.sfchronicle.com/201…
Seeing the Future: Why Norman Foster Is the Perfect Architect for Apple and Bloomberg
Pal William Hanley writes about Norman Foster.
http://surfacemag.com/articles/arch…
John Portman is a “Renaissance Architect,” Says Harvard GSD’s Mohsen Mostafavi
Not sure I agree with this. But worth noting.
http://metropolismag.com/architectu…
Interview with Garrett Jacobs of Open Architecture Collaborative
Our pal Garrett Jacobs in Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
A lost utopian housing project in Paris captured from the inside out
Your window on the world is a portal. A different kind of ship.
http://edition.cnn.com/style/articl…
With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago
The Getty Center comes down off the hill.
http://beta.latimes.com/entertainm…
Deray McKesson: Here’s What Designers Can Do To Advance Social Justice
“If you can’t imagine it, you can’t fight for it.”
https://fastcodesign.com/90146011/d…
The Proust Questionnaire: Steven Holl
Steven Holl discusses his love of hybrid buildings, enjoying one's work, and dying at the drawing board.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown
Social housing in the UK.
https://dezeen.com/2017/10/05/neave…
Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten
In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/ar…
The Return of Pacific Standard Time
Christopher Hawthorne on what the latest iteration of this exhibition series reveals about the hall-of-mirrors cultural relationship between L.A. and Latin America.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
(Not So) Anti-Architecture
Robin Boyd was Australia’s most famous architecture critic. In a bracing and still relevant essay from 1968, he challenges the field to cast aside its perennial political timidity.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
Architecture’s Cultural Cachet is Killing It
The cultural esteem that often surrounds architecture is actually detrimental to it.
http://commonedge.org/architectures…
Uniqlo Launches Eames-Inspired Collection in US
Who can resist those slippers?
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Concrete examples: has London’s once-bold architecture lost its nerve?
The buildings of the 1960s and 1970s showed a daring lacking today
https://ft.com/content/a76cf0be-972…
Design Renaissance in Columbus, Indiana
More on Columbus Indiana from our pal David Sokol.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Robin Hood Gardens deserved a second life
It’s wrong to be beastly to Brutalism, says Paul Finch.
https://architectsjournal.co.uk/opi…
Spin cities: a brief history of revolving restaurants – in pictures
From Seattle’s Space Needle to London’s old Post Office Tower, via Liverpool, Dallas and Jaipur, restaurants have rotated at the top of spaceship-like buildings since the 1960s.
https://theguardian.com/cities/gall…
“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
Mimi Zeiger on the Biennial in Chicago.
https://dezeen.com/2017/09/26/opini…
