October 23, 2008
The toilet seats at Google are no longer heated
50 Strange Buildings of the World. (Thank you, Dafna)
20 Beautiful Bridges From Around the World
Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets. From “Top Ten Ways to Tell If Things Are Really Bad”
Also: Loo with a view: The world's toilets with the best vistas
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July 27, 2008
Metro Logos of the World
Most metros have logos or symbols to mark their station entrances, rolling stock, and printed matter such as maps or tickets. Since most metros around the world are indeed called 'metros' (only few are called subway, underground, U-Bahn, T-bana or something else), many metro logos are more or less fancy variations of the letter M.
There are different kinds of metro logos. In some cities a logo stands for the metro system itself, while in other cities only logos are found which represent the companies that are operating one or more metro lines. So there may be more than one logo in use in one city while in another a logo can consistently stand for the system or even for several metro systems within a country. Metro Logos of the World
From Metro Bits, a comprehensive site by Mike Rohde about urban subway systems. Explore inside!
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How to you drill a hole through a mountain? With a Tunnel Boring Machine, TBM for short, of course
Paghman Gardens in Afghanistan’s - A before and after photo tour taken 40 years apart, reflecting the results of 20 years of war
Roof Bosses on flicker, and many other sets of Medieval church carvings
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May 16, 2008
Architecture of Authority
Richard Ross’s Architecture of Authority. (Click on left button. From Bryan Finoki)
The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street
The Architecture of the Piano and other Piano-related Photo Pools on Flickr
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April 16, 2008
Snow Hut
The new Opera House in Oslo, designed by Norwegian architect firm Snøhetta. The Opera House was finished in 2007 with the opening event held on Saturday April 12, 2008. Total expenditures for the building project were planned at 4.4 billion NOK, but finished ahead of schedule, and 300 million NOK under budget
5 year construction compressed into a 3 minutes time-lapse video (Takes a minute to download)
BMW preps The Ramp to launch car to America. (From Ad Freak)
Ned Troide was singularly famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender, the highest score ever recorded, in a single session lasting 62 1/2 hours. What is less known is that he also created a curious set of Heavy Metal end tables. The Curious Furniture of Ned Troide. (From Daily DIY)
Construction photos from Ira Rennert Mansion. This home sits on 63 acres, and the buildings cover over 110,000 square feet including the 66,000 square foot main house. The main building contains a 91-foot long dining room, 29 bedrooms and 39 bathrooms. Fair Field, named after the adjoining Fairfield Pond, also contains a bowling alley, tennis and squash courts, and a $150,000 hot tub.
9 other “Ridiculous, Obnoxious, and Just Plain Ugly Celebrity Houses”
Bad-neighbor schedule by Steve Martin
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March 10, 2008
The Friendly Alien
In 2000 the London-based architects Spacelab won the competition for a new museum for contemporary art in Graz, Austria. They proposed a transparent, bluish, organic shell that looked like a hovering piece of jelly.
It seemed doubtful that something like this was possible, but the city insisted to finish it by the end of the year of 2003 - Graz would hold the prestigious title of a 'cultural capital of Europe' for that year.
But it was finally built in time - 5000 sq m made of steel, foam glass and acrylics, following an arbitrarily curved surface.
As a member of the core planning team it was my task to coordinate the geometry of all the building elements that were part of the shell... About the geometry of the Kunsthaus Graz
The Graz Art Museum
The Friendly Alien as a flickr slideshow
… By far the most disappointing building of my trip last year, the "Friendly Alien" appeared to be a promising building from the publication photos I have seen of it
Design and Renderings of Kunsthaus Graz
Peter Cook RA and the friendly alien
(Photo above by Fritz Leopold)
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February 22, 2008
What makes a building unique?
Looking back over a long career, architect Moshe Safdie digs deep into four extraordinary projects to talk about the unique choices he made on each building -- choosing where to build, pulling information from the client, and balancing the needs and the vision behind each project. Sketches, plans and models show how these grand public buildings, museums and memorials, slowly take form
Munich - Architecture in Museums by Beirle González
Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico’s frightening grid of aerial geometry
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January 25, 2008
Crazy cycle lanes
Former Swedish Shell gas station at Strandvägen, Stockholm
How to design park benches so that homeless people won’t be able to sleep on them
Brutalist Architecture photo pool at flickr
Unrelated re-post: Don’t call me Gringo, you Beaner - "Refried Molotov" by Jason Archer & Paul Beck
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November 14, 2007
Abandoned pools
Flickr's gallery of abandoned swimming pools. (From Information Nation)
Ultra Luxury Home Plans & House design... (A huge website...)
Nearly one million Parisians visit one of the 18 public baths in the capital every year. Most of them are poor, homeless, or housed in a hotel. Others are students, or people who have their electricity cut off and can’t face a cold shower at home.
At weekends, the waiting rooms are full. The baths and showers are free, but you have to bring your own soap and towel. Bath houses in Paris
...We built 50 large buildings on the floor of three rooms in an apartment… (Scroll down)
Hall of Waters in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, an Art Deco masterpiece. (From MetaFilter)
Bottle houses. Also, some houses made out of beer cans
Nanotechnology in Architecture, a blog
32 Amazing Bridges from Around the World
(Pix above from Mark Hegge)
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October 18, 2007
House made of mobile phones
"Casa de Pedra" or the House of Stone in Sao Paulo, whose walls are covered with typewriters and mobile phones, amongst many other objects. This kind of project is sometimes call "spontaneous architecture"
The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air. Tom McMahon has a much cheaper solution: Just Paint A Red Line and a Circle Around It
Alex Jordan Jr's. father was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. However Frank was not pleased with him and kicked him out of Taliesin (the communal art school that Frank was running at the time). As an affront to Taliesin Alex senior built this house in his own style high upon a rock formation just south of Franks house hence the name The House On The Rock
Color by Numbers was a 72 meter high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm, inaugurated on October 23, 2006, and switched off on April 1, 2007. Anyone could control the colors in the tower with their mobile phone, just like a remote control
Model Railroad Slums by artist Peter Feigenbaum
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August 26, 2007
Finding Mr. Wright
Always fascinated by Frank Lloyd Wright but knowing his work only through the photographs of other people, my husband and I decided to take a sidetrip after our annual visit to Washington, D.C. and drive up to western Pennsylvania to visit Fallingwater before returning home to Florida
Also, Pope Leighey House
Weston State Hospital, originally known as the Trans-Allegheny Asylum for the Insane. More from The Preservation Photography of West Virginia
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July 25, 2007
Torre Agbar
The Philip Johnson Glass House Guessing Game
Paris windows, a photoset on flickr. (From Nag on the Lake)
The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, is a 21st century skyscraper in Barcelona
A panorama of the Kremlin and other Presidential Homes around the world
The Hindu temple of Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London
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May 12, 2007
Water sculptures
The Water sculptures of William Pye. (With videos)
The story of evolution. (Click on corner to see in full. From Blu)
The nearly finished China's National Grand Theater looks really like an egg when it is reflected in the pooled water of man-made pond surrounding the ellipsoid shell during a recent anti-leakage test. (From Fisherwy)
Floating Logos by Matt Siber
Top 10 Building Implosions
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April 20, 2007
I am not an architect, but I play one on screen
Mark Luthringer’s Ridgemont Typologies, the American suburban landscape of consumption, status, and identity. (From Vestal Design)
A nice collection of roads, streets and bridges. (From the re-launched Biggest part of my life is me)
Nice interface: RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Flickr photo pool with images of Now and Then
Extensive resource page on Wikipedia - McMansion is a slang architectural term which first came into use in the United States during the 1980s as a pejorative description and an idiom
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March 10, 2007
Tree house hotel
Habitat St., 67 - Montreal, Quebec
Over one kilometer in length and spanning four tram stops, Karl Marx Hof is considered the longest single residential building in the world. (From an Extreme Series on Google Earth)
12 Chabad centers around the world replicate the original building on 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn
The Flatiron Building, NY first skyscraper. (From Slap's Blog)
Re-post: 24 pages of Coin Stacking
Parrot Nest Lodge in Belize, one of many Unusual Hotels of the World
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December 14, 2006
Monty Pylon
Interiors of the UN building by Ben Murphy
UK Pylon Designs from The Pylon Appreciation Society
Unrealised Moscow. The architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s
Underwater Archaeology from The French Ministry of Culture
Medianera is the Spanish word for the wall that separates two buildings. When one of those buildings is knocked down, the remaining wall often carries impressions left behind by the now-demolished living space. (From Metafilter)
Vertical Gardens: The art of organic architecture
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
(No time to blog more tonight. Sorry.)
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