Archinect - News 2024-05-06T01:34:11-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/148811257/is-london-experiencing-a-brick-boom Is London experiencing a brick boom? Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-02-23T13:32:00-05:00 >2016-02-29T01:02:17-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/de/de681f4a1442f74e0a27bbcbef59d42a?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The streets of London are slowly being infilled by brick-faced buildings characterised by flat, austere fa&ccedil;ades and a certain self-effacement that seems to bow to its predecessors, even though its scale is often a huge step up. London might be acquiring a new vernacular. [...] [Brick] is back in a big way. Manufacturers are running out of stock and there is a critical shortage of skilled bricklayers, leading to construction delays.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More on the elusive London style:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/148738958/working-warrior-an-interview-with-katy-marks-of-citizens-design-bureau" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Working Warrior: an interview with Katy Marks of Citizens Design Bureau</a></li><li><a title='Honoring the "Maverick" British architects' href="http://archinect.com/news/article/146654404/honoring-the-maverick-british-architects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Honoring the "Maverick" British architects</a></li><li><a title="Infrastructure or advertisement? Sky to sponsor the Garden Bridge" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/145677142/infrastructure-or-advertisement-sky-to-sponsor-the-garden-bridge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Infrastructure or advertisement? Sky to sponsor the Garden Bridge</a></li><li><a title="The (state-facilitated) death of the council house" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/145216392/the-state-facilitated-death-of-the-council-house" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The (state-facilitated) death of the council house</a></li><li><a title="Amid London's austerity measures, &quot;defensive design&quot; becomes even more hostile" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/144961813/amid-london-s-austerity-measures-defensive-design-becomes-even-more-hostile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amid London's austerity measures, "defensive design" becomes even more hostile</a></li></ul> https://archinect.com/news/article/81473658/editor-s-picks-332 Editor's Picks #332 Nam Henderson 2013-09-10T11:11:00-04:00 >2013-09-12T05:07:10-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/r0/r03r5pyd33uysuet.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Orhan Ayy&uuml;ce penned a remembrance to his friend architect Larry Totah, titled Slow Weather of Architecture. Therein he describes "The House"...overlooking Pacific Ocean rather edgewise and build like a long drawing depicting a horizontally composed architecture. The fog, roof and the walls are more of Chumash hiring Hopi to build on their mountains for few exquisite basket full of shellfish to adorn the wedding dresses in Hopi villages like the ones a Don Juan dreamed of, a fair exchange"...</p></em><br /><br /><p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/bp/bpt69fg49nihb367.jpg"></p> <p> <a href="http://archinect.com/AmeliaTH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amelia Taylor-Hochberg</a>&nbsp;interviewed architectural photographer Bilyana Dimitrova, formerly Metropolis Magazine&rsquo;s photo editor. The two discussed <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/79627034/architecture-photography-in-the-21st-century-interview-with-bilyana-dimitrova" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Architecture Photography in the 21st Century</a> ahead of the exhibition '<a href="http://architecture.woodbury.edu/jsi/?portfolio=beyond-the-assignment-defining-photographs-of-art-and-design" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond the Assignment: Defining Photographs of Architecture and Design</a>'&nbsp;which will be presented by the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury University, October 5 - November 1, 2013.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/xr/xr5ni4zco9rxbyar.jpg"></p> <p> <a href="http://archinect.com/orhan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orhan Ayy&uuml;ce</a>&nbsp;penned a remembrance to his friend architect Larry Totah, titled <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/81002757/slow-weather-of-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slow Weather of Architecture</a>.&nbsp;Therein he describes "<strong>The House</strong>" which "<em>continuously frames and de-frames itself in three or four sets of axis minded passages. In the front, overlooking Pacific Ocean rather edgewise and build like a long drawing depicting a horizontally composed architecture. The fog, roof and the walls are more of Chumash hiring Hopi to build on their mountains for few exquisite basket full of shellfish to adorn the wedding dresses in Hopi villages like the ones a Don Juan dreamed of, a fair ...</em></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/29070980/luxury-360 LUXURY 360 Orhan Ayyüce 2011-11-28T15:00:30-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yz/yz0msr96crc2i8c5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Luxury 360 is the FT's new online hub for creative and commercial coverage of the luxury goods industry, with news, views and special reports.</p></em><br /><br /><p> <em>Photo: Louis Vuitton - Ad Campaign</em></p> <p> Just in time for holiday shopping and on your face money shot action, Financial Times launches its 'LUXURY 360' section, gazing through the global markets for lately thriving luxury goods industry.</p> <p> "Go f*ck yourselves if you haven't arrived losers, pardon me, unhappy campers!"</p>