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Possible Pompadours | Cuts for Success by The Rafaie   View full entry

  Like an impetuous and premature first-time or waking up without beer goggles, sometimes the world reminds us of humbling experiences that have defined our youth and sculpted us into the fine human beings we are today. This week, I awoke to a most nostalgic email that oozed ambition... View full entry

One of our obsessions has been, and always will be, scaffolding. There is something about it; this thin wiry layer that echoes its contents. Maybe it’s the way it billows, maybe it’s the way it conceals. All I know is that I want to climb into it. We’re walking around... View full entry

  There seems to be two camps in terms of representation: people who love silhouettes and people who love people. We’ve all made both, and quickly we seem to put ourselves into one camp or the other. There seems to be very little middle ground. I like people. The... View full entry

Trained and tested in the flames of inadequacy, the fertile ashes of destitution provide for the emergence of the ripe succulent — so is the rise of the promoted intern. There’s nothing quite like that point in an architect’s career where they go from being an intern to having... View full entry

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(visit buildingsatire.com to check your answers)   Aggrenad Hotel Fig 1: Holl, Nelson-Atkins Fig 2: Three-Headed Dog from Harry Potter     Superkilen Fig 1: Etsy Denim Patchwork Quilt Fig 2: Candyland        Prague Library Fig 1: EVE from WALL-E Fig 2: Masked... View full entry

Bring the magical atmosphere of a highway-underpass-squatter-encampment into your living room with this 100% recycled aluminum candle holder. This elegant masterpiece comes with a lovingly hand made wax coating at the base; simply heat the bottom of any candle and stick firmly in place. This can... View full entry

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Architecture can be a poor, masochistic, and downtrodden profession, but it doesn’t have to be. The truth is we never had to be poor, in fact we probably could have had our choice of occupations, but for whatever reason we’re here. Our short term financial freedom lies in what I (and... View full entry

First Place | Adam Longenbach Section Through the Mind of a ProfessorAuthor: Adam LongenbachSchool: Cooper Union, USALevel: M.Arch II “A word in a building, a sentence in a street, a paragraph in a neighborhood: the city is the manipulation of the earth into a collective autobiography of... View full entry

Second Place | Benjamin McGrath Beyond Open Doors | A Mother’s Labor of ChoresAuthor: Benjamin McGrathSchool: Virginia Tech, USALevel: 5th Year B.Arch “…And we always knew that it would never be true. It was the fear that kept us from progress, but it was also fear that shaped... View full entry

Section Through the New York Sewer SystemAuthor: Tristan VetterSchool: University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA “This drawing is not a literal representation of the New York sewer system, but a metaphor of New York as a plumbing fixture which is part of the larger sewer system.  A... View full entry

Monuments for Memories | Hyper-Real GraveyardAuthor: Dawa Ewan Tshering PrattenSchool: Plymouth University, United KingdomLevel: 4th Year BA “In the year 2054, 50 years after its launch, Facebook is forced to confront the problem of death. Too many of its users are now dead. All their... View full entry

Copy Culture | Modern Surrealism as Reproduction by parrhesia Top: Kim's Bin-Jip/ 3-Iron Bottom: Wang Du's The Kiss I must play cynic as I feel it does not take much to be recognized these days. With the proliferation of social media and hyper-journalism, blogs, feeds, fodder, i-this, and... View full entry

Associative Allusions | SnarkDaily by Clara   Penzkoferhaus by Peter Haimerl Architektur   Fourth Grace by Will Alsop   National Gallery of Greenland by Bjarke Ingels Group   Drift by Snarkitecture       Fig 1: Malevich Generative Art Fig 2: Misguided PC Souls... View full entry

BuildingSatire Etsy Line by Blair New “Do-It-Yourself Style” lampshade kit available on Etsy. BuildingSatire is proud to announce its very own line of products available on Etsy, starting with this stylish and contemporary lampshade. Don’t settle for fakes or cheap imitations... View full entry

Having worked at a few offices now, I’d like to share a few recurring characters I’ve noticed.   Goliaths Goliaths are old beasts who have roamed the white halls of the office for years. They are comfortable throwing their weight around knowing there are no known consequences... View full entry

Crystallized Agoraphobia | A Spatial Conflict View full entry

I like to describe myself as a failure: I dropped out of graduate school and moved to China. There has always been this itch inside of me, a kind of restlessness and dissatisfaction with my experience, education, and abilities that I think I was hoping to fill. In fact, the night before I boarded... View full entry

  Linguists have started thinking about things (such as writing dictionaries) descriptively rather than prescriptively. Descriptive linguistics recognizes that there is, “no language in itself… only a throng of dialects, patois, slangs, and specialized languages” [Deleuze... View full entry

On a train ride from Beijing to Shanghai, I realized how monotone China seemed to me, or at least Beijing and the area around it. At that moment, I became conscious of the chromatic impressions cities have left on me. Coincidentally during my trip, the Powerstation of Art in Shanghai housed a... View full entry

  I just finished reading, “In Praise of Shadows,” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and it actually turned out to make some dull moments of my most recent family vacation a lot less dull. But still, less dull does not equate sharpness. At first read I thought Mr. Tanizaki was a... View full entry

  Beijing is a dirty place. A few days after I arrived I realized the disgusting ephemerality of this city. You throw your trash out at night, the fairies take it away so you can breath a little easier from 8AM to 2PM, then the gooey tide rises again. It’s really no different than most... View full entry

  So the project’s over. Finally. We go out to this new restaurant around the corner for a celebratory meal. The food is “locally sourced” (whatever that means), organic, free-range, all that, and priced to match. Not the most intern-budget friendly option. As I gaze down... View full entry

Beginning December 16th and ending January 20th we are holding an international design competition for students. The winner will be awarded a two-week externship at LUXIGON Aloha Jacta Est in Los Angeles. Guidelines: Entrants will choose from the following categories and create a sectional... View full entry

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Now, most of us have stories of pictures taken in the McQueen Exhibit when there was strictly no photography, of backpacks lugged to spend the day as a Cooper Union student, or even of scaffolding climbed at 3AM just to sit on the cold steel frame of the 9/11 site. For those of you who lack such... View full entry