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Tour BIG’s Tirpitz Bunker Museum through NYT's Daily 360

2017-08-31T14:20:00-04:00

Take a walk through BIG's controversial 2,800 m2 Bunker Museum that opened this summer in Denmark—

Housing shortage statistics demonstrate the cities that are still building

2017-08-29T15:03:00-04:00

Trulia isolated the markets in which building permits for residential construction are being issued at rates above historical averages, which have been calculated by looking at the number of permits issued each year between 1980 and 2016. The study also shows that Austin, Dallas and Houston, issued over 10% of all permits in the nation in 2017.These cities are projected to add about 130,000 new homes by the end of the year, their growth driven by abundant jobs and rising incomes and home prices.

According to the real estate website Trulia, the number of homes available for sale decreased 8.9 percent in the second quarter of 2017 compared to a year earlier, which follows decreases every quarter for the two past years.

The projected number of new building permits in 2017 grew the most in the following cities:

Austin, TX (+107.7% higher than historical average)
Charleston, SC (+72.8%)
Nashville, TN (+65.8%)
Philadelphia, PA (+62.3%)
Boston, MA (+61%)

Decreasing the most in:

Worcester, MA (-85.5%)
Allentown, PA (-85.0%)
New Haven, CT (-80.8%)
Akron, OH (-77.1%)
Syracuse, NY (-70.8%)

Take a listen to the NYT's beautiful sonic portraits of architectural spaces

2015-12-29T17:45:00-05:00

we rarely talk about how architecture sounds, aside from when a building or room is noisy. [...] Sound may be invisible or only unconsciously perceived, but that doesn’t make it any less an architectural material than wood, glass, concrete, stone or light. [...] Acoustics can act in deep, visceral ways, not unlike music ... And while it’s sometimes hard to pin down exactly how, there is often a correlation between the function of a place or an object and the sound we expect it to make.

Architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and producers Alicia DeSantis, Jon Huang and Graham Roberts document the sounds of some archetypal city spaces, conveying the personality and subtle (or sometimes not) musicality of interiors.