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So, How's Architecture These Days?

Smokety Mc Smoke Smoke

Just wonderin'. Thought I'd ask the question directly.

 
Aug 14, 10 4:20 pm

OMA | NEWS: 13 August
Repairs begin on TVCC

After a fire in February 2009 and subsequent structural and safety assessments, repairs have begun on OMA's Television Cultural Centre in Beijing. The Beijing Urban Construction Group is restoring the building according to OMA's original design. Adjacent to the China Central Television headquarters (also designed by OMA), TVCC will include a hotel, theatre, exhibition and conference space.
















Is it actually possible to ask a very broad question directly?

Aug 14, 10 9:04 pm  · 
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Architecture in Critical Condition

[sic]
To ERr with SuperGlue
Bilocation Syndrome
Going into Eclectic Shock/Therapy
Surgical Double Theater
Waiting Room: Anxious, Reading, Liszt
Operation a Success; Patient Dead
Malpractice Case: Houses
Eternal Wrest

Aug 16, 10 8:43 pm  · 
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iheartbooks

i suspect Architecture treats its practitioners like Bernie Madoff treated his investors. Its good for some while others are loosing their shirts.

Aug 16, 10 10:48 pm  · 
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Re: Madoff paradigm
But are the fortunate architects benefitting via the unfortunate architects losing their shirts?










An excursus between 'To ERr with SuperGlue and 'Bilocation Syndrome':

1762 Ichnographia Campus Martius

1960-65 Eleanor Donnelly Erdman Hall
1960-67 Dr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher House
1965-69 The Dominican Motherhouse of St. Catherine de Ricci

1977 UNEP Headquarters
1979 Kasperson Residence
1979 Wissenschaftzentrum

1980 The Long Gallery House
1981 Institute of Contemporary Art
1982 Cooper & Pratt House
1982-87 Winton Guest House

1993 Wacko House 002
1993 Sober House 1
1999 Infringement Complex

2001 Ten Zen Men
2001 Room with a View
2002 NATO Headquarters
2006 Parrish Art Museum
2007 Hurva Dormitories
2007 Gooding Trice House
2007 Trivilla Savoye
2008 Hospice Søndergård
2008 Art Souq
2009 Basel Burghof

Aug 17, 10 8:46 am  · 
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DisplacedArchitect

if architecture was a fortress like in the dark ages, (when monks were the only ones saving books of knowledge for posterity) we would be those monks inside there, except that we are under siege surrounded on all sides, we are dropping off like flies one by one.

Aug 17, 10 3:54 pm  · 
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