ICYMI Anthony Morey launched Archinect’s latest series Cross-Talk. 

Each session of Cross-Talk will be oriented around one topic. 

Each topic will be addressed by four texts. 

Each text will be produced by a different author.

Each writer will have their own stance.

Each stance will be meant to agitate others.

Each agitation will produce a possible crack in reason.

Each crack will reveal a possible new position.

The first installment explored agonism. Reacting to one of the pieces Donna Sink wrote "I've never, ever thought of myself as struggling against gravity as an architect...But reading this and thinking about the current project that is obsessing me - renovating a 100 year old abandoned brick building - I realize I constantly fight against decay, or entropy, or disuse."

Plus, Hannah Woods published Architects of Social Responsibility, in which she "engages with architects adopting a range of business models to pursue social responsibility and looks deeper into ways the profession is engaging with building for a common good."
 

News
6sqft released "early conceptual studies" by Adjaye Associates for their first skyscraper in the city-- a 61-story, 750-foot-tall condominium condo in the Financial District. While some saw a trend, others found the move disappointing. Yet, won and done williams argued "I'm not saying anyone set out to design a background building. I'm just saying that is what they are. Sorry I brought it up."

As of May 24th, the Architecture Billings Index has posted three consecutive months of growth, in design revenue at architecture firms.

Episode 89 of Archinect Sessions featured Scott Frank, ex-Senior Director of Media Relations at the AIA. Chemex was impressed "This guy should be running the AIA...but no.... inept bureaucracy".

To celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, the Italian department store La Rinascente opened an OMA/AMO-designed exhibition

Tsinghua Ocean Center in Shenzhen, China by OPEN Architecture and Beiqijia Technology Business District in Beijing, China by Martha Schwartz Partners, are just two of the projects from the latest Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Outdoors" Pinterest Board.

Firms/Work Updates
TAB1006, opened with "Wow, over a month since my last post" then asks for advice. Regarding office politics and how to ask for more opportunities/responsibilities.

NEUBAU has received planning permission for a major project in London, a 'pixelated' residential building, which negotiates a heavily trafficked corner on Fincheley Road and Hendon way.

Erin Sharp Newton reflected on Mental Health Awareness Month and recapped a talk by Ben Lee, AIA, (CFO and Managing Director, Healthcare Practice, NK Architects, and President of the American Institute of Architects, NJ). He spoke of the AIA's Joint Call to Action (along with 7 other organizations) to Promote Healthy Communities.

Orhan Ayyüce announced Constellations of Tijuana an urbanism research seminar, hosted by ELA, Escuela Libre De Arquitectura Tijuana, Mexico from June - August 2017. He promised "We will be updating this blog as we start to chart Tijuana." pihubhawsar was eager "how do we start with constellations ? on diffrent cities"...

School/Blogs
UCLA’s A.UD end-of-year exposition RUMBLE, began Monday June 12 2017, at Perfloff Hall. It runs through June 17, 3pm - 7pm

ETH Zurich is hiring two phd researchers, the projects dig into engineers Terner & Chopard, who "significantly set the tone for the culture of early modern timber construction". Or Heinz Isler, "one of most renown engineers of the 20th century".

Make sure to submit your application (including letter of motivation, CV, overview of your previous work) online by 20 June 2017:

Over at the blog affiliated with the AIAS at UNM SA+P, Cameron Townsend, a graduate student, penned an editorial Take Control of Your Curriculum.

Discussions/Threads
wurdan freo was looking for opinions "Installing an Interior Steel railing. Residential application. What do you think paint or powder coat? Seems to me powder coat always needs touch up and paint never quite matches." Miles Jaffe made the case "Paint on steel is cheap, easy, repairable…Powder coating is more durable but…"

kiwisurfa needs help sourcing a "manufacturer or a supplier." Although, JeromeS proposed "an impact door manufacturer, like Eliason?", that wasn’t quite what kiwisurfa was looking for. Anyone else?

4005529 is curious about fire rated glass curtain walls. Everyday Intern corrected Josh Mings, informing the OP that fire-rated aluminum curtain walls, do exist. senjohnblutarsky and others guessed the products were not cheap. mightyaa chimed in "My best bang for the buck trick is a coiled fire-rated shutter that closes the window opening and drops out of the ceiling.  Lots of code tricks too".