First from a recent Features/Showcase, I enjoy how the facade paneling on Leong Leong Architecture's recent project for 3.1 Phillip Lim progressively flattens towards the sky.
First from a recent Features/Showcase, I enjoy how the facade paneling on Leong Leong Architecture's recent project for 3.1 Phillip Lim progressively flattens towards the sky.

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News
Malcom Well dies.
I concur with superinteresting!, a sad day for nature and architecture.

Is the Modernist glass box still the default corporate architecture of today?

From javierest
plenty of evidence now too that Jonathan Glancey w/ @AmandaBaillieu http://is.gd/5aXWr has gone off the rails re: global "climate change orthodoxy"...

As there are only 4 minaret's currently, so I suppose the Swiss Ban was a ban against future architecture? We discuss here.
Columbia University and NY state's development corporation get called out for mere sophistry.

Bryan Boyer points us to a possible Practice innovation, Flickr site visits? Archinect discusses Bootcamp, Flickr, secure FTP sites, the usefullnes of Flickr's note feature and liability issues.

Discussion Threads
Now that is a discussion topic.
oe starts Gripe Central a thread where we can rant and bitch about things! Eh?

Archinect discussed this news post about DWR.
Holz asks a good question about architectural atrophy.

Via puddles poor people in Kentucky get fleeced! Are Middlesbro and Clinton are a glimpse into the future of post-privatized America?
Also via Barry here some awesome images of work by Contemporary Japanese Sculptors...

School Blogs
Faysal at AA shares a recent line from Mark Cousins something along the lines of "if you hear a discussion start by the words architecture is... just leave".

Nick Sowers catches us up with his thesis status post travels and shares some advice from one of his professors who said think of your thesis less as a project to do and Nick suggests that it is more of something that is continuous with your other work, a set of strategies.

Michael at AA updates us on the Phase 1 and 2 students work which includes agents flocking, aggregating, negotiating superbodies.