Jean Nouvel, unveiled his design for the National Museum of Qatar. Plus, he was picked to design the 10th Serpentine pavilion.
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Jean Nouvel, unveiled his design for the National Museum of Qatar. Plus, he was picked to design the 10th Serpentine pavilion.

I particularly liked this "aerial view" of the proposed complex.


Christopher Hawthorne on the recently deceased architect Raimund Abraham's design for the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.

Frank Gehry sets aside his curvilinear style for Frank Gehry his proposed concept for the new Eisenhower memorial.

Go sign the petition to help preserve Hejduk's Kreuzberg housing block.

Ayn Rand move over: In Pune, India, shantytown residents and architects use 'design by consensus'.

Discussion Threads
b3tadine[sutures] reminds us of the MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM.

May I suggest starting with the book Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen for more on atmospheric subnatures.

mguhanasjr is looking for technical data of a US Military device (although only spatial and structural). for his project which reuses one of the many 'stricken' navy ships at Philadelphia's Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility.

We discusss the recently announced plans for shrinking Detroit.

alddorossi has a question that involves Christopher Hawthorne and the movie Parents.

School Blogs
Nick Sowers reports in from BLDGBLOG/Atlas Obscura's "Expedition to the Geoglyphs of nowhere" to California City, California. For which Nick built a few prosthetics for listening to the desert and he shares his continued interest in the the notion of an audio horizon - the moment where distant sounds can barely be heard, and then disappear. The horizon ultimately defines our concept of landscape; it delineates the inhabitable surface of the earth. But horizon is always thought of as an optical phenomenon. What, then, of our sense of sound, which has arguably more to do with notions of defensibility and territory?

Max at IIT reflects on materiality after a Kengo Kuma lecture and shares a great quote from his old project manager "simplicity: complexity resolved".

Lucas at RISD posts some nice shots from a site visit to LA. Did you know there is a Private Turrell Skyscape at the Lautner House?

Jacob at UF shares his thoughts on the search for new faculty members. Looking at the first 2 of 8 finalists, Lee-Su Huang and then at Claudio Vekstein.

Eratta
Jason A. King, of Landscape+Urbanism has a post looking at the upswing in the use of paired terms ending with the term 'urbanism' to describe a range of theoretical positions related to all things urban.