Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Center the latest REX-designed project is our latest ShowCase feature. For the project REX utilized the remaining structure from an unfinished Istanbul hotel on-site, and reused the plans from REX's design for the California Institute of Technology’s Annenberg Center in Pasadena.
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Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Center the latest REX-designed project is our latest ShowCase feature. For the project REX utilized the remaining structure from an unfinished Istanbul hotel on-site, and reused the plans from REX's design for the California Institute of Technology’s Annenberg Center in Pasadena.

Because of this NYT article we all shared our thoughts on Real vs Anonymous identities online.

Two good news stories for architects. First, the Acting Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers got a glowing endorsement from lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Thursday. Plus, an architect was appointed to the post of Director of University of Michigan's Museum of Art.

This year the Coachella music festival will feature, a 150-foot crane made from futuristic materials and designed by LA architects Behn Samareh and Ando Pndlian, on the polo polo fields.

Discussion Threads
Over on TC toasteroven collates/collects a bunch of past Archinect discussions and schoolblog posts etc that deal with issues of farming and urban agriculture. They were intended for this thread on Distinctly 'American' issues regarding food production.

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awkeytect says he prefers nocturnal studios as he doesn't trust his ideas during the day.

dallasarchitect asks Can someone please explain to me the purpose of the juries in a Masters program for Architecture?.

School Blogs
Meredith and Aaron who are co-bloggers covering their graduate studies at Washington University put up their first post summarizing their (Fall 09) semester and what their up to in their current studio entitled A Wonderful World being co-taught by Wiel Arets and WUSTL faculty member Robert McCarter.

Anthony who was at Columbia University GSAPP for their AAP Open House for accepted students posts a picture of a model of the new Millstein Hall opening Fall 2011.

Ryan and his fellow Structures III students are working on their final model at Cornell University. They are doing some really sculptural work. Take a look at this for instance.



Eratta
Dan Hill at City of Sound publishes 14 super-short pieces of design fiction, of a sort, each pertaining to describe a particular Australian city of the future. Read all of them here. Dan relates that he chose the short story format because he is more interested in exploring different ways of conjuring up how such a city might feel, or function, of what its social and cultural fabric might be, rather than how it might look.