For Archinects latest In Focus feature we talked to Turkish photographer team GRIDUO.
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For Archinects latest In Focus feature we talked to Turkish photographer team GRIDUO.

I understand their reasons but i hope they aren't thinking of getting rid of the Breuer Building.

Architosh uncovers what may be the code name for either the first native version of AutoCAD for Mac in more than 18 years or the specific beta phase name. We think possibly the former.

Christian de Portzamparc might get the chance to build something in LA for Eli Broad.

I really liked the (pictured) Bridge School, in Xiashi, China.

A derelict Detroit house becomes a design lab for five young firms.


Discussion Threads
Thanks to this thread I came across these photos of Antoine Predock skiing on the roof of his Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts.

loremipsum wants tips on suggestions for great architecture to see in the Ozarks.

We discuss the ending of Lost.

le bossman starts a thread to document Small Town Cutting Edge Firms.

Another discussion regarding which is the best video card to buy.

School Blogs
Thomas at Boston Architectural College discusses the book The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States by Mark Dyreson and Robert Thumpbour.

John Tubles from Cal Poly Pomona / Kyushu is back in Japan after visiting the Shangai Expo and he gives us the list of classes he will be taking his 2nd and last semester in Kyushu University.

Jacob at U of F asks the question; What I say "electronic architecture", what do you think of?.

Nick Sowers posts reports from a forensic engineer and ornithologist from the future. The writings discuss how How is ruination measured and tracked? and chiroptology.

Chris at Bartlett reports in from the RIBA Forgotten Spaces Exhibition at the National Thatre on London's Southbank. His entry was shortlisted.

Additionally
Viktor Ramos, who is a documenting his travels around the world to 10 of the most densely populated cities in the world for the 2009 SOM Prize, as part of an SOM Fellowship recently visited Favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. He later wrote Favela Rocinha is just massive (though not for how many people it houses). The way it grows over the hills and wipes out all traces of the land except for the slope is awesome (ie, inspiring awe, not necessarily good). This is megastructure, though not nearly as clean and rational as envisioned by the megastructuralists.