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north
america
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canada
cca - canadian centre for
architecture - bilingual resource site based in Quebec. [03/04]
zone architecture - online centre
of architectural Quebec. French language.
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united states of america
arbitat - a fairly
substantial site with a construction reports, 'futurewatch',
a directory of architects, and a forum. [07/05]
architecture and interior design for 20th century america
- the samuel gottscho and willliam schleisner collection 1935-1955.
digital
imaging project - extensive slide collection of european
and north american architecture.
frontier
house - a reality TV show set in a Montana frontier House
has spun off this interesting portrait of the american frontier
house (PBS/WNET).
Historic Asylums of
America - dedicated to documenting vanishing asylums in
the states. Some spooky buildings.
profile - the AIA
database of architects in the U.S.
roadside america
- "your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions."
roadside
peek - As another mid century petrol station is
quietly demolished on Rathdowne Street in Carlton, one could
pause to wonder why the Americans are so much better than
us at cataloguing their mid-century roadside wildness.
jetset - U.S.
site dedicated to mid-century cool. Features and links.
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atlanta,
georgia
peachtree
street - an exhaustive series of articles examining
Atlanta's rapidly changing streetscape. John Portman
is among those interviewed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution
1999).
buffalo, new york
buffalo
architecture and history - a large for-the-love-of-it
site dedicated to Buffalo's architecture.
chicago, illinois
art
institute architecture collection - this page should
take you to the Art Institute of Chicago's architecture
department, which mentions all current and future architecture
exhibits.The institute is currently getting a new wing
built by Renzo Piano. [05/06]
chicago
architects oral history project - part of the Art
Institute, it's a HEAP of interviews with architects
who have built in Chicago. There is a 332 page interview
with Gordon Bunshaft, from 1989. Bunshaft on education:
"Architecture, let’s say, is the whole alphabet, A to
X-Y-Z. As far as schooling goes, it’s A-B-C. There are
twenty-three more letters or something. So the word
“training” sounds profound, but it isn’t. You’re just
getting awakened to it." [05/06]
chicago architecture foundation - many many many
tours of old and new buildings, held daily and quite
cheap - how else will you get to the Farnsworth? [05/06]
chicago landmarks - a council website with a good rundown of Chicago's many important buildings. The site also has self-guided tour suggestions. [07/06]
from louis sullivan to SOM - descriptions of MIT
graduates who made it big in Chicago a century ago.[07/06]
mies van der rohe society - this IIT based society has almost daily walking tours of the campus (which includes buildings by Mies, Koolhaas and Jahn). [09/06]
los angeles, california
document
L.A. - a small collection of historic photographs.
virtual
los angeles - captures from a mind-boggling project
by the UCLA modelling the whole of the los angeles basin.
four
ecologies of LA - Cardiff University student updates
Banham's survey (1994).
Varnelis -
interesting and usually well-tended american archiblog, brought to you by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University. [07/06]
delerious LA
- Alan A. Loomis' essays on urban LA. [07/06]
LA Past, present, future - useful site with links to just about everything to do with the development of Los Angeles. [07/06]
las vegas, nevada
las
vegas, 'tis of thee - a wander down the strip, 2001
style. Also many useful vegas links. (atlantic, 2/01)
new york, new york
ARCHIGRAM:
Welcome to New York
What if... the Times Square redevelopment had looked
towards Archigram, not Disney. (part3 98)
broken new york - concentrating on things less photographed.
frank jump's fading
ads - large collection of beautiful photos of billboards.
a
love of monsters - a great enthusiast site describing
various walks about NY looking at gargoyles.
modern ruins - photo essays of New York's recently dead architecture.
Includes Coney Island and the 1964 World's Fair. Links
to similar sites.
someplace
like home - did you know that the model for Psycho's
Bates House (and Edward Hopper's 'House by the Railroad')
sits 30 miles north of New York city? (atlantic 1996)
the fall of the
twin towers - description of the towers and relevant
links. [Butterpaper.com]
philadelphia, pennsylvania
philadelphia
architects and buildings - a highly ambitious project
seeking to commit to database just about every historic
buidling on the planet, starting in Philadelphia (138,000
entries and growing). Free access to low res images
for some entries. [08/03]
washington D.C.
national building museum
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central
+ south america
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maya
ruins - large photo library of mayan ruins in Mexico, Belize
and Guatemala.
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argentina
links arquitectura
- a good portal into Argentinian and South American architecture.
noticias arquitectura
- by the same guy as links arquitectura, this site offers up
to the minute info about architecture in the spanish language.
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brazil
arts
and culture - government website profiling Brazil's architectural
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colombia
arquitectura
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mexico
architecture
of the pacific coast - small article with photos, also links
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peru
arquiperu - a news
and information site with an english language section. [03/04]
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Daniel
Libeskind - Breaking Ground - Adventures in Life and Architecture
Daniel's first memoir.
H/cover 288 pages, 2004.
AMAZON 60% OFF SALE PRICE
$US 11.18 + P/P ($US5-12)
(melbourne bookshops 02/05 $AU60)
about the WTC - read about the World Trade Centre and its architect,
with links to interesting sites.
TWIN
TOWERS @ butterpaper
20.10.07 Oscar gets older still - Now that Oscar Niemeyer is less than two months out from his 100th birthday, the interviews are accelerating in frequency. This AP one reads more like an obituary tacked onto a couple of quotes, but nevertheless is interesting, talking about his time in exile as well as Robert Hughes' disgust with Brasilia: "The basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist." Problem is Niemeyer didn't plan it, that was Lucio Costa's job. You can read Costa's Pilot Plan report here. WIKIPEDIA
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08.09.07 Tschumi in Manhatten - Bernard designs an apartment building in NY. It looks like fun. Nicholai Ouroussoff of the New York Times seems to like it. "Encased in a matrix of blue panels, its contorted form has a hypnotic appeal that is firmly rooted in the gritty disorder of its surroundings. It reminds us that beauty and good taste are not always the same thing." NYT 04.09.07 BLUE CONDO TSCHUMIThe architect's website justifies the wobbly angularity of the building by saying that the building is ducking and weaving on the border of two planning zones. So perhaps zoning does have a use.
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06.09.07 George & Robert - Not sure why ex presidents of the U.S.A feel the need to get libraries and institutes built in their honour, but dubya is wasting no time... he has Robert Stern already working on squeezing a library and public policy institute into the tranquil neo georgian surrounds of a private university in Dallas. YALE DAILY NEWS 31.08.07 ROBERT AM STERN
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01.08.07 Niemeyer - Jonathan Glancey interviews Oscar Niemeyer just short of his 100th birthday, and can't quite beleive it. "I still find it hard to think that the man I leave at his drawing board in Rio is the same young architect who went to meet Le Corbusier stepping down from an airship here more than 70 years ago." [tip M.E.] GUARDIAN 01.08.07
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29.04.07 Spire - Looks like the Eureka Tower won't keep its "tallest residential" claim for too long. Santiago Calatrava's icy Chicago Spire finally has its planning approval - 150 floors of apartments next to the lake. BUILDING 23.04.07
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27.04.07 tiny - More on smallness - this article from the CS Monitor traces the return of the small house to the market. Scott Frank from the AIA calls it, "a reversal of the decades of expanding home sizes." Tumble weed homes, profiled a few days ago, have been on Oprah, and Hurricane Katrina begat the Katrina house, which is selling well (maybe because the plans are $2). ALTERNET 21.04.07 TINYHOUSES.NET The Katrina houses are quite interesting, despite appearances, as some of them are designed to be expandable: "This plan is designed to grow out the back of the house. The opening, which begins as a closet door under the stairs converts to the Master Bedroom Door." They are also sold by Lowes, which looks like the local Bunnings hardware shop. LOWE'S KATRINA HOUSES
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06.03.07 movietime - A movie has come out in the states called, "The Architect". An "idealistic architect" looks a bit guilty in the trailer for having years ago designed some tower block public housing. Howard Roark he is not. APPLE TRAILERS
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31.01.07 Roboarchitect - Frank Lloyd Wright's tumultuous personal life gets another looking at in a new play off Broadway. Robocop actor Peter Weller assumes the main role. The play is set over three days in 1923 when one Louis Sullivan pays a visit on Frank in L.A. NEWSDAY 31.01.07 FRANK'S HOME (includes video snippet)
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29.12.06 Mayne - La Defense in Paris is soon to get a curvy Thom Mayne tower, as the Californian architect starts to win a few big projects... "In architecture, you arrive so late, I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started." REGISTER GUARD 28.12.06 MORPHOSIS
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23.12.06 gehry - In a zigzagging interview, Gehry ponders his succession, student pay rates, and ideal jobs... "I've always had the fantasy of having a little kiosk in the mall where... people would line up and you would charge them 25 bucks and you would look at their plans. I love doing that kind of stuff. They think you are a genius when you move one little wall and get an efficiency and nobody had thought of that before. Small pleasures." WALL ST JNL 23.12.06
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18.06.03 Here's
a good lookin' film about 1950s design in the US. At the brilliant
Prelinger collection of non copyright movies. THE AMERICAN
LOOK
14.05.03 Well
no wonder Geelong didn't win the Guggenheim franchise. Rio de Janiero
is paying big bucks for it. BLOOMBERG
06.02.03
Architecture for Humanity have been
in touch regarding the plug below. You can now read their detailed
response to the State of the Union address HERE.
They are also wanting to tour the finalists' exhibition
to Australia or New Zealand as a very large proportion
of the entries came from this end of town. If anyone can help set
them up with gallery space please email
them.
30.01.03 In George's Dubya's spooky
State of the Nation speech yesterday, there was a glimmer of hope
- funding to fight AIDS in Africa has increased massively. Architecture
for Humanity was much heartened
by this. The Architecture for Humanity competition for a mobile
health clinic closed in November and the finalists' entries are
online.
ARCHITECTURE FOR
HUMANITY
10.10.02
Yet again in LA, Rafael Moneo's Our Lady of The Angel cathedral
opened there last month (amid some scandal).
Here's the cathedral's website,
which has quite a few pics and some 'fun facts' like this one: <<
It is one foot longer than St. Patrick's in New York. This was not
true in the original plans, but topping New York by one foot was
too much fun to avoid, a little inside joke even amongst the clergy>>
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