Today's archidose #771

Here are some photos of Highway A-16 Tunnel Section 4-5-6 (1998) in St. Ursanne, Switzerland by Renato Salvi and Flora Ruchat-Roncati, photographed by Trevor Patt.Update 07.31: Photos of the Glovelier entrance, also photographed by Trevor Patt:To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:::...

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New Blog: Unpacking My Library

Last week I started a new blog, titled Unpacking My Library. It's basically a weeding out of books from my ever-growing library by writing briefly about one of them every day. The latest post from the new blog will show up in the left column here. Read more about the Unpacking My Library blog below.[Unpacking...

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Today's archidose #770

Here are some of my photos of The Living's Hy-Fi installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archid...

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St. Mark's New Home

St. Mark's Bookshop, a staple near Cooper Union since the late 70s, was in the news a few years ago when the school – its landlord – raised rent for the sizable space to over $20,000/month. The store successfully got a rent reduction, but it started looking for a new, smaller location shortly thereafter,...

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Galeria Melissa + SOFTlab

Yesterday I found myself in SoHo so I stopped by Brazilian shoemaker Melissa's store on Greene Street to check out a colorful installation by SOFTlab.Called We Are Flowers, to coincide with a collection from Melissa of the same name, the installation consists of over 20,000 translucent flowers attached...

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Today's archidose #769

Here are some photos of the Handelsbanken in Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, photographed by Wojtek Gurak.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archid...

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Book Review: Two Tschumi Titles

Notations: Diagrams and Sequences by Bernard TschumiArtifice Books on Architecture, 2014Hardcover, 304 pagesTschumi Parc de la Villette by Bernard TschumiArtifice Books on Architecture, 2014Paperback, 240 pagesThis summer appears to be a busy time for 70-year-old architect Bernard Tschumi, at least...

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