LEGO House in LEGO Form

In what might be best described as "LEGO imitating architecture imitating LEGO," BIG's design for the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, is for sale as a special edition kit:[Photo: Hamid/Flickr][Photo: Hamid/Flickr]I'm not sure how much the limited-edition set goes for, or where it's even available, but...

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Book Review: The Wrong House

The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock by Steven Jacobs nai010 publishers, 2013 (second edition)Paperback, 344 pages"Rope contributed in no small way to freeing the filmmaker from his obsession with painting and making of him what he had been in the time of Griffith and the pioneers –...

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Today's archidose #746

Here are some photos of the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013 (completed spring 2014) in Stuttgart, Germany, by students in the ICD Institute for Computational Design (Prof. Achim Menges) and ITKE Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (Prof. Jan Knippers) at the Unviersity of Stuttgart,...

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Review: Cool Spaces!

[All images are screenshots from episode 1 of Cool Spaces!]This month the four-part documentary series Cool Spaces! is premiering on PBS stations, starting with an episode on "Performance Spaces" and moving on to "Libraries," "Healing Spaces," and "Art Spaces." Host and show creator Stephen Chung, an...

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Today's archidose #745

Here are some photos of the West Terminal Tram Track Electricity Supply Station (2012) in Helsinki, Finland, by Virkkunen & Co Architects, photographed by Arnd Dewald.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your ph...

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Not an April Fools

In January it was revealed that Rizzoli Bookstore "may have to flee the wrecking ball, again" (NYTimes) to make way for what will most likely be yet another supertall building on 57th Street. Walking past the store today I saw a sign that makes their eviction official:If you haven't been to Rizzoli's...

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Architecture & Narrative

A week ago I attended a panel discussion at the Syracuse University Fisher Center in New York City. The evening was billed as a book launch for Matthew Stadler's Deventer, one of my favorite books from last year, but it was really a discussion on narrative and architecture through the guise of three...

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