Today's archidose #773

Here are some photos of the Market Hall and Central Squares (2012) in Ghent, Belgium, by Robbrecht & Daem, photographed by Maurice Tjon a Tham. Previously the building was featured as Today's archidose #664.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose...

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A Tale of Two Chicagos

There's the Midwestern "Windy City," "City of Big Shoulders," "Second City," etc.:[Photo by John Hill]And then there's the "Mideastern" Chicago, an urban warfare training site for the IDF in the Negev desert:[Chicago #2, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, 2005 | Photo source]The Midwestern Chicago's...

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The Post Is Hating Contemporary Architecture

The New York Post published a couple pieces over the weekend that openly criticize projects dedigned by famous architects. First is an editorial on the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC, designed by Frank Gehry. The yet-to-be-built project has been mired in approvals and budget cuts, and hampered...

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Design Imitates Film

Earlier today I was digging around this blog's drafts and I came across an unfinished post from late 2011 with just a couple photos, one a still from Jacques Tati's 1958 film Mon Oncle:And one of Domeau Pérès's TATI - Canapé vert de Madame Arpel, a limited-edition sofa obviously modeled on the above...

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Email Subscription Problems

Update 08.03: Looks like this is the issue: Email service providers can't send to / from Yahoo addresses, which took effect on April 15 of this year. Since I had the email "from" address in Feedburner configured to archidose[at]yahoo[dot]com, many people (including myself) were not receiving this blog's...

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Today's archidose #772

Here are some photos of Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (2012) in Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, photographed by Wojtek Gurak (see also his photos of Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Handelsbanken, also in Tjuvholmen).To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:::...

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Book Review: Eastwest

Eastwest: Nabil Gholam Architects edited by Warren Singh-Bartlett and Ana Corberó; main text by Warren Singh-Bartlett and Nabil Gholam; essays by Kenneth Frampton and Gökhan KarakusOscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2014Hardcover, 496 pagesEven before cracking the spine on this monograph on Lebanese architect...

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