Summer 2015 Architectural Walking Tours

I've got a couple architectural walking tours this summer, both coming up this month. Click on the links below to purchase tickets from the 92Y.Saturday, July 18, 11am - 1:30pmThe High Line and Its EnvironsTrek the High Line taking in the park and the surrounding buildings and step off to get a closer...

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Currencies of Architecture

The Chicago Architecture Club's 2015 Burnham Prize Competition isn't a building, a landscape or an installation – it's an image. Specifically, "the iconic image that defines or challenges the state of architecture today." Read on for more information on Currencies of Architecture.[All images courtesy...

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Ten Big Buildings in Google Maps

Just a fun little mid-week diversion: While doing some virtual globetrotting I noticed that many buildings I was looking for have modeled footprints in Google Maps. Below is a sampling of ten of the most interesting ones, all roughly at the same scale and sorted from big to bigger to huge. Click on...

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Exhibition of the Moment: Foreground

I wish I could make it out to Los Angeles to see the Center for Land Use Interpretation's (CLUI) current exhibition, Foreground: The Landscape of Golf in America. Alas, these couple photos and description will have to do. (If anybody makes it out to the exhibition and snaps photos or does a write-up,...

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Today's archidose #847

Here are some photos of Parc Martin Luther King (2014) in Batignolles, Paris, by Atelier Jacqueline Osty & Associés, photographed by victortsu. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration,...

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Happy 4th of July!

A video posted by John Hill (@therealarchidose) on Jun 30, 2015 at 7:11pm PDTUpdate: The above clip is from the Astoria fireworks on June 30, but the below one is from the "official" fireworks on July 4th, set off by Macy's in the East River and seen from Gantry State Park in Long Island City.A video posted by John Hill (@therealarchidose) on Jul 4, 2015 at 9:18pm ...

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Book Review: Out of the Loop

Out of the Loop: Vernacular Architecture Forum Chicago edited by Virginia B. Price, David A. Spatz, and D. Bradford HuntMidway Books, 2015Paperback, 204 pagesIn early June the Vernacular Architecture Forum, "the premier organization in North America dedicated to the appreciation and study of ordinary...

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