Today's archidose #831

Here are some photos of the Can Framis Museum (2009) in Barcelona, Spain, by BAAS Arquitectura, photographed by Maciek Lulko.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your...

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Storefront's TRANS Auction

From April 7 to April 21, Paddle8 is hosting an online benefit auction for the Storefront for Art and Architecture that leads up to the Storefront's Spring Benefit, honoring artist Do Ho Suh and architect Thom Mayne, at 432 Park Avenue on April 21. Below are 10 highlights from the nearly 70 works that...

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Book Review: Urban Literacy

Urban Literacy: Reading and Writing Architecture by Klaske Haviknai010 Publishers, 2014Paperback, 256 pagesWell known architect and author Juhani Pallasmaa supplies the foreword to this book by Klaske Havik, a professor at Delft University of Technology and contributing editor of OASE. The choice is...

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Spring 2015 Architectural Walking Tours

It's warm again – finally! – so here is a list of the four architectural walking tours I'm doing with the 92Y in April and May. The first one is this Saturday. Click on the links below to purchase tickets.Saturday, April 18, 11am - 1:30pmColumbus Circle and Lincoln SquareLook at and go inside some recent...

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Today's archidose #830

Here are some photos of the Karlsruhe 2015 Pavilion by Jürgen Mayer H., set to open on June 17 in Karlsruhe's Palace Garden. Photographs here are by Frank Dinger, who has many more photos of the KA300 Pavilion (it is part of the celebrations around Karlsruhe's 300th anniversary) in his Flickr set on...

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Depends Legends

It was hard not to laugh at the "Depends Legends" commercial on last night's Saturday Night Live, a highlight of an otherwise mediocre episode. In trying to overcome the stigma in talking about grown-up diapers, the fake commercial recalls the "Oops! I Crapped my Pants" ad from a 1998 SNL episode. But...

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Tadashi Saito's Rammed Earth Architecture

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure Japan doesn't have much of a tradition with earth architecture, especially rammed earth construction. Earth Architecture, an excellent resource on the subject, has only eight posts categorized "Japan." Of those only one post is on rammed earth architecture (Loco Architects'...

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