June 2010
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Something is rotten in the state of Taiwan.
Yo dudes, this ain’t right. City officials in Kaohsiung canceled a massive open competition for a 30-acre cultural park comprising EIGHT buildings and a masterplan.
Architects spend an obscene amount of time and money assembling designs, renderings, presentation books, and shipping materials. Cancelling a competition after everyone has submitted is ludicrous.
We know that 135 firms...
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Flickr collection of architecture, from Aalto to... →
Agora Theater by UN Studio
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SUBTILITAS: people to follow →
Also for the tumblr users, since it’s Tuesday a big thank you again to those who have recommended subtilitas for the directory and those who are following. Below, a few blogs focusing on architecture I’ve been following that are continually providing inspiring images and commentary.
Visual Inspirations | Spatula | Umm Hello? | Design Spectrum | Meu Moleskine Digital | Hcts -...
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Round 2 of World Cup of Architecture: FRANCE →
Comment with your favorite project from the land of unpasteurized cheese, sailor shirts, and Système D, and enter to win a FREE copy of the new AIA Guide.
Here’s one to whet your whistle. That’s a school gym, by the way.
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Curbed.com tackles new AIA Guide
…and it’s 1,055 pages of gold nugget architectural criticism, like this little tidbit:
The Chapin School (Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, 2008 addition): “Said the modernist addition to the neo-Georgian brick school: ‘Sorry! I landed on your roof! Pardon me! Now I seem to be stuck to your cornice! Oh, well…’” [photo]
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The six degrees of [fill in the architect]. →
Not everyone gets along as well as Herzog & de Meuron.* Sometimes architect teams break up. Sometimes they get more famous. Sometimes they get divorced. And sometimes, they fade into total obscurity.
*Did you know they went to kindergarten together!?
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