tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48823393257868854492024-03-06T13:38:31.033+07:00modern and futuristic architecture design latest building modern and futuristic architecture design pictures 2015 by famous architect. many architectural concept and projects include hotel, airport, high rise tower, homes, apartments. find your ideas to build your dream. ardykhanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252337575266107381noreply@blogger.comBlogger3264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-36406807361281224592015-11-25T21:01:00.000+07:002015-11-25T21:01:00.344+07:00Check Out the Upcoming SFV Family Support CenterSan Fernando Valley Family Support Center. Image from HKS Architects via World Architecture News.Back in September, longtime County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky announced that the San Fernando Valley Family Support Center was breaking ground in Van Nuys. Located at the southwest corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Saticoy Street, the 220,000 square foot project carries a price tag of $Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-74572668035279722412015-11-25T20:58:00.000+07:002015-11-25T20:58:00.348+07:00Affordable Housing Project Takes Form in Pico UnionVertical construction is largely complete for Vermont Manzanita, an affordable housing project located in the Pico Union neigborhood. The five-story structure, which is being developed by the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (WHCHC), will feature 40 one- and three-bedroom apartments units. According to a document from the State Treasurer's office, rents in low-rise complexUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-49688503780532249792015-11-25T20:00:00.000+07:002015-11-25T20:00:02.292+07:00Holiday Gift Books: 2009.3As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the third installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.Laurence King Publishing:Extreme Architecture: Building in Challenging Environments by Ruth SlavidUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-66625034220873502942015-11-25T19:11:00.000+07:002015-11-25T19:11:00.386+07:00Today's archidose #270.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Art Gallery of Ontario at Sunset - Frank Gehry, originally uploaded by Scott Norsworthy. The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto by Frank O. Gehry, 2008.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and addUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-45522212160054776182015-11-25T18:59:00.000+07:002015-11-25T18:59:00.092+07:00The Magificent 1913 Woolworth Building -- Broadway at Park Placeprint from the Library of CongressFrank Winfield Woolworth worked on his parents’ farm in Great Bend, New York until he was 21 years old. During his last two winters on the farm, when chores were fewer, he worked in a grocery store in town for free, telling the owner he simply wanted the experience.When he finally left home he ventured off to Watertown, New York, where he convinced the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-40076570143868383702015-11-25T18:02:00.000+07:002015-11-25T18:02:01.081+07:00The Lost Chickering Hall -- No. 130 Fifth Ave.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-34418257541168709822015-11-25T17:53:00.000+07:002015-11-25T17:53:00.320+07:00Queen Anne Sisters at Nos. 251-255 W. 70th Street<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-88519146206073201072015-11-25T17:30:00.000+07:002015-11-25T17:30:02.533+07:00The World Trade Center Survivor -- Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere"The Sphere, rededicated as a memorial to the victims of The World Trade Center - photo by Alice LumFrom the earliest conception of The World Trade Center, art was to play an integral part. Works by esteemed artists Louise Nevelson, Joan Miro, James Rosati, Masayuki Nagare, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Cynthia Mailman, Germaine Keller, Romare Bearden, and Kenneth Snelson were displayed in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-46201636605270242292015-11-25T01:27:00.000+07:002015-11-25T01:27:00.651+07:00New Pomona College Science Building to Open in 2015All images courtesy of Pomona CollegeConstruction of Pomona College's new 75,000 square-foot Millikan Science Hall is ahead of schedule, with the building slated for completion in mid-2015. The project, imagined as a new local landmark, was originally scheduled to open next Fall. When complete, the low-rise structure will house the school's astronomy, mathematics and physics Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-75138924290286324052015-11-24T21:01:00.000+07:002015-11-24T21:01:00.303+07:00West Valley Doubles Down on Mixed-Use Developments6912 Reseda Boulevard, looking northReseda Boulevard, long an auto-dominated corridor, has gradually come to the forefront of the push for walkable urbanity in the West San Fernando Valley. The latest installment in this saga, a proposed residential-retail complex, would replace a brief stretch of automobile repair shops and drive-thru restaurants.According to plans submitted to the city Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-24941092100862254972015-11-24T20:00:00.000+07:002015-11-24T20:00:05.103+07:00Holiday Gift Books: 2009.2As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the second installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.Chronicle Books:The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh"Insights in book form, combining history, urbanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-69208829834853607802015-11-24T18:07:00.000+07:002015-11-24T18:07:00.159+07:00The 1896 No. 832 Broadway -- Road Gangs, Neckties and CommunistsThe decorative elements of 832 Broadway bear a marked resemblance to Louis Korn's 91-93 Fifth Avenue -- photo by Alice LumAs the 19th century drew to a close the blocks on Broadway just above Grace Church saw dignified old mansions razed for commercial buildings. On September 28, 1895 Jacob Hirsch purchased the two lots at 832 and 834 Broadway, only to resell them a month later “at a profitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-28289988613034829582015-11-24T17:55:00.000+07:002015-11-24T17:55:00.689+07:00A Place with Northern Light -- The 1908 Gainsborough Studios 222 Central Park SouthPainters and sculptors in Manhattan at the turn of the last century faced a problem. There was little residential space available that provided sufficient northern light for them to work, or with adequate facilities to exhibit their art. Artist V. V. Sewell complained in 1903 “People have no conception of how difficult it is for one to find a suitable studio in New York.”In order to solve the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-54940550944139229082015-11-24T17:53:00.000+07:002015-11-24T17:53:00.457+07:00The 1868 Hook & Ladder 13 -- No. 159 E 87th Street<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-46176421702268267962015-11-24T17:42:00.000+07:002015-11-24T17:42:00.423+07:00The Lost Anson R. Flower Mansion -- No. 601 5th AvenueThe elegant renovations to No. 603 (left) and the Flower mansion were completed in 1902 -- photo "Collins' Both Sides of Fifth Avenue" 1910 (copyright expired)Around 9:00 on the evening of October 5, 1891 Governor Roswell Pettibone Flower and his wife left the brownstone mansion at No. 601 Fifth Avenue. They walked, unescorted, a block north to the Democratic Club where Flower was Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-7029812581423215832015-11-24T12:00:00.000+07:002015-11-24T12:00:02.975+07:00Monday, MondayMy weekly page update:Copenhagen Harbor Housing Project in Copenhagen, Denmark by tegnestuen vandkunsten.This week's book review is Toshiko Mori Architect by Toshiko Mori.Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: (an)urban panda's stream of consciousness"The blog will chronocile [sic] my ever-changing ideas on architecture and everything else, hopefully I will settle on something." (added to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-69668714978453131592015-11-24T01:36:00.000+07:002015-11-24T01:36:00.477+07:00Gobble, GobbleIt's time for a brief Thanksgiving break. Posts will resume on Sunday or Monday.Image found hereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-44693377443915472682015-11-23T20:00:00.000+07:002015-11-23T20:00:05.754+07:00Holiday Gift Books: 2009.1As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the first installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.010 Publishers:Archiprix 2009 edited by Henk van der Veen"Each year the Dutch institutions Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-51803685748423818912015-11-23T18:31:00.000+07:002015-11-23T18:31:00.701+07:00The Busy Little "Traffic Building" -- No. 163 West 23rd Streetphoto by Alice LumDuring the 1920s cafeterias and automats reached their height of popularity among working class New Yorkers. Secretaries and salesmen enjoyed inexpensive lunches in clean, attractive surroundings.Wil-Low Cafeterias, Inc. ran twenty-two cafeterias in the city during this time. A subsidiary of the organization was The Traffic Cafeteria Corporation. The name came, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-75525430142017625372015-11-23T17:52:00.000+07:002015-11-23T17:52:00.816+07:00A Brutalized Marble Commercial Villa at No. 572 5th Ave.In 1915 the Budd haberdashery was surrounded by equally high-end shops -- photo collection of the Museum of the City of New YorkAs the first years of the 20th century unfolded, Fifth Avenue above 42nd Street was changing. While a few staunch millionaires remained in their brownstone mansions, most by now had moved north along Central Park, leaving their homes to be razed or remodeled beyondUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-91007176974181288702015-11-23T17:41:00.000+07:002015-11-23T17:41:00.335+07:00A Palace for Horses -- The Gould Carriage House 213 West 58th StreetPhoto Unity Center New YorkWhen Jay Gould died in 1892 he left his four children between $65 and $70 million.The Gould heirs reacted to the sudden flood of cash differently. Anna spent lavishly and married, successively Count Boniface de Castellane and the Duc de Talleyrand. Frank Jay loved gambling and was twice divorced. George Jay had three children with Guinevere Sinclair before marrying Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-81754332645981043222015-11-23T17:19:00.000+07:002015-11-23T17:19:00.140+07:00The 1894 Scribner's Sons Building -- No. 155 Fifth Avenue<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-23918048491582439832015-11-23T12:00:00.000+07:002015-11-23T12:00:02.021+07:00Monday, MondayMy weekly page update:Olympia Avenue Student Housing in Pullman, Washington by Mithun.This week's book review is Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s' Architecture by Lara Schrijver.Note: All this week I'm posting my list of holiday gift books, followed by a few days off for an extended Thanksgiving vacation. Regular posts will resume the middle of next week. My next weekly page update willUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-73814376189500699922015-11-23T06:30:00.000+07:002015-11-23T06:30:01.762+07:00Door Is AjarGregory Crewdson is all over the place these days.An exhibition of his latest series, "Beneath the Roses", at White Cube earlier in the year.Part of the "The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography" exhibition currently at the Whitney.Part of "the real ideal: Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Realities" exhibition at Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust.And articles all over the place.His surreal, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4882339325786885449.post-87184335095226560352015-11-23T01:36:00.000+07:002015-11-23T01:36:00.065+07:00Get Yr $$ OnJust in time for the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year in these old United States, Oprah Winfrey told millions of people what to buy for the Holidays. For those of you residing in the States - though this might apply much elsewhere - you've probably been bombarded one way or another by holiday consumer hype much earlier than usual this year, as companies Unknownnoreply@blogger.com