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Architecture
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A Short History of the Highrise
By propertyprof
A cool interactive film on The New York Times website can be found here. It features great photos from the newspaper's archives. They had me when the first photo was…
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Reconsidering Seaside, Florida
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Kaid Benfield reflects on Seaside:It’s easy to mock Seaside, and plenty do, for being overplanned, a neo-traditional artifice too consumed with nostalgia for an idyllic past that never quite existed…
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Designing for North Korea
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Olga Wong asks who designs all the mega-projects in North Korea. The answers she finds involve shadowy middlemen, private jets, Kim Jong-um, and an architecture firm from Hong Kong.Steve Clowney(Pic:…
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McMansions Around the World
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Al Safwa, Cairo, Egypt (2009)After six years of traveling around the world, Swedish photogrpaher Martin Adolfsson has finished Suburbia Gone Wild, a new book that documents model homes in the wealthy…
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The Best Tall Buildings of the Year
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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named structures from Canada, China, the UK and UAE as the four best tall buildings in the world for 2013.The…
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Should Architects Think More About Sex?
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Richard Williams thinks so:It’s odd how little architects have had to say on the subject of sex. If they’re routinely designing the buildings in which sex happens, then you might…
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The Art of Tall Buildings
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French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze has been been fascinated with Hong Kong's tall buildings, with which the city has become synonymous. His images are published in his book, Vertical Horizons.Steve Clowney
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Ten Buildings That Changed American Architecture
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In the PBS special 10 Buildings that Changed America, two architecture gurus discuss the origins of some of the country’s most important buildings.The hour-long program, which premiered this week take…
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The World’s Coolest New Buildings
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Architizer Magazine has announced the winners of its "A+ Award" for architectural achievement. The awards honor 87 buildings in 52 categories. Even if you're not an architecture buff, the images…
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Today’s Architecture Moment: Toyo Ito WIns Pritzker Prize
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Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker architecture prize, the field's most prestigious award.Here's a slideshow of his work.Steve Clowney