Rhone and Iredale Architects, Bogue Babicki and Associates (Structural Engineers), Westcoast Building, Vancouver, B.C.
Rhone and Iredale Architects, Bogue Babicki and Associates (Structural Engineers), Westcoast Building, Vancouver, B.C.
Brutalism / modernism carries great aesthetics. Interestingness for the magazine, terrible for the user.
The barren highways of Naypyidaw.
Don’t listen to the high modernists. You can’t will cities into existence.
This book is dense and fascinating. Highly recommended to anyone intrigued by how companies, organizations, or groups in general operate — the driving psychologies behind different types of orgs.
Japan has some of the best examples of vernacular architecture. Buildings are a perfect fit for the surrounding environment.
Ryan Singer calls out the different flavors of “impact”, and the need to be able to articulate the purpose for doing something:
Kevin Kelly’s “walk and talk” is something I’ve gotta try. At least more often.
Our environments heavily impact what we do in them. But we have the ability to engineer our environments, and therefore, our habits and behavior.
“Choice architecture” means architecting our surroundings to coax the habits we want.
Novanoah — Paolo Soleri’s floating city.
Atsushi Wakamatsu, Tower of Babel.
Johnson Wax Building, Mijdrecht, Netherlands (Hugh Maaskant, 1966)
Typically modernist architecture is a travesty, but occasionally it’s glorious.
Amazing work. Not a dud in the bunch.
Scanning the world’s tallest tree in three dimensions.