This house built in 1999 in Germany plays music when it rains. I’d like to see it someday.
Building B at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. I loved this blog post from Scouting New York about the history of the building’s use. The natural light is incredible!
New York architect John Locke saw a unique opportunity and now has made very cool-looking and practical libraries/book drops that fit nicely on our existing infrastructure. Some say they will be trashed, but I honestly don’t think they will be any more than anything else.
I support this project and will definitely donate a book when I find one!
This building will never have another tall building alongside it (short building is as tall as it’s going to get), so the windowless side will be forever a Long Island City eyesore.
I call that an Architecture Oops!
Renovating Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France. Love this photo.
Yes please! Love the idea always of converting dumpy, unused, publicly-owned space to something amazing and rejuvenating in the form of a park. This old subway tunnel (below) is currently under the control of the MTA, so we’ll see if they can make a good decision (for once).
Check out more on this project at inhabit.
Cool talk by Michael Pawlin about using nature’s smarts in architecture. It’s pretty fascinating how plant cells, for instance, could directly influence structural design and closed systems. Basically, I’m intrigued. More here.
This is crazy. How would people get there? Would you have to know how to swim? Will already sunk businesses move in? (har har har) Could they be called Reef Pushers or something other than skyscrapers, because they’re not?Will tours go to the top or bottom of them? Will people stop eating fish? Will the underwater ecosystem be terribly disturbed?
Oy this sounds like a headache, but gosh I love architecture innovation. We’ll see where this goes…
