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We've all known for a minute now that the architecture and sculpture of ancient Greece wasn't left as natural stone, but was painted in technicolor - and ultraviolet light is know giving us a better idea of just what these familiar ruins and works of art really looked like. Makes our copies of Ancient Greece's architecture look like they're in need of a paint job, no?
--08.25.2010-- #Foreign Policy visits the biggest city you've never heard of.
--08.24.2010-- #In this Sunday's Boston Globe Robert Campbell discusses a new book tells how a Cambridge store spread modern design across America. The People's Republic would like to say "You're Welcome for all the dopeness".
.:via->Boston.com
What would you list as the best architecture - related books for students? For professionals? Head on over to Arch Daily and join the discussion.
.:Beginning an Archi-Library->
--08.16.2010-- #There is already an existing mosque less than a mile from Ground Zero - only 686 feet from the proposed Cordoba Center. Is this existing mosque insulting to the WTC site? Could Cordoba move the 686 feet and be okay? Oh no, wait - I'm trying to understand this from a rational standpoint, which is obviously naive of me...
--08.12.2010-- #Design Pepper explains why minimalism isn't the alpha and omega of design.
--08.10.2010-- #Anyone else think that Santiago Calatrava's design for the redevelopment of the Denver International Airport's South Terminal is a little ridiculous looking? I mean, definitely not his best work. The interiors look fine, I suppose - very 'Calatrava goes to the airport' with the white trusses. But from what the renderings show the exterior isn't looking so hot...
.:see the images-> via designboom
--08.09.2010-- #The Architecture League has a great series of recent programs [in podcast form] related to the The City We Imagined / The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010 exhibition that you should definitely check out - along with most of the other talks they have available on their site.
.:via->The Architecture League
--08.08.2010-- #I've been hating on fancy architectural renderings since before I even started AMNP - now people are asking if the actual buildings can ever live up to the photoshopped hype. For real? That we're so enamored with the imagery that we don't appreciate the final result suggests some pretty serious issues...
--08.02.2010-- #I.M. Pei is being profiled for the PBS series American Masters - the show will air Wednesday, March 31st.
--03.28.2010-- #Everyone needs to head over to Archidose to check out the "Genetic Stair" by Caliper Studio, 2009. So so dope.
--03.11.2010-- #Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind has been chosen as the 2010 recipient of the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal, making him the first ever architect to win the prize. The medal, which celebrates contributions to Christian-Jewish understanding, was awarded on Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Augsburg, Germany.
--03.09.2010-- #"This Bloomberg/BusinessWeek special report takes the temperature of the global architecture industry in 2010."
--03.04.2010-- #This sounds pretty dope, I have to say: "Nation's First Architecture Race Kick's Off Chicago's 2010 Tourist Season -Springtime beckons Chicago's tourist population to come out of hibernation to peer and play amidst its streetscapes and skyscrapers. This April teams of participants will gather in America's Second City to stretch their legs and test their navigational skills in the first Amazing Architecture Race stepping off in iconic Millennium Park."
--03.03.2010-- #We're a little late to jump on the bandwagon, sure - but MyNinjaPlease now has a Facebook fan page! Become a fan and receive updates in your Facebook newsfeed - and submit links that you think should appear on MNP!
--03.02.2010-- #Is the 'Bloom Box' the real deal? Is it a miraculous fue cell that will revolutionize 'green' energy?
.:Architect Magazine Ecology Blog->
--03.01.2010-- #New London embassy shows both "power and paranoia".
.:full story via->Foreign Policy
"InnoVida Holdings, LLC, headquartered in Miami Beach, is a company that builds fiber composite panels. It has pledged a donation of 1,000 prefab houses/shelters to Haiti. The company says the structures are waterproof, wind resistant and the walls have a far higher deflection capacity than concrete. The units have been designed by renowned architect Andres Duany."
--02.26.2010-- #Discussions on Network Publics #1: Culture, at StudioX in NYC, 02.092010.
--02.26.2010-- #The only 2 Brits on the 7-person jury to decide the winner of the competition to design the new US Embassy in London are unhappy with the result - believing that Morphosis should have been chose over KieranTimberlake.
--02.25.2010-- #The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) dropped 3 points in January - should we be freaking out?
--02.25.2010-- #California-based architecture firm Faulders Studio is developing a project dubbed "GEOtube" which would allow a building to grow its own skin by using a web-like saline skin that will grow down the facade of the building over time. Kind of awesome, kind of gross.
--02.25.2010-- #The AIA has named the 9 recipients of the 2010 Young Architects Award - given to professionals who have been licensed less than 10 years and have made major contributions to the profession.
--02.24.2010-- #I'm not sure I agree with the entire list - and agree or not, I'm not sure you're not better off being something other than an architect right about now... but "81 Reasons Why There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be an Architect" is definitely worth checking out.
--02.22.2010-- #More and more designers are starting their own practices after losing jobs during the recession - but oftentimes out of reluctant necessity, not inspired independence.
--02.19.2010-- #To car traffic, that is. Bloomberg has announced that the pedestrian plazas created by closing off parts of Broadway in Times Square to car traffic will be made permanent - and that they will get a serious redesign as well.
--02.16.2010-- #The ninjas over at the archiCULTURE project have started a podcast-ish interview series, and has had the chance to sit down with Mimi Zeiger of Loudpaper fame and alsot author of Tiny Houses, and New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World.
--02.16.2010-- #Madonna, super generous & benevolent pop-star extraordinaire, has purchased land from the Malawi Government to build a girls school for the local population - a local population of which hundreds are being displaced by the project. My ninjas, PLEASE. Who would want to send their girls to a school set up by Madonna anyways? She's no role model for young girls...
--02.12.2010-- #What, you thought we were in a recovery and that things were clearing up? Well, that may not be the case - as its being predicted that over the next SEVERAL YEARS the commercial real estate market will tank as businesses fail and default on mortgages, etc. Pray for school and hospital projects, my ninjas.
--02.11.2010-- #In what I can only call a hilarious move, Zaha Hadid is designing a petroleum research center that is going for LEED Platinum. Say it with me now: My Ninja, PLEASE.
--02.11.2010-- #