Fiat’s Rooftop Race Track
When it was built in the 1920s in Turin, Italy, the Fiat factory was designed with a racetrack on the top of the building…
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How To Write Like An Architect
…or any draftsman, for that matter. I’ve been told, “I can’t believe your handwriting was ever so neat.” OK, so Continue reading
Machine Hallucination
How to tell the invisible story of data? See Artechouse: Machine Hallucination by Refik Anadol
Turning Children’s Sketches Into Architectural Renderings
Most of these look better than Frank Gehry’s stuff British retailer Made.com asked a bunch of pre-teen kids to draw Continue reading
The British Library Has Made Three Centuries of Copyright-Free Images Available for Download
There’s more than a million, and they’re all free. The thing about books is that they’re not very much good Continue reading
Skyhouse
Constructed at the summit of a century-old Manhattan skyscraper, architect David Hotson created an experientially immersive house in the Continue reading
1947: Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab
“Bell Telephone engineer in a research room designed to eliminate 99% of all outside sound” via http://www.retronaut.com/2013/03/bell-telephone-acoustics-lab/
Totalitarian Architecture of the Soviet Union
From Constructivism to Gigantism, From Extreme Ornamentation to Brutalism (and very little soul)Unapologetic in their colossal scale and glorification of the totalitarian state, these gigantic structures dominate urban landscapes of the former Eas…
