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. : an image a day keeps the doctor away : . . . : photoblog by christian reister : .: Barcelona Skyline, April 2003, 2004-01-15 shown without frame or navigate -> chronological January 2004 Barcelona Skyline. Hope the sell-by date is far off in this image that apparently shows Sagrada Familia in rooftop context.

Wired Japan - Kurt Handlbauer

.::Snøhetta - The State of Things.::., a paper for the architect...

Via Boynton Which Dead Poet Are You? - Quizilla

You are Dylan Thomas - a poet who lives to spite
the banal continuity of modern life. You are
the new word, the new voice. You will trample
on tradition, and breed a new school of poetry.


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Susan Dobson Visual Artist

Arcspace - arccitecture online

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StudyStack - Table Memorization Tool

pintday.org: Architectural Terms for once with a sense of humor

Architectural Terms

Glossary of Geologic and Architectural Terms [USGS]

The Cooper Union Library: Subject Headings: Architectural Terms

Architectural Terms

Architects and History of Architecture

Open Directory - Arts: Architecture: Famous Names: A: Alexander, Christopher

thingsmagazine.net: daily links, photos and new writing about objects: Tricorn Center, pictures and Proles for Modernism

InsideArch - The inside view into firms and professional culture. via ArchVoices in Albany, CA

Mount Angel Library - Alvar Aalto - Great Buildings Online

Alvar Aalto

OK, Stewart.

Roundhouse design is four post, massive columns with heavy lintels that have to be lifted with a small crane in a massive work party. These pictures from Pine Grove Elementary School are pretty good.

Indian Grinding Rock SHP for Miwok roundhouse and this pdf of the brochure -- this entry from October visit is conspicuous by its absence, but 4th grade were there and more besides. This thing is supposed to be like a famous elusive house. It is the stuff of poetry.

Northern California ShakeMap: Estimated Instrumental Intensity for the quake in Paso Robles.

AJ from The Architects via things.

Architects Unveil Revised Freedom Tower Design, oh yeah, hey, what, what it is, peace ’n’ freedom, more whoopee, yay.

MSNBC - New Trade Center tower design unveiled, hooray hurrah whoopee clap clap clap clap whistle.

Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: Farnsworth House Saved

Mies' Farnsworth House to be saved / Illinois landmark will be a museum

To die for: Hunkabutta.com photo - Wood in a truck, Tokyo

Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair

pallalink: "The courtyard was small and dark..."

Architectural Record | Daily News | ALERT! Last Chance to Save Farnsworth House!!

ARES5ch14.pdf (application/pdf Object) (lateral forces--earthquakes)

Lateral Forces

NCARB: National Council of Architectural Registration Boards for the exam

990000 weblog: "torquing design"

More Revisions in Plans for New York:

The nearly completed design for the signature tower at the World Trade Center site would recapture the title of world's tallest building for New York City without forcing anyone to work higher than 70 stories in the sky.

Gov. George E. Pataki, who effectively controls the rebuilding process at ground zero, will unveil the plan next week. It will bear little resemblance to the asymmetrical and angular design by Daniel Libeskind that has been in the public eye for almost a year. Instead, it is largely the work of David M. Childs, the architect for the tower's developer, Larry A. Silverstein.

The future looks like tweezers in baby steps and in big steps, Challenging Norms: Eisenman's obsession.

MachineDesign.com: Making water dance

Visual Expert Human Factors: Weather and Accidents: Rain & Fog

SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Touch The CLouds

The Weather Notebook: Snoweater

Other Lighting Effects: "MBT Brute II Fog Machine"

Wired 8.02: Making It Morph: "After thinking through various structures - some buoyant, some partially submerged - Diller Scofidio hit on fog, which was not only a local phenomenon but a dynamic one. To test the possibility, the architects rented a barge on Lake Neuchâtel and held a fog-off to test the nozzles of three companies. According to Scofidio, they chose the one that produced 'the densest, richest fog.' By last fall, they'd finished the structural engineering. The cloud building is an open-air system of glass-and-steel walkways enveloped in a thick haze created by 12,500 high-pressure jets. A built-in weather station controls the fog system: Measuring wind speed and direction, temperature, and humidity, it then sends the appropriate fog-demand signals to the 13 output zones."

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Fog Chamber

Remote Source Lighting International
Himawari
Lighting Futures: "A honeycomb of Fresnel lenses focuses the sun's light onto the ends of quartz-glass optical (fi)bers."
YIL News: "We got a special lighting system called 'Himawari' for Eve. Actually, we are borrowing from the company who developed this system."

GOOGLEHOUSE | MARIKA DERMINEUR & STEPHANE DEGOUTIN | 2003 via boing boing

:: Sherwood Design Engineers :: civil, high recommendation

Archicool c'est aussi architecture annuaires actualites architectes

John Raabe - a short history of a solar home designer

Cottage, cabin & small country home plans you can modify sunrooms, additions

mbox: Re: GBlist: RE: How Ken Kern Died: "Ken, too, had an insatiable appetite for learning, for experimenting
with buiding. If I recall correctly (it has been a while now) Barbara, his
wife, asked him not to spend the night in the ill-fated shelter. He felt the
need to fully experiment including experiencing the structure in a storm."

Coblist:: Cob: ken kern bldg collapse: "The Ken Kern death was a result of a 100 yr storm, falling on an newly
made incomplete cement arched experimental dome he was building at the
time, with cob walls as the dome."

The Dwell Home via 10K

fabprefab - the home of modernist prefab dwellings

Rocio Romero, modern design and prefab architecture: This was in Dwell in a smaller version.

pallasite

F.O.B HOMES: kit house concept in Japan

Permaculture Institute of Northern California has a dragon building.

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection>> Results >> Details Gold Hill Nevada, where Andi was first married (abandoned buildings).

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection>> Results >> Details, a Greek Revival store.

Position Your Career for Success with Feng Shui

T406.HTM has the properties for wide flange shapes. For instance, the moment of inertia I for W24X62 is 1550 in^4.

Google Search: tw w18x35: "W" gives the web width.

Old Steel Properties for as close as possible Ixx of W18x35.

'WC water concept': salone dell’arredo bagno international on-line design competition

FootInTheDoor.Com for sales fun.

Andy Budd::Blogography: Doing Work On Spec: resolve do not do!

EARTH ARCHITECTURE via Antipixel.

M.A.D. - GDL -- Finnish page with beautiful chair

ArchiRADAR - Gdl -- a tiny English area

ArchiRADAR - Gdl -- remarkable tutorial in Italian

ZOOM GDL Page -- missed the summer sale

German GDL

Welcome to GDLCentral

GDL Alliance

prepare home has the info on structure and lateral forces.

990000 weblog because it's good and proper, suggests a weekly dose of architecture, specifically Selfridges via dezain.net - today.

IN THE CAUSE OF ARCHITECTURE: "Architecture, the expression of the materials and methods of our times."—1894

IN THE CAUSE OF ARCHITECTURE: "...while Le Corbusier as the hero (or villain) of Western architecture is a story that has often been told, his ambiguous standing outside of Europe and North America has seldom been thoughtfully considered."

Architectural Record | House of the Month | Wood House: "handicapped-accessible wing that acts as a full-time house and office adjacent to an early eighteenth century farmhouse in Connecticut"

HGTV :: Garden :: Articles, “Fundamental principles and tools of feng shui gardening” gives the rationale for the meandering path. Sometimes it is helpful to think of this for long corridors inside buildings as well.

Toxics Targeting Products and Services

Apparently, the WTC released asbestos and PCBs, and the EPA did nothing about it after 9-11, nor does it do anything now according to an interview on Democracy Now for today.

A perfect door hinge.

This looks like the perfect hinge.

An example of a continuous hinge and assorted channels.

SIPs connection details, lots of them.

A micro-connection system is proposed in this page. It refers to 3M dual lock such as this pdf.

Spline method of connection

A construction detail for panel connection, drawing only.

Products Listing shows low-priced institutional furniture.

KSTA.DE, Kölner Stadt · Anzeiger in a review of „Ring des Nibelungen” in Bayreuth has a picture of curved panel.

. . . ECOLIEBHABITAT . . . is the creation of Dan Liebermann, teacher and extraordinary organic architect. A friend worked for him on a house, and when it didn't win easy approval for permit, Dan's approach was to fight the building officials. But consider the outstanding results and the dedication to teaching and pro bono service, and the picture is so positive the combativeness must be worth it.

Suspended ceilings were a great mystery. Are. So several searches later came up with a Salt Lake City resource, and contacted Armstrong.

A potential ceiling or wall finish material turns out to be more than the budget a current project can stand. Panels for the ceiling would be $51,000. A four by eight foot panel of the least costly material would be a little over $400, and 32 panels would be needed to make up a $13,000 minimum order of 1000 sq. ft. Wall facing for the total project is approximately 7000 sq. ft., $91,000.

A digression is DSA Architects straw bale with research into stressed skin. Alusion is a quirky aluminum foam product that is mainly used decoratively, not structurally. Green Home Building has a good page on manufactured systems such as SIPS.

Results of "curved building panel modular foam" are not very good. This page gives some general ideas of curved architectural panels, and this page, Galileo, specifically calls for sandwich panels for this, but unfortunately it is European. Loxley provides many related solutions, but it is very difficult to find a real product for a low-budget project since the company is offshore. ThermaSpan residential has a metal and foam profile that matches imaginative ideas of colleagues of what a panel should be, but there is no picture of a curved panel, and the supplier is offshore. If the project were huge, then Radome might be the answer. Kalwall is a product that might be the answer, a real product that offers curves and light transmission. It has a person where the project is located, a spec, and systems applicable to walls and roofs. Todco can do almost anything in a curved panel, but apparently on a high budget. One of the approaches in mind at the outset of search was corrugated or honeycomb kraft.

Search for "building panel modular foam" casts a wide net. Here are some of the results. An Australian firm offers panels for structural concrete applications, Unibuild, with US application. The National Park Service uses modular construction for collection storage inside historic buildings or in separate outside structures and offers many pointers in this Conserve-O-Gram. Sustainable Building Sourcebook provides an overview of structural wall panels and green considerations such as molded expanded polystyrene (MEPS) are "acceptable insulation or an alternative that has no ozone-depleting chemicals must be used. Additionally, waferboard, OSB [oriented strand board], sheetrock and/or siding need to be used as facings....COST: $1.75 to $2.75 per square foot or higher (material only). This can be slightly higher than conventional framing costs." Vesta Builders, Inc., a residential contractor serving a specific local area provides solid guidelines for details and allowances. Structall is a typical panel manufacturer of a patented insulated panel. None of these systems lend themselves to curved walls, so try a different search.