It got as low as 1F (-17C) at Ticonderoga yesterday*, and I’ve had site visits at 102F (39C) during heat waves in New York City. That 101 degree spread (in Celsius, a 56 degree spread) is in some ways more difficult to deal with than other conditions on site (heights or filth, for example). But …
Signage seen in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and it’s hard to argue. It’s probably worth noting that beneath its hideous 1970s renovation, the south wing dates to 1950 and was originally a kind of watered-down moderne.
I feel like I read an article on this topic every month or so, but the repetition is okay. The greenest building is the one that already exists and is reused. Or, as Mark Alan Hewitt puts it in Common Edge: Why Reusing Buildings Should Be the Next Big Thing. Existing buildings vastly outnumber new ones, …
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Courtesy of ArchDaily: 121 Definitions of Architecture. They range from thought-provoking to astonishingly banal. I’ll add one more: Architecture is the stuff that, if you ignore it, you’ll stub your toe.
A house in Oslo similar to the one described in the book. Photo by Øyvind Holmstad. Ole Thorstensen is a carpenter in Norway who decided to combine his philosophy of work with a description of a small project in the book Making Things Right. The general idea has been done before – The Soul of a …
