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Make it. See it. Read it.

Christy Hale wrote a book about architecture for kids that we admire greatly – titled [amazon_link id=”1600606512″ target=”_blank” ]Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building, here[/amazon_link] – with illustrations showing kids actively playing with different materials to build structures. On the opposite page of those illustrations there are fine illustrations showing real buildings in the world […]

Grampa and Granny Eames by Eames

This book [amazon_link id=”0847839443″ target=”_blank” ] An Eames Primer: Revised Edition[/amazon_link] was written about designers Ray and Charles Eames by their grandson, Eames Demetrios. It is an excellent introduction to the work of this dynamic duo. Charles and Ray designed all sorts of great things: films, toys, museums and a whole lot of chairs, some […]

Don’t Throw Stones

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, or so we hear. And it makes sense. But maybe more importantly, they should not walk around naked. That is, unless your glass house is built in a forest, where other people are not around. Then you can feel like you live purely in nature with the greenery, […]

Silk Screened Walls Make Me Dizzy. Ain’t it Great?

Artist Dominique Pétrin likes to install insanely colored and patterned silkscreens boldly on to architectural spaces. She explained that her main influences are “the Muppet Show, Liberace, Catholic churches where I grew up and Dario Argento’s movies.” These influences have turned her into a kind of sorcerer of color and shapes, dropping patterns that are […]

Factory to Fantastic School

We read this story about a new middle school and high school in Baltimore, the Baltimore Design School (BDS). The architecture firm, Ziger Snead Architects, transfigured an old and crusty factory building into a gorgeous and sparkling school that would inspire even the most bored student into a creative genius. Taking a worn out, abandoned, […]

AHA! for Zaha Hadid

A series of buildings of circles that are piled on top of each other and all rounded structures and curves and white and swirly – that is what the Galaxy Soho building in Beijing is all about. Architect Zaha Hadid, one of the most famous living architects – is probably the most famous female architect. […]

Taller by a Needle

Since 1974, Chicago was the home of the “Tallest Building in America.” The Sears Tower, (named that because it was paid for by the Sears Company – not because Sears employees worked in all 100 floors) was crowned the tallest building at 442 meters tall. By the way, the Sears Tower is now called the […]