Architecture

If you're in the Scranton area (fan of The Office, perhaps?), I would highly recommend taking a swing by the Olde Good Things Warehouse.

The amazing little house my wife designed in Healdsburg, California, that won an AIA Honor Award is the April 2007 House of the Month in the online Architectural Record.

Just discovered this site of NYC Architecture photos. Mostly classic older landmarks, more center city-centric. Largest collection of Penn Station photographs and prints that I have ever seen (not that I've extensively searched...), and lots of other lost buildings.

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has a great animated video showing how the deconstruction of the Deutsche Bank building downtown will happen.

David Byrne has a sound installation currently in Stockholm, Sweden, called "Playing The Building." An organ console is attached to the various structural and other elements of the interior of a building which are used to make the sound.

This is not exactly new news, which is why I guess it is in the Arts & Leisure section, but Nicolai Ouroussoff has written a great article on the pumps that were supposed to keep the water out of New Orleans and the general deterioration of urban infrastructure in this country over the past several decades.

The Skyscraper Museum took a poll to establish the top ten skyscrapers in New York City. (New York Times)

Douglas Coupland has an exhibition in Montreal on building with Legos and Super City building sets. He wrote briefly about Legoland and is pictured in it on the cover of microserfs.

My beautiful fiance designed a house that won an honor award from the AIA Redwood Empire Chapter last year, and there are finally a couple pictures of it online: Healdsburg House - 2004 Design Award Winners

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