Brandon Donnelly

MARCH 1, 2023

” I have spoken about this report many times before on the blog because I generally find them really interesting. Knight Frank just published the 17th edition of its annual “The Wealth Report.” So today I’d like to share two items from this latest one.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, appearing on a Friday instead of its regular Monday, does not mean regular weekly posts will resume, as I'll be dealing with said emergency on and off for the foreseeable future.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this of "Book Briefs," — the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog — are six books in three pairs. As the title indicates, these are places that emerged spontaneously rather than being planned.

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A Better Built Environment

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Check the link for all of the finalists from 2020. Discussions revolved around function, choreography, concept, diagrams, but rarely what the building looked like. Why Is The Modern World So Ugly? I’ve long felt that the profession was too afraid of the word beauty.

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Architecture Quote

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here are 140+ software tools architecture firms need to know about to stay ahead in 2020. From programming, diagraming, design development, documentation and detailing, it provides the user with required training and it can be installed in Mac or Windows computers. Download the Complete list FREE – Link in the bottom!

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Community Architect

APRIL 7, 2023

In the previous blog about transportation in Rotterdam I touched on Rotterdam's devastating bombing in a Nazi Germany air raid that turned much of historic Rotterdam into rubble and cost over 700 lives in a single night and how the city planners have turned this tragedy into an opportunity of re-invention and development that came in various phases.

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