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Architecture is Awesome: #32 Every Building is a Prototype

SW Oregon Architect

Using a scale model, a form of prototyping, to test design concepts (my photo) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. Each new building stands alone as a culmination of ideas, adaptation, and continuous improvement at the time of its design.

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A Love Letter to the Stumbled-Across Garage Sale

Dwell

This essay is part of a collection of love letters celebrating personal design obsessions. Soon to graduate college and start my first job in Manhattan, I was eager to wake the bag from its dormancy. I’ve taken home rolls of a beautiful toile-patterned wallpaper and hand-drawn plans for nearby buildings. I tried not to wince.

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Make Your Dorm Room Smell Lovely Without Any Flames

Dwell

Here are some fire-free options for a scent-loving college student—or anyone else who fears an open flame. Not on your list, though, are candles, because open flames are cruelly and correctly banned by most college residential buildings. Welcome to What’s That Smell? , It’s back to school season, nerds.

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TAG 4.2 versus TAG 4.2?

Architecture Here and There

It makes great aesthetic sense, and doubles down on the city’s founding designer, Pierre L’Enfant. How TAG’s masterplanner, Nir Buras, managed to withhold mentioning his equally lovely plan for the Anacostia River embankments south of the U.S. Alas, it may be a pipe dream. I grew up in D.C. At session one on Thursday.

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Happenings

SW Oregon Architect

City of Eugene administrators first signaled their wish to abandon the former award-winning City Hall back in the 1990s, barely halfway through the building’s too-short existence, before unceremoniously razing it in 2014. The City commissioned a 2016 study of the building to determine its suitability for use as the new city hall.

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CAFA Qingdao Campus by CAA architects

aasarchitecture

It is also an important measure for the college to expand its own operation space and develop a campus with future design disciplines as the core and the ocean cutting-edge science and technology as the characteristics. The water ripple texture of the waves gives the building an organic ecological horizontal zoning.

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CAFA Qingdao Campus // CAA Architects

Architizer

It is also an important measure for the college to expand its own operation space and develop a campus with future design disciplines as the core and the ocean cutting-edge science and technology as the characteristics. The water ripple texture of the waves gives the building an organic ecological horizontal zoning.