Bridge to the Sky
There are rules that dicate what you can build and how. Rules of physics and rules of men who sit on various bureaucratic boards and bodies. These rules dictated that if silk magnate John Noble Stearn...
3 Juni 20115min
Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, is a federal jail right in the middle of downtown Chicago. It’s a triangle-shaped skyscraper, 27 stories, with tall, super-narrow, irregularly-spaced wind...
20 Maj 20117min
Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
There’s something that links most of the everyday objects presented in “Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design.” But it’s hard to tell exactly what that is just by looking at this collection of...
13 Maj 20118min
The Capitol Columns
For more than a century, 24 massive sandstone columns stood along the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, framing presidential inaugurations and helping define the building’s grand public face. When the...
6 Maj 20116min
You Are Listening To + Radio Net
youarelistening.to appeared online on March 6, 2011 and I was hooked instantly. The combination of the police scanner and ambient music is an intriguing, and distinctly live, experience (unlike most o...
22 Apr 201120min
Free Speech Monument
In 1989, a group called the Berkeley Art Project decided to hold a national public art competition to create a monument that would commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which b...
15 Apr 20118min
BLDGBLOG: On Sound
Most sound design in architecture is centered around designing for silence. Buildings are trying to block out that constant stream noise from the street and insulate you from those jarring clangs of i...
1 Apr 20115min
Nikko Concrete Commando
In 2001, Delfin Vigil was walking the streets of San Francisco and ran across the name “Nikko” carved into the concrete sidewalk. After seeing Nikko once, Delfin began to see the name everywhere. One ...
25 Mars 20117min
