For a while, we’ve hosted our blog here while maintaining our website, stackdb.com elsewhere. Well, no more. We are pleased to announce stackdb.com/blog as our blog’s new home. Now you can find the latest from Stack right from our home page!
Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds accordingly! We’ll continue to publish the RSS feed here, but you might as well get it from the source.
Stack was pleased to be featured in this week’s Boston Globe Magazine for our project at the Barmonde Residence in Little Compton, RI.
A snapshot of the article from the magazine. Click the picture for the web version.
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
A stop-motion time lapse of an infamous housing project in Chicago coming down. Not only is it heartening to see terrible housing like this demolished, it also gives a neat insight into the structural reality of that building, as they chip away at the core before finally bringing the whole thing down.
Human Transit has a cool post up on transit theory and grids. Of course, no one gets the chance to design a city around a transit grid, but some cities are arranged for transit better than others. Click the grid above for the article.
Letters of Note spotlights an amazing letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Aline Saarinen concerning the eternal friction between creative designers and practical clients, in this case the Guggenheim Museum. The letterhead is particularly striking.
Via Gizmodo, a pointer to Google Earth for a view of the Boneyard, an aircraft mothballing facility in Arizona. These facilities are astonishing, especially for we New Englanders.
Described as a “Three-Dimensional Business Card” [a concept that we at Stack can understand], this house in Berlin is an elegant and refined piece of modern architecture that nonetheless manages to stay architecturally “near” its neighborhood in Berlin. As designers and builders, we’re especially gratified by the “picture wall” of everyone who worked on the house–from laborers to architect.
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Click through the images for the source article.
Norway is building the world's largest wind turbine, a solid 533 feet high (inhabitat).
San Francisco might soon legislate plug-in stations for cars in its building code. (NY Times)
The history of Charlotte, NC, animated by paper.
The Infrastructurist comes through with a cool way to visualize commuting. I wonder what Providence's diagram would look like!
Tree Hugger Architecture and Design
