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.
