2012-09-24
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Renderings of the proposed Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco, as the tower approaches final approvals:
This is a rendering; the tallest tower on the left is the proposed Transbay tower, vertical ghost on the right is possible tower site.
2012-05-01
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Buckminster Fuller’s design for a geodesic dome to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium, via Mathias Crawford (here quoting Progressive Architecture):
Those jaunty wearers of the World Series crown may also sport a geodesic dome when they play ball in Brooklyn. Research into design of a quarter-sphere dome 750 feet in diameter and high enough at center field to top a 30-story office building (as shown in schematic section, containing Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Lever House) has been started here by R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor and patent holder of Geodesic Structures, aided by a team of 25 graduate students in the Princeton School of Architecture.
2012-04-18
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Richard Rogers Screenprints by Simon Armstrong for the Design Museum.
2012-02-29
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Render ghosts in the empty office, from the gallery for London Wall Place.
2012-02-16
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Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1967-72. Axonometric drawing.
That’s nice, that.
2011-05-19
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The Guardian’s Farringdon offices, just before the newspaper took occupancy in 1976. They were still there into 2009, when they moved to King’s Place. (from The Guardian 190th anniversary – in pictures).
2011-04-11
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Arrow, from last week’s Viewfinder competition at the Guardian. It turns out that the photo was taken in Łódź. (Photograph: Alamy.)
2011-01-02
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Looking up at a building’s foundations and the street above:
Foundations for larger buildings are generally adaptations or combinations of the four types used at our intersection. One is on a floating foundation, another on friction piles, a third on bearing piles, and the fourth on piers.
From David Macualay’s Underground, via Things Magazine.
2010-10-19
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An Exploratorium sign at the back of a parking lot between the two piers needs only a 7-foot metal “O” to be complete. Photo: Lea Suzuki.
The tugboats are moving, the dredges are working, and today Exploratorium officials will host a groundbreaking ceremony on a $300 million project that will transform two huge piers on the Embarcadero into a new home for the hands-on science museum.
