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Category Archives: Architecture

The Jepson Center for the Arts

I just posted four frames of Moshe Safdie’s Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA.
The website for Moshe Safdie and Associates is tragically Flash-tastic, but if you have the patience I recommend checking out some of his other work.

Park WHERE?

Peter Hossli writes about architect Annabelle Selldorf’s current project: a Chelsea apartment building in Manhattan with a car elevator so residents can park beside their apartments - regardless which level!
I think this is a fantastic solution to a problem so common in large cities, and while this incarnation will find itself attached to a super-luxurious [...]

Times for a Change

Slate has an informative slide-show essay concerning the new digs for The New York Times. The wood floors in the lobby (obviously not pictured above) are glorious, but I bet they’ll be a bear to maintain…

Opus Caementicium

I saw this clever bookshelf on Design Within Reach:

The Opus Shelving System is inspired by a variation on the ancient Roman building technique of Opus Caementicium. This shelf reflects Opus Incertum, particularly.
I was fascinated by the different styles of wall facing, and particularly that it seems the bricks and/or stones are pressed into cement [...]