design, architecture, urbanism… with a grain of salt

These are my links for June 11th through July 7th:

• Current Architecture - Design criticism.

[Ito in Brussels, via Current Architecture]

• PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web - I haven’t worked this one out yet. But when I do it should be cool.

• BananAlbum - A flash based photo album. Very easy to use, and smooth. Human i-design.

• Pavers Elmich Drainage Turf Stabilization Stormwater tanks Deck & Paver Supports & Roof Gardens - A critical selection of materials for ensuring water stays where you want it when applying gardens to roofs.

• Truth?s Architectural Graffiti and Ornament as Crime : Life Without Buildings - Truth Graffiti - Homage to Loos

[Image via Life without Buildings, via Truth]

News from the desk…

1. I’ve been contacted by the editor of plataforma arquitectura thru cpluv. They have a sister site in English. Its bloody fantastic. Its been added to the blogroll.

2. I’m off to Indonesia, east of Bali, for two weeks. I’ll bring back reams of photos of all things this wonderful country has to offer.

These are my links for June 4th through June 5th:

• TREY TRAHAN: Defining Local - Via Archinect

• Node House - Slideshows - dwell.com - A lovely material Exploration

• Andrzej Dragan PHOTOGRAPHY - The picture of Hitler in his old age is truly chilling.

These are my links for May 29th through June 4th:

• Archinect : News : Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online - Archinect : News : Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel stirs passions onlineAn online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier?s

These are my links for May 18th through May 27th:

• Eikongraphia » Blog Archive » This building is a bird?s nest - Iconography and the icon. An essay.
• Eikongraphia » Blog Archive » MoPo 2008 - The top 25 Architecture Blogs. All wonderful, all observant, some omniscient (that's a good thing!)
• Gallery2:FAQ - Gallery Codex Moving from one folder to another -
• Steel Framed Windows, Doors, Curtain Walls. - Steelight manufactures custom designs of: Doors, windows and curtain walls in mild steel or stainless steel. Click on thumbs on left for examples of other types of work. If you would like more details Please feel free to ask any questions by calling or em
• Home Page - Limestone Resources Pty Ltd, for Western Australian Limestone products
• concrete design competition - Ahh for the love of this material.
• B&B ITALIA - Italian contemporary modern furniture Design - Furniture - Antonio Citterio, Mario Bellini
• First Off-Grid Building in San Francisco Coming Soon! - Jetson Green - An argument for the progression toward a more "sustainable" future would be that of going off the grid. Less reliance on centralised utilities, and what better place to implement it than in a classroom? If we don't get it right, may the next generation ha
• Arquitecto Instant

These are my links for May 15th through May 17th:

• A Daily Dose of Architecture: AE5: Folding Facades - An article on folding facades. Movement in Architecture. An adaptive outer layer. Will a facade ever resemble skin? Is it so hard to imagine? What if a facade actually broke a sweat. That would be interesting.
• Amazing Laying Bricklaying Services - Haven't used these guys as yet, but I'll look into them in the future
• Dezeen » Blog Archive » Casa en el Campo by Benjam

These are my links for May 5th through May 9th:

• Green Roofs | Garden Planning | Landscaping | Planning and Ideas | This Old House - 12 - The Recipe for a green roof/Green Wall. Plus 12 other photos of nice green roofs
• Projects Recognized for Green Roofs, Living Walls - Jetson Green - It's not that I think they are a great idea, its just the appeal of them. I find them beautiful. That's all. In the end, isn't that all that Architecture is?
• rolu | dsgn - News > the quiet journey of the tulips -
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Architect's based on the Eastern Seaboard. USA. Bigness.
• Portugese Architects. Lovely Work - …but I can't get the images to load!!! Genuinely frustrating!!!
• ALMA RD « perth?s best architecture - SImon Anderson's Latest Development. As materially sound as they come.
• Home - "…in essence white is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colours, and yet at the same time the concrete of all colours." Moby Dick, Herman Melville.

  What a quote.

  Great creative mind.

These are my links for May 4th through May 5th:

• Interior view of china's national stadium on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Inside the bird's nest.
• A Daily Dose of Architecture: Literary Dose #26 - A quote by Rem Koolhaas on the public and memory.
• Studio Granda - Hof Residence :: arcspace.com - A beautiful house in Iceland. Fantastic Internal Finishes and use of off-form concrete. Worth a click

These are my links for April 30th through May 1st:

• ASLA — Green Roof Project - The Green Roof. Has a great axonometric drawing with breakdown of structure.
• the green living manifesto. One movement, one goal: truly sustainable living. - A manifasto for green. Now all we need is a definition.
• Piel.Skin - Ethel Baraona Pohl - Arquitectura Contempor