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The National Building Museum tells the stories of the world we design and build.
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The National Building Museum tells the stories of the world we design and build.
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If you ♥ Chicago architecture, you should know there are currently two different, huge models of the John Hancock Center on view at the Museum
I had the rare opportunity to sit down with three architects working on the site, Santiago Calatrava, David Childs, and Daniel Libeskind, at the recent American Institute of Architects convention in Washington, D.C., where they were honored along with four others, as “Architects of Healing.” We discussed their experience of reshaping one of the most culturally significant sites in the history of the United States…
Heroic. Contemplative. Grieving. Victorious. The rebirth of the former World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan has engendered significant public reaction and reflection. With implications as complex as they are profound, it is not surprising that it has taken more than a decade to heal the urban scars of September 11, 2001.
Here’s a gem from a recent visitor to House & Home.
A bald eagle soars across the Great Hall - practice run forAICPA’s big event last night.
Audience feedback from House & Home at the National Building Museum
This article is re-posted from Unearthed, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) blog:
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) recently served up an interesting challenge for local students—design mobile education “carts” for our new state-of-the-art Education Center, currently under construction here at NMNH.
The students, part of the National Building Museum’s Design Apprenticeship Program (DAP), are involved in a seven-week course in which students learn about design by designing and planning a product and then building it. For the last 11 years, the program has been giving middle and high school teens a chance to learn about designing, building, working as a team, and working for a client.
Courtesy Peter Rosen Productions
Architect I.M. Pei at the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
A parade of historic household objects from the new exhibition House & Home
Space Shuttle Discovery fly-by at the National Building Museum
“I have been a farmhand, a construction worker, an administrator, a university rector, a graphic and product designer, etc…but I do everything through an architect’s eyes and mindset. However, I don’t mean architect as a professional, but as an archetype, a “-smith,” as it were. A blacksmith would not be a professional, but almost a mythical person. In the same way I regard an architect as a supporter of the mythical dimensions of life, not a professionalist.”
-Juhani Pallasmaa
Last week’s tool was…drum roll please… a bamboo splitter!
Watch this video, produced by yours truly, for a brief tutorial.
Interested in splitting your own bamboo? Check out this website for all of your bamboo splitting, drilling, and chopping needs.
There could have been a DOLPHIN HOTEL in our nation’s capital.
Proposed Dolphin America Hotel, designed by Doug Michels Architecture in collaboration with Jim Allegro, AIA, 1989. Architect Doug Michels was fascinated by dolphins and proposed various projects that would bring humans into closer contact with the aquatic mammals.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-31434
