Here’s some practical information in French on how and when to get there. Click “Informations pratiques (suite)” in the menu for the second page.
A guide to architecture in Northern Norway – Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Svalbard – these are some very cold looking buildings. Compiled by the The University Library of Tromsø.
Plywoods – including internal grades, and low formaldehyde glues.
The NSW-government supported HHT organises exhibitions and events in its many historic properties, which include the Rose Seidler house.
I know some people who dead keen on this mag and pay heaps to get it air-freighted – now you can view the current issue after registering for free. What they say: “Modernism is a quarterly magazine about 20th-century modernist design. We range from the Wiener Werkstätte to the Bauhaus to Memphis and beyond, covering Art Deco, midcentury, pop and postmodern design.”
Architectural hardware of a modern flavour. Also available in Australia, U.S, Canada, and El Salvador!
A debunking of a Washington Post article in 2007 that suggested that suburbs and their cars are good.
Gregory Cowan writes about protest structures. “Subverting the official and institutional state architecture, which is massive white and permanent, this architecture of counterculture is instead light, colourful and spontaneous.” BAD SUBJECTS JAN 2004
Essay by Tom Leddy – an appraisal of Immanuel Kant’s free vs. adherent beauty thesis, with the Maori moko being the central example.
Keeping an eye on Melbourne’s older buildings for us.
Loads of pics here.
Thai-spoken architecture portal, with news, jobs and a new forum.
A Chilean blog showing off recent projects by mainly South American practices. Very similar format to Arch Daily.
Listings of architecture competitions and events, mainly North Ameican and European.