Renderings of the Day: Fourteen proposals for Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6. [Gothamist]
Renderings from all 14 teams are here.
ICYMI: World Interiors News releases the shortlist for their annual awards. [ARCHITECT]
Quote of the Day: "Ban has dressed up this stack of plain white boxes with his wicker-ish weave. The screen diffuses glare, chops up the view into so many little squares of slope, and gives the high-gloss building a welcome tactile texture. And yet there is something depressingly glib about Ban's architectural party trick, which is essentially a giant inverted wastepaper basket popped over a glass building."—Justin Davidson on the new Aspen Art Museum building, designed by Shigeru Ban, Hon. FAIA, which opens to the public on Saturday. [New York Magazine]
Tweet of the Day:
Pomo vertigo: the spectacular, ever-controversial atrium of Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center. pic.twitter.com/nssivnrcvz
— Blair Kamin (@BlairKamin)
August 7, 2014
Timeline of the Day: The history of American housing, 1920s to today. [Builder]
Instagram of the Day:
Seven More Stories for Friday:
An "architect-turned-fragrance entrepreneur" has created a perfume called The Architects Club, which launches this month. [UnBeige]
Bangkok studio Onion designed a house with an indoor playground using layers of netting. The house was inspired by Tom and Jerry. [Dezeen]
A map of work by Calvert Vaux in New York City. [Curbed NY]
Chicago is seeking a developer for 100,000 square feet of Riverwalk retail. [Chicago Tribune]
Researchers at Harvard and MIT used shape-memory polymers and electronic circuits printed on a piece of paper to make a self-assembling robotic crab. [NPR]
A thesis at London's Bartlett School of Architecture imagines a city designed around fracking. [Wired]
Chicago Tribune's Melissa Harris writes an open letter to George Lucas requesting that he release more information—a "trailer"—of what will actually be inside his proposed museum. [Chicago Tribune]
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