ICYMI: ARCHITECT will host a twitter chat on Baltimore architecture today; columnist Aaron Betsky finds income inequality evident in the spatial segregation of America's cities; and Shigeru Ban, Hon. FAIA, proposed a three-part disaster relief process for victims of the Nepal earthquake.
Instagram of the Day:
Quote of the Day: "The most ambitious project unveiled by Google this year isn’t a smartphone, website, or autonomous, suborbital balloon from the Google X lab. You can’t hold it, or download it, or share it instantly with friends. In fact, the first part of it probably won’t exist for at least three years. But you can read all about it in hundreds of pages of soaring descriptions and conceptual drawings, which the company submitted in February to the local planning office of Mountain View, Calif." —Brad Stone. [Bloomberg]
Tweet of the Day:
Superstudio, 1971 pic.twitter.com/8PYT1NllqK
— ChristopherHawthorne (@HawthorneLAT) May 10, 2015
Six More Stories for Monday:
These five office design strategies will boost employee morale. [Fast Company]
The top 10 unrealized or unfinished buildings. [The Independent]
A 12-year-old boy who wants to be an architect chats with Matthew Wagner, a professor of architecture and design at Virginia Tech. [The Huffington Post]
Critic Blair Kamin offers advice in a letter to President Obama and the First Lady on designing a presidential library in Chicago. [Chicago Tribune]
The Obamas will release a video on Tuesday officially announcing that the presidential library will be in Chicago's South Side. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Critic John King reviews San Francisco's 8 Octavia, designed by Stanley Saitowitz of the local firm Natoma Architects. [San Francisco Chronicle]
Awards: Enter Now!
The 2015 World Architecture Festival Awards is accepting entries through May 22.
The Portland chapter of the AIA is accepting entries for Stitch II, a competition challenging students and emerging designers to propose ideas for re-purposing space under a bridge on Interstate 405. Proposals are due June 1.
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