Photo of the Day:

A steel worker takes in the view during the construction of The Learning Commons building at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. The $35 million structure—designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Hemmler + Camayd Architects, and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects—is due for completion in 2015.
Associated Press A steel worker takes in the view during the construction of The Learning Commons building at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. The $35 million structure—designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Hemmler + Camayd Architects, and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects—is due for completion in 2015.

ICYMI:

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue LEDs and energy-saving white light sources. [ARCHITECT]

The Carnegie Library will no longer be the future home of Washington, D.C.'s International Spy Museum. [ARCHITECT]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology introduced a new software tool to evaluate commercial buildings' performance. [ARCHITECT]

Paris inaugurated the newly renovated first level of the Eiffel Tower on Monday. [ARCHITECT]

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Map of the Day: The architecture types in Washington, D.C.'s Metro system. [Greater Greater Washington]

Infographic of the Day: 77.8 percent of U.S. architects are men, according to 2012 U.S. Census data. Here's how that ranks with other professions. [FiveThirtyEight]

Chart of the Day: Washington, D.C.'s declining affordable housing. [Washington City Paper]

Video of the Day:

Take My Lightning But Don't Steal My Thunder from Threefold on Vimeo.

British artist Alex Chinneck created an architectural illusion that makes London's Market Building in Convent Square appear to be floating in mid-air. [Fast Company's Co.Design]

Six More Stories for Wednesday:

San Francisco buildings are being flagged for failure to comply with retrofit requirements adopted last year. [San Francisco Chronicle]

Architect Richard Rogers, Hon. FAIA, faces a £5m legal claim for leaky roofs at a 122-house development that his firm designed in England. [The Guardian]

The Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gets a light installation. [Chicago Reader]

Art critic Peter Schjeldahl on New York's High Line: "The civic and aesthetic marvel of the High Line never gets old, which is strange. Everything else does." [The New Yorker]

The renovation of Chicago's Wrigley Field will focus on the preservation of small details, such as the handrails and groundskeeper’s house. [Chicago Tribune]

Denver announced a five-year affordable housing plan. [Denver Business Journal]

Step Up, Step Down:

Architect Faith Rose, AIA, will take over as executive director of New York City's Public Design Commission. [ARCHITECT]

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