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NYU's Bobst Library today:

Philip Johnson

Last week I had my first assignment due for Architectural Photography that we presented to the class. I had heard scary things about the professor, so I was kind of nervous. But I think I like her a lot. As I silently flipped through my images one by one on the projector, she said..."yes, no, no, yes, no, yes, no, no, no" and she was totally right. She liked my interior shots and thought I was uncomfortable outside. Yup.

Here are some of the "yes"es.

Look how huuuuuge Sao Paulo is. It's the seventh largest city in the world. This is where my studio is going in March.

And we're going to Curitiba too. It's the city that my professor was the mayor of. So it'll be like touring New York City with Rudy Giuliani...sort of.

Looks like Boston's warming up to its modern buildings.

This one's my fave:

Take twelve and half minutes to watch this. It is entirely computer-generated...as in no cameras...as in when you think something looks too real to be fake, it's fake...completely modeled and rendered digitally. Ah-mazing.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

To read more on it: bldgblog

Why aren't more things made of concrete? Cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and awesome all year round.

Look how beautiful:

Sowa Unit by Kensuke Watanabe

More pictures, here.

The newest tallest building opened today in Dubai. Check out this video of the fireworks ceremony last night. kah-RAY-zeee.

The Burj puts all the other skyscrapers to shame. It's over 1000 feet taller than the now second tallest, or 1.6 times as high...!!!

(The poor Sears Tower is cheated by the Petronas Towers whose spires are part of the architectural design and therefore trump the Sears Tower's inhabitable space height.)

Here are some images from my studio project. Don't be alarmed...it's huuuuuge. I designed an enormous megastructure that sits 500 feet above an old industrial district in Moscow. My concept was based on a utopian-ish urban plan where the typical city model is sort of turned upside-down and in-side-out. Enjoy.

I think this building is the bee's knees. It's on 113th Street near campus.

Look at those fabulous windows...those fabulously inefficient single-paned windows. Heat must fly out of those. Oh well. They're beautiful anyway.

When I worked at Soundtrack years ago, we would get celebrities in once in a while for a quick recording session while they were in Boston. A few of us admin would compete over which one of us could meet Matt Damon or Adam Sandler or Nomar at the elevator and bring them up to their studio. One time, Norm Abram came in to record a spot for Home Depot or something and I was pretty pumped. Nobody fought me for him...or even turned their head to look at him for that matter. But This Old House ranks up there with casseroles and Christmas for things that are nostalgically comforting to me.

I've recently watched some TOH episodes, and although there's a whole new cast of characters, it's still completely mesmerizing. I just learned more about flashing a water-tight window from Kevin and Tom than I have in any class in architecture school. You want to install a sliding door in your house? I'll show you how. I think half of the lectures in my Building Technology classes at Columbia could probably be substituted with TOH episodes. And if architecture falls through for me, I'm going straight to Kevin O'Connor for an internship. LOVE This Old House.