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If the world were just, my books would live here, and I would be their lifelong roommate.

This is cool. 

Not sure how effective, affordable, or useful it will be BUT if there’s a major market still operating out of the dark ages…it’s architecture/construction. 

Excited to see where this goes, maybe it’ll flop

This is cool. 

Not sure how effective, affordable, or useful it will be BUT if there’s a major market still operating out of the dark ages…it’s architecture/construction. 

Excited to see where this goes, maybe it’ll flop

https://www.getgumption.co

These days only banks build towers in Canada.

Distorted Habitat #2

Another (almost) free mint on Rodeo. 

24 hours only.

Distorted Habitat #2

Another (almost) free mint on Rodeo. 

24 hours only.

https://rodeo.club/post/0xACf110eD17c8F634CeeD00f68bF5D2A91859A521/5

Villa Shanti 
Meyreles & Ramos Arq. 
Jarabacoa, DR 2020
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The US can blame the influence of Bauhausian architects that made America home during from the 1930s onwards — the overshot on function and simplicity to basically souless and boring buildings

Good thread on how modernism et al got it all wrong

Good thread on how modernism et al got it all wrong https://x.com/oldbooksguy/status/1815404004219957753

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Peak architecture 

📍 Ace Hotel Toronto

some of these people are hopeless

got in an argument over building code requiring fire sprinklers, since it's a great example of a coordination failure in the private market due to principal agent problems solved by government action, but at a non trivial cost increase to construction costs

not only did he oppose mandatory fire sprinklers, he oppose the entire building code, and also opposed fire departments too lmao

like, okay, you go live in the major city burning to the ground every few years then, like they did in the 1800s before we had things like fire departments and fire fighting plumbing and sprinklers

Great thread about the players, economic incentives, and codes in the building industry.

TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport 
Eero Saarinen architect 
1959-1962

Little Island 
Heatherwick Studio Architects 
Hudson Yards, NYC