2014.02.17 18:34
17 February
3307x
2014.03.09 21:52
9 March
2001
liberal reenactment of phone call to VSBA office:
"What's the address of the Nurse's office in Ambler?"
"Hold on, please."
"Mr. Venturi said it's better now to just look at the pictures."
Went to Ambler, found the building, and took my own pictures (of the current condition) anyway.
Venturi and Short, Headquarters for the North Penn Visiting Nurses' Association (Ambler, PA: 1960-63).
2014
Noticed today that the Headquarters for the North Penn Visiting Nurses' Association and Mitchell/Giurgola's Administration Building, Academy of the New Church were both built in 1963.
A schematic design of the Giurgola building was featured within the Progressive Architecture "The Philadelphia School" article (1961), and the Nurses's Headquarters is essentially Venturi's first constucted building. What's interesting now, however, is that both buildings share distinct commonalities that I never noticed before. There is the 'zoot' (the 45 degree angled wall) adjacent both entrances, as well as a arch over the doors. Plus, Venturi's play with window scale on the side wall seems to be a riff off of Giurgola's side wall.
 
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2014.03.19 10:27
17 March
The Koolhaas/OMA use of the Ichnographia Campus Martius as 'floor paper' (not wall paper) occurs in several project, but the one project (that I know of at least) where the usage went from schematics through to execution is the plinth of the CCTV Headquarters.
  
The ICM 'floor paper' usage still occasionally occurs in more recent projects as well. And there's a little more 'background' on the subject here.
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2014.03.29 17:22
29 March
3308j
2014.04.02 21:45
2 April
3308l
2014.04.02 21:49
2 April
3308m
2014.05.12 21:58
Redrawing History
3308q
2014.06.03 12:52
3 June
3308w
2014.07.18 17:22
17 July
3309b
2014.08.22 21:03
22 August
3309e
2014.08.23 09:44
22 August
3309f
2014.10.08 21:26
8 October
3309p
2015.04.22 12:19
Archinect's critical round-up for the new Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum
3310q
2015.04.22 21:14
23 April
3310r
2015.05.06 22:03
Leading artists call to action against the Frick expansion plans
3310u 3310v
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2015.05.08 10:40
Architecture Critic Mark Lamster: "We systemically encourage bad building."
3310w
2015.05.28 13:30
Who's work are you currently interested in?
3310x
2015.05.31 18:09
31 May
3310z
2015.06.15 09:44
Are diagrams in architecture bullshit and ditto for process?
3311c
2015.06.25 09:37
Why are people so fascinated with classical architecture?
3311d
2015.07.18 17:12
The Vanna Venturi House is for sale
3311k
2015.08.25 10:59
Hole, no: Archinect's comparison of exterior facades
3312g 3312h 3312i
2015.09.08 14:21
Architecture of Decadence
3312k 3312l
2015.09.26 13:48
In the future, everything will be a museum.
3312q
2015.09.29 20:51
Herzog & de Meuron's concept for new Vancouver Art Gallery released
3312r
2015.10.16 19:06
A good example of art about architecture
3313
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