Must be at KFC

gablet & label

Excerpt from The Spruce article reads: “"The concept is often traced back to Eero Saarinen's design for the Miller House in the 1950s, in which a recessed lounge became the home's architectural heart," Filter says. "By the 1970s, conversation pits were in full swing across the U.S." As Filter also points out, these pits weren't simply for style. Their sunken design was also spatially functional,” I’ve highlighted “spatially functional”

umm, WHAT

At least Arsenal has a longer losing streak than Spurs at the moment 😎

The collective choking sounds coming out of north London right now lol

Forgot the original Eden Prairie Center’s cinema where he would buy out whole theaters to watch movies.

We the faithful De Zerbed better today

Despite his inconsistencies, despite his falling over, NO ONE on this team De Zerbed a goal more than Xavi today.

The only thing whiter than Klopp’s teeth? De Zerbi’s shoes

Excerpt from Archinect article reads: “Seemingly unprepared (or reluctant) to talk about his design, Zumthor instead talked about his connection to the United States: From his childhood in Basel, Switzerland, during the WWII liberation by American troops to his time as a young architecture student at Pratt Institute in NYC and later teaching at SCI-Arc in LA.”

i wouldn’t want to talk about it either bro

Tom from Groove Armada is wearing a Rustic Inn Cafe t-shirt at their Coachella site right now lol #localangle

It’s so funny that housing posters could simply ask an AEC professional out to coffee or something & use that knowledge to inform their arguments, but instead we get 3 Substack articles that are like “did you know the ICC has an evaluation service!?! 😱”

Photo of the sidewalk along Bryant Avenue South with yellow spray painted dashes akin to the lane markings used for the bike lane and roads.

Was briefly excited about an act of guerrilla urbanism along Bryant, as many of you could use a reminder to keep right, but alas these are merely utility locator markings.

Photo of an Amazon Return Kiosk with a sign taped to its screen reading: “The ARK is out of order. We apologize for the inconvenience. A technician has been called. Please visit the Amazon Counter or the WF Customer Service desk if the Amazon Counter is closed.”

these days they just don’t build arks like Noah used to

Photo of a residential kitchen with a large gas range. There's a hood suspended above the range on threaded rods straddling an exposed beam, with the top of the hood just butting up to the bottom of the beam. The hood is also too high up to capture properly anyways.

the beautiful, harmonious coordination of trades is essential to great design

chase that with some maid-rites

Paper Architecture? Prisons? That's AECOM®️

TCBJ headline reads: " COVER STORY • COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE AECOM THINKS BIG. TOO BIG? Developer's plan for St. Paul has challenges as steep as downtown's river bluffs." It's accompanied by an AECOM rendering of St. Paul's riverfront with some generic middies towers sitting on top of the railroad ROW and some swoops walkways below them.

Excerpt from Axios Twin Cities article reads: "AECOM's fanciful design included four massive towers with 1.2 million square feet of office space, housing and a hotel, all built over a land bridge to the river. Yes, but: A land bridge requires Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroads to grant the county air rights over their tracks that run between the bluff and river. When this plan was hatched, real estate sources told me that getting railroads — or, more specifically, their insurance companies — to sign off on running oil trains beneath skyscrapers would be a nonstarter."

lmao -- another quality project for the portfolio from aecom

The Elizabeth Crow South (Minneapolis)

So we’ve established that no one on here from NYC knows anything about CRE leases or the CRE market. Not surprising, but good to check off the list nonetheless.

taking it in the 12th round of a shootout…NEVER A DOUBT lol

Excerpt from Gizmodo article reads: “Musician G. Love lost his life savings after downloading a fake Ledger Live app from Apple's Mac App Store, according to a post made to his X account. Noted”

Or, to paraphrase some of his lyrics:

🎶 “Once I start making, the scammy app starts taking, ‘cause overseas criminals have perfected funk faking” 🎶

I encourage him to keep any unused portion of ArchiPAC’s dirty money.

Excerpt from WaPo article reads: “Long, 38, accepts and secures about 300 packages each night for the residents in his 370-unit building along the East River in Manhattan. And some nights, the food deliveries he intercepts for tenants never stop arriving — one apartment can order a dozen DoorDash and Uber Eats meals in a single day, he said.”

Excerpt from WaPo article reads: “Even simple tasks, Lashley-Maloney said, require care. At his building, doorman are asked to keep track of how to reward residents' dogs after they come in for a walk. "Each dog has its own treat and when they come in, these dogs demand their treats," Lashley-Maloney said.”

Excerpt from WaPo article reads: “But while the dogs get pampered, Long and Lashley-Maloney said it's increasingly hard for them to take care of their own families. Each live in Brooklyn apartments that cost more than $2,100 per month in rent. Long said his salary has increased by about $2 an hour over the past nine years while his duties have increased dramatically. Since the pandemic, more people work from home and have things delivered to the building. The 300 packages he estimates he handles each night is about double the volume he managed pre-pandemic.”

reading about nyc doormens’ pursuit of living wages and some of the things these guys do for the absolutely ridiculous residents in their buildings is redefining late capitalism/waning days of the empire/etc — just embarrassing behavior

Excerpt from WSJ reads: “Kristen Glazer has made the trek twice. The marketing professional from Minneapolis first visited on a busy weekend shortly after the speakeasy launched. Rather than linger among the motor oil and snack aisles, she retreated to a nearby restaurant until her table was ready.”

Need an article from local media on the story within the WSJ story: the people from Minneapolis who drive a half hour to Lakeville to go to a gas station speakeasy.

was at an event and saw at least a half dozen radwagons parked and thought this thing is the ford pinto of ebikes, then thought this bike parking corral is like a tinderbox right now lol

In addition to a banning work on carceral spaces, architects should be banning work on charter schools. And publications shouldn’t be highlighting either of these project types.

Reuters headline reads: “U.S.-Iran peace talks end without a deal as delegations leave Pakistan”

It’s almost like buying buildings and fucking couches aren’t good backgrounds for international diplomacy