Apple’s new headquarters building is approved by Palo Alto. The $5 billion, yes with a “B”, project will occupy a 176 acre site and provide office space for 13,000 employees. Note in the article the mention of evaluating a $30 million “mock up”. Holy mother of money! $30 million on […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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Fastcompany.com recently posted about the Gethsemane Church in Seattle by the architects Olson Kundig. It is a thoroughly Modern building. For many, if you say “modern architecture”, the images in their minds are of cold, sterile and emotionless buildings. Yet this Modern church feels warm and comfortable. One of the […]
Recently the website Inthralld.com posted this feature about displaying your wine collection. I have already written about it at my wine website. The Inthralled.com post features pictures of 10 pretty impressive architectural installations for displaying wine collections. Personally, I don’t agree with wine “collecting” per se. I believe that wine […]
Bob Borson over at Lifeofanarchitect.com recently wrote an excellent post about the benefits of Deconstruction versus Demolition. In it he talks about the environmental and financial benefits of deconstruction instead of demolition. The post can be boiled down to the following: demolition is quick demolition puts everything into the landfill […]