Lighting Design Collective created Silo 468 for the city of Helsinki, a sort of reverse zoetrope where you sit in the cylinder and the animation whirls around you.

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Factory Blocks by House Industries.

Beautiful temporary structure at South Bank – The Shed by Haworth Tompkins.

Also, be sure to support Save Southbank. Haven’t gotten to skate it, but the world needs its skate plazas. I miss the Brooklyn Banks.

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Beautiful Library in Anzin by Dominique Coulon & Associates. Nice inflection of the edges of the rectangle and carving out to make courtyard spaces.

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I have a strange fascination with A-frame diagrams for buildings. The Kuokkala Church by Lassila Hirvilammi in Finland combines a symmetrical/axial worship space plan with a series of slight angle twists to the form to create auxiliary spaces.

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Studio Weave’s art/music installation Lullaby Factory transforms a neglected space in the rear of a few buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children into a fantastical machine that makes songs for the children who are patients there. Amazing and inspiring.

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Looking more like a scene from a sci-fi movie than something right under your feet in midtown, these photos from the MTA’s East Side Access project shows that the MTA really does make progress in some pretty serious construction projects. Now if only the 2nd Ave subway could be finished soon…

Russian House Architectural Blocks from Haba.

Tom Ngo – Work and Home. Imagery from another era of architecture.

Foster + Partners could be the very first extra-terrestrial architect with a 3D-printed moonbase. The system is a combination of earth-built structural components and moon-harvested dust mixed with binders to create the shell to protect the habitable parts of the base. Pretty smart.

via Wired