How about some Monday morning discourse from New City Reader?

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How cool is this 1/100 Architectural Paper Model Set No.1 by Terada Design? The set is made out of paper, and comes with an assortment of people, dogs, cats, birds, flowers, chairs, sofas, tables, lamps, bikes, grass and more! I wish I’d had this in college…The set is on sale here.

New images for the ARTHOUSE at the Jones Center by LTL Architects. It’s always cool to see that sometimes exactly what gets designed (right) gets built (left).

Now that 2022 is set for Qatar, we know they have to build these stadiums. Some are more conventional than others, but Sports City Stadium (above) looks the most interesting with the most features, like the retractable roof that you can actually walk around inside. See more at the 2022 Qatar Bid Site.

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My brother recommended I check out Abara, a manga series from 2005-2006. It’s got some pretty nice future-distopia images in it, a few are a la Lebbeus Woods. In the story, people live in infinitely tall buildings, constantly being built and rebuilt atop one another. I wonder if he influenced Tsutomu Nihei’s work at all?

You can read Abara either online or via an iPad reader like Mangashelf.

Marburg recently teamed up with Zaha Hadid to produce a range of Art Borders, aka wallpaper. The patterns are large scale (9m high) and designs range from angular geometric to cellular biological.

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The Pista Deportiva La Figuressa is a simple stadium structure built in Spain by alceola+tárrago. The large scale gesture of the angled overhang and full wall of polycarbonate panels, the gym is illuminated by the sun during the day and itself illuminates the site by night.

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How beautiful is this intervention into an old bunker? The bunker is part of a system of 700 bunkers that made up the New Dutch Waterline – a Dutch military defense system that was in use from 1815-1940. The NDW protected the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem through intentional flooding, transforming the economic heartland of the Dutch Republic into an island, if needed.

Rietveld Landscape, in collaboration with Atelier de Lyon, transformed bunker 599 into a public space by slicing into the concrete and providing passage through the bunker to the water and the footpaths of the nearby natural reserve.

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We got an email from our alma mater about the progress of Milstein Hall, the new OMA-designed building for The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. These photos of the rebar and pour for the dome are so incredible. In the end, it will be a smooth surface, but now you know the intense framework and heavy construction what goes into building something like that seems so pliable and light. It’s cool to see the building going up and we can’t wait to drive up and check it out.

Looking for some inspiration for your representation woes? Check out Drawing ARCHITECTURE for a varied look at all sorts of drawings – axons, collages, sketches, superdrawings, etc. I thought this one by Justine Bell was extra nice.