Design practice Studio Three Sixty has created a temporary sauna that is being used as a theatre during Edinburgh‘s Fringe festival for the performing arts. Designed by Studio Three Sixty director Lucy Osborne, who is also co-creative director of Sauna Sessions Arts Club, the functioning sauna can seat up to 82 people for performances. “Sauna Theatre is…
Around 1,800 people have pulled the keep of the historic Hirosaki Castle two metres closer to its original location in Japan‘s Aomori prefecture, following restoration works. Using an ancient Japanese building relocation technique known as hikiya, the 360-tonne structure was placed fully intact on rollers and pulled by volunteers. A tower of Hirosaki Castle was…
Architecture studio Colar has updated and extended a dilapidated adobe structure to create a single-storey home in Chiapas, Mexico. Named Casa Estelí, the 162-square-metre dwelling combines the revived adobe structure with two new brick volumes, each sheltered beneath an expansive, self-supporting timber roof. Colar has created a single-storey earthen home in Chiapas, Mexico Colar centred…
I’m breaking my blogging silence to do two things: Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books, but over at Substack, not Blogger. Put a new post at the top of this blog so I don’t have to look at those…
After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the “Archidose” monicker — I’ve decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly newsletters focused on…
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I’m particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City. Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990 by Jordan Kauffman, published…
Just as last week’s Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question pertaining to monographs. This post…
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I’m highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as “Book Briefs” on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. From the 86 books I featured in 2023, 15 (or 16) books made my…
This year’s roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn’t necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my descriptions. A few of…
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent “Places in Time” series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time; and the third jumping to Switzerland and tracing the…