The idea of a "folding facade" is not entirely new. Shuttered exteriors have traditionally been used in various locales for protection from the elements, from New Orleans to New England in the United States, and in most other parts of the globe. What separates the newfound use of a folding perimeter to the traditional use is...

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } PartiWall 250, originally uploaded by ehoweler. Eric Howeler, a member of the Young Architect's Boston Group, has posted photos of the installation of...

After (top, 2008) and before (bottom, 1966) photographs, taken by Iqbal Aalam, of St. Catherine's College, Oxford by Arne Jacobsen (1962).To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

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Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce MarshallUniverseHardcover, 304 pagesParis 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam LubellMonacelli PressHardcover, 240 pagesThese two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe's two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell...

While watching a television show the other day about bread, I learned of a simple, but beautiful custom of Jewish bread bakers. While preparing the traditional Jewish bread Chullah, the baker will tear off a portion and bake it by itself, or simply throw it away. Traditionally, this was for the temple priests, offered as a...

Below are some photographs by rudenoon of OMA's CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, China, as it gets closer and closer to completion. Be sure to check out rudenoon's HUGE flickr set on the CCTV HQ.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

[Image: From the series the water, the dams, the landscape by photographer Eduoard Decam].Eduoard Decam is a Barcelona-based French architect whose photographic project the water, the dams, the landscape won an EDF Foundation award back in 2006. The images in the series document massive hydrological installations in the...

Alex Metcalf's Tree Listening Installation is a small electronic listening device built for eavesdropping on the inner acoustics of trees. [Image: "Peach Tree in Flower in Orchard" by J.E. Fee].How does it work? The device is placed on the trunk of a given tree and then connected to as many as ten sets of headphones, which...