bobulate:

[Image: Title: HWY 66, New Mexico, 2007, 5 ft x 5 ft, archival digital print, via] “The best advice I ever got: walk directly up to a piece that moves you in a museum. Don’t follow the movement of people. Don’t walk right or left. Just go for the piece you’re attracted to. Chances are, it’s the most interesting.” Paraphrasing advice from Freeman Craw, designer of Craw Clarendon and Craw Modern, as told to me by Paul Shaw, expert looker.

preliminary renderings for the Francis Gregory Library, design collaboration between Adjaye Associates and Weincek Associates
(discovered via a tweet by marklamster via DC Metrocentric)

modern Dutch architecture stamps

urbangreens:

A walk around Lausanne Jardins

(translation into English)

“McNally Jackson Books Cafe by Front Studio”
(discovered via Kitsune Noir)

Phaidon + Wallpaper* City Guide iPhone App review

Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity exhibition at MOMA
(since I couldn’t take any photos in the exhibit here are my exterior signage shots)

“Our List of Design Lists from 2009” (via design:related)

“Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid”
(via Dezeen)

“New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth”
(via Inhabitat)

“Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building: The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in Israel…”
(article and video via Fast Company)

photos of the Poplar Picture bookstore in Beijing, designed by Sako in 2005

verymuch:

The Kid’s Republic Bookstore

This space was designed by Sako, Japan’s leading architecture firm, for Poplar Picture Bookstore, Japan’s largest children’s book publisher. (via my modern met)

This is a fantastic kid space. All for books!

The World In Lego (discovered via coudal via environmental graffiti)

Open-air Library in Germany, designed by KARO
(discovered via dezeen)

“People in glass apartments shouldn’t throw stones or other projectiles. Nor should they engage in private acts directly in front of their floor to ceiling windows. Yet lately there has been a rash of exhibitionism throughout New York City owing to an increase in floor to ceiling windowed buildings. Influenced in part by Richard Meier’s glass box towers in lower Manhattan (and his newest one at One Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn), these transparent living spaces, once the quintessence of twenty first century Modernism, have become eyesores, particularly at night when they take on the appearance of showrooms in Amsterdam’s red light district…”  —Steven Heller’s critique on “People in Glass Apartments” via Design Observer, info for above photo: 445 Lafayette Place, designed by Charles Gwathmey