AD Round Up: Stone Houses Part I
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:30:38 -0700
Choosing the main material for your house may be quite a problem. Wood? Steel? Or stone? So to finish this week’s Round Up , we bring you previoulsy featured stone houses on ArchDaily. Pirihueico House / Alejandro Aravena A volcanic site, 4.000 mm of rain every year, strong winds from the north and east, views towards the lake (east) and the forest (west), considerations of the difficulty of bringing materials to this remote place, erasure of any a priori architectural language (be it o
Politico op-ed: Damn, our president is hip
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:36:31 -0700
There’s a germ of a good point here — The One’s cultural cachet does help him with voters, especially young ones, by proving he’s “in touch” — but it’s drizzled with so many gooey effusions and earnest exclamation points that I can only call it Morford-esque. Read it and tell me you don’t hear Phil Hartman doing the “Sassy” voice.But watch him walk. Listen to him talk. See the body language, the expressions, the clothes. He’s got attitude, rhythm, a sense of humor, contemporary tastes.This much
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