Category Archives: Influences

Still High on the High Line

October 13, 2011 – 4:03 pm

I touched on New York City’s High Line in my last post; now I am landing on it with both feet. Set atop an abandoned, elevated rail line, it is the planet’s longest green roof, stretching nearly a mile and a half. It is a remarkable, idiosyncratic pathway that commences in lower Manhattan’s West Side, [...]

By Ken MacLeod | Also posted in Beloved Buildings, History | Comments (0)

The High Line and the Cunard Line

August 4, 2011 – 9:45 am

“Getting there is half the fun” was Cunard Line’s famous advertising slogan in the 1950s, intended to lure Americans away from flying across the Atlantic. At the time, its fleet could boast two of the finest examples of ocean liner transport, the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth, which regularly traveled between Europe and [...]

By Ken MacLeod | Also posted in Beloved Buildings, History | Comments (2)

What I Learned from Video Games

April 28, 2011 – 11:07 am

I take a lot of heat around here for being in my 30s and still playing video games. An interest in gaming carries little to no cultural cachet amongst architects and designers. I don’t mind, though. My interests tend to run a little bit askew from those around me. In college, I resisted the black [...]

By Scott Allen | Also posted in Technology | Comments (0)

An Architecture of Happy Accidents

September 23, 2010 – 3:50 pm

Owing to close family ties, I’ve been a frequent visitor to Switzerland. Aside from the requisite sightseeing of astonishing alpine environs, the small city of Schaffhausen, first mentioned in the historical record in 1045, has served as my vacation base camp for more than 40 years.  Staying there so often has given me the opportunity [...]

By Charles Mueller | Also posted in Beloved Buildings, Planning | Comments (2)

Taking the Stage to Architecture

December 15, 2009 – 10:58 am

In college I was bitten by the theater bug.  I found that acting was not only fun but it helped build my self-confidence speaking in front of people.  I spent hours at the Yale Dramat and came to marvel at the magic that student stage and scene designers conjured for each new production by simply [...]

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