Winka Dubbeldam is the principal of New York based Archi-Tectonics, where she's been designing residential projects since 1994. Dubbeldam is well known for her contemporary loft renovations in Tribeca and Soho. She is a graduate of the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and received a master’s degree from Columbia University. additional architects
Photo: Greenwich Street Project, New York City
Covetotop loves art, solitude and wandering off the beaten path ... and he blogs accordingly.
And if so, what the hell is he doing in Benidorm?
Benidorm is not off the beaten path; it is at the very center of it. Benidorm is a Mediterranean madness, a never-ending fiesta, an ecological crime, a sunny, noisy, lazy and archetypical tourist mecca.
McCrillis Gardens is an award-winning, 50 acre display shade garden. The garden has the largest Metasequoia tree (redwood) in the mid-Atlantic region and more than 750 varieties of azaleas and rhododendrons. Location: 6910 Greentree Road, Bethesda, Md.
More into the garden posts.
Denise Scott Brown is an architect, educator and urban planning scholar. A partner at Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, she -- along with Robert Venturi -- changed American city planning with their Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. And then in 1972, with Venturi and Steven Izenour, Scott Brown wrote Learning From Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, which profoundly influenced how a generation of architects looked at contextual issues.
Limerick's major visual art exhibition - EVA - has now closed for another year - so what was the verdict?
Running from 19 May - 12 August 2012, spanning several locations, key of which was the Limerick City Gallery, 103 O'Connell Street and the 10th floor of the Riverpoint building. EVA comprised a mix of video, installation, photography and painting - the theme 'After the Future' derived from "Media theorist and activist Franco "Bifo" Beradi's important proposal that we refuse current economic dictats and obsession with the future.
Just had to share this serene and beautiful image found on Pinterest (sorry, no attributes) for visitors to rest their eyes. Enjoy!
Here's a map of known tropical storms and hurricanes dating back to 1851. The fine folks at NOAA keep an archive of storm paths with wind speed, storm name, date, among other attributes...
(Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
