Plastisoil

Impervious paving developed by Naji Khoury, Civil Engineering professor at Temple University....
Looks promising- click on the title to ee more.  Khoury and some students installed a small section of plastisoil sidewalk on the campus and demostrates it porosity.

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halfway there, livin' on a prayer...

There are there more than 7 of these things? Why?

Click on the title of the post to check out the link...

If there are more the 7, then why didn't they have a top 10?  That's typical, right?  What is so special about 7?  Lucky 7? 

And, why do the interiors of these places all look as bad as the gimmick surrounding (pun intended) a revolving restaurant?  They are so uninspiring to an idea that could be very inspiring. 

One last thing- I find it interesting that being up high in a city is not really that great.  Why do people think its romantic?  You get a little bit of good view, but the rest is stuff you just don't want to see.  I have a perfect analogy, but I will let DJ or the Virginia Creeper go there...

NWO

I am beginning to think all this snow is a conspiracy.  I just need to connect the dots.

I think I got it:

All this snow is a total sham! Think about it! Everyone knows that all this snow is to divert attention from the socialist agenda. Have you noticed that the meteorologists are acting strangely? They obviously don't want this story getting out. I mean, what if people started asking about the snow making machines in the Poconos? They aren't being used up there... They may be able to fool the sheeple, but climate scientists aren't swallowing it. Don't take it from me, the Scientologists think there is something up as well. We have to act fast, we are running out of salt. I just wanted y'all to be aware of this in case I disapear.

You get 'em!!!

you can click on the image to enlarge...

Springside School’s water wall

Located in the Chestnut Hill part of the city across from The Philadelphia Cricket Club and Chestnut Hill Academy is the Springside School. I drive by it quite frequently, but never along the side of the building where this web of gutters is located until the other day, and was quite surprised. Apparently since the school sits in the Wissahickon Creek Watershed, they decided to try and mitigate the amount of water the school displaces into the Schuylkill River. They got funding through the Schuylkill Watershed Initiative Grant and received technical assistance from both the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Philadelphia Water Department. Springside hired Stacy Levy a former student who is now environmentalist and artist to come up with the design. These gutters bring stormwater into a rain garden filled with local Pennsylvania plants that absorb the run-off at this location and elsewhere on campus. While this quirky design is not aesthetically my cup of tea, in this case I really think it’s a great design. It gets the students of the school and people throughout the community to question the effects of the typical building standards and way they affect the environment.

PRE FAB

OR . . .

Can someone remind me why Architects are in love with Pre Fabricated Housing???? I thought Architects loved the LOCAL small business, microbrews, hand knit wool.....I mean c'mon, we've all incorporated the "farmer's market" in at least one of our projects in school.

Why is it so appealing to detroy a local building construction economy? Take or send jobs out of state, possibly out of the country that would normally be performed by a local carpenter/ contractor?

AND why do we want to build things so much quicker????

If it's a matter of being "GREEN," then tell me why this can't be achieved on site?

PREFAB to me sounds too much like the creation of Wal Mart

WAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Hole in the Wall Gang

Pine Street Residence Photos. The dream of what could have been...........is gone.

But it does have a nice view from the top.

Image of the Day

Image of the day:

“I don’t believe in Global Warming.”by Banksy

[goal: bring AO back to life in 2010]

Merry Christmas, and Happy Chanukah

Thought that was a pretty nice card (for architect nerds, haha). See you next year losers!!!!