A decorative flurry of architectural links (Image source)

LINK OF THE WEEK: TIMBERPALACE says: “Terminal 5, as it is known at JFK airport ,is one of my favorite buildings of all time. 

Its dramatic swooping exterior suggests it is in permanent motion, which is quite a feat for steel wrapped in concrete” more here..

Contemporary Architecture

• Vernacular style lattice bridge by OAK Architects over at Contemporist
• ArchDaily is fast becoming one of my favourite reads. Here is a sleek expressionist office building in Rijkswaterstaat by Paul de Ruiter
• Have Bar will Travel over at Contemporist by Jump Studios
• Follow the trials and tribulations of getting a house extension built over at Design It Out

Architectural History, Conservation and Philosophy

• Classic BBC audio slideshow on early skyscrapers
• Beautiful words by the late John Updike on architecture over at Architectural Record
• The Globe and Mail reports on Canada’s Stonehenge: “vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000-year-old calendar predating England’s Stonehenge and Egypt’s pyramids“
• From Here to Modernity a website where quite literally form follows function
• Amazing stuff over at The Concrete Centre including pdf’s with sumptuous retro concrete photography like this 

Architects

• Renzo Piano’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre beautifully rendered over at ArchDaily
• Frank Lloyd Wright on TV! over at YouTube
• Palladio:  Steve Rose from The Guardian battles for an architect’s soul
• Did you miss Le Corbusier Day at pevstweet? Twitter on to @pevstweet for Great Buildings in 140 characters or less

Photography (and video)

• Wonderful things are happening over at Microsoft Photosynth which might change the way you look at photography
• Architecture in HDR over at Flickr

Architecture and the Environment

• Contemporist outlines an ambitious master plan for a carbon neutral Zira Island by BIG Architects
• Tijuana: “a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners” Planetizen 
  
• anArchitecture reveals a series of fascinating video’s by the BBC investigating and recording how building’s learn (ie change and adapt over time)

Quirky (as in couldn’t think of a better category)

• The New York Times has a fascinating article on Birds colliding with buildings – some frightening facts
• You’d have to be a basket case to commission this wall design (via Atelier) by Stephan Falcke
• The Journal of Urban Typography – simple site which is made beautiful by the content’s visual appleal

Andy Marshall is an architectural photographer and commentator – more here

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