Tropolism means having a sense of humor. It means also a sense of civic pride. One of the reasons I'm so attached to NOLA is that its citizens often combine these two in a way which is effortless, and...

Dear Readers: Thank you for nominating Tropolism for "World's Best Urban Architecture Blog" over at Gridskipper. We are flattered, particularly in such esteemed company. And for those of you who would like to see us make it to the...

The crack reporting staff at Curbed (which is our favorite architecture site, yo) uncovered this nugget about the next Banlieue, here in our own back yard. Or, to be precise, the former sewage canal in the woods behind our...

Tropolism means creative ideas for new housing. Everywhere. This article suggests some really brilliant ideas by the Dutch, particularly this one: In the old days, the argument runs, a person with a working-class identity could live in "working-class housing."...

I'm sure many of you knew about the dialogue between Peter Zumthor and Olafur Eliasson last Monday. And, given your hectic holiday party schedule, you knew about it and missed it anyway. Like us. Fear not, Tropolism Special Correspondant...

We began our Thanksgiving break a tad early, so we thought we'd sign off this afternoon with a site you can dig your teeth into. It's called Abandoned Japanese Buildings (we made that up, the fact checker/translator totally slipped...

There are so many reasons to love BLDGBLOG. The omnivorous appetite. The appetite for the surreal. The appetite for the mineral. However, this entry, regarding A View To A Kill and its architectural fantasy, has made us true, die-hard...

This just in from the ever-vigilant Yuri Gitman comes word of The Mascarillons. They are...well...they are this: "The Mascarillons are the first rigid aerobots developed for the [ SAILS ] project. They are flying cubic automata able to develop...

Title: Enric Miralles Works and Projects 1975-1995 Edited by: Benedetta Tagliabue Miralles Publication Date: December 1, 1996 Publisher: The Monacelli Press ISBN: 1885254431 Along with some issues of El Croquis from the mid-90s, this has got to be one...

The High Line has been donated by CSX to New York, clearing the way for construction to begin in 2006, and the first sections to be open in 2008. Click here for the breaking Press Release....

Speaking of pretty pictures, the building we starting loving in our first week blogging (way back in April, yo) is beginning to receive some photo-love. After last month's distraction (picked up by other websites, yo), we are ready for...

To compliment the wordlessness of architecture, this Japanese building photo blog gives us buildings familiar and not, with lots of gorgeous new views. We love to look. Via DailyDose...

Our ever-diligent friend and resident interior designer Renee Turman has given us yet another picture of the Sculpture for Living in New York Magazine, this time from the November 7th issue. Her running commentary is too good to keep...

We've mentioned before how much we admire Janette Kim. Now's your chance to catch up on what she's up to: she has a show and a lecture at Barnard (it's above 23rd street). Her talk is November 28, 6.30,...

We've all known about Diller Scofidio+Renfro's Lincoln Center sliding and dicing for a while now. And the idea of cutting into our second favorite NYC building, Pietro Belluschi's gorgeously brutalist travertine wonder, The Julliard School, has presented the question...

2 Columbus Circle now has its own webcam. Except they're trying to create shame. Of course, I see it as a wonderfully useful tool to check the progress on a great renovation, so it just goes to show that...

For possible inclusion into the Two Dozen List of starchitect designed midrise residential buildings: 322 Hicks in Brooklyn. Smith-Miller+Hawkinson has given us an almost-Switch building. Check out the pictures on the Corcoran website. There are some lovely moments, and...

One of the amazing things about Tokyo is the beadth and depth of creativity that goes into retail design. In the USA, we are only beginning to have something between high-end retail and crap. In Tokyo, there are a...

Today is the opening day for Shimmer (not to be confused with Glitter), at the New Museum for Contemporary Art. The press release is titled "artist and architect experiments", which put it on our radar, as did their website,...

Parsons Students, true to form, have taken on the LMCC's Swing Space program with brilliant ease. The LMCC program is designed to use underutilized real estate in Lower Manhattan. It's gentrification with a built-in obselesence: the LMCC secures temporary...

I first encountered Emigre when I was a wee undergraduatelet, at issue 32 (above left), at the height of my fascination with all things that looked like they came from Vaughan Oliver and v23. Hey, it was the 90s,...

As you may know, I do work from time to time with Olafur Eliasson. I get all of the invitations to his openings, wherever they may be. They are so numerous, it is impossible to keep up. However, this...

AMOOMA, in true mirrorspeak fashion, has released the most fascinating, and at the same time most lame, press release ever. First, they break the news that they are working on a study to re-define art museums (and, that the...

Capping off our Virtual Reality week, we bring you something found through the folks at We Make Money Not Art through Interactive Architecture Dot Org (the last title makes us shudder, too, but the website is interesting). They both...

It's the second week in a row with a Friday Omotesando Hills update. Time to celebrate! This time, it's on-the-spot pictures from the ever-on-top-of-it Jeansnow. Judge for yourself. I think it's lovely, if a bit monotonous. It will probably...

Peter Walker, the landscape architect working with Michael Arad on the World Trade Center Memorial, will chat live with visitors to buildthememorial.org website next Tuesday, November 8th at 12pm EST. Tipped off by the evergreen Pruned. We're with them:...

While travelling toward a meeting last week, in a speeding cab, I glanced over to the building that houses Friends of The High Line. A new sign was up, for the Ground Zero Museum Workshop. It is a space...

Tropolism has set up a Frappr map. Now's your chance to build a visual display of our little urban world! All you have to do is put yourself on our map! I just did it, it takes about 15...

We don't believe in virtual reality. Tropolism means it's all just real. That belief has wonderfully not impeded virtual worlds from springing forth, and virtual real estate enough to keep a thousand Curbeds up and running. The folks at...