A Daily 2006 in Review

This year's been a big one for me, getting married, moving to New York, and going back to school. And judging from all the posts in my archives from this year, it's been a big year for architecture in general. Below I give you a brief recap of the year in daily doses. Posts will be light for the next week or two as I relax and celebrate the holiday season. Happy Holidays!

The state of Chicago architecture:

:: Preservation and One South Dearborn
:: Low-rise residential
:: Wrigley Field bleachers
:: Navy (crap)Pier and not so crappy
:: Bucket Boys
:: Studio Gang's Aqua once, twice, thrice
:: Crate & Barrel's urban referent
:: 3 blocks, 5 buildings
:: HUB 116
:: Soldier Field loses landmark status
:: Turrell's Chicago Skyspace opens
:: Glass is the new painted concrete
:: Dirk Denison's Culver House
:: Zoka Zola reworks Chicago's zoning
:: VDT's north-side retail complex
:: Mies on a beam
:: McDonalds buys a bike station
:: Bike 2015 Plan
:: Fun with developer taglines
:: The Rockwell Brown Line station reopens
:: Smith leaves SOM

Architecture in NYC:

:: New York gets new bus stops
:: The connection between Rockwell and Ando
:: The handrail memorial
:: Gehry and Tschumi before & during
:: Astoria pool
:: Mocking up 40 Bond Street
:: WTC towers unveiled
:: Upper West Side photos
:: StoryCorps booth
:: New Museum progress
:: Hollywood in Astoria

Beyond Chicago and New York:

:: Steven Holl's Nelson-Atkins Bloch addition, not once but twice
:: VDT's Kresge Foundation
:: Chavez Ravine
:: Paolo Soleri in New Orleans
:: OMA in KY
:: Hotel Puerta America's corridors and rooms
:: Golconde
:: Porous Drape
:: Congotronics
:: Dubai Strike
:: Cretto, revisited
:: Novy Dvur Monastery
:: Tikopia, part I and part II
:: Urban Plough
:: Wind and Earth
:: Richard Meier's Ara Pacis
:: Chicago Square (in Hamburg, Germany)
:: Wind and earth
:: Ferrous Park
:: Slaughterhouse architecture
:: Herzog & de Meuron's Tate expansion
:: The state of starchitecture
:: House of Terror
:: My trip to Ecuador in one-two-three-four parts
:: Leviathan Thot

The year in half doses:

:: Mercat de Santa Caterina by EMBT


:: S(ch)austall by FNP Architekten


:: Mother's by Clive Wilkinson


:: Metropol Parasol by J. Mayer H.


House in Brejos de Azeitao by Aires Mateus


Belmont/Thurman Lofts by Holst Architecture


Big Box Housing by David Woodhouse Architects


Glass Sea by Alec French Architects


House of Sweden by Gert Wingardh


Laminata House by Kruunenberg Van der Erve Architecten


Urban Cactus by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers


Z-House by Eve Harlou

Architecture and media:

:: Single. Handsome. Charismatic. Architect?
:: Auctioning Daniel Libeskind's boots
:: Allianz in Legos
:: Design E-squared
:: Modern-day Leonardos
:: Graham Foundation videos
:: UGLY Rant
:: Blueprint Magazines
:: Mini Cooper and Arcosanti
:: Architecture videos
:: A couple films: La Jetee and Fitzcarraldo
:: MIT Gallery
:: Thermal Baths music video
:: Crains Chicago on quirky bosses
:: What are architects paid?
:: Holiday gift books

Your favorites (with # of comments, as of today):

:: Gettin' Hitched (27)
:: Dubai Strike (16)
:: Nelson-Atkins Bloch (15)
:: This Just In (14)
:: Aqua Redux (13)
:: 4 Weeks Notice (13)
:: Architectural Connections (11)
:: No Small Plans (10)
:: Chang-Lin Tien Center (10)
:: Single. Handsome. Charismatic. Architect? (9)
:: Urban Referent (9)
:: Skyspace Opens (9)
:: un film de ... (9)
:: S-U-C-C-E-E-S! (9)
:: Rockwell Reopens (9)
:: Handrail Memorial (8)
:: Today's archidose #19 (8)
:: Chavez Ravine (7)
:: Metropol Parasol (7)
:: Design E-squared (7)
:: Weekly Aerials (7)
:: House of Sweden (7)
:: File Under: Luminous (7)
:: Coroflot Salary Results (7)
:: Leviathan Thot (7)

Lasly, in passing:

:: Harry Seidler
:: Jane Jacobs
:: Ferd Scheeler