Photo of the Day:
Tweet of the Day:
The new studio art building at Pomona College, by Kulapat Yantrasast and wHY Architects pic.twitter.com/ABqvqrbKIA
— ChristopherHawthorne (@HawthorneLAT) September 25, 2014
Video of the Day: A 1968 video for Bay Area Rapid Transit. [CBS SF]
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Seven More Stories for Friday:
British designer Thomas Heatherwick created a distillery for Bombay Sapphire Spirits. [The Telegraph]
An online petition requests that the Frick Collection ditch its expansion proposal, “which will destroy the character-defining intimate experience of this historic landmarked museum.” [Change.org]
A Pennsylvania artist raised over $31,000 on a Kickstarter campaign for the “gentle demolition” of a house, involving taking the structure apart piece by piece for the reuse of the building materials. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
The Economist’s five favorite products from the London Design Festival. [The Economist]
Nashville, Tenn.–based Bynum Design’s founder and lead designer, Dee Bynum, discusses trends in home design and how his firm approaches projects. [The Tennessean]
Steel parts of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s new span have been exposed to water, which could lead to corrosion. [San Francisco Chronicle]
The New School has launched a Journalism + Design program. [The New School]
Step Up, Step Down:
Michael McGroarty is now senior associate at San Francisco–based Kuth Ranieri Architects.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill‘s structural engineering partner, William F. Baker, has been named an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. [Royal Academy of Engineering]
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