"Would you like to supersize your building with fries?"

The Philadelphia Business Journal reports (with way too much information on the financing and only a little on the design) of the newly proposed big-honkin' skyskraper the American Commerce Center to add to the concentration of big-honkin' proposed skyskrapers for Philly, whose bretheren built and unbuilt include:

The Richard Meyer Residences on the Schuykil (name will be posted later)
The Murano
Cira Center #2
The Comcast "I'm bigger and more honkin' than all of you" Center

Philadelphia continues to grow in multiple directions, upwards, outwards, and inwards (and by that I mean density in Center City.

http://changingskyline.blogspot.com/2008/03/skyscraper-height-no-object.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080530_Comcast_Center__Phila_s_tallest_building__is_clean-lined_and_dignified.html?adString=ph.news/news_update;!category=news_update;&randomOrd=053108020933

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Philadelphia

And with this and the preceding post I now am aware that I have become and endentured architecture blogger hitting on all major themes - historical latin reference, linguistic word play, and now facination with tall structures - to ice the cake i'll submit this link: to the Dubai-really-tall-elevator-in-a-tall-iconic-tourist-promoting-structure-competition http://www.thyssenkrupp-elevator-architecture.com/concurso.aspx

more to later...

Architecture & Baseball

A tale of destruction, prank, jinx, hijinx, hijacking and the power of built space to speak to millions....and maybe..just maybe curse them? c/o NYTimes

Bikers are transport too

links for biking, bike-harrassment by drivers, and modes of action:

http://www.bv.com.au/change-the-world/10199/

http://www.astoriabike.com/2008/03/design-this.html

http://torontoist.com/2006/01/when_motorists.php

http://www.citynoise.org/article/2770

http://bicycleaustin.info/justice/harassment.html

http://www.bicyclenewswire.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.showrelease&cid=108&id=683

http://www.humantransport.org/bicycledriving/library/uastripes/uastripes.htm

http://beatbikeblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html