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Tropolism: Your Hidden City Grows
The biggest recent news on Tropolism: Your Hidden City, the first open-source architectural contest, has produced about 560 entries! Over 160 entrants have submitted, rumors of a gallery show are circulating, and you still have until 5pm on 10 March 2006 to jump in by going to Tropolism's Flickr pool. For full details, check Tropolism....

This Week in Tropolism
Tropolism explores the outer fringes this week. First, it reviews the designs for the first two commercial spaceports for humankind and finds them, well, awful. Next it reviewed a winning (finally) competition entry by Zaha Hadid for a library in the remote city of Sevilla and finds it, well, underdone. The remote inner city regions of Detroit are being rediscovered by an activist group...

Tropolism: PIN-UP
Tropolism has been highlighting their favorite architectural magazines this week. Among the best (and a great gift to surprise the favorite architect on your list) is PIN-UP, a brand-new magazine that plays with the idea of architecture as eye candy and aims to go "behind the clothes" of architects to figure out what makes them tick. PIN-UP features articles on Jurgen Mayer H., Zaha...

Tropolism Hidden City Contest
After a week of very subtle buildup, Tropolism is pleased to announce the first open-sourced architectural contest, Your Hidden City. The contest is simple: post your photos (with a caption) to our public Flickr pool (or email them to us for posting), and our jury will select their favorites in five categories. The winners will be posted to Tropolism. The theme of the contest...

This Week in Tropolism
We started with another Shiny-Gold building, Then two artist-itect posts A progress update on the High Line And ended with some wicked Fashion-tecture.Stay tuned next Friday for a Special Announcement!...

This Week in Tropolism
This week was the week of Masters. Architecture Masters that defy death (we're so totally not kidding). Masters of the Park. Masters of photography, tilt-shift lens department. And, of course, Masters of Architectural structure....