Architectural Works
Located in a privileged area in the city of Lima with views towards the golf course, DCPP Arquitectos& sought to create an icon for the future in their design for a new luxury housing concept [...] Read »
An outstanding group of buildings in Shropshire recently won development funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the regeneration of a former flax mill and maltings. FCB (Feilden Clegg [...] Read »
Skyscrapers in Seoul: American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a skyscraper with glazed triangular facets for emerging commercial centre the Yongsan International [...] Read »
Skandinavias largest architecture prize, Nykredits Architecture Prize of DKK 500,000, is this year awarded to the architectural practice COBE& based in Copenhagen represented by architect, [...] Read »
The competition winning proposal for the Terrace 9 Housing Complex in Nanterre, France by Atelier Zündel Cristea& aims to restore the human scale and legibility necessary for creating large [...] Read »
AIA President Jeff Potter welcomed everyone this morning by restating his promise that the 2012 convention would inspire all who attend. With a consistent theme focusing on the architects commitment [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Portuguese photography studio FG+SG shared with us their latest work of Xieira House II which was designed by A2+ Arquitectos. Implemented in a slender lot from north to south, the project born [...] Read »
Highly insulating. Crystal clear. Safe. Copenhagen’s new architectural highlight ‘The Crystal’ creates intricate light effects with SCHOLLGLAS products In Copenhagen, while industrial and [...] Read »
Archinect Editorial Contributor Aaron Plewke recently visited the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park , which opens officially Fall 2012. Designed by Louis I. Kahn the park is on the [...] Read »
“The Energy Tour” is a music video and performance tour premiering at the AIA 2012 convention, happening now in Washington D.C. Produced by YKK AP America, the video introduces the new YUW [...] Read »
Our living spaces are getting smaller and smaller, and keeping something like a ladder in our apartment is usually out of the question. Designed by Company & Company, this cool, new design comes [...] Read »
London/Paris-based practice Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd has sent us its competition entry for the new Swiss embassy building in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, West Africa. The design [...] Read »
The Live Screen will make its debut at Wanted Design in New York City this weekend. It was designed by Danielle Trofe and relies on a hydropic, self-watering configuration to create a stylish [...] Read »
This is BeachHaus I in the White Rock area of British Columbia. The home (like the neighbor, BeachHaus II) is on the market, should you have an interest in a luxe, modern, prefabricated home [...] Read »
The Parisian gallery Patrick Seguin features 20th century furniture and architecture and is currently showing Jean Prouvés 1956 Maison Des Jours Meilleurs from May 25 to September 29. But [...] Read »
You have only through Saturday, May 19th, to view Ceci nÊ»est pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman at the Graham Foundation at Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place. click [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
As we mention more and more that 21st century will be the century of rising sea levels, depletion of energy resources and century of urban nature, we still think the solution to these problems [...] Read »
Swedish city Gothenburg faces a challenge comparable in size with the industrial revolution: to become a sustainable city. Kjellgren Kaminsky architecture, in collaboration with a team of local [...] Read »
When I finished my studies, I decided I wanted to go into urban planning and I moved to LA. It seems funny, but I really played down the fact that Id won this competition. I was afraid it would [...] Read »
Tidal farms, which use underwater turbines to harness the power of the planets oceans and convert it into electricity, are something that we frequently mention here at Inhabitat. While there [...] Read »
NYIT architecture students want to help build a recycling center they designed in Costa Rica, and fund a documentary film about it. More regarding this initiative Read »
Tonight, Friday, May 18th, Preservation Chicago will be holding it's spring fundraiser at the Mars Gallery, 1139 West Fulton. The gallery, housed in a 19th century warehouse loft that was originally [...] Read »
If all the world is a stage, according to Shakespeare, all the city is a kunsthalle in the eyes of the New York City Department of Transportation. Bogardus Plaza, a tiny pedestrian plaza carved [...] Read »
Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue Long Island City, NY Through September 10 Lara Favaretto’s installations and sculptures at once perform and memorialize their [...] Read »
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The Kips Bay Decorator Show House this year isn't all green. Bunny Williams , Brian J. McCarthy , and David Kleinberg , all former employees of Albert Hadley, collaborated on a fabulous Venetian [...] Read »
Hanjie Wanda Square is a new luxury shopping plaza located in the Wuhan Central Culture Centre, one of the most important areas of Wuhan City. The multifunctional organisation of the master plan [...] Read »
Read the rest of Murray Legges Gorgeous Pool House Is Topped Off With a Green Roof Oasis Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco friendly pool house, green roof architecture, green [...] Read »
This laboratory, as Mr. Hill calls it, for small-space, sustainable and it must be stressed high-end living is the first tangible product from his fledgling company, LifeEdited. It comes [...] Read »
Dr. Steven Chu, head of the US Department of Energy, gave an information-packed, 50-minute speech at the World Renewable Energy Forum in Denver on Wednesday. Speaking to a crowd of renewable [...] Read »
Brought to you by: The artist’s first major U.S. commission lands at the Met On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a preview of the latest installation to take root in its Iris and [...] Read »
The stage was set for rowdy debate of the tensions between mechanical and passive green building techniques at the recent Congress of the New Urbansim. Steve Mouzon, designer and author of [...] Read »
Bringin it back to the old school, to the days of 3D online meet-up spots and avatars, when chat rooms were actual digitally-modelled rooms, Breaking Out and Breaking In was a distributed [...] Read »
Events
BY BRIAN LIBBY In 2000, I was working in a usually pristine gallery of modernist style when, for a month-long exhibit curated by architect Mark Lakeman, the gallery was transformed into something [...] Read »
Video
Serpentine Gallery by Peter Zumthor
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Opinions
Outfitted Building Encourages Recycling About 10,000 discarded garments adorn a warehouse in East London, UK to represent the amount of... Read »
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If youve ever seen police officers walking around in full gear during a heat wave, youve probably felt a little faint just looking at them. Lucky for them, scientists from the Swiss Federal [...] Read »
On the train station level a new 4th platform has been added and all the platform roofs have been replaced. The design concept for the new platform roofs provides a sense of light and space. [...] Read »
Architect Louis Kahn, was known best for his design of the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh. Read »
While the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museums headquarters at the Carnegie Mansion is under renovation (set to reopen in 2014), the museum is popping up in locations across New York City to [...] Read »
Around the world, followers of architecture with a capital A have focused so much of their attention on formal experiments, as if aesthetics and social activism, twin Modernist concerns, were [...] Read »
The Westfield Group made it official yesterday: They will be curating the 450,000 square feet of retail space at the World Trade Center, the New York Post reported. The group made a $93 million [...] Read »
Happy Friday, And Happy Spring. The ground's finally thawing in Tohoku, and kids are taking pride and slide (tackles) in recovered public spaces. As you draw up plans for a Spring weekend, we've [...] Read »
The word folly is derived from the French folie, or foolishness. Also known as an eyecatcher, a folly was traditionally an extravagant, non-functional building, which was meant to enhance [...] Read »
The Aluminaire House is homeless once again. Built in 1931 for the Allied Arts and Industry and Architectural League Exhibition, the house introduced prefabricated design methods espoused [...] Read »
Technology
Heads up design fans! ICFF 2012 just kicked off in NYC and Inhabitat is reporting live from the Javits Center to bring you the best green designs from this years show. Well be publishing breaking [...] Read »
François Chambard of UM Project has launched a modular light series that consists of a common base unit and various attachments to customize the lamp. Read »
Read the rest of 6 Cozy Cocoons to Retreat From The World Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "natural materials", autism, bark cocoon, Berta Riera Pomes, biodegradable [...] Read »
Hen and Hammocks beautiful tree trunk stool and scrap wood stool are very cleverly designed pieces of cardboard furniture. The stools are printed with weathered wood patterns, they can stand [...] Read »
Read the rest of How To: Recycle a Cardboard Box Into a DIY Earring Holder Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: craft, diy design, DIY Earring Holder, diy projects, do it yourself [...] Read »
Read the rest of Xieria House II is a Light-Filled Modern Home in Portugal that Harmonizes with the Surrounding Landscape Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: A2 Arquitectos, eco [...] Read »
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