Miscellaneous
Google X, the tech giant's top secret experimental branch, recently announced that it will take over Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines that fly through the air like a kite, [...] Read »
[ Editor's Note: The following is a reader-submitted letter to the editor that ran in print edition, AN 05_04.10.2013. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect [...] Read »
Looking like strands of Rapunzelâs hair, these felt LED lamps can be braided, knotted, or bunched into any shape. French company Metylos designed its Mathilde pendant light series to be [...] Read »
The best architects are expert servants. Theyre problem solvers armed with boards, bricks and passion. Still, too many people, including architects, regarding design professionals only as artists, [...] Read »
The Shack was included in the slate of homes that were opened to the public as part of the 2013 Marin Living: Home Tours, which was hosted by AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture [...] Read »
French cyclist François Gissy strapped a rocket to the frame of his bike and achieved a top speed of 263 kilometers per hour (163mph) in an epic thrill ride that took place at abandoned runway [...] Read »
Recently Inhabitat wrote about the Glowing Plants project, an idea that uses the science of bioluminescence to light up a room using plants. The Kickstarter campaign, created by the team of bio-engineers [...] Read »
Re:site and Metalabs site-specific installation for Texas A&Ms 12th Man Memorial Student Center uses 4,000 networked LEDs to create an animated display that speaks to tradition as well as to [...] Read »
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." [...] Read »
Approximately 27.4 billion disposable diapers end up in US landfills each year, and once there, they take about 500 years to decompose! If you want to stop contributing the the problem with your [...] Read »
The proposed site for the 1600 m 2 Novo Mesto Central Market lies in a historical town near the Florjanov Square in Slovenia. Designed by ENOTA the multi-gabled roof references the immediate [...] Read »
The Zaha Hadid-designed Riverside Museum: Scotlands Museum of Transport and Travel keeps raking in recognitions [...]: the new Glasgow museum attraction just won the prestigious European Museum [...] Read »
Though indebted to conventional artistic methodologies, the vibrant, playful works of Jorge Prado lack traditional notions of artistic autonomy, with multiple uses straddling sculpture, furniture [...] Read »
Stern's wildly successful 15 Central Park West. Photo: Top Box Design America's preeminent traditionalist architect, Robert A.M. Stern was born 74 years ago today. Over the course of his 47-year [...] Read »
The world is on a crash course to run out of freshwater, according to United Nationâs Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. At yesterday's UNâs International Day of Biological Diversity, [...] Read »
Project approval delays are having an adverse effect on the design and construction industry, but again and again we are hearing that it is extremely difficult to obtain financing to move forward [...] Read »
It's hard to imagine a time when driving cross-country was a challenge, a time when gas stations were infrequent and roads were unreliably paved. But thatâs exactly what inspired the people [...] Read »
Last week, Broad Group announced it has received approval from the Chinese government and will break ground on the project next month, though according to Quartz's Lily Kuo, Broad Sustainable [...] Read »
The entry Trylletromler by Dutch practice FABRIC has won the international design competition for a temporary pavilion in the King's Garden in Copenhagen. The completed pavilion is scheduled [...] Read »
Maybe You Lost My Number: Eavesdrop wants to know why we weren’t invited to your Kentucky Derby party, De Leon and Primmer. You guys are practically the only cool architecture firm in the [...] Read »
Chicago has many truly great buildings. It sits firmly on the map of global architecture and is the birthplace of the skyscraper. Creating a short video about just five great buildings is doing [...] Read »
The ongoing efforts of artists and designers to reignite the spark of downtown development in aging industrial cities face no simple task. But as architects and developers begin to put pencil [...] Read »
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. Photo: Library [...] Read »
The 1973 World Trade Center twin towers by Minora Yamasaki were not great buildings but in various light conditions or in the dark of the night they would take on a mute sculptural quality that [...] Read »
Not every director studied the greats at film school. Joseph Kosinski spent more time with Wren than Welles. "I went to graduate school in New York to get a degree in architecture& but never [...] Read »
The BioIntelligent Quotient House, which opened in March, is the first to use external tubes of algae to help heat, shade and generate power for the building. But Khoury Levit Fong (KLF), the [...] Read »
Looking for a way to get outside and learn a little something about your city and its architecture this Memorial Day weekend? Check out these architectural and historical walking tours from around [...] Read »
Earlier today I happened to be near the east edge of the World Trade Center site, and I noticed the first bits of steel rising above-grade for the Oculus of the Santiago Calatrava-designed WTC [...] Read »
An interview with Haseeb Ahmed, one of the winners bio-art contest DA4GA, about his project to erect a hybrid building made of the bones of fish altered after exposition to toxins. Can mutation [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Thomas J. Pritzker has announced that the Pritzker Architecture Prize has added two deserving jurors to their esteemed panel, stating: “We are delighted to welcome to the jury two individuals [...] Read »
News: architecture firm dRMM will install 20 interlocking wooden staircases outside St Paul's Cathedral for the London Design Festival in September. (more...) Read »
Taking place at the Seoul Museum of Art, the Total Theatre: Interspace Dialogue exhibition is featuring the Plushscape installation by Max Kuo of ALLTHATISSOLID& . Curated by Regina Shin, the [...] Read »
Mies van der Rohe designed this golf clubhouse in 1930 for the countryside surrounding Krefeld, Germany, but it's only just been constructed (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
The Low Impact Living Affordable Community (LILAC) recently opened its doors to a community of earth-friendly Leeds residents. Each of the 20 homes was built using straw bale construction and [...] Read »
[ July 22, 2013 to July 31, 2013. ] The AA Visiting School is a worldwide network of design workshops and other programmes organised by the Architectural Association School of Architecture.The [...] Read »
This family house in Mexico City by local architect Paul Cremoux conceals a three-storey wall of plants behind its slate-clad facade. (more...) Read »
Designed by architects Adrian Yau, FrislyColopMorales, Jason Easter , and Lukasz Wawrzenczyk& , their proposal for the Cultural Center of Chapultepec aims to merge the concepts of aesthetics [...] Read »
[ May 23, 2013 0:00 to June 8, 2013 9:00. ] Organized by AAAB, the Connection Import Ticino Exhibition, which begins today and runs until June 9, aims to create a network of cultural connections [...] Read »
With his first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980, James Turrell will dramatically transform the sinuous curves of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum into one of the largest Skyspaces& [...] Read »
Sou Fujimoto& ’s contribution for the 13th edition of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is beginning to take shape, as the “geometric, cloud-like form” has slowly made its way towards the [...] Read »
Here are some construction photos of the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (opening June 8 until October 20) in London by Sou Fujimoto Architect s, photographed by Laurence Mackman . See more [...] Read »
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Technology
The original stone barn has been renovated with a new addition that takes the place of a former timber addition. Designed by Roswag Architekten, the new addition is formed from rammed earth on [...] Read »
The narrow Casa CorManca designed by Paul Cremoux Studio is a three story residence built on a 1894 square foot plot in Mexico City. South-facing, the slate-clad house has an interior courtyard, [...] Read »
Qihoo 360 Technologyâs new headquarters consists of three circular pods arranged around a central multi-level atrium that provides a connection between each of the floors. The circular pods [...] Read »
Sinje Ollen was first inspired to create Clothing for Furniture when a friend brought her a designer chair that was damaged by a spill. Rather than completely reupholstering the chair, Ollen [...] Read »
Lumos Solar just unveiled their newest product: a modular and customizable photovoltaic structure called the SolarScape. Perfect for patio covers, pool awnings, carports, walkways, bus stops [...] Read »
This year's slate of homes that were chosen for the Marin: Living Home Tours was impressive, but Andrea Ponsi's House on the Bay managed to stand out from the pack. The house is located on a [...] Read »
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City & Urbanism
Born in Yuma, Arizona in 1980, Adams had never fully experienced the iconic West as it was before roads and urban sprawl. "This notion of land untouched by the hand of man is so foreign it might [...] Read »
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