Miscellaneous
The comparison shopping set up of the What you get for& column in the New York Times Real Estate section is often a stroke of editorial genius. This weeks price point is an affordable $275,000, [...] Read »
Poor FiDi small businesses: All the construction in the neighborhood is so ugly and noisy! Like the Fulton Street Transit Center, which is scaring away potential clients, prompting the Lower [...] Read »
Found at new Far West Side rental tower Ohm: lobby rock concerts, light shows, lockbox drug storage, and former Met/Yankee (and current restauranteur!) Darryl Strawberry. He's been in residence [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The front desk awaits guests at the just-opened The James New York at 27 Grand Street, the latest towering Soho hotel to jump into the downtown [...] Read »
Read the rest of Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled with Terraceshttp://www.inha bitat.com/wp-admin/ohtt p://www.inhabitat.com/w p-admin/options-general .php?page=better_feedpt ions-general.php?page=b etter_feed [...] Read »
[Chinatown rooftops via Curbed Photo Pool/Glark.] · More explanation of the new broker disclosure law [WSJ] · Twilight's Ashley Greene renting at 2 Cooper Square [NYP] · Allen Ginsberg's old [...] Read »
Projects including a water mill and a bus driver facility have made the shortlists for this year’s RIBA Special Awards, chosen from the RIBA Award-winning buildings announced in AJ 10.06.10 Read »
Social housing starts declined by 21 per cent this year, according to statistics released by industry monitor Glenigan as the sector continues to take a battering Read »
The project is located on uneven ground of 3.160 m2 and has two uses: The first is a home of great footage , which with much larger spaces for daily living and the second is to use a gallery [...] Read »
A new water filter that employs cotton dipped in nano-sized silver wires and copper tubes works 80,000 times faster than filters that simply block bacteria from getting through. The filter, developed [...] Read »
[Photo via Alliance for Downtown New York's Flickr photostream.] FIDIThe Alliance for Downtown New York's mission to make Lower Manhattan construction eyesores less ugly, officially dubbed [...] Read »
"Last spring our co-op building had 10 'for sale' listing out of 320 apartments. Now there are two available -- one of those was just listed. The last apt went for 4% over ask. The market seems [...] Read »
How nasty is the battle to control Stuyvesant Town getting? The two sides are now arguing over grammar and punctuation, and legal briefs include language such as, "Under New York law, it is well-established [...] Read »
Chile 8.8. Emblemático, conmovedor, trágicamente racional . El nombre del país acercado a uno de los mayores grados de magnitud en la escala de Richter: así se presenta la exposición Chile [...] Read »
When an economy is suffering, that's when people need mass transit the most: buses and rail to take to work when they might not be able to afford a car anymore. That's why it is all the more disappointing to... Read »
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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. It was announced yesterday that Tribeca's 101 Warren Street condominium sold out after four years on the market, racking up $650 million in [...] Read »
News
The Mangwana House (because of the island of Benquia on which it is situated also known as The Bequia House) was designed by Edgley Design. The modern villa is situated on a steep hillside in [...] Read »
In Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy, Italian architecture studio KUADRA designed the Memorial of Jewish Deportation. The base of the memorial is a concrete slab that has been slightly raised off the [...] Read »
Video
Frank Gehry speaks about LUMA parc des ateliers at the 12th international architecture exhibition in Venice,Italy.. Read »
CMA CGM Headquarters,Marseille, France.. by Zaha Hadid Architects .. more Read »
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3 BR+, 3 BA, 2,418 sq ft Condo Asking: $1,990,000 | Spacious, Modern, & Flexible 333 Rector Place, #406 [1RECTORPARK.com] Read »
[Photo via Flickr/Hard Seat Sleeper.] The High Line has made stars out of its neighbors, who suddenly have a captive audience of thousands strolling by each and every day. They are artists, and [...] Read »
As a building designer I think it is important for you to ask yourself about how you can make certain functions within the building better particularly when within a certain room, for instance, [...] Read »
OK. Everybody is talking about it. Many people have been requesting this for over 10 years now. And now Autodesk finally announced the imminent release of the mac-version of their still popular [...] Read »
Tony Judt: An Intellectual Journey I have my own tiny anecdote about Tony Judt. His article "Europe vs. America" (NYRB Feb 10, 2005) opened with a critique of Starbucks' coffee and that the company [...] Read »
Four powerhouse teams named finalists in central waterfront design elicits one fabulously humorous comment:I think it would be really incredible if the design included demolishing the top level, [...] Read »
The Department of Buildings recently launched a YouTube channel. Youd think the departments time would be better spent actually inspecting buildings instead of making videos about inspecting [...] Read »
Times flies when youre helping out humanitarian efforts. Okay maybe thats not quite how the saying goes, but this Epigram Clock by Botanist gives us a little poetic license. Designed by celebrated [...] Read »
Need another reason to buy a plug-in hybrid vehicle? How about this: California Governor Arnold Schwarzanegger just signed into law this week a bill that grants HOV lane (aka carpool lane) access [...] Read »
PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal [...] Read »
The Downtown Alliance unveiled Restore the View today, the latest installation in its re:Construction program, which gussies up downtown construction fencing. The program began in 2007 and [...] Read »
The latest of several proposals to save Queens' West Side Tennis Club: actually play tennis in it! Representative Anthony Weiner wants the U.S. Tennis Association to hold one match a year at [...] Read »
Several days I commented on the statement "Ten years ago, when the urbanist movement was in its infancy and supporters were few and far between..." and in return was challenged by BeyondDC in [...] Read »
Soon the public plaza being built behind the Eventi hotel (which occupies the bottom half of the new 54-story skyscraper at Sixth Avenue and 29th Street) will have grass, trees and propaganda [...] Read »
I never go into the Rolls Royce / Bentley booth for a number of reasons. First of all, the whole thing is cordoned off with velvet rope like a hot new Hollywood nightclub. I always felt like [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgariahttp://www.inha bitat.com/wp-admin/ohtt p://www.inhabitat.com/w p-admin/options-general .php?page=better_feedpt ions-general.php?page=b etter_feed [...] Read »
Read the rest of Amazing Mineral House is a Multi-Faceted Micro Home in Japanhttp://www.inhabit at.com/wp-admin/ohttp:/ /www.inhabitat.com/wp-a dmin/options-general.ph p?page=better_feedption s-general.php?page=bett er_feed [...] Read »
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BUILDblog gives accordion doors two thumbs up for creating new possibilities in lifestyle. Read »
There are so many of us who work from home and have had to carve out space for a desk. Some are in the living room, others are in the bedroom, and there are a even a few that are in the closet, [...] Read »
Apparently all it takes is one rumor of a disgraced global icon moving into a building for people's true opinions about that building to come pouring out. And it looks like Hudson Street's Printing [...] Read »
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy Read »
Leave a comment below through the end of Friday, September 3, 2010, to be considered for this random book giveaway.* Jerry Yudelson is a green building leader, but he's also a professional engineer [...] Read »
Budget cuts have forced the London Development Agency (LDA) to lose 100 staff, scrap half a dozen projects and delay or reduce funding on more than 25 others Read »
In the Italian Alps, the barns vary in shape, materials and structure from region to region. In the Cadore , located in the resort of the Dolomites , in a declared World Heritage by UNESCO, the [...] Read »
Yesterday, John Hill, arguably the citys most prolific architecture critic, finished up one of his latest projects, entitled 31 in 31. In addition to his usual flood of posts, Hill is chronicling [...] Read »
Have a lot of old stuff to get rid of? Well you could give it away and get a lot of awesome stuff for yourself at the same time on Give Your Stuff Away Day! Slated to sweep the nation on September [...] Read »
Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Romano of SquallCo Development about his new website and modern green homes offered on Long Beach Island. The development company has two home [...] Read »
Champagne bottles contain three times the air pressure of a typical car tire, which is why the iconic green bottles weigh 900 grams (two pounds). Not for long though makers of Champagne bottles [...] Read »
It may sound like a mineral used in an evil scientists death ray, but dark silicon actually refers to underused transistors found in modern microprocessors and scientists believe that this [...] Read »
A week ago, optimism was in the air, along with stats suggesting prices were up and sales were happening. June's sales numbers looked good as the buyer tax credit expired. But now it's September, [...] Read »
With a facade like that, Harlem's Parc Standard can hardly help being the poster child for the neighborhood's condo oversupply. But the building is more than just a pretty face! Harlem Bespoke [...] Read »
The hippies were the first to push solar energy en masse in the 70s, so its a wonder we havent thought of this before it turns out the same stuff used to tie-dye t-shirts can increase the [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Photographer Patricia Parinejad shared with us some photos of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture . You can see more images after the break. [...] Read »
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Berlin architect J. Mayer H. has won the inaugural Audi Urban Future Award with his concept for a city where digital information is continually exchanged between [...] Read »
Architects: Lat Forty Five Location: Central Otago, New Zealand Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Jamie Cobeldick Necessity is the mother of invention, so they say – and this applies to architecture [...] Read »
Peaking above some contemporary New York favorites – such as Gehry’s IAC Building and Field Operations + DS+R’s High Line – Jean Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh Avenue adds yet another touch [...] Read »
Italian photographer Marco Zanta shared with us some great photographs of the exhibitions currently showed at the Venice Biennale.Update from the Venice Biennale by Marco Zanta originally appeared [...] Read »
Architects: Bates Masi Architects Location: Pryor, Montauk, NY, USA Client: Victoria & Greg Pryor Landscape Architects: Coen & Partners Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca Project Year: 2009 [...] Read »
Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Álvaro Siza , Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim. (more&) Read »
Yaohua Wang shared with us his project An Open Appeal for China , designed along with Scott Chung, Jiaohao Lu, Xiaoxuan Lu, and Lennard Ong. They recently received 2nd Prize in the AIM International [...] Read »
WORK ac was one of the first practices we interviewed here at ArchDaily. When we visited their office they were working in P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), their awarded entry for the 2008 P.S.1 summer [...] Read »
The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in [...] Read »
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. (more&) Read »
Architects: Specht Harpman Location: Austin, Texas, USA Project Team: Scott Specht, Louise Harpman, Brett Wolfe Contractor: Artifice / Jean Goehring & Amy Hovis Project Area: 4,060 sq ft Project [...] Read »
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The slow reveal of the facade makeover of the upcoming Dream Downtown Hotel is complete, and Holey Sant! Sant Singh Chatwal that is, who, along with his son, Vikram, is behind the conversion [...] Read »
Are you a resident of Hong Kong? Are you having trouble breathing because of the dense air pollution? Have no fear, Fresh Air is here! The Clean Air Network, a Hong Kong based awareness group [...] Read »
3 BR, 3 BA, condo w/fireplace Expansive Living Rm. | Sun, 112 200 E. 66th St., C15-03 [MH] Read »
EV Grieve noted scaffolding going up at troubled party zone the A Building earlier this week, and now points out that a DOB permit has been issued for emergency balcony repair. This is but one [...] Read »
The rumors are true: when Barnes & Noble leaves its Lincoln Center space in January after 15 years, the store will be taken over by Century 21. While the bookstore hunts for a new Upper West [...] Read »
Thomas Heatherwick’s award-winning UK Pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai will not be rebuilt once it is dismantled, despite a host of interested buyers Read »
The new release (12 already) of Cinema4D restructures the different editions and promises more advanced rendering and character animation (among others). A comparison between the different editions [...] Read »
The five-strong shortlist of architects battling to design a new visitor security screening facility at Eric Miralles and RMJM’s Scottish Parliament at Holyrood has been unveiled Read »
If you’re fed up with the balancing act of taking groceries home on your bike handlebars, or are still a little too proud to go for that front anchored basket, then the PUMA Mopion just may [...] Read »
One of my Spanish readers who writes Me Gusta La Moda was kind enough to forward me this photo of Carolina Herrera looking very chic at a fitting in her studio. The model is Eugenia Silva who [...] Read »
[New Bowery restaurant Peels gets its signage, via Eater] · Tribeca newbie Il Matto gets two stars for "food to chuckle over" [NYT] · Ma Peche less fun than a parking garage? [New Yorker] · [...] Read »
[Photo via the Chelsea Improvement Company.] Gothamist is worried that the classic green New York City bench is going the way of the classic green New York City newsstand (curse you, Cemusa!), [...] Read »
What's different about those two kitchens? If you guessed nothing, you'd be right. Kinda! They are, in fact, the same kitchen in the same West 70s studio. But they aren't the same price. A tipster [...] Read »
With chatter about Tiger Woods's Manhattan bachelor pad dominating discussion, one has to wonder: What about his harem? According to the tabloids, Rachel Uchitel, Tiger mistress #1 and upcoming [...] Read »
Don't call all the scrolling text and L.E.D. screenspardon us, bladesthat are part of Lincoln Center's renovation simple decorations. According to the Times, "they are an extension, and in [...] Read »
[Image: " Storm Clouds Over Central Park " by Joseph Bergantine ]. Do urban landscapes act as attractors for storms and hurricanes? "New research shows that rough areas of land, including city [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Today is RGS day, actually RGS has been on since Tuesday this week. RGS is the Royal Geographical Society : 'We are the learned society and professional body for geography'. The annual conference [...] Read »
An interactive film by Chris Milk featuring "We Used To Wait" by Arcade Fire Enter in the address of the street you grew up on and watch the magic unfold. Excellently done and Arcade Fire's We [...] Read »
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