Articles from 14/03/2010:

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Typolade
CLEVELAND, Ohio  The old Hathaway Brown School building in Cleveland, a handsome neo-Tudor structure in buff-colored sandstone, stood for more than a century along Chester Avenue at East 97th [...] Read »
Week in Review: Barclays Center Breaks Ground; 1182 Broadway Tenants Evicted
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. This week's top stories: Liveblogging the Barclays Center Groundbreaking!, Illegal Conversion Boots Tenants from 1182 Broadway, Another New [...] Read »
Metaxourgeio by Maynardarchitects
Interesting projects by Maynard Architects. to find out more... Images from http://www.maynardarchi tects.com/Site/houses/ Pages/Metaxourgeio.html Read »
Perpetual Necklaces
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Rain Collector Skyscraper / eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2010 | Ryszard Rychlicki + Agnieszka Nowak of H3AR
Polish 4th year students of architecture Academy of Fine Arts, Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak of H3AR received a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 skyscraper competition  [...] Read »
iaac: self-fab house: publication
-archimorph featured in the 2007, iaac 2nd advanced architecture contest; the self-fab house. the project, cultivating spaces was among the finalists, continuing a controversial discourse [...] Read »
Competition entry for the Place de la République Josep Lluis Mateo ( Mateo Architects ) Read »
"Downtown Brooklyn? Are you kidding me?? Have any of you guys actually BEEN there at night? It's probably the most depressing places in the city. It feels like Hartford, CT on the weekend. Yes, [...] Read »
Construction Watch: 11 Times Square Flaunts Phantom Tenants
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Aside from the promise of a few fishes down below and some legal eagles up top, pinning down prospective tenants at the new 11 Times Square [...] Read »
Funky Friday Listing: Dumbo Apartment Always Keeps Its Feline Friends in Mind
This on-the-market 1BR, 1BA at Dumbo's 100 Jay Street (ask: $679,000) has the most detailed for sale by owner website we've ever seen, but that's not what makes it deserving of Funky Friday status. [...] Read »
The Blok Light
"Architecture critic Paul Goldberger 's new book is called Why Architecture Matters . To talk about that idea, Kurt and Paul headed to the High Line , a formerly dilapidated train track thirty [...] Read »
The first of 100 25-foot-tall fiberglass poles is being installed in the courtyard of Long Island City's P.S. 1 (or maybe it's a test run?). It's part of Pole Dance, the winner of the museum's [...] Read »
The Six Digit Club: Be the First on the Second Avenue Subway for $499,000
Friday boredom alert! We're launching a new occasional feature, The Six Digit Club, in which we take a look at a newish-to-market listing priced under $1 million, because nice things sometimes [...] Read »
Detroit is a city in terminal decline. When film director Julien Temple arrived in town, he was shocked by what he found � but he also uncovered reasons for hope - Guardian Read »
Curbed Hamptons: The Wildest Southampton Rental, and More From Out East!
The latest headlines from Curbed Hamptons, our outpost on the East End... 1) For $300,000 for the month of July, this jungle-themed Southampton oceanfront rental comes with a grotto, solarium [...] Read »
News
Often looked at as the federal government’s “landlord,” the GSA has chosen to lead by example when it comes to pushing a sustainable agenda. Read »
Les Queues de Sardines
A narrative tells a lot, not only ordering what has happened prior, but also relating things in a way to portend what could enfold.  Given recent positiveevents, perhaps its time to re-visit [...] Read »
Lightmos Thonglor by Architectkidd
A fascinating design facade by architectkidd . The design is an reinterpretation of shop facade in the streets of Bangkok. to find out more... Image via google image & http://www.contemporist .com/2009/11/23/lightmo s-thonglor-by-architect kidd/ [...] Read »
Peled Light by Antoni Arola
Godspeed and How To Get Famous
Have you ever seen someone get dunked in the lake or a nearby stream?  Were you baptized that way yourself?  If so, you probably know that youre an exception in the age of heated fiberglass [...] Read »
RUBIC Table Lamp
CurbedWire: Waiting on Nolita Rehab; Evolution of the EV's Crazy Landlord
NOLITA—The boarded-up 244 Elizabeth is waiting on its rehab by the city and conversion to low-income co-ops, but a tipster says don't hold your breath: "Called the name on the permits at the [...] Read »
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Coney Island tries for for a fresh start this summer with a new amusement park operator and a new major landowner (all of us!), but before the season starts, one watchdog has a request: Can the [...] Read »
Skylab going HOMB
Images courtesy Skylab Architecture and Method Homes Skylab Architecture has established itself as one of Portland’s most admired design firms with projects like Doug Fir, the 12th + Alder [...] Read »
Hitchin' a Ride: Meanwhile, on Roosevelt Island...
While we assume this Roosevelt Island scene has something to do with the tram modernization project, hey, it's Roosevelt Island—would anyone have really noticed if it was the mob making off [...] Read »
Empty Paris
Pruned posted an image the other day by artist Nicolas Moulin (more of whose work can be seen over at Vulgare ). Looking into Moulin's work further, however, I came across another series he produced [...] Read »
Announcements: Help Wanted: Curbed Seeks Weekend Blogger!
Are you an open house addict? Do you wake up early on a Saturday morning to comb through online real estate listings? Does the Real Estate section of the Sunday Times get your blood boiling? [...] Read »
Restroom Raves
Finally, the roundup weve all been waiting for& Las Vegas Weekly just shared its five favorite Vegas nightclub bathrooms. Yes, the toilet has always been a particularly rich muse for design [...] Read »
In Focus: Luke Hayes
In Focus is Archinect's new series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How [...] Read »
Technology
from Inhabit
EcoTopia: New Concepts in Green Product Design
Opening Monday, March 15th in Long Beach, CA, EcoTopia is a competition and exhibition highlighting new concepts in green product design. The show will feature a variety of eco-products from [...] Read »
from Inhabit
CCC: Outdoor Seating That Purifies the Air
Inhabitat reader deborah Sommers tells us how Alexandre Moronnoz’s new outdoor seating CCC (named after Champignon Carbone Capture, the material from which it is made) takes the concept of [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Cardboard Moving Boxes Transform Into Sturdy Eco-Furniture
Most of us have been re-purposing cardboard boxes since childhood, transforming them from containers for transporting objects into forts or secret hiding places. With her project entitled “Move!” [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Karim Rashid Unveils Water-Filtering “Bobble” Bottle
Karim Rashid has done it again. Here at Inhabitat were pretty much glued to our reusable water bottles, so we got a little giddy when we saw the Bobble, a water filtering bottle that sells for [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Shanghai’s International Cruise Terminal to be Cooled By The River
In preparation for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo Sparch Architects has designed this master plan for the International Cruise Terminal. The Terminal includes a cruise welcome center, office space, [...] Read »
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Like most men I know I hate shopping and will do my utmost to delay a trip into town. When new clothes become a necessity I go to one shop and buy everything I need for the foreseeable future. [...] Read »
Riverside House by Keiji Ashizawa
Get Your Game On
We're expecting rain and high winds here in New York all weekend so that has me thinking about what I can do that doesn't involve leaving my apartment. Other than reading and watching television, [...] Read »
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Carla Ridge Home in California by Steve Hermann Design
Brenda Houston
Victorian Tiny Texas House
Century City Pastoral
A. Quincy Jones beloved "barn" had been for sale for two years, but it was recently bought by the Annenberg Foundation, saving the building's unique interiors. Frederick Fisher is at work on [...] Read »
Linkage: Manhattan House Gets Snazzy Spa; Gowanus Cleanup Ideas
[A view of Brooklyn's Washington Avenue, by Curbed Photo Pool/Cran Burry] · Credit problems push back Times Square hotel redesign [Crain's] · A retrospective on a Bowery restaurant-turned-floph ouse-turned-hotel [...] Read »
a secular retreat
all imagery from living architecture blog as many [or not so many] readers know, we here at taow are big, slobbering fans of peter zumthor and whatever is released from his office into the wild [...] Read »
As announced on several websites (and as always around this time of the year), Autodesk is starting to launch several new versions of their flagship applications. 3ds Max 2011 screenshots can [...] Read »
Earbud Owl
Eater Tastings: The Collective's Menu Goes for Hood Classics; A Robot Restaurant
This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) MePa: New restaurant The Collective opens in the Meatpacking District next week, and in addition to some bizarre [...] Read »
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Yellow Zebra Wallpaper
Ask and ye shall receive! One of my lovely readers, Liz Banfield , just had her bathroom papered in the yellow colorway of the Zebra wallpaper from Scalamandre was kind enough to allow me to [...] Read »
A Carroll Gardens writer losing his view to a new seven-story building takes to City Room's Complaint Box to talk about the end of Brooklyn's clear skies: "Mile-high cranes loom like prehistoric [...] Read »
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Just like the "Ideal Woman" on the cover of this issue on Real Urbanism - a sculpture by the Brooklyn based artist Tony Matelli - most of our cities are shaped by a particular set of values...read [...] Read »
Opinions
It has come to my attention that Google scanned decades upon decades of Popular Science magazines from the 1870s to the 2000s and offered them in full (every single page) online as part of the [...] Read »
Parallel Chair
curbed marketplace: Sunday Open House Roundup
Time for this week's open house roundup from your friends at Curbed Marketplace. More where this came from in our Open House Calendars. And a reminder: sales listings are only $25 this month. [...] Read »
Visit 12 of NYC's most desirable developments Saturday & Sunday, March 13-14, 11am-5pm Complete Event Guide [Corcoran Sunshine] Read »
Soccer City Stadium by Boogertman and Partners
"Designed by Boogertman Urban Edge and Partners in partnership with Populous the stadium in Johannesburg has undergone a major upgrade for the 2010 tournament, with a new design inspired by traditional [...] Read »
Vauni Cupola
Silver Pourer
Fall Creek Montana Mobile Cabin
Origami On Steroids
Last night, thanks to our friends at deLab, we were lucky to check out one of the coolest paper structures ever assembled, called Fat Fringe. Hung from the ceiling of the new Fix Gallery in LAs [...] Read »
Herzog & de Meuron skyscraper up for auction on Ebay
Well, the 20" model of 56 Leonard St is up for auction. It's actually a very nice looking model, and even breaks apart into individual units. Ebay Read »
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"The Philip Johnson Glass House is on Twitter! We may be Mid-Century but we're modern too." [Twitter/@PJGlassHouse] Read »
Lese+Lebe by Nils Holger Moormann
Fabulous animated data visualization from JESS3 describing the state of the internet. FlowingData Read »
Carys, at Birmingham City University , has been a very busy school blogger these days and spoils us with copious insight on the informality of Lagos' formal economy , brain libraries , virtual [...] Read »
Thousands using gas flares will illuminate the whole course of Britain's biggest historic monument. Guardian Read »
Open
Now that Landscapes of Quarantine is up and open for view—and will be until April 17—we're off for a quick vacation. The opening night was amazing; thanks to everyone who came out, to everyone [...] Read »
from Inhabit
5 Mistakes Businesses Make Trying to Go Green
If youve been shopping, watching TV or surfing the web at all, youve undoubtedly noticed all of the companies taking their products and services green. While this is generally a good thing, [...] Read »
Architectural Works
House in Sde-Yizhak / GalPeleg Architects
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Long Island House by Kanner Architects
Santa Monica office Kanner Architects have designed a see-through house overlooking the ocean for Long Island, New York. Read »
Germann House / marte.marte Architekten
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from Inhabit
Sustainable Prefab Pied-a-Terre by Office of Mobile Design
Inhabitat has long followed the innovative work of prefab pioneer Jennifer Siegal; from country schools to mod beach houses. This time, the Office of Mobile Design has ventured inland to install [...] Read »
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Les Aventuriers / Shun Hirayama Architecture
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