Miscellaneous
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 »
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 »
Interesting projects by Maynard Architects. to find out more... Images from http://www.maynardarchi tects.com/Site/houses/ Pages/Metaxourgeio.html Read »
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 »
-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 »
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 »
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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
NOLITAThe 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 »
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 »
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 »
While we assume this Roosevelt Island scene has something to do with the tram modernization project, hey, it's Roosevelt Islandwould anyone have really noticed if it was the mob making off [...] Read »
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 »
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 »
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 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
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
[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 »
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 »
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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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 »
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 »
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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 »
"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 »
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 »
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 »
"The Philip Johnson Glass House is on Twitter! We may be Mid-Century but we're modern too." [Twitter/@PJGlassHouse] Read »
Fabulous animated data visualization from JESS3 describing the state of the internet.
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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 »
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 »
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
Santa Monica office Kanner Architects have designed a see-through house overlooking the ocean for Long Island, New York. Read »
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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