Today's articles (12/03/2010):

Miscellaneous
Everyone knows each generation of students supercedes the last with their technical knowledge. James Roberts, recently graduated from Liverpool University and now a much appreciated colleague [...] Read »
Two years ago, we first released Woobius to just four people. It was a very early version of Woobius  it only had a Dropbox, had no audit log, barebones user management. You couldnt even send [...] Read »
In terms of communication the telephone is surely the mother of all modern invention – the first true instant message, shrinking the distances between people to near irrelevance. But even a [...] Read »
Montana Reclaimed Lumber Company
There First
My story on Rescue 3s new firehouse in the Bronx, designed by Polshek Partnership, alleged that it was the first such facility ever designed specifically for a rescue companys needs. Alas, [...] Read »
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18 US Governors Write to EPA to Say Emissions Limits Will Hurt the Economy
Last week we reported on the EPAs upcoming plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Yesterday 18 United States governors including Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty sent a letter to the EPA [...] Read »
3 BR, 2 BA, 1274 sq ft apartment Rent: $4815/month | Incredible views! Avalon Fort Greene Read »
Ten Small Atlases
Lamboo Inc. Partnering with Duratherm Windows
The owner of Williamsburg's Bagel Store set off a mermaid maelstrom when he said his landlord recruited Starbucks to take over the Bedford Avenue space in 18 months, but this latest 'Burgbucks [...] Read »
Rent Wars: Tribeca's Stuy Town Not Actually Like Stuy Town, State Says
Tribeca's Independence Plaza North has been among the many bidders for the "next Stuy Town" title, but according to the state's Division of Housing and Community Renewal, it shouldn't get it. [...] Read »
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Start-Up Makes Solar Cells Cheap Enough to Compete with Fossil Fuels
The most efficient solar tech on the market today is the silicon solar cell. Theres just one drawbackimplementing the tech costs up to $4 per watt, almost four times the cost of fossil fuel-derived [...] Read »
Heima Series
Stefanel: Stefanel 50
House In Never Neverland by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos
Perpetual Necklaces
Fishing Float Chandelier from Pedlars
The government’s latest drive to make existing UK homes energy-efficient should create years of work for architects – if they seize the opportunities Read »
CONCRETE HOUSE
Home designed by Tomas Nollet en Hilde Huyghe Architecten (pics: Filip Dujarding ): Read »
House of the Week : Les Aventuriers
Perched on a hillside in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan is a single family house by Shun Hirayama Architecture . Considering the slope of the land the form of the residence is made up of composed [...] Read »
In his State of the City address last week, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson detailed his plans to use sustainability as an economic engine, and a hoped for path out of poverty. Jackson—who [...] Read »
[FIRST LOOK + SECTIONS] Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled this €42 million shopping centre in the seaside resort of Jesolo, north of Venice in Italy Read »
The future has let us down in so many ways—still waiting on that jet pack you promised, Hollywood!—but this sweet new gadget should tide us over for a little while, at least. Straight out [...] Read »
It was recently completed at Avila, in the heart of Spain, home farm designed for a private study in Madrid A-cero of Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares.The building of considerable size, [...] Read »
Loop Sofa
Extreme Makeovers: Dramatic Soho Facade Facelift is a Croc
The scaffolding is coming down at 143 Spring Street, the 1818 Federal-era building taken over and extensively renovated by footwear company Crocs, and our history-loving homey Lost City has the [...] Read »
This architecture residential project is an extention and restoration project of a farmhouse in the town of Ballymahon, Ireland designed by Dublin based ODOS Architects.This box shaped farmhouse... Read »
This architectural design projects is located in west London’s Westfield shopping centre. Its a facade of the fashion chain Zara's flagship store which is made out from panels of HI-MACS... Read »
Brooklyn Bridge Park Watch: City Could Anchor Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park
This morning brought the news that the city's getting control of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Now a press release from State Senator Daniel Squadron, who has been an outspoken opponent of using condos [...] Read »
For the Downtowners that have begrudgingly accepted the Tower o' Garbage as fait accompli, the one upside frequently mentioned is, hey, at least the Sanitation Department will get off the Gansevoort [...] Read »
Yuri Sunglasses
Rental Reveals: Flashy New 200 West Opens Monday, Gives Preview Today
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The Upper West Side's glassy newcomer at Broadway and 72nd Street, a luxury rental building dubbed 200 West, has dropped its construction [...] Read »
Well, it appears Trade Show Season has descended upon us again. As I say every year, once it starts, it can be overwhelming. Week after week, there's yet another gargantuan show with way too [...] Read »
AFL’s Alexandra Tower in Liverpool is to be assessed for safety after a 100 kilo glass window pane fell 21m from the building Read »
This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something [...] Read »
Frei Otto & Bodo Rasch: Finding form
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The building is designed in the deconstructivist style -with a limited palette of concrete, untreated timber and corten steel. The material choice accentuates the counterpoint of ramp and landscape... [...] Read »
Winners 2010 Skyscraper Competition
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
The Twitter data is still top of the list and we are experimenting currently with different models in Google Earth. Here we have a version using the 3D London Model developed here at CASA. In [...] Read »
The publication has been reworked and we can now feature an updated version of the preview. See previous version HERE . We also offer a few more pages for you to read. Not much sorry. Each chapter [...] Read »
Postscript
In my never-ending search for images that will help me understand Rochester and its changes over the last century, I went back this afternoon to look at a collection of aerial photographs taken [...] Read »
Another Story
With a bit of nosing around, we can learn all sorts of things about the cities we call home. Often the stories we unearth bring us to a sad present, but just as often that sad present suggests [...] Read »
The recent Twitter data for one London Weekend has been re-rendered as a clip by DigitalUrban . Earlier version can be found HERE .It is the same data with 60,000 geo referenced Tweets in London [...] Read »
Opinions
Is the interior designer “mafia” advancing northward?
Probably not, but not for lack of trying.  In a commentary posted on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Lee McGrath expresses caution about the fourth attempt being made by the Minnesota chapter [...] Read »
News
CET Budapest by ONL
Architects ONL (Oosterhuis Lénárd) have designed a whale-shaped building between two existing warehouses on the banks of the river Danube in Budapest, Hungary. The project also involves the [...] Read »
Last week, James and I sat down to a black tie dinner event at the Tower Hotel in London, a yearly affair called the Construction Computing Awards (and also known as The Hammers). On the surface, [...] Read »
Last Friday I went to a breakfast presentation at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design. The event was hosted by Rachel Wingfield and Hannah Jones who have spent the last year working [...] Read »
Milan Preview: ‘Alodia’ stool by Todd Bracher for Cappellini
Yesterday, we reported on the Cleveland Galleria malls plan to build a massive urban greenhouse where retail shops once stood. The real story, it turns out, is what the two people behind the [...] Read »
Brick Underground studied last year's residential noise complaints logged by 311, and leading the way was Washington Heights/Inwood with 6,439 grievances, followed by Harlem and then Community [...] Read »
3 BR, 3 BA, 2,285 sq ft condo Asking $4,500,000 | Expansive master 200 East 66th Street [Corcoran Sunshine] Read »
El Ultimo Grito – Dialogues
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Scientists Find Way to Turn LED Lights Into Wireless Internet Source
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In Contract: Adam Gordon Finds Buyer for $19.5 Million UWS Townhouse
The Post and the Observer report that 26 West 76th Street, the other major renovation from baron of Bond Street Adam Gordon and architect Steven Harris, has gone into contract. Its last list [...] Read »
Now that the city's takeover of Brooklyn Bridge Park is complete, the next step is tearing Governors Island out of the state's death grip, a process that is going well, the Post reports. Mayor [...] Read »
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Weathered Steel Backsplash from Cascade
Alle
New from Heath Ceramics
Nightshop
Recycled Drinking Glasses by Emma Woffenden and Tord Boontje
In his first interview since becoming design advisor to mayor Boris Johnson, Terry Farrell talks to Merlin Fulcher about gaps in London’s planning, localism and the death of the Thames Estuary Airport Read »
f_chair + interface
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Celebrating the Oracle of Aachen: Riddle Mies This, plus David Hovey, Jr., Kengo Kuma, Nina Gray and Beautiful City - more great March events
How sad it is to contemplate that the life of Mies van der Rohe was cut short before he could appear on a contemporary TV game show. Deal or No Deal with Herbert Greenwald. Jeopardy with Walter [...] Read »
Archinect interviews Philippe Rahm
We've published a fascinating 2-part discussion this week between Archinect's Aaron Plewke and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm. The feature covers Rahm's background and work surrounding issues [...] Read »
Terry Farrell is drawing up a blueprint to redevelop Euston Station as a London ‘super-station’, as part of the proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link to Birmingham Read »
CurbedWire: ConEd Scars Crosby Street; 15 CPW Gets More Press
SOHO—The streets of Soho have its many protectors, especially around Howard Street. Today's gripe from a Curbed reader has nothing to do with Canal Street spillover, and everything to do with [...] Read »
Hex Shelf by HouMinn Practice
Consolación Hotel Built on the outskirts of the city of Matarraña (Spain), next to the chapel of the Consolation and the famous Cami-no De Santiago. In designing the study from Barcelona, all-girl [...] Read »
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Beautiful Snow-Inspired Lamp Made from Sugar
Many of us cant wait until spring finally arrives at our doorsteps, but you have to admit there is something really special about the atmospheric glow of winter snow. Designer Anna Palomaa [...] Read »
Ideally chic 'Terrace Bar Seating Pods' by Sekhar Roy
Comb Over carpet is unusually cool
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Sundrop Fuels Uses Concentrated Solar Heat to Vaporize Biomass
The technology sounds ultra-futuristic: concentrated solar heat that can vaporize biomass (wood, crop waste, etc.) into synthetic fuels. But the process, developed by Sundrop Fuels, is real, [...] Read »
On the Market: Cabana-Happy Griffin Court Launches Sales in Hell's Kitchen
We said last month that recent Hell's Kitchen Development Du Jour Griffin Court would be launching sales on March 9, and a StreetEasy check reveals the building has indeed begun sales. Way to [...] Read »
Office Furniture Storage by Pottery Barn
All Ramps and Spirals and Mosquito Landings
Nicolai Ourousoff reviews � Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works � a marvelous exhibition at the Cit� de l�Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris�s architecture museum. NYT and related Read »
10 MW Dubai Skyscraper Makes 10X More Renewable Energy Than It Needs
The 10 MW Tower is an eco skyscraper and renewable energy generating machine that harvests wind and solar power. A 5 MW wind turbine sits at the top of the building harnessing the wind, while [...] Read »
from Cluster
Lessons in Learning for the Future Prosperity of Cities
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Tunelli is an Italian company, established in mid 1980, which designs and manufactures furniture glass. Her portfolio is really interesting, but we chose a collection of glass tables, which you [...] Read »
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Rolex Learning Center
Featured a few years ago in project form, the Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is now complete and opens on February 22 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Back then I discussed the design in terms of the [...] Read »
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How often do you find yourself pointing at something (on the screen, or in front of you) while on a phone call, even though youre fully aware that the other person cannot see what youre pointing [...] Read »
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Hugo Chavez Sends Army to Change All Lights in Venezuela to CFLs
Due to a bad drought thats dried up the hydroelectric plants that supply more than two-thirds of its power, Venezuela has been suffering through its worst energy crisis in the last 50 years. [...] Read »
Giano by Meco
On the Market: Landmark Soho Penthouse Hits the Market With New Look
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Dating back to 1904, Soho's Singer Building is a neighborhood icon thanks to its prominent Broadway location and one of the most eye-catching [...] Read »
MoMA Mia!: Jean Nouvel's MoMA Tower Hit With Legal Challenge
Angry Midtowners never break a promise, so Jean Nouvel's planned MoMA tower now has a legal challenge to go along with its approval by the City Planning Commission. Blog CultureGrrl, no particular [...] Read »
Good Vintage Frank Gehry
If you want to know Frank Gehry .. Read »
Chilewich Spring / Summer 2010 Introductions
Wall you need is love™
Battling for the soul of Brooklyn
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CLEVELAND, Ohio  RTA riders soon will be able to receive instant messages telling them their bus or rapid train is late, their route suddenly changed or that the weather or some other emergency [...] Read »
Linkage: Construction Firm Raided; A 'Real Housewife' Renovation; More!
[Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/jtny.] · Final Atlantic Yards legal hurdle cleared day before groundbreaking [BK Paper] · Meanwhile at AY, people told to get out by April 3 [NYDN] · Cops raid [...] Read »
Stick by Todd Bracher
Wedge by Ed Carpenter
Kino Guérin
Friday Lamp
Yamasaki's Archives - Both Lost and Found
Yamasaki in the 1950's (image: The Detroit News) We received an update from Dale Allen Gyure, Associate Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University about the threat to Minoru [...] Read »
Here it is: Omer Arbel's new house
A continuation of this . Photo by Cory Dawson; more to come soon, I hope. Read »
A ‘frustrated’ ColladoCollins has retaliated following a stinging attack by CABE on the practice’s proposals for a £160 million Tesco-led development in Bromley-by Bow, east London Read »
Hausu, La lampara asesina from seres on Vimeo. 2.31 minutes which set out in the clearest terms the deep seated antagonism at the heart of design. In the end, design will suck us in, tear us [...] Read »
No public undertaking in Cleveland provokes the same righteous enthusiasm as the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. The 101-mile recreational pathway — which, when complete, will connect Clevelands [...] Read »
Tipping Over Domino
Even with its generous amounts of affordable housing—30 percent of some 2,200 units, as opposed to 20 percent—the New Domino project surrounding the former Domino sugar refinery on the Williamsburg [...] Read »
Linkage: Weekly Food Edition: City Keeping Tavern on the Green Name
[Gowanus Yacht Club gets ready for the season, via Eater] · Village standby Strip House gets upgrade to two stars [NYT] · At small plates place Recette, plates are a little too small [TONY] [...] Read »
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Cubica Chair
Foradacaixa Hand Crank Music Box
Lawsuits: $1 Million Tribeca Condo Becomes Kinky Party Palace
Giving this dude's downtown party central walk-up a run for its money is the basement condo at Tribeca's 109 Reade Street. A new lawsuit against the condo's owner, James McGown, charges that [...] Read »
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The Wood-Eating Gribble May Hold the Key to Biofuel Production
Whats a Gribble? Its a tiny marine shrimp found on the southern coast of Britain  and its ability to digest wood may provide a breakthrough in efficient biofuel production. Researchers are [...] Read »
Things have been quiet lately at UWS blockbuster condo conversion the Apthorp, but New York Magazine reports that the city's Health Department will be doing a sweep of the "hilarious hellhole" [...] Read »
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) seeking Architect/Designer in Rotterdam, NL For a number of projects in early design phases OMA is looking for strong designers. You will work as a [...] Read »
Shitshows: Now It's Developer Against Developer at One Madison Park
With a foreclosure spat leading to a halt in sales at One Madison Park, the Observer's Dana Rubinstein uses the time-out to recap the 60-story condo tower's tumultuous history up this point—including [...] Read »
I've been waiting patiently for this feature for ages. Google Maps has finally introduced a "cycling" option for their Google Maps directions feature. Living in LA, with crazy drivers and bad [...] Read »
massimo zanelli architetto casa cmg fasce bianche e vetrate trasparenti orizzontali riequilibrate da un parallelepipedo verticale in legno. Read »
Talented designer Karim Rashid has added these new crystal kitchens in the manufacturers portfolio of kitchens Skavolini. Doors are made of glass with colored fresh flowers. The kitchen offers [...] Read »
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Archi-couture: Cacahouette
Architecture? Fashion? Exploratory shelter by Atelier d'architecture Brenac & Gonzalez : Read »
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Hufft Project’s Beautiful Butterfly House
Inhabitat readers huffprojects recently wrote in to tell us about this green office complex they designed for their clients R. B. Murray and Co. Here at Inhabitat we have been referring to this [...] Read »
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Studiodosi’s Henge Adds a Radical, Modern Look to Leeds City Waterfront
Italian firm Studiodosi’s proposed building for the waterfront in Leeds, UK definitely packs a radical punch with its bright green facade, but its sustainable features are just as notable. [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Big Steps To Make Our Cities and Buildings Better
There are a lot of things wrong with the way we build our cities, and in these hard times, there is a lot wrong in the way we are rebuilding them, or unbuilding them as the case may be. These [...] Read »
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Win an $8,500 Laundry Room Makeover by Method!
Hey Inhabitat readers! Is your laundry room in desperate need of a clean green makeover? Does your washing machine waste buckets of water and is your dryer a drain your electricity bill? Well [...] Read »
Carpet Light by Serra & de la Rocha
Last week gremlins hit my computer at work. Whilst I enjoyed a nice cup of tea and read the papers, my friends from IT worked their mysterious magic, re-jigged my profile, wiped half my personnel [...] Read »
This week, wed like to introduce our resident academic, Ben, to the world of Woobius Scribbles. An accomplished architect and theorist, Ben will be providing you, our readers, with snippets [...] Read »
Development Battles: This No Means No for Townhouses at Slope's Garfield Sparta
Despite some pretty clear indications that the Board of Standards & Appeals wasn't too excited about the developer's proposed changes to the Enrique Norten project at 580 Carroll Street (aka [...] Read »
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The retreat is a well-crafted structure, with all the design process focus on sustainability, low-impact and off-the-grid design mandate to the site which would precede the design and construction [...] Read »
Nomu
Noise Wars: After Complaints, Brooklyn's Strangest Hotel Shuts Itself Up
In another victory for nightlife-hating neighbors, Hotel Le Bleu—the pricey Park Slope boutique hotel that tries to make gritty Fourth Avenue glow—shuttered its controversial rooftop lounge [...] Read »
on the boards:life of the ocean
A proposal by Dutch practice MVRDV for the 2012 World Fair in Yeosu, Korea. The façades and the hollowed interior of the cube are intended to evoke the theme of the pavilion, Life of the Ocean . Read »
Sheldon Cabin by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Lamboo LVB-Storefront System-Pacific Architectural Millwork
Emulation
Un-Modern Architecture? The Problem with the Word “Traditional” A friend (an academic, and not an architect) recently passed a book along to me that deserves a wider audience than it no [...] Read »
Crescent Sink with Mosaic Surface from Linkasink
Acca Kappa :: biodegradable toothbrush
Venice 2132
Earshell
brillo: Stylish Travel Toothbrush by METAPHYS
11 Flourishes From February and March
^ Four concrete posts on Gloucester Avenue , Camden ^ Closing Mobile Phone shop on Oxford Street ^ Split pediment board, Wardour Street, Soho ^ Primark Palace, Oxford Street ^ Toaster, friend's [...] Read »
An in depth analysis of recent economic era by Don Peck in Atlantic Monthly. People who graduated from high school in the 2000s dislike the idea of work for work�s sake, and expect jobs and [...] Read »
Art Deco Revival – Product Highlights
Domestic Architecture
Cupcake Royale Cupcake Royale Capitol Hill Residence Capitol Hill Residence Western Bridge Beverly Hills Residence Beverly Hills Residence Vashon Island Residence Vashon Island Residence I was [...] Read »
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Inhabitat is Looking for Operations/Editorial Interns!
Spring in New York City is always exciting, but here at Inhabitat its not just the weather that gets us going! Spring is packed with tons of great green design events and conferences  like [...] Read »
Childs Anchors Atlantic Yards?
The Brooklyn Paper bumped into David Childs last week, during the opening of his SOM colleague Roger Duffys new Toren condo tower, and the BKP is reporting the surprising news that both could [...] Read »
"Perhaps Gehry was given the boot not so much for financial reasons - as he claims, but due to widespread dissatisfaction with his overall scheme. Sure his stadium looked nice, but the rest of [...] Read »
PriceSpotter: How Much for Some Park Slope Greenery (and Park Views)?
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 »
Flushing's Sky View Parc may be coming out of the freezer, Crain's reports. That's right: the $1 billion mixed-use project with 1,100 luxury condos on top of a mall, with amenities like a putting [...] Read »
New Modern Wall Clock by Klaus Rosburg
Solar eclipse-inspired lighting!
On the Market: Languishing Chelsea Penthouse Not Shy About Dropping Names
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[First photo via Zivkovic Connolly Architects.] Celebrities just can't stop pretending to call this epic five-bedroom penthouse in Chelsea's [...] Read »
Philippe Rahm: Part 2
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Office Furniture Storage by Pottery Barn
The Camouflage Armchair
von Preussen Pease Reynolds is a new young architecture practice based in London, committed to sustainable and democratic transformation of the city through the production of architectural research, [...] Read »
The (US) big, red "EXIT" sign vs. the nicely designed little green man running for the door (rest of the world). In case you were wondering, yes, we really are an island... (via slate) Read »
It has become a cliché that the iPad, which is available for pre-sale this Friday will save the book industry. Apple's proprietary book purchasing and reading application, Steve Jobs tells us, [...] Read »
from Cluster
‘Drinking Water for Haiti’ closed successfully!
Good news! The fundraising campaign ‘Drinking Water for Haiti’ - a volunteer grassroots donation appeal devised to provide the Haitian population with personal water purification devices: [...] Read »
Designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects and collaboration with Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects, the new Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence (ACCE) at Algonquin College’s [...] Read »
Architectural Works
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Jesolo Magica by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a retail and business centre for the resort of Jesolo near Venice in Italy. Read »
Monterey Residence / Forward Design Office
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Les Ti’Canailloux / Topos Architecture
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07CMM / Spaceworkers
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Aging in Africa / HWKN
HWKN has completed their schematic design phase for their recent project, Aging in Africa, which will move toward construction in the beginning of next year.    The project, a retirement community [...] Read »
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Factory by Marks Barfield Architects
Steven Chilton of London office Marks Barfield Architects has designed a factory-shaped youth centre for the site of the what was once the worlds largest car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham, UK. Read »
Town hall of Gembloux / demogo
Italy-based demogo studio di architettura was one of the winners of the Europan 10 Architecture Competition. Their project, Town Hall of Gembloux is located in Belgium (Between Bruxelles and [...] Read »
Nanjing Art Museum / KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten
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SOM wins 2010 “Good Design is Good Business” China Award
The San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has received a 2010 “Good Design is Good Business” China Award for the new U.S. Embassy Complex in Beijing, China. Architectural [...] Read »
CN Castle / Comoco
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