Miscellaneous
photo Nikolay Krusser, courtesy Eifman ballet What Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann is to film, Boris Eifman is to ballet. Which is to say, over-the-top, and then some. To state many critics [...] Read »
The Cultural Center of Chapultepec is designed to merge the concepts of aesthetics and functionality. It is to become the icon of the city through its subtle yet dynamic form and overall composition. [...] Read »
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
Photo by me via instagram Read »
There are some phenomena in nature that inspire tears of joy, some that spark a sense of awe, and then there are those that send chills up your spine. The Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, which [...] Read »
Texas A&M University. Department of Architecture, Spring 2013. Graduate Thesis.
Shane Bearrow
Adviser: Gabriel Esquivel. Read »
Looking for a nice design competition to participate in this month? Our friends at New York's Van Alen Institute just announced the launch of Ground/Work, an international architecture competition [...] Read »
Joseph Mikrut, a graphic designer and one of the owners of Anamaya Yoga Resort in Montezuma, Costa Rica, has finished constructing what may very well be the world's first treehouse shaped in [...] Read »
Italian Paolo Venturella Architecture is sharing with us their rather unusual spin on mosque design. The solar panel-covered "Wall-Dome" concept was the firm's entry to the highly debated architecture [...] Read »
Felix Burrichter is a New York-based architect turned editor who prefers building magazines. Read »
Get ready, LEGO addicts: Now you can rent LEGO sets with Pleygo's innovative mail-in service. Sign up for their exclusive LEGO club by registering for one of their low-cost plans, and you'll [...] Read »
The mobile home has gotten a bad rap over the years. However true some of the criticisms can be, there is a movement under way to build better and more aesthetically pl easing mobile home units. [...] Read »
Brad Ascalon & Angel Naula Glide Ottoman (Time Capsule Edition) This piece features a core of reclaimed magazines that replace a conventional wood frame. The idea behind the piece is that many [...] Read »
AN just heard from MOCA that their embattled show, A New Sculpturalism, Contemporary Architecture in Southern California, is moving ahead. The date has been pushed back from June 2 to June 16, [...] Read »
Tuesday evenings John Soanes Museum gala was a great evening for the assembled supporters of the London museum on Lincolns Inn Fields. It started when Soane Board President Thomas Klingerman [...] Read »
Today is National Bike to Work Day, and all across America, people are ditching their cars and trucks for a cleaner, healthier journey via bicycle. Our friends at Voltaic Systems joined in the [...] Read »
Heads up San Francisco Bay Area architecture fans - AIA SF's 2013 Marin Living:Home Tours is back again! For the past three years, the owners of some of Marin County's most impressive homes have [...] Read »
With the blank slate offered by a catastrophic attack, planners, soon joined by the mayor himself, saw a chance to re-establish a great crossroads: Fulton and Greenwich Streets, tying the second [...] Read »
One Herald Plaza, the bayfront behemoth from which generations of journalists fanned out across South Florida and at times the world to cover the news, passed into history on Thursday after [...] Read »
While few items should garner as much respect as those of which hold the memories of our loved ones, high-design has long had an aversion to memorialization. Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig [...] Read »
If you need yet another reason to go to DesignX next week at ICFF, Mode Collective has got it covered with their 3D printed bracelets. Stop by their booth to watch the 3D printing extravaganza [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Magma Architecture& s Olympic and Paralympic Shooting Arenas have just been distinguished with a 2013 AIA UK Excellence in Design Award. Driven by the desire to evoke an experience of flow and [...] Read »
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a hotel in Miyazaki where guest rooms and dining areas surround a central courtyard and wedding chapel (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
Architecture for Humanity-Denver is seeking to raise money for the transformation of a museum parking lot into an outdoor classroom for children in need. The goal of Denvers Museo de las Americas [...] Read »
[ August 28, 2013 0:00 to September 6, 2013 0:00. ] Taking place August 28-September 6, the University of Genoas San Rocco Summer School (SRSS) will teach you to design buildings by making [...] Read »
The Baku White City Office Building Proposal by ADEC – Azerbaijan Development Company& just received the awards for Office Architecture and Office Development at the Asia Pacific Property Awards [...] Read »
Projected onto the façade of the Musées dart et dhistoire de Genève, Onionlab& s Evolucio is a piece that revolves around the graphic and sound abstraction of the concept it is named [...] Read »
The Tel-Aviv White City Forum winning proposal by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects& is an exhibition center, part of the huge Tel- Aviv wholesale market project currently under construction. Comprising [...] Read »
Brooklyn-based architect and Harvard GSD alumni Gia Wolff has been awarded the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. [...] Read »
There is something soothing, even easy about vernacular architecture. It’s the territorial and spatial equivalent to Muzak. It evades and pre-dates the self-conscious identity of glitzy, cutting-edge [...] Read »
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the six recipients of the 2013 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing Awards Program, now in its 13th year, was established to recognize the [...] Read »
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Technology
Greetings from ICFF! Inhabitat is on the scene today reporting live from the mother of all home furnishing tradeshows, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Center [...] Read »
In the developing world, mortality rates for expectant mothers total over 300,000 deaths each year. The WE CARE Solar Suitcase is a brilliant new device that aims to reduce this figure by providing [...] Read »
As news breaks that global carbon dioxide levels are at an all-time high, one scientist is developing "artificial trees"Â to help cleanse the air and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Columbia [...] Read »
So far we've showcased Adam Frank's amazing 3D Lucid Mirror and flickering LUMEN LED nightlight displayed last weekend at BKLYN Designs, and the designer just unveiled his Reveal Projection Light [...] Read »
Noble Goods gets its name from where it all began in 2011 -- on Noble Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Christopher Moore and Molly FitzSimons founded the company in the basement of their home [...] Read »
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City & Urbanism
Originally, the land where Bayfront Park sits was home to the Everglades. Dredged to create a port and real estate opportunities, the area is now home to host of human landmarks. Bringing a sense [...] Read »
News
What began as architects Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph’s provocative response to the question “What is architecture?” became the ethos of the duo’s collaboration: “It is design, [...] Read »
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