Articles from 19/05/2013:

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Travesty or Head Trip?  Eifman Ballet's  Rodin at the Auditorium just through Sunday - and the Chicago connection to Camille Claudel
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 »
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Competition Entry: Cultural Center Chapultec \ Adrian Yau, Frisly Colop Morales, Jason Easter, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk
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 »
Bon Weekend
"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 »
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Antarctica’s Taylor Glacier Appears to Be Bleeding with a Five-Story Crimson Waterfall
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 »
The Birth and Reverberation of an Object
Texas A&M University. Department of Architecture, Spring 2013. Graduate Thesis. Shane Bearrow Adviser: Gabriel Esquivel. Read »
Ground/Work: A Design Competition for Van Alen Institute’s New Street-Level Space
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 »
Gia Wolff wins $100,000 Wheelwright Prize
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This Unique Icosahedron-Shaped Treehouse in Costa Rica Cost Just $5,000 to Build
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 »
Prishtina Central Mosque Entry by Paolo Venturella Architecture
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 »
from Inhabit
Rent and Trade LEGO Sets with Pleygo’s Mail-in Service
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 »
from iMod
3 Awesome Examples of Modern Mobile Homes
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 »
from Inhabit
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 »
MOCA’s “New Sculpturalism” Show Moving Forward
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 »
Soane’s Annual Gala Dinner
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 »
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Voltaic Celebrates Bike to Work Day with Portable Solar-Charging Trailer You Can Rent!
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 »
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Tour Some of Marin County’s Best Homes at AIA SF’s Marin Living: Home Tours
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 »
Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Architect Sure!" Pinterest Board
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Lian live-blogs final reviews from Harvard GSD
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Security trumps urban planning at WTC site
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 »
Miami Herald obituary writer pens a farewell to the Miami Herald building
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 »
The Final Turn: Architect Tom Kundig Designs a Minimal Funerary Urn
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 »
Get Your Own 3D Printed DesignX Bracelet at ICFF!
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 »
Architectural Works
Technical Construction Pavilion of the Universitario de Toledo General Hospital / TASH
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Magma Architecture Wins AIA UK Design Award
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 »
from dezeen
Garden Terrace Miyazaki by Kengo Kuma and Associates
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 »
Kickstarter Campaign Aims to Transform Denver Parking Lot into Outdoor Classroom
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 »
Casa del Viento / A-001 Taller de Arquitectura
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San Rocco Summer School
[ 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 »
ADR18 Housing / LPzR architetti associati
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Baku White City Office Building Proposal / ADEC – Azerbaijan Development Company
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 »
Evolucio / Onionlab
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 »
House in Maitencillo / Patricio Cortese Opazo
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Emergency Station in Alboraya / OMBRA Arquitectos
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Today's archidose #677
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Tel-Aviv White City Forum Winning Proposal / Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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 »
Techos House / Mathias Klotz
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Outside-In / Meir Lobaton Corona + Ulli Heckmann
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Spiegel / Ippolito Fleitz Group
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Architect Gia Wolff Wins Inaugural Wheelwright Prize
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 »
Two in One House / Clavienrossier Architectes
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The Indicator: The Lure of the Vernacular
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 »
Studio Terra240 / Arquitetos Associados
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2013 AIA Housing Awards Announced
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 »
Station Center Family Housing / David Baker + Partners Architects
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Technology
from Inhabit
Inhabitat is Reporting Live Today from ICFF 2013!
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 »
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WE CARE Solar Suitcase Saves Mothers’ and Babies’ Lives by Providing a Vital Light Source During Childbirth
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 »
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Klaus Lackner’s Artificial Trees Soak Up CO2 Emissions Faster Than Plants
As news breaks that global carbon dioxide levels are at an all-time high, one scientist is developing "artificial trees" to help cleanse the air and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Columbia [...] Read »
from Inhabit
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 »
from Inhabit
  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 »
City & Urbanism
from Inhabit
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 »