Miscellaneous
Hajime Ichikawa map evangelist and landscape architect, talks to PingMag about mapping, topography and GPS Tracing. Read »
Every once in a while we come across an idea so fresh and simple it seems incredible that it has not been thought of before. The Rainwaterhog is just such an idea - the H2OG system is a modular [...] Read »
Visits by appointment:Monday through Friday: 10am to 2pm & 4pm to 6pmSaturdays: 10am to 1pm casaluisbarragan.org UNESCO World Heritage Center Read »
O-14 will be featured in an upcoming television special entitled Impossible City , an hour-long documentary about the recent explosion of growth in Dubai, which is currently being produced by [...] Read »
When I played hooky from school (quite often, actually), I'd head straight to the MoMA, just a few blocks away from my house. No one questioned why an 8th grader, wearing a jacket and tie and [...] Read »
The one thing you will not find in school--or even on Architecture Registration Exams--is a course on how to get work, yet it is one of the most basic needs of any design practice. In fact, if [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Luscious Garage, a refreshingly new type of service station in San Francisco, is now converting hybrids to function primarily as electrics. With a $7,500 conversion, your Prius can now be powered [...] Read »
rendering by Piranesi. Today, most architectural practices have outsourced the (press- ready) visualization of their designs and a new service industry has been born: visualizing architecture. [...] Read »
There's a "skating rink" of water ice a little more than 2 inches below the red soil. That surface soil itself seems so dry remains a mystery. SFC Read »
Peter D. Lewis Building Originally uploaded by architechnophilia . Frank Gehry's contribution to the Case Western campus, Cleveland, Ohio more here Read »
I have a chateau on the Côte d'Azur. It's for my wife. It's extravagant in comfort and gentleness. - Le Corbusier A 3.66 square-meter cube. Attached to the restaurant behind it. A postcard view [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Over the last few weeks, a host of New York-based and national media have published reviews of the Museum of Art and Design at 2 Columbus Circle, designed by Brad Cloepfil and his firm, Allied [...] Read »
Here’s another building for the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia in China, this time designed by Luca Selva Architects of Switzerland. Read »
Danish architects and designers Bjarke Ingels Group have unveiled their design for a tower on the Walter site in Prague, Czech Republic. Read »
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Miscellaneous
All registered architects should really be very, very, concerned about the meglomaniac aspirations of our so-called registration body - see postings on this website passim ad nauseam. The news [...] Read »
In 1999, writer Orhan Pamuk bought a three story building in Istanbul to interact as a museum with his new novel, "Museum of Innocence," a first of this kind of hybrid application... Read »
I've always admired the design aesthetic of designers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams so I was in heaven when I found their Montauk Long Island home in World of Interiors [...] Read »
Blake Dollahite's home in Austin. He did an amazing job. Spend the time going through the site. You won't be sorry. Rural Theory Read »
– – – – – – of course, denial is always an option go read @ brandavenue Read »
(A proposal by Ned Kahn for a new water sculpture or a cloaking device using nanotechnology guiding light around an object? Image courtesy of Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Source [...] Read »
News
Increases in endowment spending can improve the well-being of society and the environment. Read »
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Pentagram has given Diller Scofidio + Renfro a new online face using papervision3d , a popular new Open Source realtime 3D engine for Flash. Read about it on Pentagram's blog Read »
If it weren't for the master himself, who knows what father and son would be doing for a living.... but they do some lovely stuff. Legoretta + Legoretta Read »
A fabulous site. Nothing more need be said. Enter the World of Eichler Design Read »
"A well-known ‘Dame of the Theater’, single, 65 years of age, whose dream was to have a swimming pool at home, commissions us the refurbishment of a dark dwelling between party walls in the [...] Read »
The Onion , without the jokes. (Or without proofreaders, apparently. Tuesday headline: CSO brings Mussoggsky work to life )(Press release: In order to further cut expenses and make text fit [...] Read »
In memory of our kind, gentle and creative friend who died over the weekend in San Diego – We’ll miss his visits by train, his concern about our well-being, his holiday phone calls, presence [...] Read »
Technology
This year’s London Design Festival was an incredible event that showcased some of the world’s most acclaimed designers in addition to a host of upcoming talents. From innovative furnishings [...] Read »
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