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“En regardant de pres les travaux que nos anciens ont realises, j’arrive a connaitre qui ils sont et quel type d’homme ils etaient.” -- I can read their minds through the legacy of their [...] Read »

Funeral services are being held later today to mark the untimely passing of Pamela Webb, a local architect, artist, curator, civic leader and much more.The daughter of a military man, Webb lived [...] Read »

Not too many years ago, I lived in the town of Beaufort, North Carolina for nine months, right up the street from Edward Teach's house. I fell in love with the entire area, especially the Outer [...] Read »

We don't usually list tours on our calendar, but we're told by the folks at docomomo_chicago midwest that there are still a few spaces available for a Saturday, October 4th tour by scholar and [...] Read »

She's a student of Derrida: The truth is what you say it is. Speak cant and smile. Lie if you have to because there is no objective reality. Read »

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It’s hard to contain one’s enthusiasm for DeMaria Design’s Redondo Beach House. The home, constructed with a combination of prefabricated shipping containers and traditional buildings [...] Read »

Imagine if your house came delivered to you in over a 1,000 precisely-cut jigsaw-like pieces. This is the idea that New York-based, Jeremey Edmiston of System Architects and Douglas Gauthier [...] Read »

Now that it's dry, the real work begins.   And the Farnsworth House team is blogging it.    (Careful on those travertine steps! =] ) . Read »

Designed to provide safe, reliable accommodation in remote areas, the Igloo Satellite Cabin has been used for over 25 years in conditions ranging from the tropics to polar icecaps. Units can [...] Read »

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In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is [...] Read »

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A Belfast house designed by an architect for his own family is on the shortlist for the RIBA Manser Medal. The house, which was designed by Kieran McGonigle, a partner in Belfast architects Twenty [...] Read »

With the American financial markets turning to mush and worry spreading about how the crisis will affect state and federal budgets, fundraising, and enrollment, colleges are reconsidering the [...] Read »

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It started  at least back in Harvard.   You find small columns on the front of his house  on Chicago's south side.   As the candidate for change, Obama's looking for something with a little [...] Read »

Combine "Left" and Wright here, with this .I'm sure the evening will look like By the way, what is Obama's arts and culture policy? Or McCain's? More photos of Frank Lloyd Wright's Clarence [...] Read »

I'm also pleased to announce that I'll be on the jury for a design competition hosted in Chicago next month, brought to you by the Chicago Architectural Club . The purpose of the competition [...] Read »

Although the popularity of green roofs today leads to increasing the positive impacts for which they are often used -- namely reducing heat gain, reducing storm water runoff, increasing biodiversity [...] Read »

The Irish Architecture Foundation presents as part of Open House Dublin 2008, a debate: Has Dublin Changed For The Better? The event will be held in the Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin on October [...] Read »

Two years ago, Matt Blesso, a real estate developer, bought a 3,100 sq ft apartment in lower Manhattan.  He dreamed of  an apartment with beautiful rooftop gardens, and wanted to be surrounded [...] Read »

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These are non-constraining, open-ended, and adaptable principles for an architecture of participation that can be used by any group of people, NGOs or urban planners interested in activating [...] Read »

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one of five images from the 03 October 2008 issue of eye candy... Phototgraphy credit: Michael Weschler Photography many thanks to Brad at Studio Ma / Architecture and Envirnmental Design for [...] Read »

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An Bord Pleanála has been urged to reject developer Seán Dunne's €1.5 billion high-rise scheme for Ballsbridge on the grounds that "Ballsbridge is not Knightsbridge". Barrister Colm MacEochaidh, [...] Read »

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The University of Sheffield’s state -of-the-art music practice and studio facility, the Soundhouse, is now complete. The striking development, conceptually designed by careyjones architects [...] Read »

California Academy of Sciences by architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop opened last week in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Read »