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BREAKING: New St. Vincent's Hospital Building Approved
The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted in October to allow St. Vincent's Hospital to tear down the O'Toole Building along Seventh Avenue near 13th Street, but the LPC still had to decide [...] Read »
In Your Face: Sneak Preview of Cassa NY's Pearly Whites
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Photos: International Exterior Fabricators] When Cassa NY, the new condo/hotel sprouting up in Midtown on 45th Street, showed up on our doorstep [...] Read »
the container post
the standard ISO container or ITU (Intermodal Transport Units) is designed to be loaded and sealed intact onto container ships, railroad cars, planes, or trucks. Although there is no standard [...] Read »
Billionaire Lev Leviev's Africa Israel Investments is blaming some of its current financial woes on its acquisition of the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street, which it reports has [...] Read »
Coney Island Suggestion Box: More Retail, Less Park
While Mayor Bloomberg and developer Joe Sitt continue their slapfight over the 10.5 acres of Coney Island land that Sitt owns and Bloomberg wants, Crain's takes a look at the city's Coney Island [...] Read »
AB INTRA
The importance of this event can be seen from several points of view. First; as a follow up to two previous events organized by theTecnológico of Monterrey.”AZUL REY” which took place in [...] Read »
It's nice to see a friend (and coworker) get an opportunity to discuss his work: Dwell 's Design Director, Kyle Blue, talks to Arkitip about why we make Dwell the way we do, in this short video [...] Read »
Architectural Calendar Goes Postal - Is It Good for You?
A really dedicated reader who goes by the name of postal has actually gone to all the trouble of making the March, 2009 Calendar of Architectural Events available in the Google calendar format, [...] Read »
Stephanie Ingram, Geoff Piper, Matthew Sullivan, and Ashley Waldron are The Global Studio. They are architectural designers living in Seattle, Washington. Collectively they have over twenty [...] Read »
CurbedWire: Boutique Hotel Moon Wars, Rialto Gets a TCO
MEPA—While we thought the new boutique hotel rivalry was the Gansevoort vs. the Standard, it turns out that the Gansevoort is more concerned with the Cooper Square. A tipster writes: "I have [...] Read »
February Foreclosures Report: New Filings in Holding Pattern
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The gang at PropertyShark has prepped its February foreclosures report, covering L.A., Miami, Seattle and New York, and as is tradition, the [...] Read »
Say Goodbye to Your Gnome
What better way to usher out the profligate design culture of the Bush era than to have these Alien Gnome Bandits escort your Philippe Starck Gnome thingee back where it belongs–into the past. [...] Read »
A new bar has opened up in the long-shuttered 34 Avenue A, the home to many a cross-dressing stage experience when the building housed Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction, and EV Grieve is lukewarm: [...] Read »
"As we all know, it is not machines which employ machines but humans who build and use machines. Therefore it can no longer be accepted that machines increasingly worsen our living conditions [...] Read »
Technology
from Inhabit
Ceramic Water Filters Win IWA Award for Cambodia
As populations in developing nations increase alongside global pollution and the spread of water-borne illnesses, the need for clean and efficient water filtration has never been more urgent. [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Sprouting Cards Blossom Into Wildflowers!
Wondering what to do with all those old greeting cards and thank you notes? Now you can stick them in the ground and sprout wildflowers with Botanical Paperworks plantable greeting cards.. [...] Read »
Interiors and Furniture
from dezeen
Julia’s by Merkx + Girod
from + MOOD
F House by Japanese architect Katsufumi Kubota. The contemporary geometrical facade is so precise, clean, striking and structurally very provocative. It folded to become a roof and opened up [...] Read »
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INHABITAT IS HIRING!
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Rent the "World's Smallest Fridge" for $2k/Month
Up until now, the portion of our brains dedicated solely to refrigeration has been absorbed in thought over reports that the "FreshDirect cold storage" in Williamsburg's Northside Piers tower [...] Read »
A neighborhood complaining about too few banks? It's happening in the South Bronx, where the Daily News reports there's a severe shortage of services: "With an estimated half-million residents, [...] Read »
Architect's Questionnaire: Nathan Cooprider
This is the beginning of a new occasional series on Portland Architecture called The Architect's Questionnaire, in which a series of architects and designers answer a basic set of questions about [...] Read »
Survey says . . . !
Ian D. Parkman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Marketing of the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. He has asked me to help him spread the word about his current [...] Read »
I have been twittering about my lay off experience and one of the people I’ve been talking to is Laura Conaway from the Planet Money Podcast by NPR. Today I had a phone interview with her [...] Read »
Tim Schwarz's Paris - Physical, 2007 , 'The piece is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for "paris hilton" and "paris france" and displays [...] Read »
AN Celebrity Party #1
Since we’re in LA, it was only a matter of time until The Architect’s Newspaper got to visit a celebrity party. This Saturday we were invited to the launch of author Jerry Stahl’s new thriller [...] Read »
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Launches & Releases: Neighborhood Consciousness Maps!
Here we have a spatial representation of the thoughts, ideas, and dreams circulating around the Upper West Side and its nearby neighborhoods as rendered by Pastiche. It's a software program brought [...] Read »
First Truffles Tribeca Residents Show Few Signs of Life
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Over the weekend, some Curbed readers sent over photographs of our friend Truffles Tribeca—specifically, spy shots of the new luxury rental [...] Read »
St. Vincent's Opponents Sue to Block O'Toole Demolition
A coalition of preservationists and community groups has filed a lawsuit against the Landmarks Preservation Commission and St. Vincent's Hospital, seeking to block the demolition of the O'Toole [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Residence Ladoumegue / Student Housing by ECDM
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Prada Transformer by OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Prada Transformer, a portable, shape-shifting cultural pavilion designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas, will make its first appearance in Seoul, Korea next month. Read »
from dezeen
MiLoft by RMJM
Architects RMJM have launched a concept for apartment blocks that do not require heating. Read »
Qantas Sydney First Lounge
The Qantas Sydney First Lounge is a pre-flight departure lounge for premium Qantas customers. Located at the Sydney International Terminal, it offers 180 degree views of Sydney city and Botany [...] Read »
ORDOS 100 #25: Estudio Barozzi Veiga
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Unemployed Architects
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House at Wategos Beach by Mackay + Partners
London architects Mackay+ Partners have designed a residence overlooking the sea at Byron Bay, Australia. Read »
SOM included in “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies”
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been included in Fast Company’s annual list of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” . SOM was ranked #32 (the only AEC company on the ranking), [...] Read »
Spiral Cellars
Spiral Cellars offers a unique product and idea. They design and build an addition of sorts to your home, but with one difference, they go straight down. A cylindrical wine cellar is built and [...] Read »
Vila Joiosa Auditorium Theatre / Arquitecturas Torres Nadal
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The Observer talks to two of the nine tenants behind the three-year-old rent-regulation lawsuit that ended in stunning defeat last week for Stuyvesant Town landlord Tishman Speyer. One is no [...] Read »
Forbes checks in with hotel developer Sam Chang, who's not going to let a little financing meltdown and $50 million loss in Trump Entertainment Resorts stop him from opening up 20 new hotels [...] Read »
Bottom Falls Out Market for Photos of Foreclosed Houses
Last week, to illustrate a newspaper article about the foreclosure crisis, freelance photographer Grady Thompson went out to several of the region's hardest-hit neighborhoods to take pictures [...] Read »
Florence is submerged!
The 7th edition of Rotte Metropolitane , a project promoted by the Cultural Department of the City of Florence. This year is marked by series of initiatives and events that will begin with a [...] Read »
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This week the New Orleans Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the recipients of the 2009 Design Awards. Out of 70 entries, 12 were chosen for awards, 3 of which were [...] Read »
Boston's Belkin Nixes Rudolph Demolition
As we mentioned back in December , plans to tear down Paul Rudolph's 133 Federal Street in Boston (also known as the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building) by developer Steve Belkin were in jeopardy [...] Read »
State legislators are pushing to dismantle the agency in charge of managing growth, arguing that it's standing in the way of reviving Florida's economy... Read »
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"Friend of mine went out to the Hamptons 2 weekends ago and looked at 14 properties for sale between $2.75-3.5m. He put in bids on 8 of the properties at 50% of the asking price and got accepted on 2... Read »
Snarchitecture blog Edificial offers up some love for Nolita new development 211 Elizabeth Street, at which architects Roman & Williams eschewed the all-glass trend for that old standby, brick: [...] Read »
Bridging inspiration: Zaha Hadid, Santiago Calatrava, and SRG Partnership
Portland firm SRG Partnership is keeping some very good company in the March issue of Architectural Record. In a long continuing-education feature devoted to pedestrian bridges, SRG’s design [...] Read »
LEEDTeacher, LLC seeking LEED Instructor in Miami, FL View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job Read »
for sale: fawcett house by frank lloyd wright
Completed in 1961, it's located on 80 acres in Los Banos, CA. Priced at $2.7 million. The walk-in fireplace is a great feature.SFGate article and slideshowThanks, Julie. Read »
3 BR, 1 BA, 1600 sq ft co-op Asking: $795,000 148 West 131st Street [Elliman] Read »
Good Magazine held a competition for an infographic to describe the financial crisis. The submissions are graphically interesting, humorous and informative. Read »
Tuesday AM Linkage
[Perpendicular parking in Chelsea—dangerous jut?! Via Curbed Photo Pool/mrgeneko] · Bowery hold-out still sells old cash registers, says building not for sale [NYT] · The Cuozz presents his [...] Read »
Goodbye Du-Bye
According to the CEO of Dubai, the current global recession is not going to affect Dubai’s GDP. One of the many reason given by him is the continuous flow of money and projects guaranteed by [...] Read »
News Two sides of the same coin ? Maybe this will help? Or not . Is it Art, pornography or both? For your health ? Discuss . Continued after the jump... Read »
America�s economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? [...] Read »
My Cousin St. Vinny
The Observer points us to a lawsuit filed today in State Supreme Court aimed at stopping the demolition of Albert C. Ledner’s National Maritime Union HQ in Greenwhich Village, now known as [...] Read »
Monday PM Linkage
[Some cast-iron restoration down in Soho, via Curbed Photo Pool/jetsetcd] · Madonna 'ready to sign' on $38 million Upper East Side townhouse [NYDN] · City's budget office ups estimate of job [...] Read »
Architecture for Humanity wants your ideas and designs for the classrooms of the future. Their 2009 Open Architecture Challenge invites students, teachers and architects to submit their designs [...] Read »
Architectural practice with emphasis on hospitality, commercial & mixed-use projects. Established in 1968. Read »
PLUG Project was developed by professors and students at Virginia Tech to address a scientific research team's need for a shelter and laboratory in Tanzania. Read »
ShowCase: Greenhouse
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News
Biomass and Other Alternative Fuels on the Rise at Colleges
David Hales, president of the College of the Atlantic, tells The Christian Science Monitor that he is having an easier time getting donors to support environmental and energy-saving projects, [...] Read »
Adam Kalkin, a New Jersey architect isn't the first to seek to make homes out of shipping containers, I see them all the time on the planet green channel, but no one has employed them as intensively [...] Read »