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Picasso: Mosqueteros
When I was little, I used to paint and draw all the time. I visited museums and loved art but hated Picasso. I always thought I could paint better than he could. During my senior year of college, [...] Read »
The SFGates' John King discusses the focus on environment and economy at this year's national AIA convention in San Francisco. Read Read »
Terrain Deformation Grenades
Something I mentioned the other day in my talk at the Australian National Architecture Conference – and that came up again in Peter Wilson 's conference summary – was the game Fracture by [...] Read »
Grimshaw Architects seeking Architectural Illustration Specialist & Architectural Visualization Specialist in New York, NY View thousands of active job listings in our jobs section | Post a Job Read »
Henry Miller�s Theater, the first newly built Broadway house in more than 20 years � and the first so-called green theater on the Great White Way � has completed major construction and [...] Read »
This recycled building by 2012 Architecthen and Jeanneworks tosses the "everything but the kitchen sink" clich� out the window. Rising up like a culinary castle over the cities of Utrecht, [...] Read »
Shot-Trot by Brett Zamore
beeple (Mike Winkelman) created “subprime” as a critique on over-consumption and the current housing crisis, but instead of making his argument with charts and graphs, he simply shows the [...] Read »
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I managed to take the Modern House Day tour on Saturday for free by volunteering as a bus docent. The organizers gave me a list of the 19 people on my bus -- 19 including myself and Lazlo Papp, [...] Read »
Hotel Consolacion by Camprubi i Santacana Arquitectes
Lansen Stainless Steel Sinks
The Hermit's Cabin by Mats Theselius for Arvesund
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Consolación Hotel | Camprubí i Santacana architects
Spain based Camprubí i Santacana Arquitectes has designed a wonderful hotel located in Teruel, Spain. The Consolación is a small hotel with just 12 rooms. The 10 cubes are oriented to [...] Read »
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SMART, ECONOMICAL GREEN GIFTS FOR MOTHER’S DAY
Mother’s day is fast approaching, so don’t forget! (NEXT SUNDAY MAY 10th). This year, if you are looking to save some green while offering thoughtful green gifts, we’ve got some great [...] Read »
Cautious planners and the recession have shattered architects' dreams of a new London. The Independent Read »
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with [...] Read »
All, my apologies for the radio silence here recently. I am in the midst of planning a cross-country move this summer--to Providence, where my wife has landed a fantastic, exciting new job--and [...] Read »
Getting Smarter By The Day
The New York Times last week reported on “Smart Infrastructure,” or computer-controlled systems (energy grids, highways, trains, food distribution, health records, water systems, etc)  [...] Read »
3six0 is an architecture and design firm located in Providence, RI and headed by RISD professors, Chris Bardt and Kyna Leski. Read »
Unbuilt Australia
[Image: The unbuilt Australian World Exposition (1972); read the PDF for more]. Having just returned from Melbourne, and preparing to go back to Sydney in July, I've got Australia on the brain. [...] Read »
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New Tamayo Museum | BIG + Michel Rojkind
Copenhagen architects BIG and Mexico practice Michel Rojkind architect have won cultural competition in Mexico. The New Tamayo Museum will sit on steep hillside with large cross-shaped roof-top [...] Read »
A terrific resource for high quality tools and knives and more from DICK of Germany
Product and Design Metalwork
The Woods Company
WNYC Cityscapes: Ubiquitous Computing
"What's next?" is the question in the air tomorrow, when architect Liz Diller takes the stage at the new Greene Space on the Brian Lehrer show for the conclusion of Cityscapes, our month-long [...] Read »
Swedish paints and more available in the USA from LifelongPaint.com
New furniture from SCP
Great Chicago Places, Burnham(x∞), Baker, Rybczynski, Adrian Smith, new Modern, historic Wabash and more - over 60 events on May calendar
Doing anything this coming Thursday, May 7th? If not, could we possibly entice you into squeezing into your schedule the nine architecture-related events taking place just on that one day? (The [...] Read »
Here's a slideshow of some recent earthbag (sandbag) houses that have been built in Mexico, Poland, US, Nepal, Costa Rica, Philippines, Australia, Haiti, South Africa, Thailand, India, Bahamas [...] Read »
News
Ball State’s system, which will involve boring some 4,000 geothermal wells, is expected to cost around $65-million and save $2-million in energy costs per year. Read »
Thomas Fisher, of the University of Minnesota, writes: “Do we really want to continue to be servants of the superrich, or does our responsibility — and our overlooked opportunities for [...] Read »
John, at Archidose, has recently delivered a couple of particularly interesting additions to his architectural elements series. Inflatable Buildings & Hairy Facades Read »
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Shift Home
With inspiration from the Dwell House, Deezine.ca and Shift Development came together to build a modern, green, and affordable home designed by an entire community online.  Ideas for the home [...] Read »
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The reaction to the announcement that the team of Freelon Adjaye Bond SmithGroup has been selected to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture should be a round of applause. [...] Read »
Horizonless Manhattan
Here's a couple striking illustrations by Schulze & Webb of Manhattan, speculative projections looking downtown from 3rd Avenue and 35th Street... [Here & There horizonless downtown projection [...] Read »
Charles Luck Stone Center
E.R. Butler
E-book: The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
Swedish Barnhouses from Arvesund
Sea-B-Que Grills - you can mount them on a railing...
ADEPT is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and works within the fields of architecture, Urban planning and landscape design. ADEPT is founded and lead by architects: Anders Lonka, Martin Laursen and [...] Read »
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Technology
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Dockside Green’s Synergy Named to AIA/COTE Top 10
We reported on Dockside Green last summer and now the Victoria, BC project is back in the headlines. Dockside is slated to be the world’s first Platinum LEED-certified community, and Synergy, [...] Read »
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BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Uhuru Designs
Lots of up-and-coming and established designers will present new collections at BKLYN Designs this weekend, and we don’t want to miss a single, solitary piece of work—which is why we love [...] Read »
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POO BRICKS: Students Develop Cow Dung Building Bricks
A group of students from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia recently won the 2009 Global Social Venture Competition with their “EcoFaeBrick“, a quality, easily manufactured, low-cost [...] Read »
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Building Made Entirely of Recycled Kitchen Sinks
This incredible reclaimed pavilion defies the old “everything but” cliché - it is entirely made of kitchen sinks. Built by 2012 Architechten in cooperation with Jeanne van Heeswijks of [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Web tv channel SMAC (ScribeMedia Arts and Culture) just released a new video about the show Into the Open: Positioning Practice. This exhibition, which opened at the Parsons School of Design [...] Read »
Two colleagues of mine were let go a few weeks ago. Since then, the three of us have decided to pool our collective architectural resources and work towards developing a client base and a freelance [...] Read »
The Rohm and Haas Co. headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, designed by Pietro Belluschi, is being sold by owner Dow Chemical Co. Read Read »
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When I was younger I used to love going out to the local horse ranch and ride the horses. We would ride them and brush them and even help feed them. This started lifelong apprecation of horses [...] Read »
Original Rudolph Sketches for Sale
Original sketches of the New Haven Government Center are now for sale in the showroom at Modulightor. An unbuilt project (1968 - 1981), it experienced various scheme alterations that ultimately [...] Read »
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We Didn't See Martha But She Was There
Did we mention that Martha Stewart was on the Modern House Day tour? She wasn't on my bus or Gina's, and she wasn't at the morning symposium or the evening cocktail party. But there were several [...] Read »
The proposal of MVRDV on HD video . Read »
Merida Meridian Woven Floor Coverings
10 Black Handled Door Levers
Wood in Rock by POOK Architects Office
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5 Moderns
Here are my quick impressions of the five houses that were part of Saturday's Modern House Day in New Canaan (Gina, who designed the brochure cover on the left, might offer her opinions later). [...] Read »
Earthbag Building (plus blog)
Park Avenue Townhouse by David Hotson Architect
Monday, Monday
My weekly page update: Schiecentrale Phase 4B in Rotterdam, Netherlands by Mei Architecten en stedenbouwers. This week's book review is Architecture Oriented Otherwise by David Leatherbarrow. [...] Read »
Architectural Works
ORDOS 100 #38: Iwamoto Scott
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Italy Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / Iodice Architetti
Our friends from Iodice Architetti sent us their design por the Italian Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 . The project proposes a building which integrates a typical model of the Italian [...] Read »
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Puma City Shipping Container Store Comes to Boston’s Fan Pier
When we first heard about Puma City, the tri-level, 11,000-square-foot retail store and event space made of 24 refurbished shipping containers, we were intrigued by the popular sportswear brand’s [...] Read »
Barbie Shanghai Store / Slade Architecture
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Bank in Donoratico / Massimo Mariani
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