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from Habitually Chic
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 »
from Archinect
The SFGates' John King discusses the focus on environment and economy at this year's national AIA convention in San Francisco. Read Read »
from BLDG Blog
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 »
from Archinect
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from Archinect
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 »
from Archinect
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 »
from architechnophilia
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 »
from modern
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 »
from + MOOD
Spain based Camprubà 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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from Archinect
Cautious planners and the recession have shattered architects' dreams of a new London. The Independent Read »
from Archinect
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 »
from Brand Avenue
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 »
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)Â [...] Read »
from Archinect
3six0 is an architecture and design firm located in Providence, RI and headed by RISD professors, Chris Bardt and Kyna Leski. Read »
from BLDG Blog
[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 »
from + MOOD
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 »
from materialicious
from Andrew Blum
"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 »
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 â and our overlooked opportunities for [...] Read »
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from Archinect
John, at Archidose, has recently delivered a couple of particularly interesting additions to his architectural elements series. Inflatable Buildings & Hairy Facades Read »
from iMod
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 »
from Archinect
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 »
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 »
Technology
from Inhabit
We reported on Dockside Green last summer and now the Victoria, BC project is back in the headlines. Dockside is slated to be the worldâs first Platinum LEED-certified community, and Synergy, [...] Read »
from Inhabit
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 »
from Inhabit
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 »
City & Urbanism
from PerfectCity
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 »
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from selophane.blog
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 »
from Archinect
The Rohm and Haas Co. headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, designed by Pietro Belluschi, is being sold by owner Dow Chemical Co. Read Read »
from iMod
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 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 »
from modern
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 »
from modern
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 »
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
from archdaily
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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