Architectural Works
I guess there’s nothing better to sit back and relax after a long week than a pool. Fun and refreshing, pool houses are just great. So now, we bring you our Round Up of previously featured [...] Read »
Six projects were presented for the competition of a Grand Hyatt Hotel for Frankfurt, Germany. The jury’s chairperson, Johann Eisele, chose UNStudio’s proposal to proceed with further [...] Read »
Architect Adam Reed Tucker has collaborated with The LEGO Group and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to release the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection - part of the LEGO Architecture series. Read »
The Salon Mittermeier hair salon in Linz by Austrian architects Xarchitekten features a facade with a “three-dimensional architectural (hair) wave”. Read »
Daybreak is a new, 30-unit cohousing community set to opens this fall near Portland's Overlook neighborhood. Residents will live in compact flats and townhouses and share the use of many community [...] Read »
News
The university recently completed a $49-million system that uses a network of 300 extraction wells to collect gas generated at a landfill in Rochester, N.H. Read »
Events
Saturday, May 30th 20091387 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 441062pm - 5pm$10 suggested donation, all you can eat until the chili runs out. Free for contestants.(Rain date June 6th, 2-5pm)Whilst holding [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
…So a patron of the arts walks into Picassoâs studio and requests a painting of a chicken. The patron and the master artist come to an agreement and the patron leaves. A month [...] Read »
This Friday at the Architectural Association here in London, Liam Young and I will be hosting Thrilling Wonder Stories: Speculative Futures for an Alternate Present : a 6-hour event with an unbelievable [...] Read »
Fresh off ranking the most overpriced cities in America , ABC News and Forbes Magazine are at it again, this time ranking the 15 Best Bargain Cities in the country. Read »
It’s been several months since we brought you news of the Plastiki, a boat made of 12,500 plastic bottles, so we figured it was time for an update. When we left the Plastiki expedition last, [...] Read »
This golden structure is a temporary pavilion designed by Germany practice architect modulorbeat, use of striking color for perforated skin has successfully drawn our attention, while creating [...] Read »
Location in google maps
Browse all of PaD Shanghai here at bricoleurbanism.org
…or here on the PaD Shanghai Flickr Set Read »
We'll be starting on the June calendar in another few weeks, but we've just added still another two Burnham-related events to the May calendar. New Visions for Global Cities - Wednesday, May [...] Read »
Another step in New York�s transformation from the world�s greatest metropolis to a generic tourist trap? N. O. reviews via NYT Read »
Miscellaneous
Doesn't anybody want to write a jingle for the opening of Renzo Piano's new Modern Wing? Read »
The artwork of music producer Brian Eno is illuminating the iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House as part of a sound and light festival in the city. BBC Read »
This week's getting a late start for those of us in the USA, but that doesn't seem to change the number of competition deadlines on the horizon. Here are some highlights among the 30+/- deadlines [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The stack of Neo-Gothic brick and stone at 874 Broadway just north of Union Square accumulated plenty of grit and grime on its ornate surface [...] Read »
[Image: Detail of a zoning map for New York City ]. Earlier this month, mammoth – just two months old, but already one of the more interesting architecture blogs out there – cited climatological [...] Read »
Something different coming soon.
Better than nothing ? I am not so sure.
What is this thread lacking ?
Robots are now posting to the school blogs .
Now he is also a Prince .
Image after the jump... Read »
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Perhaps we were too busy checking out the jaw-dropping FLW retrospective at the aforementioned museum to notice, but two weeks ago, LEGO and the Wright Foundation announced they would launch [...] Read »
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Last week saw the close of the exhibition of the Luana Gardens Competition, held in Kingston, Jamaica. Of the 17 International entries, a dozen compliant boards were exhibited, in the courtyard [...] Read »
The Ben Rose house can be yours for a cool $2.3M. (via Realtor.com) Read »
[Image: A Tribute to Sir Christopher Wren (1838) by Charles Robert Cockerell ]. Yesterday in the architecture galleries of the V&A, I found myself looking at a painting by Charles Robert Cockerell [...] Read »
In early 2007 I posted about the $836.00 winning bid for Peter Zumthor Works on ebay. At that time sellers on Amazon.com were asking $974.73 for the first edition (red cover) of Thinking Architecture [...] Read »
CIUDADLAB is an analysis and diffusion seminar course that examines the modes in which theory, debate and critical observation provide alternate research tools for the understanding of the contemporary [...] Read »
Education
Sketchup Model Images of Group Concept Justin Otten 2009. Read »
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If you surf the web you know that Lego is releasing a new Frank Lloyd Wright collection to their lineup . NPR is now following suit with their radio piece about the new Lego venture, including [...] Read »
Understanding the process for the Willamette River bridge has been difficult. In the last few days since TriMet announced its selection of Donald MacDonald as the bridge's designer (his cable-stay [...] Read »
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Some fun from a booklet of Mid Century Modern vacation and leisure home plans. Seen on the wonderful site, grain edit . – GF Read »
Location in google maps
Browse all of PaD Shanghai here at bricoleurbanism.org
…or here on the PaD Shanghai Flickr Set Read »
[Image: The King's Vineyard , London, by Soonil Kim, one of many projects featured in London Yields: Urban Agriculture ]. One of the many benefits of being in London this week is that I get to [...] Read »
Tired of CTRL-Z as your modus operandi in life? Changes in the economy have had the surprising effect of making the manual trades more attractive as careers. NYT Read »
Aren't they great? Ein Gangster-Spektakel anyone? Provenance: Estate of Bertolt Brecht For sale, and more to peruse, here . Read »
Technology
One of the debut brands at last week’s Greener by Design Conference in San Francisco was a company called Ditto Hangers, co-founded by industrial designer Gary Barker, also co-founder of Greenheart [...] Read »
The Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales recently opened eight stunning crumpled steel buildings that utilize an innovative construction method to keep their material use to a minimum. Conceived [...] Read »
The thing about items coming out of the Sander Mulder studio is that they are not often alike. Carat, above, is all opaque angles and facets, and Therese is transparent detailed contours. The [...] Read »
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