Architectural Works
Dezeen promotion: we’ve teamed up with Greek developer Oliaros to launch UPTO35, a competition open to architects under the age of 35 to design an affordable student housing complex in Athens. Read »
Sou Fujimoto is a Japan architect that has been pushing what we traditionally call a house, but way beyond that just formal aspects. New typologies are explored, introducing new ideas on “living”. [...] Read »
The Tulane City Center houses the Tulane University School of Architecture’s urban research and outreach programs. So far this year, the students at the Tulane School of Architecture have built [...] Read »
The Netherlands-based Cepezed Architects  were recently appointed by the offices of the Hague Capital of Culture to design a temporary theater.  The city strives to be named the [...] Read »
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has released images of his updated design for the UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. Read »
PS1 Young Architects Program, 2009 , originally uploaded by downtownBLUE . Afterparty , this year's P.S.1 Young Architects Program by MOS , 2009. The installation opened Sunday and runs until [...] Read »
DMY Berlin 09: Norwegian designers Fantastic Norway have sent photos of Walking Berlin, a project in which they dressed up as their latest building and walked around Berlin. Read »
Basque architects VAUMM have completed a kindergarten at Eibar in Gipuzkoa, Spain (via yatzer). Read »
1:1 Architects  shared their design idea for retro fitting high-rise buildings in Melbourne with a modular system of independent green roof structures. The new roof is designed to be installed, [...] Read »
London architects Yes We Can Architecture have sent images of a project they built last summer out of hula hoops. Read »
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Miscellaneous
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This is what it looked like in 2006, a flat, usually deserted expanse of fenced-in lawn: This is what it looked like just this past February: Now Pritzker Park, at State and Van Buren, is finally [...] Read »
We don’t always give props to other design pubs, but after a great weekend at Dwell On Design, how can we not? After the expo, the panels, and the awards, on Saturday night the Dwellistas hosted [...] Read »
Ian Schrager is coming to Chicago. Crain’s reports that the hotelier, known for his high design boutique properties, is looking to buy and renovate the Ambassador East and itâs famous [...] Read »
Proposals for King Abdallah's grand expansion of the Haram Mosque in the Holy city of Makkah Read »
Architects have, for obvious reasons, been fascinated with earthquakes for as long as they have been knocking over buildings. Lots of structural systems and building materials have been explored, [...] Read »
Zira Island MasterPlan - BIG http://www.dezeen.com/2 009/01/30/zira-island-m asterplan-by-big/ http://www.archdaily.co m/12956/zira-island-car bon-neutral-master-plan -big-architects/ http://www.arcspace.com /architects/big/zira/zi ra.html [...] Read »
Humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue has constructed a beautiful set of bamboo butterfly huts to provide housing for 24 orphans in Thailand. Aside from giving the orphans brand new [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
We recently wrote above how opponent’s best hope of stopping Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project was not the departure of Frank Gehry but lawsuits. There was a good possibility the “sweetheart” [...] Read »
Ted Smalley Bowen writes in an article for the Metropolis POV "Letter from Boston: It’s the Pedestrian-Oriented Small Commercial Districts, Stupid" about Boston Mayor Tom Menino's quest to [...] Read »
Before closing Broadway got her branded a car-hating communist, DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was already well on her way to transforming the city’s streets. One of the most memorable [...] Read »
Just recently, Michael Jackson passed away at age 50. Today, we hear about the famous TV pitchman, Billy Mays, passing on also at the age of 50.I turned 50 just 25 days ago and I am still alive [...] Read »
In December 2008, Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton launched the international competition Designing in Teheran to develop a design for two multistory buildings in Iran�s capital [...] Read »
The situation involving Timbers MLS soccer in PGE Park, Beavers baseball...somewhere, and the future of Memorial Coliseum is in a kind of limbo right now. City Council has de-coupled the PGE [...] Read »
The 2020 vision for developing Westminster Abbey got a lot of news coverage but precious little in the way of actual imagery was available showing what might actually happen: 'Should a new 21st [...] Read »
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We all know that invisibility cloaks can protect Harry Potter from Filch and his cat Mrs. Norris, but now physicists in France and the UK say they may be used to hide buildings from the devastating [...] Read »
The final contents of the URBAN VISIONS exhibition can be seen online. The exhibition aims at testifying the ability some cities had in seeing their transformations in perspective, in looking [...] Read »
Antony Todd has exquisite taste and now that eponymous shop is having a sale, you may actually be able to afford a few of his impeccable choices. Items that are 25-40% off are marked with a [...] Read »
Vietnamese-Dutch architect Khoi Tran has been selected to participate in the NY 400 Job Swap . The program is described as "an unique experiment in transatlantic cooperation. Citizens of New [...] Read »
The current most endangered shopping malls in U.S. Deadmalls list is growing... Read »
The Monacelli Press has announced publication of a five-volume monograph on SOM. According to the publisher, the five books offer a near complete history of the iconic firm’s work from the [...] Read »
Bergman, Walls & Associates seeking Sr. Architectural Designer in Las Vegas, NV A Las Vegas based architectural firm with many large projects locally and nationally is in need of an experienced [...] Read »
Follow the architects LMN , as they tour the 1,200,000 sq.ft Vancouver Convention Centre, in British Columbia, Canada Read »
Phillip Granke is currently living in Paris and Chicago. He will be graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2010. Recently, he designed the exhibit Objects for the Age [...] Read »
Technology
Mi Young Yeo of Korea's Gocce Design has created the kaleidoscopic Let It Snow, a user-friendly ambient lighting system. Turn the central crystal like a knob or dial and control the amount of [...] Read »
Our inhabitat founder and editor-in-chief, Jill Fehrenbacher, grew up in the small, sleepy Northern California town of Novato - so you can imagine how excited she was when we heard that a solar-powered [...] Read »
Just like the Empire State Building, the famed Sears Tower in Chicago will be soon receiving some major eco upgrades to become more energy efficient. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is [...] Read »
Bubble Gum is a lampshade of recycled polyethylene foam by Daria Burlinska and Wojtek Traczyk. The soft, gummy layers beg to be touched. Also by dbwt is the Renovation lampshade above, made from [...] Read »
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Beach Pavilion (150 m2) is part of a private residential beachfront compound in Uruguay. Located immediately adjacent to the ocean, its primarily function is to provide shade and amenities (a [...] Read »
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Kent and London know the ABC’s of sustainable design, and we’re singing the praises of their stylish, FSC approved, solid oak chest of Alphabet Drawers. These 26 letter drawers spell function [...] Read »
Tallinn’s New City Hall - BIG http://www.bustler.net/ index.php/article/big_t o_design_tallinns_new_c ity_hall/ http://www.nce.co.uk/ne ws/structures/new-desig ns-revealed-for-tallinn -city-hall/5204037.article [...] Read »
Stopped by the opening of MOS's outdoor installation Afterparty at P.S.1 this afternoon. I must admit my expectations are not typically stratospheric for these things, since the limited budget [...] Read »
News
Although many other colleges have seen the value of their investments decrease significantly, Cooper Union’s endowment is expected to amount to about $600-million as the fiscal year ends today [...] Read »
“Would you wash your hands with a fire hose?” Read »
Theory
CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe’s 2007 book ‘Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945 - 1990′ (with Peter Blundell Jones) has been published in Japanese. This new edition is available here.
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