Architectural Works
Dutch architects MVRDV have announced plans to extend the city of Almere by creating a series of artificial islands. Read »
After two years of construction, the Musée Hergé designed by Christian de Portzamparc is complete. Situated in a forest and connected by a footbridge to Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the [...] Read »
Dutch architects LAM have completed a sustainable giraffe enclosure for Rotterdam Zoo, which opens next week. Read »
The initial[1] idea was thought provoking: construct a covering using 400 red umbrellas (outside of their intended purpose) suspended over the new pedestrian mall in the city of Talca to create [...] Read »
Designed by ThreefoldArchitects , the Ladderstile House, an eco-friendly large residence in Richmond Park, London, is arranged around an internally landscape courtyard. Â The home’s volumes [...] Read »
In my opinion, the iPhone has opened a complete new world of interaction in our hands and for me has been a very valuable tool in terms of productivity. Thanks to its mobile broadband capabilities, [...] Read »
The Edward Cella Art + Architecture gallery has recently put on display a permanent desk/sculpture by Ball-Nogues Studio , a Los Angles based fabrication practice. The desk is made of die cut [...] Read »
Italian architects Stefano Boeri Architetti have completed a complex of buildings including a conference centre, exhibition venue and marina in Sardinia. Read »
Dezeenwire: Sunday Times architecture critic Hugh Pearman has posted his review of Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum in Athens on his website - www.hughpearman.com Read »
Different kinds of health architecture in different parts of the world. From Portugal, Netherlands, Japan, Sudan and Burkina Faso, we bring you our Round Up of previously featured health architecture [...] Read »
News
Too many colleges can isolate energy usage only by building or floor, not by room or even by machine, making guesswork all too likely. Read »
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Miscellaneous
O'Donnell + Tuomey has won an international design competition for a new £21.5 million Students' Centre at the London School of Economics. The Irish firm beat a strong shortlist in a RIBA design [...] Read »
The Monacelli Press has announced a five-volume monograph on Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ( SOM ), spanning 1950-2008. Each volume spans about ten years and features introductions by Henry Russell-Hitchcock [...] Read »
Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture -- raw, risky, emotional, radical -- and that offer inspiration for any bold creative [...] Read »
This copper clad weekend home on Mercer Island, Washington by architects Hutchison + Maul makes use of the stunning view with the sight lines it creates perched high above the water's edge like [...] Read »
"The next bubble to burst will be the education bubble. Make no mistake about it, education is big business and, like other big businesses, it is in big trouble." NYT Read »
Robert McLaughlin’s ‘Landscape Apertura‘ treehouse near Kansas City, offers calculated views into nature via six strategically placed, vibrant green frames. Each frame is designed to capture [...] Read »
The Portland Development Commission (PDC) held its annual election of officers at its June 24 board meeting and chose Scott Andrews, president of Melvin Mark Properties, as the new board chair. [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Vicente Verdú dirige el seminario “Creatividad en la escasez” de la Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, en colaboración con el Ayuntamiento de Palma Cuatro expertos analizarán en [...] Read »
‘Bedtime stories’ becomes a literal interpretation in the design of the Uroko House Book Igloo — a cozy, fort-like enclosure of bookshelves which encircle a bed. Being surrounded in slumber [...] Read »
The successful proposal for the LSE’s student centre has been announced. O’Donnell & Tuomey’s winning presentation boards as pdfs at this link.
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WHEN I started with Typepad, their templates had no controls for letter spacing. I wanted that, so I hired someone to add that single feature for me. WHAT A MISTAKE! I had to pay him, I had to [...] Read »
This Saturday TIMC09!!! event at Macau’s Albergue will showcase artists from Hong Kong and Beijing. Audio visual artist Cédric Maridet presents ‘Filipina Heterotopia’, and later on the [...] Read »
The New Fauves seem kind of Stuckist . That's not a bad thing / Triangle Triangle is one of those abstract sites that seems to distil whole swathes of contemporary cultural production down into [...] Read »
The WSJ discusses the decreasing popularity in McMansions as the economy continues to deflate the expectations and desires of home owners. Is consumer confidence to blame credit, or does it represent [...] Read »
Designs for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium could be altered at the last minute amid a major change of plan for the venue in legacy mode. BD Online Read »
Planetizen’s Nate Berg brings us an interesting report from America 2050’s recent LA conference. The group is trying to develop a nationwide infrastructure strategy. In order to handle the [...] Read »
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Even during the boom, it was difficult to see some of the things we were building and imagine them as a success. Enormous luxury golf and spa hotels in the middle of nowhere, shoe-box apartment [...] Read »
Among the amenities–Oval Lounge, Oval Kids, lots and lots of trees–Tishman Speyer has rolled out at Stuytown to justify the ever-higher rents is a new summer concert series. And performing [...] Read »
The demand for corporate real estate is down dramatically and the vacancy being counted and reported now does not yet represent the depth of the problem. Corporations are either not willing to [...] Read »
by AgaTino Rizzo* ....the article ( link ) is really interesting, but as architect, engineer, and planner I'm a bit skeptical about Soleri's model. Arcology is a comprehensive device which [...] Read »
"Pina basically reinvented dance. She is one of the greatest innovators of the past 50 years." She influenced choreographers drawing from her idiosyncratic style and experimenting with performances [...] Read »
i'm busy busy busy...too busy to blog it seems =) but i was excited to see one of my schools has their summer architecture program for elementary students up on their website with great images! [...] Read »
It's funny when an answer to one of your questions falls in your lap. I've been trying to find out who represents Bob Collins & Sons in New York and just I found out that Todd Romano has recently [...] Read »
Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Complex Shift http://europaconcorsi.c om/projects/99421/image s/1360188/slideshow http://www.archdaily.co m/25095/taiwan-center-f or-disease-control-comp lex-studio-shift/ [...] Read »
Julia Molloy and Taka Sarui of Brooklyn design collaborative XLXS created the GrowShelter, a highly unique living environment where humans, plants and animals may co-exist. Consisting of three [...] Read »
Directly influenced by the 50s and '60s experiments, ExtraRoom puts the sensory deprivation practice in a near futuristic scenario, when mind reading technologies are in common use and thoughts [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
According to data collected by NeighborhoodScout.com and Dr. Andrew Schiller the most dangerous neighborhood in the United States is in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is important to remember this list [...] Read »
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Ireland's architects must embrace the sustainability agenda and keep the environmental impact of their buildings at the front of their minds. This was the central message of Environment Minister [...] Read »
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'Parking Lot' by Jason Brockert Harold Bubil, columnist for the Sarasota's Herald-Tribune, has written another article in this past Saturday's edition about the continuing demolition of Riverview [...] Read »
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another. BBCNews Read »
The 45-story Steuben Club Building, 188 West Randolph, 1929, Vitzhum & Burns, whose work also includes One North LaSalle, St. Peters on Madison, and Painters District Council 14 on Adams. Read »
An Open Letter to Dwell Magazine By Jeff Speck Monday, June 22, 2009 11:02 am Dear Dwell: Love the magazine. As a favor, I have rewritten the Table of Contents of your July/August issue: Cover [...] Read »
On Thursday, we wrote about a new park that had been unveiled as part of the city’s plans for Hunter’s Point South. Not to be outdone, Gantry Plaza State Park, Queens West’s original greenway, [...] Read »
For the 53rd Venice Art Biennial, Jorge Otero-Pailos, a professor of preservation at Columbia, made a cast of the pollution on a wall of the Doge’s Palace on the Palazzo San Marco. Trained [...] Read »
In 2007, the City of Portland invited architects from around the world to share ideas on the design possibilities for housing oriented around shared courtyards. The Courtyard Housing Competition [...] Read »
I've always had a bit of a protestant mindset when it comes to places of worship... The simpler the structure, the better for communing with a higher being. This temple to catch the forest by [...] Read »
Technology
Xeros Ltd. is on the verge of saving us a LOT of water. Their new washing system (prototype stage) uses nylon beads to tumble wash clothes with 90% less water than conventional washers. The [...] Read »
We all know that food and water are basic human needs, but what about something as simple as a place to sit? Right now, there is a pressing need for nearly 2 billion basic, low-cost seating units [...] Read »
Argentinean architects Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi of Estudio a77 transformed an existing 1950s house on a small lot in an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires into an innovative eco-friendly [...] Read »
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