Architectural Works
American architects Pugh + Scarpa have sent images of their duplex home design for actor Brad Pitt’s Make it Right charity. Read »
After several years of organizing the annual Skyscraper Competition it has become a renowned architectural prize around the world. The best projects of each competition are widely published from [...] Read »
Cebra , a Danish architecture firm, will design a botanical garden for Aarhus University, Denmark’s second oldest and second largest university (after the University of Copenhagen). The [...] Read »
Pre-built homemakers extraordinaire, Marmol Radziner Prefab were in the news this week once again introducing their newest custom prefab home. High up in the hills above Los Angeles sits the [...] Read »
Here are some views of the Castel Firmiano Messner Mountain Museum in Bozen, Italy by Werner Tscholl . Photographs are by Martino Pietropoli .To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, [...] Read »
WWA Architects have created a conceptual design for Polish Expo 2010. With the exhibition housing pavilions from countries all over the world, each pavilion must provide a strong aesthetic [...] Read »
Frank Gehry is one of 14 architects to have designed duplexes for Make it Right, the charity founded by actor Brad Pitt to develop new housing typologies for a hurricane-devastated district of New Orleans. Read »
Italian based Stefano Boeri Architetti shared with us their latest project: The requalification and recovery of the ex Military Arsenal on the island of La Maddalena, Italy. This project includes [...] Read »
Second part of the interview with japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, by 0300. Part 1 was featured yesterday . Read »
[ July 6, 2009 10:00 to July 17, 2009 10:00. ] Passive House Consultants’ Training Program will take place at Parsons The New School for Design from July 6 till July 17. The program is designed [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Thomas Heatherwick has recently released images for the British pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Exposition. The six-storey pavilion under the theme "Better City, Better Life" is pierced by 60,000 [...] Read »
The Micheels Residence before demolition in 2007 David Hay writes in Protecting New Canaan’s Modernism in yesterday's New York Times about an online survey of modern homes in New Canaan, Connecticut. [...] Read »
July 4th, the day the Adams died (Jefferson, too), is not only the 233rd anniversary of our nation's birth, it's the day that Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett officially unveiled their 1909 [...] Read »
Jews and Muslims unite against Jerusalem MoT to derail the planned Frank Gehry designed museum, which is currently being built in Jerusalem on the site of a Muslim cemetery. Haaretz Read »
Grady Lewis, a Virginia native who closed on his 2.67-acre lot in 2007 and moved into his 1,800-square-foot house at Bundoran with his wife, Diane, this spring, responded to Qroe�s idea of [...] Read »
While I was looking through designer Meg Braff 's portfolio, I came across the most perfect East Hampton home. I love the patterns and shades of blue she used throughout all the spaces. The [...] Read »
The Rudy Bruner Foundation has chosen the Inner-City Arts project, a downtown Los Angeles education facility which provides art instruction to a large population of at-risk children and youth [...] Read »
Survey of the design philosophy, built and designed projects of Pugh + Scarpa, an architecture firm based in Santa Monica, CA. Pugh + Scarpa is recognized worldwide as a leader in sustainable [...] Read »
The House’s passage of new Energy and Climate legislation (HR 2454: the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) on Friday means more than just the possible institution of a new cap [...] Read »
OLIAROS, a young property development company, is calling architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the construction of a student housing unit in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), [...] Read »
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In our pilot Midwest issue, I wrote about The Ledge, a new viewing platform at the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago. At the time, only renderings were available of the SOM-designed all-glass [...] Read »
The folks at the Glass House have put the new inventory of modern houses in New Canaan online. I just started clicking a few minutes ago and have only gotten through three or four of the 91 houses, [...] Read »
Consistent internet access has been hard to come by these past few days, post-Rome, so posts have suddenly come to a standstill – but I'll have new material up ASAP... More soon. Read »
Notification of upto35 , an international competition for architects up to 35 years old, landed in my inbox earlier today. It asks for "proposals for the construction of a student housing unit [...] Read »
This is a Champion , a project / The Graphing Calculator Story / Le Corbusier's furniture from Chandigarh , 'salvaged from a skip' / create background patterns / The Lives of Space , a site developed [...] Read »
I live in a small house. It is two bedrooms, one is the master, the other serves as an office. When we have company over, the only choice for them to sleep on is the couch or the floor. That’s [...] Read »
The newest creation by Innovative Designs , in collaboration with Hoberman Associates and Buro Happold , is a 50 Ton expanding video screen that operates continuously throughout the duration [...] Read »
Imagine inviting a dinner party of six into a formal dining room with only 3 chairs. The horror! Well, it’s really no problem with the Guarda Inside-Out Chair by Zanic Design. At first glance [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Time: Hudson River House living room Distance: marking distance: the BPC Community Center ’s glass facade Form: Pratt Pavilion In early modernist architectural thought the clearest thesis that [...] Read »
Proposal for a weekend house built on the edge of a lake in Australia by Neeson Murcutt Architects Read »
D&AD – HP Workstations Performance – Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth Read »
(Claudia Delisle, Karine Dieujuste, Philippe Nolet and Sami Tannoury, Poule mouillée! , 2008, 2009. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.) And still yet another installation [...] Read »
Sears Tower unveils glass balconies. Acrophobia and vertigo included. Lets look. Read »
(Doug Moffat and Steve Bates, Soundfield , 2007, 2008, 2009. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.) Another installation at this year's International Garden Festival at Jardins [...] Read »
photo copyright by anarchitecture, christoph wassmann Poissy-sur-Seine, 33 kilometers north-east of Paris, features two buildings of Corbusier: the famous Villa Savoye and its "Mini-Me" – the [...] Read »
Last Summer I was outside doing my usual weeding of the gardens and taking in the beautiful weather, when a hummingbird buzzed by my ear. I was taken a little aback since I don’t see too many [...] Read »
Brandon Safford, blogger at I Dream of Architecture has published an interview with Archidose 's John Hill. Read »
DC10_... , originally uploaded by D:center Baltimore . Read »
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I'm taking a long 4th of July weekend out of town away from the city and computers. Posts will resume early next week. My weekly page will resume on July 13. Read »
KjellgrenKaminsky Architecture has recently unveiled an interesting project called Silent City, a project in Tangshan China, which experienced the most devastating earthquake of the 20th century [...] Read »
The Seasteading Institute is an organisation dedicated toward creating sustainable sea platforms where people can choose to live if they�re unsatisfied with life on solid ground. They recently [...] Read »
I just found out that Karl Malden died today at the ripe old age of 97. Mr. Malden was a talented actor. I know a lot of kids today haven’t heard of him, but go check out a Streetcar Named [...] Read »
Anyone who visits Nashville knows that it sits between two worlds, modern and rustic. I was wondering if these two worlds could be combined and sure enough comes this rustic, modern home designed [...] Read »
You know we’re big fans of recycling, but this Fourth of July, doesn’t it just seem like more fun to be able to tell your guests to throw their used plates and cups into the bushes instead [...] Read »
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has completed the installation of LED fixtures on the necklace of the George Washington Bridge. The 156 light emitting diode fixtures replace the [...] Read »
Technology
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Solar Ivy (or SMIT Grow) is a spectacular system of thin, fluttering solar panels that generate energy by sparkling in the sunlight. The wind and solar power generating photovoltaic leaves can [...] Read »
The United Kingdom’s Hanham Hall Development is the largest eco-village aspiration to date. Designed by HTA and funded by Barratt Developments and the Homes & Communities Agency, there are [...] Read »
We’ve seen designers recycle airplane parts to create desks, tropical eco-hotels and a hostel, and now we can add couches and beds to the lofty collection! MotoArt is a team of designers who [...] Read »
Who says materials have to be scraped, buffed, and varnished to be beautiful? Recently, we spotted a beautiful storage barn that proves raw materials can make a breathtaking exterior. The building’s [...] Read »
News
In 1895, fire gutted the single most famous academic building in America, the Rotunda that Thomas Jefferson designed to be the centerpiece of the University of Virginia campus. Read »
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