Architectural Works
Pond Meadows, a special needs school designed by London architects DSDHA, has opened in Guildford, England. Read »
Our friends from Design Crave shared with us these amazing photos of the recently opened public glass balconies for public viewing. The 1.5″ thick glass floor (which resists up to 5 tons) offers [...] Read »
Architectural Design Competition d3 is pleased to announce the winners of the Natural Systems competition for 2009. The program promotes investigation of natural systems from microscopic to universal [...] Read »
A few days ago I received the latest issue of Mark Magazine (nº20, jun-jul). Once again it´s a white cover issue, featuring this time a house in Argentina by LA-based Johnston & Mark [...] Read »
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 »
Miscellaneous
He may not have the fame of Frank Gehry or the kudos of Rem Koolhaas, but this versatile Canadian architect leaves a far-reaching legacy. Guardian / Images Read »
While studying architecture at Texas Tech University, John Johansen visited our campus and shared his design philosophy with us. I was a wide eyed pup that hung on his every word. What an impression [...] Read »
Good things really do come in small packages — as is the case with these mini modernist Bauhaus Models crafted by Auckland based painter and sculptor Gidon Bing and styled by Katie Lockhart. [...] Read »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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Miscellaneous
Last week, Prospect Height’s became the city’s newest landmark district. At 850-odd buildings, it is the largest district to be created since the Upper West Side Historic District was created [...] Read »
I hope all my American readers enjoy the long 4th of July holiday weekend. Oh, and let's keep our fingers crossed that it doesn't rain! Photo from Markham Roberts Read »
Woolly Pockets is bringing the Garden of Eden indoors with their incredible planters for your walls and floors. These breathable little pockets of green are composed of 60% recycled plastic bottles [...] Read »
Lately, it seems like there have been a lot of going away parties for friends leaving New York to escape the high cost of living or to find jobs elsewhere. But maybe that’s just me. Yesterday, [...] Read »
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The Tulane School of Architecture has been pretty busy... the GREENbuild project above was done in Coleman Coker's class (Coleman Coker and his firm buildingstudio were featured in an eye candy [...] Read »
Marmol Radziner Prefab recently installed their brand new Hollywood Hybrid, a 2576 sq. ft. sustainable, modern prefab home with killer views and a minimal carbon footprint. Responsible materials [...] Read »
Proposal for a weekend house built on the edge of a lake in Australia by Neeson Murcutt Architects Read »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Technology
via: enlighter.org click here! Read »
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 »
New lighting from Artemide this year includes the Altrove by Carlotta de Bevilacqua, a decorative wall or ceiling light that uses transparent wires to allow the light to flow. It's the type of [...] 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 »
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As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions [...] Read »
This house by Franklin Azzi in Yport, France (in Normandy), is just so delicious. . . All that lovely wood and light and smooth open spaces in a neat, petite footprint. The windows and their [...] Read »
Bububluooopppp! That’s the sound a pool noodle makes when it sinks in the water, and it’s also what these zany seating arrangements constructed out of oodles of the buoyant toys on a Chelsea [...] Read »
Maybe you simply didn’t have enough time this year to think about it. Or maybe you’ve already gotten so many biodegradable plates, composting bins and other eco-hookups for your Fourth of [...] Read »
(âStuck Inflatable Zeppelin,â part of a series of installations collectively called Sciame di Dirigibili by Héctor Zamora at the 2009 Venice Art Biennale. Photo by Stunned.org . [...] Read »
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 »
Denver International Airport redesign plan in the works.
Plan includes making Great Hall [aka "the tent"] a secure area and adding a light rail station and hotel. Denver Post 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 »
Architectural practice in Amsterdam, specialized in mobility and public buildings 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 »
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 »
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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When the City Planning Commission barely altered the city’s plans–plans that remain diametrically opposed to those of chief landholder Joe Sitt–we couldn’t help but wonder whether the [...] Read »
We knew that Gehry Partners had trimmed its staff recently due to the recession. But according to a story in Architectural Record, the cuts are much worse than we thought. Tony Illia writes that [...] Read »
Last November, Paul Thompson announced he was giving up directing the Cooper-Hewitt and heading back to London to take over at the Royal College of Art. Ever since then, the speculative interest [...] Read »
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 »
Ever since plans for the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center were scaled back, at which point Richard Rogers departed, the project has been a pariah. But FXFowle Epstein are set to transform the [...] Read »
Architectural and Interior photographer based in NYC. Read »
Caio ! Today (and tomorrow) we examine some of the beautiful sites of Italy. Much of the typical American styles for academic and government structures is heavily borrowed from Italian works [...] 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 »
The juxtaposition of materials in Patrick Weder's work is really sweet... Walnut and Corian . Concrete and Moss. The simple forms atrick Weder'samplify the contrast between materials. . I think [...] 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 »
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