Miscellaneous
Just when we thought budget cuts couldnt get any deeper in LA, the City Council has put forward a motion to eliminate the Department of Cultural Affairs only regular revenue stream, the 1% [...] Read »
Cross Border Communication, Windsor, Ontario. GOOD Magazine reports on an "artist-led urban improvement group" bent on rectifying the relationship between the neighboring cities of Windsor, Ontario, [...] Read »
This weekend the AIA announced that The Architect’s Newspaper has been awarded a 2010 Collaborative Achievement Award. We’re thrilled to get the national recognition because even as a regional [...] Read »
Vote for this project - $250,000 at stake! We all know that when there's more cyclists on the road, there is greater visibility, fewer crashes and ultimately higher prioritization of bike-friendly [...] Read »
In 2008, to commemorate 50 years of the Irish Georgian Society, the Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and Limerick City Gallery of Art commissioned four artists to take photographs [...] Read »
A few years ago there was a huge fuss in Westport when a landowner bought and attempted to tear down the Micheels House, designed by Paul Rudolph. Unfortunately the guy succeeded (I wrote about [...] Read »
Making buildings is easy; relationships are hard. The Chicago Architecture Foundation leads off the February Calendar of Architectural Events in an amorous kind of mood with a Tuesday night [...] Read »
Some more fuel for the firewood posts I've been issuing as of late, this is an interesting addition to a house in Estonia that seeks not to blend in with the existing structure, but to call attention [...] Read »
News
Last fall the Russian architecture journal Building ARX held its fourth annual awards program at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Read »
Former entertainment lawyer-turned-lighting designer Michael McHale creates chandeliers that are as much about structure as they are shimmering crystal.Born from the seeds of a DIY project, Michael [...] Read »
Video
Nathalie De Vries / MVRDV / Part 1 from 0300TV on Vimeo .PART 2 PART 3 MVRDV Read »
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The SHIFTboston International Ideas Competition gathered 141 entries from sixteen states and fourteen countries. A diverse selection of students and professionals stepped forward to answer the [...] Read »
A few tidbits on my daily blog and weekly web page. :: First, regular readers will probably notice a new sponsor in the top right corner of this page. Land8 Media is a "Targeted Ad Network for [...] Read »
A Lecture Series to accompany the exhibition Seeing Georgian Limerick, Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin, 9 February to 12 March 2010. Seeing Georgian Limerick is a photographic [...] Read »
A brain institute in Las Vegas, with photos by thegoatisbad. jump | 'nother | GT Read »
Architecture still an attractive career in medium- to long-term according to WIT School leavers, mature students and graduates from other disciplines considering study options are being urged [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
We have been logging Twitter activities in the London area (M25) over an earlier weekend in January with some code Steven Gray has put together. The idea was to log the location based traffic [...] Read »
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image courtesy Architects Without Borders-Oregon The Oregon chapter of Architects Without Borders first was established about five years ago, following two back-to-back natural disasters: the [...] Read »
Sandridge Natural Gas Headquarters, Oklahoma City, OK. Two major corporate headquarters projects for natural gas companies in Oklahoma City promise to dramatically remake that city's central [...] Read »
Architects are the guardians of good aesthetics but if they can't uphold a code of decent design in the built environment they will lose that authority. Read »
[Images: House in Venice, California, by Bureau AA ; photos by Larry Underhill]. This small and breezy house in Venice, California, designed by Robert Choeff and Krystyan Keck of the Bureau of [...] Read »
My weekly page update: This week's dose features Hill Hut in Stockholm, Sweden by visiondivision: The featured past dose is House for a Musician in Scharans, Switzerland by Valerio Olgiati: This [...] Read »
another quality web candy - for your surfing pleasure... http://www.cbstudio.com/ I realize I'm a week behind and I intend to make it up - please accept my appologies... _______________________ _________ [...] Read »
Technology
A crowd that included actor/activist Don Cheadle gathered last week to celebrate the completion of the Upward Bound House Family Shelter in Culver City, Los Angeles, what is undeniably one of [...] Read »
Teaching city kids about sustainable farming can be tricky. After all, in a bustling metropolis like New York, its easy to see why some youngsters think apples originate in bins at their local [...] Read »
Spongy metal sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, but its actually a real material that is capable of absorbing large impacts without damage. Metal foams have been around for some time, but new [...] Read »
Computing on-the-go couldnt be easier with the bevvy of smart phones, laptops and netbooks on the market. But printing documents while away from the home or office is a whole nother story [...] Read »
Recycled windshields are busting out of the woodwork, from French country gardens to swank sub/urban surfaces. The protective pupa shown here ( la serre is French for greenhouse ) transforms [...] Read »
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I attended the New York International Gift Fair yesterday and I have a new found respect for store owners who have to attend all five days to shop for their boutiques! I think I would keel over [...] Read »
Moving house - literally - to avoid ghosts in Chile. BBC News Read »
best architecture of the decade - the mammoth edition | Hanover 2000 Expo ten years later | the furniture of death | did architects fail Haiti? | Nakatomi Place or "lessons in the inappropriate [...] Read »
Paul Rudolph's Chorley Elementary (1964-1969) (image: Andrei Harwell) The Paul Rudolph Foundation has begun a petition to save Paul Rudolph's 1969 John W. Chorley Elementary from demolition. [...] Read »
A new UAHS publication by Paul Larmour aims to be much more than the history of a remarkable project and a guide to the building it is an architectural feast that will delight anyone with an [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Slovenian studio Ofis Arhitekti have completed a project to create suburban affordable housing in Podpec, Slovenia, Read »
photo by Aaron Rogosin Several years ago, an artist named Carole Zoom bought a former Goodwill store building in Eugene and rented it out (at a reduced rate) to local nonprofit arts organizations [...] Read »
Following our recent story about a canoe store in the Spanish countryside, heres a rather different solution to the same problem located on a farm in Ontario, Canada, designed by architecture [...] Read »
Swiss studio Marchal + Fürstenberger Architects have completed a house in Arlesheim, Switzerland, where the concrete upper floor appears to float over a glass-walled living space. Read »
San Franciscos newest transit hub will centralize all the transportation in the city by accomodating nine systems under one roof. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects have designed a new terminal, [...] Read »
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