Architectural Works
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 »
The ‘Concrete Geometries’ Research Cluster at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences [...] Read »
We continue with more proposals for the Museum of Polish History Competition, this time with the proposal by kOnyk architecture (more projects by the firm previously featured at AD). One [...] Read »
Working with the idea of creating a society that is based on quality not quantity, on cooperation and not competition,” CTRLZ architectures have rethought a new model for, not just a building, [...] Read »
At ArchDaily we also have place for those projects or ideas that doesnt seem to fit anywhere else. Ideas, toys or rankings, these are the posts we enjoy for their creativity and of course, sense [...] Read »
News
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 »
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Miscellaneous
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 »
The world's bookstore has become Jeff Bezos' playhouse. Amazon has pulled all the titles from MacMillan, one of the world's largest publishers, from its on-line store, for both print and electronic [...] Read »
The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold for another year. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, [...] Read »
Video
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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 »
From inside the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing We look on Gehry's bandshell and trellis as a mound. See? Come a little closer. From the landscape it springs with fecundity and mystery. [...] Read »
Stonehenge Pantheon Borromini Baroque Dome Garden trellis -> --=-- Fumihiko Maki - Nurturing Dreams: (Stonehenge) was a demonstration of community and a place of ceremony.... Standing in the [...] Read »
[Image: Pole Dance , P.S. 1 competition-winning design by SO-IL ]. I have to admit to being less than overwhelmed by the annual P.S. 1 competition—aka the Young Architects Program —as well [...] Read »
Technology
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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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 »
You'd don't have to look hard to find a community nowadays in which at least a few folks want it to be known that their town or county has a lot of modern houses and that therefore they "played [...] Read »
Might it look like this? From Fake is the New Real Read »
Miscellaneous
[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 »
(“At that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after,” sings Patti Smith in Land . Image from Physique Sacrée, ou Histoire-Naturelle de la Bible .) 1) This American Life on people bidding [...] Read »
Decades from now 2009 may be seen as the year that vertical farming started to take hold. Time magazine named vertical farming one of last year's 50 best inventions . Proposals seemed to arrive [...] Read »
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