Miscellaneous
Last fall, the Bloomberg administration launched NYC BigApps, a competition to design web and phone apps using a massive cache of city data. Dozens of developers entered, including the designer [...] Read »
Marin County to provide power, oust PG&E monopoly Read »
Architect Hugh Hardy's design for an addition to the Vivian Beaumont Theater which overlooks Lincoln Center, features a new black box theater that will be perched on the roof. NYT Read »
The Energy Neutral Portable Classroom designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture , provides an optimized educational facility whilst conserving, collecting and generating natural resources, including [...] Read »
According to a mailing I received from AECCafe, Belgian CAD developer, Bricsys, announced that their Bricscad software, an alternative to AutoCAD to produce DWG files, has been rewritten to be [...] Read »
I'm off to a job site today but I'm leaving you with my favorite booth from the New York International Gift Fair , Style de Vie . We first noticed all the blueprints and other vintage documents [...] Read »
Fresh blood dripping from ceiling into the 'Plans Architectural Design Shop' leads to a murder in England. That's right!
mailonline Read »
A book which challenges traditional views about the nature and future of Latin American architecture has been written by Cambridge architect and lecturer Felipe Hern�ndez.
Cambridge Univ. Read »
Miscellaneous
"A British farmer who secretly built a castle and hid it behind haystacks to avoid trouble from local planning authorities was ordered by a court Wednesday to demolish it." NPR Read »
Last night my friend and old CCNY classmate Matt informed me about NYIT professor Michele Bertomen's house under construction in Williamsburg. The distinctive design at 351 Keap Street (address [...] Read »
Italian architectural firm Tissellistudioarchitetti has completed a residential building with 28 flats located in Cesena (FC)-Italy. The clean and strong elevational statement features double [...] Read »
Cork is a useful material for making a number of things wine bottles, furniture, and cork boards, to name a fewbut airplane parts? A group of Portuguese cork producers recently launched the [...] Read »
P.S.1 2010 entry: LUX NOVA by EASTON+COMBS | ArchDaily Read »
The challenge for the project was to combine a tourist resort with a photovoltaic solar plant for a proposed site in Izola, the sunniest place in Slovenia. The hybridised landscape designed by [...] Read »
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North America’s oldest and largest taxicab fleet recently announced that it is going green! Yellow Cab’s parent company, Yellow Group, runs about 3,000 taxis in the Chicago area, and they [...] Read »
Well, a couple of weeks ago I expressed high hopes for the St. Lawrence Market North Building architectural competition. Its a crucial site, and a tricky project. Now the five finalists have [...] Read »
Our friend and neighbor, Jens Risom, is in the news again today for the roll-out of his newest line of furniture at the Ralph Pucci Gallery in NYC. New York Times reporter Joyce Wadler accurately [...] Read »
Statement by Rem Koolhaas:- "What does Rotterdam really need? After an impressive sequence of abrupt architectural transitions – from the stark modernity of the reconstruction, via the “new [...] Read »
"Architecture is not an inspirational
business, it's a rational procedure to do
sensible and hopefully beautiful things;
that's all"
Harry Seidler Read »
Earthscape are a crew of Japanese landscape designers that travel around during the summer with a 60-meter tall man made out herbs! Well, actually they travel with a few shipping containers loaded [...] Read »
photograph: Bob Johnson Both Crain's Chicago Business and the Tribune are reporting that Clarinabbey Ltd, one of an interlocking group of companies controlled by Irish developer Garrett Kelleher, [...] Read »
Technology
Imagine: a solar-powered screen that could quickly charge up your new iPad. Solar chargers are certainly nothing new, but this circuit is embedded right in the touchscreen, so you dont have [...] Read »
This month Project H Design is hitting the road in a vintage Airstream trailer with their Design Revolution Road Show, starting with exhibitions in SF and LA this week! The show will be run by [...] Read »
Check out this tip we received from reader isupereco: H2O Architects designed an incredible looking wall planter dubbed the Grass Mirror. The planter is 43 inches long and 4 inches deep and [...] Read »
Madonna is giving back to the country that gave her David, her son, in a big way by building an eco-friendly academy for girls in Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe. Through her non-profit organization, [...] Read »
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Madonna is giving back to the country that gave her David, her son, in a big way by building an eco-friendly academy for girls in Malawi�s capital city, Lilongwe. Through her non-profit organization, [...] Read »
Architect and SCI-Arc professor Roger Sherman ate a bunch of shrooms (and donuts) and then wondered what would happen if Target were to break out of the big-box. He calls it "a way for big box [...] Read »
The next thing that happened was that the Cooper-Hewitt Museum put up a brief mini-exhibition to celebrate Richard Meier 's seventy-fifth birthday and his fiftieth year in the field. I considered [...] Read »
A visualization of Lord Norman Foster's design for Yale's new School of Management (image: Yale Daily News) Lord Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners and a 1962 graduate of Yale's School [...] Read »
The resort aims to create a dialogue with Dominica's lush natural coastline; the architects BURO II , strengthened the relationship further by mimicking the terrain of the site, integrating garden [...] Read »
The L.A. Bike Working Group is developing an alternative bike plan. They are starting with a network of long-distance bike routes they are comparing to a freeway system for cyclists. LA Times Read »
News
February 4th was Capitol Hill Day for AIA executives, board members, and component leaders. Read »
While many architects take on the occasional public service project, sometimes pro bono, Jan Gleason made an entire career based on creating innovative sustainable buildings for nonprofit community [...] Read »
Due to the shadows of global warming and induced population displacement, aquatecture is becoming more and more attractive. Russian architect Alexander Asadov, famous for his deconstructivist [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
The first year of blogging is soon gona be available as a bound print. The publication will be ‘urbanTick Temporal Urban’. The book is very much about the literal meaning of the title, about [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a conference centre in Offenburg, Germany, designed by Freiburg architects Hetzel & Ortholf. Read »
Here are a couple Tadao Ando-designed buidlings, photographed by etogh33 .[ Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, 2004] [Vitra Conference Center in Weil Am Rhein, Germany, 1993] To contribute [...] Read »
For their latest hotel design in Kefalonia, Greece, Divercity Architects intended to blend this contemporary hotel with the vernacular architecture of the surroundings. Due to the site conditions, [...] Read »
Video
Norman Foster interview .. Read »
Finland Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 ,“Kirnu”.. by JKMM Architects .. more information .. and here .. Read »
Sendai Mediatheque,Japan..by Toyo Ito .. here more information.. official sit eand here .. flick rsee it at google maps Read »
Taichung Gateway Park City,Taiwan ..by Stan Allen Architect here more information.. Read »
Events
Kent State University has just posted their 2010 Spring Lecture Series (and the first one is coming right on up!) Elena Manferdini Design Is One February 09, 2010 7:30 pm Michael Schwartz Auditorium [...] Read »
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