Miscellaneous
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 »
"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 »
With Valentines Day barely a week away, the Times Square Alliance is eschewing flowers and candy yet again. Instead, theyre sending New Yorkers a giant designer valentine for the second year [...] Read »
A proposed 239-unit development in San Franciscos Hayes Valley has yet to come to fruition, leaving an ugly, empty lot in its place. Seeing this, a group of enterprising citygoers have decided [...] Read »
[Model detail of the south atrium interior]
Architects: Lab
Project: Federation Square, Melbourne
The project was commissioned after a two-stage competition with 170 entries. Read »
Photo by Dan Haneckow Dan Haneckow framed the issue succinctly on his Cafe Unknown blog a few days ago: "The question is not if Portland's firefighters deserve a larger, more accessible memorial. [...] Read »
News
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 »
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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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 »
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 »
On a day when the MTA announced that its budget shortfall may now surpass $400 million as last years payroll tax is bringing in even less revenue than expected, Mayor Michael Bloomberg began [...] Read »
As Sarah Palin reemerges in preparation for her run at the presidency in 2012, she has shown herself to be wonderfully transparent. Contrasted to the cool and calculating President Obama who [...] Read »
Located in the rural district of Espoo, northern Finland, lies the 400 m 2 residence Talo Kekkapaa which translated means wood in rock . Designed in harmony with the forested area and the existing [...] Read »
A slideshow of "ambitious architectural failures" which includes iconic buildings from Fallingwater to Pruitt-Igoe. (via Slate) Read »
Architectural Works
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 »
Architect Tsuyoshi Kawata of Japanese studio Tonoma has completed a house in Usuki, Japan, which features a wooden terrace wedged between two volumes. Read »
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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 »
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 »
The Amazon, Apple, Macmillan KerfuffleMay I suggest that Kindle v. iPad is small potatoes. There will be another half-dozen ebook readers in the next year. The market will shake out. Some folks [...] Read »
Video
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 »
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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 »
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 »
"A polymath (Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, "having learned much") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of subject areas." (source: wikipedia) Are architects polymaths? [...] Read »
3D city engine based on Conway's Game of Life and developed in Processing.
By: Jeannette Kuo, Dino Rossi & Dominik Zausinger
ETHZ MAS CAAD 2009/2010 Read »
London-based Steven Chilton of Marks Barfield Architects , the designers of the London Eye, has sent us fascinating images of Villa Hush Hush, an innovative high end residence they are currently [...] Read »
The Port Authority announced today that steel erection for One World Trade Center has reached the 20th floor, or 200 feet above street level. For this particular project, that means that 8,000 [...] Read »
Technology
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 »
One of our favorite publications, GOOD magazine, has just joined forces with PRE and Studio X to launch a design competition to rebuild Haiti. The contest comes at a time when Haiti needs it [...] Read »
Ask most people about Flushing, Queens and theyre likely to either stare blankly or venture Where the Nanny is from?! That all might change with the development of a 1.8 million sq. foot, [...] Read »
When the sun goes down many developing countries rely upon dangerous kerosene lamps, which emit hazardous fumes and generate 190 million metric tons of CO2 each year. Seeking an eco-friendly [...] Read »
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