Miscellaneous
The Battle of the Wilderness, one of the crucial turning points on the Union’s path to victory in the Civil War, encompassed three days of horrendous combat in May, 1864. Those fighting to [...] Read »
Yet another reason New Yorkers might be jealous: the city of San Francisco has just announced 19.2 million dollars in new funding for energy efficiency programs. The bulk of the funds will go [...] Read »
What do you think of this project that Frank Gehry presented not long ago at a lecture at SCI-Arc in L.A.? Gehry said it would be mixed-use, is now on hold, and that he is very proud of it. Photo by DH . Read »
One of the biggest challenges of building a sustainable future is figuring out how to efficiently move people and objects from one place to another. Electric cars and biofuel-powered planes might [...] Read »
BUILD discusses the importance of hand sketching and shows a few examples of recent sketchbooks. Read »
I'm off to a busy day of meetings and appointments but I couldn't leave without posting these gorgeous photos of American-born and now Singapore based interior designer Christopher Noto 's Parisian [...] Read »
The Preston Bus Station in Lancashire, England (image: Dr Greg) Richard Waite writes in the January 29 edition of the Architect's Journal that, Architecture Minister Margaret Hodge has again [...] Read »
Designed by Davide Macullo Architects, this House in Lumino that quietly echoes its traditional surrounding is located in a remote Swiss Alpine village, in Lugano, Switzerland. The House in Lumino [...] Read »
[Image: August Strindberg, Coastal Landscape II ; via Andrew Ray's excellent blog Some landscapes ]. I'm horribly behind in my Quick Links... so here are fifteen: 1) New York Public Library | [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
A trailer for one of the films in the Living Architectures series called Xmas Meier by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Read »
Happy weekend! [video via swissmiss ]content by anArchitecture Read »
Volume magazine is hosting a conference this coming May about what they call "the Architecture of Peace ." Part of this will be assembling "an inventory of inspiring projects for (post-)conflict [...] Read »
Urban Canyon This design is about a canyon; a place for people to walk, hang out, and visit with a neighbor; a place to be community. The canyon, separating the 7 homes, ranges from 10 to nearly [...] Read »
The Olive 8 that located in the Denny Triangle area of Downtown Seattle, United States is a hotel and residential high-rise tower was designed by MulvannyG2 Architecture, and has completed in [...] Read »
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The Architect’s Newspaper is heading to the desert for the annual Palm Springs Modernism Week. This small city of 45,000 residents was, like other wealthy post-World War II communities including [...] Read »
As the vultures gather around the soon to be vacated carcass of E. Vincent Harriss Central Library in Manchester, CiA student Michael Groves has discovered the above stygian description of the [...] Read »
Another image Frank Gehry showed during his recent lecture at SCI-Arc, showing new materials his office is exploring. . Read »
Bruder Klaus Field Chapel Bunker Arquitectura Steven Holl Ronchamp Catholic Church in Zecc Ecker Chapel Aoki Jun Chapel Saint Benedict Read »
The following text and images are courtesy studio octopi for their extension to the Victorian end of a terrace house located in North London, UK. The project is shortlisted for a 2010 AJ Small [...] Read »
As more and more people across the world adopt cars as their primary mode of transportation, well-lit highways become increasingly important. But how can we sustainably power all those energy-sucking [...] Read »
Renovation by OMA
Design school by SANAA Read »
I always love a good minimalist church... It just seems so appropriate. This Croation parish church by Roman Vukoja & Robert Kriznjak is a fantastic example of minimalist ecclesiastic design. [...] Read »
In the old days you could buy an indulgence for your sins. Not much has changed. Today the accepted currency for indulgences is still green - just not as in cash, but as in sustainability. Green [...] Read »
Technology
If youve got a toddler running about the house you may have asked yourself Isnt there some way I could put all of that energy to good use? Well the folks who came up with Rocco, one of the [...] Read »
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hMa's Amrhein-Swenson studio is a new small building designed for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson that will house a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio [...] Read »
For readers of the paper—the print paper, that is—you know full well the importance of our reviews section, just as vital to the pulse of the architectural discourse as the news and features [...] Read »
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The Network Architecture Lab announces a series of evening panels entitled Discussions on Networked Publics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's [...] Read »
Imagine if you could kick, bunt and play your way to clean clothing. Well Swirl, an innovative new concept for easy laundering on the go lets people do just that. This colorful ball (which we [...] Read »
A post at Making Light stimulated my thinking: Just a surmise.What I think is genuinely valuable about publishers is that they are gate-keepers if they do a fair and responsible job. Could be [...] Read »
Since the New York International Gift Fair ended yesterday, I thought maybe I should try to finish up my coverage as well. I've pulled together some photos of my favorite booths and items that [...] Read »
At the request of the Environment and Public Works Committee of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) came up with 10 Advantages of Sustainable Design. Their publication was [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
The paper was published on the CASA page already in December last year . That was as a boring ‘first have to download’ pdf format. Now, this is cool, it is available on Issuu , conveniently [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
I've seen renderings of this place around the web for a few months, and it appears that Qb Design has finally completed the Split Level House in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. [...] Read »
Some really amazing lake houses from Norway, Switzerland, England and New Zealand for todays Round Up. Check the first part of this selection right here. And have a look at the other four after [...] Read »
Every week we have so many good posts that we dont want you to miss anything. Thats why starting today, every Friday, well have a look at the most interesting projects or interviews of the [...] Read »
We love prefab designs, but we love seeing them come to life even more! Last July, we brought you renderings for the House Arc, a bicycle rack-inspired modular home designed by Joseph Bellomo, [...] Read »
From its modular modern design to its shipping container components, Olggas student housing complex struck us as a pitch perfect project for prefab friday. The French architecture firm designed [...] Read »
Japanese architects Future Studio have completed a house in Hiroshima City, Japan, where the walls of the building extend to enclose a garden and first-floor terrace. Read »
Video
Great Dubai timelapse by Philip Bloom .. Filmed over 5 days and nights.. Shot on the Canon 7D , 2x5DmkII and Panasonic GF1 .. Read »
4x4 House,Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.. by Tadao Ando .. more information .. flick rsee it at google maps Read »
News
This is the headquarters for the local savings bank in Madrid by Mozas Aguirre arquitectos. The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park of the Natura 2000 networking [...] Read »
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