Architectural Works
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 »
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a conference centre in Offenburg, Germany, designed by Freiburg architects Hetzel & Ortholf. 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 »
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 »
February 4th was Capitol Hill Day for AIA executives, board members, and component leaders. Read »
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Miscellaneous
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Norman Foster interview .. Read »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Miscellaneous
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 »
[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 »
"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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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