Miscellaneous
[Image: " Chongqing XI " by Nadav Kander , winner of the 2009 Prix Pictet ; courtesy of the Prix Pictet ]. Speaking of the Prix Pictet , the winner of the 2009 prize was Nadav Kander for his [...] Read »
Inspired by the intricate structure worn by the singer to last week's Grammy Awards, Evanston's ICARCH Gallery has just announced a competition, A House for Lady Gaga . . . The more she hides, [...] Read »
[Image: " Scene J3 " from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch , courtesy of the Prix Prictet ]. I was reminded, via an old post on Pruned , of an amazing series of photographs by Jules Spinatsch [...] Read »
Below is the text I wrote for a film that will be showing during the "Architectural Playgrounds" show at the Ron Arad Retrospective in the Barbican Galleries later this month. The artist making [...] Read »
"The recently completed Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC) has bagged the award for Asia’s “Best Tall Building” of 2008. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) gave [...] Read »
In 1875, a businessman named Fred Harvey (1835-1901) opened two restaurants in Kansas and Oklahoma along the Kansas Pacific Railway. At that time, the railways did not serve food on trains and [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
EXP Architects + Archi-art + ANMA collaborated to design the headquarters for Sonatel in Dakar. The long building is comprised of several layers and wrapped in a geometric skin. The buildings [...] Read »
UR Architects were awarded first prize for their design of a sports center in Antwerp. The center, which is intended for non-competition sports, is aligned with the existing sports hall [...] Read »
Architects Lightroom Studio of Georgia have completed a wooden pavilion sheltering an outdoor living room, constructed around a tree at a residence in Atlanta, USA. Read »
Here are some photos of Donnybrook Quarter in London, England by Peter Barber Architects , 2006. Photographs are by suburbanslice .To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: [...] Read »
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Video
Daniel Libeskind speech..Long Beach,California.. Read »
London 2012 Olympic Games Aquatic Center, Zaha Hadid .. construction timelapse.. previous post Read »
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