Miscellaneous
Things have gotten pretty wild in Times Square, what with the permanent plazas, aquariums, and ice sculptures on the horizon—that last one is going up tonight—so what about a good old fashioned [...] Read »
Architect Peter Gluck and head of school Ivan Hageman talk about The East Harlem School, why the design of learning environments matters, and the importance of assessing buildings post-occupancy. Urban Omnibus Read »
En realidad estamos en la era de la motivación y seguramente todo depende y dependerá de ella. Hacer una ciudad mas habitable depende en muchos grados de la aptitud que muestren muchos de sus [...] Read »
Make a drawing of architecture that uses glitter: win $500 . Read »
The number of architects employed at the practice rose 19% to 262, which it said was a reflection of its success in winning work. BD Read »
The US has The Architect's Newspaper, and now it looks like Europe has its own newspaper on architecture. P anorama architecture newspaper is published by future , the maker of those giant magazines [...] Read »
For the many of you asking about the latest news on [bracket] - the first issue, [on farming] is scheduled to be available this April. It is being designed by the awesome team at Thumb ( previously [...] Read »
Oh yeah, hey, the Winter Olympics start tomorrow... here's a little Vancouver style celebratory art for you. (via Pruned) Read »
The chapel looked a lot older than it was. It was constructed in the 1940's, in the traditional style, to serve the nuns of the Society of Helpers of Holy Souls, which made its home in an adjacent [...] Read »
News
Architects Baumschlager Eberle have designed a combined clubhouse and boathouse at Port Rohner on Lake Constance in Fussach, Austria.The clear geometrical structures contrast starkly with the [...] Read »
Video
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center..Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.. by Zaha Hadid .. more information Read »
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The San Cristóbal Public Library by the Colombian based architects Paisajes Emergentes is designed to follow the natural slope of the land, fragmenting to form an open-air interior or great [...] Read »
[Image: " Melbourne's Future Wheel " by Büro North]. Danger Room : "As part of its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Pentagon extreme research agency Darpa is launching the Transparent Earth [...] Read »
[Image: The "Atomized Library" by Duncan Young]. For a recent studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, taught by Douglas Burnham of envelope A+D , student Duncan Young [...] Read »
(Chicago's reversed skyscraper. Photo by “SolarWind - Chicago”. Source .) Here's another competition, and it's organized by the Chicago Architectural Club. The site is the Chicago Spire hole [...] Read »
City Employees Decry Proposed Job Cuts Need the headline? CITY EMPLOYEES DECRY PROPOSED JOB CUTS Farmers decry proposed crop supports Doctors decry proposed tort laws Teachers decry proposed [...] Read »
Technology
Insulation may not be sexy, but it is important. Over the past years weve seen leaps and bounds towards creating cheaper, thinner, more breathable materials with higher R-values. There still [...] Read »
Solar power doesnt get more plug-and-play than the IllumiCharger, a wall-mounted charger that soaks up ambient light within your home to provide grid-free energy for any USB gadget. Designed [...] Read »
Every once in awhile, the billions of dollars dedicated towards U.S. military spending do some actual good. Case in point: this new bacteria-based water treatment unit, developed by researchers [...] Read »
Tiny Solar-Powered Sensor Harvests Energy From Surroundings | Inhabitat. Read »
IBM has announced the development of a thin film solar cell with an efficiency of 9.6% a whopping 40% increase from its previous prototypes. An efficiency of 9.6% isnt terribly impressive [...] Read »
The Sydney Theatre Company is well known for its fantastic theatrical productions and its rather famous director, Cate Blanchett, but its also set to become the greenest theater company in the [...] Read »
If you’ve ever experienced composting in action, you may know that things can get pretty hot when microbes meet organic material. So what if there was a way to capture all that heat and use [...] Read »
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Did you have a nice time watching Phantom of the Opera? Did you buy all that you could carry from The Disney Store? Have fun strolling down the soon-to-be-redesigned Broadway plazas? Why not [...] Read »
Wondering how to express your budding love for a fellow dirt aficionado? Try a soil and nutrient packed Luvmud by architecture and strategic consulting firm, super-interesting! A heart-shaped [...] Read »
The quality of light in this Amsterdam house by Rocha Tombal Architecten is amazing... I love a clean, white, minimal home. And the way the light is carried into and through the 3 stories of [...] Read »
MINE THE GAP is the Chicago Architectural Club 's 2010 Chicago Prize Competition. Its site is one of the most instantly recognizable signs of the economic slowdown and Chicago's ambition to extend [...] Read »
Alpha Chair by Dustin Jessen. Read »
The renowned Danish architectural company Henning Larsen Architects have been awarded first place in an international design competition for a new 15,000 m 2 concert and congress hall in Lanzarote, [...] Read »
A video of the second Barcelona Institute of Architecture Open Lecture, delivered by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow, titled " Architectural Behaviorology " is now available [...] Read »
An interesting concept for retrofitting buildings in Sydney has been shared with us thanks to Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA). This innovative plan, which is sustainable and cost [...] Read »
Architectural Works
The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association (WRCLA) is calling for entries in the 2010 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards program. The awards recognize innovative design using one of [...] Read »
(before/after) This project fascinates me. I literally spent half an hour dissecting every photo and studying plans and diagrams. This former victorian house in Ottawa, Canada was completely [...] Read »
An interesting concept for retrofitting buildings in Sydney has been shared with us thanks to Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA). This innovative plan, which is sustainable and cost [...] Read »
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Burdened by more than $3 million in debt, the Pasadena Playhouse closed its doors on Sunday. The nonprofit company intends to “explore viable options of financial reorganization, including [...] Read »
What are the educational consequences of having students read less on the printed page and more on the Web? NYT Read »
Is Italy returning to medieval-era warfare between city-states Milan and Venice? AN’s own Julie V. Iovine reports from Milan that Milanese and Lombardy officials are more than a bit miffed [...] Read »
Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA, book cover From an European perspective, US based architectural offices are often noted for their size: big cooperate offices like Gensler, [...] Read »
To the ever growing list of computer interfaces now infesting our bodies like viral prosthetic limbs, you can add another, one that's far less arthritic than a keyboard, less prosaic than a tablet/stylus [...] Read »
Neighbors resist plans to remake Seaside Park aka Asser Levy Park in Brooklyn. NYT Read »
The mood board that I posted yesterday with the Rothko painting reminded me of Allison Sarofim's amazing West Village townhouse. I just came across the article about it that I ripped out of [...] Read »
AIA Oregon lobbyist Cindy Robert relayed some sobering statistics to me about the recession and its impact upon the architectural profession in the U.S. According to the December 2009 release [...] Read »
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it. I know I'm late to the party, but I wanted to give a chronic lurker's point of view. I liked the article. I found it well-written and informative. [...] Read »
Competitions
The James Rose Center for Landscape Research and Design has released a call for entries for a design compettiont to explore "the aesthetics of landscape experience in the era of sustainability." [...] Read »
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