Miscellaneous
Jennifer Siegals Prefab Showhouse has been sitting on Venices Abbott Kinney Blvd since 2006, giving clients a preview of what they can get if they invest in a work by her firm, OMD (Office [...] Read »
hanrahan Meyers architects have a track record for designing award winning educational buildings. The Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion, WaveLine and the Won Buddhist Retreat, are educational [...] Read »
There's a tradition of turning renderings (official ones or DIY, like the above) of Williamsburg's massive New Domino project into something infinitely more terrifying (remember Attack of the [...] Read »
We recently launched a national version of Racked, which now lives at racked.com. New York City coverage is now at Racked NY's new URL, ny.racked.com. 1) East Village: The protruding new storefront [...] Read »
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op #3AK at 321 East 54th Street didn't sell when it first came on the market asking $1.175 million in the slightly less dark times of August 2008. So it went [...] Read »
New to the Internets is Coopandcondo.com, one real estate lawyer's attempt to address co-op and condo buyers' questions. A difficult job, but somebody's gotta do it! Up so far are articles on [...] Read »
The new luxury condo building at 535 West End Avenue, which mimics fellow Upper West Side blockbuster 15 Central Park West in both "modern pre-war" styling and monocle cracking prices, is finally [...] Read »
For this series of posts, I went down to see three of only five buildings Richard Meier has standing in New York that he built from the ground up, and the first he ever built in Manhattan. They're [...] Read »
Is there anything juicier than a savage attack on one critic penned by another? How about when the evidence cited includes meaty topics like Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Atlantic Yards, preservationists [...] Read »
Singapore’s new Philippines embassy designed by Forum Architects is an open and expressive space with expansive courtyards, cooling ponds, and greenery, all contained within a sedate enclosure [...] Read »
Arena signage is up and dirt has been pushed around, but the official ground-breaking ceremony for the Barclays Center will be March 11, according to the Daily News. On the eminent domain front, [...] Read »
[Bright lights, big city; photo via Curbed Photo Pool/SpecialKRB.] · MTA's budget woes claim new A&E reality show that would follow workers [NYT] · Fallen Marines' families want control of [...] Read »
House in Miyazaki-shi, capital city of Miyazaki (Japan). Architects: COGITE : Read »
News
The American Institute of Architects has elevated 134 association members to its College of Fellows, an honor that recognizes architects who have made a notable contribution to the profession and to society. Read »
Placed in a constant traffic corner, in front of a shopping center access square and Sordo Madaleno’s San Ignacio Church. The project plays the condition of being a building that takes control [...] Read »
Video
A special thanks to Brand Avenue for turning us on to this unique video of the chronological transformation of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. And here is a description of the work by [...] Read »
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NYCThe AIA New York Chapter has announced the 34 winners of its 2010 Design Awards, andhometown bias alert!NYC projects are well represented among the winners. All winning work, divided [...] Read »
"For the record, I work for the City in a real estate capacity. Officially, this sucks for us, but speaking from experience working for the big bad developers, I can say they wouldn't have been [...] Read »
As next month's opening day nears for Fetch Club, the proposed doggie spa/restaurant/day care at 85 South Street, the pooch pamper-center's neighbors are none too happy. The 108-year-old building [...] Read »
According to an entertaining MSNBC slideshow on the old-money Clark clan, the largest apartment on Fifth Avenue is the 42-room, 15,000-square-foot spread on two floors of 962 907 Fifth Avenue [...] Read »
Riverdale's Solaria has made a series of sales effortsincluding a 54-unit auctionthat can only be described as valiant. The latest? Offering the child of one lucky new buyer $10,000 for summer [...] Read »
When I first encountered the work of the architect and painter Anthony Candido, it was moving—or rather, the dancers whose costumes he had splashed with black paint were moving across the floor [...] Read »
Welcome back to Tuesday Townhouse: A look at a new-to-market townhouse that is rocking our world. Today, Brooklyn Heights! Last week's townhouse was a peek into a potentially greener future (also [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Location: 29 S. 3rd Street, Williamsburg Size: 24 one-, two-, and three-bedroom units Prices: $548,000 to $893,000 (currently available) Architect: [...] Read »
It was a deal so dramatic that it has broker-blogger Sandy Mattingly quoting Othello: the October sale of a loft at 144 West 27th Street for 51 percent of its initial ask. That sale price, $1.65 [...] Read »
While viruses like H1N1 scare the living bejesus out of us, theyve also been spurring science to look for new ways to produce vaccines quickly. Last year, H1N1 was responsible for more than [...] Read »
Artist Diana Al-Hadid , a sculptor/mixed media whose more architecturally-focused works that although less animated, are still hauntingly imbued with the same sense of humanness and unsaid presence. [...] Read »
The Post's Steve Cuozzo is ready to see some glass at The High Line Building, aka 450 West 14th Street. Happily, so are the developers! Developer Charles Blaichman tells Cuozzo that the glass [...] Read »
From James A. Fitzpatrick 's "Traveltalks: The Voice of the Globe". Via @andreslajous . Read »
Our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson happened to visit the excellent Model City exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation recently, and this is what he saw. The Chicago skyline, [...] Read »
The Treehouse Hotel is an experimental project of architecture and design that addresses essential topics to the future of our society. The theme of the sustainable city seeks from the beginning [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
The passing of Measure R at the end of 2008 provided Los Angeles County with funds for up to $40 billion in transit-related projects over the next 30 years. The measure also inspired a competition [...] Read »
Its hard to imagine something as filthy as a toilet being used to grow food. Yet thats exactly what one Swedish architect hopes to do in the developing world. Anders Wilhelmson is working on [...] Read »
Together with the tweet-O-meter project run at CASA as part of the NeISS research project we have collected location tagged tweets around London (M25). As described in an earlier post on this [...] Read »
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The Environmental Protection Agency balked at the Bloomberg administrations controversial proposal to clean up the Gowanus Canal, favoring its own Superfund program in an announcement today, [...] Read »
[What 34th Street will look like with NYC's first busway, via Streetsblog] · 34th Street might soon be home to a separated "busway" [Streetsblog] · Floorplans of TV show NYC apartments [Gothamist] [...] Read »
I am in need of some sunshine and warm weather so I've booked a trip to Los Angeles. I can't wait to luxuriate by the pool, shop and hang out with my West Coast friend Maison21 . (Just wish [...] Read »
Two years ago, the Brooklyn-based Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) asked housing advocates and community groups what educational tools they needed the most. The topic of affordable housing was [...] Read »
Here's a possible new trend among the absurdly style conscious urban dwellers: carbon self-sinks. (Ioana Iliesiu's The Digital Glutton , which may or may not be as described here. Source .) After [...] Read »
What if the crumbled remains of Haiti could be recycled and used to repair and rebuild a brand new city? That�s what one company, Independence Recycling of Florida, is proposing as a reconstruction [...] Read »
New library complexes rejuvenate urban centers around the world by including theaters, shops, cafes, offices and even gyms. MillerMcCune Read »
Upper West Side preservation group Landmark West! has been quietly brainwashing local elementary school students through a course titled, "Keeping the Past for the Future." The results of the [...] Read »
The Toll Brothers tied its big mixed-use development on the shores of the Gowanus Canal to the condition that the polluted waterway avoid a Superfund designation, but as expected, the Environmental [...] Read »
3 BR, 4.5 BA, 3,521 sq ft full-floor condo Asking: $10,350,000 | 2,711 sq ft pvt. terrace 350 West Broadway [Corcoran Sunshine] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Can a 73-story Manhattan skyscraper "quietly" begin construction? It's happening at 157 West 57th Street, wheredespite a world-renowned [...] Read »
The EPA will name the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, perhaps even this morning, an agency employee tells the Courier Life newspaper. What this means, other than triggering a federally funded [...] Read »
Save the worlds rainforests a search at a time with Ecosia. (via)
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We have featured several designs for the Taipei Performing Arts Center (such as the winning proposal by OMA previously featured on AD), and our latest project is from Kokkugia, a New York and [...] Read »
Technology
Rolling over is a pretty common trick for dogs to do, but have you ever seen a building do it? Well, architecture firm 3DReid and luxury treehouse makers Blue Forest have teamed up to show you [...] Read »
What if the crumbled remains of Haiti could be recycled and used to repair and rebuild a brand new city? Thats what one company, Independence Recycling of Florida, is proposing as a reconstruction [...] Read »
Greening your home may soon entitle you to some extra green from the government. President Obama is set to announce the details of his Cash for Caulkers program today. If passed by Congress, [...] Read »
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I feel like I should hate this project by BEHF .... The colors alone should be way too much in such a large structure. And generally, I would find the rotated floor plates a bit heavy handed. [...] Read »
The updated archimorph webpage(www.archimorph. com) is now online. It features projects by archimorph since its conception in 2007, while also displaying personal academic work from Jon Bailey [...] Read »
In a real last minute addition to the March calendar (in fact, it won't even make it on the actual calendar on time), rescheduled from last fall, Winy Maas, Principal at MVRDV of the Netherlands, [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. They've pulled down the shed in front of developer Aby Rosen's 350 West Broadway in Soho, and what's seen now is pretty imposing. The main [...] Read »
The METI school in Rudrapur Dinajpu, Bangledesh teaches the invaluable lesson of green design through its very earthen structure. Architects Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag directed a team of local [...] Read »
Kaynemailes KML22 material doesnt look like anything special its just a cluster of interlocking rings, or a seamless polycarbonate mesh according to the company. But this recyclable material [...] Read »
In response to some serious criticism (what? fliers are serious!) of its affordable housing plans, the developers of Williamsburg's New Domino project are speaking up. Contrary to rumors flapping [...] Read »
I was excited to receive an advance copy of American Modern by Thomas O’Brien yesterday. I think I may have actually squealed with delight upon opening the package. I have been looking forward [...] Read »
Led by the prominent architect, Heather H. Lenkin, whose education and experience span the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design, our company creates award-winning [...] Read »
Architectural Works
French studio Topos Architecture have completed a nursery in Nantes where the gabled ends are clad in red polycarbonate, engraved with floral patterns. Read »
Chicago office Krueck & Sexton have completed the restoration of two apartment towers in Chicago by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. Read »
© Stéphane Chalmeau
Photographer Stéphane Chalmeau shares with us another building located in France, a small command post in Saint Samson by Bruno Pourveer.
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Heres a kind of project we dont frequently see a lot of&a public bathroom facility. Shuichiro Yoshida, a Tokyo based architect, designed lavatories housed on less than 9m2 of ground space in [...] Read »
Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a chemical laboratory at the Universidad de Alcalá by Madrid architect Héctor Fernández-Elorza. Read »
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