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KEO International Consultants has made public the pictures of the future Barwa Financial District Doha, capital of Qatar. The huge project for mixed use complex will create a new business community [...] Read »
Pritzkers on eBay
On Monday, September 15, 2008, Herzog & de Muerons 56 Leonard Street was unveiled. That same day, Lehman Brothers collapsed. As you can guess, this Jenga-like tower never got off the ground—if [...] Read »
Linkage: Riverton Houses Auctioned; Crane Comes Down at Beekman Tower
[An LIC construction site by moonlight, via Curbed Photo Pool/liQcity] · Riverton Houses' special servicer wins title to property for $125 million [Real Deal] · Crane's coming down at Gehry's [...] Read »
Backyard House
Giovanni Levanti
on the boards: Old-Berchem Police Station
Architects JDS have been awarded 1st prize in an invited competition to design a police department in the heart of Old-Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium. The building as developed contains a public reception [...] Read »
For too long the only hotel option (legal hotel, that is) in Williamsburg has been the BQE-neighboring Hotel Le Jolie, but Brownstoner reports there's progress at 160 North 12th Street, a new [...] Read »
Arrested Development: Tribeca Arrested Development Winds Up on eBay
Maybe it wasn't very nice of us to gloat about the 58-piece plastic model of Herzog & de Meuron-designed 56 Leonard currently residing at Curbed HQ. But now you can have your very own! One of [...] Read »
Rental Reveals: New East Williamsburg Rental Building Has Read Your Mind
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.Another day, another new-to-market Williamsburg rental building, this time a little more in East Williamsburg territory. Please welcome 150 [...] Read »
Survey: Saving Energy is Top Priority
The Fourth Annual Green Building Survey, published by Allen Matkins, CTG, and Green Building Insider, was just released. It’s quick and to the point with some interesting perspective on the... Read »
Two years ago, we first released Woobius to just four people. It was a very early version of Woobius  it only had a Dropbox, had no audit log, barebones user management. You couldnt even send [...] Read »
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Back in the U-S-S-Yards: Liveblogging the Barclays Center Groundbreaking!
Stand up and make some noise for your Brooklyn Nets, because it's Barclays Center groundbreaking day! Curbed papa bear Lockhart Steele is on the scene in Prospect Heights to taste the fruits [...] Read »
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Hugo Chavez Sends Army to Change All Lights in Venezuela to CFLs
Due to a bad drought thats dried up the hydroelectric plants that supply more than two-thirds of its power, Venezuela has been suffering through its worst energy crisis in the last 50 years. [...] Read »
Giano by Meco
On the Market: Landmark Soho Penthouse Hits the Market With New Look
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Dating back to 1904, Soho's Singer Building is a neighborhood icon thanks to its prominent Broadway location and one of the most eye-catching [...] Read »
MoMA Mia!: Jean Nouvel's MoMA Tower Hit With Legal Challenge
Angry Midtowners never break a promise, so Jean Nouvel's planned MoMA tower now has a legal challenge to go along with its approval by the City Planning Commission. Blog CultureGrrl, no particular [...] Read »
Good Vintage Frank Gehry
If you want to know Frank Gehry .. Read »
Chilewich Spring / Summer 2010 Introductions
Wall you need is love™
Battling for the soul of Brooklyn
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CLEVELAND, Ohio  RTA riders soon will be able to receive instant messages telling them their bus or rapid train is late, their route suddenly changed or that the weather or some other emergency [...] Read »
Linkage: Construction Firm Raided; A 'Real Housewife' Renovation; More!
[Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/jtny.] · Final Atlantic Yards legal hurdle cleared day before groundbreaking [BK Paper] · Meanwhile at AY, people told to get out by April 3 [NYDN] · Cops raid [...] Read »
Stick by Todd Bracher
Wedge by Ed Carpenter
Kino Guérin
Friday Lamp
Yamasaki's Archives - Both Lost and Found
Yamasaki in the 1950's (image: The Detroit News) We received an update from Dale Allen Gyure, Associate Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University about the threat to Minoru [...] Read »
Green, Efficient, and Small West House
With the economy the way it is, retiring folks are downsizing or losing their homes, while newly educated folks are graduating with slim pickings. Not to be grim, but this... Read »
f_chair + interface
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Celebrating the Oracle of Aachen: Riddle Mies This, plus David Hovey, Jr., Kengo Kuma, Nina Gray and Beautiful City - more great March events
How sad it is to contemplate that the life of Mies van der Rohe was cut short before he could appear on a contemporary TV game show. Deal or No Deal with Herbert Greenwald. Jeopardy with Walter [...] Read »
Archinect interviews Philippe Rahm
We've published a fascinating 2-part discussion this week between Archinect's Aaron Plewke and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm. The feature covers Rahm's background and work surrounding issues [...] Read »
Terry Farrell is drawing up a blueprint to redevelop Euston Station as a London ‘super-station’, as part of the proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link to Birmingham Read »
City & Urbanism
The Twitter data is still top of the list and we are experimenting currently with different models in Google Earth. Here we have a version using the 3D London Model developed here at CASA. In [...] Read »
The publication has been reworked and we can now feature an updated version of the preview. See previous version HERE . We also offer a few more pages for you to read. Not much sorry. Each chapter [...] Read »
Richard Hywel Evans Study RHE unveiled images of the innovative project for Solta Island ResortFirst rotating Hotel Europe. The hotel will be built among the olive trees on a hill on the island [...] Read »
CurbedWire: Jay-Z's Hardhat Style; Park Millennium Gets Some Pub
ATLANTIC YARDS—Not satisfied by our iPhonetactular liveblog of the Barclays Center groundbreaking today? The city has distributed this up-close photo of Bruce, Mike, Dave, Marty, Jigga and the [...] Read »
"I was by the building on Madison Park today. Although I hate what it did to the park, it is an attractive building, very elegant and transparent. It is neither dull nor uninspired. Of course, [...] Read »
David Stine's Rustic Sophistication
Lamboo-Solar Decathlon 09-Illinois took 2nd Internationally
The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own
The most fascinating show about design in London this year (and we've had a lot of design shows) is not a design show. Michael Rakowitz's 'The Worst Condition Is To Pass Under A Sword Which Is Not One's Own'... Read »
Aqueduct Entertainment Group's short reign as the designated developer for a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack has ended. The Times reports that the company provided "insufficient financial details" [...] Read »
Feuds: Long Island City Wants P.S. 1 to Tear Down This Wall!
[Photo via Flickr/wallyg] Long Island City art museum P.S. 1 had big plans for the renovation of its Jackson Avenue entrance, including some snazzy LED lighting. One thing they didn't change: [...] Read »
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Colorado to Be #2 in Renewable Energy Standards by 2020
On Monday a bill was dropped on Colorado Governor Bill Ritters desk that ups the states renewable energy standard to over 30% by 2020. The bill was passed by the state legislature and will place [...] Read »
An architect has broken his own Guinness World Record for the largest house built from free-standing playing cards. Read »
This week, wed like to introduce our resident academic, Ben, to the world of Woobius Scribbles. An accomplished architect and theorist, Ben will be providing you, our readers, with snippets [...] Read »
In terms of communication the telephone is surely the mother of all modern invention – the first true instant message, shrinking the distances between people to near irrelevance. But even a [...] Read »
The four rent-stabilized tenants still remaining in in the studios above Carnegie Hall are set to get hit with eviction notices any minute. They pledge to keep fighting for their right to die [...] Read »
Milan Preview: ‘Alodia’ stool by Todd Bracher for Cappellini
Yesterday, we reported on the Cleveland Galleria malls plan to build a massive urban greenhouse where retail shops once stood. The real story, it turns out, is what the two people behind the [...] Read »
Brick Underground studied last year's residential noise complaints logged by 311, and leading the way was Washington Heights/Inwood with 6,439 grievances, followed by Harlem and then Community [...] Read »
3 BR, 3 BA, 2,285 sq ft condo Asking $4,500,000 | Expansive master 200 East 66th Street [Corcoran Sunshine] Read »
El Ultimo Grito – Dialogues
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Scientists Find Way to Turn LED Lights Into Wireless Internet Source
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In Contract: Adam Gordon Finds Buyer for $19.5 Million UWS Townhouse
The Post and the Observer report that 26 West 76th Street, the other major renovation from baron of Bond Street Adam Gordon and architect Steven Harris, has gone into contract. Its last list [...] Read »
Now that the city's takeover of Brooklyn Bridge Park is complete, the next step is tearing Governors Island out of the state's death grip, a process that is going well, the Post reports. Mayor [...] Read »
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Weathered Steel Backsplash from Cascade
Alle
New from Heath Ceramics
Nightshop
Recycled Drinking Glasses by Emma Woffenden and Tord Boontje
Marta Massada House
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Here it is: Omer Arbel's new house
A continuation of this . Photo by Cory Dawson; more to come soon, I hope. Read »
A ‘frustrated’ ColladoCollins has retaliated following a stinging attack by CABE on the practice’s proposals for a £160 million Tesco-led development in Bromley-by Bow, east London Read »
Hausu, La lampara asesina from seres on Vimeo. 2.31 minutes which set out in the clearest terms the deep seated antagonism at the heart of design. In the end, design will suck us in, tear us [...] Read »
No public undertaking in Cleveland provokes the same righteous enthusiasm as the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. The 101-mile recreational pathway — which, when complete, will connect Clevelands [...] Read »
Its modern curvilinear geometries and white as the predominant color, contrasted by the bright red of some elements, reminiscent of the interior design of Clockwork Orange or 2001 Space Odyssey. [...] Read »
PEG wins ENYA Prize
PEG office of landscape + architecture has won first place in the 2010 Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) international ideas competition. PEG (Keith VanDerSys and Karen M�Closkey) teamed [...] Read »
Fly-Fly Pendant Light from Foscarini
PriceSpotter: Big Reveal: How Much for Some Park Slope Greenery?
And now, the results of this week's PriceSpotter asking price guessing game! Location: 142 Prospect Park West, Third Floor Asking: $1.595 million Despite some accusations of cheating in the comments, [...] Read »
The HMK 561 Elektromottard
High Line Construction Chronicles: Piano Still Playing With the Whitney in MePa
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The recent news that a "maintenance and operations" building for the High Line was moving ahead at 820 Washington Street left some doubts [...] Read »
On the Racked: LES's New Street Fair; Target's Latest Pop-Up; Diesel Defaced!
And now, the latest from Racked NY, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up. 1) LES The speculation is that the upcoming Hester Street Fair is going to be Manhattan's version of the [...] Read »
Did you know that Curbed has a Twitter account? Follow us @Curbed or the bosses will whip us. [CurbedWire Staff] Read »
Morris Architects seeking Job Captain in West Los Angeles, CA Morris Architects is seeking a Job Captain with 5+ years project experience in healthcare for a full-time position with our Los Angeles [...] Read »
How often do you find yourself pointing at something (on the screen, or in front of you) while on a phone call, even though youre fully aware that the other person cannot see what youre pointing [...] Read »
Last week gremlins hit my computer at work. Whilst I enjoyed a nice cup of tea and read the papers, my friends from IT worked their mysterious magic, re-jigged my profile, wiped half my personnel [...] Read »
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Development Battles: This No Means No for Townhouses at Slope's Garfield Sparta
Despite some pretty clear indications that the Board of Standards & Appeals wasn't too excited about the developer's proposed changes to the Enrique Norten project at 580 Carroll Street (aka [...] Read »
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The retreat is a well-crafted structure, with all the design process focus on sustainability, low-impact and off-the-grid design mandate to the site which would precede the design and construction [...] Read »
Nomu
Noise Wars: After Complaints, Brooklyn's Strangest Hotel Shuts Itself Up
In another victory for nightlife-hating neighbors, Hotel Le Bleu—the pricey Park Slope boutique hotel that tries to make gritty Fourth Avenue glow—shuttered its controversial rooftop lounge [...] Read »
on the boards:life of the ocean
A proposal by Dutch practice MVRDV for the 2012 World Fair in Yeosu, Korea. The façades and the hollowed interior of the cube are intended to evoke the theme of the pavilion, Life of the Ocean . Read »
Sheldon Cabin by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Lamboo LVB-Storefront System-Pacific Architectural Millwork
Emulation
Un-Modern Architecture? The Problem with the Word “Traditional” A friend (an academic, and not an architect) recently passed a book along to me that deserves a wider audience than it no [...] Read »
Crescent Sink with Mosaic Surface from Linkasink
Acca Kappa :: biodegradable toothbrush
Venice 2132
Earshell
brillo: Stylish Travel Toothbrush by METAPHYS
11 Flourishes From February and March
^ Four concrete posts on Gloucester Avenue , Camden ^ Closing Mobile Phone shop on Oxford Street ^ Split pediment board, Wardour Street, Soho ^ Primark Palace, Oxford Street ^ Toaster, friend's [...] Read »
The government’s latest drive to make existing UK homes energy-efficient should create years of work for architects – if they seize the opportunities Read »
CONCRETE HOUSE
Home designed by Tomas Nollet en Hilde Huyghe Architecten (pics: Filip Dujarding ): Read »
House of the Week : Les Aventuriers
Perched on a hillside in the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan is a single family house by Shun Hirayama Architecture . Considering the slope of the land the form of the residence is made up of composed [...] Read »
In his State of the City address last week, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson detailed his plans to use sustainability as an economic engine, and a hoped for path out of poverty. Jackson—who [...] Read »
[FIRST LOOK + SECTIONS] Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled this €42 million shopping centre in the seaside resort of Jesolo, north of Venice in Italy Read »
Architectural Works
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Jesolo Magica by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a retail and business centre for the resort of Jesolo near Venice in Italy. Read »
Monterey Residence / Forward Design Office
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Les Ti’Canailloux / Topos Architecture
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07CMM / Spaceworkers
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Aging in Africa / HWKN
HWKN has completed their schematic design phase for their recent project, Aging in Africa, which will move toward construction in the beginning of next year.    The project, a retirement community [...] Read »
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Factory by Marks Barfield Architects
Steven Chilton of London office Marks Barfield Architects has designed a factory-shaped youth centre for the site of the what was once the worlds largest car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham, UK. Read »
Sign Language
from Inhabit
RecycleBank Pays Los Angeles Residents Cash for Their Trash
Starting April 5th, 15,000 single-family homes in Los Angeles will be able to earn cash for their trash through the citys new RecycleBank program. Participating households simply sign up to [...] Read »
Secondhand Rose
I had powder rooms on the brain yesterday because I was ordering vintage wallpaper panels from Secondhand Rose for the powder room of my downtown project. When I went to pick them up, I couldn't [...] Read »
A curated space in Brooklyn
Shitshows: One Madison Park Buyers Can Get Their Money Back
Yesterday it was accusations of fraudulent signature shenanigans, so what new craziness does One Madison Park have in store for us today? Buyer refunds! The Real Deal's David Jones reports that [...] Read »
Metropal 2010 Master Class
Stadslab , a postgraduate programme in the Netherlands is offering a Master Class in the Ukrainian city of Melitopol supervised by Beatriz Ramo, of STAR strategies + architecture & Swiss landscape [...] Read »
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Research Shows Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women
Examples of climate changes strange consequences abound. Warmer temperatures may bring about more instances of kidney stones and cause longer allergy seasons. Now, research shows that environmental [...] Read »
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China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source
Last September, China discovered a large reserve of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Combustible ice is essentially frozen natural gas  a natural gas hydrate, [...] Read »
The city's rent regulation program needs some reform, Bob "Big Knak Attack" Knakal argues, because right now "the benefits go to New Yorkers based upon inertia rather than economic ability." [...] Read »
Last week, James and I sat down to a black tie dinner event at the Tower Hotel in London, a yearly affair called the Construction Computing Awards (and also known as The Hammers). On the surface, [...] Read »
Everyone knows each generation of students supercedes the last with their technical knowledge. James Roberts, recently graduated from Liverpool University and now a much appreciated colleague [...] Read »
Last Friday I went to a breakfast presentation at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design. The event was hosted by Rachel Wingfield and Hannah Jones who have spent the last year working [...] Read »
Although originally conducted in the 20th century for the magazine �Modo�, the interview was never published. It has now been published in Abitare . Read »
Montana Reclaimed Lumber Company
There First
My story on Rescue 3s new firehouse in the Bronx, designed by Polshek Partnership, alleged that it was the first such facility ever designed specifically for a rescue companys needs. Alas, [...] Read »
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18 US Governors Write to EPA to Say Emissions Limits Will Hurt the Economy
Last week we reported on the EPAs upcoming plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Yesterday 18 United States governors including Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty sent a letter to the EPA [...] Read »
3 BR, 2 BA, 1274 sq ft apartment Rent: $4815/month | Incredible views! Avalon Fort Greene Read »
Ten Small Atlases
Lamboo Inc. Partnering with Duratherm Windows
The owner of Williamsburg's Bagel Store set off a mermaid maelstrom when he said his landlord recruited Starbucks to take over the Bedford Avenue space in 18 months, but this latest 'Burgbucks [...] Read »
Rent Wars: Tribeca's Stuy Town Not Actually Like Stuy Town, State Says
Tribeca's Independence Plaza North has been among the many bidders for the "next Stuy Town" title, but according to the state's Division of Housing and Community Renewal, it shouldn't get it. [...] Read »
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Start-Up Makes Solar Cells Cheap Enough to Compete with Fossil Fuels
The most efficient solar tech on the market today is the silicon solar cell. Theres just one drawbackimplementing the tech costs up to $4 per watt, almost four times the cost of fossil fuel-derived [...] Read »
Heima Series
Stefanel: Stefanel 50
House In Never Neverland by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos
Perpetual Necklaces
Fishing Float Chandelier from Pedlars
In his first interview since becoming design advisor to mayor Boris Johnson, Terry Farrell talks to Merlin Fulcher about gaps in London’s planning, localism and the death of the Thames Estuary Airport Read »
An in depth analysis of recent economic era by Don Peck in Atlantic Monthly. People who graduated from high school in the 2000s dislike the idea of work for work�s sake, and expect jobs and [...] Read »
Art Deco Revival – Product Highlights
Domestic Architecture
Cupcake Royale Cupcake Royale Capitol Hill Residence Capitol Hill Residence Western Bridge Beverly Hills Residence Beverly Hills Residence Vashon Island Residence Vashon Island Residence I was [...] Read »
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Inhabitat is Looking for Operations/Editorial Interns!
Spring in New York City is always exciting, but here at Inhabitat its not just the weather that gets us going! Spring is packed with tons of great green design events and conferences  like [...] Read »
Technology
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Architects Tell Californians to Brace for the Next Big Earthquake
The US Geological Survey has said that California has a 99.7% chance of having a magnitude 6.7 earthquake  or bigger  in the next three decades. University of California, Berkeley Professor [...] Read »
Corso Light by Estudi Arola
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READER TIP: Bent and Sliced House by Hufft Projects
Designed by Hufft Projects, the “Bent and Sliced House” puts an innovative idea  bending a home to accommodate the curving slope of the site  into action. In addition to bending the house, [...] Read »
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Will the Nissan Leaf Battery Deliver All It Promises?
The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is set to be released in a few months, with Nissan pushing it ahead of their original 2011 release date, and even ahead of the official release of the Chevy Volt [...] Read »
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Solar Surge iPod and iPhone Cases Are Now Available!
Just in time for sunny spring days, Novothink has announced that its hotly anticipated Solar Surge iPod and iPhone cases have hit the market and are available for sale! Weve followed these sleek [...] Read »
Peled Light by Estudi Arola
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CET Budapest by ONL
Architects ONL (Oosterhuis Lénárd) have designed a whale-shaped building between two existing warehouses on the banks of the river Danube in Budapest, Hungary. The project also involves the [...] Read »