Miscellaneous
SOHOThe large-and-in-charge James New York, the hotel rising on Grand Street on the former site of the Moondance Diner, will open this August, according to a press release. And whereas other [...] Read »
Architect Bjarko | Serra designed this home in northwest corner of Hat Island in Puget Sound near Washington’s San Juan Islands. There is two separate buildings—one for living and eating, [...] Read »
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA + PLANS] Construction will start next month on this £1.2 million boathouse for Oxford Brookes University designed by Spratley Studios Read »
Like the love child, or a genetically spliced clone of, the DNA of the Eiffel Tower, Tatlin's Tower, and Umschreibung, Anish Kapoor has unveiled his proposal for the London 2012 Olympics: ArcelorMittal [...] Read »
AFH has announced its new mascot - Hugh Manatee, a 1200 lb Antillean Manatee, who will be traveling the world with two handlers and a travel tank, allowing him to view construction projects first [...] Read »
A series of blog posts back in 2008 made it abundantly clear that our dear friend Lost City was in lovewith a Cobble Hill townhouse undergoing extensive renovations. "Their work continues to [...] Read »
Few things get our attention like that little downward arrow next to an apartment listing, which means we honed in quickly today on old acquaintance Bridgeview Tower. StreetEasy calls its location [...] Read »
FedEx announced the addition of a test run of four electric delivery vans to their US fleet. Theyve commissioned the vehicles to be built from the ground up and theyre slating them to start [...] Read »
After a set of smaller chops that seem to have done not a whole heck of a lot for sales, 120 Eleventh Avenue is taking another swing with the old axe. The primary victims this time? Penthouses A and... Read »
Broker-blogger Malcolm Carter gets his rant on this morning with a list of rude and unethical behavior he's witnessed from other brokers. Our favorite: the listing broker for a $525,000 Chelsea [...] Read »
Tenants and city housing officials are looking for a knight in shining armor for Crown Heights' troubled Tivoli Towers. Enter Laurence Gluck. Wait, what? Yup, the city is working on a deal that [...] Read »
[Bergen Street F stop wants to BUY YOU A DRAAAANK. Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/Marie Viljoen.] · Developers just not interested in massive Sunset Park warehouse [NYT] · Kvetch rate of NYers [...] Read »
MSK Design Group projected a highly conceptual boutique salon in Westchester, New York, where the design and ambiance are exclusively fine-tuned in order to amplify the salon experience while [...] Read »
The Architects Registration Board has found Julian Marsh of Nottingham-based Marsh Grochkowski Architects guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and fined him £1,000 Read »
I know some of you are probably over my trip to LA so I promise I'm going to try to wrap it up soon but I met so many wonderful designers and store owners that I can't help but want to share [...] Read »
Education
The ongoing collaboration of Continuity in Architecture with Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and other architectural and archaeological schools coordinated by Margherita Vanore [...] Read »
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"For decades Don Justo has been toiling on a field outside Madrid to build a cathedral with buckets, bricks and his bare hands." TimesOnline Read »
[NYC's pizza-in-cones obsession lives on, via Eater] · Sifton gives Recette an unexpected two stars [NYT] · El Quinot Pino revamp gets points for patatas bravas [VV] · Chef loss not a problem [...] Read »
A-cero is one of Spanish architects, their present a house in the “La Finca” development in Pozuelo de Alarcon ( Madrid ). They combine clear volumes, simple shapes and modern lines with [...] Read »
Electric vehicles are pretty green in their own right. After all, the cars create zero carbon emissions. But imagine a vehicle that not only runs on electricity, but actually gives power back [...] Read »
[Click to expand!] This $28 million townhouse at 1 East 94th Street has quite the pedigree: it currently belongs to Warner Brothers Music bigshot Lyor Cohen, who picked it up for $9.175 million [...] Read »
I wrote about this Swiss house-in-the-hillside months ago , but what I didn't know at the time is that it can be rented as a vacation property. On the website and in the PDF brochure there there [...] Read »
A colorful seating design ideas with soft colors selection will create a refreshing atmosphere to any modern home and office interior design thanks to this cool ONGO seating collection that was... Read »
Artist Anish Kapoor was going to sculpt a big metal blob to live beneath Tribeca luxury tower 56 Leonard Street, but the economy had other ideas. But don't cry for the guy: Check out his crazy [...] Read »
A handwritten note affixed to Bleecker Street restaurant Bamboleo Cafe, spotted by Bowery Boogie: "Dear Crackheads, If you are planning too break in, beware of the cameras and alarms. I dare [...] Read »
Broker-blogger Noah Rosenblatt reprises some of his sales predictions on the eve of first quarter market report releases. What's he thinking now? Around 2,400 to 2,600 closed sales for the first [...] Read »
Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond have unveiled a 115m-tall monumental structure which is set to dominate the 2012 Olympic skyline Read »
When he's not mixed up in the madness that is Warehouse 11, developer Isack Rosenberg has been trying to win approval for his three-tower, 801-unit Rose Plaza plan on the South Williamsburg waterfront, [...] Read »
The suburbs are in a sorry state—rampant foreclosures, derelict downtowns, and anyone under 35 fleeing for their lives. But as we’ve reported in a look at Long Island, the burbs are now seeing [...] Read »
While more of a concept than a realized building idea, Herzog and DeMeuron's design for the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Porta Volta, Milan is brutally straightforward. In fact, the [...] Read »
[Image: Work by Shannon Rankin , taken from the artist's Flickr page ]. Artist Shannon Rankin does amazing things with maps. Treating them as mere pieces of decorated paper to be manipulated—clipping [...] Read »
The visiting route has been carefully designed to pass through different spaces and programs smoothly by new added staircases, courtyard and corridors in between the old and new walls.Minsheng [...] Read »
Conservationist architects have raised concerns over new planning guidance introduced this month for historic buildings Read »
Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that I love minimal design... and I love clean simple lines. The big criticism that most people have about minimal architecture is that it is impossible [...] Read »
Multimedia photojournalist and filmmaker John D McHugh travelled to Afghanistan in February 2010. During the trip he managed to gain rare access to the off-limits Queen's Palace - a former seat [...] Read »
News
As architects get involved in rebuilding Haiti after its devastating January 12 earthquake, and debate swirls about what new homes there should look like, a Miami architect has designed a series [...] Read »
As potential donors gather today at the United Nations to assemble a fund to help rebuild earthquake-battered Haiti, the White House is asking Congress for additional spending to contribute to [...] Read »
Der Scutt, FAIA, a New York architect who left his mark on Manhattan’s skyline, died at home from liver failure on March 14. He was 75. Read »
Open the door to the bathroom, and the toilet lid automatically rises. A soothing sound emanates from the toilet, and as you sit down, deodorizing functions begin to work. Push a button, and [...] Read »
Paris-based Explorations Architecture have designed a temporary entrance-pavilion for the Chateau de Versailles in France.It is located right in the middle of the Cour d’honneur du Château [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
A quick visualisation illustrating the location war between foursquare , brightkite , Gowalla , twitter , flickr , blockChalck and Bump . This is a weeks worth of data. Animation is created in [...] Read »
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A 120 metres tall looping tower structure proposed for London is designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. It will officially be called the ArcelorMittal Orbit, after steel magnate Lakshmi [...] Read »
Designer Eun Ji Byeon has come up with a new way to conserve water when washing our hands. Far more thoughtful than those pressure-packed push button faucets, the Dial is a stylish polished metal [...] Read »
Pricespotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal [...] Read »
Brownstoner has a few hints about a new development in the works for a triangular plot of 'Burg land (formerly a gas station) bordered by Keap Street, Grand Street, and Borinquen Place. The project [...] Read »
Any way you slice it, CO2 emissions from power plants are a bad thing. One potential solution is carbon capture and storage, but the technology is decades away from reality and safety concerns [...] Read »
A huge milestone was recently reached at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida when an A-10C Thunderbolt jet took to the air running its engine on plant based fuel. The Air Force is the largest consumer [...] Read »
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The LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne reviews the exhibition "Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" currently on display in LA at MOCA PDC. Related [...] Read »
Last summer, heaping mounds of overflow garbage in Prospect Park became a media mini-sensation, forcing the Parks Department to eventually address the situation. Cleanliness is next to godliness, [...] Read »
Governors Island and Greenwich Village have been getting the headlines, but today the Brooklyn Paper looks at what NYU's expansion plan has in store for Downtown Brooklyn: "A combination of academic, [...] Read »
"This is the first time I've ever seen a broker advertise his listing as a wreck," a Curbed tipster writes. "Also, all the years I've lived in New York, I never knew that this Mews existed." Hey, who doesn't... Read »
The story of the e-mail leaks from the University of East Anglia in the UK has now come to one of what were sure there will be many conclusions. Back in November the story broke out that [...] Read »
Later today, President Obama is set to announce a plan that will open up many offshore areas for oil and natural gas exploration. While the move will surely anger environmentalists, many folks [...] Read »
Caruso St John has finally submitted a planning application for the £45 million redevelopment of the Tate Britain gallery at Millbank, central London Read »
The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has revealed the £9.3 billion budget to deliver the London 2012 Olympics is ‘worryingly tight’ Read »
Studio Aisslinger, designer of the Loftcube, recently unveiled this new modular design for a home that's transportable, sustainable, and low energy, all at the same time. According to Design Boom,... Read »
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Last October while exploring Emigration Canyon, I randomly came upon this home and was blown away by its stark simplicity and beauty. I took some pictures and attempted unsuccessfully to discover [...] Read »
Technology
Encouraged by their gardening success of this last year, the Obamas and their staff are expanding their organic edible garden by 500 square feet in 2010. This new addition will raise the total [...] Read »
Apparently it only takes 22,742 lego bricks to make a table. After seeing this stunning boardroom masterpiece built by ABGC Architecture and Design, we think we might just strike up a collection! [...] Read »
GM may not be releasing the much-awaited Chevrolet Volt as soon as originally planned, but the production process is moving right along. Today the automaker rolled out its first Volt using production [...] Read »
DUS Architects and the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture offer shelter from the storm with their incredible pop-up Bucky Bar made entirely from umbrellas. Built from orange umbrellas in a very [...] Read »
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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a major expansion to the Mus�e national des beaux-arts du Qu�bec (MNBAQ). The 12,000m2 new building, a cascade [...] Read »
"I think the bigger question is what will it be like in the fall and winter, we all know in the spring things pick up but with unemployment worse than expected I don't think this trend will last more than... Read »
This home built in Gandarinha, Vila de Cucujães, Portugal and it was designed by Carlos Castanheira. This house located in forest area, and to compare this house with the environment, wood [...] Read »
They are the saddest victims of the real estate downtown, born too late to avoid the credit crunch and other problems that have plagued new buildings, and too soon for developers to foresee the [...] Read »
Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 may be pretty, with its green fields and promenades, but it's not exactly practical: since its opening day, the park has had no potties. Whoops! But the president [...] Read »
The skies have cleared up, which means thoughts are turning toward rooftop tanning and barbecues. But before firing up the grill, one reader wants to make sure these rooftop pastimes are legal: [...] Read »
The Las Vegas Sun reports that, in spite of some hold ups with environmental approvals, work is expected to begin this year on the $4 billion DesertXpress, a high-speed rail link between Vegas [...] Read »
Listing: 46 East 81st Street [Stribling] Asking: $13,950,000 Details: 7 BR, 5,400 sq ft, single-family A 20 foot wide, 5-story, single-family townhouse in move-in condition. This townhouse has [...] Read »
After Almont Yard, I highly recommend a visit to La Cienega Boulevard. It's chock full of great design shops including interior designer Peter Dunham 's chic shop Hollywood at Home . It used [...] Read »
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In New Zealand, One Cool Habitat is shipping tiny container habitats all across the globe. Whether you're looking for extra space for a home office, studio, or anything else, this... Read »
2 BR, 2 BA, 1,242 sq ft Asking: $1,630,000 99 John Street, 1403 [NestSeekers] Read »
Wilkinson Eyre has won £4.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its Titanic museum scheme at Southampton Read »
The Shodan House completed in 1956 in Ahmedabad, Northern India. The architect, Le Corbusier sought to marry climate and culture, tradition and modernism in the design of the house. The result [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have competed a glass and red brick primary school in Pamplona, Spain. Read »
Dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design an extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada. Read »
In the profession of Architecture today women currently make up about 50% of Graduate students. However, in the profession itself, licensed women practitioners make up only about 15%. Why do [...] Read »
A tilt-shift video documenting a day around Zaha Hadids CMA CGM Tower in Marseilles, France. The project is expected to be completed during the second half of 2010.
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Architect Abre Etteh shared with us this proposal that received an Honorable Mention for the Fashion Museum Competition in Omotesando Street in Tokyo, Japan. The challenge consisted in designing [...] Read »
Artist Anish Kapoor has won a commission to design a 115m high public artwork at Olympic Park in London, to be built as part of Londons Olympic Games in 2012. Read »
Thomas Heatherwicks UK Pavilion is nearing completion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens in May. Read »
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