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Studio Banana TV interviews Croatian architect Hrvoje Njric . Read »
Eco-Boulevards from UrbanLab , part of the Growing Water concept that won UrbanLabs first place in the 2006 City of the Future competition, today was also named one of six finalists for the 2010 [...] Read »
Natural Travertine Bath Fixtures
Curbed Inside: First Peek Inside The Dillon, Hell's Kitchen's Condo Curiosity
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Photos by Will Femia.] A red carpet was rolled out Tuesday evening in front of The Dillon, the seven-story wave of glass that has transformed [...] Read »
Williamsburg's premier waterfront loft bldg Rent: $2,705 plus two months free 184 Kent Ave., D609 [rentonkent.com] Read »
Sitt Happens: Developer's New Coney Island Looks a Lot Like Old Coney Island
Though Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt already came out the big winner in the Coney Island redevelopment battle—flipping some of his land to the city for $95 million while keeping six acres [...] Read »
CLEVELAND, Ohio  It has been clear for months that the $425 million project to build a new medical mart and renovate the convention center represents a huge opportunity to renew big chunks of [...] Read »
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Coming Soon: Cheap, Thin, Energy-Efficient Night Vision Glasses
Have you ever wished that your car windshield or cell phone camera could pierce through the night and turn darkness into day? Then get ready: researchers at the University of Florida have figured [...] Read »
Recycled Glass Flexible Terrazzo Tile from Fritz Tile
White Spring Granite from Global Granite
Apartment in Barcelona
Jason Markk Premium Sneaker Solution Set
Archeworks Final Semester Review Tonight, Bertrand Goldberg archives on Saturday
In what I'm fairly confident will be the last addition to the April calendar, Archeworks , Chicago's alternative design school, will be holding it's year-end Student Final Presentation and review [...] Read »
Free BricsCAD ebook for AutoCAD users
If you go to the BricsCAD documentation pages ( http://www.bricsys.com/ nl_BE/bricscad/document ation.jsp ), you can download freely the 144-pages eBook, written by Ralph Grabowski, from upFront.eZine. [...] Read »
Liverpool City Council leader Warren Bradley has admitted the Pathfinder scheme has left parts of the city derelict Read »
Reclaimed Space Prefab Sent to Marfa
Last time we mentioned Reclaimed Space, the company had just finished selling a small home on eBay for about $75,100 (after a bidding war involving several celebrities). But business is good [...] Read »
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Bionic Humidifier: A Flower that Helps You Breathe Easier
Nature, nurture and design come together in Gonglue Jiangs Bionic Humidifier  a clever appliance masquerading as a potted plant that also functions as an indoor humidifier. Jiang’s artificial [...] Read »
Linkage: Weekly Food Edition: Donald Trump Likes Meatloaf; More!
[They must be starving: FiDi goes totally nuts for the new Chipotle.] · Finally, some happy news for The Mark: two stars for its restaurant [NYT] · Restaurant inside carpet store racks up a [...] Read »
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BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Oscar’s Bed from CASAKids
CASAKids Design by Roberto Gil is at the top of the list of eco-friendly childrens furniture favorites at Inhabitots. Were thrilled to be privy to this sneak peek of the very latest offering [...] Read »
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Giant Underwater Dome Could Contain Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
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A great mix of chaos and order, a series of rooms that manage to be both comfortable and creative atmosphere that will surely faithful mirror is breathed in the offices of a company that in recent [...] Read »
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AECOM seeking Project Architect in New York, NY Candidate should have more than 10 years of related experience working on projects in a management role. Experience on Mixed Use Developments, [...] Read »
Development Update-o-rama!: FiDi's Setai Wants Buyers to Forget About Midtown
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Setai Week. Yesterday brought our most complete look yet at the Setai Fifth Avenue, the 60-story Midtown [...] Read »
Duchamp + Cage: Architecture, Scientific Determinism + Artistic ProductionBattery Park City Community Center; WATER Score, Michael J. Schumacher
hanrahan Meyers architects are great fans of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, and bring their enthusiasm for these two giants of the artistic avant-garde forward in time through hMa's on-going [...] Read »
Closed since a city raid and other mishaps back in October, the neighbor-enraging Ballroom at the Jane Hotel is set to reopen, City Room reports. Among the changes to satisfy neighbors: Crowds [...] Read »
Real Estate Sold: Hoped-for Hope Street Conversion Changes Hands at $14M Loss
The corner of Williamsburg that includes Hope Street was a bit of a poster child for the boom, with projects going up at 99 Havemeyer, 14 Hope Street, 27 and 29 Hope Street, and 53 Hope Street all at once... Read »
Musical Tableware by Alexander Hulme
Desk Accessories by Jennifer Tran
1 BR, 1 BA, 618 sq ft condo Rent: $2,077/mo. 111 Lawrence St., Line K [thebrooklyner.com] Read »
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Pepsi’s Reverse Vending Machine Pays You to Recycle
Traditional vending machines require cash before providing folks with a tasty beverage. The Dream Machine, a new type of vending kiosk, embraces a much cooler concept: It gives you points and [...] Read »
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The Franzen House Rye, New York Saturday, May 8, 2010 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM Meet at the Franzen House to toast spring with a martini, watch the sunset, celebrate Modern architecture and its restoration, [...] Read »
As The Apthorp Turns: Attorney General Wants to Get to the Bottom of Apthorp Drama
Today the Times digs deeper into the rumors that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his team inspected the Apthorp this past weekend. Cuomo's office signs off on all co-op and condominium conversions, [...] Read »
Spinato, New Hand Crafted Italian Veneer Cork from Expanko
New Green "Universal Hybrid Roof Tile System" from Artezanos
Quadra Coffee Table
The Eco House by Modern Zen
Digital Manufacturing for Algorithmic Architecture
The notion of manufacturing algorithmic pieces like panels, structural systems and other elements and components that go into making a building, pose some interesting questions and ideas for [...] Read »
In one of my classes, I showed my students a simple Processing example, where an older exercise from AutoCAD was recreated using the Java-based Processing, an Open Source, cross-platform programming [...] Read »
Origami House
Newly built house designed by Singapore-based architectural office, Formwerkz : Read »
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Holiday home in Spain by Anton García-Abril
I'm not even going to try to explain this little house – you just have to go see for yourself at Dezeen . All I can say is I'd moooo for joy to live in it for a summer.  – GF (Ensamble Studio) Read »
"Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York and a giant sun in London, opens his first major show in Berlin this week. In an interview with SPIEGEL [...] Read »
CurbedWire: Cammeyer Roof Unveiled; Darren Aronofsky Disses Brooklyn; More!
CHELSEA—The CORE Group is really ramping up the marketing at The Cammeyer, the converted loft building previously known as 650 Sixth Avenue and 50 West 20th Street. Tonight the brokerage is [...] Read »
PriceSpotter: How Much for a Menagerie on the Upper West Side?
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 »
The A+D House Party
As promised yesterday, we are going paparazzi. We have pix of the architecture event of the week: the opening of LAs A+D Museum. (See Slideshow Here). The event drew hundreds into the museums [...] Read »
English WaterSpace created a department to float more relaxed and friendly working environment: the evocation H2Office name, office float WaterSpace looks comfortable and refined, as well as [...] Read »
There's lots to chew over in this WG analysis of all things New Domino. Including this tidbit: developer CPC Resources has donated to a local church, Saints Peter and Paul Parish, which in turn [...] Read »
Under the Boardwalk: While debate rages over what materials...
While debate rages over what materials are used on top of Coney Island's boardwalk, we're more interested about what's going on underneath. From a submission to the Curbed Photo Pool: "A friend [...] Read »
"First 2 closings at warehouse 11 are now completed! 118 to go!" [Twitter; previously] Read »
The University of California, Berkeley announced yesterday the selection of three architecture firms to submit design concepts for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA): [...] Read »
Market Reports: April Showers Bring Manhattan's Rental Market Flowers
We start to get a little twitchy when we go a few weeks without digging into a rental market report, so today we have the April analysis from the team at The Real Estate Group New York. It continues... Read »
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Estudio Explanada
This artists studio is located in a residential area in the west corner of Mexico City, on a 20 x 40 m (66 x 131 ft) site. The program includes an underground parking space, as well as a three [...] Read »
Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban
Inspired by the technical properties of Chinese hats and bridges, the nearly complete Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a satellite branch of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris.Architects [...] Read »
The Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright Weekend in Buffalo
Buffalo, New York is home to a few Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, most notably his Darwin D. Martin House. This complex is now home to a recent Visitors Center by Toshiko Mori, a glass pavilion [...] Read »
Decorating Day
I'm off looking for carpets (that don't cost a million dollars) and running around for my clients today so you're going to have to wait until later for a proper post. Don't miss me too much! XOXO! Read »
Regarded from the large scale of the region, the building forms a link between the river and the mountain. Viewed from the urban scale, La Llotja and the river form a balanced composition. At [...] Read »
Wonderfull Swimming Pool in Exotic Dudley Beach House
on the boards: Cultuurforum Spui
the competition entry for the Cultuurforum Spui in the Hague, Netherlands designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfr o and collaborators Solid Objectives-Idenburg Liu . The building when [...] Read »
Scottsdale Ranch Renovation
on the boards: Aging in Africa
Aging in Africa is an inspired proposal for an aged-value community for a non-disclosed site in West Africa designed by HWKN architects . The layout of the proposal takes cues from from typical [...] Read »
Though the city has become extremely dog-friendly over the years, many prospective apartment buyers are finding that "old anti-dog biases are hard to break," the WSJ's Josh Barbanel writes. For [...] Read »
Linkage: Developer Nears Deal for 1 WTC; Hudson Yards Pact Approved; Murray Hill Invading LES; More!
[Why so glum, chum? Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/Glark.] · Zuckerman's Boston Properties honing in on small stake in 1 WTC [Real Deal] · MTA board approves $1B deal with Related for Hudson Yards [...] Read »
FEEL Collection Recycled Glass Mosaics from Trend USA
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Living in a Walnut
Altis Belém Hotel (Lisbon) Architecture by Riscon
Edward Cullinan Architects has unveiled plans for the Maggie’s North East cancer-care centre in Newcastle Read »
Regeneration big-hitter David Taylor has rejected allegations he lobbied John Prescott to approve the Renzo Piano-designed Shard skyscraper – and potentially earn himself a £1 million fee Read »
Haus L.
House on the outskirts of Linz/Bachlberg (Austria). Design: Architekten Luger & Maul : Read »
Solar Vintage by Elena Corchero
"I just calculated that if you took the asking price for this apartment in $1 bills and spread it out evenly on the floor, that it would be over 4" thick. However, I did not include the terrace because the... Read »
On the Market: Judith Rothschild's House Tries for $9.45 Million Comeback
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.We last met 1110 Park Avenue, former home of abstract painter Judith Rothschild, along the road to foreclosure, where it was scheduled to end [...] Read »
MoMA Gets Social
AN has a first look at MoMA’s upcoming architecture exhibition, Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures for Social Engagement, which will include eleven projects from four continents. The [...] Read »
Prefab Cottage for Two Families
Today I turned another year older, and I think a little retrospective is in order. In the course of a year its sometimes hard to see the little things and I sometimes have a habit of overlooking [...] Read »
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US Issues Approval for First Offshore Wind Farm!
The Cape Cod wind farm, once just a hope for the horizon, has sprung a giant leap forward today with the official approval of the Obama Administration! This afternoon Secretary of the Interior [...] Read »
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The Church Below
[Images: Photos by Lawrence Looi /newsteam.co.uk ]. A bored family in Shropshire, England, after having a few too many drinks one night, started playing around with an air grate in their living [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Saudi Arabia Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010
The Saudi Arabia Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010, which starts in two days, is a combine effort of Chinese and Saudi designers. The pavilion has a moon boat shape and is surrounded by [...] Read »
Two Houses / Zerodegree Architecture
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Discovery by GPAC
Dresden studio GPAC have designed a childrens nursery for Bühlau in Dresden that looks like 13 eggs. Read »
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Austrian pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by SPAN and Zeytinoglu
Here are some photos of the completed Austrian pavilion by Viennese architects SPAN and Zeytinoglu, which opens at Shanghai Expo 2010 this weekend. Read »
SMOG / Sebastián Bravo
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Espacio Talca by Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa
Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. Read »
Dudley House / Bourne Blue Architecture
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The Regione Calabria Town planning and Territorial Governance Department are promoting an online international competition for Solar Park South. Proposals must provide design solutions for the [...] Read »
Shanghai 2010: The Pavilions Part II
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DETAIL Magazine 2/2010
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Nautic Center / Guinée et Potin Architects
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Memos From Mgmt: 20 Pine's Private Subway Entrance is Heavily Secured
Been some time since we had an update on 20 Pine, the Financial District's Shvotacular condo conversion of yore. Now that the ship has been steadied, the building is adding to its long list of [...] Read »
The house nobody wanted last fall, the 280 Hicks Street estate that once belonged to cantankerous Brooklyn Heights landlord Alfred Palmer, is going back on the auction block this weekend. The [...] Read »
Voyage Condo Container Unique Home Architecture
Weathered Antique Pine
City Councilman Steve Levin, having convinced the developer of Williamsburg's Rose Plaza to add more affordable family housing, has moved on to the next project: New Domino. Levin wants the entire [...] Read »
CLEVELAND  Will it be an office palace in the middle of a sea of poverty or a difference-making project that boosts the struggling neighborhoods economy? The new headquarters for the Cuyahoga [...] Read »
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Sliding Doors and Panel Systems from Raumplus North America
GLCS Arquitectos
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One-of-a-kind uber-cool HMV coffee table
Apartment in Barcelona
YLAB Arquitectos renovated an old office space into this unique apartment located in the centric Plaza de Cataluña of Barcelona, recently acquired by a couple as occasional residence in Spain. [...] Read »
Block Architecture has begun work on Vine Cottage in north London, after receiving planning on the third attempt Read »
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2010-04-27 12.02.08.jpg , originally uploaded by sevensixfive . Read »
Theatre for One
[Image: Theater for One by Christine Jones and LOT-EK ]. LOT-EK and set designer Christine Jones will be premiering their collaborative project called Theater for One in Times Square, two weeks [...] Read »
Murakami Chair by Jacob Rochus
The Green Chair, made from recycled oak wine barrel staves
Port Authority boss Chris Ward just got the imagination of every out-of-work architect racing with his comments this morning that LaGuardia Airport "should fundamentally be torn down and rebuilt [...] Read »
Governor Generals Awards 2010
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Feuds: Houston Street the Mason-Dixon in Downtown War of Words!
Noho has a problem: It's not Soho. Sure, the blocks north of Houston Street have dining, shopping and pricey real estate comparable to their neighbors, but Noho is lacking in one key category: [...] Read »
Change of Plans: Martha Stewart's Perry Street Place Now Flying Solo for $15.9M
Even the PriceChopper couldn't sell the triplex at 173 Perry Street, a two-unit combo that lowered its price from $25 million to $21.5 million in a last-ditch bid for buyers. Which means it's [...] Read »
Construction Watch: Norman Foster's Bowery Gallery Building Getting Glassed
Lord Norm is getting all up in the Bowery's business, starchitect style! Big red ride still to come. · Whoa, the glass facade for Norman Foster on The Bowery is going up right this second. Looks [...] Read »
Fountain of Toys
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Scientists to Use World’s Largest Laser to Create Star on Earth
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RIBA members have called on president Ruth Reed to support London Regional Council (LRC) chair Azar Djamali, ahead of a vote of no confidence scheduled to take place today (29 April) Read »
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LA Considering Massive Central Park Above Highway 101
A massive proposal is on the table to create a half mile-long urban park above a section of Highway 101 in downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed Park 101, the proposal would create a roof and park over [...] Read »
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Grandfather Creates Geodesic Bucky Ball Toys from Trash
If youre into structures and architecture like we are, playing with Knex or Tinker Toys as a child may have had something to do with it. Now one enterprising architect/grandfather, Ron Aarons [...] Read »
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Bangkok Gourmet Shop Interior Built From Wood Scraps
When searching for ideas to build out the interior of a gourmet food shop in Bangkok, Architectkidd came across a community of carpenters in the nearby slums utilizing scrap wood from shipping [...] Read »
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Read the rest of Construction Completed on Shanghais Amazing Dream Cube Pavilionhttp://www.inha bitat.com/wp-admin/ohtt p://www.inhabitat.com/w p-admin/options-general .php?page=better_feedpt ions-general.php?page=b etter_feed [...] Read »
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Electrolux’s Tiny Washing Machine Can be Hung on a Wall!
Want a washing machine in your home, but worried that itll take up more space than you have to spare? Well, Electrolux Design Lab debuted some awesome new pint-sized conceptual designs for washing [...] Read »
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Read the rest of Milan 2010: Best Green Designs from Eurocucina and Salone del Bagnohttp://www.inhabit at.com/wp-admin/ohttp:/ /www.inhabitat.com/wp-a dmin/options-general.ph p?page=better_feedption s-general.php?page=bett er_feed [...] Read »
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5 DAYS LEFT to Enter Our Spring Greening Design Competition!
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Electronics Recycling 101: Tips to Repurpose Old Electronics
Most folks think that when electronics break or become outdated, the only option is to toss them in the trash or recycle them. But on the contrary, there are a number of ways to transform dysfunctional [...] Read »