Miscellaneous
The British Postal Museum & Archive’s (BPMA) new £18 million centre in Swindon will be designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCB) Read »
When Jonathan Miller calls an article the most accurate look at the post-Lehman housing market and "essential reading," that's good enough for us. So check out Saturday's NYT piece, which begins [...] Read »
3BR, 4BA, 2,095 sq ft condo Asking: $2,390,000 | Sun, 13pm Apt. 6L [Riverhouse] Read »
The Brooklyn Paper makes us realize that the Brooklyn Bridge Park braintrust's efforts to turn the landmark Tobacco Warehouse into a cultural space willsurprise!have its controversies. Park [...] Read »
It was reported by WWD last week that Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington is hard at work on her autobiography. She will be helped with this task by former Men's Vogue editor in chief [...] Read »
[First trees planted at 9/11 Memorial site. More at Gothamist.] · Soho's James hotel, opening Wednesday, has an art curator [NYT] · Angry Andrea Peyser weighs in on Prospect Park goose slaughter [...] Read »
So often interactive adaptive architectural interfaces must rely on picked up cues that are either created from occupant behaviors or from different objects within an environment that move, change [...] Read »
click images for larger view Even though it's been closed almost four years, the distinctive profile of the Esquire Theater , its marquee and soaring sign, remained Oak Street's most iconic landmark. [...] Read »
The Times did a lengthy piece on the far west side extending from 33rd street to 43rd between 10th avenue all the way west. It's hard to call this part of town a "neighborhood", but with the [...] Read »
This building was designed by Pascal Arquitectos Polanco , on land in an L . almost no facade facing the street, because the life defined and the hearing took place inside. Search for an irregular [...] Read »
Ayer dia 28/08/2010 fue la entrega de premios en la ceremonia de inauguración de la Bienalle de Venecia . Aqui un anticipo de lo que en los proximos dias ire completando dada la acumulacion [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Mathew Moore, the last of four generations to farm his family's land outside of Phoenix, AZ presents an excellent visualization through time starting from the 1910s about how sprawl is gradually [...] Read »
The UrbanDiary project lay dormant for a while after its write up in the CASA working paper 151 . However it is back on track with a new set of participants currently tracking their every move. [...] Read »
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New York City's worst landlords haven't been having a great month. First the law made them reveal their true identities. Now the office of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is coming for them with [...] Read »
Extra Place hasn't quite turned into the "slice of the Left Bank" that developer AvalonBay envisioned when it set its sights on the Bowery-adjacent alley behind what was once CBGB, but some businesses [...] Read »
Following an intoxicated 17-year-old's fatal fall from a window at Midtown's Herald Towers, renters in the triple-tower complex tell the Daily News the place is a bit of a shitshow. The paper [...] Read »
I think I may have a reason why this recovery is floundering, and it all has to do with housing. Now stay with me a second, this is not subprime loans, nor predatory markets, or anything else [...] Read »
Some wonderful seating elements constructed from simple wood slats dot the Giardini, reminiscent of Enzo Mari's �autoprogettazione.� The chairs have been made by Raumlaborberlin, who have [...] Read »
I have finally released my DVD of me sharing some hidden secrets as to how your store and restaurant can profit more than your competition during this recession. The video on this blog post is [...] Read »
If you don't already have the July/August 2010 issue of Australian Vogue Living , run, don't walk to the nearest newsstand! This issue is one of their best and includes a fun story about eating [...] Read »
This stunning architectural masterpiece offers every possible luxury. Located in an enviable place among the isolated stretch of coastline famed island of Phuket, this ultra luxury villa is overlooking [...] Read »
We don't know if there's a connection (karma?) between this story and the Northside Piers Duane Reade's sketchy policy of using residential dumpsters to throw their garbage out, but there's been [...] Read »
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Friday was another slow summer day, but nobody told the high end of the real estate market, which has already given up wearing white and skipping out of work early at the end of the week. A bunch of... Read »
Junior 1 BR, 1 BA Rental Rent: $3,315/mo. | Panoramic Views Unit # 38H [The Beatrice] Read »
The arrested development at 240 West Broadway first showed some signs of reanimation in June, after the Vella Group picked up the property from Peter Moore Tribeca. The Tribeca Trib reports that [...] Read »
After three years on the market, late real estate empress Leona "Queen of Mean" Helmsley's ginormous Greenwich estate, Dunnellen Hall, is reportedly close to a salefor less than half the original [...] Read »
This is a series for August 2010 which documents my on-the-ground -- and on-the-webs -- research for my guidebook to contemporary NYC architecture (to be released next year by W. W. Norton ). [...] Read »
Turns out that Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of PARK51 hasn't been paying his bills for the property and owes $224,000 in back taxes. This ammo for opponents of the controversial development [...] Read »
Relief and form a new design collection of the British company Graham and Brown (Graham and Brown). The collection is inspired by architecture, textures and forms that surround us in everyday [...] Read »
It's that day again, the day that has many a Downtown resident asking themselves "why the hell did I move here?" That's right, it's NYU move in day. EV Grieve is on the scene, and things seem to be going... Read »
Photogs, want to contribute to the Curbed Photo Pool? Then join our Flickr group! Click the image above to view the full photogallery. · Curbed Photo Pool[Flickr] Read »
Technology
Joubert Architecture was hoping that their design for a condominium project in Tirana, Albania would help break the cycle of monotony and bland architecture in the expanding city. What was countryside [...] Read »
Read the rest of Housing for Musicians has Parasitic Rooms and Skylight Pyramidshttp://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 »
Read the rest of Beautiful Underground Aloni House Blends in With The Earthhttp://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 »
News
This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art (MWPAI) in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition [...] Read »
Shade Club is an interesting experiment of a group of architects called SquareONE. They have constructed an unusual interior of a night club in the basement of a residential house in the city [...] Read »
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These hefty-looking machines are Green Steam Weed Killers, and they will soon be patrolling the streets of San Francisco, annihilating unwanted weeds without the use of pesticides. The Citys [...] Read »
That is the problem with so much architecture. This speed is impossible. Some people think the computer is so quick, for example. But the computer does not think for you, and the time it takes [...] Read »
Fifteen disgruntled Trump Soho buyers filed a lawsuit at the beginning of the month in the hope of backing out of their condo contracts. They claimed they had been defrauded into thinking the [...] Read »
Franz Marc, Red and Blue Horses, 1912. Cover picture of "The End of the Road: The Transition to Safe, Green Horsepower âOur years of rational thought, our instinct to do good, the advantage [...] Read »
-Registration for workshops and entry to the 2010 ACADIA conference @ Coopers Union in New York City is now open. More information may be found through the following link or by following them on facebook. Read »
Introducir la palabra preservacion como contraste a conservacion como titulo de una exposicion es reconducir las ya manidas palabras de rehabilitacion o conservacion y llevarlas a su mas alto [...] Read »
Debuting nearly two years ago, gDiaper became the world’s first flushable diaper. Meeting rave reviews from mothers and fathers who were conflicted with the extra work that came with cloth [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Architects: PHA / Branislav Hovorka, Martin Paulíny Location: Banská Bystrica, Kynceľová, Slovakia Structural engineer: Vladimir Budinsky Site area: 1,100 sqm Total floor area: 239 sqm Project [...] Read »
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Dutch firm OMA have unveiled their design for the renovation of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. (more&) Read »
Architects: Cyrille Druart Location: Lyon, France Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Courtesy of Cyrille Druart I-WAY is an international first. This exclusive building is entirely dedicated to [...] Read »
Architect: Marcio Kogan Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Co-Author: Renata Furlanetto Collaborator: Fernanda Neiva Interior Design: Diana Radomysler, Renata Furlanetto Project Team: Beatriz Meyer, [...] Read »
In 2010, Estonia is participating at the Venice Biennale of Architecture La Biennale di Venezia , with an exposition entitled 100 HOUSES , and has thereby set a clear goal for itself – to [...] Read »
Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Location: Valencia, Spain Project Architects: Fran Silvestre Navarro, Maria Jose Sáez Project Team: Carlos García Mateo, Pedro Vicente López López, [...] Read »
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