Miscellaneous
Using pallets as office furniture is about as peculiar as using containers as a home structure, but in this case, aesthetically speaking, the design by Most Architecture seems to work well. Maybe [...] Read »
Read the rest of Solstice on the Park: Shimmering Chicago High Rise Made for Shadehttp://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 »
The surprise of the Barclays Center plaza reveal isn't that Develop Don't Destroy's Daniel Goldstein came out of his buyout hiatus to pan the thing, it's that his review of the public space isn't [...] Read »
[Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/Tim Schreier.] · Census shows New Yorkers poorer, more single, less babymaking [NYT] · City completes purchase of Tower O' Garbage lot for $116 million [NYO] · [...] Read »
âFalcon City of Wondersâ is a major construction project in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It is an approximately 7 square-kilometer large urban development which main characteristic [...] Read »
· Silk Building rental ($7,500/mo.) has exposed glass bathroom (above) [TRD] · Court clears the way for Stuy Town's foreclosure, finally [City Room] · Think you can't get burned by a land [...] Read »
And now, the latest from Racked NY, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up. 1) Soho: Soho diehards weren't too pleased when Apple took over most of the Post Office building on Prince [...] Read »
After an eternity of darkness, The Metropol, the name under which Williamsburg's bizarre stalled movie theater/condominium is now operating, finally turned the lights back on last night. The [...] Read »
It may not look like much, but that's because there'll be an office building on top some day. And at least until then there will be Fashion Week and farmers markets. Observer Read »
WRNS Studio, LLP seeking Health Care Project Architect in San Francisco, CA WRNS Studio is a mid-size architectural/planning firm that does critical design work in a wide range of building types, [...] Read »
1 BR, 1 BA, 814 sq ft Condo Asking: $551,250 | N Exposure Apt 1M [The Sheffield] Read »
There are so many wonderful events on the calendar this fall but the one I am most excited about is Inspired Impressions: Interior Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman . The New York School of Interior [...] Read »
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A system known as the �Levytator� has been developed by Jack Levy, an Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at City University London. Unlike traditional designs, where redundant steps [...] Read »
The Upper West Side's most exclusive slum is apparently The Apthorp, where over 20 apartments have now closed for prices as high as $6.8 million and one guy even went back for seconds and thirds. [...] Read »
There are so many wonderful events coming up in Paris this fall including Avedon: Photographs from The Richard Avedon Foundation sale at Christie's November 20, 2010. Over 60 Avedon iconic [...] Read »
3 BR, 3 BA, 3,241 sq ft Condo Asking: $3,100,000 | Sun, 11am-12:30pm 80 Chambers St., 15F [The Corcoran Group] Read »
Good news for people who live or dream of one day living on the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, Jamaica Bay and New York Harbor: Mayor Bloomberg wants to stop pumping raw sewage into the waterways! [...] Read »
Steve Jobs' new home is going to be really simple. Here are the plans. Gizmodo Read »
Re; Damien Hirst: "There is nothing worse than good taste. Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life. And there is nothing more absurd than someone [...] Read »
The new World Center Hotel embraced its position overlooking Ground Zero, but the owners probably aren't thrilled with the location now that a construction crane is blocking the hotel's entrance. [...] Read »
At today's press conference unveiling the Barclays Center plaza design, developer Bruce Ratner didn't sound too eager to build 15 out of the 16 Atlantic Yards skyscrapers. Despite a printed promise [...] Read »
The north side of 42nd Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway has the immaculate new Bank of America Tower. The south side of 42nd Street has, uh, Pop-Tarts World. But this dichotomy is about [...] Read »
One problem with solar cells is that the thicker and more powerful they are, the more expensive they are to make. However engineers at Stanford recently announced that they have developed a new [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Renderings by SHoP Architects.] Know what would make a great venue for the Atlantic Yards musical? The Atlantic Yards public plaza! That's [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Architects: Mecanoo Location: Doetinchem, The Netherlands Client: Cultural Centre Theatre Amphion SA, Doetinchem Structural engineer: ABT bv, Delft Project management and building cost consultant: [...] Read »
London architects Studio Octopi have transformed this London terraced house into a combined gallery and living space by exposing the buildings structure and introducing display cabinets. (more&) Read »
Were excited to share that Islington Council has just announced Levitt Bernsteins Homesown scheme as the winning proposal for the Islington Housing Design Competition. Competing against [...] Read »
Architects: Bonnard Woeffray Architectes Location: Monthey, Switzerland Collaborator: Nuno Ferreira Client: Commune de Monthey Project Year: 2007-2008 Project Area: 1,200 sqm Photographs: Hannes [...] Read »
Architects: Jacques Ferrier Architectures Location: Soissons, France Project Manager: Stéphane Vigoureux Project Team: Emmanuel Coudert (project leader), Corentin Lespagnol (image conception), [...] Read »
A young design firm led by Parke MacDowell, Diana Tomova and Boriana Tomova have shared their recently completed Wave Pavilion with us. Situated on the campus of the University of Michigan Taubman [...] Read »
This house with an oversailing barrel-vault roof by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates looks across the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima, Japan. (more&) Read »
RESET Development are pleased to announce the winners of the first ever UK Integrated Habitats Design Competition , run in association with CIRIA and livingroofs.org. The competition focuses [...] Read »
From a library located in the former palace of Louis Bonaparte in 1807 to a modern university library completed in the Republic of Korea this year, heres our 5th selection of previously featured [...] Read »
Slovenian architects Enota shared with us Lotus Towers , a 64,100 m2 housing project in Ljubljana, for which they received second prize in an invited competition. More images and architects [...] Read »
Architects: fabriK·B / Benjamin Scharf, Gonzalo Elizarraras Location: Hvar, Croatia Collaborator: E. Mussche Project Area: 1,200 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of fabriK·B The [...] Read »
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Designed by Tsao & McKown Architects the 4,500 ft 2 Sagaponac house was constructed for a hypothetical client in Wainscott, NY - a community planned by Richard Meier. The house is partially submerged [...] Read »
In a rather lengthy interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama spilled the beans about how he feels about the US governments current climate and energy policy and the good news is that hes [...] Read »
Perhaps because the market for a $4.5 million Astoria mansion ain't what it once was, the octogenarian trying to sell the historic Steinway Mansion has a backup plan: Turn it into a museum or [...] Read »
3 BR, 2.5 BA, 2,025 sq ft Condo Asking: $1,980,000 | River Views 333 Rector Place, #509 [1RECTORPARK.com] Read »
Famed Financial District party building 2 Gold Street is now a crime scene following the overnight murder of a 21-year-old Pace University student in a 37th-floor apartment. Two suspects are [...] Read »
Chris Littlemore will remain at the top of Archial following its purchase by Canadian Company Ingenium Read »
1. Precedent Current architectural discourse has relied heavily on the indexical processes to help clarify and qualify architecture. However, the diagram, as used today, significantly differs [...] Read »
This container structure was on display earlier this month at Abitare il Tempo in Verona, Italy. The architects, Studio Astori De Ponti Associati, used discarded containers to build a home that [...] Read »
HELL'S KITCHENWe didn't know much about Logo's The A-Listbilled as a gay Real Housewivesbut Daily Intel's writeup about the first episode and the preview party has us intrigued. And there's [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. We thought Curbed National's look at an Uptown crack house turned glamorous single-family home would be the most dramatic Harlem townhouse [...] Read »
We write a lot about wave power here at Inhabitat, but functional wave farms are few and far between. Now Ocean Power Technologies has hooked up its PB40 PowerBuoy to the grid at the Marine Corps [...] Read »
While they may resemble a fleet of space invaders, these flying robots are actually designed to aid in disaster relief. Developed by the EPFL School of Engineering, the Swarming Micro Air Vehicle [...] Read »
A few recent projects incorporate that most typological of architectural elements , the gable house. Of course each does it in a way that departs radically from the reality of the square and [...] Read »
Jonathan Glancey reviews Harlequin 1 , the first building BSkyB has commissioned. What he finds has the look of some futuristic power station: a strange way, perhaps, to express BSkyB's corporate [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
TimeLapse has been sort of a niche thing with few geeks loving it and producing seductive clips. However these days seem now over and TimeLapse is becoming widely used and much more sophisticated. [...] Read »
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Listing: 88 Central Park West [Stribling] Details: 8 BR, 5.5 BA Co-op Asking: $25,000,000 This exceptional 14-room residence encompasses two high floors in the fabulous Brentmore, which was completed [...] Read »
The BUILDblog covers the sharp-shooters of architectural photography, region by region. Read »
Plans for the futuristic, Kanye-approved HL23which might even get finished one of these daysoriginally included an art gallery underneath the High Line at 23rd Street. During the boutique [...] Read »
Volvo is working on an innovative new car battery that can be installed in the vehicles bodywork itself and is charged via the cars own body panels. Dubbed The Tomorrow Car, the new model is [...] Read »
David Higgins, the mastermind of the massive building project for the London 2012 Olympics, is to leave the Games organisation to become chief executive of Network Rail Read »
Birmingham has launched its Big City Plan (BCP) – a 92-page masterplan which has been three years in the making and which aims to guide development over the next two decades Read »
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How much space do we really need? In an era of ballooning house sizes and constricting rental markets, it can sometimes be difficult to envision opportunities for change or innovation. Enter [...] Read »
"I finally get it-- design the whole site to look like a rusted-out piece of junk in the yard of an auto body shop. Talk about contextual genius. It's just referencing the area's history!"anon [...] Read »
[Image: "Santissima Trinidad (Iturgoyen)" by Sebastian Schutyser , used with permission]. I was recently in touch with photographer Sebastian Schutyser —previously featured here on BLDGBLOG [...] Read »
Jeremiah Goodman always had a mythical air about him to me because I had never seen his photo. That was until about a month ago when I stumbled upon some photos of him taken during his work [...] Read »
Click the image above to view the full photogallery.[Photos by Will Femia.] Six former rental apartments in the Central Village's Devonshire House are being put through the luxury ringer and [...] Read »
Looks like all that talk about landlords taking back the rental market made its way down to the Financial District's 200 Water Street. The former NYU dorm turned luxury rental is on the list [...] Read »
3 BR, 3 BA Co-op Asking: $6,495,000 | One of a Kind 936 Fifth Avenue, 10B [Stribling] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of London Design Festival 2010: The Best of Designersblockhttp://ww w.inhabitat.com/wp-admi n/ohttp://www.inhabitat .com/wp-admin/options-g eneral.php?page=better_ feedptions-general.php? page=better_feed [...] Read »
Read the rest of Striking Australian Home is Shaped by the Suns Pathhttp://www.inhabita t.com/wp-admin/ohttp:// www.inhabitat.com/wp-ad min/options-general.php ?page=better_feedptions -general.php?page=bette r_feed [...] Read »
The House of the Future is a conceptual project designed by the Australian Architects Innovarchi for an exhibition on the grounds of the Sydney Opera House. The prefab home blends the outdoors [...] Read »
If youre craving a little bit of greenery but are short on gardening skills, these neat garden growing postcards from Postcarden might be just the thing. Spotted at The AppLounge during the [...] Read »
The recently finished green roof atop the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) headquarters in Washington, D.C. is the third largest in the nation’s capitol. The project involved replacing the original [...] Read »
If youre into homemade foods and crafts, then youll love the idea behind Jrumchai Singalavanijs textile recycler, which we spotted at this years London Design Week. Awfully reminiscent of [...] Read »
News
Dutch architectural practice Van Rooijen Architecten completed the new playground building in Utrecht, Holland. It is situated in an inner courtyard close to the city center of Utrecht for the [...] Read »
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