Miscellaneous
These photos are not from a Halloween party. They are from Truman Capote's infamous Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in 1966. I'd much rather looked at these masked revelers than people [...] Read »
Foster + Partners has won an international competition to redevelop the Royal Hamilius ‘block’ in Luxembourg City Read »
The winners of the Australian National Architecture Awards were announced in Canberra last night. Lots of refreshing projects. Bustler Read »
[Photo by Stuart Ransom.] EAST VILLAGEWe don't usually run photos from ceremonial groundbreakings, but they're rarely this adorable! Today the Lower East Side Girls Club kicked off its 12-story [...] Read »
"Absolutely guarantee the cost will be MUCH more than $5mm. Everyone massively lowballs those DOB estimated renovation costs. It would be typical to estimate a real $5mm cost at something like [...] Read »
Start off the weekend right by making a new friend, namely us! Visit Curbed's Facebook page and click the "Like" button. We'll like you too, especially if you post photos of any New York City [...] Read »
Better Place, the leading electric vehicle services provider, has announced a plan to bring a switchable battery, electric taxi program to the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. An endeavor [...] Read »
There are scary haunted houses, there are tacky haunted houses, there's the frightful combination of scary-tacky haunted houses, and then there's the unsung beautiful haunted house. Our sister [...] Read »
Chicken manure is becoming a renewable energy source of choice for many countries. We previously reported that the Netherlands were planning to use the waste product to power over 9,000 homes, [...] Read »
-Nano Supermarket -Next Natures Nano Supermarket OPENS! (Next Nature) Read »
We've seen it happen a million times: Apartment gets bought, five minutes goes by, apartment gets put back on the market at a higher price after a "renovation." Usually we're left in the dark [...] Read »
The appearance of a new Hotel Toshi outpost is usually marked by a stream of complaints to the Curbed tipline, complaints to the Department of Buildings, and, sometimes, the eviction of the Toshi [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Turkish Architects 1/1 Architecture has sent us their proposal for the Landmark Project on Cebeli Hill in Antalya, Turkey. More images and a quick architects description after the break.In the [...] Read »
Architects: YAJ architects Location: Oxelösund, Sweden Client: Viamare Promarina Management Energy Engineering: Incoord Structural Engineering & supplier of structural massive wood elements: [...] Read »
Japanese architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates have completed this house in Hiroshima, Japan, with one wall glazed in sliding panels that open onto a grassy courtyard. (more&) Read »
Extraordinary views in the heart of the city and a small buildable footprint limited by restrictive easements prompted a thin, three-story home with the main living spaces and master suite on [...] Read »
Architects: Migdal Arquitectos / Jaime Varon, Abraham Metta, Alex Metta Location: Mexico City, Mexico Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Courtesy of Migdal Arquitectos Due to the redesign and recovery [...] Read »
Architect Hagy Belzberg recently showed me around his latest creation, the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. He had kindly agreed to give me a personal tour since I was preparing to write [...] Read »
The 100,000 square foot new Sephardic Community Center on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, NY is a transformative expansion of its 30-year old original building. It is symbolic of the central role [...] Read »
In May we presented Kengo Kuma’s CCCWall Installation in anticipation for the now completed CCCloud monument. CCCloud, or Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud, Kengo Kumas first built work of architecture [...] Read »
Architects: Swartz Besnosoff Architects Location: Galilee, Israel Initiator: Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee Donor: Sklare family foundation, Rashi foundation, Council for Higher Education [...] Read »
Architects: Atelier Riri Location: Bintaro, Tangerang, Indonesia Project Directors: Novriansyah Yakub Landscape Designer: Tigor Charly Siahaan Constructed Area: 98 sqm Site Area: 90 sqm [...] Read »
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Time for this week's open house roundup from your friends at Curbed Marketplace. More where this came from in our Open House Calendars. And a reminder: sales listings are only $25 this month. [...] Read »
Spanish Lookotels is on a mission to build a new kind of hotel for modern consumers seeking quality at a low cost. Each energy-efficient hotel will be prefabricated with up to 100 rooms and Lookotels [...] Read »
The low-down on sauna design and construction. Read »
[Via Curbed Photo Pool/Idle Type] · Jackhammers come for first wall at Bank of Coney Island [AtZ] · Preview of Atlantic Yards musical coming November 8 [NLG] · Happy Halloween from SPURA [Bowery [...] Read »
1 BR, 1 BA Rental Rent: $3,460/mo. | Wall of Windows 105 West 29th Street [beatricenyc.com] Read »
Remarks by Václav Havel at the Opening Ceremony :: Forum 2000 Interesting and dead wrong, He attributes the auto-dominated urban planning of the post-WW2 era to atheism. Link to Pride is at [...] Read »
Perkins Eastman confirmed today that the global practice is merging with Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn and the firms will be consolidating their offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and China. [...] Read »
[Photo via PropertyShark.] Pop artist Jeff Koons has many magical powers, like turning balloon animals into millions of dollars, and creating one massive Manhattan mansion where before there [...] Read »
Curbed Horror Stories are firsthand reader reports about terrible apartment experiences past and present. Got a Curbed Horror Story of your own? Send it to tips@curbed.com. Years ago, when I [...] Read »
Santiago Calatrava seeking Landscape Architect in New York, NY
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The 17th Pan-American Biennial of Architecture , held in Quito Ecuador, is still accepting projects for exhibition and consideration for awards. The deadline has been extended till November 11 [...] Read »
Technology
By now we’re all privy to the environmental pitfalls that come with using styrofoam so why in the world is this material still so prevalent? Known to boast a biodegradability factor of just [...] Read »
More frightening than those bruises or arthritis, your old skateboards have come back to haunt you. Carved by designer Beto Janz, these creepy heads mysteriously started to appear around the [...] Read »
Read the rest of 8 Awesome Things Made From Recycled Blue Jeanshttp://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 »
Nine is the magic number for the amazingly small, but functional mini cabin proposed by Michael Janzen. Just long enough to sleep in and tall enough to stand in, the cabin is placed on a lightweight [...] Read »
Dig into the groove! If you want to be spinning jams into the afterlife, get your ashes pressed into a vinyl record. As an alternative to anaerobic decomposition, UK-based company And Vinyly [...] Read »
Read the rest of 8 Recycled Denim Designs for the Home!http://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 »
A former 165-acre camp and brownfield site will soon be transformed into a lush and restorative visitors center for the Blue Ridge Escarpment in Greenville, South Carolina. Studio Gang Architects [...] Read »
Read the rest of Build a Green Modern Studio With Lindal Cedar Homeshttp://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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Click the image above to view the full photogallery. This week's top stories: Charlie Sheen Shows How to Do $7K In Damage to Plaza Suite, Artist Jeff Koons Assembling Upper East Side Megamansion, [...] Read »
Wanna buy an original architectural model? After the recent auctions of architect's drawings to support worthy causes, now you can start collecting models too. 100% of the final prices in [...] Read »
Mayne / Morphosis Caltrans - Los Angeles . Read »
What an eco-district might look like (rendering courtesy Portland Sustainability Institute) It's the word that has been on everybody's lips this week in the architecture and sustainability communities: [...] Read »
Looking for a new desk lamp with beauty and brains? Well the Equos got both. This modern lamp looks more like a sculpture than a light fixture with its super thin and light design. Plus its [...] Read »
Fort Greene's One Hanson Place is running out of for-sale units, and to celebrate, the sales team wants to
unload them faster, for less money! Building reps tell us One Hanson is beginning a [...] Read »
This week's top dish from Eater NY, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... 1) Grand Central: Remember on the first episode of Gossip Girl, when Nate and Serena are shown getting freaky [...] Read »
Finnish Architecture stages a Biennial Exhibition of the best in Finnish Architecture and this year 0809 starts its tour in Helsinki before going around the globe. Its a good chance to look [...] Read »
A lowly commoner subjected to a life of walk-up rent stabilization shares her story of that one magical weekend she spent living in the Upper West Side's storied Ansoniain a $4 million apartment [...] Read »
When I found out that Plum TV would be interviewing Kate and Andy Spade for their Style Innovators video series, I had my fingers crossed it would include their apartment. Not only does host [...] Read »
2 BR, 3 BA Co-op Asking: $3,300,000 | Stately & Classic 1095 Park Avenue, 2C [Stribling] Read »
Think a toilet in the tub in Brooklyn is horrific? How about a cheap West End Avenue 2BRwhere one of the neighbors smears feces all over the building walls. A former building resident tells [...] Read »
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As an intense collaboration between architect, client, and landscape architect, a great amount of thought was incorporated into every detail throughout the entire design and construction process. [...] Read »
Foster + Partners has won an international competition to design Luxembourg Royal Hamilius, a mixed-use development in the heart of Luxembourg City developed by Codic International. We are delighted [...] Read »
It was a panel I couldn’t refuse: To moderate a talk with two architects from China about sustainability. Not that it’s a topic with which I am very familiar, but I would guess that even [...] Read »
With Bowery flophouses making way for fancy towers and rundown old hotels getting converted to glitzy boutiques like the Jane and Ace, the glory days of the single room occupancy (SRO) are long [...] Read »
Following the building's broker switch earlier this month, the new sales team at Midtown's I.M. Pei progeny-designed Centurion has taken charge
by raising prices! Prices are up about 5 percent [...] Read »
[Image: A fenced-off, back alley security stair in Toronto, via Google Street View ; view larger ]. A link on Twitter from Andrew Lovett-Barron led me to this otherwise innocuous fenced-in back [...] Read »
Just because Justin Timberlake got tired of Tribeca's 414 Washington Street, thanks to the paparazzi hanging around outside for his photo, doesn't mean the Pearline Soap Factory doesn't still [...] Read »
While weve figured out ways to capture light and heat from the sun, solar technology is still far from perfected. Photovoltaic cells and solar-thermal systems are a good start, but researchers [...] Read »
High-end, amenity-obsessed developers might want to learn from NYC's high-end hotels, whose staffers chat with the Daily News in the wake of Charlie Sheen's Plaza destruction. One anonymous former [...] Read »
2 BR, 3.5 BA, 2,000 sq ft co-op Asking: $3,195,000 | Fully Renovated 30 East 65th St, 7C [Stribling] Read »
City & Urbanism
Qatar University (QU) and Dohaland today announced the appointment of the Dohaland Chair in Architecture. Dohaland established the Chair in Architecture to support QU in developing qualified [...] Read »
News
Yerger residence has been designed by Chen + Suchart Studio. This company has an unusual approach to architecture, their designs are results of a process during which not only architects come [...] Read »
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