Architectural Works
Architect : Raphaëlle Segond Architecte Location: Domaine de Beauvallon, Township of Grimaud, France Project Team: Jonhattan Inzerillo, Project Manager Concrete & masonry : Paul Ciotta & Fils, [...] Read »
A renaissance through architecture has been unfolding throughout the past several years in Colombia ’s second largest city – Medellin . Home to 3.5 million inhabitants it was plagued by violence [...] Read »
Architect: Nacházel Architekti Location: Milevsko, Czech Republic Construction Company: SKALA Sculptures: Jakub Flejšar Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Jakub Vlček This project involved the [...] Read »
Architects: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects Location: Concepcion, Chile Client: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Ltda Collaborators: Bernhard Maurer, Eleonora Bassi, Valeria Farfan, Michael Godden [...] Read »
There is a lot of attention being paid to the New York skyline these days – and rightly so, as the Freedom Tower rises about 1 story a week. Yet, a little farther up the Island, an elegant faceted& Read »
Heres the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. (more&) Read »
The Gulating Museum proposal by LETH & GORI is a design for a new museum building for the historic Viking thingstead Gulating in Norway. The museum building is situated in the middle of the [...] Read »
Architect: Architekton Location: Tempe, Arizona Project Year: 2008 Contractor: 180 Degrees Structural Engineer: Brickey Design Associates Mechanical Engineer: Applied Engineering Electrical Engineer: [...] Read »
[ September 9, 2011 0:00 to October 30, 2011 0:00. ] A large tree, whose leaves are drawings, a pond from which photos of projects arise, a large installation which recreates the mental landscape [...] Read »
Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a rusted steel winery on a World Heritage Site in the south of France. (more&) Read »
On May 22nd, 2011, framed by green bamboo vaults, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou stood at a podium inside Forest Pavilion to inaugurate the Masadi Art Festival. Facing a crowd of celebrators, [...] Read »
[ November 2, 2011; 17:00 to 20:00. ] Motopia: A New Age of Modular Construction, an event put on by USCs School of Architecture, will bring together todays most creative designers of mobile [...] Read »
Recent works by Spanish studio Herreros Arquitectos are on show at the ROM Gallery in Oslo. (more&) Read »
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Miscellaneous
Londons mayor, Boris Johnson, has been a big supporter of green transportation hes installed thousands of EV chargers around the city and opened a bike superhighway to make it easier for [...] Read »
Revit: Project Spark – quick overview : So what is Project Spark? Essentially Spark, is a cut down version of Revit, a sort of Revit LT or beginner’s version. Some probably though... I was [...] Read »
Ford just leaked photos of its EVOS Concept to be revealed at next weeks Frankfurt Motor Show. In short, we love it. The EVOS is a plug-in hybrid with four exotic gullwing doors and a gorgeous [...] Read »
The number of planning applications made by homeowners for extensions has risen by 5.4 per cent, according to figures released to the AJ Read »
Speaking of the pros and cons of cargo container construction, web-based design magazine designboom has been working on a DIY-style, live-work container structure on Sardinia, an island off the [...] Read »
Tiny components like nails, screws and light bulbs, mundane but crucial, are significantly cheaper if bought from China or other developing nations. High-end frills which tend to be imported, [...] Read »
Once again we continue our exploration of the five architects' proposals for the Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at MoMA . Today's video is that of Studio Gang with its proposal The [...] Read »
JUST as I was thinking it was so convenient that Bimmers Only was located between Great Barrington and Manhattan, so that I could drop the car off for service and take the train into New York [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
The idea for this post came up while reflecting on Wildcat’s latest posts on the Knowmad and from an excellent piece I came by lately in G. Deleuze’s book – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. [...] Read »
eVolo is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual [...] Read »
It would be hard for any metropolitan area to be whiter than Pittsburgh. It's so hard, in fact, that of the 100 largest metro areas in the United States, only one has a smaller share of blacks, [...] Read »
A team led by Brits Wilkinson Eyre Architects has been named on the shortlist to transform the New Carlsberg Brewhouse in Copenhagen, Denmark into a ‘Brand and Experience Centre’ Read »
Timberline Lodge (all photos by me unless noted otherwise) A few months ago I listed Timberline Lodge as one of my ten favorite buildings in Oregon , despite not having visited the landmark. [...] Read »
Chemists at Massachusetts’ Tufts University recently shattered a Guinness World Record as they unveiled the world’s tiniest motor. The teeny electric motor is made from a single molecule, [...] Read »
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If you live in New York, I suggest you don't look at the weather forecast for this week. All the rain has me wishing that de Kooning: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art was open now. [...] Read »
In a time where physical possessions begin to lose their once-crucial roles, where more and more live in multiple countries and spend much of their time traveling, where identity is becoming [...] Read »
The Obama Administration is continuing its maddeningly anti-environmental course by blocking the EPA from enforcing stricter rules for air quality. Just last week, the administration approved [...] Read »
Send in your fluorescent bulbs and BUILD will test it in the CFL show-down. Read »
Here is one more car to add to the growing list of futuristic electric city cars going into production. The Volkswagen NILS EV Concept will debut alongside its Audi Urban Concept cousin at the [...] Read »
Kingsbridge has long been home to an ethnically diverse cross section of middle- and working-class residents. Now developers of two new condo buildings are trying to attract more affluent families [...] Read »
"Canadian firms, KPMB Architects and Smith Carter Architects + Engineers, and German climate engineering experts, Transsolar of Stuttgart, have come together to form an Integrated Design Consortium. [...] Read »
While preparing for the hurricane last weekend, you might have missed excellent article, The Battle for Hermès in the Wall Street Journal . For those of you who don't know, Bernard Arnault, [...] Read »
Read the rest of PHOTOS: 100 Danish Pendant Lamps Shine Bright at Copenhagen Design Week! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bright Ideas, copenhagen design week 2011, Danish design, [...] Read »
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"Zima" cup pad is the first product of a series of houseware designs, that Morphocode is currently working on. Read »
WANT TO BE AN INHABITAT INTERN? With leaves about to fall on Inhabitats LES office, were gearing up for an exciting season jam-packed with design events, exhibits, talks and more. The natural [...] Read »
Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, we heard about Porsches hybrid race car that garners energy from a flywheel, and now a consortium called Flybus has put that energy reusing technology [...] Read »
Plans by Amanda Levete Architects to re-model News International’s headquarters have been derailed by a decision to sell the east London site Read »
I invite you to think about how you can use dynamic installations within your built form designs to enhance effects for your occupants as they travel and experience your buildings. For example, [...] Read »
So what's the deal about Labor Day that turns on the chill of Fall as if by switch? I don't like the end of summer, but I'm consoled by the fact that the pace of the September Calendar of [...] Read »
(from 2010): Chicago has always been a strong union town. The story's told that it was a wildcat bricklayer's strike that sent William Le Baron Jenney home so early one day that his shocked [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Airy Forest Pavilion in Taiwan is Made from a Series of Parabolic Bamboo Arches Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amis tribe, bamboo, Da Wong Da Fu Forest, Eco [...] Read »
Read the rest of Worlds First Manned Electric Helicopter Takes Flight! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: clean tech, eco design, eco-helicopter, electric helicopter, electric [...] Read »
Read the rest of Eco-Luxe Spanish Farmhouse Lures Vacationers With Mediterranean Views and On-Site Farm Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco luxury, eco resort, green [...] Read »
Making our way across town at this years Copenhagen Design Week, we spotted the Paper Chair a striking sculptural seat that combines a humble biodegradable material with cutting-edge technology. [...] Read »
Read the rest of PHOTOS: Quirky Eco-Designs Unveiled at CODE11 for Copenhagen Design Week Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", bamboo plywood, bella center, CODE11, [...] Read »
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