Architectural Works
Architect: Muir Mendes Location: South Melbourne, Australia Project/Design Architect: Amy Muir and Bruno Mendes Builder: Bruno Mendes, Joaquim Mendes, Amy Muir Photographs: Peter Bennetts Muir [...] Read »
Batmans rumored new home in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises is non other than the long awaited arrival of the batcave. Located in Turda Romania, the abandoned Turda Salt Mine is flooding [...] Read »
Architects: Belém Lima Arquitecto Location: Vila Real, Portugal Engineering: Norvia | coord MJ Borges Project Year: 2008 Project Area: 705 sqm Photographs: FG + SG Fernando Guerra, Sérgio [...] Read »
Grey plaster walls contrast with tan-coloured window frames at a hillside holiday house in Střekov by Czech architects 3+1 Architekti . (more&) Read »
Greg Tran shared with us his amazing video, Mediating Mediums The Digital 3d. The video was the Thesis Prize Winner in Harvard Graduate School of Design 2011. You can see the short version [...] Read »
Watch live streaming video from museummodernart at livestream.com This weekend, the ArchDaily team will be attending MoMAs Foreclose: Rehousing the American Dream event featuring open studios [...] Read »
Last week, Renzo Piano attended the opening of his newest addition to the site of Le Corbusiers Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France. Commissioned by the Association Oeuvre Notre Dame du [...] Read »
Architect: Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur Location: Atol, Schor 1, 8224 CM, Lelystad, The Netherlands Project Team: Jeanne Dekkers, Helga Snel, Judith Egberink (design), Jan Enting (project coordination) [...] Read »
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) today held a community open house to present the schematic design for its new facility to the public. The [...] Read »
Swiss architects HHF and French architects AWP have won a competition to design a series of follies for a new park outside Paris. (more&) Read »
Architects: PICHLER & TRAUPMANN ARCHITEKTEN Location: Punitz, Austria Structural Design: DI Harald Weiss, Pregarten Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 269.06 sqm Photographs: Lisa Rastl The P-K [...] Read »
BNKR Arquitectura started this proposal with a simple but relevant question: How to conceive an icon landmark for Taichung? Their research explored a wide range of conceptual references in order [...] Read »
A bare cliff face is visible through the abutting glass walls of a Jerusalem house. (more&) Read »
Sett Studio takes an innovative and green approach to designing functional spaces that can be used as a home office, an art studio, a yoga space, a kids room, a guest room and more. Sett uses [...] Read »
A chunky timber shell wraps over the north facade and roof of a woodland retreat near Berlin by German architects Scheidt Kasprusch . (more&) Read »
City & Urbanism
An installation to get some action into the frame is these days usually remotely, inserting some 3d rendered elements in to video footage. However if interaction with the elements should take [...] Read »
Panasonic is partnering in Singapore to develop Eco Town. A housing project set to be a viable model of energy efficiency and sustainability in housing developments. Read »
Video
Elementary school in Pula, Croatia..by randic-turato .. video by Igor Savatovic Tweet Read »
Outside the Box , Hong Kong,China..by Frank Gehry .. Tweet Read »
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Miscellaneous
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to many landmark works of modern landscape architecture. While the names of Lawrence Halprin, Robert Royston, and Dan Kiley may not be known to a general [...] Read »
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
- Jordan Baker, The Great Gatsby Read »
As we close in on the kick-off of the Solar Decathlon next week, weve been profiling all of this years ultra-efficient homes as they prepare to take the Washington Mall by storm. Weve already [...] Read »
Much like a landmark, it seems that a smell can distinguish one city from another. New fragrances capturing the “essence and spirit” of destinations have hit the airport duty free shelves, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Copper-Louvered Provins Police Station Sits Lightly on UNESCO World Heritage Site Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Read »
Librarything has added a new physical description feature that catalogues your books by volume, pagination, height, length, weight and other dimensions. The new feature makes quirky comparisons [...] Read »
Janette Sadik-Khan, the New York City Department of Transportation Comissioner, is speaking in front of the golden curtain tonight at 6:30 pm, as part of the Roadmap to Sustainable Infrastructures [...] Read »
The labs at MIT are shaking things up literally as they just unveiled a tiny device that harvests energy from everyday, low-frequency vibrations. The breakthrough gizmo generates 100 times [...] Read »
The Opus Hong Kong is located at 53 Stubbs Rd. in the citys Peak area, one of its most expensive neighborhoods. The cost of renting one of the 6,000-square-foot apartments in the 12-story, 12-unit [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Wind-Powered Pavilions in Shanghai Are Fun Candy-Coated Play Houses Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", "wind power", art installation, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Dreamy Timber Pavilions Stacked High Atop One Another Coming to Paris Largest Urban Park Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: AWP Architects, Carrière-Sous-Poissy, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Crazy Prefab Green Box Has a Double Vertical Garden Shooting Up Through Its Center Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", Barcelona, eco design, geothermal [...] Read »
Read the rest of Naomi Campbells Massive Island Eco-House in Turkey is Shaped like the Eye of Horus Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", biological wastewater [...] Read »
Sick and tired of all those cars taking over our city streets? Well, tomorrow is your chance to reap some revenge on those 4-wheelers and enjoy the reclaimed parking spots of Park(ing) Day! Park(ing) [...] Read »
Opinions
1961 Aston Martin (image courtesy Portland Art Museum) BY BRIAN LIBBY Yesterday after visiting the "Allure of the Automobile" exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, my first reaction - other than [...] Read »
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a clever way to make our smartphones up to 44% more energy efficient without changing how we interact with them. They found that when your [...] Read »
BUILD takes a look at 3 BIG, HUGE, GINORMOUS books. Read »
The U.S. Army isnt expecting green street cred for their upcoming decision to potentially replace the aging Humvee with this diesel electric hybrid L-ATV. The decision to go green may be made [...] Read »
Insolvency practitioners Grant Thornton has warned that it is ‘inevitable’ more practices will go under following the news that Browne Smith Baker (BSB) had gone into administration Read »
I attended my first ever Ralph Lauren fashion show today and I can tell you that it was even more magical than I imagined. I was wondering why Ralph Lauren holds their show at Skylight Studios [...] Read »
Dadaab is now the third-largest city in Kenya, but there are no Kenyans living there. Instead, it is home to 450,000 Somalis in a camp that was built for 90,000 people. Refugees like Nuriya are [...] Read »
The Critical Moment: Architecture in the Expanded Field Opening reception: 7:00pm,Thursday, September 15 (TONIGHT!) Cooper Union The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery 7 East 7th Street Urban Design [...] Read »
A design-build team led by Ledcor was announced Wednesday as the winning bid for construction of the new Royal Alberta Museum in downtown Edmonton. Read »
The Madkulturhus, is a project involving the creation of a new venue in Stege to celebrate the culture of food. The client for this project recently acquired the former town hall, and is restoring [...] Read »
News
Journalists, officials, and curious locals gathered last week at Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to celebrate the opening of a quiet new visitors’ center [...] Read »
Look at New York's waterfronts and neighborhoods. Explore its outer boroughs. Everything is changing, even if at first glance it looks the same. Piers on the Hudson and East Rivers are busier [...] Read »
Last summer, Denver International Airport officials announced, with great fanfare, the selection of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to design a $650 million expansion, including a 500-room [...] Read »
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Brought to you by:// Mirrored acrylic and strategic lighting transform a temporary space at 50 Walker Street in New York A collaboration between Nicola Formichetti, fashion director for Lady [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos via Realtor.com American architect Pierre Koenig became famous for his contributions to Art & Architecture's Case Study House Program, particularly [...] Read »
Western Massachusetts does not resemble the metastasizing landscapes we’ve come to recognize over the last decade, the frenzy of bulldozers and stoplights, the clusters of KB Home or Toll Brothers [...] Read »
In an economic climate that has companies hunkering down rather than innovating, sustainability leader Kliptech has spent considerable effort making their EcoTop recycled-paper countertops even [...] Read »
Key members of the RIBA’s housing group have resigned following the publication of a contentious report accusing housebuilders of creating ‘shameful shoebox homes’ Read »
The man in black designing a Merry-Go-Round seems a jarring fit. But out on the Brooklyn waterfront buffeted by winds on a raw point between the muscular grandeur of the Brooklyn and Manhattan [...] Read »
Photo via World Architecture News Finished a few years ago by Mexican architecture firm Senosiain Arquitectosand burned into our subconscious just today, thanks to a feature on Laughing SquidNautilus [...] Read »
Just finished putting together all the designs for my meeting with Century Property for my new Paris Beach Club at Azure, Paris Hilton excitedly share the great news to her million fans on [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Among the many green offerings from the Frankfurt Motor Show is a new bike from Husqvarna called the e-go, an electric bicycle that looks just like a motorcycle but appears to be floating on [...] Read »
There is a principle when it comes to systems optimization which says that if one part of the system is broken, you should look at the part just before it --- because it is likely that that is [...] Read »
Tesco’s chief architect Martin Young has invited AJ100 practices to propose designs for a contentious supermarket in Hadleigh, Suffolk Read »
Read the rest of Moto Undone: Minimalist Mirrored Electric Motorcycle Flies Through the Streets Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco transportation, electric motor, electric motorcycle, [...] Read »
This fall the MAXXI Museum in Rome is hosting Y1/CityVision a riveting series of talks and presentations focused on developing new concepts for contemporary architecture. Kicking off tomorrow, [...] Read »
Squire and Partners has designed a new office-led landmark headquarters, mixed use scheme for UNISON, the UK’s second largest trade union, representing 1.3 million employees of public services. [...] Read »
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