Miscellaneous
g.o.y.a. architects just finished a Kindergarten in Lower Austria, Freispiel Kindergarten V Guntramsdorf. The kindergarten is located in a grove of striking chestnut trees. Its rustic design [...] Read »
World Car-Free Day a day when people organize their own events to explore alternative transportation is coming up this Thursday, September 22nd. The event is loosely run by the World Carfree [...] Read »
[Submissions must be received by 30 November] The University of Alberta in Canada has launched an open ideas competition focusing on the reinvention of American shopping centres Read »
With the uprising of more technologies that seem to track everything from sleep, to diet, to other behavioral patterns, environmental design is becoming more of an important player in helping [...] Read »
Jeanne Gang is an architect challenging the aesthetic and technical possibilities of the art form in a wide range of structures. Always responsive to the specific geography, social and environmental [...] Read »
click images for larger view It's already the most distinctive addition to the Chicago Skyline since Trump Tower: VOA's new baby-blue, LEED-green, 479-foot-tall dorm building for Roosevelt [...] Read »
Read the rest of MITs $1000 House Challenge Inspires Groundbreaking Designs Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: $1K housing challenge, 1K$1K house, disaster housing, eco housing, [...] Read »
The average person doesn't exist. So by designing buildings for the average person one is designing for non-existent people Aldington & Craig Memory in the Making | Genting [...] reveals resort [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Language not only reflects the way we think; it may shape it. Children familiar with the rainbow of colors in the Crayola 64-pack, actually can tell rust from brick and moss from sage, [...] Read »
The new Ladurée shop on Madison Avenue has finally opened to much excitement and long lines. I stopped by at about 10:00am after the Tory Burch store preview and it was the first time that [...] Read »
This is one of the latest sustainable prefab homes from Seattle-based Stillwater Dwellings. The home has three bedrooms, two and a half baths, and 2,300 square feet with a signature soaring [...] Read »
Over the next six months Architecture for Humanity plans to transform their current Open Architecture Network, an online network that empowers architects, designers, builders and their clients [...] Read »
Migration melee. Migratory birds continue to fall victim to the glass facades comprising invisible and impenetrable forest of buildings in New York City. Bird advocacy groups and planning and [...] Read »
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RECHARGING COMMUNITIES desigNYC GD Cucine 227 West 17th St. Through October 1 DesignNYC, an organization connecting New York designers with nonprofits, community groups, and city agencies, presents [...] Read »
One of Inhabitats favorite non-profits, Architecture for Humanity, has just expanded their reach by acquiring the non-profit media site Worldchanging. Architecture for Humanity (AFH) is a non-profit [...] Read »
London Mayor Boris Johnson has overturned Camden Council’s decision to block Make Architects’ proposed redevelopment of the former headquarters of advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi in Fitzrovia Read »
click images for larger view Officially, they're called MacArthur Fellowships , but unofficially, they've come to be known as the "Genius Grants", $500,000 over five years, no strings attached. [...] Read »
One of my favorite things in the world are inspiration or mood boards. Looking at them is like peeking into someone's creative mind. Vogue posted some during seasons past which I posted here [...] Read »
What if we could transform part of the massive space we dedicate to urban parking into public parks, and what would it look like? On Friday, over 100 cities worldwide participated in the sixth [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. If the above photogallery has you thinking, Aw, look at that charming European country estate! we urge youplead, in factto please think again. Thus [...] Read »
Welcome to Miami a city where civic advocacy and forward thinking can land you in jail if youre not careful. Fridays TransitMiami Park(ing) Day 2011 was a huge success; hundreds of visitors [...] Read »
âWhen Iâm doing a little California dreaminâ, I am in a beautifully appointed mid-century home, like the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, by Richard Neutra. The clean minimal [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of PHOTOS: Sanitov Studio’s Green Roofed Floating Home is Almost Complete Exclusive at London Design Festival! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green wall", [...] Read »
Read the rest of We Talk With Tracen Gardner of Reclaimed Space About Prefab Building & Salvaging Materials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: artisan homes, artisan prefab building, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Beautiful Golden Screened Indra Office Tower Enlivens Barcelonas Poblenou Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: b720 Arquitectos, Barcelona, double skinned facade, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Welios Science Center Teaches About Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy in Austria Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "sustainable architecture", [...] Read »
The architecture world is buzzing this morning with big news architect Jeanne Gang, best known for the groundbreakingly curvaceous Aqua Tower in Chicago, has won a $500,000 MacArthur Genius [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Crystal: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Completes This Shimmering Sustainable Building in Copenhagen Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Daylighting, Denmark, eco design, [...] Read »
Inventor Terry Hope has created the Solarcross a sun-powered electric bike outfitted with three photovoltaic panels, a 24-volt electric motor, and three 5,000 mAh lithium-ion batteries. The [...] Read »
Read the rest of Johnnie Walker House Combines Recycled Materials With Refined Shanghai Style Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", green graphic design, green interiors, [...] Read »
Customized fixies may be all the rage in urban America nowadays, but even the simplest, cheapest bike is a rare sight in rural Africa. Fortunately, the bamboo from which to craft bikes grows [...] Read »
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Today the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced their 22 new fellows, including Chicago architect Jeanne Gang. Congratulations to Jeanne and everyone at Studio Gang. Best known [...] Read »
BUILD explains the process behind evaluating a potential piece of property. Read »
David Chipperfield and London Design Festival director Ben Evans discuss this year’s Size + Matter installation on the Southbank Read »
The Antillean Gothic is a concept house by Amonle Studio Workshop that proposes a green and tropical way of life rooted in Caribbean style architecture. The new home is an eco concept that finds its [...] Read »
The Mock House from 1891 (image courtesy Architetural Heritage Center) BY FRED LEESON Given tall trees surrounding it, a motorist driving past can easily miss seeing the three-story Queen Anne-style [...] Read »
The spirit of Opera can be developed only by architecture which joins in a whole some of the common points of human existence. In contemporary life, a need for a human has developed to the limits [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Books still carry an aura of mistic knowledge only accessible to whom dares to move beyond the cover and through the sea of pages with waves of sentences down to the discovery of words. There [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Architects: Karelse & den Besten Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Client: Cortina, Amsterdam Project management: TPAGH architecten, Hoorn Contractor: Klies & Jozef Bouw, Volendam Project [...] Read »
Lead by principal designers Hui-Li Lee and John Wong, SWA Group provided the winning competition p roposal for the Suzhou Industrial Park Central Business District which aims to bridge [...] Read »
Architects: Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten Location: Klausdorf, Germany Project Year: 2008 Project Area: 151 sqm Photograph: Christian Gahl The minimumhouse at Mellensee, situated to the south [...] Read »
The students and tutors of a design and build workshop in Istanbul have constructed a seaside temple from oriented strand board. (more&) Read »
Urinals do they need to go? (1st pun) I just dont understand why urinals are the way they are. The function they serve is obvious and I am pretty sure that the invention of the first urinal was& Read »
The Sliced Porosity Block—the Raffles City development designed by Steven Holl Architects in Chengdu—celebrates its topping out at 123 meters. Located just south of the intersection of the [...] Read »
The Werehaus, a small creative production studio based in San Francisco, recently shared with us an interesting clip about Andreas Stavropoulous, a landscape architect based out of Berkeley. [...] Read »
Peter Eisenman is one of the most influential figures in contemporary architecture. Theorist, academic and practitioner, Peter Eisenman was part of a very important generation of architects and [...] Read »
[ September 15, 2011 11:00 to September 17, 2011 11:00. ] Last week I had the honor to be an invited speaker to the 2011 AIA Arkansas Convention in Hot Springs, AR. The event featured a great [...] Read »
Architect: Brininstool, Kerwin, & Lynch Location: Michigan City, Indiana Project Year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Christopher Barrett of Hedrich Blessing The Coffou Cottage by Brininstool, [...] Read »
Based on the research on spread-in-the-city-dome sticity, Andrés Jaque Architects produced their Sweet Parliament Home based on the field work they have been doing in the last months in Seoul, [...] Read »
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has completed a concrete house on the edge of a cliff in southern Sri Lanka, writes Yuki Sumner . (more&) Read »
Video
Daniel Libeskind talks to CNN about his new skyscraper.. here Tweet Read »
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