Technology
Read the rest of Team Purdues Suburban INhome Rises to Third Place in the 2011 Solar Decathlon Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2011 solar decathlon, air to air heat pump, Bio [...] Read »
Read the rest of Shiny and Tubular Slough Bus Station Improves Pedestrian Access in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bblur architecture, breeam very good, bus, bus station, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Transpartent Hemlock Building Mixes High-Tech Solar Panels With Ancient Sundial Technology Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", alternative [...] Read »
Read the rest of Google Employees in Zurich (Zooglers) Have the Worlds Coolest Re-Purposed Office Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, collaborative space, daylight, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Recycled Greenhouse Pavilion Pops Up in the Dutch Countryside Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, elmo vermijs, green architecture, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Renovated Ship in a Bottle Home Springs Up in San Franciscos Noe Valley Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aia, aia home tours, american institute of architects, [...] Read »
San Franciscos EcoCenter is the first commercial building in the city to be 100 percent off the grid, and Inhabitat recently toured it as part of this years Architecture and the City Festival. [...] Read »
Read the rest of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Unveil Plans for the Day Lit Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", art museum, BAM/PFA, [...] Read »
We are eagerly awaiting the 2011 A Better World by Design conference coming up this weekend, Sept. 30 Oct. 2, on the campuses of the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. We have [...] Read »
Read the rest of OS+As Campus International School is Topped With a Honeycomb Green Roof Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Campus International School, Cleveland State University, [...] Read »
News
The founder of Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects discusses being named a 2011 fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read »
For lovers of the history of architecture, there's no better U.S. city than Chicago, with its stunning collection of landmark buildings by Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally recently told Bloomberg News that the company is thinking of producing electric vehicles in China with their Chinese auto partner Changan Automobile Group. [...] Read »
Following NASAs recent grant awarded to Neil Leech, USC, and Contour Crafting, suckerPUNCH has unveiled a new competition for a Lunar Crater Cultural Center. Read »
Fashion week moves to Paris as do all the editors, buyers and bloggers. I bet a few of them will be visiting the David Mallett hair salon for a brushing which is what the French call a blow [...] Read »
Allies and Morrison has submitted outline plans for a £1 billion extension to the Westfield shopping centre in White City, London Read »
Our first commissions were conversions and residential renovations with no budget. We were looking at how to convert an 1890s Victorian terrace house into something that suits a more modern spirit. [...] Read »
What surprised me about visiting the Château de Versailles was the openness. Windows and doors welcomed in the warm September air and it wasn't at all as closed off as many American monuments [...] Read »
Charles Woodyard has been appointed chief operating officer the of the Chicago Housing Authority. Woodyard has served in a similar capacity for nine years at the Charlotte Housing Authority. [...] Read »
Mateo Arquitectura recently completed the new building for the Film Library of Catalonia in the Raval district of Barcelona. Designed by Josep Lluís Mateo, the project won the first prize in [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
NEW YORKAlthough the American Folk Art Museum has avoided dissolution thanks to a cash infusion from trustees and the Ford Foundation, the institutions ongoing financial troubles raise difficult [...] Read »
Architects: 4site Architecture Location: Melbourne, Australia Project Team: Kevin Hui, Monique Choi Builder: A.T. Interiors & Construction Pty Ltd Engineers: Coulthard Shim Pty Ltd Project Year: [...] Read »
Within the last few months, the number of emails I have received from people asking whether or not they should get out of architecture has been staggering. Equally surprising are the emails I [...] Read »
The city of Jinzhou is located 430 kilometers north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 20 kilometers inland. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of [...] Read »
Architect: Andrew Simpson Architects Location: Cape Liptrap, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Andrew Simpson, Owen West, Steve Hatzellis, Dennis Prior, Stephan Bekhor, Eugene An Builder: GK [...] Read »
Beginning this October, get ready to experience museums … lots of them! Whether youre located in Los Angeles, London, Montreal, Arkansas or New York, check out some exciting exhibits taking [...] Read »
The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition recognizes architectural visualizations from talented artists all over the world and represents the longest running delineation competition on [...] Read »
Architects: Luigi Rosselli Location: Sydney, Australia Project Architects: Candace Christensen, Patrick Bless, James Horler, Sean Johnson Landscaper: Terragram, Vladimir Sitta Project Year: [...] Read »
Architects: Upsetter Architects Location: Tokyo, Japan Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 33.4 sqm Photographs: Yusuke Wakabayashi This is a design of the store, which requires a visit by appointment, [...] Read »
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusiers chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. (more&) Read »
Miscellaneous
A fantastic fight recently broke out between the publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World and climate scientists worldwide when the most recent publication of the atlas depicted [...] Read »
Todays article targets getting you to think about environment and memory, particularly for the aging population. As you design buildings within which the aging live, do you take time within [...] Read »
http://www.suckerpunchd aily.com/2011/09/21/lun ar-crater-cultural-cent er/#more-15867 LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER MOON registration begins 7.21.11 submissions due 12.19.11 awards: US $2500 [...] Read »
All in all despite a pretty obvious blind spot in Hustwit's thinking about cities like Los Angeles "Urbanized" ranks among the smartest recent analyses of mass global urbanization and its [...] Read »
A review of project invoices... shows $5.17 million in lump-sum payments for work done by Calatrava himself, mostly "visioning." There is little accounting of what Calatrava did and how much [...] Read »
South Park Blocks from Portland Art Museum (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON Sometimes it takes the eyes of a stranger to see things that local eyes don’t appreciate. Wendy Rahm isn’t [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
[First look + plans + project data] Donald Insall Associates has released these shots of its £10 million restoration and expansion of a dilapidated Elizabethan mansion in Anglesey Read »
While we are strong advocates of the stand-work method over here at Inhabitat, we do realize that it isnt a practical solution for all workplace environments. But if youre a desk jockey hoping [...] Read »
[First look] Danish-based practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed this £2.5 million community library in North Sheffield Read »
The Census Bureau just released a report on the commuting behavior of Americans in 2009. The commuting report is part of the American Community Survey, and it details the average commute time [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
A couple of year's ago, Hyde Park's Sam Guard had tipped me off about an impending change at the upper-level outdoor plaza at Illinois Center. The basic plan for Illinois Center had been designed [...] Read »
The water inspired entry for the 2011 Solar Decathlon by the University of Maryland. via this image was too good not to share Read »
A look at what's going on in the SPD cabinet shop... once the dust settles. Read »
zHome is a contemporary, new, townhome development in Issaquah, Washington. The homes go on sale this month and have received national attention, such as in the video embedded below with the [...] Read »
Trying to fix a bike can be a daunting task. After dealing with bolts, tubes, screws, tires, and wrenches its not unlikely that your attempt to change a chain has left you with 50 piled up parts. [...] Read »
Deborah Wye’s lecture on Orchard Beach yesterday at the City Island Historical Society Nautical Museum was months in the making. The curator emerita of MoMAs prints department was immersed [...] Read »
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