Miscellaneous
The affordability winner of this year’s Solar Decathalon in Washington D.C. is the one that is the most socially conscious, the one that already has a real-life site, and the one cheapest to [...] Read »
While I am in Japan, it is interesting to see how young Japanese architects perceive their cities, particularly since 3/11 which is now considered as a new word, according to the conference AID40 [...] Read »
Foster + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, and HOK have been shortlisted to design the world’s largest airport in China Read »
Im please to announce that the issue of AD that Ive edited with fellow FAT directors Sean Griffiths and Charles Holland alongside Charles Jencks is now out. Titled Radical Post Modernism, [...] Read »
Icelands ailing economy isnt going to keep it from making environmental strides the city of Keflavik will soon be receiving 37 prefabricated components in order to complete the worlds first [...] Read »
French architect Serge Salat has designed an infinite labyrinth of shapes and colours for a touring exhibition in China. Visitors to Beyond the Infinity amble though a series of enclosed rooms, [...] Read »
Today the California Academy of Sciences achieved a groundbreaking feat of sustainable design as the U.S. Green Building Council presented it with its second LEED Platinum certification, making [...] Read »
Thinkin Lincoln. IBM is taking over the Lincoln Center through October 23rd with one of the biggest interactive technology exhibits in the city: IBM Think Exhibit. Highlights include the 123-feet [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
A complex scale model of Tokyo is on view by appointment at Tokyo's Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills. The model was built in 2003 by 30 Mori employees over approximately 17 months. All streets and [...] Read »
[Submissions must be received by 31 December] Beam Camp children’s art and building camp in New Hampshire has launched an open brief design contest for parkland structures Read »
German architectural practice HPP architects designed the DFB Football Museum in the city center of Dortmund in neighbourhood to the main station, Germany. The new museum will have about 7000 [...] Read »
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Why shade one door when you can shade two? Read »
I've lately been exchanging bile on this subject with a friend, a Tokyo architecture professor who, having seen off earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, is having a harder time surviving [...] Read »
German firm kadawittfeldarchitektur has sent us fascinating first photographs of the recently completed new adidas research and development building "adidas Laces". The new structure houses 1,700 [...] Read »
American sand artist Jim Denevan creates colossal geometric drawings etched into the sand freehand during the low tides. Often created with nothing more than a length of driftwood, Denevan has [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Architect: Fabiola Minas Roberto Murgia Simona Oberti Location: Milano, Via San Paolo, Italy Project Team: Filippo Weber, Valentina Ravara Lighting Design: Rossi Bianchi Lighting Design Client: [...] Read »
Architects: Apollo Architects & Associates Location: Yokohamam, Japan Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 80.39 sqm Structural Engineer: Kenta Masaki Mechanical Engineer: Zennei Shimada Photographs: [...] Read »
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love being an Architect. I’ve been an Architect almost as long as I haven’t been an Architect (don’t try to do the math, please) and at this point I really [...] Read »
Almost a hundred small square windows scattered across the walls, ceilings and roof of a house in Tokyo allow its occupants, a deaf couple and their children, to sign to each other through the [...] Read »
[ September 29, 2011 0:00 to November 27, 2011 0:00. ] On Thursday 29 September 2011 at 6:15 pm Jan Nieuwenburg, councillor of education in the city of Haarlem, will open the exhibition, ‘From [...] Read »
We recently received new photographs by FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra of Living Foz . We featured this project back in February, and has been recently award a 2011 Emirates [...] Read »
The “Open Monument” project is a permanent public space installation, by MAI_lab | MAIpublicspace , that wants to recover the link between the inhabitants of Crestuma, Portugal and its landscape [...] Read »
Continuing our coverage of the Solar Decathlon, the results of the competitions newest category of affordability are in! And, this years winner is Empowerhouse, a collaborative effort among [...] Read »
Architects: Atelier Workshop Location: Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Structural Engineer: Spencer Holmes – Peter Smith Project Year: 2007 Project Area: 80 sqm Photographs: Paul Mcredie The site is [...] Read »
The project proposal for the Campus International School for Downtown Cleveland, designed by OS+A , illustrates the transformation of Cleveland State University’s master plan for converting [...] Read »
Architects: Cannon Design Location: Long Beach, California, USA Client: California State University, Long Beach MEP Engineering: P2S Engineering Civil Engineering: Breen Engineers Landscape Engineers: [...] Read »
Natural light diffuses into this house in Yokohama, Japan, through a grid of arched skylights in the ceiling. (more&) Read »
This shopping centre by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is nearing completion in Huixquilucan, Mexico. (more&) Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Kinetic Energy Generating Pavegen Floor Tiles Will Harvest Footsteps to Light UK Shopping Center Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, green [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Golden Banana: Rafael Viñolys Firstsite Arts Center Finally Opens with Mixed Reviews Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: archaeological dig, Colchester, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Read the rest of University of Marylands WaterShed Solar Decathlon House Launches Into First Place! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2011 solar decathlon, Chesapeake Bay, Cistern, [...] Read »
One of the most common arguments against building energy-efficient homes is that the upfront costs are just too high, but this years Solar Decathlon competition is telling another story. For [...] Read »
Our guess is that there are no tea drinkers on this team of British automotive engineers that has been constructing a car that runs entirely on coffee beans! Just earlier this month, their pepped [...] Read »
Brighton-based Claire Potter Design recently completed work on this beautiful blue DOVER cabinet, which is made from three separate desks and cabinets which were purchased in a true second-hand [...] Read »
An interdisciplinary team of former students of Eina de Barcelona have created an ambient pendant lamp that's made from the box it's shipped in. Read »
Read the rest of Inflatable Ark Nova Concert Hall Will Bring Music to Japans Tsunami Victims Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: A Tribute to Higashi Nihon, Anish Kapoor, Arata [...] Read »
Today the California Academy of Sciences achieved a groundbreaking feat of sustainable design as the U.S. Green Building Council presented it with its second LEED Platinum certification, making [...] Read »
Read the rest of Kirribilli House Regulates Temperature With a Rammed Earth Spine Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", australia, earth home, eco design, [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
The RIBA has launched an online poll to find out which scheme the public thinks should win UK architecture’s largest prize Read »
[Image: Singapore expands beneath the Pacific Ocean; via the BBC ]. Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city's industrial port beneath the [...] Read »
3form makes a resin panel called 100 Percent with 100% post-consumer, recycled, high-density polyethylene. Each panel includes more than 1,000 old milk bottles and can help a project team earn [...] Read »
One of the brightest people that I have ever met was John Morrison. John was an architect and a professional engineer. He was a chain smoking Camel (non-filtered), down to earth, practical, Texan [...] Read »
The Solar Decathlon evolved this year with the advent of the Affordability Contest. It replaced the Lighting Design Contest, which was subsumed within other contests in the competition. Pursuant [...] Read »
Mayor Bloomberg’s vision for a pedestrian-friendly Times Square is about to be written in stone. On September 27, Snøhetta gave Community Board 5 a preview of things to come at the Crossroads [...] Read »
If all goes according to plan, sometime in early October an enormous boulder will leave a Riverside, California quarry and a couple of weeks later roll onto the grounds of the Los Angeles County [...] Read »
TO: Tom Friedman (oh, sorry, Thomas L Friedman) Go away. You seem to be the last person to realize that you are a pompous, self-satisfied idiot who doesn't have a clue. The Iraq war - you [...] Read »
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The showpiece is a staircase smack dab in the middle of the first-floor work room that leads to a second floor with a gaping white void painted red inside. Taranta says it's reminiscent of a [...] Read »
Tourism Malaysia in Paris has decided to sharpen their eco edge by appointing Bizarreka Design to transform their entire ground floor office into a mini-escape. The new interior environment captivates [...] Read »
To make your DIYs go as smoothly as possible, 3M is giving away a hefty prize pack filled with 2 3M LeadCheck swabs, a roll of scotch blue tape, 3 stages of sandpaper, 1 pair of gloves, a respirator, [...] Read »
This week, UK specialist car maker Microcab is launching its brand-new Microcab H2EV hydrogen fuel cell car. The first recipient of the green mini cars will be West Midlands’ CABLED (Coventry [...] Read »
Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairos Tahrir Square and Madrids Puerta del Sol Square, hundreds have camped out in a square near Wall Street since Sept. 17, 2011, as part of a campaign [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. Don't let stones anywhere near this place! It's a four-bedroom, 8,694-square-foot modern on 100 feet of frontage on Lake Tahoe, Nev., that was designed [...] Read »
Passive House diagram (courtesy 100khouse.com) BY ZACK SEMKE Editor's note: In full disclosure, this post was written by an employee of Hammer & Hand, a Portland Architecture sponsor. But is [...] Read »
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