Architectural Works
Architect: Ravnikar Potokar Location: Hodoš, Slovenia Text: Ravnikar Potokar Project Area: 2473 sqm Project Year 2010 Photographs: Miran Kambič The Hodoš Centre for the Elderly is located [...] Read »
[ October 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. October 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. ] In its inaugural year, Archtober , is a month long festival focused on architecture exhibitions and activities in [...] Read »
The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen as the winner of an international design competition. The masterplan [...] Read »
In an elimination that began with 14 participants in the starting line-up, CuraVita won the competition for their design of a new 133,730 m2 hospital just outside Herning, Denmark known as the [...] Read »
An architect in the palm of your hand is something we’ve all wished we had at one time or another. ACME Studio’s world-renowned writing tools designed by the first and foremost architects [...] Read »
Architecture: Johannes Norlander Arkitektur Location: Gothenburg Archipelago, Sweden Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 80 sqm Photographs: Rasmus Norlander The house is located on an island just [...] Read »
Architects MVRDV of Rotterdam and COBE of Copenhagen and Berlin have won a competition to design a rock-music museum at a former concrete factory in Roskilde, the Netherlands. (more&) Read »
Architect: Peter Geusebroek Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Client: De Alliantie Text: Provided by Peter Geusebroek Photographs: Thomas Mayer In 2007, as part of an overall renewal plan [...] Read »
From the beginning of September until mid-December, BOFFO Building Fashion will feature five amazing collaborative expressions of fashion and architecture just south of Canal Street in Tribeca. [...] Read »
Jeju is an island formed by volcanic activities and celebration of its distinctive geological features was one of the main objectives of the brief. The design started from answering the brief [...] Read »
Architects: Rstudio Location: Valencia, Spain Project Year: 2010 Engineering Management: Seg_Ineco Landscape Architecture: Alfonso Peris Photographs: David Frutos The new subway station of Alboraya-Palmaret [...] Read »
London architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have converted a fire-damaged former market hall in Shoreditch into Corten-clad university offices. (more&) Read »
Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. (more&) Read »
Vienna Design Week 2011: Austrian designer Konstantin Schmölzer has squeezed a wooden tower into the space between a green wall and glass atrium at Jean Nouvels Sofitel hotel for Vienna [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Chyutin Architects is threatening to resign after the Wiesenthal Center withheld a scheduled payment over what center officials say is the architects failure to meet certain contractual obligations [...] Read »
For the Bangkok Architect Fair in 2011, Apostrophys projected an aesthetic place, where you can leisurely sit and sip some beverages, surrounded by art pieces in gallery made from durably construction [...] Read »
Louis Palmer, the Swiss man famous for driving his Solar Taxi all over the world, has just completed his latest project, the WAVE Rally (a.k.a. World Advanced Vehicle Expedition) which took 20 [...] Read »
Foster & Partners has released these images of its proposed new Kuwait International Airport Read »
The country’s largest waste hauler, Waste Management, achieved a milestone this summer as it put its 1,000th natural gas refuse truck into service. Even more promising, Waste Management’s [...] Read »
Last Saturday, October 1, the Royal Institute of Architects, RIBA, not only awarded the 2011 Stirling Prize to Zaha Hadid Architects for the best new European building built or designed in the [...] Read »
The view from LaGuardia Place includes the symphony of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s 7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich Street and its ever-rising companion, One World Trade Center, beyond. [...] Read »
Renovations by Vornado Realty to the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building were brought back into the spotlight Wednesday after a New York Times article quoted an email exchange between a former [...] Read »
Perhaps I should have announced my trip to Chicago before Morocco since my visit to the Windy City is coming up next week. I will be in Chicago to celebrate the grand opening of Ian Schrager's [...] Read »
Which is Denser: New York or Los Angeles? was the question that Sustainable Cities Collective posed on September 7th (2011). Let's deplace the question to an Asian city such as Tokyo. I am [...] Read »
News
Hsieh Ying-Chun, a Taiwanese architect who helps communities rebuild after natural disasters, has won the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize. Read »
Architect Robert Gurney designs a simple light-filled cubiform house in Bethesda, Maryland. Read »
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Read the rest of MVRDVs Gold-Studded ROCKmagneten is a Concrete Factory Turned Rock Museum in Denmark Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable development", adaptive reuse, [...] Read »
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If you saw last nights episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which I had the fun opportunity to work on, you might have noticed several green elements in the home. The home has water-efficient [...] Read »
[First look] The five proposals in the competition to design the new Doha College have been revealed Read »
I wrote a piece last weekend for The Globe and Mail about Daniel Libeskind’s latest: the German military museum, outside Dresden. The piece touches on the architecture which will look awfully [...] Read »
"Scenario A" from Benson Blocks BOMA workshop (rendering courtesy PSU) BY BRIAN LIBBY Two articles from the Daily Journal of Commerce illustrate the variety of ways - but not the only ones - [...] Read »
Two blocks from the stately columns, arches and sculptures of Grand Central Terminal, a rogue band of architects is engaged in a retrograde venture: They're teaching a new generation how to draw [...] Read »
Technology
The SHR Wood Research Institute in the Netherlands knew that when it came time to renovate their office space, theyd have to be as innovative with their material choices as possible. Working [...] Read »
Read the rest of Florida Internationals perFORM[D]ance Solar Decathlon House Responds to Its Environment Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, florida international university, [...] Read »
Read the rest of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigns Affordable Re_Home is Prepped for Natural Disaster Recovery Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", [...] Read »
Read the rest of Extraordinary Off-Grid Hobbit Home in Wales Only Cost £3,000 to Build Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", compost toilet, eco design, Green [...] Read »
Read the rest of Foster + Partners Unveil Plans for Solar-Powered LEED Gold Kuwait International Airport Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, Foster and Partners, green [...] Read »
This past Sunday Paris took a monumental step towards the future of green transportation as it kicked off the worlds first large-scale electric car share program. Launched by Vincent Bollore, [...] Read »
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The Google-sponsored NASA Centennial Challenge Competition just awarded the largest aviation prize in history to Pipstrel USA of State College! The competition, better known as the Green Flight [...] Read »
Asian and European markets fell overnight, priming Wall Street for a drop that will put it in bear market territory. Meanwhile, a double dip recession in the US is increasingly likely, China [...] Read »
The government has confirmed it will provide £470 million towards the £590 million construction of Knight Architects’ Mersey Gateway bridge following years of delays Read »
Design with the Other 90%: Cities, the second in a series of themed exhibitions by Smithsonians Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum that demonstrate how design can address the worlds most [...] Read »
Although death is universal, it seems that the final choice of how our bodies are laid to rest is not and traditional burials are looking like less and less attractive as they take up land [...] Read »
A passerby might mistake the Art Museum at DePaul University as an enduring Lincoln Park fixture, even though the brand new building just opened. Bucking the trend for cutting-edge art museum [...] Read »
New York isnt the only city celebrating Archtober. In Los Angeles, October has officially been Architecture Month since Mayor Villaraigosa declared it so back in 2007. The AIA/LA hopes the [...] Read »
Este video muestra algunas de las tecnologías impartidas en el Taller de Habitabilidad Básica: Tecnologías para la construcción a bajo coste en entornos del Tercer y Cuarto Mundo, organizado [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
The themes that keep appearing for Spring 2012 fashion are color and pattern. They also seems to be appearing off the runway. Due to unseasonably warm weather in Paris, the street style photographers [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos via Style Files From the outside, this might look like just another rustic shack on the beach, but this tiny cottageset on the sands of Cabo [...] Read »
By Peter Greene, Vice President of Marketing, InterfaceFLOR* As we head into Greenbuild this week, looking forward to learning about the industry’s latest “green” products is at the top [...] Read »
We just posted the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events yesterday, and already we're adding. The big addition is an advanced screening of Urbanized , the new documentary from the [...] Read »
Visitors to the Hungarian pavilion at the 1992 Seville Expo came in from the searing heat to a cavernous, dark space with a great curving roof like a cathedral. At its centre was a tree, brought [...] Read »
If youve ever wanted to know more about LAs architects than the results of their projects in steel and stone, check out Success By Design by writer and photographer Jenn Kennedy. The book [...] Read »
A South London state-funded school is a far cry from an international exhibition center, but in the last two years the annual Stirling Prize, organized by the RIBA, has recognized Zaha Hadids [...] Read »
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