Miscellaneous
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal, Germany are looking to help electric vehicles shed a few pounds the lighter the car, the further it can travel [...] Read »
"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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During Greenbuild in Toronto, CertainTeed Corporation introduced a new solar photovoltaic system called the Apollo Solar Roofing System. Apollo skips the rack and mount for a seamless profile [...] Read »
HKR Architects has revealed new images of its reworked proposal for West Quay in Poole, Dorset Read »
DIY projects are a fun, green way to spruce up your home, but if youre anything like us, youll think up a fantastic project and then realize you dont have all the tools to make it happen. [...] Read »
This week, MVRDV, The Why Factory and the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture opened the fourth edition of the exhibition series Museum of Tomorrow in Taipei. Under the title The Vertical [...] Read »
OK, so I guess, dear readers, a picture of a squirrel eating a banana doesn't thrill you as much it does me. Go figure. So here's a second post for today: click image for larger view Tonight, [...] Read »
The problem with traditional wind turbines is that they arent tall enough to reach the stron winds found over 1000 feet above the ground. To remedy that, Makani Power has created a flying wind [...] Read »
Terminal 6 has been on Death’s Row at least since June 2010. So why are so many aflutter now? It’s an old adage but a persistent one: It hasn’t happened until the New York Times reports [...] Read »
The conference organized by Croatian architects Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic moves to transcend simplistic visions of contemporary ecology Proto/e/co/logics: speculative materialism in architecture, [...] Read »
"Migration has always been the vital essence of Mediterranean cities. New cultures have continued to be included in daily life, and they have fertilised and expressed themselves through complex [...] Read »
This Friday, Oct. 7, the Paul Rudolph Foundation will host its bi-monthly open house at the Modulightor building. Located at 246 East 58th Street in New York, it is one of the last projects Rudolph [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Eduard Tufte is one of the key theorist on visualisation design and graphics communication. His books have sold extremely well and his concepts have been picked up by a lot of influential designers. [...] Read »
When you hear the words 'beachfront real estate development', your mind does not traditionally make the association of it to sustainable design. One remarkable exception is Dewees Island. It [...] Read »
News
A devotee of innovation and a champion of good design, Steve Jobs profoundly influenced the way we live and work. His death yesterday prompts many of us to contemplate the impact of his vision. Read »
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Metabolism of the City, Michael Weinstock Geometry has always been the principal mathematical means of describing the form of a city, persisting from the plans of ancient cities through to many [...] Read »
Brought to you by:// Ductal concrete technology used for the architect’s shapely “icebergs” in Paris Frank Gehry has referred to his design for the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, [...] Read »
Over the past few years, Ford has increased its use of eco-friendly recycled and bio-based materials in its vehicles, such as soy foam seat cushions, castor oil foam in instrument panels, wheat [...] Read »
MovingCities reviews "Tropical Modernity, Life and Work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker" [CJ van Dullemen, SUN Architecture], a book dealing with the work and life of the Dutch architect in the Dutch [...] Read »
The Holcim Awards is an international competition that recognizes innovative projects and future-oriented concepts on regional and global levels. A total of USD 2 million in prize money is awarded [...] Read »
From the largest living wall in North America to high rises wrapped in vertical gardens, we have seen quite a few impressive green walls. But LTL Architects has built an 84-foot-long green wall [...] Read »
Ireland is known for lots of things, but contemporary architecture isnt necessarily one of them. Irish Architecture Now, the first-ever showcase of Irish architecture to tour the U.S., aims [...] Read »
Not so Clean. White brick buildings, once favored in the 50s and 60s for their shiny glaze and supposed waterproofing and self-cleaning benefits, are now a costly headache for New York City, [...] Read »
EMULATION CHAINS It’s not for nothing that I chose my sketchbook drawing of Rubens’ Descent from the Cross in Antwerp Cathedral as the current background for the blog: it’s both one of [...] Read »
Archimorph BOOK ONE [revision 2.00] is available for download. A third revision with updated images and diagrams will complete the book; this will be posted within the week. Read »
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There are other eco cities much talked about at the moment Masdar city or Dongtan to name a couple off the top of my head but Hammarby Sjöstad, a redevelopment in Stockholm Sweden is not one [...] Read »
The usefulness of a little, flexible building that's off the grid.
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[First look + plans] Scandanavian practice White Arkitekter has won planning permission for this £3 million cultural centre at the end of Southend pier in Essex Read »
Timothy Leary’s Apple Macintosh LC III. Read »
For paraplegics, one of the most exciting prospects is an exo-skeleton that they would be able to control with their mind. It would allow the paralyzed to not only walk and move on their own [...] Read »
Hearst Tower 959 8th Avenue New York, NY As written in the AIANY Design Awards issue of Oculus, Summer 2007: With its efficient use of resources, abundant natural daylight and fresh air, and [...] Read »
The world learned last night of the untimely death of Apple mastermind Steve Jobs, who succumbed to a rare cancer he had been fighting for some time. Jobs architect, Norman Foster, was slow [...] Read »
The Ends of the Parabola-Kevin Pratt WIDELY RECOGNIZED in academic circles as an architectural polymath, Sanford Kwinter is famous among students for beginning each semester by first asking his [...] Read »
The architects recognize that the armory as an exhibition space is a far cry from conventional white cube galleries, or what Mr. Herzog called egocentric, architecturally driven museums. [...] Read »
Paul Rudolph's 1971 Orange County Government Center in Goshen, NY has been included in the World Monuments Fund 2012 Watch List. From their website: "Poor maintenance practices have led to deterioration, [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of BNKR Arquitectura Reveals Plans for an Incredible Underground Skyscraper in Mexico City Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Read »
Read the rest of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the Largest LEED Platinum Non-Profit Building in the World Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", "sustainable architecture", [...] Read »
Read the rest of South Africa’s First Vertical Garden is a Living, Growing Billboard for Emirates Airlines Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", biodynamic felt, Cape [...] Read »
Read the rest of Chinese Architects Tap Tibetan Expertise in Award-Winning Niyang River Visitor Center Design Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture in Stone Award 2011, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Worlds Largest Solar Bridge Crosses The River Thames in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "clean energy", blackfriars, blackfriars bridge, cheap energy, [...] Read »
A new study shows that between 1992 and 2007 emissions in China nearly tripled. The study explores not only the emissions but their causes and revealed something interesting, in the past two [...] Read »
The Curry Stone Design Prize seeks to illuminate the work of visionary designers who seek to improve the health and safety of communities and the state of the world. This year their Grand Prize [...] Read »
Frito-Lay and its parent company PepsiCo probably arent the first companies that come to mind when you think about green businesses, but with the unveiling of Frito-Lays new facility in Arizona, [...] Read »
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Jamie Fobert’s competition-winning extension scheme for the Tate in St Ives, Cornwall, has been finally scrapped following a decision to re-tender the project Read »
NyloDeck is a new(ish) composite deck board made with 100% recycled, post-consumer nylon carpet fibers and Elastopor rigid polyurethane foam from BASF. The material doesnt include wood or [...] Read »
While they may look like something out of Star Wars or The Jetsons, these super futuristic vehicle designs are actual concepts being worked on for production and in some cases are already exploring [...] Read »
The exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone, originated as an online project and showcases 60 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over 20 countries. From Australia and Argentina [...] Read »
He was the ultimate perfectionist and demanded of himself as he demanded of others. We are better as individuals and certainly wiser as architects through the experience of the last two years [...] Read »
We can confirm—although not entirely officially—that New York’s Institute for Urban Design will represent the United States at the 2012 Venice architecture biennale. The Chair of Institutes [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Architects: The XSS Location: Hong Kong, China Project Area: 230 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of The XSS Starlit Learning Centre is designed to provide performance training in relax learning environment [...] Read »
[ October 18, 2011; 19:00; ] On October 18th, starting at 7pm, Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Kissing vs Komplex, a Productive Disagreement Series Event with Sylvia Lavin and Hal [...] Read »
Check out this interview we spotted over on DutchDesign - a research program from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. This interview [...] Read »
The ChonGae Canal Restoration Project is an ambitious redevelopment initiative that transformed the urban fabric of Seoul, Korea. This design was the winning project in an international competition [...] Read »
Dezeen Screen: in the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour [...] Read »
1K house was a design studio in the Department of Architecture, MIT in 2009 co-taught by Professor Yung Ho Chang, Chairman of Department of Architecture, MIT, Professor Tony Ciochetti, Chairman [...] Read »
[ October 14, 2011; ] Architecture, in its most idealistic sense, is always geared towards the construction of the public good. Thus, the notion of architecture pro bono appears as a redundant [...] Read »
Architects: Josep Ferrando + Román Ortega Location: Mallorca 172 baixos, Barcelona, Spain Photographs: Adriá Goula This project involves the reformation of an multidisciplinary space that is [...] Read »
[ November 3, 2011 0:00 to December 12, 2011 0:00. ] Highlight Gallery recently announced that they will be featuring two artists whose bodies of work are influenced by architecture, Filip Dujardin [...] Read »
Architects: Jenner Studio Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Michael Franke British design studio, Jenner Studio, is a London-based company specialising in interior, [...] Read »
Architect: ZGF Architects LLP Location: Miami, Florida, USA Developer: Wexford Equities Landscape Architect: Arquitectonicageo M/E/P Engineer: Ballinger Structural Engineer: DDA Engineers Civil [...] Read »
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