Architectural Works
Landscape Architect: ASPECT Studios Architect: FJMT Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Project Area: 28,203 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Florian Groehn ASPECT Studios, one of Australia’s [...] Read »
PLANT Architecture has recently been recognized with an Honorable Mention in the City of Toronto’s Urban Design Awards. Held every other year, the awards acknowledge the contributions design [...] Read »
Architects: Markus Scherer Location: Nals, Bozen, Italy Client: Kellerei Nals-Margreid Construction Supervisor: Markus Scherer, Büro Weiss Collaborator: Heike Kirnbauer Structural Engineering: [...] Read »
Leeser Architecture was recently awarded the second prize in international design competition for the reconstruction and renovation of Moscows Polytechnic Museum. The 430,000 sq ft Museum was [...] Read »
We’ve been taking you through the two week installations at the BOFFO Building Fashion event, and this week marks the third installation by Patrik Ervell + Graham Hudson . It is quite remarkable [...] Read »
Architect: POLYGON (Alexander Leonov, Svetlana Vasileva) Location: Moscow, Russia Project Team: Andrey Vasiliev, Mick Rammusen, Vera Leonova, Oleg Panitkov, Alexander Elokhov, Alexander Elchugin, [...] Read »
Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China thats covered in firewood. (more&) Read »
Architect: poly.m.ur Project Team: Homin Kim, Chris Yoo Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 6,300SqFt. Contractor: Able P&D Location: Incheon, Korea Photography: poly.m.ur This is a 660 sqm [...] Read »
Mimar Emirates were recently announced as the winners of the New College of Engineering competition in Qatar, Doha which is one of the core flagships of Qatar University. The given project site [...] Read »
Architects: Mizuishi Architects Atelier Location: Tokyo, Japan Structural Engineer: Kentaro Nagasaka Lighting Designer: Tatsuoki Nakajima Contractor: Hirano-kensetu Project Year: 2011 Project [...] Read »
Global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan has revealed the concept design for the first 21st Century shopping centre in the northern Polish city of Elbląg and wider region, [...] Read »
Architects mihadesign have completed a Tokyo house with sloping skylights, suspended lofts and a staircase that spirals around a wall. (more&) Read »
City & Urbanism
The Alps as a place for living has a log tradition as an influential source shaping specific typologies and buildings. The specific conditions of the environment but also the very special atmosphere [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Japanese architectural practice EASTERN design office has recently completed the Keyhole House. The facade of this house has the shape of a keyhole. A key to open my house , which is standing [...] Read »
People have talked about building futuristic airships for zero emissions cargo shipping for a long time, but most of these green blimps remain on the drawing board. One company, SolarShip, has [...] Read »
In 2001 a superstar jury comprised of James Polshek (chair), Kenneth Frampton, Toshiko Mori, Carmé Piños, Terence Riley, and Heinz Tesar unanimously chose Steven Holl Architects for the design [...] Read »
In many conversations you will hear people say how much they loved Gehry's early work. Here is an early video recorded in 1975 when he talked about his early and few ground breaking projects [...] Read »
A great city scales. While it makes its mark most often at the mega end of the scale - Willis Tower, O'Hare, Millennium Park - it doesn't really work unless it bores down to the small detail [...] Read »
A wandering prefab house. LEED-H: ten common failures of projects. Green low-income condos for sale in Portland. Solar PV could be cheapest form of electricity. Facebook partners to create home [...] Read »
Video
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Click here to view the full photogallery. Speaking of listings previously seen in Dwell, here's one that we feel deserves a closer second look: a two-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,200-square-foot [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. As part of an ongoing series on architectural lighting, The Architect's Newspaper has focused on the recently completed addition to the Museum of Fine [...] Read »
[First look + plans + project data] GHM Rock Townsend has completed this £5 million youth centre for the Osmani Trust in Whitechapel, east London Read »
Orhan noted that in the language of "architectural poetics, the living room bathes you in a beautiful California light, washes your soul and takes your thoughts into the Pacific Ocean through [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Since 2009, an annual Thrilling Wonder Stories event has taken place at the Architectural Association in London, bringing people together from multiple disciplines to explore the spaces between [...] Read »
I came across this very chic home in Spain designed by Isabel Lopez Quesada . I love the rustic wood and natural touches like the river stones above. Definitely looks like a mix of Belgian [...] Read »
Capita Symonds has been appointed to work on a string of eco-friendly projects in Victoria, London Read »
Countless academic studies have argued that studying design at school can be hugely beneficial, even for students who have no intention of becoming professional designers, because it builds their [...] Read »
1,000 penguins have already perished in the aftermath of the recent oil spill in New Zealand. Now, the country is asking for help from knitters to protect the adorable birds from ingesting [...] Read »
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Technology
Read the rest of How To Prepare Your Bicycle For Safe Riding in Autumn Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bicycle, bicycle maintenance, bike, bikeshare, bikonomics, brakes, city [...] Read »
After you have sorted out a cool handmade halloween costume for you and your tots, youll need to find a spooky place to spend your fright night. Sadly, not all towns and cities have a haunted [...] Read »
Read the rest of Robert Oshatzs Floating Fennell House is a Passive Riverside Dream Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, eco design, fennel home, fennel house, [...] Read »
Read the rest of China Celebrates the Opening of Its Gorgeous Daylit Tianjin West Railway Station Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", china, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Subarquitecturas 360° House Embraces Geometry With a Spiraling Floor Plan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 360 house, andres silanes, carlos banon, circular [...] Read »
From Smart cars to micro wind turbines, we are firm believers in the idea that bigger isnt always better, especially when it comes to living spaces. Whether its a prefab cabin on an open lot [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
If Bjarke Ingels ascension into starchitecture hasnt been dramatic enough, the Danish architect is again moving up in the world. On Friday, Ingels firm BIG threw a party to christen their [...] Read »
Zaha Hadid is among several architects invited by the Iraqi government to design a landmark opera house in Baghdad Read »
In August 2011, architect Sören Grünert spend one month in Tōhoku, Japan, as part of the relief efforts in the aftermath of the devastating March 11 eartquake and tsunami. For MovingCities [...] Read »
Could giving a cell phone to your kid be considered child abuse? Cell phones are widely believed to cause cancer because of the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields they use. Now, a new scientific [...] Read »
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