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Architect: Pedra Líquida Location: Rua da Boavista, 713, Porto, Portugal Project Team: Alexandra Grande, Nuno Grande, Daniela Coutinho, Joana Couceiro, João Crisóstomo, Luís Sobral, Gerson [...] Read »

Digital fabrication has been a popular discussion among architecture and design professionals. Students are digitally fabricating their models and building their own personalized 3D printers. [...] Read »

Architects: Michel Grasso & Paul Le Quernec Location: Sarreguemines, France Client: Communauté dAgglomération Sarreguemines Confluences Project Area: 1,350 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Michel [...] Read »

NBBJ & Yassir Khalil Studio shared with us their vision for the new Grand Stade de Casablanca. Their goal for the project is to create a center for sports and assembly events which is keenly in tune with the& Read »

Architect: Rachcoff Vella Architecture Location: Melbourne, Australia Photographs: Shannon McGrath This project and site presented some great opportunities as well as the obvious constraints, [...] Read »

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. (more&) Read »

Guo Jinlong, the Mayor of Beijing, China and Thomas J. Pritzker, Chairman of the Hyatt, revealed the location of the 34th Pritzker Prize Ceremony. The prestigious event will be held in Beijing, [...] Read »

The International VELUX Award 2012 for students of architecture wants to encourage and challenge students of architecture to explore the theme of daylight in its widest sense – and to create [...] Read »

Architects: Atelier Central Location: Lisbon, Portugal Electrical Installations: Lmsa | Eng.º Pedro Gonçalves, Eng.ª Sílvie Cruz, Eng.º João Branco, Eng.º Luis Frazão Integrated Security: [...] Read »

Marc Anton Dahmen & Studio DMTW , in collaboration with Tilke & Partners , shared with us their third prize winning design for the Longchamp racetrack in Paris, France. One of the main aspects [...] Read »

Architects: Nelson Resende Arquitecto Location: Algarve, Portugal Collaborators: Ricardo Serra Leite, Architect Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 371 sqm Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, [...] Read »

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Photographer  Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum. (more&) Read »

4 decades passed before she first viewed it again and bought a forested chunk of property on the hillside populated with madrone trees, firs, beech, thistle, moss and rocks with magnificent sights [...] Read »

I dont think about my home in investment, payback, or IRR terms, but thats not to say its bad to consider these things.  For instance, you can renovate an old bathroom to make it usable, [...] Read »

University admission service UCAS has reported a 17 per cent drop in students wanting to study architecture compared to this time last year Read »

Click here to view the full photogallery. Earlier this fall, a Yale graphic design student dropped a tabloid-style publication dubbed Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films. In the boldly-colored [...] Read »

Corey Martin, co-founder of Portland-based PATH Architecture (we featured their Butler Residence in our pages a little while back) has left the five-person firm to become a principal at 45-person [...] Read »

Rather than add a few hundred more words to the tens of thousands already devoted to praise the Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXFOWLE renovation of the Julliard School and Alice Tully Hall, I think [...] Read »

I've gathered some reflections on the life of Steve Jobs over at Domus. See here .  Read »

States. The website constraints incorporated steep slopes, drainfield difficulties along with a zoning variance. The resultant building footprint reflects these constraints inside a manner which [...] Read »

Read the rest of Green-Roofed Jeju Natural Heritage Center is Carved from South Koreas Volcanic Landscape Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cave like building, eco visitor’s [...] Read »

Boston architects PRAUD have shared with us their entry to the international Hotel Liesma design competition for a music-themed upscale hotel in Jurmala, Latvia. The proposal did not manage to [...] Read »

The Trust for the National Mall has announced the finalists for the first round of its National Mall Design Competition. The 700-acres of parkland have been worn down over the years thanks hoards [...] Read »

Read the rest of Stay Cool in CplusC Architects Super Ventilated Curl Curl Beach House Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: australia, australian beach house, beach house, cedar [...] Read »

Read the rest of DIY: How to Make an Adorable Chia Pet Dog Costume for Halloween Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: chia pet dog costume, diy halloween costume, eco costume, green [...] Read »

Read the rest of UFO Hotel Room: The Newest Suite at the Treehotel is Shaped Like a Flying Saucer! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco [...] Read »

Read the rest of 6 Creepy Churches Made of Bones Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bone church, Capela dos Ossos, catacombs, czech republic, Czermna Chapel, eco design, green design, [...] Read »

The very mention of India all too often evokes images of mundane, densely-populated streets, which is exactly the stereotype Adin Design meant to shake off with this beautiful rainbow-hued facade. [...] Read »

Read the rest of Pixelated Mesh-Wrapped Garden Spruces Up an Urban Home in Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Daylighting, eco design, green design, home garden, Japan, Koseki, [...] Read »

Read the rest of ChonGae Sunken Stone Garden Opens Up an Underground River in Seoul Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", canal restoration, chongae canal [...] Read »

Read the rest of Passive Bamboo Residence Keeps Cool With Pixelated Green Brise Soleil Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: brise soleil, Chandieu, dougle glazed windows, eco [...] Read »

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is Wales’ national conservatoire. The winning style of an worldwide design competition, the project includes three performance and testing spaces, teaching [...] Read »

Keeping with our neutral theme of yesterday is the Oly Studio showroom in High Point.  They debuted a lot of great new products this market Thibault Lounge above with claw feet and magnetic [...] Read »

As many as 40 per cent of Libya’s construction projects could be up for review despite pledges by the country’s liberators to honour all ‘legally obtained’ contracts, a leading architect [...] Read »

Yesterday, Chicagos Department of Transportation (CDOT) began a new pedestrian safety initiative, in hopes of taming the aggressive driving habits of city residents. Following in the footsteps [...] Read »

Modernism in Miniature: Points of View Canadian Centre for Architecture 1920, rue Baile Montréal, Québec Through January 8 Modernism in Miniature examines the relationship between architectural [...] Read »

Read the rest of TEST DRIVE: Inhabitat Zips Around Town in the Manual Transmission Honda CRZ Sport Hybrid Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alternative transportation, CRZ test [...] Read »

Michael Heseltine has urged the government to give architects a key role in stimulating regional economies in the UK Read »

If you take a percentage and you work with western salaries, you cant make it work, Gehry said. So it almost forces you to open an office in China and work with local people. Read »

Approximately six years after Thomas Phifer and Partners won the CityLights competition for a new standard streetlight, some of the first examples are popping up in Lower Manhattan. The design [...] Read »

On October 20 the Holcim Foundation announced the North American winners of its third international awards competition for sustainable design at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Read »

Map of Occupy Portland encampment (by Jonathan Hill for Willamette Week) BY BRIAN LIBBY In this week's Willamette Week, Aaron Mesh reports on his 48 hours living in the Occupy Portland encampment [...] Read »