Miscellaneous
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy [...] Read »
Legorreta continued the tradition of architect Luis Barragan, who died in 1988. Like Barragan, Legorreta used bright colors, massive solid walls, courtyards and geometric cutout windows to interact [...] Read »
Fisker Automotive, the maker of the Fisker Karma luxury plug-in electric hybrid vehicle has officially announced a recall of all 239 Karmas in the world in order to fix a defect recently revealed [...] Read »
Brought to you by: A research project explores techniques from the past to learn about building stronger structures in the future Sometimes research involves destruction in the name of creation. [...] Read »
&but you know that! (More on this soon after the first of the year) Filed under: Strategy design Read »
Apple’s new campus in Cupertino has left the design community a bit perplexed. Back in September most of the architectural critics who weighed in on the issue expressed a one-two combination [...] Read »
Video
First interactive tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater for iPad.. by planet architecture .. more .. Tweet Read »
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Architectural Works
Here at ArchDaily we are still pretty amped about the Flight Assembled Architecture exhibit by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea, in cooperation with ETH Zurich. Located at the FRAC [...] Read »
We have talk a lot lately about Michael Graves , his Wounded Warrior Home Project and his thoughts on hospital room design, mentioning briefly about his initiative to create beautiful and functional [...] Read »
At the virgin beach front area where Min River meets the Pacific Ocean, and adjacent to Fuzhou Changle Airport, Netdragon Websoft Company’s new headquarters building, designed by OPEN Architecture [...] Read »
The design for the ‘Wafra Living’ complex by AGi Architects won the first prize in the future project/residential category in the WAF 2011 competition. The proposal consists of a high rise [...] Read »
Located at the southeast of the historical city center in Havenkwartier Deventer, the site for the project by Maas Architecten is marked by a remarkable building: the Hoge Silo. Accompanied by [...] Read »
Duccio Malagamba shared with us his photographic work on Herzog and de Meurons Museum der Kulturen. His photos not just provide us with more images on this exciting design, but allow us to [...] Read »
News
U.S. firm Moore Ruble Yudell is master planning a huge development for China’s largest agriculture company. Read »
A state-of-the-art headquarters for China CITIC Bank designed by Foster + Partners is starting to rise along the banks of the Qian Tang Jiang river in Hangzhou. Read »
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Miscellaneous
It all depends on how you define its past, and what you think of our presentâ¦. âTo which the retort is: maybe it is precisely because professors of the classics have refused to engage [...] Read »
[Images: Moving Fort Moore High School in Los Angeles, 1886; photos courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust/C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries]. In 1886, Los Angeles moved the [...] Read »
After the passing of Giuseppe Brion, founder of Brion Vega, his wife Onorina, commissioned architect Carlo Scarpa to design a monumental tomb in San Vito d'Altivole next to a little cemetery. Read »
The WindFlip barge concept was designed to simplify the installation of offshore wind turbines and in the process has managed to be a solution that also cuts cost. Installing offshore wind turbines [...] Read »
The Passive House movement in the US was on a major tear in 2011 but for that awful split between PHIUS and international PHI. The standard seemed free of maneuvers and politics and infighting, [...] Read »
Technology
Wearable computers just moved a stitch closer to reality with the development of cotton fiber electric circuits and transistors. An international team of scientists from the United States, Italy [...] Read »
Christmas has come and gone, and amid the unwanted socks and numerous toiletry gift sets are piles of wrapping paper. While many of us will put our wrapping paper out to be recycled, the fact [...] Read »
Gensler has more than 3,000 professionals in 41 locations around the world, and together they have managed to make quite an impact with sustainable arch itecture. Granted, not every architecture [...] Read »
Read the rest of Jonna Pohjalainen’s Giant Colored Pencil Sculptures Make You Feel Miniature! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Colour Pencils sculpture, eco design, environmental [...] Read »
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click image for larger view A brief obituary here . A sampling of his work here . My photoessay on the Max Palevsky Residential Commons at the University of Chicago here . Read »
Episode two of "Great Spaces" takes us back in time to the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the most iconic pieces of New York City architecture, the Bridge connects Manhattan and Brooklyn with one of [...] Read »
La Tourette Monastery by Le Corbusier in Eveux, France Inspired by a recent visit to a Le Corbusier-designed Dominican monastery near the French city of Lyon, I've been thinking a lot about [...] Read »
Read the story and see the photos here . – GF House on the north shore of Lake Superior, designed by Minneapolis-based architect Julie Snow. Photo Peter Kerze House in Shelter Island, NY designed [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
1931 - 2011, acclaimed Mexican architect Ricardo Legoretta was highly regarded for the fusion of modernism and tradition. A noted pupil of famed architect Luis Barragán, Legoretta was awarded [...] Read »
Are you on KPFs holiday mailing list? If so, think twice before you toss their annual card into the recycling bin. Youre now the owner of a limited edition print by an artist who is represented [...] Read »
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