Miscellaneous
One of the Bay Areas most effective urban instigators, SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association) is opening an office in San Jose. The move came about for a few reasons, says [...] Read »
On Tuesday afternoon, operators detected a leak in a tube housed in the building next to one of the reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in Southern California. Crews are reported to [...] Read »
Brought to you by: A carefully detailed private workspace conceals office equipment behind birch plywood ribs It’s a reality of the modern work world that many people work from home. But a [...] Read »
Fans who are lucky enough to attend this year’s Super Bowl XLVI in person will be able to nosh on farm-fresh organic food provided by Homegrown Concessions, a partnership between Farm Aid and [...] Read »
BUILD revisits the Mile High City. Read »
If you are looking for a Valentine's Day gift for your sweetheart, you might want to visit AM-Living . They are generously offering HC readers 15% off any purchase for the month of February [...] Read »
McDonalds and other fast food chains have quietly announced that they will stop selling Pink Slime beef a form of second-grade meat that is treated with a nasty ammonia process to eliminate [...] Read »
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced today that architect Steven Holl was selected to build a new building on a two-acre parking lot in the citys Museum District, besting Morphosis and [...] Read »
The Arctic has long been described as a goldmine of untapped resources, and in recent years it has been the site for some international chest-thumping and the attempted claiming of rights. But [...] Read »
Norman Foster, who, as writer Mark Lamster has noted, “even in his 70s, has the look of a heavy in a Guy Ritchie film,” skis, sketches, and visits his childhood home in Manchester, England, [...] Read »
Photo via Architizer. Click to expand! Smack in between Trento in Milan in northern Italy lies the small comune of Costa Volpino, wherein the above nursery school is located. Designed by Milan-based [...] Read »
The new Fire Station is located in a square plot, practically flat, in the industrial park Palau de Reig, in Valls. It is a rectangular compact volume, aligned with the street. Half the building [...] Read »
The architects Atelier Kastelic Buffey are definitely worth watching. I wrote last week for The Globe and Mail about a chalet they designed at a ski resort near Collingwood, Ontario that is minimal [...] Read »
Texas A&M University. Department. Mitchell Lab. Spring 2012.
Roland Snooks. Kokkugia. TA. Adrian Cortez
Behavior Drawings. Variables: agent number, velocity, cohesion, separation, alignment. Read »
If you love the Eames Office (and who doesnt?) you need to see this new video by Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, who took several of their famous elephants on safari with [...] Read »
Video
AutoCAD WS — Integrated in AutoCAD 2012 Products .. Official AutoCAD 2012 Trial Download Read »
Bjarke Ingels Group proposal for Navy Pier Redesign , Chicago.. here more .. via BIG Read »
City & Urbanism
“Shouldn’t the buildings we live in be as alive and adaptable as we are?” asks British architect Rachel Armstrong in her forthcoming TED Book: Living Architecture. This e-book is due to [...] Read »
News
Haute Couture: A restaurant with a Modernist pedigree is rescued from the vintage bin, reborn a high-end clothier. Read »
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Though the matchup between the Patriots and the Giants might be drawing a lot of football fans, many people will be tuning into the Super Bowl just for the commercials! GM knows this too and [...] Read »
Oregon-based Ideabox has been on the prefab scene doing their thing in the Pacific Northwest for a long time now. Ive mentioned several of their homes and look forward to sharing a few newsworthy [...] Read »
Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) (2012). Photo: Kristien Daem. The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) is a video project by Belgian artist-duo Katleen [...] Read »
Pierscape Competition , Navy Pier, Chicago, unveiled list and booklets of Design Team finalists. After the guidelines of the Pierscape Competition , I will post an abstract of each entry. More [...] Read »
Through meticulous infiltration, UX members have carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and repair, with an ethos of restoring those invisible parts of our patrimony that the government [...] Read »
Im never trying to be disparaging to these other communities in any way, says Bill Browne, a local architect on Indianapolis host committee who has looked at what other Super Bowl cities [...] Read »
This year my Groundhog Day post is for all the Ned Ryerson fans out there.
(If you're not a fan of Ned click "7" on your keyboard to skip to the best part.) Read »
The Journal Spéciale'Z is a publication of the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, explores architecture's complex contemporary context. Each issue is structured around four thematic questions [...] Read »
The experience of mobile architecture can be quite a powerful thing. Take for instance the BMW Guggenheim Laboratory that was constructed in New York there, on a rather small lot, this lab [...] Read »
They say April is the cruelest month but for me, I think it's February. I loathe Valentine's Day and any other holiday for which I am made to feel inferior for not having a date. But in the [...] Read »
On Feburary 17, John D. Cerone and Hashim Sulieman of SHoP Construction will lead Computational Design & 4D Sequencing, a workshop focusing on parametric modeling as part of DAY 2 of COLLABORATION, [...] Read »
13th Architecture Biennale from 29 August to 25 November 2012 The President of the Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta , accompanied by the Director of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Zaha Hadid joined H.E. Dr Sinan Al-Shabibi , Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), at a ceremony to sign the agreement between CBI and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) for the design stages [...] Read »
Active City Transformation (ACT) recently designed a public space using flooding as a productive phenomenon, both as an active and attractive element. The intent of Shifting Fields is to create [...] Read »
Architect: AI.STUDIO A r c h i t e k t e n + I n g e n i e u r e
Location: Wahlitzer Weg 4a / 39114 Magdeburg , Germany
Start of construction: June 2010
Completion:& Read »
Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the leading cultural institution of the region, has recently selected Steven Holl Architects to design a new museum building to support its collections, exhibitions, [...] Read »
Located in the Finnish city of Turku, the Calamari Union project by LRA (Lapo Ruffi Architetto) is designed around the theme, European urbanity | Resonance between territories and ways of life. [...] Read »
Andrew Burns Architect recently won the competition for a gallery-atelier in rural Japan Australia House. The competition was judged by Tadao Ando and open internationally. Their design is [...] Read »
Paulo David has been announced as the eleventh recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal – a prestigious honor awarded to an architect or architectural firm that has provided significant contributions [...] Read »
Over the years weve been featuring amazing projects from Finland. So we decided to gather 5 projects from 2008-2009 that you may have missed into this special Round Up. We have a great library [...] Read »
Inga Saffron , the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, challenges cities to look beyond their “skyscraper fantasies and dreams of increased tourism”, suggesting they work to [...] Read »
Portuguese architects Comoco have added a weathered steel cafe and a wooden gazebo on the hill of a castle in the town of Pombal. (more&) Read »
British architects Marks Barfield have designed a research centre for the Amazon Jungle with a bulging bamboo observation tower and over six miles of treetop bridges. (more&) Read »
The monochrome, mosaic-clad classrooms at this preschool in Santa Marta, Colombia, are grouped into modular clusters around triangular courtyards. (more&) Read »
Miscellaneous
Read the rest of Six Yummy Organic Recipes For Your Super Bowl Party Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Chili Recipe, Eggplant sliders, Homemade Tortilla Chips, Hummus pinwheels, [...] Read »
In an unusual (or panic?) move, 3D software developer DAZ 3D gives away its three major content creation and rendering software for free for a limited time (29th of February 2012) . These are [...] Read »
What if generating solar energy at home required little more than mixing some grass clippings with inexpensive chemicals? Thats exactly what MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has found to be the [...] Read »
My love of Club Monaco is no secret. I always love their great dresses and jackets and shop them every season. Of course, this meant it was an even bigger honor to be asked to be the the featured [...] Read »
To hell with what Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil says about there being six more weeks of winter; if you want a true harbinger of spring, head over the Center for Architecture for a [...] Read »
Most people would think that politicians would want their cities to be declared in compliance with Clean Air Act standards, but not Chicago! Illinois Governor Quinn and others the EPA lobbied [...] Read »
For the next two weeks I will be travelling with the 4th year undergraduate students from the Caribbean School of Architecture on their Study Tour of Bridgetown Barbados. For more information [...] Read »
Project Japan is a new book by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist , edited by Kayoko Ota with James Westcott and designed by Irma Boom . It tells the story of the first non-western avant)garde [...] Read »
Im fascinated by the work of Netherlands-based Dave Hakkens in a recent project called Rubble Floor. Interested in reusing old building materials as new building materials and inspired [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
BMWs new home in Dominican Republic is all about showcasing masterpieces in the most perfect way. Designed according to the new BMW Group Identity Guidelines, it has been completely renovated [...] Read »
Through their School 4 Burma competition, Building Trust International aimed to provide a modular educational facility for Burmese child migrants and refugees and the winners have finally been [...] Read »
Xero Flor is a lightweight green roof and system originally developed in Germany. A version was first supplied to Fords Dearborn Truck Plant by Xero Flor America LLC, the exclusive manufacturer [...] Read »
Within the parameters of the building art there cannot be artists like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth or like Sidney Lumet and Woody Allen, who in books and movies probe the excruciating details [...] Read »
2030 Challenge targets (image courtesy Architecture 2030) BY BRIAN LIBBY As many now know, buildings are the primary source of energy demand and the main user of materials that produce by-product [...] Read »
The board's long-range planning committee chose Holl, based in New York City and Beijing, after reviewing site-specific concepts from three internationally known architecture firms, including [...] Read »
oh, to clarify: im not saying the architecture is relatively pointless, im merely suggesting that my blog is relatively pointless. the architecture is anything but pointless, its great, even [...] Read »
I'm going to have to check and make sure I don't have a fever that's making delirious. Normally, I hate anything cutesy and would definitely not be caught dead wearing anything with hearts [...] Read »
4. QUIET DOWN Although this is more a section for visitors from the United States, I feel it's an important one, anyway. One of the most humiliating things about traveling to other parts of the [...] Read »
Yesterday, I installed a new (and currently free) app from Autodesk onto my iPhone, called Autodesk ForceEffect ( check it out in the App Store ). With this app, you can draw a 2D schematic of [...] Read »
The Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine , a museum located in Paris, recently showed Lyon Confluence and its regeneration across models, maps, texts, slideshows, photographs, stage design, [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Gorgeous Green-Roofed 2 Bar House Springs Up in Menlo Park, CA Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2 Bar House, eco design, Feldman Architecture, green design, green [...] Read »
HOKs San Francisco office received a jury recognition award for their net-zero Battery Park design, which features a remarkable algae facade designed by Charles Lee. A combination of load [...] Read »
Read the rest of Pombal Castle’s Striking Upgrade Forges a Connection to Portuguese History Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Comoco, Corten steel, Daylighting, eco design, eco-tourism, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Joly & Loiret’s Wood-Wrapped French Racetrack Blends Into the Earth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: embedded architecture, green architecture, green design [...] Read »
When many of us thirst for a chilled drink, we think back to our science lessons and recall that when water is placed in the freezer, it turns into ice. It seems a man in Chile forgot this and [...] Read »
The Sol Duc Cabin is the latest project to come from the office of Inhabitat favorite, Olson Kundig Architects. Located in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, this small retreat is perfect for [...] Read »
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