Architectural Works
[ January 28, 2012 0:00 to July 8, 2012 0:00. ] Big Enough? Architecture Exhibition held at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada now until July 8 features architecture firms Altius Architecture [...] Read »
Frank Lloyd Wright s 16-room, 6,100 square foot house built in 1897 for Isidore Heller was just placed on the market with an asking price of $2.5 million. Sitting on a large piece of land in Hyde Park, one of& Read »
Atelier Thomas Pucher recently won the first prize in the international competition for the new extension of the Salzburg Regional Hospital. The design combines a “double-comb” structure [...] Read »
Read the rest of Lindal Launches New Architects Collaborative Prefab Home Line Featuring Designs from Our Favorite Architects Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Altius Architecture, [...] Read »
A house, a library, an art gallery, a housing project and Gehry. All part of our new Flickr Round Up. As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and& Read »
BDOnline’s recent report Foster & Partners sees profits soars reveals that the firm has “posted a major rise in profits for the year ended April 30, 2011, with pre-tax profits of £10.9 million, [...] Read »
Architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a family of curved towers beside a bay in Singapore. (more&) Read »
News
An old Chinese proverb sums up several projects that mark the dawn of seismic-resistant design and construction in earthquake-devastated Haiti: "If you give a person a fish, you feed that person [...] Read »
Henry Urbach Named Director of Philip Johnson's Glass House. Read »
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Miscellaneous
The next Design|Spring interntour (co-hosted by AIA-Southwestern Oregon and the Eugene branch of the CascadiaGreen Building Council) will take place on Thursday, February 9 and feature the Fern [...] Read »
The AIA New York Chapter recently announced seven promising and pioneering new architecture and design firms from the New York area to receive the New Practices New York 2012 awards. The seven [...] Read »
Now the Palais Stoclet, considered the best surviving realization of a Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art," faces an uncertain future as it marks its centennial. For the past decade this [...] Read »
...will re-examine the built environment of the arid and semi-arid west as a vast field of opportunities for design innovation at a range of scales, from building systems to infrastructure and [...] Read »
Los Angeles architect Yaohua Wang - many may still remember his Nanjing Lab proposal - has sent us his latest project, a schematic design proposal for the experimental Xianghong Theater in Taiyuan, China. Read »
Lindal Cedar Homes has just launched their Lindal Architects Collaborative, an innovative new prefab home collection featuring designs from the world's leading architects. The line, which will [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Isnt architect an art school drop out with a tilted table and a big ruler? Seinfield and architect. Here is another great video Seinfeld City Planner vs. Architect (Funny). Article by mirage.studio.7 [...] Read »
Read the rest of AECOM + BIG Unveil Plans to Revamp Chicagos Navy Pier with a Vertical Farm and Roof Gardens Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aecom, big, bjarke ingels, chicago, [...] Read »
This film explores how the Metropol Parasol, one of the largest wooden structures in the world, affects the people who live and work around it, as well as the historic area in which it sits. [...] Read »
In a way, my influences are eclectic. Music doesnt make me want to go and design a house, in a way its a more physical pleasure. Its maybe a break for me or a tunnel to something else. Ive [...] Read »
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Urban Heartbeat invites all urban artists, designers, muralists, illustrators, cartoonists from the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico to participate and send us their proposals. Deadline: [...] Read »
With Super Bowl XLVI charging towards the end zone like a wide receiver under pursuit, its Indianapolis time in the national spotlight. The city has been reinventing itself around sports and [...] Read »
Its been one year since we began walking the circumference of the World Trade Center site and taking photos of the progress. A lot can happen in a year. The city and state are in a tussle over [...] Read »
Yesterday AEG unveiled its design for a 20,000 square foot convention center expansion in downtown Los Angeles. Replacing a wing of the LA Convention Center, the new structure, called LACOEX [...] Read »
About three-quarters of the people who spoke favored renovating the existing pier or picking a "Mediterranean-style" design for a replacement. The ultra-modern design of "The Lens" did not draw [...] Read »
Professor James T. Lemon , professor emeritus of geography, passed away early on Tuesday, January 31. He was a contributor to the early phases of programs in community development and interdisciplinary [...] Read »
Video
Denmark architecture,Copenhagen .. VM Mountain, Part of Ørestad, Ørestad High School, DR Concerthall, Tietgen kollegium, Bikubben Kollegium, Emil Holms, Tivoli Hotel, Gemini Residence, SEB [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Some of you may be wondering how we are doing in our efforts here to try to save two historic brewery buildings on Cataract Street. Herewith, an update. The matter went before the Rochester [...] Read »
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Leave it to an Italian to create a collection inspired by hot rods and American in the 1950's. Spring 2012 at Prada would make a Pink Lady proud. Not sure if I will be wearing those sandals [...] Read »
Seeing again Stanley Tigerman's wonderful Crown Hall meets Lake Michigan collage called "The Titanic" -- it's on view at the Graham Foundation's fine exhibition of Tigerman's work called [...] Read »
The SolarWorld GT has been on a world tour, and it finally reached the North American leg of its excursion, hitting the sparkling streets of the US just yesterday! The solar car was sent off [...] Read »
As I can't wait for reading Rachel Armstrong 's Living Architecture which will be in sale next week, on February 7th, ( TEDBook 2012), I am looking at some innovative projects posted here and [...] Read »
The 2012 Alvar Aalto Medal was awarded to Portuguese architect Paulo David last night at the World Design Capital Gala in Lahti, Finland. In the view of the jury, Davids architecture forms a [...] Read »
Fred Bernstein of The New York Times quizzed Chris Youssef and Peter Syrett of Perkins+Will about their Transparency lists, an online database linking common forms of flooring, lumber, wiring, [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of 7 Ways Super Bowl XLVI is Going Green! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "wind power", 7 ways the superbowl is going green, composting, eco superbowl, football, [...] Read »
With a bevy of hidden compartments that you can stash your stuff in, the Kai table is an urban apartment dwellers dream. Built by Naoki Hirakoso and Takamitsu Kitahara, the coffee table is made [...] Read »
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