Technology
Recently featured at Design Miami, the Stormy Weather lamp collection by LMNOQ is an experiment in frugality and sustainability. Made entirely from recycled tin vegetable cans collected from [...] Read »
Aedas Architects and a team of other world-class consultants and designers have conceived of PierESCAPE: a series of outdoor dock-like extensions aimed at revitalizing Chicagos famous Navy [...] Read »
If you cant help but dream about jetting off to a tropical paradise when youre in an office board meeting, then dont look up at these overhanging F-Light Lamps by Paul Coudamy. Made from [...] Read »
Read the rest of South Africas First Hemp House Goes Greener With a Planted Roof (VIDEO) Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2014 world design capital, Cape Town, carbon sink, eco [...] Read »
Read the rest of 6 Super Easy DIY Gifts For Your Valentines Day Sweetie Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: DIY, diy roundup, earbud keeper, eco design, electric wire ring, green [...] Read »
Read the rest of Marks Barfield Proposes a Soaring Bamboo Science Center for the Amazon Rainforest Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: amazon rainforest, amazon treehouse, bamboo [...] Read »
Read the rest of Designer John Wrights Modern Coop is a Stylish Hen House Made from Recycled Wood Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: chicken coop, chickens, John Wright, modern [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Frank Gehry is no stranger to controversy, sometimes wrongly and sometimes for good reason, but the rejection of his plans for the President Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. is a new kind [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Read the rest of DIY: How to Make Homemade Valentines Day Fortune Cookies for Your Sweet! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: DIY, diy food, diy fortune cookies, do it yourself, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Canadas Gorgeous Green-Roofed VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre Opens to the Public! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Canada architecture, energy efficient [...] Read »
The design shows Eisenhower as a youth gazing out at images of his adult accomplishments against a backdrop of the Kansas plains. But the Eisenhower family objects to the design and is attempting [...] Read »
Les Architectes FABG is the winning firm in the architecture competition for a new cultural venue adjacent to the St. Lawrence River in Montreal's Verdun Borough. The project includes a professional [...] Read »
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) just released its 14th annual comprehensive environmental rankings, and this years list shows some surprising results. The council [...] Read »
Ever the mysterious and mystique-filled Moby has added another trip under his fantastically tortured bachelor belt: he runs a blog! The musician and Wolf's Lair dweller has just launched Moby [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
We reflected recently on the debate taking place about the appropriateness of an open office to meet the needs of a diverse population with diverse needs and characteristics. Our position was [...] Read »
The L.A. landscape would look much different without four Chinese-Americans Eugene Choy, Gilbert Leong, Helen Liu Fong and Gin Wong whose work has shaped some of the city's architectural [...] Read »
Architect and designer Joseph Choma of Design Topology Lab, a research platform dedicated to the ontology of space defined by mathematics, has shared with us his project, BOUNDARIES. The installation, [...] Read »
Architect and Woodbury School of Architecture professor Barbara Bestor presented an optimistic vision of architectureone grounded in entrepreneurial practice and creating new opportunitiesat [...] Read »
Baker is an architect who has just purchased one of [Richard] Meiers raw space apartments with his wife and is supposed to be using his design skills to turn it into a home. But he is suffering [...] Read »
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Greenpeace just released their fifth annual Cool IT Leaderboard which rates huge IT companies for their green initiatives and this year, Google pulled ahead of the pack. The internet giant got [...] Read »
When this author was 10 years old, he was playing with Micro Machines and generally being a nuisance. He definitely wasnt discovering a new molecule called tetranitratoxycarbon that can be used [...] Read »
Between 2000 and when he left office last May, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley and agencies under his control approved roughly $20 million in payments to an architectural firm co-owned by his cousins [...] Read »
Goldhoorns concept, called Block City, proposes the introduction of a standard size urban block that as with standard shoe sizing wont create standard architecture, but on the contrary, [...] Read »
Read the rest of DIY: How To Make a Hanging Bonsai String Garden Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bonsai, diy bonsai, diy moss ball garden, diy string garden, gardens for tiny [...] Read »
Liang Sicheng (1901-1972) is known as Chinas Father of Modern Architecture, but he expressed strong sentiments throughout his career when it came to preserving the countrys heritage and identity. [...] Read »
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'The Chicago Sun-Times David Roeder is reporting today that the long abandoned William Wrigley manufacturing complex at 35th and Ashland, after being on the market since 2009, is finally being [...] Read »
The foreclosure of Bank of America Plaza comes as delinquency rates for commercial mortgage backed securities, or CMBS, a type of loan for commercial properties, reached an all-time high in metro [...] Read »
Switzerland-based industrial machine behemoth ABB just announced plans to throw its weight behind a massive network of electric vehicle charging stations across Europe, the US, and Asia. The [...] Read »
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Architecture for Humanity announced a strategic partnership to coordinate advocacy, education, and training that helps architects make effective [...] Read »
News
During the past several years, the green building trend has soared, with an increase in government incentives and availability of affordable supplies driving a huge growth of U.S. Green Building [...] Read »
New York City’s adoption of new green building codes are expected to result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% and saving $400 million by 2030, says a recently released report from [...] Read »
Keeping 'em Down On The Farm: Transforming a national monument into a state-of-the-art conference center for a global health-care company. Read »
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