Architectural Works
According to the national weather service, 30 tornadoes struck 6 Midwest states hit by a string a tornadoes. In many places there was a severe weather warning but no tornado alert. Harrisburg, [...] Read »
Pavillion Dans Les Arbres is an architectural narrative by Evan Mather about the recently-completed Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area Visitors’ Center in California’s San Bernardino [...] Read »
[ March 4, 2012; 15:00 to 16:30. ] ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 will be launching NY-based architect Steven Holl s newest books published by Lars Müller. These two luminaries of architecture and design [...] Read »
[ February 16, 2012 0:00 to April 26, 2012 0:00. ] The AIA San Francisco is currently featuring an exhibit curated by Robert Becker titled, Presenting Architecture which is currently on now [...] Read »
The Design Criticism Department (D-CRIT) at the School of Visual Arts will be hosting the “Playful Experimentation and Criticism” lecture featuring Michael Meredith, co-principal and co-founder [...] Read »
As we have recently shared with you the third place winner of the international competition to design a Night Club Hotel in the dense city of Hong Kong, we now present to you the second prize [...] Read »
One more week is ending, one more Round Up with amazing photos that you submit to our fast-growing Flickr Pool. As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow [...] Read »
In 1995, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza packed a few changes of clothes, some poetry books and a single sketchbook as he set forth to Peru. These few items were all he needed to record and [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Got a brilliant design idea in the live/work realm that is ready to take the world by storm? Well, now is your time to shine: Our friends at Dwell teamed up with Design Within Reach and launched [...] Read »
Poo-power, or the science of turning excrement into energy, has been gaining popularity over recent years, and now scientists at Penn State University have developed a device which they claim [...] Read »
Yesterday voters in Aberdeen, Scotland narrowly approved a plan to transform Union Terrace Gardens in the heart of the city into an ambitious hybrid park and cultural center designed by Diller, [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
As we see an increasing number of eco-friendly holiday destinations popping up around the globe, a study from Cornell University has some great news for hotel owners and green vacationers alike: [...] Read »
It looks like Harrisburg dodged more severe weather last night. [...] We've seen an impressive response to yesterday's appeal for volunteer and fundraising support, and have launched the Midwest [...] Read »
fed-scraper 2012 eVolo skyscraper competition Jon Bailey, Erick Katzenstein, Chad Porter That government transforms the way we occupy and inhabit space is nowhere more geodetically relevant than [...] Read »
[Image: The Chand Baori stepwell, courtesy of Wikipedia ]. Just a quick note that I will be in India without a computer for the next two and a half weeks, visiting stepwells, cave temples, the [...] Read »
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Hollywood Theatre, Portland (photo by Colby Aley, via Flickr) BY BRIAN LIBBY The little octagon-shaped buiding at NE 42nd & Sandy wasn’t a streetcar stop for very long. It was built in 1922, [...] Read »
Even in these recessionary times, there are still big buyers who can afford to expand when the market is low. In Seattle, Amazon is in the preliminary stages of purchasing three city blocks in [...] Read »
"The new museum is sited at the gateway to the Contemporary International Practical Exhibition of Architecture in the lush green landscape of the Pearl Spring near Nanjing, China. The museum [...] Read »
Technology
Completed in a Hungarian town in 2011, this modern home is an example of how sometimes, simplicity is best. The two-tone house, designed by Bauer Polla Architects, was constructed on a parcel [...] Read »
Frank Lloyd Wrights reverence for the natural world is well documented the famed architect coined the term organic architecture, a style of building that blends in seamlessly with the natural [...] Read »
German designer Angelika Hess is located in Rosenheim near the Alps, where many local sports enthusiasts enjoy rock climbing; this led her to ask: What happens to all those climbing ropes after [...] Read »
Read the rest of Product Fitness 80: New MUJI Exhibition Showcases Elegant, Efficiently Designed Products in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", Design [...] Read »
Peter LeGrand recently sent us this tip about the awesome cargo bike trailers that he makes by hand out of recycled and found materials. I have been using things like crutches, bed frames, discarded [...] Read »
Prior to the widespread use of polluting fossil fuels, most buildings were made from local materials, using techniques that made sense for the local climate and lifestyle. Now the Architecture [...] Read »
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A progressive exploration (through three consecutive projects, Play; Mr A; the Bs), of relationships between the imagination, form, and the objects, spaces and routines which structure our everyday [...] Read »
PIVOT Architecture's office (photo from PIVOT's website) PIVOT Architecture invites everyone to see adream realized. Theyâve moved into one of their own creations, a sparkling newoffice [...] Read »
Studio Banana TV features the COR designed MUCA Music Hall and auditorium with explanations by the architects. Read »
After getting her Masters of Architecture from MIT in 2001, she was an architect for Delson or Sherman, and then was a designer for Fresh, but she gradually started to lose interest in her projects [...] Read »
[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods (with additional design and modeling by Paul Anvar)]. After posting a project by Jimenez Lai back in January , Lebbeus Woods got in touch with [...] Read »
Video
Contemporary European Architecture film series by 27 The Project / Bjarke Ingels .. via FatCat Films Read »
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