Architectural Works
“this open, ‘collaborative’ environment, where worker drones so nicely sit in poise out in the open while click-clacking on their computers, creates an atmosphere where people become desensitized [...] Read »
Considered one of Paul Rudolph ’s greatest achievements, the 1970’s Orange County Government Center is an icon of the late modernist era. Poor maintenance has lead to deterioration and in [...] Read »
Last night, ArchDaily joined the community of Chelsea and Friends of the High Line in the crowded auditorium of PS 11: The William T Harris School eager to see James Corner and Rick Scofidio’s [...] Read »
Gathering was a pavilion designed by Gathering (Ginna Nguyen, So Sugita, Dale Suttle) selected out of more than 600 international entries to be built in a “visionary village” in Union Square [...] Read »
Prefab construction has become so widely used that its now possible to precast a building as large as WOHAs 960-unit Skyville @ Dawson housing complex in Singapore! The massive solar-powered [...] Read »
Located in close proximity to the regional Hospital in Næstved, Denmark, the new Oasis Cancer Care Center, designed by WE Architecture , will help anyone affected by cancer through professional [...] Read »
If you are an Apple fanatic and architecture lover you should pick up this book. CLOG publication is filling a niche that has been created by the hyperspeed of digital media. In the deluge, [...] Read »
Commissioned by the Housing and Development Board as an exploration of the future of affordable public housing, WOHA s public housing design for Skyville @ Dawson consists of 960 homes in Singapore. [...] Read »
Grimshaw Architects , in association with local project partners Konrath & Wennemar and FSWLA were recently selected to deliver their visionary masterplan strategy for the city center area of [...] Read »
Last May, Portugal became the third country within the 17-country eurozone in need of a financial rescue to avoid bankruptcy, following Greece and Ireland. Unemployment within the country has [...] Read »
Its been an exciting week at ArchDaily that you couldnt miss. But just in case you did, heres our best of the week: A great mixed use designed by Project Orange located in a Victorian industrial [...] Read »
Designed in Hackney: this weeks first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly [...] Read »
Dezeen Screen: this animation from our series by architectural filmakers Factory Fifteen shows a swarm of equipment associated with British postal service Royal Mail colonising the sides of a [...] Read »
Dezeen archive: following our story about a gallery pushing up from beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt last week, heres a roundup of all our stories about underground architecture [...] Read »
Spanish architects MedioMundo have completed a bright red multimedia centre amongst a collection of towering apartment blocks in Seville. (more&) Read »
Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. (more&) Read »
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Miscellaneous
Initial design plans have been revealed for the third and final section of everyones favorite elevated park, New York Citys High Line! At a community meeting last night, Friends of the High [...] Read »
The island nation of Kiribatis highest point is no more than two meters above sea level, which makes it one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to rising water levels. Last week the President [...] Read »
Corporate Golf Space The golf course as an integrated design landscape and topography nestles up to the soft downs of the Mühlviertel. The club house merges with the landscape and integrates [...] Read »
There is no cheaper pick me up for a home than fresh flowers. I've been treating myself to fresh blooms all winter including flowering the Quince branches above. They last a few weeks and are [...] Read »
It is possible to say without too much exaggeration that we now inhabit a version of the future William Gibson first described 25 years ago.... an accumulation of smaller changes, the consequences [...] Read »
The way to find the sort of transcendence Coulter is looking for is to achieve "flow" [...]. Simplistically, flow is when someone becomes one with an experience, whether that be contained in [...] Read »
My friend Blue Carreon and I both bought wooden tennis racquets at the flea market yesterday. Mine is displayed in my blue and white porcelain umbrella stand in my entry. If I tried displaying [...] Read »
So, yes, we're trying to set a record. The March 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events is still not complete - but it's getting close. This week, we've got EMA's (and Yale 's) Edward [...] Read »
Heritage Revitalization in Hong Kong Heritage is a socio-cultural resource, which the Hong Kong citizen is drawing on to help define an identity, both connected to and distinct from mainland [...] Read »
Postscript: see Lee Bey's report including photos from the Sunday cleanup. The building will be in court again today, Monday, March 12th. photograph: Lee Bey (click images for larger view) [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Oppenheim Architecture + Design is one of many bright young firms leading the way to a beautiful and sustainable living/visiting/storing architectural world. Read »
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New regulations are coming to the Ohio natural gas industry thanks to the discovery that misplaced hydraulic fracturing wells are the cause of earthquakes in the area. Ohio regulators discovered [...] Read »
I am beyond excited to announce that my book Habitually Chic: Creativity at Work is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The book will peek into the work spaces of creative people in fashion, [...] Read »
When Amin Karami and Daniel Inman, aerospace engineering researchers at the University of Michigan, began to work with materials which generate power from physical stress, they werent looking [...] Read »
click images for larger view Booth Hansen 's Joffrey Tower (aka MOMO), at State and Randolph, has always struck me as a bit slippery. To be sure, there is some articulation in the center-bay [...] Read »
The Energy Information Administration has released data to show that in 2011, coal power made up less than 40% of all U.S. electricity. As coal-fueled electric dropped to 30 year lows last year, [...] Read »
Open Space Office is a series of photographs by Tito Mouraz, depicting what I presume is a rock quarry. I love the abstract nature of the images. Reminds me of the work of Edward Burtynsky. Says [...] Read »
The only way to make truly sustainable architecture is to connect our buildings to nature - not insulate them from it! Rachel Armstrong Historic Building Lies In Ruins | Cities are banking on [...] Read »
On Thursday evening Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke at the New York Public Library with NYPL Live Director Paul Holdengräber . After an introduction by Holdengräber, Koolhaas and [...] Read »
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of BMW Welt by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Munich. The architect Prof Wolf D. Prix and his agency, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, were able to visualize the expectations [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Coda Automotive has announced that its first all-electric sedan has been produced at its plant in Benicia, CA. The first EV to roll off the line is a silver sedan with a 31 kWh battery pack. [...] Read »
In our previous post, we just published the winners of eVolo's 2012 Skyscraper Competition. This entry here, Coal Power Plant Mutation by Romanian architect Bogdan Chipara, was one of the Honorable [...] Read »
As severe desertification hits the Gobi Desert and temperatures there rise at a rate twice the global average, it is not only the largely nomadic desert population who suffer — the desertification [...] Read »
Viennese architectural firm Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH won the First Prize in an international competition that seeks to overhaul the campus of the Angewandte, a group of buildings that house [...] Read »
My friend D. (he asked me not to use his name) just bought a condo in Miami and asked for a little design advice. Since he reads my blog, he knows that I have access to a multitude of images [...] Read »
Located at San Gaspar Golf Club (Jiutepec de Morelos, Mexico), in an area of 1,600 square meters on top of a hill; Widescreen materializes in a one floor house to accommodate a versatile program. [...] Read »
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Red Hook Green is a net-zero energy live-work residence designed to be installed in Brooklyn, New York. More details after the break... As defined by the US Department of Energy, âa net [...] Read »
This project is important from the perspective that in a modern contemporary useful space, requirements are met in terms of flexibility and spatial quality. The first such requirement is met [...] Read »
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. The annual contestnow in its sixth yearhonors visionary ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of [...] Read »
There is a buzz in the air this week about the Chevy Volt thanks to an announcement by General Motors on Friday that theyll be shutting down production of the Volt at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly [...] Read »
The Self-Assembly Line is a large-scale version of a self-assembly virus capsid, demonstrated as an interactive and performative structure. A discrete set of modules are activated by stochastic [...] Read »
The new Cancer Care Center in Næstved is located in close proximity to the regional Hospital. The purpose of the center is helping anyone affected by cancer through professional help in exceptional [...] Read »
Kurt Perschke is an artist who created The RedBall Project, a public art installation that involves a giant you guessed it red ball, that is inflated in and around major public spaces. It [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of 7 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air Around You Naturally Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: air cleaning plants, air filter, air purifying plants, anthuriums, Dendrobium, [...] Read »
Read the rest of NPIRE Uses 55,000 LEGOs To Create a Funky Pixelated Wall Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: german design, green interiors, hamburg, Lego bricks, LEGO interiors, [...] Read »
AHL realized the Wanda Plaza Mall project whilst 4 months, 1 month for project design, about 1 month for production, and the rest of the time for installation and testing. The C30 Typ embed in [...] Read »
Read the rest of Cambodias New Stock Exchange Tower Has Dragon Scales Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", Cambodia, cantilevered, Daylighting, dragon, Green Building, green [...] Read »
Read the rest of Modular AR-CHE Aqua Floathome Enjoys On-The-Lake-Living in Germany Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", ar-che, ar-che aqua floathome, [...] Read »
Stephen Reon Franciscos Eco E-Trike is a concept for an electric vehicle that allows people to get around the city with ease. Looking a bit like a streamlined golf-cart, the E-Trike is more [...] Read »
Log homes are much beloved for their nostalgic appeal but one downside is that they typically form leaks between the timbers. Luckily, True North Log Homes has come up with a couple of nice [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Caterpillar House is a Modern Rammed Earth Ranch House in California Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Carmel, Caterpillar, caterpillar [...] Read »
Video
3 Days in Dubai timelapse video by Aaron Mendez (Ahwahnee Films) .. via Ahwahnee Films Read »
New York City timelapse by stimul .. via stimul Read »
Ma Yansong / MAD architects interview..by Studio Banana TV via Studio Banana TV Read »
Hermitage Plaza,La Defence, Paris.. by Foster + Partners .. here more via Uniform Read »
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