Miscellaneous
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has decided to join the drill, baby, drill chorus this week by attempting to slam President Barack Obama and his current energy policies. In an op-ed piece in [...] Read »
Photo via Flavorwire Here's something for online-shopping addicts: a Tumbleweed Tiny House XS Modelcreated by Jay Shafer, author of The Small House Book and an outspoken leader in the tiny house [...] Read »
Environmental activists may have counted plans for the Keystone XL being knocked down by the Senate as a major victory, but the fights not over yet. As open-pit oil sands mining continues in [...] Read »
It's been warm and wonderful in New York until today. It's a bit grey and looks like rain but as we know, without a little rain, nothing will grow. As I was trying to put together a spring [...] Read »
Photo via Architizer Thanks to a bunch of smartypants at the Vienna University of Technology, some of the world's most impressive architectural achievements have been shrunken to the size of [...] Read »
This is a rustic-modern retreat in the Alpine Meadows (Olympic Valley) area near Lake Tahoe, California. The owner, Todd Greenhalgh, wanted solar power and alpine views and CCS Architecture [...] Read »
EYE, the new Dutch film museum, opens to the public on 5 April 2012 in its brand-new building designed by the Vienna-based firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. The Amsterdam Metropolitan [...] Read »
Detecting diseases such as HIV and malaria in third-world countries is often a costly process, but that might soon change because a team from the University of Texas at Austin has designed a three-dimensional [...] Read »
Additional functionality on the Zaha Hadid mobile app has been eagerly anticipated. We're delighted to show you the latest updates giving you screenshots of what's now available. What's new? [...] Read »
click images for larger view Flamboyente , sculpture by Jean-Jacques Porret, part of exhibition at the AMA Building, 515 North State, through May, 2012 Read »
THE Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, has devised a new index which ranks the competitiveness of the most prominent cities across the globe using a number of economic, [...] Read »
Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space has selected 3 finalists and 7 commendations. In the spirit of the 1962 Worlds Fair, Seattle Center and AIA [...] Read »
Real estate mogul Donald Trumps sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have come under fire after some gruesome photos showing them posing with a dead leopard and holding a severed elephant [...] Read »
Oh the talking heads of the political world what would we do without them? The latest wonderful blunder has come from one of our favorites, Mr. Bill OReilly. In the midst of the fist fight [...] Read »
You generally expect an F1 car to be more impressive than the one youre seeing above. However, this F1 is not what it appears to be. This little replica was created in just four minutes at the [...] Read »
With the prodding of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the Rudin Management Company agreed to hand over the the last smidgen of property at Triangle Park for use in an AIDS memorial. [...] Read »
Cambridge, England is growing, but keeping hold of its urban pattern. A shortlist including some of the biggest names in European architecture has been released for a competition to design an [...] Read »
Youd better get used to it, Los Angeles is remaking itself from a one trick pony town where car is king into a multimodal city for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. The latest improvement [...] Read »
Thanks to efforts by environmentalists and opponents of the natural gas industry, the process of fracking has come under the limelight recently and the federal government is considering new, [...] Read »
Opening 5th IABR: Making City: Thursday 19 April 2012 at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. The 5th IABR: Making City explores the making of tomorrow’s city and the new alliances between [...] Read »
The pavilion concept SEAT by New York and Portland-based collaboration E/B Office has won the commission for this year's Freedom Park Project at Atlanta. SEAT is a garden pavilion composed of [...] Read »
The series of clean-lined circles carved into the earth at the top of Inwood Hill Park began appearing about a year ago. With fresh rainfall, theyd be gone. Their disappearance seemed almost [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
Located in rolling hills of Durbanville wine valley on the outskirts of Cape Town, Vissershok Primary School is a rural school dedicated to the children of farm workers and underprivileged communities [...] Read »
Studio BANG& shared with us their design proposal for the competition for Ny Våler Kirke, a new church in Norway. Through creating a perceivable tribute to the old wooden church, their concept [...] Read »
With the Simon Family Tower addition still under construction at the Riley Hospital for Children, the installation for hospital is complete, after over a year in the making. Designed by PROJECTiONE& [...] Read »
Taken by Clement Guillaume, the photographs in this post include projects by the 2012 Pritzker Prize winner, Wang Shu& , Chinese architect and founder of Amateur Architecture Studio. The projects [...] Read »
The project proposal for the Students Residence on U.L.E Campus by MACA Estudio + VIRAI Arquitectos& is designed as a system rather than a building. Unable to design a solution based on the [...] Read »
Slideshow: a Ferrari automotive museum designed by the late Czech architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický has opened in Modena, Italy. (more&) Read »
In order to compete in an increasingly competitive global market and address long-term development needs, the University of Cambridge& is undertaking an ambitious new urban extension in North [...] Read »
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels of Copenhagen-based group BIG& tells Crane.tv that yes is more. His design philosophy, which he outlines in his latest graphic book, Yes is More, states that incorporating [...] Read »
US Custom House (image courtesy Wikipedia Commons) BY BRIAN LIBBY Portland and Boston have had numerous connections over the years. The original coinflip that gave Portland its name (after the [...] Read »
Our favorite sketchbook has gone digital! Moleskine presents The Hand of the Architect& – an iPad app featuring 378 sketches and drawings from 110 internationally renowned architects, such [...] Read »
Designed in Hackney: a renovated 19602s residence that the Royal Institute of British Architects named best new house in the UK last year is todays instalment in our showcase of projects [...] Read »
A semi-circular vaulted concourse designed by British architects John McAslan + Partners will open at King’s Cross Station in London next week. (more&) Read »
Slideshow: the windows of this school extension in Girona, Spain, are concealed behind a perforated metal skin. (more&) Read »
This children’s playhouse by Barcelona architects Anna & Eugeni Bach has stripy wooden walls, folding window hatches and a ladder instead of stairs. (more&) Read »
Slideshow: this glass pavilion on the edge of a lake in Ontario, Canada, houses a studio, apartment and boathouse for a photographer and was designed by Toronto Studio gh3 . (more&) Read »
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Technology
If youre daydreaming about your next vacation, and looking for something a little off the beaten path, why not consider embarking on a global design tour? The world is full of inspiring destinations [...] Read »
Read the rest of Luminous Windscape Pavilion Sways and Morphs With Each Passing Breeze in Lacoste, France Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, france, green design, LaCoste, [...] Read »
Designed by Lucia Bruni, Pure-Bottle is a fully recycled and recyclable table set which consists of a glass, lantern and spoon. A perfect complement fit for any dining occasion, each table set [...] Read »
Read the rest of Solar-Powered SPACE Shipping Container Office Produces Twice as Much Energy as it Consumes Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Adaptive Container, eco design, green [...] Read »
Read the rest of 5 Green Employers Share Insider Job Advice on How to Get Hired Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco fashion jobs, eco jobs, green architecture jobs, [...] Read »
What could be more relaxing than curling up to sleep in your very own birds nest bed! Conceived and created by O*GE CreativeGroup, the “Giant Birdsnest for Creating New Ideas” was developed [...] Read »
Video
'Drift' vide by mustardcuffins via mustardcuffins Read »
Denmark ,Odense,city planing by Utopian City Scape and Entasis .. via Archdaily Read »
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News
Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the first residential tower for Hudson Yards, a megaproject adjacent to the acclaimed New York City park. Read »
A number of notable architects and design patrons were recognized at the annual event hosted by the American Architectural Foundation. Read »
City & Urbanism
The basic driver of remarkable economic growth in China — and India, Vietnam, Thailand, Brazil and pretty much every other developing country — is pretty simple: people migrating from rural [...] Read »
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