Architectural Works
With the advent and proliferation of tablets, using a pen to annotate or even sketch is becoming more and more useful, if not necessary. Enter the Space Pen. Now, you can sketch or annotate 3D [...] Read »
The Areopagus Residence, designed by Paravant Architects& in Atenas, Costa Rica, is custom designed to be as intimately connected to the natural landscape around it as possible. By exploiting [...] Read »
A laboratory for ideas, collective Plan01& consists of four architectural groups in Paris: Atelier du Pont, BP, Koz and Phileas. Sharing a common space and questioning common sense, the collective [...] Read »
The Lot 4 ZAC de la Porte de Gentilly project by ECDM& is primarily a proposal to articulate two territories, two urban landscapes separated by the influence of the device. This context of [...] Read »
The design proposal by CEBRA& for the New Church of Vaaler is based on the most widespread symbol for the Christian church: the cross. Located in the south eastern part of Norway, it is a strong [...] Read »
The approach for the Amsterdam pedestrian bridge by Kamvari Architects& challenges the basic principles of a bridge as their design takes on a completely new form as it attempts to create space [...] Read »
Slideshow: dozens of square windows are scattered across the facade of this crematorium in Lithuania with fortress-like concrete walls. (more&) Read »
In a letter presented at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday, Frank Gehry expressed his willingness to change the design of the controversial Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in order to resolve [...] Read »
With the realization that disasters are an unavoidable reality, Architecture for Humanity and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have launched ArchitectsRebuild.org& in an effort to eliminate [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Frank Gehry didn't attend Monday's congressional hearing about his design for the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington. But the Los Angeles architect sent a letter defending his [...] Read »
Architecture in the Expanded Field CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts 1111 8th St., San Francisco Through April 7 Theorist and critic Rosalind Krauss’s 1979 text “Sculpture in the [...] Read »
Much like the bee, our beautiful and beloved friend the monarch butterfly has been in steady decline over the last decade. Numerous studies have attributed the drop to a variety of causes, but [...] Read »
These two caught my eye because they were one after the other on Tréndir and they couldn't be more different. I am partial to areas enclosed by walls but open to the sky and as well to skylights [...] Read »
Well that didnt take long. Less than a month after opening its first pedestrian plaza carved out of underused road space in Silver Lake, a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles careened into massive [...] Read »
Taurus Páginas: 494 / Precio: 22⬠Edward Glaeser Nueva York, 1967 Edward Glaeser es profesor de EconomÃa en Harvard, donde también dirige el Taubman Center for State [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
I just wrote a short piece for Architectural Record about the House in Frogs Hollow, by Williamson Chong Architects. Its a weekend house outside Collingwood, Ont., with a very interesting relationship [...] Read »
As soon as I saw these Charles Philip slippers in the new Bergdorf Goodman shoe catalog, I knew I must make them mine. I popped up to the 5th Floor yesterday and was even more impressed with [...] Read »
Italy-based Benetti Stone Philosophy makes a beautiful mosaic surface called Ivory Dream, which is made from vegetable ivory. In this case, the vegetable ivory which was used to make buttons [...] Read »
The US solar industry is gaining some serious ground, according to a new industry report charting a recent spike in solar installations. While big bankruptcies such as government-backed Solyndras have [...] Read »
Every building is unique, and each has good things and some not-so-good things. The new website Honest Buildings launched today to make it a lot easier to learn about projects and open up a discourse [...] Read »
The team led by James Corner Field Operations has been selected as the winner in the international Navy Pier Redesign Competition. The Pierscape concept is part of the larger vision for Chicago's [...] Read »
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-Grasshopper testing for a rough mock-up model. Concept is for a thick bulbous-like growth of vessels and tubes to create both softscape and habitable shelter beneath. The modules then sway in [...] Read »
Illustration: Arch Daily Great news! Architecture is not only a depressing, decaying, dying industry that hires no one but it's also somewhat sexist. Never mind the fact that Zaha Hadid won the [...] Read »
While the commercialization of museums raises eyebrows in some circles in America, in Germany such criticism is much more forceful and threatening. Activist groups have derailed the planned May [...] Read »
When hydraulic fracturing (or fracking the technique of extracting natural gas from rocks) was thrust into the public consciousness with the release of the 2010 film Gasland, most of the conversation [...] Read »
We are two graphic designers and a writer who all surf together. When at our local breaks, we found that many of the people we met were artists, architects, designers, and writers often leaders [...] Read »
I think we can all agree that smartphones are incredibly useful, and their benefits are only compounded by the wide range of applications we can download. However, a study has revealed that free [...] Read »
Earlier this month Canadian Wood Council announced the winners of BC Wood Works Awards. Only a few projects were from Greater Vancouver area and one of them caught my eye - Samuel Brighouse Elementary [...] Read »
OriginOil, a start-up based in Los Angeles, CA., has begun a pilot of its urban algae farm concept at the La Défense complex near Paris. Wastewater from buildings nourishes algae growth; algae [...] Read »
Opinions
The Joy of Books What happens when Type Books—an independent bookstore in Toronto—closes its doors for the day? This stop-motion... Read »
The Murals of East Vancouver A new website catalogues and chronicles the more than 40 colourful murals dotting East Vancouver.... Read »
City & Urbanism
Because of this, we won’t need traffic lights at all (or stop signs, for that matter). Traffic will constantly flow, and at a rate that would probably unnerve the average human driver. The [...] Read »
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With the moody Architectural Billings Index landing in positive territory for the fourth straight month in February, the architectural community might begin to exhale a sigh of relief. Project [...] Read »
Threats by left-wing activists in Berlin prompted New Yorks Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to cancel a planned stop in the citys Kreuzberg district for its mobile laboratory, the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Read »
Before talking of an exhibition, The Architecture Post The Conversation initially scheduled this Friday 23rd has been postponed at a later date. I will talk to Liam Young and Kate Davies of Unknown [...] Read »
School+ WORKSHOP | Beijing, March 23-25 MovingCities, together with Newly Drawn [画卷初成] and World Architecture Magazine [WA]《世界建筑》o rganizes a three-day School+ WORKSHOP [...] Read »
Several months ago, I shared photos of a tiny studio shed by Texas-based Sett Studio and want to share details of cool new project by the same firm in same area. Sett Studio recently worked [...] Read »
Recently AN put a spotlight on Rudolphs threatened Orange County Government Center, through photos and reporting, and many others are coming to defense of this challenging and bewitching building. [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of New Jersey Ranch Home Marketed As Tear-Down is Eco-Renovated Instead Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dowling studios, eco design, eco home, green architecture, [...] Read »
Read the rest of MenoMenoPiu Architects Solar-Powered Bauhaus Museum Wins Design Competition Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bauhaus, Bauhaus Museum, Design Competition, eco [...] Read »
Read the rest of Mill Valley Cabins Are Green-Roofed, Low-Impact Studios That Disappear Into the Forest Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Accessory [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Bayou Luminescence is a Lantern Large Enough to Walk Through in New Orleans Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aia, Bayou Luminescence, bioluminescence, eco [...] Read »
Read the rest of Animal Farms Cozy Human Nests Hang From the Treetops! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", Animal Farm, bark, biodegradable pod, biomimicry, Botanical, [...] Read »
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