Miscellaneous
The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new [...] Read »
I went out for a walk last week when it was 75 degrees so I could photograph spring in New York. The trees on every street are in bloom and Central Park was bursting with color. I thought [...] Read »
+ BRIEF Liberty Promenade was purchased by Liberty Properties in 2004. The existing development consisted of a number of separate buildings on a 22.9 hectare site bounded by AZ Berman Drive to [...] Read »
Located in a pleasant residential neighbourhood, the house is a compact building (almost a cube) surrounded by a 3 meters wide perimeter necessary courtyard, which is the minimum mandatory gap [...] Read »
Recent miscellanea that has caught my attention& The £547 million Concourse | A good critical review (unfortunately not that common these days&) from Hugh Pearman about John McAslan and Partners [...] Read »
Tom Sheehan Sketches and Collaborations exhibition from April 20 to May 19.2012 Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings from 1997 to 2012. Sketches as notes, [...] Read »
Last night I attended the third lecture (of four) in the Architectural League's 2012 Emerging Voices , with presentations by Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu of Oyler Wu Collaborative (Los Angeles), [...] Read »
and then there’s classical painting I’m mostly thrilled there is such a burgeoning interest in classic techniques of realist painting, and while I’ve written elsewhere that classical realism [...] Read »
I recently found this truly delightful appreciation of the Abbey Road studios where some of the great music by the Beatles was recorded. Its a long report on a talk and conversation with the [...] Read »
I recently found this truly delightful appreciation of the Abbey Road studios where some of the great music by the Beatles was recorded. Its a long report on a talk and conversation with the [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
In this TEDx Talk, Jason Roberts& known as the The Bike Guy in his Oak Cliff community outside of Dallas, Texas gives his audience a how-to guide in improving a community one block at a time as part of Read »
The Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris recently announced Los Angeles based, Ball Nogues Studio& as the winner of the 2012 edition of the “Pavilion Spéciale” competition in Paris, [...] Read »
The 2012 Spring Lecture Series, put on by the architecture department at Temple Universitys Tyler School of Art is currently in progress until April 18th. Upcoming lectures include Iain Low, [...] Read »
The first prize winning proposal in the competition for a new cancer counseling center by EFFEKT& , in collaboration with Hoffmann and Lyngkilde, is designed as a cluster of seven small houses [...] Read »
We all know the mantra first expressed by French novelist Gustave Flaubert and later by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, le bon Dieu est dans le detail, (God dwells in the details.) But what is a [...] Read »
As an attempt to translate the history and dignity this space possesses, the design proposal for the New Våler Church by Martina Engblom & Ragnar Eythorsson& presents visitors with an upraised [...] Read »
[ February 10, 2012 2:00 to May 5, 2012 19:00. February 10, 2012 2:00 to May 5, 2012 19:00. ] Pratt Manhattan Gallery has unveiled their exhibition Bright Future: New Designs in Glass & featuring [...] Read »
Whether you would like to admit it or not, most of us share a similar fetish for Legos, Tinkertoys and any other awesome childrens toy that most likely helped us create our first masterpiece . [...] Read »
Slideshow: the modular fenestration of this school building in western Switzerland was inspired by shapes from 1980s computer game Tetris. (more&) Read »
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Video
Get up and Go,Tokyo timelapse video by Stefan Werc .. via Stefan Werc Read »
The lecture by architect Thomas Schielke .. via Thomas Schielke Read »
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