Architectural Works
Be sure to take advantage of the early bird special by April 30th for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat& ’s 2012 World Congress, appropriately located in the skyscraper city of [...] Read »
[ April 9, 2012; 21:00 to 22:00. ] Weve been following the growth of CLOG& an architectural publication seeking to prolong the discussion on pointed topics from its inception last autumn [...] Read »
After co-founding studiometrico , Italian architect, Lorenzo Bini, has recently opened a new architectural firm in Milan entitled Binocle& . Bini takes his creativity displayed in his Bastard [...] Read »
London architects Featherstone Young have completed this day centre for homeless people in east London. (more&) Read »
The design of the two high-rise towers for the Donau-City in Vienna by Dominique Perrault Architecture& represents the concluding phase of a development extending over several decades: on what [...] Read »
[ April 19, 2012; 18:30 to 20:30. ] Alejandro Aravena& , based in Santiago de Chile, will be giving a lecture at MIT on the theme of Elemental Recent Projects: Monoliths and Trees. After the [...] Read »
The exploratory mud structure project, designed and built by Architecture for Humanity Tehran (Rai Studio) + Architecture Faculty of Razi University& , demonstrates a strong focus on humanitarian [...] Read »
Our three-day Round Up Easter Special comes to an end with this selection of previously featured churches and chapels in Latin America. We have beautiful projects from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, [...] Read »
Late last month the AIA announced that it is in support of the International Green Construction Code (lgCC) which will be a guide and model that helps architects and builders design buildings [...] Read »
Glazed walls slide back to connect the L-shaped living room to a corner courtyard in this Sydney house renovated by local firm Tribe Studio . (more&) Read »
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Miscellaneous
A few opportunities for those of you looking for new outlets: 1) Kerb , the journal of landscape architecture from RMIT University in Melbourne, is publishing its 20th issue, on "speculative [...] Read »
11. THE GRID The way Manhattan was settled, developed, and used makes it surprisingly easy to grasp conceptually and navigate. It was first settled at the southernmost tip of the island and grew [...] Read »
Fifth year architecture students from Karen Lange’s studio at Cal Poly wove together plastic sheeting to create a complex surface that fills an entire room. Reminds me of Numens Net. Says [...] Read »
MORPHOCODE will hold a lecture at UACG, Sofia on the 18th of April. Read »
Shared by animation studio 24studio, this is their latest audio-visual production of the project National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña for architects Angel Acebo & Victoria [...] Read »
"For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born."
- Alice Freeman Palmer
Photo via Martha Stewart Read »
Your future potential home. Hemp as a construction material. Homes that have the ability to reason. Essess seeks a thermal image of every building. Better green building with natural builders. [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Space debris, the clutter of dead, lost satellites, rocket boosters and other astronautical junk caught up in Earths orbit poses an increasing problem as it circles the globe. Proposed solutions [...] Read »
one (school) for all Central and still removed from the heavy traffic of the federal highway one can find the most important public institutions of Deutsch-Wagram lined up along a footpath: city [...] Read »
One of the revelations from yesterday's tour : The 36th Street pavilion that is part of the Renzo Piano -designed Morgan Library & Museum expansion (2006) is leaking. Read »
Since I wrote last about the proposition of the Guggenheim Museum coming to Helsinki a lot has happened. I had a good look at the background of the Guggenheim ventures since Bilbao, the type [...] Read »
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The Manifesto for a New Urbanism That Came Before 'New Urbanism' | Good architecture was their MISSION | Google saves energy by cooling its buildings with ice | Paul Goldberger Moves To Vanity [...] Read »
Over at the New York Times, Matt Ritchel asks why we still have to take out our laptops at security screenings even though many of them are scarcely bigger than tablets. The TSA refuses to explain, [...] Read »
Would you believe we're still working on the April 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events , but that we're already up to over 50 great events still to come this month? click images for [...] Read »
In a story last month for the New York Times, John Tagliabue reported the 800-year-old St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, has recently added, among others, [...] Read »
It's that time of the year again when Kerb sends out another call for submissions. Overseen once more by an editorial staff of students at the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design [...] Read »
Ever wish you could access Google Maps without looking down at your phone? Or that you could snap a photo and send by just looking at something? The future might be closer than you think. This [...] Read »
Video
Senior project manager Beat Schenk shows BIG New York office.. via Denmark.dk Read »
Daniel Libeskind interview about his latest building: Felix-Nussbaum-Haus via Kunst+Film Read »
City & Urbanism
There are feelings you get when you enter an Ikea store. The vertiginous experience of getting lost in their craftily designed labyrinth. The surprise of wandering into something you hadn’t [...] Read »
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One of the most exciting moments of Spring in New York is when the Park Avenue tulips begin to bloom. More than 60,000 bulbs are planted each November and Upper East Siders anxiously await to [...] Read »
-a r c h i m o r p h has been selected by the jury to appear in the suckerPUNCH Land of Tomorrow exhibition in Lexington Kentucky: We’re happy to announce the finalists of the Exhibition Competition! [...] Read »
An influx and increasing birth rate in the community situated to the south of Vienna called for the creation of more, particularly state-of-the-art child care facilities. Therefore a competition [...] Read »
Yesterday I also prepared my next walking tour in the High Line/Chelsea area. I got my first glimpse of Shigeru Ban's Metal Shutter Houses with both the shutters and inside glass wall open. The [...] Read »
I came across this collection of door & cabinetry hardware designed by Seattle Architect Tom Kundig and fabricated in Seattle by 12th Ave Iron. It is a beautiful & simple collection of pulls, [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of LATE Architects Renovates a Dreary Polish Office with Paint and 3,000 Feet of Tape Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Design, eco design, green design, green renovation, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Los Sopranos Transforms Recycled Shipping Containers into Rustic Barcelona Pizzeria Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Barcelona, eco design, green design, los [...] Read »
Read the rest of Shimmering Titanic Belfast Museum Celebrates the Famous Sunken Ship Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", belfast, BIM, BREEAM excellent, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Marco Casagrandes Woven Willow Sandworm Rises from a Belgian Beach Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: amorphous shelter, belgium, eco design, green design, Marco [...] Read »
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