Architectural Works
I’m in a hotel room in Adelaide watching Bullitt on Fox Classics. I flipped channel to find myself right at the start of the famous car chase scene. I must have seen this scene around 50 times. I had this... Read »
The challenge in the competition for the Amstetten School Campus was to combine two existing secondary schools in one location and complement the program with a new music school and an additional [...] Read »
Despite previous efforts to build football related complexes in Iran, Kourosh Rafiey& ’s proposal aims to solve the country’s lack of these spaces. The design includes a high-tech complex [...] Read »
The MAS (Museum by the river), a must seen building itself, is currently exhibiting the Founder Pavilions, which give curious spectators a look at the here and now and into the future. In close [...] Read »
Detail recently sent us Net Zero Energy Building & from their Green Books series. Like everything Detail does, this books takes a thorough look at the technology surrou nding this specific [...] Read »
Designed by Bernheimer Architecture& for Syracuse University, the football practice facility along with a larger strategic masterplan for the Lampe Athletic Campus situated about 3 miles south [...] Read »
Weve finally passed the 75,000 photos in our Flickr pool! Keep sending them, so we can celebrate the 100,000 milestone. Remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow [...] Read »
Prior to becoming a Pritzker laureate, Italian architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to design the Menil Collection& in a quiet inner-city neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Since celebrating [...] Read »
Architect Matthew Grzywinski& gives Crane.tv a tour of the Lower East side boutique establishment, Hotel on Rivington. Offering panoramic views of New Yorks skyline through its floor-to-ceiling [...] Read »
With the guidance of there instructor Matthias Hollwich , students Andreas Tjeldflaat and Greg Knobloch& from University of Pennsylvanias School of Design have proposed an alternative to the [...] Read »
[ January 19, 2012 0:00 to June 3, 2012 0:00. ] Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles& (1945-1980) at the Chinese American Museum (CAM) is an exhibition that focuses on [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
KS1 is a unique residence in Oh Samurai. KS1 is serenely tucked away in the hills of Manama, located just five minutes south of the beach with a beautiful sea view on the bay (between Manama [...] Read »
I am getting more interested in the concept of stock and flow as it relates to the design of the workplace, and the metrics that matter in workplace strategy. Ill post more on this soon, but [...] Read »
When New Yorkers seek an island of calm within the city, they usually think of finding a patch of grass in a park, not making a beeline to the streets of Jackson Heights. But stillspotting, a [...] Read »
Studio Mango’s cool and contemporary Lygo Lamp gives a nod to our favorite childhood building block the LEGO! Each Lygo Lamp comes in a thin package which contains a lighting fixture and 144 [...] Read »
“I don’t have time to read, because I trot about with the gardeners. And the little monk’s garden at Fenway Court is very dear too,” Isabella Stewart Gardner wrote to her art advisor [...] Read »
Lucy McRae (watch her TED Talk) is a body architect – an artist who straddles the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her work invents [...] Read »
Paul Raff Studio has won a competition for the new Lifeguard Stands for the City of Toronto, Canada. The design is both pragmatic and humanistic and marries technical requirements for storage, [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
I stumbled across these amazing outlets. the "22" product line from boccia is a complete Suite of electrical wall accessories including power receptacles, lighting controls, telephone, data [...] Read »
I am getting more interested in the concept of stock and flow as it relates to the design of the workplace, and the metrics that matter in workplace strategy. Ill post more on this soon, but [...] Read »
In the international design competition for Yenikap1 Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, Turkey, three First Prizes have been announced this week. The jury selected the top project [...] Read »
Dutch Profiles interviews Rients Dijkstra one of the founding members of Maxwan architects + urbanists . The company has a diverse portfolio from home interiors to large live-work facilities [...] Read »
Four finalists have emerged from the Menil Collection's extensive international search to select an architect to design its Menil Drawing Institute (MDI), the first major project to be built [...] Read »
The French designer Phillippe Starck said in a radio interview with France Info that he is working with Apple on a revolutionary new product that will be unveiled within the next 8 months. [...] Read »
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Located in the heart of Berlin, this newly completed kayak restaurant combines traditional Japanese materials and hand craft with 3D modeling and computer programming to form an atmospheric space [...] Read »
Historically, the signal box, or the switch tower, has been a crucial piece of railway infrastructure, guiding railcars at these junctions to their designated lines. These prosthetic armatures [...] Read »
Staffers at some London data centers wont be burdened with long commutes when the 2012 Olympics roll into town this summer and jam up city streets. Instead, theyll have futuristic sleeping [...] Read »
Artist Miler Lagos is building a library, but think twice before pulling out a book. For his recent installation called Home at the Magnan Metz Gallery in New York City, Lagos constructed [...] Read »
Preserving mid-century modern architecture has become a hot-button issue around the country as aging icons are becoming old enough to be called historic. Last year a citizen-led preservation [...] Read »
The summer months are just ahead, and for many of us this means days full of cycling and plenty of camping excursions. But for you outdoor adventurers who dont want to trade in your two-wheelers [...] Read »
This has been one of those weeks. I feel exhausted and ready to relax. But that has to wait until I finish hiding stacks of magazines before a magazine editor comes to scout my apartment. [...] Read »
News
Thomas Jefferson may be the most celebrated American architect, albeit an amateur one, to lead a political life, but he certainly wasn’t the last. Read »
Opinions
The Link Between Postal Codes and Childhood Obesity It’s hard to ignore the spiralling rates of obesity in developed countries such as... Read »
Video
Frank Gehry talks about his Opus Hong Kong project here more via Bloomberg Read »
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his house is acclaimed as “among the finest American homes built for art”. The house was designed around specific works of art including pieces by Ellsworth Kelly, Kiki Smith, Richard Serra [...] Read »
Another film by Franco di Capua architect productions, this one on the Swiss Pavilion by Le Corbusier. The building represents a synthesis of Le Corbusier's experimental visions, having been [...] Read »
Dutch Profiles features Francine Houben director of the Netherlands based architecture offices, Mecanoo. Her playful designs are equally technically provocative, humane and firmly rooted in their [...] Read »
Read the rest of MAKE Architecture’s House Reduction Is a Compact Family Home With Sliding Walls Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, australia, flexible spaces, green [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. If domes don't do it for you, here's another geometric oddity-turned-residence: a 3,200-square-foot pyramid rising from the flat, barren desert in Maricopa, [...] Read »
WikiHouse is an open source construction set. Its aim is to allow anyone to design, download, and print CNC- milled houses and components, which can be assembled with minimal formal skill [...] Read »
Technology
Natcore Technology scientists have created a black silicon solar cell with an average reflectance of 0.3%, making it the “blackest” solar cell ever designed. Compared to the most efficient [...] Read »
The 3-in-1 recycled cardboard chair was a hard act to follow, but Sanserif Creatius has done it again with this curved typographic footrest. Inspired by the letter O , the stool/footrest is [...] Read »
What better way to show off your collection of organic reds and whites than with this gorgeous wine rack made from the staves of old wine barrels? A nice nod you your bottles origins, this [...] Read »
Last year Studio Rolf bought several pieces of furniture from the estate of Queen Juliana in the Netherlands. Since then, the studio has been hard at work sawing the items in half and turning [...] Read »
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