Architectural Works
Last week, we partnered with Moleskine to celebrate our 500,000 in Facebook! We asked you which architect would you like to see featured in Moleskines Inspiration and Process in Architecture [...] Read »
From the “starchitect” to “architecture for the 99%,” we are witnessing a shift of focus in the field of architecture. However, it’s in the education system where these ideas really [...] Read »
[ May 12, 2012 0:00 to May 13, 2012 0:00. ] Studio Mode / modeLab& is putting on Material Matters II, a two-day intensive design, prototyping, and fabrication workshop to be held in New York [...] Read »
[ April 16, 2012; 18:00 to 20:00. ] Taking place at the Center for Architecture in New York April 16 from 6-8pm, the Documenting Your Work in a Digital Age: An Interactive Discussion will be [...] Read »
The winning proposal for the Albi Major Theatre, designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture& , aims at transforming the texture of the city as well as its cultural influence. Appearing as an [...] Read »
[ April 26, 2012; 19:00 to 21:00. ] Coinciding with the exhibition Alturas de Macchu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza& at work on view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) for [...] Read »
A spiralling concrete staircase winds up through this empty tower by Marra + Yeh Architects of Sydney and Malaysia. (more&) Read »
Montreal has long been known as the ”city of a hundred steeples”. Through the heart of this northern metropolis, ATOMIC3& has scattered Éclats de verre: a giant shattered stained-glass window [...] Read »
Despite many opposing residents, Fremont County Board of Commissioners has unanimously agreed to approve the Temporary Use Permit for Christo and Jeanne-Claude ’s Over The River& . This will [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Now online: a set of four Great Spaces interiors features that I wrote for last months Toronto Life magazine. Check out this one about the loft of graphic designers/branding geniuses Sali Tabacchi [...] Read »
Studio-X Studio-X is GSAPP’s global network of advanced research laboratories for exploring the future of cities. With locations in Amman, Beijing, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro, [...] Read »
The building includes a family flat and an office in three floors. Creating the concept our main starting point was to make a rationally planned, functional building in high architectural quality. [...] Read »
Last week, the federal government took a big step towards cleaning up the air in our national parks when a U.S. District Court in Washington, DC approved an agreement between the EPA and conservation [...] Read »
There seems to be this point in every project about strategic transformation – New concepts are thoughtfully generated to respond to the strategic vision and to enhance the success of the organizational [...] Read »
I'm not making this up. On the morning of March 29th, 1961, only weeks before the Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro woke up and decided he wanted to play a round of golf. He had never done [...] Read »
Cleveland Passive House sold! Cargo container house shipped to Seattle. The future tech home could look like this. A straw-bale home designed for the future. The greenest building may be a neighborhood. [...] Read »
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Read the rest of The Radisson Blu Hotels 82-Foot Aquadom Aquarium Brings Sea-Life and Scuba Diving to Berlin Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: amazing aquariums, Amazing Hotels, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Superstar Host Dick Clark Lists His Rockin Flintstone Home for $3.5 Million Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: California, concrete, Daylighting, Dick Clark, embodied [...] Read »
If you have a lawn, you have several options to keep it neat this Spring, but the human-powered reel mower is probably one of more environmentally friendly ways to go about it. These things [...] Read »
We're halfway through the month and we're still adding new items to the April 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events .click images for larger view On Monday, April 23rd, SOM Chicago is [...] Read »
Here is a wonderful and inspiring example of how a 1960s social housing block in Paris called Bois le Pretre has been transformed through a remarkable renovation effort. Three French architects [...] Read »
Perfume bottles photo via Shutterstock Did you know that that bottle of pricey perfume sitting atop your dresser likely contains wale vomit? For centuries, designer perfume makers have used ambergris, [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse ( the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and [...] Read »
UPS has added 10 large biomethane diesel trucks to its dedicated 2012 London Olympics fleet. With Olympic organizers striving to put on the greenest and most ethical games ever and the city [...] Read »
3 Bedrooms villa build up to Chaweng Noi mountain on Koh Samui the villa start to build April 2012 and we expect to finish in June 2013 you can following the construction update at Read »
After my first bike ride of the spring, I was thinking about how beautiful bikes have become. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks so! Designed by architect Joan Sandoval , this Barcelona [...] Read »
"Right now we are making deeply diffuse hovering, clouds of material that work together in very delicate ways but when we compress those all together we can see those working as roofs, walls [...] Read »
More than 10 million square kilometers of landscape on the surface of Mars, a region nearly the size of Europe, is made of glass —specifically volcanic glass, "a shiny substance similar to [...] Read »
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On April 14 the Regional Council of Bordeaux, France announced that BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) was selected to design the new Maison de léconomie créative et de la culture en Aquitaine, a.k.a. [...] Read »
Challenging the existing heritage policy, which creates humpbacked dwellings all over our inner cities, these two extensions to a tiny worker’s cottage were completed in 2004 and 2010. The [...] Read »
A building can be designed to satisfy 'by the month' with the regularity of a provider. Or it can give satisfaction 'by the moment,' with the thrill of a lover Richard Neutra Greg Knobloch designs [...] Read »
Xiaonanmen Station Area | Shanghai, April 8, 2012 On Sunday April 8, MovingCities, along with German architect-photographer Arnd Dewald, went scanning the area around the Xiaonanmen Station 小南门站 [...] Read »
There seems to be this point in every project about strategic transformation – New concepts are thoughtfully generated to respond to the strategic vision and to enhance the success of the organizational [...] Read »
Nicholas Kennedy Sitton is a San Francisco-based photographer who created this series titled Twisted. Says the artist: These photos are a result of how intriguing the concept of distortion [...] Read »
When Canadian interior designer Tommy Smythe was last in town, he invited me along to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Keith Haring: 1978â1982 exhibit. It was a bit of the blind leading [...] Read »
Technology
Here at Inhabitat we love bringing our green-thumbed readers revolutionary designs to help indoor gardens flourish and thats exactly what this clever Garden Tower compact farm does. The [...] Read »
Leading British singer Adele isnt just rolling in the deep shes also rolling in the green! We found out this morning that the chanteuse will be giving her new seaside home a solar powered [...] Read »
Education
Photo: Eiji Hori for Asahi Shimbun The Tokyo Institute of Technology recently unveiled a shiny new shell made of 4,500 solar panels that allow it to use half of the energy of a similarly-sized [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
And so the battle to save the Cataracts is over. In a nearly unprecedented joint meeting of Rochesters Preservation Board and Plan Commission on April 4th, the Preservation Board unanimously [...] Read »
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