Architectural Works
Designed in Hackney: London borough of Hackney architects Liddicoat & Goldhill have completed a garden cabin with a zigzagging facade that angles south towards the sun. (more&) Read »
The proposal for the New Building for the Nantes Conservatory & the Pole of Higher Learning Performing Arts by RAUM& proposes to open the different practices to the city. Dance studios and music [...] Read »
Beginning in 1955, the American Academy of Arts and Letters& have awarded architectural accolade s to those who made a significant contribution to architecture as an art. Recently, the organization [...] Read »
[ April 17, 2012 10:00 to April 22, 2012 19:00. ] Curated by the Tadao Ando Architect & Associates studio, an exhibition dedicated to Tadao Ando& ’s last ten museum projects will be held at [...] Read »
AllesWirdGut& won the first prize of the Esterházy Domain Private Foundation competition for the conversion of a Burgenland Meierhof in a multifunctional complex. The specific nature of the [...] Read »
Drawing from a strong group of cluster participants, and with the support of Smartgeometry , Grimshaw Architects& , and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes Experimental Media and Performing Arts [...] Read »
Slideshow: a bronzed box window peers out like a periscope from the auditorium of this cathedral visitors centre in Lund, Sweden, by architect Carmen Izquierdo . (more&) Read »
Saif Bader Al Qubaisi, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA), has unveiled plans for the new three-million-square-foot, 838-bed Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC). The new complex, designed [...] Read »
Patrick Dougherty& is best known for his sculptures that break down over time. You may have seen one of his temporary works without realizing it. Built primarily from tree saplings woven [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
12a. TRANSPORTATION--SIDEWALKS Pretty much anyone who knows what they're talking about will tell you that the best way to get around this city is on foot, without question. You see so much more [...] Read »
This is Canada’s first LivingHome, and it’s located on 20 Senlac Road in Toronto, Ontario. The home, registered for LEED and seeking LEED Platinum certification, is complete and furnished, [...] Read »
Strip Morphologies: v2 Testing of the Strip Morphologies Grasshopper model. This model works in coordination with the parametric tower definition for the upcoming Grasshopper workshop in Dallas. [...] Read »
The 1300m 2 Nike Football training facility in Soweto, South Africa was designed by Canadian architects RUF project with locally based architectural practice MMAa and in conjunction with Nike [...] Read »
If you thought you escaped the wraths of pink slime with your pescetarian diet, youre in for some stomach-clenching news that comes in the form of tuna scrape . The fishy concoction was recently [...] Read »
Its hardly news that eating meat is a bad idea: its long been recognized that the dietary choice is not only damaging to your health, but also a significant driving factor in global warming. [...] Read »
The Sun Pavilion, winner of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts design competition in conjunction with their Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World Fairs, 1851-1939, is now open. [...] Read »
Heather Hart: The Eastern Oracle Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Through June 24 For the fourth exhibition in its Raw/Cooked series displaying the work of budding Brooklyn artists, [...] Read »
Opinions
Woodwards Covers Two Upcoming Books Two soon-to-be-released books exploring Vancouver’s architecture and evolving urban landscape have chosen to feature the... Read »
News
Will the Frank Gehry-designed Ike Memorial ever get built? Read »
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Join ANs Executive Editor Julie V. Iovine at the Museum of the City of New York as she moderates a panel discussion on the relationship between real estate and the New York City grid this evening [...] Read »
GM halted production of the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid in early March due to rising inventory, but now the automaker has restarted production earlier than expected. GM originally planned on temporarily [...] Read »
All Saints RC Church, Hassop, Derbyshire. Designed by Joseph Ireland and built 1816-18. The design is in the severest Classical Revival style: a correct Etruscan temple front, tetrastyle, prostyle. [...] Read »
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A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured temporary structure. We wanted to create a constantly changing [...] Read »
The upcoming London Olympics have been the source of much concern, as never before seen traffic levels are expected to bring the Citys streets to a three week-long standstill. However staff [...] Read »
Rendering via Architizer In October Ikea announced its plans to build a 27-acre suburb near Olympic Park in London, and recently renderings of Strand East, as it's called, have been released. [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Join us for a live Facebook discussion, What Is Green, Anyway? Wednesday, April 18 12:00 p.m. PST, 3:00 p.m. EST Youre invited to talk about sustainability with ANs West Coast Editor Sam [...] Read »
STUDIOUNODESIGN created a new concept behind the design of Caffe La Roccia, was born from the desire to rediscover the ancient traditions of coffee and bring back the authenticity of flavors [...] Read »
Tétrarc proposal for those 39 social housing shapes as 11 “Houses” gathered side by side. The resultant continuous volume describes a light 21 degrees inflexion on its half, creating two [...] Read »
Abracadabra by the Barcelona-based design group Lagranja is more than a bench. It is a set of elements of different colors and materials that, when combined, give birth to an infinite number [...] Read »
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A distinctive scent can be observed when unwrapping a newly purchased Apple product from its packaging. Apple fans will certainly recognize this smell. The scent created for Greatest Hits encompasses [...] Read »
Not gonna lie. I'm tired. Last night at 10pm when I realized that I could write a blog post or go to bed, I chose bed. All I can think about is where I want to go and relax once the book [...] Read »
As architectural technology gains greater capability to do more, will occupants like doing less? Well, I think much of the debate revolves around two issues: control and privacy. And when these [...] Read »
[Editor's Note: Following the unveiling of proposals to redesign the National Mall, AN will be running a three-part series to display the proposals for each of the three segments of the Mall: Constitution [...] Read »
Jantzen Beach Carousel, 1949 (photo by Norman Gholston) BY TRACY J. PRINCE AND TANYA LYN MARCH For several months, Oregon’s historic preservationists have been burning up the internet with [...] Read »
Technology
Last week we reported on the groundbreaking new media platform Earth 2 Hub which aims to create a space for the worlds most creative artists, designers, scientists, and storytellers to explore [...] Read »
Read the rest of Kjellgren Kaminskys Salongen 35 Passive House Apartments Complete Malmos Sustainable Development Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "sustainable [...] Read »
Read the rest of Sapore dei Mobili: Tiny Furniture-Shaped Cakes Let You Have Your Chairs and Eat Them Too Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cake furniture, eco design, furniture [...] Read »
Now heres an idea so ingenious, were kicking ourselves for not thinking of it first a biodegradable flower pot that you can plant right into the earth. If youve ever purchased a plant with [...] Read »
Read the rest of Plaza Diane in Wyoming is a LEED Gold Art Center Converted from a Former Gas Station Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Green Art Gallery, LEED gold, rain garden, [...] Read »
Heralded as one of the first zero-energy, zero-carbon commercial buildings in the US, the IDeAs Z2 Design Facility is located in a formerly windowless bank that has been transformed into a light-filled [...] Read »
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