Architectural Works
Steel crossbeams divide the triple-height living room of this Tokyo townhouse into modular sections. (more&) Read »
Carnegie Mellon University has a building in its School of Architecture that is a lab. No, the building does not house& experiments, it is the experiment. It is called the Intelligent Workplace [...] Read »
Read the rest of Spains First Certified Passive House Cuts Energy Use by 90% Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Air quality, Daylighting, energy saving, Josep [...] Read »
Read the rest of James & Mau Builds a Modern Blue Home from Four Shipping Containers Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: containers house, geothermal energy, James & Mau, L-shaped [...] Read »
The project developed by RTA-Office& belongs to a large masterplan that includes three different museum buildings surrounded by a big green area. The Anhui Provincial Paleontological Fossils [...] Read »
Architect David Adjaye has revealed plans to group nine of Frankfurts existing cultural institutions onto a combined campus in the heart of the city. (more&) Read »
[ April 20, 2012 0:00 to June 20, 2012 0:00. ] Sponsored by Cannon Design, the (un) Made in China Exhibition will be taking place April 20 June 20 at the ide@s gallery in Shanghai, China.Thirty [...] Read »
Located in Boulder, Colorado and designed by Studio H:T& , Fractured House creates a spatial experience from the fracture implied by splayed property lines. The resulting volumetric fissure of [...] Read »
RUA& shared with us their second prize winning proposal in the Ideas Competition for the Re-qualification and Redevelopment of the Beach and Seafront of Figueira da Foz and Buarcos. Their proposal [...] Read »
[ April 18, 2012; 9:00 to 21:00. ] Designers in the Northwest and Pacific Region create some of the worlds most sustainable buildings. What Makes it GREEN? (WMIG?) celebrates the region’s [...] Read »
New York-based architect and artist Marcos Zotes& , together with his multidisciplinary team of collaborators, transformed the largest church in Iceland, Hallgrímskirkja Church, into a spectacular [...] Read »
Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway. (more&) Read »
Did you really missed the amazing projects we featured last week? No problem& heres the best. Main image belongs to The Hague Municipal Office, which opened last year. Would you want to work [...] Read »
Contributing to the Vancouver skyline, the 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG& , Westbank, Dialog, Cobalt, PFS, Buro Happold, Glotman Simpson, and local architect James Cheng [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has registered promising gains since late last fall, and, according to the AIAs latest report on March billings, the ABI continues to find its footing in [...] Read »
Furthering a recent crop of additions to its Architecture seriesthe Sydney Opera House, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, the Brandenburg GateLego will soon launch a miniature, built-it-yourself [...] Read »
I'm off celebrating my birthday and getting my highlights fixed. (Don't ask.) But I'll be back on Thursday hopefully refreshed and ready to go.
Until then, talk amongst yourselves. Read »
The project added two new cinemas to the existing complex in the dandelion ranges. The cinemas had to be located to rear of the existing, and to maintain the existing outdoor cinema space, projection [...] Read »
Michael Kim, from Tramnesia , has shared with us a couple new films he's recently completed, as part of a larger documentary about life in Kanazawa, Japan. The first one below is about SANAA's [...] Read »
Over the weekend, over 100,000 pedestrians and cyclists packed the streets of Los Angeles for the citys CicLAvia open streets initiative, a play off of the the Ciclovia in Bogotá, Columbia [...] Read »
LED light bulbs have been lighting up everything from homes to art installations, and it seems even the most iconic light fixtures have been getting eco-friendly updates. Case in point: Droogs [...] Read »
Henning Larsen Architects, working in partnership with the Dutch Van der Berg Groep, have won first prize in the competition to design a new Theater and Zoo entrance in Emmen, The Netherlands. [...] Read »
Humility is a virtue. Thats the obvious lesson, but doing anything, even constructing a few self-effacing buildings at Ronchamp, is a big deal. Mr. Piano solved the riddle of adding to a site [...] Read »
The work of Spanish architect Julio Salcedo is shown in this book as a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo's houses, early achievements that stunned both academic and professional [...] Read »
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[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 »
Read the rest of Bezalel Academy of Arts Presents a Design Bonanza at Ventura Lambrate in Milan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Design Bonanza, [...] Read »
This house, completed in 2008, is located next to Punta del Este: an international recognized coastal resort. A lovely setting on José Ignacio Lagoon overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Based on [...] Read »
Read the rest of Suluwilo is an Eco-Lux Villa in Mozambique Shaped Like a Boat Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Read »
Or at least thats the goal of Los Angeles Walks!, a pedestrian advocacy group that aims to make walking accessible and safe in a city that has long been stereotyped as car-centric. Among other [...] Read »
Vaults is a series of photographs taken by David Stephenson in cathedrals and churches across Europe. The combined series really achieves a stunning effect. Says HUH: By pointing the camera straight [...] Read »
Here now, From Curbed Marketplace, highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace. Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property [...] Read »
Wednesday night at Van Alen Institute, AN’s own Julie Iovine will moderate a panel discussion on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The IAUS, at first affiliated with the MoMA [...] Read »
Copenhagen darlings BIG have unveiled their design for the 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe tower in Vancouver, a collaboration with Westbank, Dialog, Cobalt, PFS, Buro Happold, Glotman Simpson and [...] Read »
Scheme and Conditioning Factors A complex of 3 buildings and landscaping destined for R&D+i in the Automotive Sector. Two of the buildings are intended for use as Development Units (halls) with [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of The Sunday Stuga is a Compact London Cabin Flooded With Daylight Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "sustainable development", cabin, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Manifest Destiny! Tiny Cabin Finds a Home Between San Franciscos Downtown Skyscrapers Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, cabin, Jenny Chapman, Manifest [...] Read »
Read the rest of Garden-Topped Drulingen Daycare in France is Wrapped in a Dainty Wooden Lattice Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Alsace, Daylighting, Drulingen [...] Read »
Designed as an interactive retreat, the Spiral Garden Pavilion is a peaceful solar-powered space for visitors to sit back, relax and enjoy their surroundings. The airy pavilion by Michael Jantzen [...] Read »
Axalkos stunning wooden bicycle is truly a work of art, handcrafted from ash wood into a beautiful piece of functional design. Aptly named after a quick-witted fox from a childhood fable, the [...] Read »
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The building has an activated load-bearing structure that takes part in the HVAC of the building, a system used in Spain for the first time. The inauguration of the new IDOM corporate office [...] Read »
CAA Hangzhou School of Architecture | April 12, 2012 The question how to rejuvenate the debate on critical regionalism is a trending topic in todays architectural discourse. This month, Bert [...] Read »
Nuclear Power Station image from Shutterstock For the first time in a generation, Japan is set to go nuclear-free next month. Nuclear energy has suffered a serious blow to its public image since [...] Read »
The traveling Archizines exhibition will be opening in NYC tonight, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture . We're excited to have both the Archinect 'zine and Bracket [on farming] included [...] Read »
We were thrilled when our friend Drew Seskunas, one of the founders of the fledgling design studio The Principals- based out of Brooklyn, shared their latest project with us. The "Cosmic Quilt" [...] Read »
Charlie Rose held a roundtable with four American mayors on last nights program. Chicagos Rahm Emanuel joined Louisvilles Greg Fischer, Baltimores Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and Jacksonvilles [...] Read »
Photo via Co.Design; click to expand! Today Co.Design presents a fascinating architectural what-if: what if you wrapped a three-story building in a rubber tire-like structure that could literally [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Creating anything new, particularly a creative collaboration, is an act of pathological hope. It has been said the difference between construction and creation is this: a thing constructed can [...] Read »
In the wake of a bizarre array of extreme weather events throughout the United States, a study from Yale University has found that the majority of Americans have finally realized that yes, global [...] Read »
The study of shape is started by boundary element analysis: North a sharp slider axis from which lag behind bit and protected, to the East and South of the road that divides the lot from built [...] Read »
Ive seen a ton of interest in these panel-built structures by Sett Studio, so I thought itd be appropriate to share a short video for your viewing pleasure. In the video, these Austin-based [...] Read »
Hydraulic fracking is getting a pretty bad reputation for its potential to pollute water, cause cancer, and trigger earthquakes need we go on? But a new study from Cornell reports that the [...] Read »
Schematic model of the Visigoth Museum of Art designed by architects Mansilla Tuñon Read »
If you attended last week's Bjarke Ingels' lecture, you might still be pleasantly reeling from his VERY charismatic presentation. If not, here are many of the images that made it into the portion [...] Read »
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