Architectural Works
The Girardotas Metropolitan Coliseum Competition winners were announced. First Prize goes to the team of Juan Sebastián Larrota, Felipe Robayo, Sebastián Gaviria, AlcuboArquitectos (Alejandro [...] Read »
Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects& have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of 40,000 m2 in Ørestad North, [...] Read »
Paris firm Moussafir Architectes have blanketed the roof of this concert hall in Tours, France, with a synthetic material that looks more like a quilt. (more&) Read »
Situated in the Karancs-Medves landscape area in North-East Hungary, the aim of SAGRA Architects& for their design of the Dance Floor Recreation and Memorial Park is to preserve and strengthen [...] Read »
Manhattan Mountain, by Ju-Hyun Kim& , is a design speculation over five of the most debated plots of vacant land in New York City. Collectively known as SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal [...] Read »
Were getting closer to the 80,000 photos on our Flickr Pool, so keep submitting them! Remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook [...] Read »
Movie: Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMAs design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow . He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, [...] Read »
Just two years after its opening, the Maxxi Museum in Rome is threatened with closure. The country’s current economic crisis has resulted in major cuts in cultural funding, causing a great [...] Read »
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Technology
Read the rest of Green Design Takes Center Stage at Ventura Lambrate in Milan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable furniture", eco design, eco interiors, [...] Read »
Read the rest of RCA Students Look Towards Sustainability to Design a Green Paradise at the Milan Furniture Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "solar energy", [...] Read »
Very fittingly called the Mugtree, this laser-cut cupholder is shaped just like a little tree for your kitchen. To save on materials, the negative areas that create the spaces where the cups [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Best Green Designs From Cascina Cuccagna During Milan Design Week Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Alessandra Ochetti, Andrea Bouquet, Cascina Cuccagna, disegno [...] Read »
At this years Milan Furniture Fair, IED Barcelona and Madrid showcased student work that stood out for their social impact and eco-friendly materials. Sandra Cabellos cardboard storage was [...] Read »
Read the rest of Paul Coudamy Transforms Tokyo Boutique with 9,715 Wooden Planks Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Commes de Garcons, eco design, Fantastique Canopee, green design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of We are what we eat! Cooks Up Organic Food In an Eco Kitchen at the Milan Furniture Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Dario Vecchio, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Solar-Powered Restaurant Aan Zee Rests Lightly in the Dunes in the Netherlands Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", "wind power", aan [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Historically significant Hambach Castle has been modernised and extended for restaurant use by architect Max Dudler. Max Dudler’s idea was to turn the accessible castle wall into a usable space. [...] Read »
Shared by EDITION29, this is the short fun video that features the incredible Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe twin glass tower apartments in Chicago built in 1949. + Check it out here for more information [...] Read »
As a measure of the influence of all these ships, one need only look at the cities in which these museums are sited: London, Portsmouth, Southampton, Belfast, Bristol. All have been shaped [...] Read »
Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, along with Jonathan Cohn of EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, presented their 'Vision Board' - a conceptual rendering in the year 2050, showing Los Angeles Union Station [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
A Swiss congregation commissioned Dutch-based practice Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion of the prominently located Villa Erica boarding school in Locarno. The [...] Read »
This project is a great melding of modern and classic. The four bedroom house is located in Nort Haven Village, NY. The fully shingled walls and steep gables give it that northeastern feeling [...] Read »
It wasnt a usual trip to the World Trade Center site today as AN segued over to the river to get a glimpse of the Space Shuttle Enterprises flyover. We caught the shuttle on its second loop [...] Read »
Designed for urban homes that are short on gardening space, the Herb² is a transformable partition wall that can can bring succulents to any room in a modern and stylish way. Exhibited at the [...] Read »
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One of the Must-See products of the recent Kitchen and Bath Industry Show was this wall-hung tank and carrier system from Geberit called the Monolith. Monolith installs in construction or [...] Read »
The proposal 'Swimming Pool Feng Shui' by Paris-based Mikou Design Studio has been named winning entry in a competition for a swimming pool in the city of Issy les Moulineaux, France. Read »
Mecanoo has just broken ground on one of their most exciting projects to date the green-roofed KIEM education complex in the Netherlands. Located in Dordrecht amidst several parks and a nature [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
BUCHMANN GALERIE Charlottenstrasse 13 D-10969 Berlin, Germany +49(0)30 258 999 29 www.buchmanngalerie.com April 27 June 23, 2012 Berlin Gallery Weekend: Friday, April 27, 2012, 6-9 pm Saturday [...] Read »
John Gourlay is tapped to be executive publisher of Metropolis magazine. Gourlays previous magazine publishing creds include Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, Utne Reader, Audubon, and [...] Read »
Beijing Traffic Jam via Shutterstock Traffic congestion doesnt just raise your blood pressure; its a drag on the economy and it causes a lot of unnecessary pollution. A recent study showed [...] Read »
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