Architectural Works
Marcel Breuer& , born in Hungary in 1902, was educated under the Bauhaus manifesto of total construction ; this is likely why Breuer is well known for both his furniture designs as well as his [...] Read »
Christensen & Co. Architects& were recently announced as winners of the competition for a 40.000m2 laboratory building at Technical University Denmark. The new research and educational building [...] Read »
[ May 21, 2012; 18:00 to 20:00. ] Mark your calendars! In less than three weeks, ArchDaily founders David Basulto and David Assael will join Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toru Hasegawa of Morpholio and [...] Read »
[ July 23, 2012 to August 5, 2012. ] AA DLab experiments thoroughly on the possibilities of digital design tools and rapid prototyping techniques as highly integrated systems of design development. [...] Read »
This informative 113 by 113 hardcover book presents a curated collection of award-winning residential and master planning work from leading American designers. Meticulously detailed and site-specific, [...] Read »
OPEN Architecture& recently created a new kind of school system that provides a balanced and joyful learning environment integrated with farms and gardens. Drawing inspiration from the ancient [...] Read »
The winning proposal for the extension project for the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Troyes (Troyes Management School) by SCAU Architectes& provides a new image, thanks to a highly pertinent [...] Read »
[ October 18, 2012 0:00 to October 19, 2012 0:00. ] One hundred years have passed since Le Corbusier’s Voyage to the Orient. Although he didn’t venture into the Far East, his influence – [...] Read »
Beyond the arched entrance of this metal-clad house in Kadoma, Japan by architect Takeshi Hamada is a corner light well surrounded by windows and balconies. (more&) Read »
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture – a non-profit international arts space based in Moscow founded by Daria Zhukova – has unveiled plans for a new building in Gorky Park. Designed [...] Read »
In this book, C. F. Møller Architects, one of Scandinavia’s most renowned practices, founded in 1924, presents a wide range of their award-winning public design. It includes hospitals, universities [...] Read »
Slideshow: weve already featured three artists studios from Canadian Fogo Island , making this wooden hut on legs the fourth (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg ). (more&) Read »
Chris DeHenzel is one of 2012 lucky recipients of a John K. Branner traveling fellowship, awarded by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Architecture. Throughout the year, Chris [...] Read »
Metro officials have released six conceptual visions that suggest how the historic Los Angeles Union Station could be transformed by 2050. Preliminary “Vision Boards” were released in a public [...] Read »
This glass house by Belgian architects Govaert & Vanhoutte has a 50-metre-long wall at the back and a sunken swimming pool at the front. (more&) Read »
News
According to construction-economics data from McGraw-Hill Dodge, U.S. tall-building construction is down significantly from its 2006 peak. However, a handful of high-profile projects continue to move forward. Read »
Continuing a recent push into Latin America, Richard Meier has brought his taut and planar aesthetic to Brazil, where the New York architect has been hired to design a seven-story office in Rio de Janeiro. Read »
RECORD sits down with the new architecture critic of the new york times to discuss his plans for covering the designs of buildings, new york, and the wider world. Read »
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Miscellaneous
Dairy at Mehsāna (Gujarat, India) by Achyut Kanvinde | 1969-74 The 6 lectures on regionalism at CAA Hangzhou aspire to reframe the readings on regionalism and position these in the post-colonial [...] Read »
While we're on the subject of window treatments, I thought it would be fun to take a look at my favorite type. They are referred to a few different ways from bamboo blinds to matchstick shades [...] Read »
New York City Plannings Zone Green initiative cleared City Council yesterday, paving the way for new regulations and variances that will help make going green that much easier. Building owners [...] Read »
Fog of the Nomadic -&an abstract for an upcoming polemical text and architectural project& A thick fog washes over the land, encapsulates the body, washes the lung, and filters the passage. I [...] Read »
Some images from the final projects in Terminal Condition , the Spring 2012 Netlab studio that I taught with Leigha Dennis , in which we set out to rebuild the Port Authority Bus Terminal, while [...] Read »
Maid stone Museum & Bentlee Art Gallery has re-opened following an extensive £3 million refurbishment and the addition of a new east wing by Hugh Brought on Architects. Clad with ‘gold’ [...] Read »
Another video for today: The Architecture of Cooperation lectured by urban sociologist Richard Sennett at Harvard University Graduate School of Design . This lecture was programmed on February [...] Read »
The thing that really gets me down about rainy days is not being able to find a cab. On the plus side, they do give you an excuse to wear a chic raincoat. Rainy days certainly seem to agree [...] Read »
Saint Joseph the Worker Catholic Church by Sparano + Mooney Architecture (photo from the firm's website )With its focus upon the NEW NOW , the 2012 OregonDesign Conference posed obvious questions [...] Read »
Good news for landscape designers, and really for everyone. According to the Business Quarterly survey conducted by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the landscape profession [...] Read »
With a tongue-in-cheek tone, Nick Bilton recently made a rather interesting observation about life at the headquarters of internet giants like google and facebook. Noting that the amenities in [...] Read »
Video
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Hamburg: Hafencity & Modern Architecture
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Norman McGrath , Architecture Photographer
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Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira is the son of Portugal's star architect Álvaro Siza .
Euromaxx visits his villa.
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City & Urbanism
The center, designed by Renzo Piano and Peter Walker, was considered so appealing that a 42-story condominium called Museum Tower sprouted across the street. But the glass skin of the condo tower, [...] Read »
An eye-opening documentary entitled “Home” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand was released in 2009. This 2 hour video, which can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube, emphasizes that if we, humanity, [...] Read »
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I love illustrations of mid century modern from the 502s. They were all so clean, optimistic and, well, modern. I would love to live in any one of the below homes. Except for the one without [...] Read »
Wind Turbine Image from Shutterstock In remote areas without access to fresh drinking water, there is often the dual concern of a lack of electricity — which is what makes French company Eole [...] Read »
Continuity in Architecture have been a-twitter with excitement at the prospect of a lecture by the highly influential architect Peter Wilson. The sense of expectation was heightened by the memories [...] Read »
click images for larger view Sometimes the good guys actually win. From 42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly's latest newsletter, sent out Tuesday . . . On Tuesday, April 24th the City Council [...] Read »
The styling of most electric bikes doesnt stray too far from a standard human-powered motorcycle, but the ZecOO custom e-bike you see here brings some much needed pizazz to the plate. Designed [...] Read »
EVOL: Repeat Offender Jonathan LeVine Gallery 529 West 20th Street, 9th floor New York Through May 5 While his artwork might be hanging on the walls of a gallery in Chelsea, Berlin-based street [...] Read »
Custom window fashions giant Hunter Douglas has just launched The Art of Window Dressing iPad App that lets you see how actual products will look on your own windows. The App will allow designers [...] Read »
The benefits of modular building can be exploited beyond the single family home. Currently being constructed in a factory in Pennsylvania, our modular Child Care Center for CUNY Lehman College [...] Read »
Image: Hans_van_Rijnberk | Flickr What do you do when your architectural design tool wonât allow you to test your design for the senses? How do you know that you are creating the best design [...] Read »
Brooklyn-based architecture practice Bureau V unleashed a spectacular design for the Original Music Workshop, a new non-profit arts organization which will open in 2013 with a wide range of [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Food blogger Emilie Griottes created these sumptuous edible Pantone swatches for French culinary magazine Fricote and color has never looked so delicious! Recreating everyones favorite color [...] Read »
The House of Tomorrow, a modernist,12-sided exhibition home built for Chicago's 1933 World's Fair is among Indiana's 10 most endangered buildings, according to the state's leading preservation [...] Read »
One of the worlds biggest floating openair swimming pools will open on the Eilandje in Antwerp, Belgium at the Kattendijkdok in mid-August. The pool, with a total length of 120 meters (394 feet), [...] Read »
This is The Shoebox House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its an award-winning design Citation Award from the Santa Fe chapter of the AIA that also captured LEED Platinum certification with 88 [...] Read »
Frank Gehry’s first residential project in Asia, a twisty residential tower called Opus Hong Kong, is complete. Total project cost for the 12-story, 12-apartment building? A mere $27,000 a [...] Read »
Stolls images capture vast and mind-meltingly valuable landscapes that are hidden in plain sight, housed in unassuming warehouses and suburban data centers all over the world. Read »
The Netlab’s take on the New Aesthetic, with Leigha Dennis , Jochen Hartmann , and Robert Sumrell . #new-aesthetic Read »
The restoration consisted in replacing the current brick structured inclined roof for a new one, using wooden structure to get a practicable interior space. This intervention aims to give a continuity [...] Read »
Earlier today Nate Berg posted on The Atlantic Cities a video entitled The Edible City depicting ways urban agriculture can be integrated into small spaces within cities. The goal of this video [...] Read »
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Funny pigs image from Shutterstock China’s pig population is approaching one billion, so you can imagine how much pig poo the nation has at its disposal. One Australian firm, CRC CARE, thinks [...] Read »
Thanks to piano-playing cats and finger-biting children, video-sharing websites like Vimeo and YouTube can be a total time-suck filled with mindless entertainment. But in between the fluff, youll [...] Read »
How to confirm one's role as a starchitect? Appear in the Simpsons. In its last episode the Simpsons featured a split-second of Rem Koolhaas/CCTV. The architect, not seen sporting any Prada though, [...] Read »
As contemporary governments and citizens increasingly demand that reclaimed landfills be many things to many people energy producers, social nodes, memorials and also that they interface [...] Read »
The web is buzzing today over a new research study that looks at the effect that large Texas wind farms have on surface temperatures in their immediate surroundings. New Research Shows Wind [...] Read »
It may be the line of bold yellow forsythia that appears on a drab brown hillside. It may be the sudden burst of crimson red on a stand of maple trees in the park or the cottony white and pink [...] Read »
International architectural practice 10 Design has shared with us their concept of a headquarter park for pharmaceutical company Yabao in Shenzhen, China. Construction of this massive project [...] Read »
UNStudio and EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, and Jacobs Engineering have submitted a proposal for a scope of work to develop a Master Plan of Los Angeles Union Station. Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, [...] Read »
This is a scheme for an arts and craft studio consists of three main programs, gallery, workshop and student dormitory. It forms part of university campus in rural area of Buyer. The massing [...] Read »
Below is a general outline of our coverage from April. In terms of our new articles, two articles lit up on Facebook: this one about the TINY movie trailer and another about a solar-powered container [...] Read »
While Paul Rudolph aficionados are in a holding pattern until Thursday, awaiting news from Goshen about whether the Orange County Government Center will be torn down, Design Observers Mark Lamster [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Bridge Studio is a Solar-Powered Minimalist Artist Retreat on Fogo Island Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", art studio, artist studio, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Badboot: Massive Floating Eco Swimming Pool Coming to Antwerp This Summer Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", + pool, Antwerp, antwerpen, [...] Read »
Alternative Playground may simply look like colorful and cushy blobs piled up in a corner, but this new project by Griet Boucique explores the potential of the trash dump as a play environment. [...] Read »
With the aim of blending the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, Ahlbrech Felix Scheidt Kasprush Architects designed this glowing glass home within a pine forest in Germany. Called Minimum [...] Read »
Read the rest of Pick Up a Hammer for Habitat for Humanitys National Women Build Week Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, habitat for humanity, Habitat [...] Read »
Read the rest of Shady Asmacati Shopping Center is Topped With Beautiful Perforated Leaf Skylights Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Asmaçatı Shopping [...] Read »
Read the rest of Googles London Campus Features Ultra Flexible Shipping Container Working Spaces Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Cargotecture, eco [...] Read »
Opinions
A Tale of Two Cities Over the last decade, Colombia has been a touchstone of what good design and enlightened... Read »
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