Architectural Works
A few weeks ago, appearing on the heels of a Salon article by Scott Timberg, entitled, “The Architecture Meltdown”, GOOD Magazine& published “Why The Death of Architecture’ May Not Be [...] Read »
Driven by the collaboration of Quicksand Design Studio, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the city governments of two large cities in India, and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Project [...] Read »
We recently shared six conceptual visions for the transformation of Los Angeles Union Station. Upon the release of the vision boards, the teams proposals (EE&K, a Perkins Eastman Company, [...] Read »
German architects J. Mayer H. have completed the first two of 20 roadside service stations for a new highway running from Azerbaijan to Turkey, through Georgia. (more&) Read »
[ May 12, 2012; 10:00 to 16:00. ] Taking place May 12 from 1oam-4pm, the Marin Living: Home Tours, hosted by AIA San Francisco, is an open house tour featuring five projects that showcase and [...] Read »
Aedas& recently won 8 prestigious awards at the Asia Pacific Property Awards presentation ceremony, which was held on April 28 in Kuala Lumpur. Center 66 from Hang Lung Properties, a mixed use [...] Read »
[ May 10, 2012 0:00 to May 13, 2012 0:00. ] One of the most prominent architectural event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Days of Architecture, which takes place May 10-13, includes different lectures [...] Read »
The floor of the dining room becomes a worktop for the kitchen inside this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Urban Architecture Office (UAo). (more&) Read »
The invited design contest calls for a strong architectural master plan, comprising residential, commercial and cultural programme, forming a new urban area around the existing Ratina sports [...] Read »
New York-based architects Weiss / Manfredi and Philadelphia-based landscape architects OLIN& have been announced as winner of the National Mall Design Competition for the Washington Monument [...] Read »
With the recent release of the design for the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and collaborator Ai Weiwei,& were bringing you the 2012 updated infographic, a cheat sheet for the [...] Read »
Dubai shipbuilder Drydocks World has signed on with Switzerland’s BIG InvestConsult, on behalf of partner Deep Ocean Technology& (DOT), to become the sole construction contractor of the futuristic [...] Read »
[ October 3, 2012 to October 5, 2012. ] Now in its fourth year, the World Architecture Festival moves from Spain to Singapore (October 3rd-5th). And for this year, we are happy to announce ArchDaily [...] Read »
In my latest Editorial, I made the case that the future Silicon Valleys of the world will be in our cities. I have to admit, though, that I never thought about them being on our seas& .
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Ground will be broken on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 for Skidmore Owing & Merrill LLP& (SOM)’s newest building at Beijing’s China World Trade Center (CWTC) complex. The 58-story Phase 3B Tower [...] Read »
Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic . (more&) Read »
This Tokyo house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has hardly any walls and looks like scaffolding (photos by Iwan Baan ). (more&) Read »
The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summers Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: theyll conduct [...] Read »
Slideshow: American architect David Jameson has completed a two-storey house in Bethesda, Maryland, with white walls that look like pixellated blocks. (more&) Read »
News
The firm unveils its design for a performance art training camp in upstate New York. Read »
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Miscellaneous
Inspired by old weaving, knotting and basket-making techniques, Kumeko created these cool floor cushions in their design studio based in Prague, Czech Republic. This cushions collection, aptly [...] Read »
Alaskan Glacier Photo from Shutterstock The US Department of Energy, with backing from the oil industry, has successfully tested a new method to extract untapped natural gas from frozen crystals [...] Read »
As we look at the border in an age of network culture ascendant, we need to do so with the special goggles of a Deleuzian Israeli commando, and see the presence of the networks that are the real [...] Read »
Sunscreen photo from Shutterstock Our doctors tell us to slather on sunscreen to prevent skin cancer but what can we do if our sunblock of choice actually increases the risk of cancer? A team [...] Read »
On Friday, June 1st, the Paul Rudolph Foundation will resume hosting our bi-monthly open house at the Modulightor building. Located at 246 East 58th Street in New York, it is one of the last [...] Read »
photographs (c) Roland Halbe The Jesolo Lido is a residential project on the Adriatic coast coast of Italy designed by architects Richard Meier & Partners . Completed in the 2007 the scheme [...] Read »
What makes the performing arts so thrilling is also what makes them so elusive—they are, by nature, ephemeral. Any documentation of a performance is only a pale reflection of what its like [...] Read »
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala otherwise known as the Met Gala is described as the East Coast Oscars. The red carpet rivals that of the Academy Awards but at this event, [...] Read »
I may not have been invited to the Met Gala but I was able to attend the press preview for the Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art . [...] Read »
Beginning this July, thousands of bright-blue Citibikes will begin swarming the streets of Manhattan and eventually Brooklyn and Long Island City, Queens. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner [...] Read »
A residential unit, simple in volume, composed of a 21storey-high tower and a U-shaped block with a varying height, faceted, entirely in red implanted in a site along with more regular collection [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
I'm looking forward, as always, to the day when I have a big house with some outdoor space. When I do, I am definitely buying some vintage Tolix chairs for around my table. They were designed [...] Read »
The owners of this house desired a modern home that reflected their love of modern design, but did not want to leave their in-town neighborhood. The objective of the design became to transform [...] Read »
Read the post, Generations of Environmentalism, and the post to which it linked Don't call me an environmentalist and then here's my comment: I am confused by this discussion — both Curtis’ [...] Read »
For a while now, we have been excited by Googles attempts to create a self-driven car that uses video cameras, radar sensors and lasers to identify traffic and allow the driver to sit back [...] Read »
The “mileage experts” John and Helen Taylor have done it again! The couple recently completed a 1,626-mile drive in a 2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI without stopping once for fuel. The couple [...] Read »
Economist Paul Romer believes he can create and launch a new city in much the same way tech companies create and launch startups. Looking to Hong Kong and Chinas Shenzen for inspiration, Romers [...] Read »
A lamppost and light-multiplying mirror-in-frame on Via dei Pastini Tower above the Scuola Pubbliche Visconti Ennio Quirino, facing the Piazza del Collegio Romano The happiest and most comfortable resi dent [...] Read »
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Cornell University has named 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne as architect for the first building at its Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island called the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, [...] Read »
Read the rest of BIG Wins Competition to Design The Red Line, a Link Between City and Nature in Finland Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: BIG Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group, [...] Read »
Created as a getaway in a heavily wooded site sits a home that strives for a functional, monetary, material, and poetic ‘essentialist’ so as to create nothing extraneous and make opportunity [...] Read »
There were 530 entries in the Helsinki Central Library Competition (via). Proposals will be shown in the Autumn and final winning proposal next summer. Related posts: Helsinki Library Competition [...] Read »
Rotterdam-based landscape architects West 8, together with local practice IROJE architects & partners, have recently won the international competition for the master plan of Yongsan Park, Korea. [...] Read »
I'm often intrigued by the differences between renderings and photographs, especially since advances in the realism of the former and the digital nature of the latter are increasingly bringing [...] Read »
This project entailed the conversion of a former industrial office located in Joo Chiat in Singapore, into an airy & chic apartment. Designed by architects & cross disciplinary practice, FARM [...] Read »
While typically focusing on the dwelling unit here at Jetson Green this week well widen our lens to the urban realm and context of our communities at the 20th Congress for the New Urbanism in [...] Read »
Friday night held the first of many planning meetings my 19-year-old daughter expects to attend in the next six weeks. Shes part of a team getting ready for a mission trip. Excited about [...] Read »
With investment in American cities on the rise, mixed-use development is all the buzz, but architect Deborah Berke says we must be careful not to leave industry out of the mix. We need to sway [...] Read »
Open Source Urbanism by Domenico Di Siena Summary /Overview Traditional medias don’t broadcast what the citizens are debating or organizing on a daily basis. Nevertheless, thanks to Social [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Despite "greenwashing" by even the biggest and least environmentally committed fast food chains, it's difficult to evaluate just how green a restaurant is behind the scenes. While the most obvious [...] Read »
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(c)Amir Sultan The Lakeshore View House is one of a number of residences built along the Sentosa Cove in Singapore, facing the sea with the mountains in the background. The 720m 2 house by Aamer [...] Read »
Focused on handling the worldwide acquisition and redistribution of helicopters and parts, CUT asked MODULUS to transform an existing 10,000 square foot dingy, abandoned warehouse building into [...] Read »
This is the first Energy Star qualified home in British Columbia, according to builder Mandala Homes. The companys been around since 2000, and this is their new, round showcase with passive [...] Read »
On an infill site, PH3 isolates itself from the context, a gated community in Tijuana mostly made up of California style mcmansions. It is a 3 layer structure that is set on the street side of [...] Read »
The twelfth Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London is nothing without the first eleven. The collaborators responsible for the wonderfully intricate Beijing National Stadium (aka the Birds Nest) [...] Read »
Located in Tijuana, México, Ph4 house’s main objective is to create a balance between privacy and openness, the project was mainly developed from two constraints. The first one is that the [...] Read »
I caught up with Brian Phillips, principal of Interface Studio Architects, in Miami recently while he was down as a visiting critic at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Based [...] Read »
Technology
Danish architecture firm Eentileen has built Villa Asserbo, the firms first digitally fabricated, sustainable, inexpensive home, located in woodland around 60 kilometers north of Copenhagen. [...] Read »
The Kids of Kathmandu, a non-profit that utilizes the arts to fund an orphanage in Bhaktapor, Nepal, invited 17 lighting designers to design and donate a series of lamps for auction. Read »
Read the rest of Abandoned Food Factory to be Transformed into Chicagos First Zero-Energy Vertical Farm! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", chicago's [...] Read »
Read the rest of Plant-Covered Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Blends in With the Surrounding Park Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Camilo Rebelo, eco design, green design, Green [...] Read »
In California, earthquakes are commonplace, but with the possibility of the Big One always looming, the states authorities are doing all they can to prepare for it. This week saw the construction [...] Read »
The Paperpedic Bed by Karton is a system of intricately folded and tabbed paper panels that connect to form a sleek and modern bed frame. The 100 percent recyclable bed can expand from twin sized [...] Read »
Recently unveiled at Milan Design Week, DALA furniture is made entirely from a new material developed by German firm DEDON. Created by young American designer Stephen Burks, these brilliant, [...] Read »
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