Architectural Works
Although competitions are fraught with their own issues, our profession is indelibly linked to them. Competitions have been pushing the profession forward for centuries, encouraging innovation, [...] Read »
After showing two groups of schoolteachers a videotape of an eight-year-old boy, psychologists John Santrock and Russel Tracy found that the teachers’ judgment of the child ultimately depended [...] Read »
Yasuaki Onishi& , who is known for his art throughout Japan and internationally, currently has an installation on exhibit in the Rice Gallery in Houston titled, Reverse of Volume RG. On display [...] Read »
“Pop-Up,” “DIY,” “Kickstarter” “LQC” (That’s lighter, quicker, cheaper for the unfamiliar). Urbanisms of the People have been getting awfully catch-phrasey these days. What [...] Read »
Kokaistudios& was recently announced as the winner of the competition for the new Tsinghua University Law Library located in Beijing, China. Proposing a reflection on the role of void in structuring [...] Read »
[ June 5, 2012; 0:00; ] Hosted by Topos Magazine, the Follow Me: Berlins Airport Conference will be taking place in the disused buildings of Tempelhof Airport on June 5. A number of prominent [...] Read »
Sunglass, built by two TED fellows, Nitin Rao and Kaustuv DeBiswas, is a collection of three products: the company’s Sunglass Player, which allows artists to incorporate the objects that they’ve [...] Read »
Standing at the foot of the Alps is the highly contemporary Holy Cross Church in Chur, Switzerland. Designed by Basel born Swiss architect Walter Förderer& , the church evokes strong features [...] Read »
Rather than design a run-of-the-mill skyscraper for a new hotel in Xian, China, architects 3Gatti decided to put lots of smaller buildings on a gigantic set of shelves. (more&) Read »
Liz Diller , founding principle of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro& , shares the story of creating the pneumatic addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Commonly known as the “Bubble”, [...] Read »
Five years on from their launch in Londons Regent Street, COS has made their way to Italy, debuting with a pop-up shop at Salone del Mobile in Milan. In collaboration with set designer Gary [...] Read »
Slideshow feature: infrastructure projects by German architects J. Mayer H. have been popping up all over Georgia in the last year buildings completed so far include an airport , a police [...] Read »
Announced today on his 75th birthday, Spanish Architect Rafael Moneo& has been named winner of the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts – an award bestowed to an individual, institution [...] Read »
Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey have extended a red brick warehouse in central London to provide a new home for The Photographers’ Gallery . (more&) Read »
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Miscellaneous
Victoria Newhouse - "aesthetically I think they are greatly improved from what we had before...they're smaller and more intimate...more inviting...they are acoustically improved...and many of [...] Read »
Are you looking to add to your knowledge base on green roofs, curious about how they work, and be savvy enough to join in witty conversation with other enthusiasts? Author Angela Youngman has [...] Read »
exhibition diagram from from www.eyebeam.org ARNO GIL MÜLLER NEUMANN SCHUMACHER - Modular collaboration for Eyebeam's Main Space Opening reception: May 10, 2012 6PM* Open to the public: May [...] Read »
India-based SHROFFLEoN has recently designed the Para Todos, a housing block in Lima, Peru. ParaTodos obsesses over optimization. Optimization of land, of views, of the context, and most importantly [...] Read »
The main design theme of this school is the merging of the inside and outside space. The school offers various types of outdoor gardens and roof terraces for different activities. The six small [...] Read »
Mark your calendars: On Monday, May 21, Going Viral , a panel discussion organized by the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee that explores the impact that social media and technology have on design, [...] Read »
Spanish architect Rafael Moneo has been declared the 2012 laureate of the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. The announcement was made today in Oviedo, the capital city of the Principality [...] Read »
Wendy Evans Joseph and Chris Cooper Re-Envisioning the South Street Seaport Museum Thursday, May 10, 6:30 p.m. South Street Seaport Museum 12 Fulton St. southstreetseaportmuseu m.org Following [...] Read »
Image: Bacteria courtesy of Shutterstock Todays computers are rapidly becoming obsolete as society demands larger storage space and faster connections. However, the future of computing may not [...] Read »
The architect on the new gallery is the L.A.-based firm wHY Architecture, founded by Kulapat Yantrasast, who worked with Tadao Ando for 15 years, and designed the L.A. branch of New York gallery [...] Read »
Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects beat out some serious competition yesterday when he was awarded the honor to design the first CornellNYC Tech academic building on Roosevelt Island. The six [...] Read »
Video
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City & Urbanism
The Dr Tony Ryan Academy comprises a single story administration building and two distinctive 18 metre high egg shaped titanium clad pods incorporating 2 lecture theatres, reading and meeting [...] Read »
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We all know that water is an essential part of our lives. We are about 70% water and we would die without it in a couple of days, but sometimes we just take it for granted. To highlight the importance [...] Read »
Eclipse and Kosmos, the two solar parasols by Ombrellone Solare, showcased at the famous Fabbrica Del Vapore at this year’s Milan Design Week saw great success, not only because of the shade [...] Read »
In a story published a couple years ago in the British tabloid The Daily Mail about the legal travails of Lord Peter Palumbo , reference was made to one of his global collection of homes, "a [...] Read »
As a child, you are told a lot of things about this great planet of ours. We are the third of nine planets in the Solar System (now eight and one dwarf planet), Mount Everest is the tallest mountain [...] Read »
French practice ABF Final proposal for the Seattle Urban Intervention Competition. The design envisions an interactive wall around a forested landscape that is both flexible and dynamic, embracing [...] Read »
Wyoming Gas Drill Photo by Shutterstock Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin is set to sign into law a bill that will make Vermont the first state to outlaw hydraulic fracturing, or fracki ng, the [...] Read »
"Scholarship allows for creativity in the midst of judgment and therefore we hope to honor the thrill of seeking with this gift." say Dykers and Molinar. "Willingness to expand the traditional [...] Read »
Lumion® Pro has just been launched and the entire Lumion® product range has been updated to version 2.2. Lumion® Pro is the new top of the line version of Lumion® and includes additional [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of TOTeMs Architectures Conch-Shaped Casey Guest House Sits Lightly Among the Mangroves Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: (FEMA), Casey Guest House, curvilinear [...] Read »
Read the rest of World War II Flak Tower Transformed Into Tropical Aquarium in Vienna Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, aquarium vienna, flak towers renovation, [...] Read »
The future of Londons renowned Battersea Power Station has long been debated, and numerous bids have been offered up with the hopes of giving the building a new life. Its potential renovation [...] Read »
It may seem excessive to use a reflex camera to build a lamp, but Tomasso Guerras cool design looks so great, hes forgiven. The Italy-based designer combined a recycled DSLR with a semi-flexible [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Beer Moth is a Sweet Room in a Refurbished Fire Truck in Scotland Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, Canopy & Stars, Design, eco design, eco-tourism, [...] Read »
Opinions
In Remixing Nature in a Digital World, the dystopic art of Giacomo Costa is presented as a hyperbolic remix of... Read »
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The Durst Organization and the Port Authority have decided to abandon designs for what they once assured the public would be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and architect David [...] Read »
Today, two prefab veterans launch their website for a new company called Connect:Homes with a mission to deliver modern homes that are affordable, green, and available wherever your are. [...] Read »
Big news out of the Big Apple: Cornell University announced last night that Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects will design the first of three net-zero academic buildings on its new applied sciences [...] Read »
Two Vancouver architecture firms have won Canada's biennial version of Oscars for Architecture, i.e. Governor General's Medals in Architecture. Previously profiled Linear House has garnered Patkau [...] Read »
People walk out of an upside down house, built by Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski, in the western Austrian village of Terfens May 5, 2012. The project is meant to serve as [...] Read »
Style among the office's 60 employees tends to favor clean lines and a neutral palette. "The rumor is that you have to wear a white top with blackcommonly what Richard himself wears," said Alison [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Syracuse Universitys School of Architecture will need a new dean before summer. New York Citys International Center of Photography (ICP) has announced that Mark Robbins the current dean of [...] Read »
Architecture critics are in a particular bind. Like art critics but unlike, say, those of film, they must swim in the same social sea as their targets. Further, because useful architectural criticism [...] Read »
Times are tough now. The recession has not only affected the prices of homes, it has affected how we design them. According to MarketWatch.com, there are ten design features that are not selling [...] Read »
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is home to New Yorks most spectacular collection of industrial buildings, warehouses, and 19th century dry docks. The Yard is normally closed to the public, but this Saturday [...] Read »
Today GE introduced a new and innovative 100-watt replacement bulb that uses only 27 watts with the help of LEDs and jet technology. The Energy Smart bulb wont be available until the first [...] Read »
GE just announced a new LED light bulb replacement for the 100 watt incandescent that uses pulses of air to keep cool. The design is the first of its kind in the LED industry, and it comes just [...] Read »
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