Architectural Works
As we announced earlier, the Trust for the National Mall has selected the New York-based Rogers Marvel Architects and California based- PWP Landscape Architecture& to re-envision Constitution [...] Read »
The Innovation By Design Awards, put on by Fast Company, offers entrants an unmatched opportunity to reach entrepreneurs and executives looking to find fresh talent. Finalists and winners will [...] Read »
Minutes from the Kremlin lies Bar Strelka, a revisited loft space housed in a former confectionery factory, which serves as a hub for the students of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture [...] Read »
Earlier this week, Pratt Institute & extended an invitation to the ArchDaily team to attend their 123rd commencement, celebrating the achievements of 1300 bachelor’s and master’s degree [...] Read »
[ June 21, 2012 0:00 to June 25, 2012 0:00. ] Taking place June 21-25 at Ajman University of Science & Technology, is a 5-day architectural workshop by the internationally renowned architect [...] Read »
Designed by Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter& , the small shelter for ice fishing, titled Noun.1 Unavailability, is built with and by nature. The timber frame is foldable for easy relocation and storage, [...] Read »
[ August 4, 2012 0:00 to August 31, 2012 0:00. ] Organized by RCR Arquitectes& and the Bunka Foundation, this years course, which takes place August 4-31, offers the architectural point of view [...] Read »
Designed by the Austrian architecture office soma for EXPO 2012, the Thematic Pavilion dubbed One Ocean will celebrate it’s grand opening tomorrow (May 11) in Yeosu, South-Korea. Since winning [...] Read »
The first New York Frieze Art Fair took place last weekend inside a 450 metre-long snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn architects SO-IL . (more&) Read »
One week from today, ArchDaily will be joining you& at the AIA 2012 National Convention! Knowledge, inspiration and connection are the three primary reasons architects are attending this year’s [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
This is the competition entry by Matteo Cainer Architects for the Swiss Clockwork Embassy in Cameroon. The design of the new Swiss Embassy in Yaoundé pays tribute to its renewed presence in [...] Read »
Next week, winds permitting, 24,000 bars of hand-pressed chocolate will arrive in the United Kingdom port of Portsmouth with an unusual claim: the bars are the worlds only carbon neutral chocolate [...] Read »
Next week Audi will debut their prototype Wörthersee e-bike, which promises to be a highly advanced, versatile electric bike from the German automakers. The Audi e-bike will be unveiled at Wörthersee [...] Read »
Behind this unassuming facade two doors up from the New Museum of Contemporary on the Bowery is the Salon 94 Gallery . While I don't see mention of the project on their website, the gallery is [...] Read »
The project, which is now called Blueseed, is led by a team of execs plucked from Thiel's Seasteading Institute. Although the original plans for the floating tech village looked something like [...] Read »
The Thematic Pavilion ONE OCEAN for the 2012 EXPO in Yeosu, South Korea [...] is scheduled to open later this week, May 12. The pavilion, a permanent building and one of the major facilities [...] Read »
The FED Pyongyang Landmark Tower was conceived and designed by Asymptote and engineered by Thornton Tomasine to be among the most important and elegant tall buildings of the century. The design [...] Read »
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A former Lisbon docks warehouse is to be converted in several lofts. The apartments will have different and personalized characteristics . Interior partitions in exposed concrete will separate [...] Read »
Brought to you by: Research into flexible active skins opens up new BIPV possibilities As building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology becomes more advanced, architects are getting involved [...] Read »
On Tuesday, May 15, Columbia's Network Architecture Lab launches the first in a series of Conversations on the State of the World with a discussion between Pedro Gadanho, curator of contemporary [...] Read »
Before the recession and the return of architectural probity, the phrase "like an alien spaceship" was all over architecture journalism like a cheap suit. Faced with anything that didn't look [...] Read »
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Read the rest of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Unveil Dancing Dragons Towers With Scaly, Breathable Skin Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "AS+GG", Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Dancing [...] Read »
My sponsor Hillary Thomas not only has a cute store called Chic Shop but a wonderful interior design portfolio. I thought the photo above was perfect to post as we head into Mother's Day this [...] Read »
The largest development proposed in the history of downtown Seattle—an approximately 3 million square-foot headquarters for Amazon—may take eight years to complete. Project details presented [...] Read »
UK scientists working to develop genetically modified wheat at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, Herts are facing a problem but it is not a problem with their research, rather its protestors [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Historic Stone-Walled Mill Transformed Into Sprawling Home in Scotland Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, eco design, green design, historic mill, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Mandala Round Prefab is BCs First Energy Star Qualified Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", bc, british columbia, eco design, eco [...] Read »
Read the rest of HomeAways LEED Gold Headquarters in Austin Makes Work Feel Like a Vacation Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: austin, Brian Sharples, green interiors, green offices, [...] Read »
Last year, we reported on The Center for Testing, Evaluation and Innovation (CITE) a town that would be built over 20 square miles of virgin desert in Lea County, New Mexico in order to test [...] Read »
Italian designer Tommaso Guerra has an amazing way of transforming everyday practical objects into designs with new meaning and expression. By filling glass jars taken from his grandmothers [...] Read »
Scottish designer Peter Ananin has created a way to bring a little more of the outside world into our everyday lives by creating personal miniature rural worlds dubbed MyBioPod. MyBioPod provides [...] Read »
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AN will be live blogging from the Megaprojects Conference at the McGraw Hill Conference Center today. The conference/symposium, sponsored by Columbia Universitys Center for Urban Real Estate, [...] Read »
Who hasn’t been stuck in traffic and wished that they could simply just hit a button and their car would fly over it? Flying cars have been a fantasy for decades and now theyre finally becoming [...] Read »
Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture just released its design for Dancing Dragons, a pair of landmark supertall mixed-use towers for the new Yongsan International Business [...] Read »
Walking into the large, egg-like structure of the MoMA Ps1 Performance Dome, the German electronic band Kraftwerks song Man-Machine was the perfect accompaniment to the architecture. Their [...] Read »
Germany-based Egyptian architect Ahmed Al.Badawy has shared with us images of the fascinating project "Al.Mualla Cemetery Mural / A Matter of Life and Death" which won the First Prize at the [...] Read »
This proposal for a 220 sq single family residence in location, Skyline, elaborates the spatial relations between the atrium, the winter garden and the garden and their differentiated environments. [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
University of Southern California School of Architecture's BLUE TAPE, the two day event that brings best of L.A's architectural community together, critiques hundreds of student projects in [...] Read »
If you like the look of reclaimed wood and you might, its really popular right now then Pioneer Millworks should be on your radar. The company, located in Farmington, New York and McMinnville, [...] Read »
A new TV and web production coming to PBS in 2013 about ten influential American buildings that changed the way we live, work, and play. Read »
Ascensio Mah recently teamed up with students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design to create this beautiful twisting planter embedded with a series of miniature gardens. Showcased at this [...] Read »
Here is the most modern of modern houses Ive ever seen and loved, she wrote, describing the turquoise mosaic tile, the compact state-of-the-art kitchen, the distant views of city lights, the [...] Read »
Located on Warlike Island, a 19km ferry journey from down-town Auckland, the Handshake Bay house hunkers-down below a ridge line at the head of a gully. Slowing to the pace of “island life”, [...] Read »
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