Architectural Works
In her recent Next American City& article, “An IPO for Cities”, Diana Lind proposes employing the financial mechanisms of Wall Street to fund urban development and maintain public infrastructure. [...] Read »
World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadids MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival , as programme director Paul [...] Read »
Today, over 17,000 architects and designers, contractors and project managers, magazines and bloggers (including us) will converge on the Capital for the American Institute of Architects’ [...] Read »
The new extension for the Crossroad Offices by OFIS Arhitekti& acts as a crossroad regulator between the existing villa and its approach from the street on the south side and the underground [...] Read »
And, we are back with our monthly updates of the Architecture Billings Index. Last month looked promising as March marked the fifth consecutive positive rating. However, Aprils index has [...] Read »
[ May 9, 2012 0:00 to June 9, 2012 0:00. ] ‘SHIFTS: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences for Architecture’ is an exhibition currently on display until June 9 at The Architecture Foundation [...] Read »
The APPLIED Research Through Fabrication competition is seeking proposals that actively connect academia, the profession and the fabrication industry in the Continuing Research category and [...] Read »
RIBA recently launched a new photography competition open to entries from all RIBA members in any category. With the theme, Architecture 2012, the RIBA invites images that capture any interpretation [...] Read »
Santa Monica-based LivingHomes has launched the C6.2, an affordable prefab house that is certified LEED Platinum. Previously, LivingHomes had introduced the C6, an affordable three-bedroom home, [...] Read »
A pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are the latest of fifteen skyscrapers commissioned for the Yongsan International [...] Read »
In his book Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, French photographer Frédéric Chaubin captures the eerie beauty of Soviet brutalism. In his quest to document Brezhnev-era architecture, [...] Read »
World Architecture Festival 2012: in the next movie from our series running up to this years World Architecture Festival , programme director Paul Finch tells us how the jury were bowled [...] Read »
The main idea behind the design for the S.Deer Corporate Headquarters building was to create a world of fashion underlining the lifestyle the retail company stands for. As fashion is not just [...] Read »
The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing by architects OMA are now complete. (more&) Read »
Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this extension to a historic town hall in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio . (more&) Read »
World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this years World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury [...] Read »
Opinions
A Look at Life in the Smart City of 2050 In “Forty Years From Now…,” Michael Durham paints a picture... Read »
60 W. Cordova Turns Renters Into Owners The 60 W. Cordova project, so named for its street address, is now... Read »
City & Urbanism
Everybody needs to eat. Eating and sleeping are two of the very fundamental repetitive necessities of life. There is no going without it for longer periods of time. Food needs to be accessible [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
[Image: Michael Maltzan's Inner City Arts building, Los Angeles; photo by Iwan Baan ]. I'll be speaking tonight, May 17th, at Van Alen Books with architect Michael Maltzan about his book No More [...] Read »
Kokaistudios has been announced as the winner competition for the new Tsinghua University Law Library located in Beijing, China. The proposal stands out amount the final 5 competing firms including [...] Read »
Call for submissions: North Carolina State University's Student ASLA Chapter seeks submissions for it's 2nd annual professional-reviewed landscape architecture student journal, SHIFT: process. [...] Read »
images Courtesy of Pedro Monteiro, Rodrigo Cruz, and Sérgio Silva The winning competition entry for the New Bauhaus Museum proposed for Weimar, Germany designed by Pedro Monteiro, Rodrigo Cruz, [...] Read »
The urban tech districts that are emerging today, from SoMa in San Francisco to New Yorks Silicon Alley and Londons Silicon Roundabout, are housed in similarly walkable, low to mid-story neighborhoods. [...] Read »
The super cute Kororodesuku (Kororo desk) and Kororo stool are two brilliant multifunctional furnishings designed by Tokyo-based Torafu Architects. The brightly colored desk has various windows [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. Yesterday, after news broke that Ryan Seacrest dropped $37M on Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's Beverly Hills compound, an anonymous Curbed commenter [...] Read »
NZ99: Net Zero for the 99% The NZ99 home is designed to take full advantage of factory fabrication to produce a two module net zero house at an affordable price. This house is developed from [...] Read »
Do you enjoy camping but find it hard to get a good night’s sleep? The Pakmat is a comfortable, eco-friendly, and compact product ideal for outdoor enthusiasts, as well as for emergency use [...] Read »
The Pike Powers Living Laboratory exists as part of the Pecan Street Clean Energy Internet Demonstration endeavor and will be located at the Mueller Development in Austin, Texas. Sited within [...] Read »
It turns out lighter gypsum wallboard sells well. In July 2010, USG Corporation tested the market for Sheetrock UltraLight panels, which are anywhere from 15-24 pounds lighter per panel depending [...] Read »
Client Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien LocationZentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien Vienna, Austria Architect Prof.Arch.DI Günther Domenig Planning begun in 1974 Construction [...] Read »
Over at Domus, you can read an interview that I recently conducted with Pedro Gadanho, the new curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA. It's been a great privilege to get to know Pedro better [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
I always think it's fun to start off my Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2012 posts with the entry as a true welcome. Interior designer Bryant Keller clad the walls in the famous Scalamandre Zebras [...] Read »
For most architecture students, a model malfunction wont land you in the middle of a river, but one group of Buffalonian risk takers at the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and [...] Read »
Trust us, you dont want to miss this weekends Venice Art Walk & Auctions (May 19-20), which in addition to showing off the areas wealth of art studios and galleries, will introduce you [...] Read »
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s first annual spring festival, LA Bloom wrapped up on May 5, but late visitors to the Little Tokyo site in Downtown LA can still enjoy a [...] Read »
This week the Whitney Museum inaugurated a brand new exhibition and studio space designed by shipping container architects-extraordinaire LOT-EK. An ultra-modern and eco-friendly addition to [...] Read »
This house is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Land. The white concrete box is corseted in the middle, creating slightly sheared [...] Read »
I didn't get a chance to write a proper post today because of a long meeting to go over the color proofs for the book . (It's almost finished! Hooray!) Then I was off to a cocktail party [...] Read »
As architects, we often try to design and think of buildings as vessels which engage with their occupants on many levels — including the emotional ones. And of course, those designs which connect [...] Read »
A supertall building is one which tops out at over 1,250 feet. Right now, there are 18 completed supertall buildings and 21 under construction. Chicago-based architects Skidmore, Owings, and [...] Read »
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William Kaven Architecture announces release of Elements, a short film by Creative Director Daniel Kaven, that was lensed at one of the acclaimed design studio’s dwellings under construction [...] Read »
Fords first dedicated hybrid, the 2013 Ford C-MAX compact utility vehicle, is slated to arrive in dealers this fall. Ford has announced that the compact five-passenger C-MAX hybrid will start [...] Read »
News of this 96-square-foot micro cabin was first published at Tiny House Listings a few months back, though you may start seeing it on sites all over the web. The tiny house was conceived [...] Read »
The term building science is used quite often now in sustainable building circles, but much of what we understand of it can be traced back to the work of Dr. Joe Lstiburek, founder of Building [...] Read »
NL Architects has sent us images of their recent project: a pretty rad mash-up pavilion for a bicycle club in the Hainan Province in southern China. The proposal is part of a big resort for developer [...] Read »
All the talk about the Chanel Resort 2013 show at Versailles had me thinking back to my last visit to the palace. While I posted photos of Le Petit Trianon and the grounds, I never posted any [...] Read »
We're working on a large scale modular housing development in Williston, North Dakota. Check back to see the progress! Read »
Time-lapse video of the on-site assembly process for Koby Cottage, our modular residence built for Starr Commonwealth's Montcalm School for Boys. Read »
For the past five months things were looking up for the Architecture Billings Index. Until now. Granted, the index was merely teetering on the positive side of the spectrum at 50.4 for March [...] Read »
"National Board of Architectural Accreditation of China (NBAA), established in 1990, is an expert authority in charge of the organization and implementation of the architectural accreditation [...] Read »
In my roundup of shows at the Contact festival, I somehow missed the latest exhibition by Michael Awad at Nicholas Metivier. An architect and artist, Awad has been at work for years on his Entire [...] Read »
Few university art museums have holdings that span from 3000-year old Chinese bronze vessels to bronze coins of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and from the blue-tiled gates of ancient Babylon [...] Read »
Design Intent: To integrate the relationship between positive and negative space for the occupant to interact in. These integrations and relationships are formed by the function of the program, [...] Read »
Clayton Homes, maker of the popular i-House, is the largest producer of homes in the country and accounted for 7% of homes constructed in 2011, according to the annual report of parent Berkshire [...] Read »
Its not every day that architects get a public space named after one of their own, but tucked away in Lower Manhattan is a small pedestrian plaza named after one of the most important 19th-century [...] Read »
Technology
According to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Americans are willing to pay for slightly higher electricity bills for clean energy. The survey, led by researchers from Yale [...] Read »
Read the rest of Awesome Velodrome Trebles as a Bike Pavilion and Cafe in China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bicycles, Bike Pavilion, china, cycling, eco design, green design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of A Community Garden Blooms at Berlins Abandoned Tempelhof Airport Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", abandoned airport, Architecture, berlin, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Bright-Red U-Shaped Salburua Social Housing Sells Excess Energy in Spain Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 242 social housing units, ACXT, affordable housing, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Rossignols Mountain-Inspired Headquarters Minimizes its Environmental Impact Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco headquarters, [...] Read »
Read the rest of HASSELL Transforms a Brisbane Bread Factory into a Hip Architecture Studio Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, architecture [...] Read »
Zipper8Lighting saved hundreds of soda can tabs to create these shimmering eco-friendly lampshades, which emit a warm glow from beneath the layers of reclaimed materials. The tabs are carefully [...] Read »
Benjamin Rollins Caldwell’s new LED chandelier fuses the structure of mid-century modern style with modern innovation. The Halide Chandelier recycles disused industrial elements into a dazzling, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Dandelion Clock is a Bodacious Modular Kindergarten in Germany Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Buchen, Dandelion Clock, Daylighting, ecker architekten, eco design, [...] Read »
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Over the last five years architecture studio José María Sánchez García was faced with the challenge of restoring Spains ancient archaeological site the Temple of Diana. Located in the city [...] Read »
Sited in Valle de Bravo on a property of 1117 square meters, this house is a project at the bottom of the cliff that highlights and frames the beautiful great lake views from within. Due to the [...] Read »
"buildingSMART Singapore is a non-profit alliance of the building industry including: architects, engineers, contractors, building owners and facility managers, software vendors, government agencies [...] Read »
As if to underline, highlight, and italicize the mayors support for green design, today New York Mayor Bloomberg signed into law a bill that will allow sun control devices to protrude from buildings [...] Read »
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, entering its second century, is hardly a novice at branding, but at the new Visitor Center it is exercised with comprehensive aplomb. & the green roof is no small [...] Read »
This home by North Carolina-based Chandler Design-Build was named Project of the Year in the Small Volume Single Family category of the 2012 National Green Building Awards. Certified to both [...] Read »
Jim explaining the design and construction process for prototypical Net Zero housing to be built on Brooklyn brownstone lots. Read »
The “house in Lara” is a singular project developed for the family with two aims, Integration and low cost.When closed it is a simple and discreet volume, monolithic, when open, the interior [...] Read »
You can’t change China, China changes you | John van de Water, 2012 A couple of weeks ago, MovingCities sat down in Shanghai 上海 with Dutch architect John van de Water – NEXT ARCHITECTS [...] Read »
Craft Spoken Here Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th St. and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Philadelphia, PA Through August 12 Since it was founded in 1876, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has collected [...] Read »
Arquitectura y Compromiso Social, La Panadería y MedioMundo te invitan al Conceptos, Reflexiones, Experiencias y Propuestas - Jueves 17 de Mayo, de 09,30h a 20:30h ESCUELA TÉCNICA [...] Read »
CONTEXT – parcel is situated on the outskirts of the town (SE part), morphologically a quite specific heterogeneous environment.a morphology of single volume building is presented by transformation [...] Read »
Among the Lieutenant Governor Awards 2012 in Architecture given out last friday WMW: Public Architecture picked up an Emerging Firm Award - very cool! A very recent awesome project of theirs [...] Read »
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Venice Backstage . How does Venice work?
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