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Read the rest of Twin Apartment Towers in Seoul are Joined by a Common Roof and a Bevy of Sky Gardens Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Daniel Libeskind, double skinned facade, [...] Read »
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Read the rest of Kohler Makes a Splash at ICFF with a Neon Chartreuse Shipping Container Booth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “green furniture”, design week, eco design, [...] Read »
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Read the rest of At Labos Wood Veneer Lamps Are Puzzles You Put Together Yourself Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: at labo, at labo lighting, “green furniture”, design week, [...] Read »
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Could Lasers Be the New Way to Kill Weeds?
When gardening, were sure many of you have used herbicides to kill weeds and other invasive plants. However, the thing about herbicides is that in order to kill weeds, they are often very toxic [...] Read »
Daydream Lights by Tomomi Sayuda
Miscellaneous
House of the Week 142: Corallo House
(c)Paz Architects The Corallo House in Santa Rosalia, Guatemala city, Guatemala designed by Paz Architects is a three level concrete residence completed in 2011. Located in a dense hillside forest [...] Read »
from Pruned
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a drone
( Björn Schulke , Observer #2 , 2003.) Read »
from Inhabit
LED-Lit One Raffles Place Tower Two Snags Singapore’s Highest Green Rating
The LED-lit One Raffles Place Tower Two is a worthy successor to its taller neighbor, One Raffles Place Tower One, with a flair for environmentally advanced design. Located right in the heat [...] Read »
Coalition for Sustainable Rail Plans to Create World's First Carbon-Neutral High-Speed Train
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Miscellaneous
from Curbed
Globe Trotting: World's Second-Tallest Building Opens to Much Jubilation
Photo: Reuters via Architizer New York has a new tallest building, and now Tokyo does too: during four years of construction, the Tokyo Sky Tree weathered tremors from last years infamous Japanese [...] Read »
Creating the Post-Hipster City
we want to experiment in making better public spaces. Cities are built in a very formal and classist fashion, which is at odds with the good that rapid production and public participation can [...] Read »
Bethlehem Steel: Disposable Architecture or Iconic Landmark?
That's the ultimate question of the Bethlehem Steel Administration building and unfortunately it looks as if the question has already been answered by the City of Lackawanna officials and the [...] Read »
from Inhabit
Robo-Fish: The Robotic Fish Designed To Detect Pollution
While harbors and ports around the world are crucial to global trade, the industrial activities are often responsible for high levels of pollution and water contamination. Fuel leaks, emissions [...] Read »
The Billion Dollar Mansion where No One Sleeps
photograph: Jhariani, Wikipedia click images for larger view Back in 2010, we wrote about how architects Perkins+Will and interior design firm Hirsch Bender Associates had become extremely shy [...] Read »
A sneak peek of the new architecture-obsessed Batman graphic novel
Gotham City is undergoing one of the most expansive construction booms in its history. The most prestigious architects from across the globe have buildings in various phases of completion all [...] Read »
Email received yesterday from SustainableCommunities@ HUD.GOV: Friends: On Wednesday, May 23rd at 4:00 p.m. EDT, please join us for a budget update call with Robert Gordon, Executive Associate [...] Read »
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Tesla to Deliver the First Model S Electric Sedans on June 22
Tesla Motors has announced that the first deliveries of its new Model S electric sedan will begin on June 22nd, ahead of the previously  predicted July delivery date. The first Model S buyers [...] Read »
Police Arrest Artist Takeshi Miyakawa, Thinking Tribute Was Fake Bomb
The artist intended it to be a display of his love for the city: white plastic bags stamped with the I e NY logo lighted from within and glowing moonlike from lampposts and trees in Brooklyn [...] Read »
The Architecture of the Great GoogaMooga: David Rockwell Dishes on the Food Festival's "Carny" Design
After 26 years of designing restaurants in New York City, David Rockwell has become a go-to for gourmands. [...] This weekend, however, Rockwell showed off his set-design skills at Googa Mooga, [...] Read »
News
An interview with Carol Willis, the director of New York City's Skyscraper Museum, explores the reasons for so many supertalls being built in in far-flung places. The Kingdom Tower by Adrian [...] Read »
A rough-and-ready storefront in a former auto shop turns up the volume for a renegade wine producer. Read »