Architectural Works
As part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2012, Aberrant Architecture, a multi-disciplinary studio and think tank have created a mobile theatre. The Small Coal Mans Tiny Travelling Theatre is based [...] Read »
As the 2012 Twenty-five Year Award Recipient, the AIA sits down with famed architect Frank Gehry& to discuss his eccentric Santa Monica home that has enormously influenced both theory and practice [...] Read »
Tapered tree-like columns support a triangulated wooden canopy at this summer pavilion in Helsinki designed by Aalto University student Pyry-Pekka Kantonen (photos by Tiia Ettala ). (more&) Read »
Kanye West s first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. (more&) Read »
Designed by TOTEMENT | PAPER& , the residential area in Block No.5, as part of District D2 ( Science & Technology Park ) of Skolkovo Innovative Center, occupies a special area as it is the [...] Read »
Designed by NC-Office& , the Metro Station 20 competition proposal establishes an identity as a market street station connecting the above ground activities with skylights down to platform levels [...] Read »
The masterplan vision for Convida Suape, a new city in North Eastern Brazil, designed by Broadway Malyan& , was just launched by the practice’s client, Moura Dubeux Engineering and Cone S/A. [...] Read »
Slideshow : Japanese studios SNARK + OUVI have completed two apartment blocks in Takasaki City that look like clusters of two-storey houses. (more&) Read »
An OMA -designed temporary pavilion at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival was inaugurated today with a screening of Kanye West’s debut short film Cruel Summer& . The pavilion, with a design led [...] Read »
Last week we went to Ingolstadt, Germany, to attend the launch of the Audi Urban Future Initiative. The program, now in its second version, invited a group of six architecture offices from different [...] Read »
Locals in the Brooklyn Heights community have banded together behind a common cause: honoring Adam MCA Yauch, the much-loved, Brooklyn-raised Beastie Boy who succumbed to cancer earlier this [...] Read »
Chicago-based architects Murphy/Jahn& have unveiled their design for a 320-meter-tall skyscraper in the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul. Designed as two-towers under one roof, [...] Read »
This Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design has a climbing wall and ladders, in case the owners get bored of using the stairs. (more&) Read »
French architects Djuric Tardio have designed a wooden tipi that could be mass-produced to provide miniature nurseries in the parks of Paris. (more&) Read »
Skateboarding star Pierre Andre Senizergues wanted to skate over every surface of his new house, inside and out, so he turned to Californian architect Francois Perrin plus designer and skater [...] Read »
News
In the ongoing debate over whether memorials to commemorate political and military events and leaders should embrace architectural modernism or stick with classicism, several conservative groups [...] Read »
Opinions
Woodward’s to Welcome a Festival of Art and Ideas The second annual Indian Summer Festival, which unites some of the... Read »
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Miscellaneous
Read the rest of Carlos Jarpas Vigilante Maule Is a Timber Frame Tower Looking Out to Chiles Vineyards Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Carlos Jarpa, chilean architecture, eco [...] Read »
Residents of Japan may be able to breathe a sigh of relief as the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently announced that radiation levels in most of the country are below cancer-causing levels. [...] Read »
click images for larger view If you're around the corner of State and Adams, anytime from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. following, next Tuesday, May 29th through Monday morning June 4th, you can watch [...] Read »
One of Jane Jacobsâ most valuable contributions to the understanding of cities was her faith in the wisdom of the urban dweller. She argued that the physical cityâand any approach [...] Read »
As part of ongoing subtle austerity measures, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced Monday that as part of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, they [...] Read »
For its 75th birthday on Sunday, the bridge's management is planning a celebration that includes music, art shows, lectures, a new book and a new visitor center. But one thing won't happen: Nobody [...] Read »
A team of 3XN architects, Aarhus Architects, Nickl & Partner Architechten, Grontmij and Kirstine Jensen Studio has won the prestigious competition for the expansion of Copenhagen’s main hospital, [...] Read »
On the occasion of the UFA European Football Championships in 2012, which Ukraine is staging jointly with Poland, the rebuilding of the Olympic Stadium for the final game has been realized. The [...] Read »
Remodelista has just launched a new site dedicated to the outdoor life Gardenista.com. The editor is Michelle Slatalla, a former New York Times columnist and current writer for Real Simple. With [...] Read »
Holley House by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to view all photos of Holley House on www.hanrahanmeyers.com hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) have designed most of their buildings around [...] Read »
Shanghai - Hangzhou | April 26, 2012 A couple of years we ago explained the objective of repetitive research as way to look better, to look deeper, to see fragments of a fleeting city, to pick [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Each city in the piece has a distinctly different approach to their sustainability initiatives, and some of the realities encompassing the cities are quite inspirational. (Medellin, for example, [...] Read »
Competitions
Propuesta: El objetivo principal del presente concurso es desarrollar el edificio principal de un centro de tecnificación deportiva de futbol (BAAR – Buenos Aires Alto Rendimiento) dentro [...] Read »
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Sorry for the pun. This week at Doors Open theres a great array of buildings from every point in Torontos history and also, if youre interested, a chance to visit with contemporary architects [...] Read »
It sounds like as many people are staying in town this holiday weekend as they are headed to The Hamptons. If you are in New York and looking for something to do on Saturday, you might want to [...] Read »
Brought to you by: An in-progress look at the new transit hubs massive skylight After funding cuts and subsequent delays since construction started in 2005, the much-anticipated Fulton Street [...] Read »
Theres something about the traditional yet contemporary house-shaped form of this design that just resonates with me. The home was designed by an Alberta-based studio called Bioi pursuant [...] Read »
Its getting to be common knowledge that LEDs are among the most energy-efficient lighting options out there, but they still maintain some problems: ugly light color, for one; and shortened life [...] Read »
While it was approved by the city of West Hollywood back in 2009 (and again in 2010), it looks like Eric Owen Moss large hotel on the Sunset Strip might be in trouble. Curbed LA reports that [...] Read »
JPP Architekci / Luk Studio have recently designed 100 mile house. The idea In terms of form and functionality the final project decision was due to the following factors: the size of a typical [...] Read »
We also have another International Contemporary Furniture Fair to discuss. This was a great year at the trade show, actually. To start it all off, I want to talk about something that doesn't [...] Read »
There seems to be an air of the inevitable in the citys plans to renovate of the New York Public Librarys main branch on Fifth Avenue. The New York Times is all over debate on whether the New [...] Read »
Texas A&M University. College of Architecture. Mitchell Lab 2011. New Renderings.
Critic:
Emergent Tom Wiscombe
Team:
Mitch Rocheleau
Adrian Cortez
Ryan Wilson
Dylan Weiser
Hong Bea Yang Read »
Technology
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reports that by the end of the century, heat-related deaths in the United States are expected to triple as a result of climate change. As summer approaches, [...] Read »
After the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, weve been on the look out for new technologies that could help clean up similar disasters. With that in mind, we are intrigued by this news from Rice University [...] Read »
Read the rest of Mesmerizing Photos of Temporary Housing Erected by Stuttgart 21 Protestors Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, found objects, Frank Bayh & Steff Rosenberger-Ochs, [...] Read »
Read the rest of STICKS: Miniature Tipi-Shaped Kindergartens for Urban Parks in Paris Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", "sustainable development", bioclimatic [...] Read »
Yesterday, the City of Los Angeles made eco-history, by enacting a citywide ban on plastic bags. The vote, which passed through the L.A. City Council, made Los Angeles the largest city in the [...] Read »
India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has courted excess by building a $1 billion house for himself and his family in Mumbai however now that the massive building is complete they still have [...] Read »
Read the rest of Crisp Warburg House Sets the Bar for Super Energy-Efficiency in Canada Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Alberta, Bioi Architects, canada, [...] Read »
Good lighting design can change your mood, define living spaces, and with LED technology, it can last a lifetime without needing bulbs replaced. The AmbientOne Table Lamp has a custom LED array [...] Read »
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Read the rest of Jeff Dah-Yue Shis Brilliant Bamboo LED Lights Double as a Modular Building Material Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: b, Bamboo LED, bamboo wall, Gold Pin Design [...] Read »
Read the rest of Curved House is a Modern Residence with Distinctive Sustainable Strategies in Missouri Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Read »
"Beauty is not an additive act but rather a coherent aesthetic. Anything else would be irrelevant. We have been advocating a total and integral environment for both physical and mental wellbeing, [...] Read »
In a post at Think Christian, pastor John Van Sloten offers some gentle observations applicable to both science and faith prompted by an episode of Radiolab, a show about science, philosophy, [...] Read »
Program: A 2000 square foot vacation retreat located on a 15 acre wooded site littered with glacial ledge in Washington’s San Juan islands to accommodate two sisters and their spouses. Design: [...] Read »
Mazen Studio recently designed the interior for a house near Toronto thats an artful combination of high-desert California modernism and a heavy-timbered 1970s ranch house. I wrote about it [...] Read »
Figment NYC is an annual celebration of arts and culture that takes place on Governors Island from June 9-10. Now in its sixth year, Figment provides New Yorkers with an interactive space to [...] Read »
Lauretta Vinciarelli was a quiet but powerful presence on the New York architecture scene since the 1980s when she began producing imaginary architectural settings of buildings and landscapes. [...] Read »
This post of stripes is in honor of the Chance Co. pop up shop that is debuting in Barneys in New York and Los Angeles today. I'm off to the press preview and can't wait to congratulate designer [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Ípsilon | May 25, 2012 Today, Wang Shu receives the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize in Beijing. Exclusively for Ípsilon [a weekly cultural supplement of the Portuguese daily newspaper Público], [...] Read »
Mike Schropp of TotalGeekdom has combined technology and the natural world with his modified desktop computer that uses its own heat to grow plants! The compact DIY unit allows the plants — [...] Read »
Despite recent clashes between the US and Chinese solar industries, it seems that the entire solar power sector is prospering. As stated in a new report from GlobalData, with the ever-increasing [...] Read »
The Chinese winner of architectures most prestigious award has criticised the wanton demolition that has left many of the nations cities fragmented and almost unrecognisable to their citizens. [...] Read »
Last week at Audis HQ in Ingolstadt, Germany, architect Junya Ishigami of Tokyo succinctly summed up the problem the car company aims to tackle: there is a gap between peoples speed and the [...] Read »
The project of Kindergarten “Paperbark” was designed to a notice competition for project financing, in 2006, proposed by Avignon municipality. The program consisted in the space for 60 children [...] Read »
This editors recent piece on the divide between architectural education and architectural practice has spurred a lot of discussion, prompting both high praise for addressing a worsening problem [...] Read »
As the discussion regarding algorithmic modeling in architecture and optimization models to fine-tune design processes and outcomes continues, IMPROVED offers insight into the debate over optimization [...] Read »
Who says you have to decorate a contemporary building with clean, contemporary furniture? Certainly not interior designer Alexa Hampton who designed a bedroom in this year's Kips Bay Decorator [...] Read »
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