Architectural Works
Award-winning architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali& will design the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced today. Renzo’s track record [...] Read »
Remember the “Cosmic Quilt” kickstarter campaign we published a few weeks ago? Well, it was a success! With the help 20 students from the Art Institute of New York, The Principals& were able [...] Read »
This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Aida Atelier comprises a cluster of four white-rendered blocks that support an elevated fifth block above a central patio. (more&) Read »
Within the boundaries of a society largely living above its own means, an unregulated banking system that plays by its own rules, and a government that idly stands by as millions of homes are [...] Read »
Slideshow: a curved concrete facade wraps around the front of this house by A2+ Arquitectos in Leiria, Portugal, with a large hole revealing the rectilinear house behind (photos by Fernando [...] Read »
Architects: Rafael de La-Hoz Location: Móstoles, Madrid, Spain Design Architects: Hugo Berenguer; Francisco Arévalo; Miguel Maíza; Jacobo Ordás; Carolina Fernández / Encarna Sánchez; Gonzálo [...] Read »
[ March 1, 2012 0:00 to March 10, 2012 0:00. ] Led by environmental architect and anarchist, Marco Casagrande& , representing the Aalto University Environmental Art Masters Program, students [...] Read »
Jared Levy and Gordon Stott, formerly of Marmol Radziner Prefab, recently launched a new company that hopes to solve the endemic problem of prefab to date: price. They knew how to make beautiful, [...] Read »
3XN architects , in collaboration with Aarhus Architects, Nickl & Partner Architechten, Grontmij and Kirstine Jensen Studio& , has won the prestigious competition for the expansion of Copenhagen’s [...] Read »
Slideshow: oak-lined boxes create study rooms along the corridors of this school in southern Germany by Stuttgart architects Klumpp + Klumpp (photos by Zooey Braun ). (more&) Read »
GRAPHISOFT recently announced the release of the next upgrade to its BIM design software; ArchiCAD 16. With the version of ArchiCAD, GRAPHISOFT responds to one of the most dynamically developing [...] Read »
Neri Oxman& is an architect and founder of MATERIALECOLOGY with the MIT Media Lab. Her work focuses on computational strategies for form finding; she chooses to define and design processes that [...] Read »
This red concrete house outside Stuttgart by German firm Finckh Architekten has an oversized middle floor that cantilevers across the driveway (photos by Zooey Braun ). (more&) Read »
[ May 31, 2012 to September 30, 2012. ] Today we had the chance of attending the opening of this impressive exhibition. As we mentioned previously some weeks ago, the Victoria & Albert Museum [...] Read »
Slideshow: German architects modulorbeat and students from the Münster School of Architecture constructed a glittering golden pavilion to exhibit the techniques of medieval goldsmiths in [...] Read »
David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. (more&) Read »
City & Urbanism
Look out of your window. Can you see many trees or vegetation? If so, then you may be living in one of the more affulent parts of your city. That or you live in the countryside. Tim DeChant, [...] Read »
Infographics are everywhere and a lot of development both in therms of technology and style has gone into the representation of information in the last few years. It is however an old topic and [...] Read »
Video
Architectures "Patches of Sky" by Andrea Costantini
via Andrea Costantini Read »
CCTV 2012 LOW RESOLUTION ROUGH CUT by tomas koolhaas
via dezain.net Read »
News
Funding shortfalls could hinder ambitious waterfront schemes planned for several U.S. cities. Read »
|
Miscellaneous
I've seen the photo of The Divers above dozens of times yet didn't realize the photographer was George Hoyningen-Huene until recently. He was born in Russia in 1900 and during the Russian [...] Read »
The 2500 sf Dub residence, located in Germany, was conceived as the intersection of two basic volumes; a low stone volume flanking the street with a wooden T-volume crossing over and cantilevering [...] Read »
A team of scientists from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have discovered that velcro-like cells on plant petals help bees to keep their grip while collecting pollen and prevent them [...] Read »
images © nelson garrido The Mop house is a 1300m 2 single family residence in Al-Nuzha,Kuwait designed by AGi architects . At a cost of €1.2 million, the house is composed of two curved wall [...] Read »
click images for larger view Things change. Discuss among yourselves. (We'll weigh in later.) Overview from Blair here . Read »
Read the rest of Solar-Powered Floating Island is an Off-Shore Green Retreat Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dye sensitized thin film PV, floating resort, green resort, solar [...] Read »
The Waterhouse at North Bund is a very interesting adaptive reuse project in Shanghai by Chinese architects NHDRO . This former Japanese army headquarters from the 1930's has been converted [...] Read »
If you're in New York City these days, make sure to check out the exhibition Desired Sync: Global Crisis & Design ver.1.5. Organized by the Korean Cultural Service New York and presented by the [...] Read »
For those of you that dont know Phonehenge, it was one of Californias classic DIY creations (right up there with the Watts Towers and Salvation Mountain), created by former phone company [...] Read »
A safe, clean, on-time ride. That's all most of us expect from the Chicago Transit Authority. But why not ask for something more? Station architecture that puts zing in the journey and elevates [...] Read »
I first became acquainted with the work of Christian Liaigre a few years back. A certain designer loved to use his furniture in his projects. It never really had the same effect since the [...] Read »
Broom is another chair made by Emeco and Philippe Starck, but this one isnt made with aluminum. As explained by Starck: Imagine & a guy who takes a humble broom and starts to clean the workshop, [...] Read »
An OMA-designed temporary pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival was inaugurated today with a screening of Kanye West's debut short film Cruel Summer. The pavilion, with a design led by Shohei [...] Read »
This Saturday, The Architecture Post The Review is coming back with a review of a French young journal of Architecture Cosa Mentale , that I discovered this year, in the weeks following my [...] Read »
The Fine Arts Building at Phoenix College creates a landmark facility at the northern terminus of the campus, celebrating and reinforcing education in art curriculum. The structure creates an [...] Read »
Theres a nice quote in this interview of Jonathan Ive in the Telegraph.In it he says, “We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does [...] Read »
Opinions
Richard Henriquez—artist and founding partner of Henriquez Partners Architects—is exhibiting his latest works at Winsor Gallery on South Granville this... Read »
|
The house is located at the edge of the private housing community that has one of the best views to the Guadalajara Mountain Range. Its geometry has two main objectives: One is to open itself [...] Read »
A well-designed open office is not a simple thing. How visual connections affect disruptive behavior, how sound masking supports attention in the midst of buzz, how a choice of alternative settings [...] Read »
Along with the declaration is an overview of some of Wright's projects , including the Ennis House, Fallingwater, Millard House, Robie House, Hollyhock House, Taliesin East, Taliesin West, Frank [...] Read »
Bluefin Tuna photo from Shutterstock Low levels of radiation from last years Fukushima Diaichii disaster in Japan have been discovered in bluefin tuna swimming of the California coast. Scientists [...] Read »
Recently, Herman Miller selected six out of 16 original seating and workstation concepts, designed by students in Cranbrooks 3-D Design Department, and helped turn them into full-scale prototypes [...] Read »
...the process of sketching and testing alternatives generates insights and builds a shared mental model among the design and delivery team and with the client. This approach typically assures [...] Read »
An architectural tour benefitting The Sheldon Art Galleries 1959 house designed by Paul Rudolph. This unique tour of exemplary works of mid-century modern architecture by masters of the idiom [...] Read »
Orchard Street Residence, Studio-E Architecture (rendering by Hopper Design + Illustration) A significant reason for the growth of the AIA-SWO chapter membership in the face of the years-long [...] Read »
The Cold Coast Archive project investigates and explores human beings' efforts to preserve civilization and defy the inevitability of its demise. We look at the vault as a whole: its practical, [...] Read »
The trans formative substance of this project consists of a parcel of land (950m2), that is integrated into the agricultural system of Barcarole and a small house in ruins (80m2)The ruin of traditional [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Whether youre looking for a quick sale or you see your home as a long-term investment, renovations and refurbishments can go a long way towards improving its value. Loft and garage conversions [...] Read »
The project is a 600m2 mixed use scheme in the heart of the Wold Heritage site of Bath, comprising an alternative health clinic, martial arts dodo and 2 houses. The project has been extremely [...] Read »
A well-designed open office is not a simple thing. How visual connections affect disruptive behavior, how sound masking supports attention in the midst of buzz, how a choice of alternative settings [...] Read »
Low resolution rough cut of footage I shot at the CCTV building in Beijing in Feb 2012. This footage is part of a documentary I am making about my father Rem Koolhaas. Read »
From May 29th through June 4th, sheets of vinyl will be layered over the intersection of State and Adams streets in Chicago’s Loop in a site specific installation entitled Color Jam. The public [...] Read »
Though I was in Los Angeles in February, I only recently rediscovered my notes on “California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way” (still on at LACMA) and the associated symposium “New [...] Read »
Memorial Day is supposed to be a day to remember the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. In reality, it's become the unofficial start of summer and beach [...] Read »
Contemporary Townhouses is the basic idea of the project, an efficient and different concept of multiple housing with small section but with many levels to create living spaces. common areas [...] Read »
Theres a nice quote in this interview of Jonathan Ive in the Telegraph.In it he says, “We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does [...] Read »
|
An Egyptain teenager has patented a next generation propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems—without using a single drop of fuel. While it is not quite warp drive, [...] Read »
CAA Hangzhou | Thesis Design Studio Review, May 21-22, 2012 Last week, MovingCities was invited by Erhard An-He Kinzelbach [KNOWSPACE architecture + cities] to Hangzhou 杭州 to jury the final [...] Read »
Ive been following Matt Risingers blog for about a year, because hes sharing great videos about high-performance homes in Austin, Texas. Take this video about using old pine siding from [...] Read »
After an earthquake and tsunami devastated the Sendai region of Japan on March 11, 2011, a lengthy recovery and rebuilding is underway. This is the basis for Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reisers [...] Read »
David Grigsby (image courtesy of the architect) BY LUKE AREHART Next in the Architect’s Questionnaire series is David Grigsby, an associate partner at Portland-based ZGF Architects. A California [...] Read »
...the process of sketching and testing alternatives generates insights and builds a shared mental model among the design and delivery team and with the client. This approach typically assures [...] Read »
While taking some photos of Wolf Point in anticipation of Tuesday's public meeting on its proposed mega-development (three skyscrapers), I kept walking, west, north, finally south along a stub [...] Read »
In Still Ugly After All These Years: A Close Reading of Peter Eisenmans Wexner Center, Alexander Maymind argued the center's "grid-based diagrams instantiate disestablishment effects[2]...hinge [...] Read »
I want to see the traces, stains and dirt of my work, the layering of erased lines, errors and failures, the repeated re-tracings on the drawings, and the collage of corrections, additions and [...] Read »
[Image: Prisons for sale; photo by Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times ]. The State of New York is hoping to sell its old prisons . "One property, in the Hudson Valley, includes a 16-car [...] Read »
click images for larger view PFC Michael Olivieri (USA) SGT Andrew Tobin (USA) LCPL Jordan Bastean (USMC) LCPL Nicholas Dobereiner (USA) PFC Adam Dobereiner (USA) SPC Christopher Patterson [...] Read »
Technology
Springtime is turning trash into luxurious materials for their cool new line of Re:composed furniture pieces. Re:composed focuses on using waste destined for the dumpster as a base material for [...] Read »
The all-new 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan is set to arrive in showrooms this fall, and it features some highly unusual recycled materials. While a great amount of time was spent on finding ways [...] Read »
Read the rest of Solar-Powered Swiss Clockwork Embassy in Cameroon Will Have a Green Roof Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "clean energy", "energy efficiency", "natural materials", [...] Read »
Read the rest of Art of Board: Retired Skateboards Recycled into Rad Wall Tiles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Art of Board, “green furniture”, contemporary furniture, eco [...] Read »
Folditures Leaf chair is the world’s thinnest luxury folding chair combining high-tech components with age-old artisanal craftsmanship. With the release of a button, the elegant streamlined [...] Read »
Read the rest of Modular SPACEPLATES Greenhouse Mimics the Geometry of Sea Urchin Shells Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: anne romme, Architecture, biomimicry, bristol, Denmark, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Nissan Recycles 40 Gas Pumps Into Guitar Amps, Juke Boxes, PacMan Games and More! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: A World Without Petrol, eco design, electric [...] Read »
These amazing perforated pendant lamps are the creation of product designer Etienne Esmenjaud. By using low-impact and easy to handle materials, such as FSC wood and felt, he is able to laser-cut, [...] Read »
It seems that there are a lot of paranoid people out there. Maybe it is because of rising water levels, a nuclear disaster, The Rapture or a possible 2012 doomsday scenario, but all apartments [...] Read »
|
