Architectural Works
Wallpaper magazine recently announced their 2012 Architects Directory which features some of the worlds most intriguing young practices that have made their way into the spotlight. More images [...] Read »
The first film of George Lucas is without any doubt a master piece in terms of how to represent futuristic spaces. In THX 1138& the underground spaces are absolutely controlled. Peoples behavior is [...] Read »
EE&K, a Perkins Eastman Company , and Knutson Construction& were recently selected by Hennepin County for their design for ‘The Interchange’ in Downtown Minneapolis. The design-build contract [...] Read »
The second prize winning vision for the Urban Redevelopment Project at Tainan Main Station Area responds to the extending aim of positioning Taiwan in general, and Tainan city in particular, [...] Read »
These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. (more&) Read »
Built after winning an international landscape competition at Ponte Lima, Portugal, Honey Scape is temporary landscape pavilion by Gonçalo Castro Henriques of X-REF& . This installation intends [...] Read »
Dominique Perrault Architecture& , the French practice recently awarded with the opportunity to build a tower called The Blade in Seoul as part of Daniel Libeskinds master plan, has now been [...] Read »
We are near to the 85, ooo photos in our Flickr Pool, so keep them coming! Remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook [...] Read »
Wooden stairs climb up through a narrow lightwell inside this house by Japanese studio Tato Architects . (more&) Read »
In a call for a Sustainable New York City, Mayor Bloomberg stated: “Given that buildings account for more than 80 percent of all municipal greenhouse gas emissions, constructing buildings with [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
As we head into the Fourth of July holiday many people will be hitting the beach. In addition to sunscreen, you may want to grab a hat. They not only shield your face from the sun but they [...] Read »
Architectural space has a very interesting relationship with digital media, and digital media affects architectural space in some very unique ways. The first, and most obvious way, is that architectural [...] Read »
A team of researchers at Harvard University has created a novel hydrogen fuel cell that keeps running even after its fuel supply is exhausted. The solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) converts hydrogen [...] Read »
Bjarke Ingels, architect of mountains, now has set his eyes on Everest. The New York and Copenhagen-based architects firm BIG has been tapped by the Rockefellers to design one of the worlds [...] Read »
But are there other factors, perhaps less apparently tangible or more speculative that, if overlooked, may mean that the occupier organization loses significant site benefit as well as longer-term [...] Read »
Following a lengthy battle over design issues, Donald Trump and New York State reached a deal over his proposed $23 million catering hall to replace a destroyed Robert Moses-era restaurant at [...] Read »
Now that we've really entered into summer, architectural events really slow down. There's a lot of interesting stuff later in the month, but this Holiday week is pretty dead. An exception is [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
I will be back with some posts on among others: militarization, surveillance and cities, and others picks, rapidly. I just need further information and other books to write these posts. I am [...] Read »
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. - William Blake Salon [...] Read »
It was previously believed that forest growth in the barren Arctic tundra would absorb the worlds CO2 emissions and slow global warming. However a new report from English and Scottish scientists [...] Read »
While the myriad instruments lining hospital walls are revised constantly to promote patient wellness, the building is there to stay. So if design can help heal or comfort the afflicted, hospital [...] Read »
The concept "Fokka," by Finnish architecture student Arto Ollila at Helsinki's Aalto University, is the winning concept in a student design competition held in 2011 among all architecture schools [...] Read »
The proposal by Rotterdam-based firm MoederscheimMoonen Architects has recently won the architectural competition for the new community center Het Anker in Zwolle, The Netherlands. The commission [...] Read »
CLIPS OF SEATTLE LIBRARY: INTERVIEW WITH HOMELESS MAN AND SHOTS OF STRUCTURE.
This footage is part of a feature length Documentary film that I am making about my father Rem Koolhaas. Read »
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Next month the first deliveries of Honda’s highly anticipated electric car, the 2013 Honda Fit EV will kick off. As the Fit EV goes head to head with other full electric vehicles such as the [...] Read »
&encouraging people to mingle and ideas to flow It is interesting to look into the hospitality industry for the way it perceives trends in the needs of its customers and tests alternative settings [...] Read »
This is The Beach Box, a shipping container house in the dunes of Amagansett, New York, off Montauk Highway. The home is believed to be the first in the Hamptons to be built from shipping containers [...] Read »
One afternoon, three mellow residents Anita Inglese, 86, Marilyn Amdur, 85, and Joan Ruberti, 81, all widows talked about the offerings of the alley. Its nice for us, Ms. Inglese said. [...] Read »
The Lit concept bulb designed by Elie Ahovi is an extremely elegant and innovative combination of LED and fiber optic technology, and could pave the way for incandescent replacements of the [...] Read »
Recently I had a chance to visit Baldwin House on Deer Lake in Burnaby, designed by Arthur Erickson and finished in 1965. Currently the house is owned and managed by The Land Conservancy of [...] Read »
Made entirely from woven biodegradable rattan, Kursi Java is a seat for sitting comfortably on the floor. The design supports a variety of seating positions, and it was created by Industrial [...] Read »
Photo: Mies Detroit/Facebook via Curbed Detroit You win some and you lose some, right? The adage is no different for the late German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose oeuvre [...] Read »
The form was reinvented to an extent, says Yanni Loukissas, a postdoc in MITs Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). And while the question of exactly which design changes should [...] Read »
Technology
Eindhoven Design Academy Graduate Joscha Weiand is the brains behind Hangout, a neat semi-permanent shelter that incorporates a practical tent with creature comforts. The cozy space was designed [...] Read »
Read the rest of Bold Elliptical Windows Bubble With Daylight at the Topazz Hotel in Vienna Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Austria, BWM Architekten and Partner, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Panama Citys Eco-Luxe Tantalo Hotel has a Two Story Living Wall and Artist Designed Rooms Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", Aqua Terra, Blesso [...] Read »
Read the rest of Golden Honey Scape Pavilion Mimics a Giant Honeycomb in Portugal Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, biotech art, digital fabrication, eco design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Best Green Designs From Barcelonas FADfest Design Festival! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: barcelona design festival, eco design, FADexpo, FADfest, Green [...] Read »
FLOAT Beijing is an interactive, community driven art project that uses kite making and kite flying to activate dialogue, map and record air quality in Beijing, China. Urban air quality is a [...] Read »
Read the rest of Spains Crumbling Sant Francesc Church Gets a Modern Renovation by David Closes Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive reuse, church [...] Read »
Designer Jacobo Jorgensen transforms reclaimed wood into architecture-inspired pieces of furniture. Jorgensen mixes interesting colors and styles to create a wide range of quirky modern furnishings [...] Read »
A Japanese artist has created an incredibly detailed replica of the Death Star (Mark II) from Return of the Jedi using little more than a ping-pong ball! The anonymous artist posted images of [...] Read »
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Design for the Real World REDUX White Box 329 Broome Street, New York Through July 15 Forty years ago, the Austrian designer and scholar Victor J. Papanek wrote in his influential book Design [...] Read »
&encouraging people to mingle and ideas to flow It is interesting to look into the hospitality industry for the way it perceives trends in the needs of its customers and tests alternative settings [...] Read »
When I was first asked to represent Jetson Green at the Delta 2012 Maker/DIYer Blogger Event, I knew very little about the concept of makers and even less about our host, Delta Faucet Company. [...] Read »
Read the rest of How To: 6 Steps To an Easy and Delicious Summer Fruit Pie Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: baking, Deborah Madison, Farmers Markets, galette, Organic, rustic [...] Read »
Read the rest of Clean Tower Conceptual High-Rise Would Return Filtered Water to the Chicago River Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: artificial wetlands, BKL Architecture, CAF, [...] Read »
Rowan Moore lamented the lack of nuance and complexity in both the design and historical memory represented by the new RAF Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, London. For his part drmatthewhardy [...] Read »
At NeoCon this year, IIDA (International Interior Design Association) presented copies of What Clients Want, the first-ever study of the client/designer relationship told from the point of view [...] Read »
When, in 2005, he was asked to propose a long-term lighting strategy for the city of Durham, the architect Jonathan Speirs, who has died of stomach cancer aged 54, insisted that what the council [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
If theres an upside to the citys deliberate pace, its that if the market for Coney condos never recovers to pre-crash expectations, then taxpayers save the hundreds of millions of dollars [...] Read »
But are there other factors, perhaps less apparently tangible or more speculative that, if overlooked, may mean that the occupier organization loses significant site benefit as well as longer-term [...] Read »
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