Architectural Works
Architect Frank Gehry has completed his first building for Make It Right , the charity founded by Brad Pitt to rehouse families made homeless in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (more&) Read »
New York Citys High Line has been such a success both as an urban renewal project and a money-making tourist attraction that its spawned quite a number of Copy Cats around the world (we [...] Read »
The project, Cloud, designed by SABAOARCH& , responds to the unique needs of the client with the creation of a uniquely shaped room. This room is similar to the clouds which float in the sky [...] Read »
The winning proposal for the Provincial Government Office, designed by AllesWirdGut& , corresponds to the public use of the building and provides the public with an open space for collective [...] Read »
French architects Opus 5 have built a concert hall on top of a former seventeenth century convent in northern France (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
[ July 4, 2012 0:00 to September 3, 2012 0:00. ] The National Building Museum in Washington DC just opened a one of a kind exhibit featuring a 12-hole mini-golf course, which will be up until [...] Read »
The Helsinki planning office and steel product company Ruukki organized a student competition – Western Gateway – amongst all the architecture schools in Finland in 2011. The call for proposals [...] Read »
Five great projects from last week that you may have missed! Check out the Convent de Sant Francesc in Spain, or the great House in Ovar by Paula Santos. Don’t miss gmp Architektens, Hanoi [...] Read »
Our friends at Black Spectacles have shared with us their recent interview with Ammar Eloueini from AEDS& (Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio). With offices in the United States and Europe, the [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Dutch design company Springtime has produced an awesome solar-powered ice cream cart that keeps frozen treats chilled withough in the summertime without generating any CFCs or emissions. The [...] Read »
Fruit Fly Image from Shutterstock Thanks to a team of geneticists at Canadas Wilfrid Laurier University, the fruit fly has become the first insect species to be taught numerical skills. The [...] Read »
French actress Marion Cotillard is the August Vogue cover girl. She's promoting the Dark Knight Rises but while I was at the Angelika to see Farewell, My Queen (which is great, btw!) I saw [...] Read »
I have this hypothesis: Space affects the effectiveness of exercises intended to generate creative options and innovative concepts. Read More Read »
This new home Neptune Norte is located in Encintas just a stones throw from the beach. The $6,995,000 beach pad has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half bathrooms, and about 5,347 square [...] Read »
Threshold is a performance and installation that examines the home as both a sacred and profane place. The choreography explores the dialectics of interior and exterior, using the threshold as [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Other changes are harder to see. The energy codes for buildings have been overhauled and the city is, astonishingly, America’s biggest municipal buyer of renewable energy; about a third of [...] Read »
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. Frank Lloyd Wright image (c)designerisland.blogs pot.com Q&A with Pakistan's First Female Architect | North [...] Read »
Archie Grand is introducing the Aesthetic Olympics, a democratic competition in the spirit of the ancient Olympics, where the Greeks would made no distinction between mind and body people as [...] Read »
Homes in varying shades of green. Sustainable life means tiny house is home. A home where you dont have to turn on the heat. Outside the box: green homes in alternative packages. Light bulbs [...] Read »
Technology
Always ahead of the curve, IKEA once again displays their creative might with a 200 square meter temporary lounge at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. Passengers departing from Terminal [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Facade of Chinas Zoomlion Headquarters Mimics Butterflies, Eagles and Frogs Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: amphibianArc, biomimicry, china, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Anila is editor-at-large at Loco2, a small company mad enough to tackle the complexities of European rail by making online ticket booking more accessible, giving expert advice in the Engine Room [...] Read »
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The worlds first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Formula One race car recently competed against over 100 other gas-powered race cars at the Silverstone circuit in the UK. Delft University of Technology [...] Read »
I have this hypothesis: Space affects the effectiveness of exercises intended to generate creative options and innovative concepts. Read More Read »
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Is circumcision an act of religious freedom, or is it merely an act of violence against baby boys? A German court in Cologne took the latter interpretation, ruling that circumcision of baby [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Bee Colony Image from Shutterstock The problem of the ever-decreasing global bee population wasnt a concern for one Californian resident, who recently discovered that over 50,000 pollinators [...] Read »
Hispanic Forum Ball. Brazos Valley Convention Center. Bryan, TX. July 14, 2012
Gabriel Esquivel, David Hernandez, Jorge Cruz.
Thanks to:
Kathy Xiao
Shane Bearrow
Katlan Fearon. Read »
Rusty Shackleford quipped "I wonder what the realtor spin will be with these units... Japan style luxury! MINI COOPER with plumbing! Going fast! ...I lived once in 275sg.ft. place in NYC. [...] Read »
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