Architectural Works
London studio David Kohn Architects has created an arts venue in a former sweet factory on the edge of the Olympic park. (more&) Read »
Designed by Fabiano Ravaglia, Liebert Rodrigues, Vinícius Philot, Fernanda Marx, Tiago Mendonça , and Karen Novaes& , the DAF: Designing for Adaptable Futures competition proposal focuses [...] Read »
ANDO | Andalucía Office& , composed by five young architects from the University of Seville, shared with us their 2nd prize winning proposal in the Fourth edition of the International Mock [...] Read »
The “Line, surface, space“ installation, by Kawahara Krause Architects& , is displayed as part of the architectural triennale in Hamburg this summer. Erected on the plan of three interlocking [...] Read »
For today’s Round Up we have our 5th selection of AD Architecture Classics. In the main image is Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture [...] Read »
Here are a couple photos by Klaas Vermaas of an oldie but goodie: REMU Electricity Substation in Amersfoort, The Netherlands by UNStudio (1993). I featured the project on my weekly page way back [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
vvoe / Shutterstock.com In April, Denmark completed the first of what will eventually be a network of 26 bicycle superhighways —smooth routes exclusively for Danes who wish to commute into [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
You always here pregnant women lament the lack of chic maternity clothes. Well, fret no more, HATCH has you covered. They design "a collection of chic, timeless, and comfortable wardrobe [...] Read »
Very often, when discussing green architecture we neglect to mention the greenest thing we can do - which is build less. This home manages to build small (smaller footprint means less embodied [...] Read »
Located 90 miles away from Santiago, Chile, the city of Chimbarongo has managed economic growth since the beginning of the century thanks to its mimbre tradition. However, this craft is steadily [...] Read »
At the 1928 Amsterdam games, athletes were accommodated in spare rooms in boarding houses and aboard ships. The first Olympic Village was built in 1932, in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Generation X is the generation born after the post World War II baby boom. Generally, they were born in the early 60s till about the late 70s and are mostly parents these days. They were children [...] Read »
Rendering via Freshome Here's a look at Loop Shower, an outdoor/indoor hamster wheel shower from the Italy-based firm Granese Architecture and Design Studio. Freshome has some elegant bon mots [...] Read »
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Do you think that American families have too much stuff? Researchers at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) have a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 [...] Read »
NY Skateboarding interviewed community partner Steve Rodriguez about the newly-built Coleman Oval Skatepark designed by Architecture for Humanity in partnership with Nike Game Changers Grant. [...] Read »
It was a week of devastating lows and mild highs for Community Board 2. With NYU virtually assured of getting their 1.9 million-square-foot expansion plan through City Council next week, in spite [...] Read »
Berlin-based Osaka-born designer Shigeki Yamamoto has created a small maple light called the Spiellampe (Lamp game) that brings back the joy of playing with building blocks as a child. The highly [...] Read »
The Netherlands is the perfect place to harvest wind power due to its flat landscape and strong breezes. To take advantage of this resource, Dutch Design Academy of Eindhoven student Dave Hakkens [...] Read »
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Chip Yates, whos known for setting speed records with electric motorcycles, has just set a new world record in his Long-ESA electric airplane. Yates now holds the world record for being the [...] Read »
Last year's People's Choice Awards display Each year, the American Institute of Architects, Southwestern Oregon Chapter (AIA-SWO) in collaboration with the American Society of Landscape Architects, [...] Read »
What would happen if the regulation of air rights was given free rein, if air became a commodity that could be bought and sold? How would the trade physically manifest itself? Can we imagine [...] Read »
Those of you who follow me on twitter and instagram know what I was up to yesterday but I thought I should share it with everyone. I was invited by Lifestyle Mirror magazine along on their [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Tutukaka Beach House Features Moveable Shutters To Bring In Natural Daylight Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", beach house, crosson [...] Read »
Photo from Wikimedia Commons With less than a week to go until the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony on July 27th, excitement is building. Hundreds of workers are putting the finishing touches [...] Read »
Designed by Farr Associates and dbHMS, Harmony House for Cats brand new shelter is Chicagos first net-zero commercial building, and is pursuing LEED-NC Platinum certification. Adorned with [...] Read »
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