Architectural Works
The design concept for the National Museum of Afghanistan is centered around the Afghanistan flowered arch. TheeAe LTD& finds this design opportunity as a way to bring the lost heritage back [...] Read »
[ August 17, 2012; 10:00 to 18:00. ] Taking place August 17 from 10am-6pm in Brooklyn, Intro Lab is a one-day workshop put on by modeLab on the topic of Parametric Design with Grasshopper for [...] Read »
[ September 4, 2012 17:00 to September 23, 2012 0:00. ] Opening up September 4 at 5pm with a lecture by 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner, architect Wang Shu, the exhibition of projects of Chinese architects [...] Read »
Located on a prominent corner of Bainbridge Island, Washington, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art is not only the anchor tenant of the Island Gateway development, but it will soon become the [...] Read »
Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere [...] Read »
In an industrial section of Düsseldorf squats a relatively unremarkable yellow-tiled modernist-looking building. It looks like the sort of building that went up in the post-war reconstruction [...] Read »
Dezeen Wire: Thomas Heatherwick has designed a distillery and visitor centre for gin brand Bombay Sapphire at an abandoned mill in Hampshire, England. (more&) Read »
Renowned architect Fernando Menis & has been invited as the only Canarian architect to present his proposal at the Venice Biennale, starting August 29th. Menis will invite visitors “INTO THE [...] Read »
As part of our Soho House In Conversation With series Crane.tv last night spoke with architects Rod Sheard of Populous, Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay and Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt. [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Among the younger set in my profession, there emerges a bitter realisation on the difference in architectural quality between what they produce on the job and what gets published in the official [...] Read »
We have received images of Ben van Berkel / UNStudio's design for the new UIC building, V on Shenton, in the heart of Singapores Central Business District. The office/residential twin tower [...] Read »
News broke about a collaboration between OMA and American luxury retailer Coach. With OMA partner-in-charge Shohei Shigematsu leading the design work, two new Coach flagship stores are scheduled [...] Read »
In addition to providing a fleet of green BMW hybrids and electric MINI Coopers for the 2012 London Olympic Games, BMW has also created a fleet of remote-controlled MINI Coopers for the games. [...] Read »
Kansas City, recently outfitted with superfast internet courtesy of Google, is on the move. And KC taxpayers voted to keep up the momentum this week, authorizing a special taxing district to [...] Read »
I couldn't think of a better way to spend a rainy night in New York this week than with a vintage French film. Les Choses de la Vie ( The Things of Life ) from 1970 is part of a series saluting [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
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Nearly ten years ago, Tricia Stuth and Ted Shelton--the married co-founders of the architecture firm Curb--set out to build a home in downtown Knoxville. They ended up with roughly three: a trio [...] Read »
Concrete Mushrooms Preview - Albania's 750,000 inherited bunkers. from Concrete Mushrooms on Vimeo .Concrete Mushrooms , a project which started as a master's thesis project transforming 750,000 [...] Read »
Many countries in the Middle East have been researching desalination the process of removing salt from sea water so it is fit to drink. It makes sense especially in hot, dry countries where [...] Read »
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are reporting development of a new transparent polymer solar cell (PSC), an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings [...] Read »
Bat Cloud, as her creation is called, is an unusual array of hanging bat houses installed at the refuge in May by the University at Buffalo architecture professor with the help of current and former students. Read »
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Andra Matin: A Sequel | August 1, 2012 After a summer break, MovingCities is back at work. First stop is Jakarta, where on August 1 we attended the opening of Andra Matin: Sebuah Sekuel. The [...] Read »
Urban rooftop farming is on the up-and-up in New York City and across the country. Putting his official stamp of approval on the movement, New York Mayor Bloomberg stopped by the citys largest [...] Read »
Saturdays in August, Manhattan is made for pedestrians and cyclists. The fifth season of Summer Streets, New York Citys spectacularly popular open streets program where a major thoroughfare [...] Read »
We already knew that DDG Partners could pull together a classy product, as they say in real estate parlance. But now the group has upped the ante by teaming with Yayoi Kusama, the 83-year-old [...] Read »
It seems many countries in Asia are making dramatic U-turns when it comes to nuclear energy. News just broke that South Korea is about to restart Kori-1, the countrys oldest nuclear reactor, [...] Read »
Urban heat is becoming another urgent task to put in evidence as temperature is rising up. As Brad Plumer wrote on The Washington Post : urban areas now are significantly warmer than rural areas [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Build a Gypsy Wagon in the Woods All It Takes Is Ingenuity, Elbow Grease And (mostly) Recycled Components! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 000 to build, alternative [...] Read »
Read the rest of Johnsen Schmaling Architects Modest Stacked Cabin Wins Third Architectural Award! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: award, cabin, Johnsen Schmaling Architects, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Canadian Cruise Ship Terminal Continues to Make a Splash in Nanaimo, BC Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: british columbia, Checkwitch Poiron Architects, Cruise [...] Read »
American designer Lorenzo Mahchi Larach has conceived of a solar-powered, inflatable shelter for emergency relief missions during times of natural disaster or war. Dubbed the Portalife Shelter, [...] Read »
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The Original Tree Swing’s Pied Piper Crafts brings parents several new Waldorf-inspired DIY kits for kids (mostly six and up). With the Pied Piper kits, kids and parents have all the basic [...] Read »
London has its gracious Victorian mansions, New York has its elegant brownstones and Paris has its ornate Empire-style buildings. But what architectural legacy will future Abu Dhabi residents [...] Read »
Patama Roonrakwit Interview from lumhor on Vimeo .Architect Patama Roonrakwit of Community Architects for Shelter and Environment (CASE) is interviewed at Limkokwing University as part of the [...] Read »
When it comes to electric vehicles, form sometimes takes a back seat to function. Not with the M-1 e-bike from Marrs Cycles! This gorgeous cruiser looks like the offspring of a vintage Schwinn [...] Read »
Melissa Feldman has stepped into the role of East Coast Editor for Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Prior to this, Feldman was a freelance design writer whose work appeared in The New York [...] Read »
Welcome to Friday Open Threads, wherein Curbed passes the mic to readers: let thy voices be heard in the comments sectionand, please folks, fight fair. Have something you want discussed next [...] Read »
Opinions
A “smart village” aimed at tackling rural poverty while promoting community and sustainability has been unveiled in Malaysia. Built to... Read »
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