Architectural Works
The National Building Museum has named Paul Goldberger as the fourteenth laureate of the Vincent Scully Prize& for “his lifetime work of encouraging thoughtful discourse and debate about the [...] Read »
Studio Mode are excited to share the launch of their new Facebook Page and news regarding their upcoming NON-LINEAR LAB: Growth Systems and Digital Fabrication Workshop. If you Like them on [...] Read »
Every room inside this concrete house in Kyoto by Torafu Architects is accessible for a resident in a wheelchair (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
Visitors to Kuwaits pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale can lie back on cushions around a faded patchwork of defunct masterplans, while recorded sounds and voices echo down from above. (more&) Read »
Commencing. A Brief History of Balconies entails the examination of subjectivities above ground, on little bits of buildings in air, looking down, at pennies on the sidewalk, oddly visible from [...] Read »
With their early work inspired by Russian Suprematism, Zaha Hadid Architects& ’ pays homage to the historical lineages of collective research that has led to the major works of today’s [...] Read »
[ September 6, 2012 0:00 to September 7, 2012 0:00. ] Armi OPEN Workshop – Urban Brain Stream is an international workshop that aims to develop our urban environment. It is part of the program [...] Read »
Portuguese architects Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura have created a pair of installations in the Giardino delle Vergini for the Venice Architecture Biennale (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
[ October 6, 2012 0:00 to October 31, 2012 0:00. ] Organized by Singapore Institute of Architects, the annual month-long architecture festival is back for the sixth year running to celebrate [...] Read »
The jury of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale has awarded the United States pavilion a “Special Mention” for it’s innovative installation, titled Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions [...] Read »
A timber tunnel shaped like a snake with a bulge to suggest an ingested mouse provides perfect conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. (more&) Read »
Hot on the heels of the Jencks Award, yet another accolade is rumored to be coming Rem Koolhaas way. The claims are flying about the twitterverse: OMAs Koolhaas will be the next Director [...] Read »
Wood, one of architectures nobler materials, allows us to develop both complex structures and minimal designs.For todays Round Up, weve selected projects that feature wood heavily in their [...] Read »
Dezeen Wire: Rem Koolhaas of OMA is tipped to be director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Among those speculating on Twitter was assistant director for the 2012 biennale Kieran [...] Read »
The Japan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka in 1956) presented the exhibit Architecture. Possible here? Home-for-all , curated by Toyo Ito& , with the participation [...] Read »
[ September 1, 2012 19:00 to January 6, 2013 19:00. ] The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art& will be hosting an exhibition from September 1, 2012 through January 6, 2013 that features works [...] Read »
Dezeen Wire: architect Wolf D. Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au has launched a scathing attack on the Venice Architecture Biennale , claiming its no longer about lively discussion and criticism of [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Photo via Shutterstock Up-and-coming scientists, particularly those holding an environmental biology degree, are becoming increasingly familiar with the workings of Earth’s complex atmosphere. [...] Read »
Read the rest of American University of Cairos Slide-s House Is a Matchbox Solution for Desert Living Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Read »
Read the rest of The Netherlands Medieval Centraal Museum Gets a Beautiful Glazed Renovation Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, atelier van lieshout, Beel & Achtergael [...] Read »
Rem Koolhaas is to receive the 2012 Jencks Award, announced the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made [...] Read »
Frank Gehry is arguably the world's most famous architect, and while hist projects are notoriously expensive to construct, they may be worth it, at least for residential developers. In Manhattan, [...] Read »
Between glass curtain walls and art installations, birds just can’t catch a break. For their Venice Architecture Biennale project Pigeon Safari Swiss artist Julian Charrière and German photographer [...] Read »
Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) argues that, seen in their totality since 1967, these home demolitions amount to an intentional "policy of displacement". [...] Read »
The 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia opened its gates today and kicked off the events with the much anticipated Awards Ceremony in the Giardini. Golden Lions [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Read the rest of Chile-based COMUN Arquitectos Create Low-Cost Home off the Beaten Path Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Catalina Gonzalez, Chile, Comun Arquitectos, daylight, [...] Read »
Its been another month and time is chasing by. Heres an outline of coverage from August. From newly published pieces this month, I noticed that our articles about colored solar panels and [...] Read »
A coalition of environmental activists and community advocates has mounted the first major legal challenge to a planned downtown [Gensler-designed] Los Angeles NFL stadium, filing a suit Thursday [...] Read »
Here's an unedited, silent film I made of the Kilometro Rosso (Parco Scientifico Tecnologico) for Brembo, designed by Jean Nouvel. It's located alongside the A4 highway near Bergamo. Previously [...] Read »
Read the rest of Seed-Saving 101: Storing Herb, Tomato, and Berry Seeds Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: good seeds, heirloom seeds, organic gardening, organic seeds, planting [...] Read »
[Image: The howling of Hell, illustrated by Gustave Doré for Dante's Inferno ]. Nearly seven years ago, we took a brief art historical look at the " landscape architecture of Hell ," quoting [...] Read »
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We normally associate nuclear power as human act that defies the natural order, but simply head to Africa and youll find the worlds first and only natural nuclear reactor. Located in the Oklo [...] Read »
Labor Day weekend in America is the unofficially end of summer. Where did the time go?! But just because it's almost fall doesn't mean you have to put away your stripes. Saint James has [...] Read »
Kitchen island is might be applicable only in big kitchen. The kitchen island design could provide you with additional space for storage, cooking place, place to eat and so on. Though this kitchen [...] Read »
Last week, Bustler presented the project Connecting Greenland: AIR+PORT, designed by BIG, TENU, Julie Hardenberg and Inuk Silas Høgh, as part of the exhibition Possible Greenland in the Danish [...] Read »
Earlier this month we reported that a group of students from the University of Maryland broke the national record for the longest human-powered flight while simultaneously setting the world record [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery.Photo: Spaceport America Designed by starchitect Norman Foster, the Virgin Spaceport is slated to become operational in 2013, when the first commercial [...] Read »
[Image: Curiosity 's tire treads, courtesy of NASA and the nation's taxpayers]. It turns out that Bradbury Landing is also a kind of literary site, an interplanetary Newspaper Rock : the tracks [...] Read »
News
For decades, Hong Kong seemed mostly to be a portal for Western designers wanting to boost their Asian presence. Today, though, Hong Kong is attracting U.S. architects in its own right. Read »
Photographer Michael Moran has sent Record some of his shots from the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale Read »
Neither Venice nor architecture is particularly known for its nightlife, but the opening days of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale offered ample excuses for loosening one’s collar. Read »
Toyo Ito's pavilion takes the exhibition's top honor and the U.S. gets a special mention. Read »
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Photo via Shutterstock The United States isnt top dog anymore not when it comes to installed wind power generating capacity, at least. This year, China surpassed the US, growing from 2,000 [...] Read »
A 600-panel tessellation spreads sunlight underground By now you know about the Lowline, the ambitious project to turn the 1.5 acre abandoned trolley terminal under Delancey Street in New York [...] Read »
Once more into the breach, dear friends . . . After taking August off, we've got a very full September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events .among the highlights: Massamiliano Fuksas at [...] Read »
Its been quite a year for architecture critic Paul Goldberger, and almost as dizzying for his readers as for him. But the The New Yorkers loss has turned out to be Vanity Fairs gain, giving [...] Read »
Studio Mode | modeLab is excited to announce a promotional offer for the upcoming NON-LINEAR LAB: Growth Systems and Digital Fabrication with Skylar Tibbits. With generous support from The [...] Read »
Theres an interesting Kickstarter campaign right now for an innovation called SmartThings. SmartThings is a Minnesota-based company and an open platform to connect everyday things to the internet [...] Read »
More than ten years at the center of the Chinese architectural avant-garde, the role of standardarchitecture as an architectural paradigm solidifies more and more on international ground. Not [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of The Discovery Factory is an Experimental Space in an Old Philips Factory Where Kids Can Learn About Sustainability Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", [...] Read »
Read the rest of Amsterdams Proef Restaurant Features Recycled Furniture and Serves Only Local, Organic Food Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amsterdam, Architecture, Claartje [...] Read »
Inhabitats Green Guide to Prefab series has explored all the elements involved in planning and realizing a modern prefab home we’ve taken a look at the history of the various “branches” [...] Read »
Bernardita Marambio B. Pecas has created a fantastic new seating option, utilizing salvaged textiles from factories in Santiago, Chile. Dubbed the Fase#3 Stool, the simple and clean form represents [...] Read »
Video
Danish pavilion: air + port by BIG architects
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