Miscellaneous
Picnica’s lightweight nylon tote not only holds your groceries and provides a much-needed means for schlepping; it also lives a double life as a stuffed toy bunny. Read »
AIA-Southwestern Oregon executive director Don Kahle and webmaster Erik Bishoff have taken the wraps off the chapterâs shiny new website. You can find it at www.aiaswo.com . Improving [...] Read »
Three winning projects were announced in the Future Cities, Planning for the 90 per cent competition: ateliermob (Portugal), Municipal Housing Secretariat of São Paulo (Brazil), and Interazioni [...] Read »
Opening on September 15, The Source is a six-screen installation housed in a circular pavilion built by architect David Adjaye on Liverpools Albert Dock, for which Aitken has filmed conversations [...] Read »
I think the age of totally specific specialization as a designer is less interesting. I think whats more interesting is to merge different interests and passions and invent something new. [...] Read »
Inspired By. . . Patrick Dougherty from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo .Stickwork Sculptures by Patrick Dougherty, previously Read »
Wind turbines transform moving air currents into clean energy; there isnt much to hate about that, especially when compared to the toxic emissions and high cost of fossil fuels. But wildlife [...] Read »
Researchers have (unsurprisingly) found that high-speed rail in California is definitely green. Opponents have held that the high-speed rail, with its 68 billion dollar price tag, may not be [...] Read »
Le Corbusiers iconic Villa Savoye has just been added to LEGOs famed Architecture Landmark Series! The structure, which lies on the outskirts of Paris, France, is a quintessential example [...] Read »
You will need a lot of money to have this kitchen design from Arclinea studio, this is a Big and Natural-Colored Kitchen. The design allows you to have both bar with formal area and also casual [...] Read »
The Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale has in recent years been a bit of a snore. The space has been filled most recently in 2010 with unconvincing drawings of older Russian cities and earlier [...] Read »
Young Jee, the land artist who carved his work into earth of Inwood Hill has died, DNAinfo reports. Far from the galleries flanking the High Line, Jees quiet compositions served as an anecdote [...] Read »
For consumers, knowing where our food comes from and finding alternative sources to the big-box grocery store is an important part of the sustainable food conversation. Luckily, our friends at [...] Read »
And the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 is now open. Urban-Think Tank, Grafton Architects, and the Japanese Pavilion are awarded while, Cino Zucchi, and the Polish, Russian, and U.S. Pavilions [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
[ August 29, 2012 to November 25, 2012. ] The village of Kigutu in Burundi, Africa is on its way to rebuilding a rural, off-the-grid medical site designed by Louise Braverman, Architect& in collaboration [...] Read »
Designed for Bernard Khoury of DW5 for a private residence in Beirut, .PSLAB& ’s aim for the staircase in this space is to highlight the distinguishing features and shape of the staircase, [...] Read »
Urban improvement projects in neighbourhoods across America are presented on stripy blinds that can be pulled down from the ceiling of the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale [...] Read »
Berkeley Prize 2013, which launches on September 15, is dedicated to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the World Health Organization which is helping [...] Read »
Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in [...] Read »
Designed by Saraiva + Associados& , the design of the present office center in Ataşehir, located on the Asian side of Istanbul, provides a cost effective solution to the changing needs of office [...] Read »
LEGO® has just announced the newest classic building to join the collection of renowned architectural replicas in their Architecture series, the Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier. Capturing [...] Read »
Inspired by the 13th International Architecture Exhibitions theme Common Ground , Peter Eisenman has formed a team to revisit, examine and reimagine Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 folio [...] Read »
This years 13th Venice Architecture Biennale provided the backdrop to the British Pavilions Venice Takeaway exhibition. Commissioned by the British Council and curated by Vanessa Norwood and [...] Read »
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Technology
A two-year partnership between Houston-based Phillips 66, California-based Solarmer Energy and the South China University of Technology (SCUT) has resulted in the most efficient polymer-based [...] Read »
DeGross Design & Innovations UTREM LUX is a series of lamps made from reused glass bottles that had been discarded in their studio. Each one of the designs in the series is made individually [...] Read »
Read the rest of Miller Hull Partnership and Habitat for Humanity Build The House of the Immediate Future for Anniversary of Seattles Worlds Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post [...] Read »
Copenhagen is planning to create the world’s first climate-adapted neighborhood. The project is set to transform Saint Kjeld’s Quarter in Copenhagen, adapting it to the changing climate, [...] Read »
Once a ships sail reaches the end of its life, its last port of call is typically the local landfill. Spotted over at Design Milk, Spanish company DVELAS has come to the rescue of these icons [...] Read »
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Video
i-city Skolkovo / Russian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
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City & Urbanism
Call for Papers: Special Issue of International Journal of Architectural Research Reconstruction of built environment after natural hazard and conflict induced disasters.. Guest Editor: Dr [...] Read »
Opinions
A new pedestrian plaza may be in the works for Vancouver. The City recently announced that the 800 block of... Read »
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