Architectural Works
A covered courtyard has been inserted into the side of this Kurashiki house by Japanese firm TT Architects (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
Ever wonder how you could have the ability to replicate the historic Italianate buildings without having to be artistically skilled? Well, all you need is a set of Paper Neighborhood Stamps. [...] Read »
More bamboo : this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates , features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. (more&) Read »
To celebrate the 150 year anniversary of the Utility and Amenities Company of the city of Zweibrücken, Germany, the company decided to donate a roundabout to the city which was to deal with [...] Read »
Inspired by a reaction to the tsunami, the proposal for the Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Center is symbolically and practically rising above the streams. Designed by CRAB& , the [...] Read »
Luis Carli and Rafael Passarelli& developed an interdisciplinary work between wooden architecture and information design through their research on wood dimensional changes. Known by many, especially [...] Read »
[ September 8, 2012 10:00 to January 6, 2013 10:00. ] The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) will host the exhibition Louis Kahn, The Power of Architecture & from September 8 to January [...] Read »
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited [...] Read »
The student led humanitarian initiative ‘ Build Our Nation& ’ has begun a two-week workshop as part of the Biennale Sessions 13th International Architecture Exhibition. Through workshops [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Something away from architecture but interestingly shared in a HDB talk last week of critical chain project management. The definition can be found wikipedia in below quote. This is an alternate [...] Read »
Bird Feeder photo from Shutterstock Today the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was sentenced for eleven criminal violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that [...] Read »
Read the rest of Geometric Tumbleweed Trellis Lets Indoor Plants Climb Up the Walls and Along the Ceiling Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: compangnie, cultivated furniture, desert, [...] Read »
Today Hulger announced the new Baby Plumen 001, a designer CFL light bulb that tracks the original Plumen 001. Its a smaller 9-watt bulb thats meant to replace a 40-watt incandescent. The [...] Read »
Eliminating the professional help in building, modifying, repairing or any other activity done by yourself is the main idea of Do It Yourself concept. To understand why it is related to home [...] Read »
We dont believe architecture can solve anything, Andraos said of the relationship between environmentalism and design in WORKacs creations. Rather, we feel this is a question of impacting [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
click images for larger view Bjarke Ingels intends to write a thriller built on the unnatural deaths of Antonio Gaudi, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, with a climatic chase atop his proposed W57 [...] Read »
Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners has designed the flagship commercial development for UAE-based Al Hilal Bank in the heart of Abu Dhabis Al Maryah Island, formerly known as Sowwah Island. Read »
Denver Art Museum has appointed William Morrow as its curator of contemporary art. Morrow was the founding director of the 21c Museum in Louisville, KY, where he gained recognition for developing [...] Read »
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores the postwar architecture by such architects including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel [...] Read »
Chris Payne: One Steinway Place Bonni Benrubi Gallery 41 East 57th Street New York Through September 29 Lecture 6-8:30pm South Street Seaport Museum September 13 One Steinway Place, the address [...] Read »
Ilona Gaynor's new project, works with police reconstructions, cinematic culture and with 'Forensic Aesthetics' to design the perfect bank robbery. And i don't know how she did it but she managed [...] Read »
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Compared to its neighbors, the Fuhimiko Maki-designed Four World Trade offers a more somber, reflective aesthetic at the World Trade Center site. Reflective quite literally, as the towers curtain [...] Read »
On September 15th and 16th modular home builder Blu Homes is hosting its own home tour in Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert. The three-bedroom house on view was factory built, transported by [...] Read »
A reliable source provided us with some official blueprints for the Apple Campus 2 yesterday, and these are just a few of the images that illustrate the mammoth building currently being planned [...] Read »
Ecological Learning Plaza, Shattuck Hall (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY The fall term at Portland State University doesn't begin for a few weeks yet, but on a recent visit to Shattuck [...] Read »
After seven years of construction, during much of which visitors were sent on an underground detour, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s expansive atrium opened in late August. The 39,000-square-foot [...] Read »
Both Deanna Issacs of the Chicago Reader and Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune report that at Thursday's meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, chairman Rafel Leon said Prentice will [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of 17th Century Palace Transformed into a Luxe Boutique Hotel In Mexico Citys Historic Center Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptive [...] Read »
Read the rest of Modern Coreten Steel Home Cuts Through a Historic Railroad Cottage In The Netherlands Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: brick, Coreten Steel, cottage, green renovation, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Method Homes Completes Traditional Craftsman-Style Doe Bay Prefab Cottage on Orcas Island Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", classic [...] Read »
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Lauren Moffatt’s designs for New York’s Fashion Week were a throwback to 1960’s lawn games. Read »
The red began appearing in the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China and the third longest river in the world, yesterday near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze connects to the [...] Read »
In a letter titled Kicking against the Prix, the RIBA gold medallist claimed the Coop Himmelb(l)au founder had failed to attend the biennale despite issuing a critical press release last week [...] Read »
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to remotely control and steer cockroaches via an electronic interface. While at first glance it may seem [...] Read »
The 140 years old McLeod House in Port of Spain, Trinidad was in the blink of an eye bulldozed. The house suffered structural damage a number of years ago and the entry had begun to deteriorate. [...] Read »
click images for larger view It may get an "F" for truthfulness, but Northwestern University certainly gets an "A" for industriousness in its increasingly mendacious PR campaign to keep Bertrand [...] Read »
Video
Spread House by Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima / TNA
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2012 Yeosu EXPO HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP - Hyper-Matrix
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Opinions
Part interactive installation, part urban performance art, Video Painting Europe documents a kind of glow-in-the-dark graffiti that leaves no trace.... Read »
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