Architectural Works
SCI-Arc graduate Harris Silver has shared his experience passing through the Kalandia Checkpoint during his quest for “an uncanny truth” that would lead him to develop a thesis project [...] Read »
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has concealed an office block with walls made entirely of glass behind a sandstone enclosure in the Spanish city of Zamora (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
Steven Holl Architects& just celebrated the pre-opening of the Sliced Porosity Block-CapitaLand Raffles City in Chengdu, China with a visit of the Prime Minister of Singapore. Creating a metropolitan [...] Read »
The above video is an update to the Department for Architecture Design and Media Technologys Aero Pavilion which was completed just last year. An environmental condition of wind combined with [...] Read »
Designed by Hadi Teherani Office + Design Core [4S]& , the second prize winning proposal for the Tehran Stock Exchange competition is an elegant and simple two-part structure. While the lower [...] Read »
Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo
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Rocha on their work by constructing limestone models of his [...] Read »
This years Portland State Department of Architecture lecture series, which starts October 4 and runs until May 2, focuses on the theme of Placing. Six internationally renowned leaders from [...] Read »
With Alexander Eisenschmidt as curator, five chicago-based practices presented together Team Chicago: City Works . In our age of extreme urbanization, says Eisenschmidt, architects have been [...] Read »
Thomas Fisher , Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, discusses the subject matter of his most recent book, Designing To Avoid [...] Read »
Oregon Sustainability Center (rendering courtesy GBD Architects/SERA Architects) BY BRIAN LIBBY For the past six months, it has looked as if the Oregon Sustainability Center would never get built. [...] Read »
The Israeli pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Aircraft Carrier& , deals with the dramatic changes in Israeli architecture since 1973, and the American influences that [...] Read »
A prefabricated concrete cube appears to hover above the wooden base of this house near Amsterdam by Dutch practice Engelarchitecten (+ slideshow). (more&) Read »
German designer Gitta Gschwendtner and Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves have planted a garden on a derelict barge in Bristol Harbour using the kinds of foreign seeds that were once mixed [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Designer John Bartlett’s 2013 designs for the “plant-based man,” are all-natural, animal-friendly looks were mainly linen. Read »
The Beatrice Inn was a favorite with the fashion flock until it closed in 2009. Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter recently resurrected the restaurant just in time for Calvin Klein [...] Read »
The Crabills bought the five-acre property near Hillsborough, NC, with the intention of building a simple, modern home in a clearing amidst a lush forest. They wanted the house to disturb the [...] Read »
Two new projects prove that concretes rigidity is no longer set in stone From Peter Eisenman’s Berlin Holocaust Memorial to Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building, concrete has been [...] Read »
Prepare yourselves Angelenos: Zaha is coming to town. Her installation Pleated Shell Structures will be on display at the SCI-Arc gallery beginning October 12. The installations details are [...] Read »
As mentioned earlier this week, a new Blu Homes prefab will open for tours this weekend, September 15-16, 2012, in Joshua Tree, California. The home was built for Tim Disney with two Origin [...] Read »
What we have here is a simple piece of furniture named the IKEA Rast Dresser. Before you figure out what you can do with it, there might be only few things in your mind. The earlier simple design [...] Read »
Stellar Apartments (rendering courtesy of Bergsund DeLaney Architecture & Planning) The Eugene branch of the Cascadia Green Building Council (1) invites everyone to a presentation on Thursday, [...] Read »
The Formation of the Japanese Print Collection at the Art Institute: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School The Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue Through November 4 Frank [...] Read »
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Nearly 300 Pakistani garment workers are dead after a boiler-related explosion triggered a fire last Wednesday. Few options of escape were available to the trapped workers: every exit except [...] Read »
In August Forty-one consumer-owned grocer cooperatives and natural food retailers released an open letter to Hershey Company. The letterwhich essentially asks the organization to end child slave [...] Read »
Nestled at the foot of a wooded hillside, the two-story, 30,250-square-foot Los Gatos Library provides a visual connection between the Town’s historic Pageant Park and the adjacent Civic Center. [...] Read »
Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome will take us on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver; from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast. Read »
Weve heard of guerrilla gardening, and weve heard of grafting plants but guerrilla grafting? Thats new to us. For the past two years, a group that calls themselves Guerrilla Grafters have [...] Read »
DARPA are experts as creating robots, such as the Cheetah, which can reportedly run faster than Usain Bolt. This week, the defense research agency unveiled their two robotic pack mule prototypes [...] Read »
Phil Boucher is a self-described architecture nerd. And while part of that means marveling and photographing the beautiful buildings around Boston, it also means recreating the entire city [...] Read »
From Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey , Princeton Architectural Press Pedro E. Guerrero, who created much of the most iconic photography of Frank L. Wright and his architecture, died [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Sanitov Unveil Eco-Lux Floating Home at This Years London Design Festival Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green wall", "solar energy", ana lisa alperovich, [...] Read »
Weve been eagerly following the development of the NYCs LowLine underground park as it gains momentum and edges closer to reality and the amazing adaptive reuse project recently took a big [...] Read »
Read the rest of 6 Amazing Sun-Powered Homes Competing in the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco-friendly home, energy efficient home, [...] Read »
Read the rest of The European Solar Decathlon Starts Today! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco-friendly home, energy efficient home, Europe, Green Building, green [...] Read »
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Nowadays, engineers have managed to design windows and walls that will stand after an intense motion from an earthquakes. Researchers have lift up the drift capacity of the window frame into [...] Read »
> Adolfo Ibañez University | Viña del Mar from pablo casals-aguirre on Vimeo .A short film [in Spanish] directed & filmed by Pablo Casals-Aguirre on the Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile designed [...] Read »
Floods and flooding the streets via Shutterstock A study released on Wednesday by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) finds that 37 percent of the worlds largest companies now see extreme [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
click images for larger view Marina City residents hoping to sleep in Saturday morning got an unexpected wake-up call, courtesy of a Eurocopter N350SC helicopter which made an early morning appearance [...] Read »
Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century [...] Read »
Hand holding smartphone and heart monitor images via Shutterstock While some teens are twiddling their thumbs away on their phone, checking out Facebook, other teens like 17-year old Catherine [...] Read »
Abu Dhabi’s dizzying building boom slowed down somewhat after the 2008 financial collapse dried up the liquidity that inspires big projects. The damage appears not to have been permanent, however, [...] Read »
Grab your 3D glasses, the artists at Visionaire, an art and fashion publisher, have added dramatic new depth to architectural photography. The work of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who [...] Read »
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