Architectural Works
In their second prize winning design in the international competition, ZA Architects& aimed at developing a few new principles of hotel organization. Instead of separating visitors from the environment, [...] Read »
[ September 22, 2012 0:00 to January 13, 2013 0:00. ] Taking place now until January 13 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes exhibition consists of [...] Read »
Kengo Kuma & Associates , together with Holzer Kobler Architekturen& , won the architectural design competition launched in 2012 to develop Cosandey Square at École Polytechnique Fédérale [...] Read »
This latest architectural publication for CLOG seeks to highlight a defining architectural style of the postwar era — characterized by severe, abstract geometries and the use of cast concrete, [...] Read »
Today I snapped some photos of the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island during its Archtober Open House . The park, designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed four decades after his death [...] Read »
World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival , Chinese architect Li Xiaodong tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how sustainability [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
The consensus is that we're all tired of seeing the same girls on every street style site. That's why I found J.J. Martin's real style refreshing. She's the Italian Editor at Large for Wallpaper [...] Read »
The SodaBIB Project is "a prototype project to reuse plastic water bottles to form a thatch roof -- to help people to create shelter from discarded materials." The design of SodaBIB (Soda-Bottle [...] Read »
The new logistics centre, located on the E45 motorway at Haderslev, supplies all of the clothing company Bestseller’s boutiques, right across Europe. The idea was to create an industrial building [...] Read »
The winning design, easily the most ambitious of three finalists announced last month, calls for a repeating series of concrete arches that both refer to and exaggerate the Butler design as the [...] Read »
Boston Engineering has designed a robotic tuna fish called the BIOSwimmer that is capable of detecting weapons and contraband stowed away in ports and harbors. The unique swimming vehicle utilizes [...] Read »
From UBC SALA: IMPORTANT NOTE: This lecture was originally to be held Monday 22 nd October and is now being held on Friday 26 th October. Next week we have the wonderful opportunity to [...] Read »
[...] Two more outstanding projects received national RIBA honors that night: the 2012 Manser Medal for the best newly designed private house went to Maison L by Christian Pottgiesser - architecturespossibles, [...] Read »
Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art announces a new, monumental sculpture by distinguished artist Leo Villareal. Largely inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, Villareals BUCKYBALL [...] Read »
Chakrabatri is proposing that the city basically double the width of the medians along 11 blocks of Park Avenue, between 46th and 57th streets, and run a 12- to 15-foot-wide pathway up the middle, [...] Read »
Opinions
Cities all over the world are ramping up their efforts to become greener—to provide healthier urban living environments, to be... Read »
Video
Klotz House video by Alfredo Escobar
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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat held its 11th annual awards symposium Thursday, bestowing architect Helmut Jahn and structural engineers Charles Thornton and Richard Tomasetti [...] Read »
click images for larger view Former Richard M. Daley condemned it as "Nowhere" , the 20 acre park named after his father that he wanted to destroy so he could repopulate it with the stalagmite-styled [...] Read »
Butterflies are beautiful, delicate marvels of nature. While their lovely appearance may be inspiring, theres nothing a butterfly can teach us about renewable energy or is there? An ambitious [...] Read »
9 Chains (Buckminster Fuller in Philadelphia) is a film with live music directed and composed by Gene Coleman with cinematography and editing by Nick Lerman. Read »
[Image: NASA's lunar seismometer, via Wikipedia ]. First of all, I know it's inaccurate to say there was an "earthquake" on the moon, but I'll use the phrase nonetheless. In any case, I was delighted [...] Read »
Last night in Istanbul, Audi bestowed its 2012 Urban Future Initiative award to the Boston-based firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture for Shareway, their 2030 vision for the Boston-Washington corridor. [...] Read »
Perhaps to palliate our worst Kafka-esque architectural nightmares, the city invited three renowned architecture firms, WXY Architecture + Urban Design, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), and Foster [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Shigeru Ban Unveils Temporary Cardboard Tube Pavilion for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Gorky Park, Moscow Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cardboard [...] Read »
Medina Mosque photo from Shutterstock The Guardian reports that a top spokesman for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced plans to transition the nation to 100 percent renewable energy in [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Yard is an Ambitious Self-Build Estate Constructed to BREEAM Standards in the UK Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", biomass, bristol, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Cassia Co-op Training Centre is a Sustainable School For Cinnamon Farmers in Indonesia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", cassia co-op [...] Read »
Read the rest of HWCDs Floating Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse is a Zen Space For A Tea Party Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", bamboo, bamboo courtyard [...] Read »
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This week Cyberdyne unveiled a robotic exoskeleton called HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) that allows its wearer to carry superhuman loads while shielding them from radiation. With the Fukushima [...] Read »
Oatos crafty Stuck Chair takes the shape of a deconstructed arche typal chair thats been rearranged anew, using tension as a bond to ensure its pieces remain stuck together. The seating [...] Read »
If you have spare hour, we found this film an interesting and informative look at the relationship of Japanese and Scandinavian arch itecture in modern design practices. We pull many of our [...] Read »
Under Tomorrows Sky is a fictional, future city. For MU Foundation in Eindhoven Speculative architect Liam Young of the London based Tomorrows Thoughts Today has assembled a think tank of scientists, [...] Read »
Within the station, the proposal creates wider concourses, with new and improved entrances. Externally, streets will be reconfigured as shared vehicle/pedestrian routes, and Vanderbilt Avenue [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Like the meeting of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, theres a compelling confluence of urban activists standing next to each other on the sidewalk of Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. To my [...] Read »
Earlier this week the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) made a bit of an environmental stir when it approved five of Apples newest ultrathin laptops even though Apple [...] Read »
Long delayed, Herzog & de Meurons 830-foot-tall stacked tower planned for Tribeca in Manhattan is set to resume construction imminently after a three-year hiatus, reports the Tribeca Tribune. [...] Read »
The University of California Davis is becoming a cultural force. The school already has three art museums (and arts alums include artist Bruce Nauman and sculptor Deborah Butterfield), and [...] Read »
Decades ago, Erica Stoller accompanied her father, the architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, on a shoot of the Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza in New York. It was cavernous and dark, but Ezra insisted [...] Read »
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