Architectural Works
The proposal for the future Metropolitan Train Station of Suzano, designed by JBMC Arquitetura e Urbanismo& , will be developed in surface, in a place already occupied by the existing station, [...] Read »
PREMIADOS OBRAS CONCLUÃDAS: Prêmio AsBEA - O projeto recebeu o prêmio na Categoria edifÃcios comerciais. Read »
This minimalist elementary school, located in Kumamoto and designed by Japanese architects Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu (CAt)& , is designed to seamlessly connect the indoor and [...] Read »
The New Year is almost here! Before you head out to celebrate, check out the most retweeted articles of 2012. From the worlds first underwater hotel to a list of the & most helpful apps for [...] Read »
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Technology
One Angel Square is the largest commercial building in Manchester, England and it is now the highest scoring BREEAM Outstanding building in the United Kingdom. Designed by 3DReid, One Angel [...] Read »
Wind turbine photo from Shutterstock United States energy companies are clamoring to install last minute wind turbines before the federal tax credit incentive expires at the stroke of midnight [...] Read »
Read the rest of Tonys Organic Farm Has a New Shipping Container Visitor Center in Shanghai Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Cargotecture, eco design, [...] Read »
As cities all over the world begin to reinvent their sustainable means of transportation, Sydney, Australia is getting on the bandwagon with the help of HASSELL, Arup and Aurecon. The New South [...] Read »
Read the rest of Teton County Childrens Learning Center Brings Sustainable Design to Jackson, Wyoming Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: D.W. Arthur Associates Architecture, daylight, [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
The 2 storey house is located on an 8 x 40 meters (24 x 120 feet) lot in the historical urban fabric of the city of Cartaxo, Portugal. It presents itself as a white volume over a transparent [...] Read »
Vestas headquarters (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY For more than four years now, the economy and architects' role in it has seemed to be partially recovered from the lowest depths of 2007 [...] Read »
(Per tradition, here's a photograph of a Martian sunset to cap off another year. It was taken by the Viking 1 Lander on August 20, 1976, from its Chryse Planitia landing site. Image courtesy of NASA. Source .) Read »
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Miscellaneous
(The sun cocooned in its gauzy spaceship rising over Chryse Planitia, as photographed by the Viking 1 Lander on August 13, 1977, or sol 379 after touchdown. Image created using the original 12e188.blu [...] Read »
Weve shared lots of great ways to compost, recycle or reuse your old Christmas tree but blasting it off into space never crossed our mind. Two DIY’ers have decided to “reuse” their Christmas [...] Read »
Visiting a city or live in a place that doesnt have a bike share program yet? Dont fret Liquid is a new peer-to-peer bike rental marketplace that makes it easy to borrow a bike from individuals [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Part of the work I do with World-Architects.com involves the Building of the Week feature on the American-Architects page. For 2012 there were 50 such buildings, and now voting is open to determine [...] Read »
Silicon Valley office building photo from Shutterstock Even the Internet is not immune to the effects of climate change. Many of the worlds most famous tech giants, such as Facebook, Oracle, [...] Read »
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Check out this little Sprout Hog – an earthenware sculpture made for growing sprouts for small people. Simply place a piece of old washcloth or similar fabric in the bottom of the hog, sprinkle [...] Read »
[Image: "The Trees Now Talk" cover story in The Electrical Experimenter (July 1919); image via rexresearch ]. Way back in 1919, in their July 14th issue, Scientific American published an article [...] Read »
Space always intrigued me, with its incredibly rich possibilities, space alteration by (architectural) objects, objects' transformation in space (sculpture, design), movement in space and in [...] Read »
Video
A Day with Zaha Hadid
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