Architectural Works
News: well-designed classrooms can improve the academic performance of primary school pupils by 25 percent according to a new study undertaken by the University of Salford and UK architects [...] Read »
The American Institute of Architects& (AIA) today issued the following statement in reaction to the House and Senate votes approving the “Fiscal Cliff” deal negotiated by Congressional leaders [...] Read »
During the World Architecture Festival, held this October in Singapore, we had the opportunity to interview one of the UKs most succesful landscape architects: Andrew Grant& . On the occasion, [...] Read »
Casa del Fascio which sits in front of Como Cathedral is the work of the Italian Fascist architect Giuseppe Terragni. Built as the headquarters of the local Fascist Party, it was renamed Casa [...] Read »
Los Angeles firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has restored a nineteenth century coach house in Dublin, Ireland, and inserted a contemporary house in front of it (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
News: a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Beijing has been copied by a developer in Chongqing, with the two projects racing to be completed first. (more...) Read »
Amit Khanna of Amit Khanna Design Associates (AKDA)& recently did a prospective photographic essay which highlights the Kimbell Art Museum by architect Louis Kahn, and the Modern Art Museum of [...] Read »
Eleven Zaha Hadid& projects are currently being constructed in China, however one of them has the international architecture mogul seeing double. Unfortunately, Hadid has found herself in a [...] Read »
A spiral staircase climbs the all-timber facade of this house in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Egeon Architecten (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
Known for being a popular location for strolls during the 19th century, the Terrasses des Ponchettes is one of Nice’s historical areas that has declined considerably since the 60’s. CAB Architects& [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Read the rest of HUB 01 Features Mobile Student Housing Covered in Plants or Solar Panels in Belgium Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", "wind turbine", A3 Architects, [...] Read »
"Modern architecture was the first architecture to really market itself, so it makes sense that it has become an architecture largely consumed through photographs. The internet has intensified [...] Read »
[Image: One of the stations of Project ELF, via Wikipedia ]. Further exploring the radio-related theme of the last few posts, Rob Holmes —author and co-founder of mammoth —has pointed our [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic building blocks being introduced into Japan, LEGOs Japanese subsidiary sponsored a cross-country workshop in which over 5000 people in 6 different [...] Read »
Learning from BrightSource Solars experience with the desert tortoise, stakeholders are vetting a plan to squeeze as much renewable energy out of the California Desert as possible without jeopardizing [...] Read »
fschlem started a blog The Dirty South...The blog takes it name from a studio titled the "Dirty South," offered at the Georgia Tech. The studio was the brainchild of TVSDesign Distinguished Studio [...] Read »
[Image: Barbed wire, via Wikipedia ]. One more radio-related link comes via @doingitwrong , who mentions the use of barbed-wire fences as a kind of primitive telephone network. "Across much [...] Read »
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Avis Budget Group Inc. has announced its intent to buy Zipcar Inc, the worlds leading car sharing network, for around $500 million, expanding on their existing car rental services. Avis will [...] Read »
A Shell drill ship carrying around 143,000 gallons of diesel ran aground off the coast of Alaska on Monday night. The ship, Kulluk, hit rocks near Kodiak Island at approximately 9 p.m. local [...] Read »
Imagine that you live in a country where you can’t own land or property and all of your housing options are temporary, if you have a home at all. You just might think this Tricycle House is [...] Read »
Below are the 12 most visited Live Blog posts during 2012, all authored by our live blogger extraordinaire Lian Chikako Chang at Harvard School of Architecture. For a full list of all of our [...] Read »
[Image: Deception Island, from Millett G. Morgan's September 1960 paper An Island as a Natural Very-Low-Frequency Transmitting Antenna ]. Yesterday's post reminded me of an interesting proposal [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Rustic, Solar-Powered Villa Santa Cruz Goes Off-Grid in Todos Santos, Mexico Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Baja Meixco, eco design, eco luxury travel, eco [...] Read »
Bill McKibben Environmentalist, Green Journalist, President and Co-Founder of 350.org I think theres actually a chance 2013 will be a significant year in climate history — the year when [...] Read »
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Chicago, like any other great city, has any number of severe, intractable problems: the slaughter in our streets, the crushing inequality, the inability to educate our kids out of poverty, [...] Read »
The previous two posts have led to a number of interesting links, including several comments over at Reddit that seem worth reproducing here. There, a commenter named clicksnd "used to be in [...] Read »
HAPPY NEW YEAR INHABITAT READERS! 2013 is finally here and we cant wait to see what the new year has in store for us! But before we get out of holiday-mode and back into the groove of things [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Read the rest of Rotterdam’s Solar-Powered Floating Pavilion is an Experimental Climate-Proof Development Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", ana lisa alperovich, [...] Read »
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