Architectural Works
Designed by architecture students, Margaux Leycuras , Marion Ottmann , and Anne-Hina Mallette& , from the architecture school of Nantes, they recently won a prize in a competition organized by [...] Read »
By popular vote on the architectural website Ashui.com, Vo Trong Nghia& has been announced as Vietnam’s Architect of the Year 2012. The Quang Binh native was awarded over two other nominees [...] Read »
In response an outrage that broke out amongst Democrats and Republicans, after House Speaker John Boehner failed to vote for Sandy relief before the end of the Congressional session two days [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
There is something elaborately playful about the sense of place evoked in the atrium...The displays are also, of course, no longer static. Here, in exhibits designed by Pacific Studio and Weatherhead [...] Read »
At the end of 2012, printing office Drukta and mailing company Formail moved into their new building. Not a new build, but a former textile company’s warehouse, spanning 4.000 sqm. For their [...] Read »
Future Perfect: The Midcentury Modern Paintings of Danny Heller, who paints Palm Springs architecture in near photorealistic form, explains the attraction. Read »
We love objects that are interactive, move and change shape as if they were alive. An expert on the matter, designer Tim van Cromvoirt created a mesmerizing series of lamps called Lungplants. [...] Read »
Greening Sacred Spaces is a practical programme developed by Faith & the Common Good to assist faith communities with both the educational and spiritual dimensions of greening as well as the [...] Read »
Next Tuesday, January 8, The Broad in Downtown Los Angeles (not that Broad Museum), Eli Broads new contemporary art museum with an arresting net-like veil facade by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, [...] Read »
Early returns show that 2012 will go down as a good year for electric car sales. In the United States, 53,000 plug-ins were sold, compared to about 17,500 in 2011. While there isnt sufficient [...] Read »
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As neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy begin drafting plans for reconstruction, some progressive architects and urban planners have been pointing out that the emerging science of biomimicry [...] Read »
A proposed 57-story residential tower designed by SOMs Roger Duffy at the corner of Manhattans East 57th Street and 2nd Avenue is seeing new life after laying low through the recession. The [...] Read »
Read the rest of University of Scrantons LEED Silver Loyola Science Center Uses Sustainable Design To Encourage Collaboration Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", [...] Read »
Alta Devices are known for their innovative solar power solutions and theyve broken new ground once again with their new line of photovoltaics, which are touted as the lightest and most efficient [...] Read »
In It's Not Easy Being Green, Curbed pulls back the curtain on cutting-edge, environmentally friendly design, from urban passive houses to green tweaks on suburban living. Have a suggestion for [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Steven Holl Completes Construction on LEED Gold Sliced Porosity Block in China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Capitaland Raffles City, Chengdu China, Du Fu, [...] Read »
Pop Wrap are DIY popstar-shaped earbud and cable organizers that you can make yourself using one of these downloadable templates designed by Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini. Choose [...] Read »
Read the rest of Modscapes Point Leo Prefab is a Bold & Sustainable Seaside Home In Australia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", australia, australian [...] Read »
Rotunda Living, a new small house builder in the UK, has developed a range of small, contemporary roundhouses that would be perfect for a holiday getaway or a backyard studio. The structures [...] Read »
Read the rest of Furniture Designer John Ford Reuses Scrap Wood to Make Modern Table Lamps Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: fsc certified, green design, green interiors, green [...] Read »
Installing green lighting may seem like a small and simple change, but its surprising how hefty the bottom line savings can be. Many companies across the globe have been switching to LEDs quietly [...] Read »
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South Korean design architect Sae Min Oh 0f bang by min emerging design group designed the H-House. It was awarded ‘The 30th Seoul Architecture Prize in 2012’ and ‘Korea Interior Design [...] Read »
This years a big one for New Yorks Grand Central Terminal: On February 2, the Warren & Wetmore-designed train station will celebrate its 100th birthday. We expect to hear quite a bit about [...] Read »
In 2010, AN wrote about an identity theft scandal involving some high profile British architects and Chinese impostors lea ving some observers at the time to wonder if starchitects like Norman [...] Read »
After a tumultuous week of finger-pointing and blame-gaming, the House of Representatives voted on and passed the first stage of the Hurricane Sandy relief package today. The legislation will [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
[Image: The World Trade Center towers, photographer unknown]. Amongst many other interesting moments in Siobhan Roberts's new biography of Alan Davenport , the "father of modern wind engineering," [...] Read »
Theres a collaboration Im working with Zaha Hadid, were touring around with the idea of a prefab for a house. Read »
Ladd Carriage House (photo by Brian Libby) BY FRED LEESON One of downtown Portland’s oldest and most charming buildings enters a new era this month after a twisting saga of architectural preservation [...] Read »
The University of Pennsylvanias School of Design has announced that Australian Richard Weller has been appointed Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Penn Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor [...] Read »
China is also the land of the knock-off: knock-off designer handbags, knock-off blockbuster movies on DVDs, etc. But now, it seems the knock-off has gone off the charts in terms of proportion: [...] Read »
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