Architectural Works
When plans for the High Line were first revealed it made quite an impression on the design community. The converted elevated rail line, long abandoned by New York City, was threatened by demolition [...] Read »
News: the American architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who won the first Pulitzer Prize for criticism, has died aged 91. (more...) Read »
News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is now inviting guests to rent a holiday home he built for his family in the mountain hamlet of Leis in Vals (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
[ January 10, 2013 0:00 to February 10, 2013 0:00. ] Celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Harry Seidler& , the leading Australian architect of the twentieth century, the Architecture, [...] Read »
News: architect Rem Koolhaas has today been confirmed as the director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 and wants to use the opportunity to readdress the "fundamental elements [...] Read »
It seems the rumors were true. The Venice Biennale’s board has just confirmed that Rem Koolhaas will be the Director for the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 (to take place June 7th [...] Read »
Organized by AIA Utah Young Architects Forum and the Downtown Alliance, in collaboration with Utah Heritage Foundation, Sixty-Nine Seventy invites design teams from around the world to re-envision [...] Read »
Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of The New Wave in Danish Architecture, a book featuring contemporary projects by Danish architects such as BIG and NORD. (more...) Read »
Ada Louise Huxtable& (1921-2013), known as “the dean of American architectural criticism”, has passed away at the age of 91 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Winner [...] Read »
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects designed this concrete house in Shiga to be deliberately alien to its neighbours (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
Marking the “continuance of Belgrade’s signature ‘Modernist’ movement”, which produced a number of iconic buildings throughout the mid-twentieth century, the Serbian capital is proud [...] Read »
“Our Leis houses have big windows. They extend from wall to wall and from floor to ceiling. They frame the landscape and welcome its images inside the house. [...] Walking through the house [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
The area around the Barclays Center, stretching from the commercial blocks of Flatbush to Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues, might soon be Brooklyn’s next Business Improvement District (BID). [...] Read »
"A block of row houses -- narrow, tall, brick- or stone-faced homes, connected side-by-side -- is my shorthand for city perfection....Blocks of row houses generate a perfect urban scale: large [...] Read »
A house for an elderly couple, this project attempts to explore two aesthetic qualities of flatness and depth through architecture, using resolution of architectural details and material treatment. [...] Read »
While perusing my favorite websites this morning, I feel in love with these pics of a gorgeous casa in Cartagena, Colombia on Into the Gloss . Editor Alessandra Codinha was a guest over the holidays [...] Read »
There is a new way to visualize architecture and communicate its design. It is a new method which comes in the form of the “holographic architectural representation system”. Now, you may [...] Read »
Ada Louise Huxtable , the women who created the very idea of newspaper architecture critic when she took on that role for the New York Times in 1963, died Monday in the Manhattan she shaped with [...] Read »
Solar power is booming in Germany, and 2012 has proven to be a record-breaking year for the countrys already-impressive solar power generation. As part of the plan to eliminate nuclear energy [...] Read »
Josh Zisson set out to design the safest bike on the road and the key to safety in traffic is visibility. In addition to a dynamo-powered lighting system, the bike is coated with a patented [...] Read »
As Apple and Facebook have proven, corporate complexes are all the rage these days in Silicon Valley. Samsung (Apples phone nemesis) is the latest tech titan to add to the roster of architectural [...] Read »
At the annual SLEEP European Hotel Design Awards, the project "Hotel Valentiner Hof" in Castelrotto, Italy was recently named the 2012 winner in the category "Conversion And/Or Extension Of An [...] Read »
Peru’s government is taking steps to protect one of the world’s largest fossil deposits from being damaged by the 2013 Dakar Rally. The Culture Ministry said they’re marking all access [...] Read »
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Carpool lanes typically are meant to reduce congestion, not make political statements, but one Bay Area HOV lane finds itself at the center of a national controversy. NBC News reported that [...] Read »
click images for larger view (recommended) From the north, the view from the escalator mezzanine at the AMC River East is more entertaining than many of the movies. It's street theater to the [...] Read »
Click here to view the full photogallery. The brokerbabble describes this San Diego beachfront property, listed for $4.495M, as "modern chic" with "unparalleled sophistication and versatility" [...] Read »
Photo via Shutterstock The Central American country of Nicaragua has never been as fortunate as its neighbors when it comes to energy reserves. In fact, most commercial electricity is generated [...] Read »
Rather than defining the character of the workplace through the metrics of an earlier century, and rather than redesigning the workplace based simply on the enabling characteristics of technology, [...] Read »
Designers for The Wave, Muscat, were tasked with the challenge of engineering a luxury, mixed-use development stretching along six kilometres of natural beach coastline between Al-Athaiba and [...] Read »
Today Toyota and Lexus unveiled a high-tech autonomous vehicle at CES 2013 that could pave the way towards self-driving cars in the near future. Although it isnt fully driverless, the Advanced [...] Read »
Think you could live in just 325 square feet? While Manhattan is already famous for its cramped quarters, micro-apartments are poised to take space efficiency to the next level with Murphy beds [...] Read »
Remote home appliances are the biggest things to hit the household market in a long time. Just witness the success of the Nest Thermostat and remote-control light bulbs like the iLumi. Consumer [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kansas City has the American Jazz Museum, Nashville has Music City, and now St. Louis looks likely to become home to the National Blues Museum in [...] Read »
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae that could help replace fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical industry. The researchers engineered [...] Read »
Swarm What? Benjamin Bratton, 2012 What it is that designers actually mean when we/they talk about swarms, intelligence, and swarm intelligence? Usually we refer to rhythmic emergent processes [...] Read »
Now afloat, Shells oil vessel that ran aground in Alaska on new years eve is being towed caravan style to a nearby island for inspection. Seattles tug Aiviq and seven other ships are towing [...] Read »
Read the rest of Maison Escalier is a Tree-Like Parisian Home Wrapped With a Leafy Sun Shade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: biomimicry, black locust wood, concrete, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Americas Top Twelve ArtPlaces is a new annual ArtPlace initiative recognizing neighborhoods in the largest 44 metropolitan areas in the country where the arts are central to creating places [...] Read »
The legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable has died at 91. Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Huxtable served at architecture critic for the New York Times and was also [...] Read »
People tend to like churches and synagogues with intricate detail, like the lacy Gothicism of Grace Church at Broadway and 10th Street. But I am drawn to the austere Church of the Heavenly Rest, [...] Read »
Almost a year ago, reports surfaces that, without an anchor tenant, the 80-story Three World Trade tower by Pritzker-winner Richard Rogers of Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners would be lopped [...] Read »
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Rem Koolhaas has been named director of the 2014 Venice Biennale, the 14th edition of the architecture exhibition. Koolhaas, a leading thinker and persistent provocateur in the discipline, succeeds [...] Read »
When an emergency strikes, how can you make sure to be aware of the situation if you are snoozing or distracted by the goings-on of everyday life? Featured at this years CES, Eton presents their [...] Read »
Rather than defining the character of the workplace through the metrics of an earlier century, and rather than redesigning the workplace based simply on the enabling characteristics of technology, [...] Read »
Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, died Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 91. Read »
Loudbasstard is a sustainable, eco-friendly bamboo sound amplifier designed for iPhones, the iTouch, and other smartphones such as the Samsung Galaxy S3. More than just a boring speaker, it [...] Read »
Leaving warm and sunny New Zealand for a Canadian winter is not something that one dreams of when they think of taking a break. But when engineering student Daniel Gray found himself visiting [...] Read »
Rupert Murdoch has been known to use Twitter to voice controversial social and political opinions and recently the media tycoon made several sweeping statements on climate science. Citing an [...] Read »
Tower of Ring is an attractive LED spire that in Tianjin, China. Designed by Eastern Design and built by Kawaguchi & Engineers, the tower is in the center square of Tianjin City. Says Inhabitat: [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Energy Efficient Liège Ice Rink Serves Up a Whale of a Good Time in Belgium Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", belgium, eco design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Bucolic Vejlskovgaard Stable is Like Club Med for 300 Dairy Cows in Denmark Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: club med for dairy cows, dairy cows, Daylighting, [...] Read »
Read the rest of MOSS is a Solar and Wind Powered Prefab Office Thats Perfect for the Backyard Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "solar energy", alternative energy, backyard office, [...] Read »
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