Miscellaneous
Onjuku is a popular seaside resort and fishing town on Chibas Pacific coast, about an hour and a half by train from Tokyo. The beach house is sited behind a bluff, 300 meters from Onjukus famous [...] Read »
Check out this really beautiful and simple 900 sq.ft. summer home in Argentina by BAK Architects. I love how the compact scheme is able to work with the challenges of the site to enhance the [...] Read »
The ABC of Architects from fedelpeye on Vimeo .This has gone viral, but it is too good not to share Read »
Weve been hearing for years that California neighborhood groups have been basically extorting money from developers afraid of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) delays. But James Brasuell, [...] Read »
Officials broke ground today on the long anticipated restoration of New Yorks High Bridge connecting the Bronx with Manhattan. Built in 1848 and today the citys oldest bridge, the 1,200-foot-long [...] Read »
While mega-sized McMansions were all the rage just a few years ago, tiny dwellings are now gaining popularity as more and more of us move to cities and urban centers. Cramming our lives into [...] Read »
Researchers at MIT just developed a new bio-polymer film that is able to generate electricity from a readily available source: water vapor. The material changes its shape as it absorbs evaporated [...] Read »
Optimista is a family home remodel located in Phoenix, Arizona, named after its owner’s outlook on the future. The house renovation was treated as a DIY project that would employ not only custom [...] Read »
After years of litigation, preservationists have lost the battle to save Richard Neutra’s Gettysburg cyclorama building, an iconic example of modern architecture from the 1960s. The bulldozers [...] Read »
Beginning on January 22, Pelli Clarke Pellis glass Winter Garden at Manhattans World Financial Center will be twinkling with strands of LED lights. Lighting artist and theater designer Anne [...] Read »
Weve all become accustomed to seeing aerial photography from apps like Google Maps, but this aerial panorama by Russian photographer Sergey Semonov presents Manhattans Central Park and its [...] Read »
Richard Meier x Massimo Vignelli on Nowness.com .Richard Meier and multi-disciplinary creator Massimo Vignelli reflect on their respective crafts, city life, their enduring friendship and their [...] Read »
Cook County Judge Neil Cohen swatted down Friday a lawsuit preservationists filed to save Prentice Women’s Hospital, but ordered an extension of the threatened Goldberg building’s stay of [...] Read »
Lizzie Schiffman of DNAinfo.comChicago is reporting that Cook County Circuit Judge Neil Cohen has dismissed Landmarks Illinois' lawsuit against the Commission on Chicago Landmarks for revoking [...] Read »
Perkins+Will is designing one cool corporate headquarters for bike components manufacturer, SRAM, in Chicagos Fulton Market District. Located inside the 1K Fulton development by the Sterling [...] Read »
Last Monday, the BBC has posted a series of pictures of uncontrolled sand mining activities in Sierra Leone, in West Africa. A post-conflict country confronted with a set of intertwined complex [...] Read »
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Architectural Works
With plans to become the worlds tallest building at about 3645 feet, the Azerbaijan Tower is being built on a series of artificial islands, the Khazar Islands, in the Caspian Sea 16 miles south [...] Read »
Dezeen archive: we've noticed a lot of black cropping up in architecture and design lately, so we've created an archive of all the black houses on Dezeen. See all our stories about black houses [...] Read »
Located on the former site on an old outdoor amphitheatre in Bratislava, Slovakia, the proposal for the housing and mixed use development, which won the first prize in the Parkhill competition, [...] Read »
Japanese studio MDS has completed a countryside retreat with south-facing rooms in the foothills of the Yatsugatake mountains (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
News: developers are building a private city on the outskirts of Guatemala City as a safe haven from the crime-ridden capital. (more...) Read »
CEBRA& has gained the support of The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities (LOA) for the realization of a new home for Denmark’s Sport Fishing Association in Vingsted, Denmark. [...] Read »
With the city of Zhangjiagang, China lacking their own identity, Gras Arquitectos& aims to create a presence and scale with their Tangram Theatre, which won the second prize in the international [...] Read »
Zidell Yards (rendering courtesy ZGF) BY BRIAN LIBBY Last Friday in Atlantic Cities, I wrote about the Zidell Yards development and its master plan by ZGF Architects. "Despite its size, Zidell [...] Read »
[ February 12, 2013 19:00 to March 8, 2013 19:00. ] Situ Studio& has been selected from eight competitors as winner of the fifth annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design, cosponsored by Times [...] Read »
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Technology
Urban Tree Salvage is one of Canadas largest manufacturers of salvaged materials and reclaimed lumber. Their Trinity Table is composed of three legs that would have been tippy on their own, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Specimens Hand-Crafted Horn Speakers Are Made from Recycled Newsprint and Dryer Lint Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Andrew Bird, chicago, custom instruments, [...] Read »
Read the rest of ArchiCentres S11 House Scores Platinum Level on the Malaysian Green Building Index Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ArchiCentre, house, landscape preservation, [...] Read »
Solar Panel photo from Shutterstock Solar Mosaic has proven that the people want renewable energy the startup company just funded three new projects in one day via crowd funding! Through a [...] Read »
Read the rest of Open Exchange Combines Social Interaction with Learning Technology for a Library of the Future Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: australia, australia architecture, [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Recycled Orchestra Performs Using Instruments Made from Landfill Trash Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cateura, Graham Townsley, landfill art, Landfill Harmonic, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Illuminated Wooden Güiro Bar Inspired by Tropical Fruit Shell Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: absolut art festival, guiro bar, installation architecture, Los [...] Read »
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City & Urbanism
Jerry Schranz, part of the public relations team, informed me this system takes wastewater from the building (that is derived from bathroom waste water, kitchen water, etc.). This water is then [...] Read »
One of the great joys of living in the urban jungle is the daily discovery of treasures left out on the sidewalk. Sadly, the elements have a way of destroying the best finds before hunters have [...] Read »
Opinions
News that East Vancouver hotspot the Waldorf Hotel will close its doors on January 20 has elicited a major reaction across... Read »
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