Architectural Works
Located in the center of the business zone in the Jangbeizui District of Chongquig, China, the office building proposal by United Design Group& will service the business zone, promote the business [...] Read »
News: the Design Museum in London has announced the projects nominated for the Designs of the Year 2013, including the Olympic Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick, The Shard by Renzo Piano (above) [...] Read »
modeLabs videos from both Introduction to Processing and Algorithmic Design in Grasshopper webinars are now posted online. The Introduction to Processing webinar covered the basics of writing [...] Read »
Located in Latrobe Valley in South East Australia, the Fields on Synergy proposal is an integral brown field strategy which aims at providing a unique opportunity to create outstanding future [...] Read »
The 2013 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has recently been launched and is inviting applications from schools of architecture around the world. Proposals for research might include: [...] Read »
Haven’t checked ArchDaily in a while? Here’s the best from last week: Main image is from Hondelatte Laportes amazing Giraffe Childcare Center located in a suburban area of Paris. You cant [...] Read »
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced a five-point legislative agenda for the 113th Congress, targeting job creation for small businesses as a top priority. The agenda is [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
123DV architecture has completed a landscape full of surprises, Bridge House. The roads are lined with wildflowers. In summer, purple and yellow loosestrife are in bloom. Timber-framed farmhouses, [...] Read »
Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) just launched the world’s first atlas on clean energy. The Global Atlas, introduced at IRENA’S General Assembly on Sunday, currently [...] Read »
With a newly launched IndieGoGo campaign, Kansas City-based nonprofit organization MindDrive is raising funds to make a film about a group of at-risk youths who transformed a 1977 Lotus Esprit [...] Read »
Here's a short video of a 2012 installation by Zimoun at Bitforms Gallery . The installation is made up of 294 prepared DC motors, cork balls, and cardboard boxes. Be sure to have the volume [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
Hurricane Sandy came ashore late in the day on Monday, October 28, 2012. It is a date New York and New Jersey residents wont soon forget. The storm wiped out houses and pushed sand and water [...] Read »
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Read the rest of How To Start an Odor-Free Freezer Compost as a City or Small Space Dweller Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: compost, compost ideas, compost in a small space, [...] Read »
When you pay for a music festival ticket, there are some fees that are simply annoying. (Twenty bucks for a processing fee? Are the tickets being hand-delivered by the Pony Express?!) But for [...] Read »
There were a few themes of the 2013 Golden Globes: the flu, post-baby bodies, and odes to Angie's right leg. The popular colors ranges from red to black and lots of blush. There really wasn't [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of 1K Fulton: Chicago Cold Storage Facility Defrosted To Make Way For New Adaptive Reuse Office Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "office building", "sustainable [...] Read »
Since 2009, Apple has been working on creating an even more affordable iPhone for its millions of users. To keep the new model wallet-friendly, the lower-end smart phone would not necessarily [...] Read »
Read the rest of Japanese Takaya House Features a Natural Floor Made From Tamped Earth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Earthen Floor, green interiors, green materials, [...] Read »
This Valentines Day, a new heart-shaped boardwalk made from Hurricane Sandy debris will be installed in Times Square. The Heartwalk is being designed by Brooklyn-based Situ Studio, which [...] Read »
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While transparency regarding air quality data may still be relatively new to China, Sunday marked the third day of record-breaking, and remarkably dangerous smog in Beijing. Residents of the [...] Read »
Imagine that you could assemble your home in a matter of hours, as easily as you put together a desk that you bought from IKEA. Imagine that it dissembled more easily than the IKEA desk so that [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Each material has its own potential and we seek the most eloquent expression of it Paul Rudolph Champion of livable architecture and pioneering critic Ada Louise Huxtable has died at 91 | Why [...] Read »
When we last left this story the dark clouds of the financial crisis and the recession were descending on Manhattan... Read »
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