Architectural Works
As a designer, architect, artist and founder of the Mediated Matter group at MIT’s Media Lab, Neri Oxman has dedicated her career to exploring how digital design and fabrication technologies [...] Read »
Suzanne O'Connell of Hackney studio The Decorators introduces a temporary restaurant in a local market and a community event on top of a multi-storey car park in this movie filmed by Dezeen at [...] Read »
News: American studio CODA has won this year's MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art [...] Read »
Esteemed industrial designer Kenneth Grange is the unsung hero of the design world. His food mixers for Kenwood and cameras for Kodak are found in nearly every house in the country, and all Londoners [...] Read »
Designed by architect Dina Hadi& , the proposal for the Beirut Multi Art Use project represents a total art mass from the city with different rhythms and patterns. It becomes a live scene from [...] Read »
Synthesis Design + Architecture Inc. and Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design and Research Co. Ltd& have been awarded first place in the invited international design competition [...] Read »
Y-shaped wooden columns support rooms and lofts at different levels inside this family house in Matsudo, Japan, by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) Read »
With much awaited anticipation, Steven Holls Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China has just been completed. Forming giant public plazas with a mix of various functions, the group of five [...] Read »
Aimed to support educational, cultural, and artistic projects based on the knowledge of the marine environment and its comprehension, the Jacques Rougerie Foundation recently announced the winners [...] Read »
Earlier this week, we presented the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) top selection of architecture that best exemplifies excellence in the United States for the year of 2013. Now, [...] Read »
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has selected CODA ’s (Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY) large-scale, self-supporting Party Wall, & made from leftover shreds of skateboard material, as [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
For those who love all things Brooklyn branded, the exhibition, BKLYN DESIGNS, will be back in DUMBO from May 10-12—just in time for New York Design Week—with its selection of contemporary [...] Read »
This week, the US Army dedicated the worlds largest low-concentration solar photovoltaic installation on its White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The installation will generate 10 million [...] Read »
click images for larger view No, the tenants of gently-curving, 1923 Alfred Alschuler London Guarantee Building at Wacker and Michigan haven't turned into recluses. They've simply disappeared. [...] Read »
[Editor's Note: This the first in a three-part series documenting the winners of the AIA 2013 Honor Awards, which are broken down into three categories: architecture, interiors, and urban design. [...] Read »
In the United States, finding out that much of the meat served in school lunches contains pink slime (second-grade meat treated with ammonia) was a pretty shocking discovery. In the UK, a watchdog [...] Read »
The furniture makers of Strawser & Smith not only save, refurnish and reupholster antiques from warehouses, old factories and antique dealers, but they also design and create new pieces using [...] Read »
Mississippi River photo from Shutterstock 2012 saw the United States hit by some of the most devastating droughts in recent memory. However its not just Americas farmers and agricultural developers [...] Read »
Well, it happened. After years of strife over the project, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved the $2 billion, 1.5 million square foot redevelopment of the Century Plaza Hotel in [...] Read »
When it comes to swimming through the water with efficiency and ease, gliding is the best way to get around. A team of engineers led by Xiaobo Tan from Michigan State University have refined [...] Read »
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Photo via Shutterstock Its perhaps a bit surprising that Australia—with its sunny self-presentation—is not only the worlds largest exporter of coal, but at 28 billion tonnes of CO2 per [...] Read »
The world’s first imprintable and bendable battery, developed by scientists from South Korea, could pave the way for flexible mobile devices in the near future. According to their research, [...] Read »
When my friend Abigail Jorgensen asked if I wanted to come downtown and check out a new Italian restaurant for which she is doing public relations, I immediately said yes. The restaurant in [...] Read »
[Editor's Note: This the first in a three-part series documenting the winners of the AIA 2012 Honor Awards, which are broken down into three categories: architecture, interiors, and urban design. [...] Read »
Last summer, electronics giant Panasonic announced plans to completely reinvent itself and become the top green innovation company in the electronics industry. Now, the company is backing up [...] Read »
There are over 7,500 tomato species in the world, yet most people only buy and eat what the local supermarket has to offer which isnt much at all. To address this issue, Sebastiaan Sennema [...] Read »
Google’s grand experiment on the Great Plains, dubbed “Silicon Prairie” by some, is to revitalize Kansas City with superfast internet. That network hookup could make KC a hotspot for new [...] Read »
Lord Norman Foster, the hyper-modern British Pritzker Prize winner, is having a moment in New York, with numerous projects underway across Manhattan. But his latest hews away from the slick techno-futurism [...] Read »
Oliver Schaus “Street Furniture” is another creative approach to urban seating. The project consists of a series of guerrilla public seating areas created by wrapping yellow drainage pipes [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority have teamed up to design new high-speed trains that will operate on both the East and West Coasts. A high-speed line connecting San Francisco [...] Read »
This Seadrift Residence home by CCS Architecture in San Francisco may not look out of the ordinary for a modern lakehouse, but this sleek and stylish 1,900 square foot home is as environmentally [...] Read »
[Editor's Note: This the third in a three-part series documenting the winners of the AIA 2013 Honor Awards, which are broken down into three categories: architecture, interiors, and urban design. [...] Read »
When you look at a vacant lot, do you see beyond the emptiness? Architecture For Humanity/Chicago is posing that challenge in its Activate! Temporary Public Space Design Competition .The American [...] Read »
12e. TRANSPORTATION--LIVERY CABS For anyone who doesn't know what this means, a livery cab is a little nicer than the basic yellow cab. It can be a short limousine, but most often it's a plain [...] Read »
London's Design Museum this week announced the nominees for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. The shortlist consists of over 90 outstanding design projects from around the world in the last [...] Read »
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Spotted on a Chinese Twitter account and now making its way around various online social networks, behold Zaha Hadid as an up-and-coming young architect working at OMA and her boss, with a full [...] Read »
The Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion roof channels rainwater for irrigation on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Jump on a ferry in Downtown Boston and in twenty minutes, you’ll arrive at the Boston [...] Read »
Before you head over to Circolo on Bond Street, make sure you stop into Paula Rubenstein 's new venue. You may remember her old legendary shop on Prince Street. It was so jammed packed with [...] Read »
A bit of light reading anyone? The Lumio may look like a hard-bound book on the outside but open the cover and it unfolds into a beautiful modern light! Lumio was created by industrial designer [...] Read »
Waste separation trash bins in Vienna's subway stations. Beautiful but do they make sense?
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Chicago Magazine’s Elly Fishman has an interesting story on Lands End founder Gary Comers efforts to save his old neighborhood. Pocket Town, a portion of Greater Grand Crossing on the Far [...] Read »
Framed:Interfaces, Narratives, and the Convergence of Architectural and Internet Technologies Thursday, January 24 6:00pm-8:00pm AIA New Practices New York 29 Ninth Avenue/Axor NYC Showroom The [...] Read »
In an innovative response to the current property squeeze in China, a Beijing architectural and a design firm have combined creative forces to develop a portable house and garden on the back [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Glass Farm: MVRDVs Modern Glass Building is Printed with a Traditional Farmhouse Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", architects, [...] Read »
Read the rest of North Shore Community Colleges Solar-Powered Health Professions Center Achieves Zero Net Energy Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Danvers, daylight, DiMella Shaffer, [...] Read »
The European Urban Media Network Connecting Cities is a network with the aim of creating an exchange between urban activists, creatives, passers-by and city inhabitants from all over the world [...] Read »
Read the rest of O+As Recycled Shipping Container Theater Pops Up in Amsterdam’s Shipyard Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amsterdam, Architecture, green resources, NDSM shipyard, [...] Read »
Fire hoses are designed to withstand hundreds of pounds of water pressure, which makes them a durable and versatile material for recycling once theyve been retired. HoseWear recently launched [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Lefebvre-Smyth Residence in British Columbia Minimizes Footprint but Maximizes Sustainability Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: british columbia, daylight, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Vilamarina Housing Complex Faces a Self-Irrigating Park Outside of Barcelona Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Barcelona city planning, Batlle i Roig, eco design, [...] Read »
News
Ithaca, New York-based firm CODA has won this year's Young Architects Program competition to design a temporary installation for P.S.1, the Museum of Modern Art-run contemporary art space in [...] Read »
At a time when the notion of omniscient master architects is seen by many critics as passé, a day-long design conference in San Francisco suggested that the concept remains in vogue with the wider public. Read »
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