Architectural Works
Wilmotte & Associés& recently won the competition to design the 2018 FIFA World Cup Stadium in Kaliningra, Russia. Their design features an urban facade that wraps the stadium, consisting of [...] Read »
Seen as geologic formations rising from the land, the design for the KAFD Men’s and Women’s Portal Spas by WORKSBUREAU& form great shade porticos beneath long cantilevered masses. Located [...] Read »
News: Dutch architecture studio Universe Architecture is planning to construct a house with a 3D printer for the first time. (more...) Read »
Recently destroyed by the 2010 Earthquake, Port-au-Prince’s new design for the National Cathedral is presented as an absolute plain wall of concrete which expresses the true character of the [...] Read »
The Bulgari Pavilion, a temporary installation commissioned by prestigious luxury jewelry brand Bulgari, was designed by NaNA& for the Abu Dhabi Art 2012 event held Saadiyat al Manarat, Abu Dhabi [...] Read »
The new issue of MAS Context, a quarterly publication released by MAS Studio& , takes on the daunting issue of production and consumption impacting cities through the lens of a handful companies [...] Read »
Slums, shanty-towns, favelas - they are all products of an exploding migration from rural to urban areas. Over the last half century, people living in or near metropolises has risen in proportion [...] Read »
The first and only built project by the late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods is the Light Pavilion, one of of three large-scale installations at Steven Holl's recently completed Sliced Porosity [...] Read »
|
Miscellaneous
[Image: An otherwise unrelated image from NASA , an artist's rendition of the heliosphere and magnetic fields]. The Earth is " constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter ," New Scientist [...] Read »
Designed by ABIBOO Architecture, this 17,000 sq. ft. (1.600 m2) villa is located in a privileged area in the South-Hamptons with the sea surrounding the plot on two 2 different sides. The house [...] Read »
Say hello to Baxter, the $22,000 humanoid robot that could help revolutionize manufacturing in the US. Rethink Robotics, a Boston-based robotics firm, produced Baxter in an effort to give cheap [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
4a Architekten create a feel-good hotel ambience with functionality, efficiency and sustainability in mind. Nature, wellness and design – these were the guiding principles for 4a Architekten [...] Read »
"Anything we can do to expedite the speed with which people can get licensed is a good thing," says David Cronrath, AIA, Dean of the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning [...] Read »
|
Yes, it's never too late to add another great item to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events. Case in point: this Wednesday, January 23rd, the University of Michigan's Robert Fishman [...] Read »
When we instead describe the space by articulating the activities and interactions of the representative avatars and how we can respond to their needs, we then design more openly and completely. [...] Read »
|
Image via Shutterstock Yoga is practiced all over the world because of the health benefits it provides, but can yoga be divorced from its Hindu roots? That’s the question that parents began [...] Read »
When we instead describe the space by articulating the activities and interactions of the representative avatars and how we can respond to their needs, we then design more openly and completely. [...] Read »
Each January, the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) produces the annual BUILD Construction Conference . The comprehensive event includes a construction [...] Read »
|
