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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Archinect
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Guillermo Acuña Associated Architects Location: El Salto 4291, Huechuraba, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile Architect In Charge: Guillermo Acuña Associate Architect: Alberto Andrioli Project Area: 5700 sqm Project Year: 20... - As Norman Foster's City of London curio goes on the market for £640m, here's a look at the close relationship between tall buildings and economic collapse Skyscrapers are usually considered signs of success, steel-framed declarations of ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ArchitizerArchitecture’s most challenging arena? Playing against type in the built environment of sports. Read more.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
A few years ago, Inhabitat had a chance to catch up with M Design's eco-prefab architect Mark Baez in lovely Venice, CA. He gave us a personal tour of his M Cube home—a minimalist, modular, sustainable, and surprisingly affordable prefa... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsAlexandra Lange on the Lucas museum architects, John King on green walls, and more news for this summer Tuesday.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Archinect
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Five of history’s most iconic modern houses are re-created as illustrations in this two-minute video created by Matteo Muci. Set to the tune of cleverly timed, light-hearted music, the animation constructs the houses piece-by-piece...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe competition recognizes modernist single-family houses built in North Carolina in the past five years.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsAmong the many metros experiencing high price appreciation, several markets jumped out with dramatic year-over-year price spikes from the first quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe selection of MAD Architects' Ma Yasong and Studio Gang Architects' Jeanne Gang raised eyebrows in architectural circles.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsAn online map by the Urban Institute reveals the nation's rental housing crisis.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Standing in an artificial islet in the east of the city, the Diamond Island Community Hall will consist of eight 80-ft wide bamboo domes. These cozy cocoons will serve as flexible spaces for holding conferences, meetings, children's acti... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Archinect
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from A/N BlogNobody likes the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. Nobody. And an infusion of $90 million probably won’t change that. According to the New York Times, the money, which was approved by the authority last week, will b...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The Dutch-Belgian practice's wonderful floating bridge provides pedestrian access and an emergency exit from the Ravelijn op den Zoom fortress. Located on a small island and surrounded by a deep-water moat, the centenary building is curr... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Autoban's design for the Heydar Aliyev International Airport spans the four levels of the triangular terminal building, which was designed by engineering firm Arup. Concave glass walls gently wrap the entire structure, and the building's... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update
Façonnable group entrusted BT Arquitectos firm, the creation of the main office and showroom interior design at Punta Pacifica, Panama. Following the brand´s trends, the architects presented a customized classic, yet contempora... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Dunn & Hillam Architects Location: New South Wales, Australia Design Team: Ashley Dunn, Lee Hillam, Linden Thorley, Jonathan Temple Year: 2013 Photographs: Kilian O’Sullivan Structural Engineer: John Carrick Builder: Smit... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ArchitizerOur Project of the Day is House YM by FOAS (Fumihito Ohashi Architecture Studio). Read more.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from I Like Architecture
The “Manchester School of Art” project by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has been shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling prize. This major extension to the progressive Manchester School of Art,[...] The post Manchester School ... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsBy modifying steel's granular structure to reflect that of the natural building material, researchers in the U.S. and China were able to improve its mechanical performance under stress.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from e-architect
Design: NBJ Architects The restructuration and expansion of the helicopter base for civil security in Nimes Garons is a relatively complex project, under two major constraints. The post Helicopter Group of Civil Security Extension in Nim... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from A/N BlogMore than one year after Reed Kroloff announced he would leave his post as director of Michigan’s Cranbrook Academy of Art, the illustrious arts campus and museum has plucked an art museum director from the West Coast to fill his shoes. ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Mohammad Domiri is a young self-taught photographer from northern Iran who takes beautiful photos of traditional architectural monuments throughout the Middle East. Most of his subjects are grand traditional mosques, heavily decorated wi... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
News: Swiss office Fruehauf Henry & Viladoms has been selected ahead of Kengo Kuma, Bernard Tschumi and Studio Mumbai to envision a new wing for the Musée du Léman on the edge of Lake Geneva (+ slideshow). Featuring rough concrete wa... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ArchitizerInflatable concrete homes could be affordable housing’s newest hope. Read more.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Mies van der Rohe, many architects have dabbled in designing smaller-scale items. While some argue that industrial design is not an architect’s place, many would beg to differ. The following article, orig... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from e-architect
Design: FAAB Architektura Investment divided into three phases, including construction of the new Regional Blood Center building, shelter for the mobile blood center and the first in Poland specialized Center for Blood Cancer Diagnostics... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Bees already pollinate the great majority of our fruits and veggies - but could they build our buildings as well? Former Gizmodo Editor-in-Chief Geoff Manaugh, and designer John Becker came up a plan to use bees to 3D print architectural... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update
Built in 1963 by Álvaro Siza Vieira and now renovated Boa Nova Tea House will open this July as a Restaurant leaded by the renowned Chef Rui Paula. (...)Read the rest of Boa Nova Tea House by Alvaro Siza Vieira ... Read More T... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Kawabe Naoya Architects Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Area: 70 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Shinkenchiku-sha From the architect.… I move from Kamakura Station to the residential area by a train. I pass t... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
Internal lighting shines between the vertical larch battens that clad this extension to a primary school near Basel by Swiss firms Zwimpfer Partner Architekten and BBK Architekten. Situated in the centre of the village of Biel-Benken, th... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Google has a truly outstanding exhibit on its campus in California – a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton named Stan. The dinosaur was discovered near Google's headquarters and has been “living” on the campus since 2006. The quirky pet, however,... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from e-architect
Design: Potiropoulos D+L Architects The Kindergarten – of the German School of Athens in this case - is the first public building a young child comes in contact with, and hence, attributes to it a dilated importance. The post Kindergarte... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Sited in the city of Zhuhai, China, this museum by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos… seeks to combine the opposing ideas of a festive, airy aesthetic with the need for a protected and enclosed space to showcase artwork. To that en... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Urban Realm Latest NewsWork to deliver a new £48.5m school campus in Wick has got underway as the Highland Council presses ahead with a merger of Wick High School, Pulteneytown Academy Primary and South Primary within a single campus. Designed by Ryder W...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from The Modern House Blog
A House For All Seasons by John Lin, in Shijia Village, Shaanxi Province, China, was completed in 2012. Built with the support of The University of Hong Kong, the project is a contemporary prototype based on the vernacular of local villa... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from e-architect
Design: BCVA with Domus architects Brøndby Strand Parkerne is the largest housing schemes realised within the post war expansion of Copenhagen - known as ”The Finger Plan”. It was constructed in 1969-73 with late modernism approach regul... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
London-based firm Assemble has been selected to design a new art gallery for Goldsmiths College at the University of London. Assemble was chosen over five other shortlisted firms for the project, which consists of constructing a new 400 ... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Frameweb Architecture NewsThe architects add outdoor, in-between spaces in this Australian library extension.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from a+t BlogThe Monte Amiata complex was another attempt at a laboratory reproduction of urban complexity, again outside the city. Even today, forty years later, it remains a complex which is completely foreign to all that taking place in the surrou...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Dezeen » ArchitectureNews: American film director George Lucas has appointed Beijing firm MAD and Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects to design his proposed art museum on Chicago's lakefront. Centred around the Star Wars creator's own collection, the Lucas ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
American artist Mary Ellen Croteau assembles realistic images using only the caps of used plastic bottles. She uses the caps' original colors to create realistic shading and hues in her images. Related posts: Russian Pensioner Uses 30,00... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: tUG workshop Location: Lake Hume, Australia Area: 386 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Trevor Mein Design/Project Architect: Michael Markham Architectural Assistant: James Jamison Environmental/Glazing Engineer: Peter Steudle Stru... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
MagMag… , a student-edited compendium of essays, projects and ideas from Glasgow’s Mackintosh School of Architecture, is now in its 39th edition. Following on from what has so far been a momentous year for the Mac, in which they’ve... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
Brightly coloured signs adorned with words related to "love in all its forms" decorate this architectural installation that designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan have created for a summer festival in London (+ slideshow). The Temple... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Plusminusarchitects Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Architect In Charge: Maroš Fečík Area: 556 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Maroš Fečík From the architect.… Dlhé Diely is a hilly residential area in the western part of Br... -
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from e-architect
Photos around the city centre showing the contrast between the old colonial architecture and the bold new buildings, especially the skyscrapers along the river. Photos of major buildings in this major South East Asian city include: Marin...
