Friday's Top 50 Architecture News & Stories
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The City of Chicago approves the $575 million revised plan to remake Wrigley Field and the surrounding area, allowing as many as seven advertising signs to dot outfield walls. But potential lawsuits from nearby business owners could furt...
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Photo via Architizer Not since Archinect unearthed an old BBC news spot featuring Le Corbusier waxing poetic in his studio has the public gotten such a rare peek at the modernist master's legendary apartment and painting quarters. Starti...
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Richard Graves will be the new director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Sustainable Building Research, taking over for John Carmody, the founding director, who retired last year.
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Kate Middleton and her royal hubbie have renovated their kitchen, and the Daily Mail has a manna-from-heaven list of the appliances they now own. To wit, Anmer Hall is now home to a Sub-Zero & Wolf refrigerator-freezer, a Dualit four-sli...
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The design for the Chicago architect's San Francisco tower is unveiled, there's a secret pool in the middle of the Mojave, and more news to wrap up the week.
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Rambla House is a weekend home located in Zapallar, Valparaiso Region, along the central coast of Chile about 175km from Santiago. The site is exposed to strong south winds and intense sun from the west and LAND Arquitectos designed Ramb...
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The Senate voted to confirm Julian Castro as the new secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to replace Shaun Donovan.
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Dutch architect Knud Lonberg-Holm, the first European to teach Bauhaus in America, has his renderings, photos, letters, catalogs, and diagrams go on display.
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Our former Online Editor hyperventilates his way through BIG's DC maze, but despite the trauma feels that cities everywhere should get one.
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According to a new report from the United Nations, New York, Sao Paulo, and Osaka will be overtaken in size by faster-growing cities in Asia and Africa.
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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Nordstrom Tower, which will go up on West 57th Street in 2018, will be the world's tallest residential building and one foot shorter than 1 World Trade Center.
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Last night Studio Gang Architects unveiled designs of their first ever building in San Francisco, a 400 foot tall residential tower with an undulating, twisting facade. Inspired by the bay windows of older local buildings such as 450 Sut...
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London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has put the finishing touches to the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre – a new £135 million wing at the British Museum in London (+ slideshow). As one of the largest redevelopment proje...
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Given that the NCTU Unicode is based in Taiwan, a country notorious for its muggy and oppressive tropical summers, it's little surprise that the team honed in on their country's unsustainable and ubiquitous air conditioning practices. Th...
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Notable perks that come with this designated Seattle landmark, in no particular order: breathtakingly restored circa-1892 features, a spiffy green-and-orange color scheme that continues throughout, a cabana-covered hot tub, a pair of...
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Architects: Erick van Egeraat Location: Nieuwemarkt 1A, 3011 HP Rotterdam, The Netherlands Year: 2014 Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode… From the architect. The Erasmus University College, beautifully located at the Nieuwemarkt in ...
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After rapid growth, ICRAVE, a New York-based experiential branding and design firm, made the move to an 8,000 square foot studio with the intention of really making it their own. The space, designed by the ICRAVE team itself, goes beyond...
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Sprawled across 45 acres of equestrian property in Monticello, Ga., and dripping in Southern opulence and downright prettiness, this restored Georgian manse looks like every horse-obsessed middle school girl's dream—if slightly out...
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Rapper Akon just listed this truly absurd all-white manse in Woodland Hills, Calif. for $4M including furniture and a custom-built in-house music studio, and $3.5 without it. The "Smack That" balladeer's glossy Mac store-meets-ice castle...
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Intricate drawings by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Anja Kempa present a vision for how spring could be recreated in Tokyo, once cherry trees fail to blossom because of climate change. Remembering Spring forms Anja Kempa's MA ...
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The National Trust’s historic Packwood House is home to three new upcycled art installations by artist Hilary Jack. Using found materials and discarded Tudor furniture, Packwood Follies reimagines garbage as a folkloric bed and cabin. Th...
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Companies invest loads of money to make their brands look flawless, however, even the top brands can't do everything perfectly. Clif Dickens, a graphic designer from Nashville, decided to point out these flaws on his blog, called Honest ...
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ECOWEEK is a non-governmental NGO with the mission to raise awareness on environmental issues and Climate Change and to promote the principles of sustainability. ECOWEEK has been organizing conferences and workshops across Europe that in...
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The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright explores the inspiration behind Louis Kahn's posthumously built FDR monument in NYC, and wonders if it isn't one of the legendary American architects best works. Oddly enough, some of the early sketches f...
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In a cultural capital like Berlin, where ‘pop-up’ stores appear in abandoned warehouses, local brands emerge from stores over-run with squatters, and nightclubs rave in power plants, it is only appropriate that an art gallery would find...
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Photo via Co.Design · Tour Robert A.M. Stern's new High Line rentals. · 2013 U.S. Venice Biennale installation coming home. · A complete tour of the new OneEleven tower. · Commune with nature in these 6 productive off...
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The new building serves as the Elisabeth and Helmut Uhl Foundation's new headquarters and houses a mix of room types, including a glasshouse for experimental plant cultivation, refectory, and meeting rooms. Set atop a mountain, the split...
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Architects: Kengo Kuma and Associates Location: Aix-en-Provence, France Design Team: Kengo Kuma, Diego Lopez Arahuetes, Miruna Constantinescu, Natalia Sanz, Elise Fauquenbergue, Miguel Orellana, Junki Wakuda, Tristan Zelic, Magnus Cassel...
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Mole Architects based the shape and proportions of this rural home in Suffolk on the classical vicar's residences that are typically found in English countryside towns (+ slideshow). Like most rectories, the house is located on the edge ...
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has revealed Frank Gehry‘s designs for a 169,000 square foot expansion that will see the museum dig down to create a new set of galleries underneath its existing footprint. Already an unusual choice f...
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Movie: Bjarke Ingels explains how the $335 million his practice BIG was recently awarded to upgrade Manhattan's storm defences will be used to create a flood barrier disguised as a park in our second exclusive video interview with the Da...
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In these hypothetical designs entitled ” Casa Futebol… “, Architects Axel de Stampa and Sylvain Macaux of 1Week1Project have proposed a reappropriation of Brazil’s World Cup venues by inserting housing units of ap...
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If you’re one of those people who reach for blank bed covers, you will definitely be surprised at how much more interesting, stylish, and funny your nighttime bed can look! Take a look at these 20 bed cover designs that will make you re-...
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Informal ‘learning landscape’ is given a prominent position among more traditional instruction spaces.
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Garcias House is a residential project completed by Warm Architects. Completed in 2014, the home is located in Cancún, Mexico. Garcias House by Warm Architects: “Garcias House is located on a 273 square meter (2,940 square foot) lo...
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Architects: DP Architects Location: Singapore Sports Hub, 397718 Master Plan: DP Architects, Arup, AECOM Engineering: Arup Landscape: AECOM Year: 2014 Photographs: Courtesy of DP Architects… From the architect. In June 2014 Singapo...
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The auto and equipment maker releases nearly all of its “smart home” plans to the public.
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Jason Lamb, a recent graduate from London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, has developed a project which centres around the legacy of hydraulic fracturing in the British coastal city of Blackpool. The theoretical thesis, which em...
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Mottled red brickwork was used to build the gabled walls of this English school library by Mitchell Taylor Workshop, who more recently completed a humanities building for a historic school elsewhere in the country (+ slideshow). Complete...
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Architects: Dubail Begert Architectes Location: Rue des Prés 12, 2350 Saignelégier, Switzerland Client: Db Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Db… From the architect. Located in a residential area, this house built in 1974 is isola...
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Thinking about planning has changed: this is an intriguing study of 'urban acupuncture' and the informal city "Considering ideal conditions is a waste of time," Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner write in their 2005 book,...
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These 7 luxury villas are all within a housing complex designed by Giorgos Alexiou called the Aenaon Villas located on top of Santorini, Greece on the edge of the Caldara. The setting is spectacular with views of the Aegean Sea that seem...
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Architects: Brearley Architects + Urbanists Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu, China Architect In Charge: James Brearley, Fang Qun, Jiang Han, ,Lin Donghui, Richard Tam, Olga Mladenovic, Nicky Chang, Mao Jie, Zhou Yinying, Chen Lei Year: 2009 Ph...
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Stairs and bookshelves wrap around a triple-height atrium inside this university library, which Danish architecture studio Adept describes as a "spiral of knowledge" (+ slideshow). Dalarna Media Library replaces a car park at Dalarna Uni...
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Chicago-based starchitect Jeanne Gang will bequeath San Francisco's skyline with a 40-story residential tower with an experimental twist on the area's classic bay windows. They, according to Curbed SF, "swerve diagonally in 11-story sequ...
