Latest and Breaking Architecture News and Top Stories - July 2
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The experimental net-zero-energy residence produced more energy than it consumed during its year-long test period.
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Photo via The Fox is Black It was only a matter of time before a set of designers who take playtime waaaaay too seriously crafted a dollhouse as sleek and sophisticated as this bamboo and oak set dreamed up by...
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Three years on from the Tohoku tsunami, Fukushima is still struggling to come to terms with the disaster, reports David Garcia
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Peter Cook’s critique of the 2014 Venice Biennale
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Following widespread criticism on human rights grounds, Design Museum London director Deyan Sudjic has defended the decision to give Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center its Design of the Year award. "It's a prize about architecture rather ...
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Qatar‘s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy have released images of the latest stadium designed for the 2022 World Cup. Located in Al Khor City, the Al Bayt Stadium will also be surrounded by the new Al Bayt district, which...
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The rise in the number of construction jobs last month represents the highest increase in the industry in over eight years.
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The Municipal Art Society of New York developed an interactive map of the city's five boroughs that shows available floor-area ratio, indicating spots that are ripe for development.
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Striking video of lightning hitting Willis Tower, landmark commission set to review Wrigley Field renovations, and more news for Wednesday.
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Both ominous and impressive with its stony façade and Corinthian pilasters, this St. Louis, Mo., mansion is back on the market for the first time in 50 years, asking $1.75M. Originally built...
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ArchDaily has teamed up with the The Berlage to provide exclusive access to their newly digitized archive of lectures. The Berlage is a postgraduate international institute where some of the world’s most renowned architects, thinkers, de...
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Startups and research teams can gain a competitive edge by securing consumer support before production starts.
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Among the unattractive designs are the Willis Tower, the Thompson Center, and The Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Lightning struck the Willis Tower multiple times in a Chicago storm on Monday night.
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The designer's proposal won the inaugural Workplace of the Future Design Competition, co-presented by Metropolis and Business Interiors by Staples.
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Illustrations via Harvey Water Softeners Spotted by way of Co.Design: an illustrated chronicle of home design offering minimalist drawings of living rooms from the 1950s (the epoch of Danish designers and powder pink...
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Architects: Mecanoo Location: Sittard, The Netherlands Area: 5,375 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Christian Richters, Mecanoo Structural Engineer: Bartels Ingenieursbureau B.V., Eindhoven Electrical And Mechanical Engineer, Acoustics, Build...
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Multi-level homes that are short on space often feature ladders in order to minimize the amount of lost floor area. Typically, this means ho-hum rails and rungs that don’t particularly add anything to the aesthetics of the home. Al...
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Photo via Remodelista In creating himself a tropical getaway in the Bahamas, interior designer Tom Scheerer overhauled a pair of dilapidated structures; a nunnery that he convert into his main house, and an 1800s cottage that became his ...
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New York- and New Zealand-based multidisciplinary designer Richard Clarkson has created one of his most elegant creations – the Cloud. The interactive installation is both a lamp and a speaker, joining light and sound into a true thunder...
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Curbed NY has a staggeringly deluxe tour of one of the most decadent, amenity-laden NYC penthouses that $50M can buy. Located in the same eco-friendly Delos high rise that's home to Leonardo DiCaprio and spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, the...
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Bloomsbury’s interior design project by GO Design has gathered a lot of attention, including the award on 2011 Commercial Interior Design Awards for the Retail of the Year Winner. For more images as well as the architects desc...
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AA Visiting School is an international network of design workshops and other programs organized by the Architectural Association School of Architecture . This event will be realized in Bilbao, Spain between July 23 and August...
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Photo courtesy of Toiletpaper 1968: Italian Radical Design is a brick-thick furniture tome of fat cardboard pages; crack it open and the photos (there are almost no words) are so vivid, its colors so juicy, it would almost be mistaken...
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A vibrantly furnished L.A. condo formerly owned by the late Lawrence Weiss, a.k.a. Larry Harmon, a.k.a. the man who built an entertainment empire out of Bozo the Clown, has listed for $950K. The 2,600-square-foot unit has two fireplaces,...
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In the following interview, presented by ArchDaily Materials and originally published by Sixty7 Architecture Road, Canadian firm Campos Leckie Studio defines their process for designing site-specific, beautiful architecture that speaks ...
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Crowdfunding is helping startups and research teams gain a competitive edge by securing consumer support before production starts.
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Photo via Arch Daily · A very nice terrace in the West Village wants $1.4M. · Blob-shaped courtyard bar sculpted in Nantes. · Delightful Kirkwood renovation asks $309K. · Tour an architecture studio's treehouse hideou...
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Architects: DISSING+WEITLING Architecture Location: Ecco Alleen 4, Tonder, Denmark Area: 4,000 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Adam Mørk Engineer: INGENIØR’NE Landscape Architect: Yards Landscape Interior Design: FORM Cph From the architect....
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The overlapping volumes that comprise this family house outside Barcelona were designed by Spanish studio Mirag with clean white exteriors and bare concrete interiors (+ slideshow). Located in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, a town located 20...
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Interesting design for the Eagle Ridge Residence on Orcas Island, Washington State is work of a team of architects from Gary Gladwish Architecture practice, discover more of their unique solution after the jump: (...)Read the rest of The...
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Last week, the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion opened in London‘s Hyde Park. The Serpentine Pavilion program invites architects who are yet to work in the UK to create a temporary installation at the gallery’s grounds for one summer...
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Responding to the IPCC’s recent message of ‘adapt to survive’ requires more than bigger dams. Rather than change how we build, we must change how we think, writes Kit Jones
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Design: Smerin Architects The brief called for a new four bedroom house set in a pastoral glade. The procurement was a conventional contract - however the contractor fell into financial difficulties and the client self-managed the comple...
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Splendid design for the Style Bakery project located in Kiryu, Japan comes from SNARK studio, according to them: Using the light grey as the concept colour of the brand, the shop holds the sense of unity, and the bright and clean .....
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News: the Design Museum in London has defended its decision to give its Designs of the Year top prize to a Zaha Hadid building in Azerbaijan, following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds. "It's a prize about archi...
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Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger The renovation of the technological halls is the cornerstone of an ambitious renovation program that aims to give the ENSAM School a new face and allow it to stand out as an "engineering school of the ...
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Greg Klassen is an artist who creates beautiful wooden tables with glass rivers and lakes embedded into their surfaces. “I try to marry the natural beauty of the wood with the skilled craftsmanship of the maker,” explains Klassen. Relate...
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published a report which it hopes will influence government policy writers in time for the general election next year. The report outlines the RIBA’s stance on a wide variety of ...
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The latest Danish harbour bath turns its famous precedent inside out in the hope of attracting more users.
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Design: OAM Architecture OAM Architecture is an idea, a “living creature” that has a genetic modified using new architectural techniques, which allow the addition, deletion or modification of gene elements The post Bamboo – Urban Metamor...
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This stunning renovation project was completed by Paola Navone. It is located in Umbria, Italy. Photos by: Wichmann + Bendtsen More...
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Architects: MIRAG ArquitecturaiGestió Location: Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, Barcelona, Spain Architects In Charge: Xavier Ramoneda, Pau Millet Area: 300 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jordi Surroca Collaborators: Marta Grau, Beth Bacardit En...
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Design: John McAslan & Partners John McAslan's Smithfield proposal is 'sophisticated', states English Heritage. Save Britain's Heritage calls the plans the 'worst mutilation of a major Victorian building in 30 years'. The market hal...
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Russian practice Project Meganom have won a competition to redesign the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Their winning entry seeks to transform the museum complex into a hive of cultural activity, preserving the institution&#...
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Three Parts House is a private residence designed by Architects EAT. Located in South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, the home was completed in 2013. Three Parts House by Architects EAT: “A 520sqm (5,597sqft) single family...
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An architecture graduate from the University of Westminster has designed a temporary plywood "temple" for the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The Hayam Sun Temple is a development from a project Josh Haywood worked on...
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Architects: Primus Arkitekter Location: Randbølvej 67, Vanløse, Denmark Area: 130 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Courtesy of Primus Arkitekter Engineer: Okholm Construction: JB construction ApS Cost: 450,000 € From the architect.… The...
View the 29 Architectural projects in running for Victoria’s Premier Design Awards 2014
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Good Design and Victorian Government release Victoria’s Premier Design Awards entries for 2014 including 29 projects in the Architectural Design category.
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A Sydney shopping centre upgrade by Australian-based, architecture firm, Buchan Group is near completion
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The Moropholio Project has just announced the finalists in the Pinup 2014 competition for outstanding studio, 3D-printed or unbuilt work from today’s emerging talent. The Winner(s) will be selected by the Jury, which includes parti...
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Curbed NY took the last-ever tour of One Wall Street under its current ownership, before the Bank of New York Mellon vacates it following the $585M sale of the Art Deco skyscraper. One highlight from the Ralph Walker-designed building is...
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Claiming the grand title of the priciest Chicago mansion on the market today, this monstrous $18.75M estate is so massive that Curbed Chicago insists it covers 20,000 square feet and "takes up...
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Photo via Dezeen Sovereign of all that swoops and flows Zaha Hadid has had her Heydar Aliyev Center selected by London's Design Museum as its Design of the Year, making her the first woman to receive the award in its...
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Dying to live like European royalty but unwilling to leave the majestic "hinterlands of South Florida?" Well, very specific crazy person, consider this abandoned 5,635-square-foot castle property in Homestead, Fla. Some might balk at a $...
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Illustration via Design Boom In the name of Ikea, the world's largest (read: world-dominating) furniture retailer with the world's most ingenious (if slightly oddball) marketing team, London-based artist Rod Hunt has illustrated—in...
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There's inevitably a lot to read into with an architect's own home. With some, it's clear that the designer in question took the opportunity to make something unchecked by client requests and ran with it, creating a home that's...
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After blipping on and off the market since last September, Anne Hathaway's 2,592-square-foot Brooklyn loft has finally sold for $4.25M, just a bit less than the original ask of $4.5M. The buyer is still a mystery as of now, so...
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Fashion and home goods designer Trina Turk, an established virtuoso in the ways of high-quality historic real estate and optimistic aesthetics of decades past, won the bidding battle over the deed for L.A.'s Jules Salkin Residence, a for...
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New York YIMBY has spotted permits indicating that SHoP Architects has been tapped to design Brooklyn's next tallest tower, which will top off at 775 feet, or nearly 200 feet over the current record holder. This latest development from N...
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Photo via Design You Trust · Here's the worlds next observation spindle. · Shukhov Tower's fate put to a vote. · Moscow launches competition to design metro stations. · Inside a 'zen barn.' · Jack Osbourne's new ...
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Formerly home to late Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize-winning (whew) composer Marvin Hamlisch, this hilltop property in Bedford, N.Y., just hit the market for $7.95M. Hamlisch—the man behind such shower...
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Apartment Therapy has a big list of little ways to tell whether your apartment is really, really tiny. Fun (but depressingly relatable) signs include "when you don't have to get off the sofa to get a cold drink out of...
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Curbed Seattle has a list of the wackiest comments spouted by locals displeased by the possibility of a new aPodment micro-housing complex in Seattle, which, like all tiny homes, would provide a cheap living alternative. Gems include all...
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. Click here to view the full...
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For the unbeatable price of $1, guests can rent this Brooklyn prison cell in the middle of a performance artist's living room, where absolutely no sleeping, internet, books, electronic devices, talking, meditation, or yoga is allowed. "I...
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Photo: Shutterstock/TAGSTOCK1 From the public promenade overlooking NYC's East River to Navy Pier in Chicago, the Curbed universe offers myriad viewing spots from which to catch the Fourth of July fireworks this year. Options range from ...
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Rule number one of selling NYC property to high-rolling foreigners, according to a recent New York Magazine story on the practice: "you can't try to sell them property—you offer them status, or a lifestyle, or a unique place in the...
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Photo via Design Sponge When interior designer Sara Knowles and chef Logan Cox were first hunting around Seattle for a place to live, this 1924 Craftsman-style house immediately caught the couple's eye, as it had newly been remodeled by ...
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Architects: sms design Location: Section 2, Jianguo North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 104 Architect In Charge: SMS Design CO. Ltd + Feng-Chi Peng Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of SMS Design… From the architect....
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The Liv-Lib' project consists of two elements: “hubs” and “habitation capsules.” The hubs are solar-powered urban infrastructure cores that contain technological and ecological systems necessary for the operation of the housing, such as ...
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Our friends at The Creators Project have shared with us an awesome video of the latest MoMA PS1 installation: Hy-Fi. Designed by The Living, who have – in a fascinating move – recently been acquired by Autodesk, the towerR...
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The project combines recycled materials such as tires and old pallets to create a space for environmental education, leisure and sports. Located in Povoa de Santa Iria in Portugal, the park aims to provide the inhabitants of adjacent urb...
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Architect Zaha Hadid has described her Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan as an "incredible achievement" while project architect Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu said the project expressed the "soft, romantic side" of Azeri culture (+ intervi...
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Open House was designed by raumlaborkorea (with the help of the community), and celebrated its grand opening last month. But it isn't technically "complete" - and that's the whole point! raumlaborkorea's intention was for the village to ...
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Architects: ANMA Location: 100 Lorient, Corancy, France Architect In Charge: Nicolas Michelin, Michel Delplace, Cyril Trétout Project Director: Etienne Chalet-Hayard Project Manager: Ronan Le Hyaric Area: 5,743 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs...
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The stunning Boomslang walkway is a permanent attraction at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and provides amazing views of one of the country's most celebrated arboretums. It was named after a species of poisonous snake, whose ...
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News: Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to design a woodland cultural centre for the organisation run by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, after claiming their proposal won't involve felling a single tree (+ slid...
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"Camping is defined as getting away from an urban area, and enjoying nature, spending one or two nights in a location. As such, the phrase urban camping contradicts itself. "Urban camping informally and unexpectedly revealed itself in ex...
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Design: Wingårdh Strange enough, no large auditorium was built at Karolinska Institutet when its campus was created in the 1940’s. Yes, there were intentions, but the medical university expanded in numbers as well as ranking without any ...
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Finished with blackened timber and rabbet joints, the periscope-shaped retreat features two large glazed openings that let in natural light and direct views towards two different directions in the landscape. Large wooden shutters can be ...
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The RhOME for denCity team consists of professors and researchers from the Architecture, Business Studies and Engineering departments of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and a department of Politecnico di Milano. The compulsion behin...
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Rather than build each school its own gym, the three pooled their resources to build a single Mega-Gym that would provide their students lots of options for play and sport. Inside the Spordtgebouw are four sports halls on the ground floo...
