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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Construction is well underway for KPF's Lotte World Tower in Seoul , however the mysterious appearance of sinkholes in the surrounding area - as reported by CNN - has brought on a slew of... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
In 2013, PITCHAfrica's Waterbank School in Kenya was named the "Greenest School on Earth." Now another of their projects has just officially opened at the Endana Secondary School in Laikipia, Kenya. The annual harvesting capability of th... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Vietnamese design firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects started construction on FPT University's administrative building, a seven-story prefab structure with a dramatic green and white checkerboard facade. Located in Thach That just outside Han... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
To take advantage of solar gains, the architects installed triple-glazed windows on both the Leeuw House's south and west facades, and left the north facade mostly closed. The glazing is slightly set back from the darkly tinted gray faca... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Rintala Eggertsson Architects' temporary installations were inspired by traditional structures used by arctic residents for drying fish in order to preserve them for the long northern winters. The lightweight racks are easy to dismantle ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
If you've ever used a Jawbone, sat in a Sayl, or fired up a SodaStream, then you're sure to be familiar with the work of industrial design superstar Yves Behar. He's also the designer behind pioneering projects for social good like the O... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The once abstract of climate refugees fleeing from a weather-ravaged corner of the world in search of safety has now become cold, hard reality. According to Grist, New Zealand officials recently accepted a refugee application by a family... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The Transustainable House features a mix of outdoor, indoor and "semi-indoor" areas spread over two levels. The whole ground floor is covered in pebbles, and its minimal decor, natural light and the large sliding windows blur the relatio... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The innovative sculpture provides a double treat by brightening up the streets of Baltimore with thought provoking public art that is also functional. Local bus riders can get creative as well as assume different postures when waiting fo... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
Argentinian office Estudio Aire rested concrete volumes on top of each other to create a shaded overhang at the entrance to this house for an artist (+ slideshow). House M was designed by Estudio Aire for a woman with two grown children ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Kawabe Naoya Architects Design Office Location: Shirokane, Minato, Tokyo, Japan Area: 500.0 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Akinobu Kawabe… From the architect. Place in common space It is a housing complex in five story and... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from A/N BlogGeorge Lucas is making architectural waves again. And it has nothing to do with a museum. In 2012 AN reported that Lucas had torn down 3389 Padaro Lane, a 1981 Modernist masterpiece on the beach by sculptor and architect Sherrill Broudy ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from A/N BlogNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that allows New York City to lower its default speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25. The legislation, which is expected to go into effect within 90 days, is part of the city’s on...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Today marks the 45 th birthday of Joshua Prince-Ramus . Receiving a bachelor of arts in philosophy from Yale , Prince-Ramus graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1996. He was one of the... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from A/N BlogJoin us in Miami Beach this September 16-17th for the annual Hospitality Design event that brings you the latest FF&E for the hospitality industry. With a keen focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, the event stands to entertain...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
News: a Dutch firm specialising in floating structures has unveiled plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake with a glass roof so that guests can watch the Northern Lights while bobbing off the coast of Tromso in Norway. The design for ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from e-architect
Design: Lee Boyd and Four-by-Two Beefeater Gin opens London's first ever Gin Distillery visitor centre, designed by Lee Boyd and Four-by-Two Lee Boyd has recently collaborated on the exciting new visitor centre for Beefeater Gin at their... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from A/N BlogIn 2009, vandals pushed a dump truck through a hole in the wall on the fourth story of the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit. (Of course there’s a video.) It’s a level of dereliction and decay that’s frankly common to North A...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: DLR Group Location: 3901 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653, USA Area: 20000.0 ft2 Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of DLR Group… From the architect. Design Achievement – Response time to an emergency call can... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from eVolo | Architecture Magazine
For some time now there has been a plan to design a museum of oil in Italy . The site of Vallezza , starting from the first drilling in 1905 , has established itself as a strategic center for the extraction of hydrocarbons in Italy; it h... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Details have been leaked of a major new development on the Southern edge of downtown Toronto, just East of Union Station. The scheme, uncovered by UrbanToronto and its inquisitive users, involves the connection of sites on both sides of ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
Briefed to design a holiday home that feels like a campsite, Australian studio Dunn & Hillam Architects has completed a residence in New South Wales based on the old "dogtrot houses" of the American deep south (+ slideshow). Dunn ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA new energy-saving, maintenance-friendly, high-color-rendering lighting design illuminates the Charters of Freedom and its grand architectural setting.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentThe first phase of this curbside enhancement project at Los Angeles International Airport illuminates the upper and lower roadways as well as the entrance into the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA red and white color palette, along with strategically placed lighting elements, provides a sleek and minimalist-styled makeover to the company’s Morristown, N.J., headquarters.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA white-light color palette distinguishes between the man-made and natural elements of this memorial commemorating those that have been lost to politically and socially charged violence.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA custom-designed LED-baffle ceiling system provides an indirect, ambient lighting solution for this multilevel space.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA 45-foot-tall glass façade and a 200-foot-long canopy serve as the new signature entry features for this casino complex.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentThe latest transformation to this historic Alpine church employs a dynamic white-light scheme, which provides a luminous clarity to the structure’s interior.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentA new gymnasium at the Gammel Hellerup High School in Hellerup, Denmark, is built below grade, while its roof area becomes a new outdoor gathering place for students.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentNew façade lighting for an existing office building coupled with a new canopy-covered outdoor plaza creates a downtown urban campus for natural gas and oil company SandRidge Energy.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from A/N BlogEven in four-season climates, the allure of outdoor living endures. Meticulously engineered for ease of operation, structural soundness, and weather-tightness, large-scale openings offer a seamless transition between indoors and out. Sli...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Geotectura, Chen Architects, Axelrod Grobman Architects Location: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel Architect In Charge: Dr. Joseph Cory, Dr. Yasha Grobman, Nir Chen Area: 3800.0 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Shai ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from nzherald.co.nz - ArchitectureThink your home is a castle? This boat-themed creation on Auckland's North Shore, which has been crowned top new home in the upper North Island, boasts an interior glazed bridge, cedar ceilings and a hand-made fire place.The three-bedroo...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Archinect
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architectural Lighting: Most RecentSolid-state lighting is forcing the industry to examine longstanding metrics.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architecture | The GuardianAfter years of neglect and a spell as a trout farm, campaigners have secured funds to conserve Bath's historic Cleveland Pools One of the most historic swimming pools in Britain a beautiful but crumbling Georgian lido in Bath beside the ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsFoster + Partners design an airplane cabin, Fernando Romero and Michel Rojkind lead a tour of Mexico City architecture, and happy 82nd birthday to Peter Eisenman.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
How delighted would you be if we told you that you could own your very own hanging treehouse? Inspired by the natural world around him, Canada-based Tom Chudleigh creates gorgeous wooden Free Spirit Eco Spheres, which can either sit on t... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe LEED-Gold project features rainwater harvesting, green roofs, and edible rain gardens.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsSpecialized coating keeps water from impeding the construction process.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe architects lead a tour of the cityscape, including sites off the beaten path and several of their own designs.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe number of housing units authorized in New York City based on building permits remains well below pre-recession levels, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from e-architect
Design: PITCHAfrica Africa's First Waterbank Campus Designed to Build Peace and End Water Wars: Samuel Eto’o sponsored ‘model’ rain harvesting school campus, that aims to transform education through a unique combination of water collecti...
