June 17, 2013

blog wunderlust: 17th June 2013

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence
Osho

Come and have ‘Tea Coffee with an Architect’ | Awesome Illustrations Of Fragmented Future Cities And Layered Labyrinths | It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest | Are Renderings Bad for Architecture? | Turkey government freezes Gezi Park project until ruling | Pritzker-Winning Architect Buck China’s Megacity Trend | Menil announces architect firm for expansion project | Architect-Friendly notebook

last word: Sustainable Caribbean - Corporate Social Responsibility and Caribbean Tourism

June 10, 2013

blog wunderlust: 10 June 2013

I want people to live and work in an environment that stimulates my senses.
Sue Courtenay

Meet the urban designer shaping Ottawa’s future | Photographer Transforms Entire Rooms Into Large-Scale Camera Obscuras | Aberrant Architecture: Roaming Market | Detroit Plans Massive Garage Sale | Towering folly: why architectural education in Britain is in need of repair | Motoi Yamamotos incredible saltscapes | A Streetcorner Serenade for the Public Plaza | A Cardboard Food Truck for Kids

protest: Pee-Wee's Plea

last word: Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) against overregulation

June 4, 2013

New Work ::: The Shack at Cloudy Bay Winery

© Mike Rolfe Photography

The Cloudy Bay Shack is an artfully built four-bedroom guesthouse overlooking the rural landscape of the Wairau river in Blenheim, New Zealand. Designed for the Cloudy Bay Winery by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects with project architects Paul Rolfe Architects the structure was built using local builders, craftsmen, joiners and engineers. The restrained timber detailing and material expression throughout the interior is warm and inviting. The elongated dining and lounge leads guests of the Cloudy Bay Vineyards out to the sloping lawns and landscape beyond.

New Work ::: St. Cuthbert's College Performing Arts Centre

(c) Patrick Reynolds

The new 3000m² Performing Arts Centre in Auckland, New Zealand designed by Architectus provides specialised teaching and rehearsal facilities for both music and drama education at St Cuthbert’s College. The facility is laid out as a series of elements around a central atrium space that present themselves at street level as an abstraction of the scale, form and rhythm of the adjacent residential context. The programme includes aside from specialised facilities for instrument teaching and rehearsal spaces for choirs, orchestras and drama performance, general teaching spaces for music and drama.

June 3, 2013

blog wunderlust: 3rd June 2013

Critics build nothing.
Robert Moses

Inside Iraq's Imam Hussein mosque (video) | Peek Inside the Winners of the 2013 AIA Housing Awards | Mirrored cityscapes from around the world | Crystal Palace Football Club, New Ground – AFL Architects | What an Urban Planner Should Look Like in the Internet Age | Prince Charles urges ‘harmony with nature’ | In China, 'cancer villages' a reality of life | Richard Saul Wurman: Seek Opposites | Skyscraper as Symbol |

last word: Highlights from the End of Year Exhibition 2013 [Caribbean School of Architecture]

June 1, 2013

4th Izmo International Summer School - Public Art and (semi)Public Space


Izmo has organized the fourth edition of the Izmo International Summer School in Turin, from 22nd July to 1st August 2013, which focuses on public art and the (semi)public space. The course is aimed at students, graduates, professionals and, in general, anyone who is interested in sustainable art and creative design. The lectures (in English) will be held by experts, professors and artists involved in the field of art work, urban design, cultural management, with the aim to provide broad and multidisciplinary insights into the topic. Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to gain firsthand experience of methods of sustainable and interactive design that will enable them to work creatively with different materials and to approach participatory design practices

May 31, 2013

OMA NY


Shohei Shigematsu, director of OMA New York talks about the process that his office teaches, as well as the pulse of the city.

May 27, 2013

Blog Wunderlust: 27th May 2013

The essential role of the architect is to exceed expectations
Rem Koolhaas

Calatrava projects encounter issues with water and structure | Super-Shiny Renzo Piano Designed Condos Force Nasher Sculpture Centre to Close | Astounding Street Art in Beco do Batman, Sao Paulo | Urban Renewal in Maryland | Freedom Rooms: Micro Apartments Designed by Prisoners | Prefab Lives! | Solar-Powered Hospital in Haiti Yields Sustainable Savings | An Architect's Tool Bag | Why Manhattan's Green Roofs Don't Work--and How to Fix Them |

last word: ‘Sea-ing’ the view from Stella

May 25, 2013

TED talks ::: Architecture for the people by the people


Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses?

May 24, 2013

Miami Beach Convention Centre

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The master plan for the Miami Beach Convention Centre environs in Miami Beach, Florida designed by Bjarke Injels Group (BIG)

David Adjaye


Renowned architect David Adjaye who is in the business of building history.

May 23, 2013

On the Boards: Novo Mesto Central Market


The proposed site for the 1600 m2 Novo Mesto Central Market lies in a historical town near the Florjanov Square in Slovenia. Designed by ENOTA the multi-gabled roof references the immediate surroundings and the arched facade opens to the square. The play of elements and materials of monolithic polished and impregnated concrete creates an opportunity for an interplay of light and shadows on the interiors.

May 20, 2013

blog wunderlust: 20th May 2013

Even plain structures have moments of drama - through the right eyes.
Dr. Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis


'Architecture has become too mundane' says Charles Correa | Bastard Chairs: Photo Series on Makeshift Chairs in China and Hong Kong | Abandoned Urban Spaces: A Photo Series by Lori Nix | Why Architecture's Identity Problem Should Matter to the Rest of Us | Tools For Life by Rem Koolhaas for Knoll | When Modernism Lost its Way | São Paulo May Lose Cup Games | Homes Designed By Architects For Their Moms | Why Africa Should Be Wary of Its ‘New Cities

last word: Building on a grand design

May 17, 2013

Pin-Up


Felix Burrichter is a New York-based architect turned editor who prefers building magazines.

May 15, 2013

House of the Week 166: La Tumbona



Designed by the late Argentine architect Clorindo Testa in the late 80s, La Tumbona is located on the beaches of Ostende, Argentina. The distinct cubic forms of the house appear as a tumble of red concrete boxes dancing over the dunes. The proximity to the sea allow in high tides the waves to wash underneath the home.

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