Recent visit to the Renzo Piano extension to the High Museum & Woodruff Centre. Original works by architect Richard Meier.
October 31, 2005
October 27, 2005
October 26, 2005
"..they create spaces that you remember" RG Architecture.
A bit too traditional for my liking but a nicely designed site
A bit too traditional for my liking but a nicely designed site
Call for Entries - Metropolis Next Generation
Metropolis is looking to identify the Next Generation of Big Ideas. They are offering $10,000 to an individual or team of designers seeking to develop a BIG idea that will make our designed environment better, safer, and more sustainable. The competition is open to any student or designer practicing for ten years or less. Deadline 15th December 2005.
check the website for more.
Dream BIG, Do GOOD, Design BOLD.
check the website for more.
Dream BIG, Do GOOD, Design BOLD.
October 24, 2005
"...the scale of the project is irrelevant. Regardless of the size or the program, the tension between society and architecture is our drive to generate design" Moriko Kira
October 23, 2005
October 21, 2005
October 20, 2005
October 19, 2005
October 18, 2005
I don't like macs....
but they are brilliantly designed.
The British Council interviews the designer of such iconic objects such as the ipod & imac, Jonathan Ive. "His translucent Power Mac G4 Cube, which resembled postmodern sculpture more than office equipment" as quoted in FastCompany
The British Council interviews the designer of such iconic objects such as the ipod & imac, Jonathan Ive. "His translucent Power Mac G4 Cube, which resembled postmodern sculpture more than office equipment" as quoted in FastCompany
Architects 
October 16, 2005
October 14, 2005
give me that SEX
Metro Stations, Naples, Italy. Previously featured in the April issue of the Architectural Review "the works are an exciting collaboration between Anish Kapoor and Future Systems...the proposal comprises two subway entrances and a cavernous tunnel link"
this is archi-porn at its best if you ask me
October 13, 2005
tacki-town
In Dubai, a zany boomtown afloat in plastic fantasy, unbridled ambition and rivers of cold cash.
Bigger. Brighter. More outlandish. Construction-fevered Dubai is almost Gatsby-esque in its audacious thirst for reinvention. This once-sleepy port of pearl traders and pirates is gunning to turn itself into one of the great capitals of the postmodern world.
More here
Bigger. Brighter. More outlandish. Construction-fevered Dubai is almost Gatsby-esque in its audacious thirst for reinvention. This once-sleepy port of pearl traders and pirates is gunning to turn itself into one of the great capitals of the postmodern world.
More here
its all about PreFab
Granted ICON might think its boring (that and blogs) I've decided to post a little on the prefabricated come back.
Royal Homes - fairly modern looking shares alot with traditional methods of construction.
then there's TOMA house these resemble Balinese cottages but are very contemporary in their construction methods
For WAY more
Royal Homes - fairly modern looking shares alot with traditional methods of construction.
then there's TOMA house these resemble Balinese cottages but are very contemporary in their construction methods
For WAY more
October 12, 2005
October 11, 2005
Prefabrication
Imagine a world where buildings are constructed of low-cost modular elements which have been produced to extremely high tolerances in a factory and then transported to site to be assembled quickly and easily. Imagine if these elements could then be endlessly recycled and reconfigured. Well, they’re called bricks and they’ve been around for about 3,000 years.
ICON 27 article on what's "BORING"
ICON 27 article on what's "BORING"
October 10, 2005
Architects David Baker + Partners
I particulary appreciate the social side of this practice, as well as its family orientation.
October 9, 2005
Koolhaas now doing shoes?? The story begins with an architect trying to mend a broken heart, what better way to do it than with shoes. Dillusioned with fashion and not wanting to create yet another shoe design company or architecture studio he instead sets out to reject seasonal changes, and thus United Nude was created.
With shoe names like fold, porn, and mobius it reads like a satire, definately worth a look.
With shoe names like fold, porn, and mobius it reads like a satire, definately worth a look.
October 7, 2005
We just had a timber fabricator in office showing us some beautiful engineered timbers (a means to resolve the current high cost of steel)
This project had us salivating, its a sports stand in Les Saintes, a small province of Guadeloupe (its actually a small island accessible only by boat south of the mainland)
Score one more for the froggys eh melon?
October 6, 2005
Calibe (Thompson), singer/songwriter who was formally trained as an architect (Caribbean School of Architecture) has now signed with Shang Records.
more here.
airport development
October 5, 2005
Inspired by the debate in the comments page of the Shuwa Tei Asada residence posted on Friday, this is what melon calls a truly beautiful box.
Its Portuguese. Naturally.
What is it about Portugal and neighbouring Spain that produces such elegant restraint amongst the exuberance of of their architectural heritage and their Joie de Vivre?).
House in Alenquer, Portugal, 1998-2000 by the brothers Manuel & Francisco Aires Mateus
Aires Mateus e Associados.
We like it - very much!
October 4, 2005
Homage
The material is constructed of mylar laminated over nylon reinforcing yarn and joined together by clear polycarbonate rivets. Assembled on the roof of M&A, the project was then lowered onto a series of cables. The courtyard beneath hums with an accompanying ambient-sound installation by composer James Lumb. The installation will be open to the public until its dismantling at the end of November.
October 3, 2005
October 2, 2005
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