Interview with Frank Gehry
via Archinect
December 29, 2006
Linked Hybrid
The Linked Hybrid complex in China by Steven Holl Architects will house 2,500 people in 700 apartments all linked at the 20th floor by a "ring" of cafés and services. The buildings will feature a geothermal cooling and heating systems, which will regulate the temperature within the eight buildings by dual pipes pumping water from 100 meters below ground, circulating the liquid between the buildings' concrete floors.
via we make money not art
December 28, 2006
December 27, 2006
December 25, 2006
Competition entries for the extension to the Stockholm Public Library orginally designed by Gunnar Asplund.
It's a good way to waste away a Christmas morning. I am most impressed by the names (find the naked girls, Mario & Jorn meet Gunnar in Stockholm, iguana, hurricane, fish-ladder, etc) as did gravestmor.
It's a good way to waste away a Christmas morning. I am most impressed by the names (find the naked girls, Mario & Jorn meet Gunnar in Stockholm, iguana, hurricane, fish-ladder, etc) as did gravestmor.
December 24, 2006
A proposal designed by a team of engineers and artists for a lunar clock which will track the 'the phase and position of the Moon, and the height of the tides'
via treehugger
December 23, 2006
December 22, 2006
December 21, 2006
playwright
FRANK’S HOME, Richard Nelson's new play about Frank Lloyd Wright, will have its New York premier. More information
December 20, 2006
“Thorndale” was originally a stable, then a warehouse, and now a condo renovation
Architect Lynn Gaffney
December 19, 2006
worthy repost
Where do architects go on vacation? At the most stylish locations of course, check out...designhotels
December 18, 2006
Foster's Zenith
The Zenith Music Facility in France, designed by Foster and Partners, is now under construction. "The aerodynamic, ecological design includes a cantilevered roof which acts as a wind-catcher to ventilate the building."
via POL Oxygen
December 16, 2006
Oppenheim does Green
The Cor building, in Miami by Chad Oppenheim, combines high design and ecological technology, like wind turbines integrated in the cladding.
December 15, 2006
Bilbao Sheraton by Legorreta + Legorreta Architects. The hotel is part of the new Ria 2000 masterplan for the City of Bilbao, Spain."Inspired by the work of the artist Chillida and the solid roots, history and culture of the Spanish Basque Country, the building is treated like a sculpted block of solid stone, to which certain perforations have been tilled."
via architecture-page
Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel duke it out at Walbrook Square. Employing Nouvel trademarks of various transparent & transuclent skins, however the building's low green status could prevent the herculean site from materializing.
via skyscrapernews (thanks melon)
December 11, 2006
with Hef's approval
The Playboy townhouse; blessed with such features as a remote controlled sky-light, a 3 storey cut stone wall, mosaic tiled floors throughout, an elevator, a Herman-Miller coconut chair and cctv. Not bad...even more impressive was that this is from the 1960s.
December 10, 2006
Pompom Arkitekter, located in Halmstad, Sweden, is a fairly new architecutre practice with the aim set on affordable yet well-designed living, having recently released a collection of 9 concept-driven prefabricated homes including "Out of the Box"
Artist Noel Harding was commissioned almost ten years ago to create a public work of art in the Don Valley, Toronto most dramatic natural feature the result was the Elevated Wetlands.
via treehugger
December 8, 2006
"On the magic form of the golden rectangle, nothing is safe. Relentless reformation of the "normal house" was never the aim, it just happened that way."
Belitsos House by David Hanawalt
Belitsos House by David Hanawalt
December 7, 2006
recognition
"[...] the exhibitionistic rantings of mad architects..."
In this summer's issue (no.3) of MARK magazine- "another architecture" , a number of blogs are featured including abandoned places, daily dose, bldgblg, tropolism, gravestmore, life without buildings and architechnophilia.
In this summer's issue (no.3) of MARK magazine- "another architecture" , a number of blogs are featured including abandoned places, daily dose, bldgblg, tropolism, gravestmore, life without buildings and architechnophilia.
December 6, 2006
tossed from the mix (2)
David Chipperfield has been appointed to (re)design a home for the new Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, after the original proposal with its giant sail, by Nordic firm Snohetta architects, was controversially dropped due to cost over-runs.
"Good architects borrow, but great architects steal" quoted Le Corbusier. Apparently he would love this Villa Savoye knockoff being built for the Eco-Products Exhibition 2006 in Tokyo.
December 3, 2006
December 1, 2006
toss another one into the mix
The Tampa Museum of Art is following the controversial route to success (ala WTC) having replaced Raphel Vinoly with Stanley Saitowitz (who?)
via archinect
via archinect
not for profit
The guiding principle of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity comes from the Old Testament: "If a brother living near you becomes poor, you must provide for him . . . do not make a profit on the goods you sell him." Increasingly however, many are profiting handsomely from the families Habitat has built homes for moving beyond building affordable houses for the underprivileged.
more on msn
more on msn
Thom Mayne to build a new 300m tower in La Defense after having won a competition that included Foster & OMA. "There's a fluidity, a sensuousness, a softness to the form as it reaches to the sky," Mayne said, describing the fabric like appearance of the building. This is also to be green proposal comprised of a double skin to reduce heat gain and its own wind farm to generate its own heating and cooling for a portion of the year.
via treehugger