February 28, 2008
February 27, 2008
Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport designed by Foster + Partners to resemble a dragon celebrating the thrill and poetry of flight, has opened. Completed as the gateway to Beijing for the twenty-ninth Olympiad, it is also the world’s largest building and most advanced airport, not just technologically, but also in terms of operational efficiency, passenger comfort, sustainability and access to natural light.
February 26, 2008
The Lighthouse, a 2-1/2 story two-bedroom house barely over 1000 sq.ft building, is the first net zero carbon house in the UK. The building utilises mostly passive measures which include solar panels and evacuated solar tubes on the roof, ventilation chimneys, rainwater catchment and an air-tight insulation, among others.
via Jetson Green
February 25, 2008
blog wunderlust: 25 February 2008
new continent: plastic | step right up - get your Gehry | DWR interviews Yves Béhar of Fuseproject | Watch out Gehry | Speed dating for Architects | posers | so small they left off the L|OFT | How many architects does it take to design a city: 100
February 20, 2008
February 19, 2008
February 17, 2008
save the Boissiere house
Sign the petition for this historic house on the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad
more images here
February 15, 2008
February 13, 2008
February 12, 2008
blog wunderlust
Zaha reinforcing a cult of personality, despite the controversy | Master of dry satire Ian Martin now at AJ | BD's replacement falls flat | briefs or boxers? | Folk Football: Landscape, Space and Abstraction | Australia to burn cane trash for fuel | Stacked bananas ala Hirst | Landscape architects set it straight | Nouvel ideas about green design | Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You | Do all the best creative organisations end with an M? | and this Laneway
February 11, 2008
February 8, 2008
February 4, 2008
top 10 : Urbanism Blogs
The East Coast Architecture Review has composed a list of the 10 best blogs on urbanism. Oddly it doesn't seem to be in any order. Take a look here.