The Wright by Andre Kikoski

Andre Kikoski Architect received the American Institute of Architect's Institute Honor Award, the profession's highest recognition for outstanding work, for the design of The Wright in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Design Jim's Kitchen

Architizer is launching a competition to pair architects with new clients this summer. Entitled Design Jim's Kitchen, the project is to design a kitchen for NYC media executive Jim Richardson. The competition is open for submissions through July 9th.

How to think like an architect

Santa Barbara architect Barry Berkus shows us how an organic form can provide inspiration for designing and drawing a building. Berkus demonstrates his preliminary thought process, producing the raw and unrefined drawings that begin the conceptual stages of design.

On the Boards : Jinan High-Tech Centre

The Jinan High-tech science and technology cultural centre designed by Santiago Parramón, RTA-Office is slated for completion in late 2012. The approximately 21,500 m² facility is located in Shandong Province, China in proximity to the Yaoqiang International Airport as well as major high-speed train lines. The building sits to the rear of the site to create a public stage with access to the roadway.

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On the Boards : Kortrijk School

A proposal for a school complex located in Kortrijk, Belgium next to the river Leie designed by Julien de Smedt Architects. The design envisions a functional educational complex embracing outdoor activities linking the park environment. The program includes a new building and a series of renovations and extensions adding up to 7,200m².

blog wunderlust : 25th June 2012

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Lewis Mumford

Vittorio Garatti, School of Ballet, Cuban National Art Schools. [Photo by Adrián Guerra Rey]

Architect Zaha Hadid made dame | Red telephone boxes with a twist | 2012 Sketch Showdown | Pool on a background of Field of Barley | Landscape Architecture? There’s an app for that! | Here's why Google got rid of SketchUp | I'm a city changer | The 9 Best Countries For Architects To Find Work | In Its First Life, an Oil Platform; in Its Next, a Reef? | Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East |

last word: Foster to redesign Fidel Castro’s School of Ballet

new software: OrthoGraph Architect 3D for iPad

House of the Week 145: Manhattan Beach House

This near 3,000 ft² home designed by design-build practice Walker Workshop sits on a tight infill lot on Manhattan Beach. The massing of the house responds to the local zoning, views to San Gabriel Mountains and the programmatic needs of the clients. The exterior finish of cement plaster and cedar siding flow to inside of the central stair and circulation space.

Public Spaces

Transparent house

House NA or the "transparent house" - the 900+ ft² residence in Tokyo, Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architects

CPH Arena

The winning competition proposal for the Copenhagen Arena designed by 3XN, HKS Architects, Arup, ME Enginners and Planit.

New Work ::: Council Flats in Sète

© Cécile Septet

Council Flats in Sète, France designed by architects Colboc Franzen Associates. The 3 blocks contain a total of 71 flats at nearly 4,000m² in size and sit on a trapezoidal plot of land. The balconies that run along the exterior of the buildings are wrapped in a continuous galvanized steel brise soleil that offers solar and visual respite. The scheme borrows Corbusian logic raising the blocks on pilotis to provide both parking and an extension of the landscape.

blog wunderlust : 18th June 2012

our bodily contact with the edges of space is central to our awareness of ourselves and our spatial location

Tom Porter

Provide Poor With Better-Designed Homes | Brutal buildings: the architecture of Eastern Europe | Interior Awards 2012 finalists | What is the future of the built environment? | Amen: A Pictorial Journey to Historic Churches in Jamaica | An Interactive Journey Through New York's Roofscape Makeover | The Architect as Urban Care Provider | Mirror, Mirror by David Adjaye | Barbadian & Grenadian Architects on show during London 2012 Olympics |


last word: Energy Efficiency and the Proposed Building Code for Jamaica and Wind, Solar…Coconuts: Small Island Developing States Commit to Renewable, Sustainable Energy for All

Open to all students and graduates of design, architecture, art, engineering, camp leaders and schools interested in sustainable architecture and rural community development projects in Africa. TH!NK will be hosting a series of workshops on sustainable construction ranging from rammed earth construction, vaulted roof and natural acoustic design. TH!NK is designed as an art+architecture camp to bring together participants from diverse backgrounds to explore the relationship between art, architecture and community to generate a modern structure using sustainable materials from the environment such as earth, straw, stone, wood, and recycled/reused materials.

The roject is organized by Nka Foundation in collaboration with CCEIR at the University for Development Studies in Tamale and Sang Project Focus Team mobilized through the United Nation Volunteers.

For more information

Design + Build + Sustain

A Jeffrey Durkin directed documentary about building sustainable cities by architect/developer Jonathan Segal. Created for the Mix 9 architecture show on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, California.

The Creators Project : Mass Studies

VICE and Intel's art and technology initiative, The Creators Project, recently visited world-famed Korean architecture firm Mass Studies in Seoul to speak to the company's founder Minsuk Cho about Mass Studies' vision and ultimate goal of shaping communities through space and time.

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Trailer on China's most celebrated contemporary artist, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by first-time director Alison Klayman

FCAA Biennal and Congress

(c)Hugh Walker

The Federation of Caribbean Associations of Architects (FCAA) 2012 Biennal and Congress will be held in Bridgetown Barbados from September 27th until 30th. More information regarding registration to follow.

House of the Week 144: Prospect

This private residence and studio is located on a triangular 7,200 ft² site in La Jolla, California and was designed by architect and developer Jonathan Segal for himself and his family. The ground level has large glazed openings that allow the interior of the house to freely flow to the manicured landscape. The volume of the upper floor is a large stucco box with Corten steel details and has minimal fenestration, some with deep recesses, to restrict views from the outside in. The house is fully divorced from the grid with electricity provided by an array of solar panels mounted on the roof of the house.

Interiors : Loft Bauhaus

images © Edgard Cézar

Loft Bauhaus is 160m² living pavilion in Brasilia, Brazil designed by Ana Paula Barros. The interior is designed around a large wall clad in local Brazilian stone that separates the large living room / dining room from the kitchen, bathroom and sleeping area. Finished in organic and natural elements, including reforested pine, that provide warmth to the spaces in contrast to the straight contemporary lines.

Installation ::: SNITT

SNITT is a collaborative project between architects and designers from the UK and Norway. The name translates as section and the installation represents the intersection between a bench, a facade system and a graphic canvas. Constructed of acrylic sheets intersected by dark slats of MDF, the piece can interpreted as furniture or if perceived at a different scale can be seen as a facade.

Design team:
ctrl+n and KONTUR arkitektur + konstruksjon as (architects, NOR)
Tuyo designstudio (product / furniture design, NOR)
Kirstie Little (graphic design, UK)
Center Stage (stage and industrial design, NOR)

blog wunderlust : 11th June 2012

Space is the breath of Art

Frank Lloyd Wright

(c)Madan Mahatta /PhotoInk

Future Architects Brace for Major Hike in Student Loan Interest Rates | Study: People prefer walkable communities | 2012 Serpentine Pavilion opens in London | Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest 2012 | Living Building Challenge | Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House? | Habitat for Humanity Tries Big-Scale Approach to Housing in Oregon | Delhi’s Modernist Architecture in Photographs | The battle over a war memorial | Colouring Outside the Lines


last word: What Is It About the [Cuban] Art Schools?

Edouard François

interview with French architect and green building protagonists Edouard François. His work follows a preoccupation of sustainable development that focuses on matter, context, use, economy and ecology.

Studio Banana Tv:::Madelon Vriesendorp

Trailer for a Studio Banana TV interview of Dutch artist Madelon Vriesendorp, co-founder of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and wife of Rem Koolhaas. The interview is edited and directed by Felipe de Ferrari M. and Diego Grass P.

Trailer - Madelon Vriesendorp from 0300TV on Vimeo.

On the Boards : Blueprint Condos

Paul Raff Studio have designed a 21-unit luxury residential development set on a headland in eastern coast of Thailand. The dynamic facade of the 3500 ft² boutique residences modulate light, shade, and views over the Pattong Bay and the Andaman Sea. The modular louvered screens is inspired by local craft and will be made of light-weight wood-plastic composite to assist in reducing heat-gain.

blog wunderlust : 4th June 2012

The artist, the architect, first senses the effect that he intends to realize and sees the rooms he wants to create in his mind's eye.

Adolf Loos

Eisenhower Family Still Unhappy with Gehry’s Memorial Design | The Land Art of Sylvain Meyer | Streets for People: Sunset Triangle Plaza | 2012 AIA Housing Awards for Architecture | Finalists of the 100 Mile House Competition | Step Inside a Creative Mind Installation | New directions for young architects: TECHNOLOGY | Lost Lakes of the Empire State Building [&] Saves Millions of Dollars in First Year of Energy Efficiency Plan | Constructive criticism: the week in architecture

last word: Glenn Murcutt and the Wisdom of the Elders

Elements

3XN ::: Hospital Extension, Copenhagen

A team of architects 3XN, Aarhus Architects, Nickl & Partner Architechten, Grontmij and Kirstine Jensen Studio has won the prestigious competition for the expansion of Copenhagen’s main hospital, Rigshospitalet, which is expected to be completed in early 2017.