Film: Gold Coast Cultural Precinct

A proposal for the Gold Coast cultural precinct described as a "village of fluid forms" with live projector walls to act as digital canvases, a great terrace and a live arts museum

blog wunderlust: 25th November 2013

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

Kanye at GSD [video] & Harvard GSD's African American Student Union Tells Us Why They Met With Kanye West | All hail the mothership: Norman Foster's $5bn Apple HQ revealed | Historic Preservation Is Good For Business | Doh! Most solar panels are facing the wrong way, new study shows | The Daily Show Added a Nice, Full '70s Bush to Qatar's Vagina Stadium | When F1 Car Designers Build Architectural Models |

last word: Former MP calls for education programme to address building concerns in Falmouth

2015 Pan African Games

The master plan proposal for the 2015 Pan African games has been released by Independent Architectural Diplomacy.

House of the Week 174: The pool Shophouse

The pool shophouse in Singapore was designed by multi-disciplinary practice FARM and KD architects. The monolithic lap pool was inserted into the existing shophouse and guides the viewer from the front to the rear of the building. The additional parts of the house hover over the pool and are bathed in natural daylight from the roof.

blog wunderlust: 18th November 2013

I’m a passionate architect… I do not work for money

Peter Zumthor

Architect David Adjaye’s World View | Frank Lloyd Wright Building from 1939 Finally Built | Architects Bring Sunshine Into Nanotech Labs | Architects behind the starchitects | Link the City to Nature | 5 Women Who Are Changing The Face Of Architecture | Tracing traditions of art and architecture | Architecture: Across the U.S., the box is back in museum design

last word: [Jamaican] Govt to Make Rainwater Harvesting Mandatory for Housing Projects

Passive House

Passive House Explained in 90 Seconds from Hans-Jörn Eich on Vimeo.

missing wunderlust 11 November 2013

7 Architects On How To Design For Disaster | At just 4 feet across, this home is a tight squeeze | Daniel Libeskind Is No Architect | Deconstruction versus Demolition | Sleeping Like A Bauhäusler | We Asked Three World-Class Architects to Go Crazy With Legos | World Famous Architects Design Bus Stops for Tiny Austrian Village | This Impeccably Designed $20,000 House Could Soon Be Yours

last word: Restoring the railway station

blog wunderlust: 11th November 2013

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Donna Karan

(c) Trevor Watson

blog wunderlust: 4th November 2013

Great architecture always makes you feel great about yourself it's actually the mark of great architecture. It should be almost like the beautiful suit you've ever put on - that elevates you, that makes you feel great

David Adjaye

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Mexico's Subsidized Housing: Good Idea Turns Into Disaster | Inside the Many Houses of Not Vital, Maker of Dreamscapes for Adults | Is Demolishing a Brutalist Icon a 'Penn Station Moment?' | The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 ft² House In 20 Hours | New Architectural Materials Are Creating Amazing Buildings | The Coolest Office Ever: It’s On A Rooftop Somewhere In Vienna | Zaha Hadid: 'I don't make nice little buildings' |

last word: Designer Island Eats with Architect, Robert Thompson