blog wunderlust: 31st March 2014

The current [urban planning] system doesn't allow people to be sensitive to the environment

Professor Ng Mee-kam

Photo by Shigeru Ban Architects

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last word: Shigeru Ban Wins the Pritzker Prize, Architecture's Highest Honour

L. Mies van der Rohe - New National Gallery

Another in the excellent architectural film series by Franco Di Capua, this one on the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany by Mies van der Rohe

TED talks: Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community

House of the Week 175: Tellico Cabin

Photography (c) Sara Dario and Harlan Hambright

Located along the Tellico Plains, Tennessee is a cabin designed Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects. The site has fond memories for the client and the banks of the river and the adjoining valley holds historical significance to the Cherokee nation. The cabin with it's standing seams gabled roofs has walls clad in stone and dark stained cedar and a landscape of plants and vegetation indigenous to the Tellico plains. Inside heavy timbers support the steeply pitched roofs of the cabin that provide sleeping lofts for the guest beds in the raised volume.

The Ibirapuera Park Marquise in São Paulo, Brazil

Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape designer Otávio Agusto de Teixeira Mendes.

blog wunderlust: 17th March 2014

erin go bragh (Happy St. Patrick's Day)

...there exists a need to objectively evaluate our traditional models for their validity in a changing world

Fida Ali

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last word: Cape Town to Carve New African Art Museum Out of Former Grain Silo

38n9w / Afriplanus (Angola)

Portuguese design and architecture practice 38N9W has partnered with Afriplanus to establish a presence in Angola, to develop a variety of new projects including schools, office buildings, hotels, restaurants and an exhibition centre.

blog wunderlust: 10th March 2014

Architecture is all about scale and this is a grandiose scale. It is a grandiose space. It makes you smile when you walk into the space. It makes you feel good. It talks to you.

Shawn Lawrence

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last word: Arms wide open

blog wunderlust: 3rd March 2014

One of the biggest mistakes in architecture is that we're expecting society to be interested in the specific problems of architecture. [Architects] need to adjust to what society is discussing. We just provide the forms that can translate their problems into solutions.

Alejandro Aravena

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last word: Car park to replace Art Deco house